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I currently have to use Subtitles, kinda annoying. And I despise dubs since the voice acting is so bad, I mean like the emotions in the voice, its so emotionless in English.

I am a English speaker with some fluency in Cantonese and Mandarin.

How difficult is Japanese? Am I gonna waste a lot of time?

Also what's the best resource to learn?

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[–] PlexSheep@infosec.pub 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

I am learning Japanese since almost 3 years now. It's a life's goal of mine to be able to understand the language well.

I sometimes watch anime, I really like music by Ado, and I come across Japanese often.

I don't really have a concrete reason for having started. A friend of mine learned Japanese in middle school seriously which gave me the idea the first time.

It's safe to say that it's a tremendous effort. You need to work on it for many years, especially if you have phases where you can't or don't want to learn, or work full time, etc.

If it's just to watch anime, probably not worth it, unless you're a total ween maybe. I'm my case, I started learning for the sake of it because it's kind of fun and I found more interests in Japanese after starting to understand a few things.

Ressource wise, I'd recommend taking a look at the tofu guide to learning Japanese, that covers it much better than I could.

Some more resources that I use and really like:

  • Wanikani (for studying the thousands of Kanji and some vocabulary with SRS)
  • Bunpro (for studying grammar and how to actually use words with SRS)
  • the Genki Textbooks (very well guided lessons, especially for Grammar. This can also be used as a basis for bunpro)
  • TokiniAndk videos (Japanese teacher, has many videos going over genki too).

You got to be in it for the long run to be able to see any success.