/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>41877104
this is gonna sound lame, but I started by just memorizing katakana at a young age, and more recently I started figuring out how to read hiragana , and having some sense of sentence structure.

Right now my biggest struggle is that I want to be able to play like untranslated games, and manga, and the prospect of understanding another language unlike most male otakus is appealing to me, but I seem to have little direction on what to practice and slacking for even a few days causes something to slip out, which I guess means I haven't been trying hard enough.

Should I be a masochist and set all my vidya to japanese and beat my head with Japanese websites and videos and stuff? I know it isn't supposed to be easy, but I kinda don't have a direction here

I do have a close friend who is helping me when they have time, but they told me I still read like I'm using google translate and that I have no "vibe" like I'm speaking the way a japanese man would. Sorry for the blog. any advice?