/jp/ - Otaku Culture

is this really the last thread? do i have to learn japanese on reddit?

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>>20952294
April 13th, 2014. I don't really know if there's a single point where I "got good", but I remember that it took me about 2 years to stop using a texthooker. The biggest steps in my language learning career were grinding 6,000 cards in anki (core2k + 4k mined) and then dropping it entirely to do nothing but read. The stats in pic related are actually mine. Never missed a day for about two years. To this day I don't know if the Anki was worth it or if all my gains were from reading VNs at the same time. After about 3 years I was picking up LNs and VNs without worrying whatsoever about the difficulty or wishing I was using a texthooker, and since then I've just been reading and listening to things with no attempt to constructively study whatsoever. I think this has been harmful in some ways, I would benefit from going out of my way to do speaking practice, but it has only been relevant at one point in my life so far, where I had to speak Japanese in an interview.

tl;dr 2-3 years, but you never stop improving really.
>>20952309
Playing Evenicle 2 for sixteen hours a day was a mistake. I spent the next few days working non-stop to make up for lost time. One benefit of being a translator is setting your own hours, but as they say, you are your own worst enemy.
>>20952335
DJT's help was definitely essential (I stumbled upon the thread on /a/, never would have started without it). Without Anki's daily structure I would have been too apathetic to study every day I think, and being able to post here with anonymous questions was nice. I had a good time memeing too. I have a huge folder of steve/dekinai images. This 10k anime stuff is nostalgic to me because I remember finny introducing the meme in the first place. Anyone remember finny? Or makifag joining the navy? Good times. Man, I actually miss old DJT. I had a lot of fun there. Meanwhile, modern DJT is not so comfy. For obvious reasons. The tone of a community can be completely colored by the active posting of a single regular with too much spare time on his hands, and that's really happened to DJT I think. Name of said regular omitted for privacy reasons. (It's Jamal).


See? I write long posts. It just keeps happening. I warned you bro. I warned you about the long posts.

>>20611546
No, but we work hard to become fluent.

>>19628607
I don't get it. Can you give me a rundown?

>>19407190