/jp/ - Otaku Culture

Hey OP, friendly advice here. I went from zero to reading Dies Irae with only a little parser help in 6 months. My biggest advice to you is this (so you don't repeat my mistakes): ignore all advice and rules you see outside of textbooks written by authoritative JAPANESE authors (this automatically disqualifies anything written on image boards, Tae Kim's guide, Ixrec's guide etc). If you are an intelligent human being, you'll figure all the details naturally (from Anki, to what to read for practice etc.) Aside from that, all you need is massive perseverance and self-discipline, but again these are things that can't be taught.