/jp/ - Otaku Culture

>>35516106
On top of what others have said. I'd recommend you start out with Tae Kim's Japanese and RTK after memorising hiragana and katakana. I assume you're all finished with school.

I know like many others motivated by anime/manga you probably want to min-max towards reading and listening but I'd recommend you do some writing and speaking because honestly; when you improve your Japanese in one area it flows on to the other areas. Since I assume you're done with school, attending language clubs designed to give international students from Japan and local students studying Japanese the opportunity to speak to each other isn't an option (and still wouldn't be an option due to Corona stuff). At least try to find a Discord Server or whatever where everyone practices speaking with each other.

New Game and Yotsuba to! are the most circlejerked mangas back when /djt/ was still on /a/ for very good reason. I'd really rather you start out with textbooks and Japanese picture books, but I know you wont. Other Kirara 4koma series are all also very good because they take place in the real world (ie. not scifi or fantasy), have furigana, and use simple vocabulary (those moeblobs may not be very smart, but neither are you when you're just starting out).

When all this Corona stuff is over, if you have a university degree (quite a sizable chunk of HikkiNEETs do suprisingly) look into whether or not you still qualify for the JET Program. The JET program was designed to give Japanese kids the opportunity to interact with real foreigners. If you get into the program then choose the one year option and then at the end of you one year, you can choose to extend for another year (you totally will, what even do you have left in the old country?). Literally the only qualifications the JET program looks for is being relatively young, have a degree in anything (yes, anything), and be from a Native English country. Be a human tape recorder that says stuff out loud while the real teacher teaches the actual theory. Be paid as much as an actual teacher.

You could also work as an Eikaiwa teacher for minimum wage.

I never went on the JET program because I felt it beneath me.

>>30324885
I'm retarded.

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>>20129645
Some of us will still stay until the bitter end :(

>>19503275
Objectively wrong.