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How long did it take you to get to a sociable level of Japanese? I'm currently 22, did nothing with my life in HS, crawled through college, and only started pushing myself to learn Japanese this year. I could go to Japan for cheap but I explained to my dad I would only go if I could speak with people there. (But anon, they speak English there anyways) I learned kana 2 years ago and I have a box of kanji (white rabbit) that I review whenever I can. I haven't hit up a genki book yet because of my classes but I should be graduating in December.

>inb4 white piggu go home.

>> No.9198807

I've never really practiced speaking. Maybe I could communicate through a notepad.

>> No.9198814

white piggu go home.

>> No.9198815

>>9198797
I could touch your lil'white ass.

>> No.9198822

>But anon, they speak English there anyways
they what? since when?

>> No.9198838

>>9198822
That's my point. I didn't want to yell at my Dad so I just ignored him.

>> No.9198841
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>talking to real people
>>>/lang/

>> No.9198857

>>9198838
ah okay.

thinking about it in time is kind of wrong, you should look at it in terms of hours of study.

google both sentence mining, and the 10000 sentence method.

get a tutor too, there are a tonne of poor japanese students around. i wouldn’t bother having a set date you should be functional by because everyone learns at their own pace anyway.

>> No.9198863

>>9198841
half of /jp/ is employed, why bother keeping up pretences?

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>>9198863
Because hes an idiot who thinks it's funny

>>9198857
I don't know if there are any good tutors around and I'll be joining the wonderful workforce in a few months. Hooray for being a fuckup before.

>> No.9198890

>>9198863
Well, because the majority of people here who can understand Japanese have never bothered trying to speak it. Most of us are just in it for the porn and thus aren't really equipped to answer OP's question.

>> No.9198906

>>9198885
if literacy isn’t presupposed you can learn by immersion anyway i guess

>>9198890
touché

>> No.9198912

>>9198890
I was looking towards conversing with people there. Even though I'm prepared for the tsunami of "baka gaijin", I'm probably more knowledgeable of their culture than some regular Murrkan there. I've gotten comments from classmates about knowing about east asia.

>> No.9199731

>>9198890
this. there's a huge difference in looking at text and being able to read it and listening to someone and understanding them and then actually being able to respond to them and not make yourself look like a complete fool or homosex.

people don't exactly talk in real life the way characters talk in eroge. you'd probably be better off immersing yourself in jp imageboards, but that's also most likely going to be off.

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