"Can you speak Japanese yet?" What do you say when friends ask this?
Discussion
My friends always ask this and I'm curious, Minna-san, what do y'all say?
P.s. what I say:
As someone about 6 months in, I usually laugh and say "hell no" and regurgitate a lot of Daily Japanese Thread spiel: it's long road, kanji is a whole thing etc. But that actually I've learned a lot and I can understand some things sometimes, read some very beginner friendly stories etc. To some friends I've tried to explain why the writing system is hard but that requires a real committed listener.