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See title. I've been to quite a few local language meetups and saw lots of people IRL who are learning languages: wondering how are y'all doing too

For myself... learning French due to necessity. I am making progress, just veeery slow. I underestimated how difficult it would be (a lot of vocabs between English/French are similar... but the languages themselves are not!)

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[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 7 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (4 children)

Japanese! I originally thought I might make quick progress, but there were surprising number of characters I've never seen before. So I just decided to learn everything from complete scratch so that I don't ever have to backtrack. Everything is written in hiragana at the current stage, and that's throwing me off a lot too. But I have to learn how they're read anyway so, oh well.

[–] cdzero@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

Check out KanaDojo. Its a cool little web app that will help with hiragana and katakana.

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 4 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Ohh nice! If you happen to be interested in manga: someone at my local Japanese language exchange recommended よつばと! which seemed like a cute & quite useful manga series for learning Japanese

[–] Object@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

Yeah, that's what plan to do once I can read without too much active thinking. I got ons of manga I want to read in original!

[–] TubularTittyFrog@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

japanese children only learn 2000 characters by the time they are out of high school.

there are 3000 daily kanji, and 50,000 total.

but only 1000 kanji make up 90% of kanji you would typically use/see.

[–] benni@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Same, have you tried WaniKani for learning the Kanji and vocabulary? It's great.