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Hello Everyone! I got a question for you! When you started learning Japanese, how fast did you lose interest to it, if you have lost it? What's the main difficulty in continuing the studies after this?
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Hello! （・∀・）ゞ
I believe if you started studying just because, without any goal in mind, you'll lose interest pretty quickly, maybe in a month or even in a week.
For you to keep the interest in the long run I think you must have a goal or a purpose to your learning, ask yourself, why do you want to learn 日本語 ?
To me for example I have the dream of going to Japan and work there, so whenever I feel like not studying I try to remember this.
Smaller goals like tests are also great, I'm taking the N5 test in december, so it's another reason to keep doing my best everyday.
Hope you find something that motivates you to keep on studying! d(๑꒪່౪̮꒪່๑)b
hello there japanaki
as for me it is really important to find myself an interesting stuff so i keep looking forward to something.
for example you could search yourself a raw manga page.and try to see it(ofc search for the easiest theme.for example slice of life genre.i do not recommended searching for crime or another complicated manga such as detective conan) .its okay if you cant read it now.but usually manga have some furigana included.so maybe you could use your dictionary or electronic one to memorize that kanji.it will broaden your vocabulary.
or if you prefer music.i usually search for its lyric. in kanji ofc. by searching (song name)+歌詞（kashi(it means lyric btw)).and play some game with it.like you read along as the singer goes like.or you could read the kanji first(the one that you can.) and then play the song and see if you were correct.its just a competition between yourself tho. lol
well then in the end everyone have their own methods. and learning is the best way to invest on yourself,there is no standard on what is right or not. its ok if you took so much time than the other,just keep it at your pace..
just find what methods fits you best...
sorry for the long paragraph.lol
keep learning.....
I lost interest after a year or so. I was learning it in a school. But once I did all the courses in 2 years there wasn't much anyone to talk to to practice with. Within that year people drifted and I had no one to practice.
Yea I completely stopped a couple of times just because kanji was so frustrating. One of the the times I restarted I told myself I would only focus on conversation and not worry about reading and writing but that is not the way to do it. Finally I found a method for tackling the seemingly impossible task of learning all the kanji used in daily life. That method is called Remembering the Kanji by Heisig. Now kanji is my strong point and my main joy in studying the Japanese language.
I think my experience isn't exactly typical, but I keep at it just for the sake of learning knew things. I obviously love the language and the culture, and I have some loose goals, but I don't really ever run into motivation issues on the day-to-day. Personally, I get most of my satisfaction simply from the process and the repetition, rather than moving towards some tangible goal.
It's nice in so far that I don't get frustrated if I go through spurts where I feel like I'm not making progress. And getting bored or becoming unmotivated isn't too much of an issue usually, just because I've gotten into a solid routine and it rarely feels like a chore.
I guess if the process of learning is the goal in itself, it seems easier to keep going imo. That's just my two cents :)
I'm not online very often but I keep coming back here just to keep playing shiritori.
Actually I'm learning the vocab on iKnow and Memrise; and my grammar guide is the one written by Tae Kim.
I started studying the language during spring time in 2017. And I still have a goal in mind that keeps me going. I've got quite a bit motivation issues but that just my personality in general.
Anyway, one day I want to be able to read Japanese just like that. I want to fully understand what they're saying without having to glance at the subtitles. And most importantly, I finally want to read Japanese visual novels without the help of some software.
