Hello wonderful people! Today I had a question pop into my mind, How long have you been learning… - Feed Post by Taylor02
Hello wonderful people! Today I had a question pop into my mind, How long have you been learning Japanese? Also, your skill level, if you don't mind disclosing it. I know it'll take awhile before I become fluent in Japanese, but I want to see how long it might take in reality (since I'm no good at estimating >.<). Thank you for your answers :D (If I get any)
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Hmm I tried typing a reply but it wouldn't let me post my comment ;o;- ** I've been studying Japanese for a little over 2 and a half years. Not sure on skill level because I haven't taken JLPT but, I pick it up a lot easier nowadays (not nearly as intimidating). I really enjoy learning Kanji now too. All I can say is keep consistent with studying it, it'll be worth it in the long run. ^^
First year it was hard, then it was a bit faster. And only after third year it was better and the level was between N4-N3. But I was stopped directly one month before the exam and after that I was a degradation. Never ever going to pas JLPT again.
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I've been studying since July of 2016. I have the kanas memorized. I can recognize a handful of kanji. I also have some basic grammar. Like how to use particles wa, e, and o.
I started learning Japanese about 17 years ago (roughly when Final Fantasy 8 was released)... And I don't think I'm anywhere near close to what I would describe as "fluent"! But people have varying interpretations of what the word "fluent" means exactly, so I might be fluent by other people's definitions. xD
I haven't really been studying that whole time though. For all the gaps where I barely did anything to do with learning Japanese (besides anime and music), without those gaps I'd probably say it's more like 5 years.
I can read and write all the hiragana and katakana; learned to recognise the meanings of the 214 traditional radicals; recognise the meaning of about 2,500 kanji and roughly know the main readings of at good half of those; probably know about 5,000 vocabulary words, but have answered near 20,000 on the Kotoba-chan app; read lots about all of Japanese grammar (BUT haven't put it into real practice, so it's mostly vague head knowledge); even read a lot about old and classical Japanese grammar...
Still not "fluent".
In writing and speaking I struggle to put any of my thoughts into sentences, mostly because I've neglected bothering to practise doing so. I've barely practised talking at all, since it's not a skill that's easy to practise your own with no Japanese people around. And in writing by hand I can only write kana. I've not really practised drawing kanji much at all. I can't do any of this fluently, as in fluidly, accurately, and effortlessly express all my thoughts well in the language.
But I can read Japanese pretty well (still takes a fair amount of effort most of the time, and still occasionally have to check a dictionary). My listening skill isn't half as good as my reading, but I can still grasp a reasonable amount of what is being said.
I don't really learn Japanese with a purpose in mind. I would barely even describe the way I've been learning Japanese as "studying". I simply find Japanese really interesting. I don't really care at all about whether the route I'm taking to learn it is the most useful for passing some test or in order to be able to do something. I just do whatever looks the most interesting at the time and find ways to have the most fun doing it. ^^- In short: I started learning Japanese before you were even born, yet I'm still far from fluent.
(Probably sounds worse than my long answer though...) :P 
i have been studying every day since may of 2016 (around 8 months).
I had an account before this one so it doesn't show the true date when i started to learn Japanese.
i started over
It depends on how much time you wanna put into learning japanese. I joined when I was still in highschool but I had to study other things and put it aside. Now, Im in college and got more free time and started picking things up from where I left off.
I've been learning maybe a few weeks and have already learned how to read hiragana and katakana readily but not kanji just yet...
Now Im just building my vocab before i move on to grammar so how fast or slow you learn is up to you.
I started studying maybe 6 or 7 years ago and just passed JLPT N2 in Dec. 2016. I only had 4 semesters of Japanese language available at my university and didn't take them back-to-back. There were some semester I took a break from studying Japanese. And there were a couple of times where I just gave up completely and reverted back to basically just listening to songs and watching anime without any structured study whatsoever. So basically, don't give up. If you study at least a little bit every day (while hitting all aspects of the language, not just studying vocab only) you could attain the proficiency level I have in maybe half the time that it took me.
Well, I've learned Japanese words and phrases a bit over a couple years but honestly, when did I start seriously putting in the effort to learn? Barely 5 weeks ago or something like that, consider it a New Years Resolution, since I've been wanting to learn for years now but only now started doing something about it, as for skill level: Pathetic.
