Hi everyone :slight_smile: I’m a beginner, just started learning Japanese a few weeks ago. I follow this guide , which is amazing. So far, I’ve learnt Hiragana, Katakana, and I’m at level 2 on WaniKani. Unfortunately, I work full-time (plus extra work on personal projects), so I can’t spend a +20 h…

It’s impossible to say how far you can get, but you can definitely get the point of reading basic signs and forming basic sentences. Some recommendations though: Don’t let WaniKani take all your time. Clearly you don’t intend for that to happen, but WaniKani (and SRS in general) has a habit of tak…

[image] seanblue: Don’t let WaniKani take all your time. definitely. if you only have one hour a day, getting all your reviews to 0 everytime will definitely eat up your whole hour at some point. Take it easy on lessons, and definitely don’t let grammar be an afterthought. If your goal is to …

I’m an older learner and I have been working at it for almost 22 months now. I probably average around two hours a day and haven’t missed a day yet. I spend 10-15 minutes on grammar before letting myself do WK and then I try to get to zero reviews daily (failing more often than not). I visited Japa…

[image] srodrigo: My question is, how far do you think I could get if I spend 1 hour per day, every day and every week (that’s 7 hours/week), for about 18 months? I plan to travel to Japan in about 18-21 months, and don’t intend to be fluent at all, but at least to be able to read some stuff (to…

Thanks @seanblue , @Saida , @dreamerpaula and @Vanilla a lot for your recommendations. I’ll make sure I neither delay grammar nor let WK eat all my time, and that I spend time on listening (and speaking if I can). I’ll change my priorities to be Listening/Speaking > Grammar > WK (this has worked well …

Depends on what you mean by “outside Tokyo”. If it’s a Kyoto or another large city, it shouldn’t be a problem. Same for smaller places that however attract many foreign tourists. But otherwise expect to see very little English and assume people don’t speak English. But they could be very friendly …

I just came back from two weeks in Tokyo and I’ve been learning Japanese for around 18 months (1 hr/week tutor plus self-study). I would say that the kanji I’d learnt from WaniKani was actually more useful to me while I was there than most of what I had learnt from my textbooks. Most of the speaking…

Others have already touched upon this but keep in mind that Wanikani is for learning how to read kanji, not for learning how to speak basic phrases or understand Japanese. If those are your goals I think you would be much better off with a Memrise course for basic phrases and vocab, and possibly a g…

@d-hermit @fustian_garb @Voleuse thanks for your input. I’ll do my best to balance all areas and make sure that WK doesn’t eat too much time. I’m glad to hear that my first goal is reasonable. I would never shoot for something too ambitious yet. Hell, I’m just starting and I’m struggling a lot alrea…

[image] srodrigo: want to start reading manga at some point Here you go…

How far can I get spending 1 hour/day learning Japanese?

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_Marcus July 8, 2019, 3:37pm 11

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How far can I get spending 1 hour/day learning Japanese?

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