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!)
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.
Check out KanaDojo. Its a cool little web app that will help with hiragana and katakana.
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.
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
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!
Same, have you tried WaniKani for learning the Kanji and vocabulary? It’s great.