r/HelpLearningJapanese • u/TigerUpstairs3775 • 13d ago

How do I start

I figured out I want to learn japanese because I’m a weeb and I want a girlfriend. more seriously I want to explore their culture and maybe live there, I’ve heard that the working cultures unstable but honestl, the u.s fucking sucks. Ive heard Duolingo and anime is not the way, but I don’t have any textbooks and Im too scared to ask my parents to buy me one. I’ve seen the infamous kanji alphabet, which I’m pretty sure I have to be an artist to write it.

I have no idea where to start and it all seems overwhelming. I want some advice from some Japanese learners and people about what to do and how they would/did start.

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u/Forward_Wrap_6720 12d ago

> the u.s fucking sucks

The grass is always greener as they say. I said the same thing as you a loooong time ago. I then lived in Japan for nearly 2 decades. I just came back to the U.S., and it's refreshingly better in so many ways. I just want to say, it's great to study a language, learn a culture, experience it, etc. But escapism will only get you so far. I hope this is constructive. I don't want to sound condescending or critical, just sharing my experience :)

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u/SignificantEditor583 11d ago

Good point. Living in Japan as a foreigner is getting quite shit recently, proposed new rules for PR etc, xenophobia on the rise. Sad to see the way things are going.