Interesting idea. Do you consider yourself advanced or intermediate, just curious? Myself, I used to study heavily some years back, especially when I lived in Japan. Lots of calligraphy (is that what you call it?). I found that really helpful in memorization. Used flash cards too. Recently my interest has been sparked again, after a looooooong break.
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I’m definitely not advanced. I’ve never formally studied the language. I’ve only picked it up piece by piece, one new life experience at a time. I never really know if I’m making mistakes or not, or if I’m communicating like a native speaker or a second-language speaker.
About five or six years ago, I spent a year studying kanji and grammar for the JLPT 2 and passed, but I don’t think I could pass it now. Since then, I haven’t studied at all.
My home, though, is basically an all Japanese language environment, so I’m very conversational, but I’m also very limited by lack of vocabulary and knowledge of expressions, etc.
You are in a place now where what you learn now is just icing on the cake really. I know some that live in Japan for decades and just never get into the Japanese language thing at all.
Yeah, that’s weird to me. I feel like those people are often full of complaints about living here, too.
I would love to go to school to actually learn Japanese now, or just go to a trade school and learn the trade in Japanese, studying Japanese as I it fits into the curriculum, but I don’t see that happening in the near future.