+1 for learning Nipponese. If you enjoy a lot of Japanese games, anime, music, and/or other forms of culture, you will not regret it. Easily one of the best decisions I've ever made. Avoiding shitty localization shenanigans is merely one slice of the fulfillment pie.
There are awesome resources for Japanese online. Back in the day to learn grammar I went through Tae Kim's grammar guide. Annoying to link since I'm on my phone atm but a simple Google search will find it. However nowadays it seems many people consider Wasabi to be better (Google Wasabi Japanese grammar guide).
For Kanji and vocab I would recommend Anki to build yourself a foundation. It's a SRS flashcard program that people make custom decks for. On the shared decks page there are tons for Japanese.
Once you have a good base of vocab and grammar I would recommend just watching a ton of anime in Japanese or listening to a lot music or basically doing anything that exposes you to Japanese spoken by native speakers. If there are subtitles, make sure to actively think about the Japanese being said and think about how those subtitles were derived from the original Japanese. Sounds like a pain in the ass but doing this enabled me to learn Japanese way better than I learned Spanish in school, and I think my school's Spanish program was actually quite good. Tons of immersion is the key to comprehension that approaches native level.
As for apps, I know Tae Kim used to have one, and I know there's an Anki app. There are some decent ones to drill Kanji and vocab. "Obenkyou" and "Kanji tree" were decent in my opinion back in the day. Also, anyone who wants to learn should familiarize themselves with jisho.org as a good online dictionary. As for a dictionary mobile app, the one I use is simply called "Japanese" and is published by renzo Inc.
Other than that, the Daily Japanese Thread (djt) on /jp/ probably has a lot of good resources in the OP of their threads.
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions. I know that might be a lot to take in, but there are a lot of good resources out there for Japanese.
+1 for learning Nipponese. If you enjoy a lot of Japanese games, anime, music, and/or other forms of culture, you will not regret it. Easily one of the best decisions I've ever made. Avoiding shitty localization shenanigans is merely one slice of the fulfillment pie.
yeah but where do you even start with that?
i already have trouble finding some decent stuff to re-learn italian (had it in school).
you got some nice chilled app to slowly slip in, some actual coursework or just these shitty duolingo crap?
There are awesome resources for Japanese online. Back in the day to learn grammar I went through Tae Kim's grammar guide. Annoying to link since I'm on my phone atm but a simple Google search will find it. However nowadays it seems many people consider Wasabi to be better (Google Wasabi Japanese grammar guide).
For Kanji and vocab I would recommend Anki to build yourself a foundation. It's a SRS flashcard program that people make custom decks for. On the shared decks page there are tons for Japanese.
Once you have a good base of vocab and grammar I would recommend just watching a ton of anime in Japanese or listening to a lot music or basically doing anything that exposes you to Japanese spoken by native speakers. If there are subtitles, make sure to actively think about the Japanese being said and think about how those subtitles were derived from the original Japanese. Sounds like a pain in the ass but doing this enabled me to learn Japanese way better than I learned Spanish in school, and I think my school's Spanish program was actually quite good. Tons of immersion is the key to comprehension that approaches native level.
As for apps, I know Tae Kim used to have one, and I know there's an Anki app. There are some decent ones to drill Kanji and vocab. "Obenkyou" and "Kanji tree" were decent in my opinion back in the day. Also, anyone who wants to learn should familiarize themselves with jisho.org as a good online dictionary. As for a dictionary mobile app, the one I use is simply called "Japanese" and is published by renzo Inc.
Other than that, the Daily Japanese Thread (djt) on /jp/ probably has a lot of good resources in the OP of their threads.
Feel free to shoot me a message if you have any questions. I know that might be a lot to take in, but there are a lot of good resources out there for Japanese.
wow, thanks man, guess i don't have excuses to not do something productive on the train now.