anyone learns japanese as second/third/fourth lang or whatever? Just curious how long it t...

I learned Japanese as my fourth language (self learned) and it took me more than a year to familiarize myself on reading manga in Japanese. But there are still some kanjis that I still can't read and differentiate LMAO. As for how I look up the kanji, I usually go to Papago and draw the kanji then translate them ╮(￣▽￣)╭

Can you give me some pointers? I’ve been wanting to learn Japanese and I’ve started learning Korean to help read webtoons and manga, but it honestly shocked me that you were able to read at that level in a different language when I’ve been learning Spanish for a while and I loathe reading in it.

Each person have different methods on learning other language, and mine is to first learn the basic; hiragana, katakana, basic kanji, greetings etc. Kanji takes a looot of time to learn so when you read any manga, make sure to read the furigana beside the kanji and write em down so you could remember them and also for future references.

Kanji is fun to learn if you understand the concept. For example; 木 (ki/き) is for tree. For forest, it's 森 (mori/もり) which looks just like three tress being put together!

Oh and besides reading mangas with furigana, watching animes or any japanese movies, series, songs etc. with subtitles also helps a lot. I also did this since we could hear the pronunciation as well as the meaning

Thanks for sharing your experience :3

You're welcome ^^ wishing you good luck on learning Japanese!

Thank you so much! This was very helpful