@Mr_NutterButter yeah that's what I'm trying to go towards, basically. That's what my brother did for French! Japanese is a bit different though since it has 3 different alphabets. So I want to start with just hiragana, and animal crossing is like the only game that has a hiragana only mode. I know the game well enough that I can navigate around without knowing exactly what things say too.

I actually learned quite a lot of English from animal crossing when I was a kid, so it feels pretty natural to go back to it for japanese lol.