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@mitchconner it's not too late to start. I began learning Japanese last year and I'm almost 30.
@sun @mitchconner @beardalaxy i am not trying to gloat and ots probably not very wild but I've been watching a german show, subtitled to spanish with a local llm, and I've kinda slowly (very) started to understand a little bit of german. It reminds me of the way I learned english (playing gta sa/nfsc/n64 games on my first ever laptop when I was 6 onwards). Some games had spanish text + english voices (gta sa) and somehow that made it "click"
@mischievoustomato @sun @mitchconner I'm still hoping that my idea of eventually being able to play animal crossing in Japanese works for me. Idk about the later games, but the original has a hiragana-only mode since that's what little kids know instead of all this kanji. I didn't learn English from animal crossing per se, but I learned so much about grammar and sentence structure as well as a lot of vocabulary from it. Video games in general, back before there was voice acting and you had to read everything, really forced me to learn how to read better hahaha.
I'm getting pretty close to knowing all the hiragana characters, and I know a good bit of vocab too, so I reckon that in a few months I'll be ready to try it out.
