Talk:Status/@comment-71.173.193.131-20130603043500/@comment-30602727-20130617223635

I agree with Angel here

Just watching anime, reading manga or even listening to Japanese Vocaloids will only get you so far. Heck, sometimes the Vocaloids don't pronounce certain words right, depending on the song you're listening to and how well they're edited.

My friend knows quite foreign languages, French (pretty fluent), Russian, German (pretty fluent), a bit of Mandarin, a bit of Cantonese, a little Japanese (he doesn't even watch anime, he's not interested), and some Spanish. He learns them in his free time. But he does admit that he needs someone fluent to speak to in order to practice it better. He speaks to my father in Cantonese/Mandarin and he's still choppy.

If you're going to be responsible for learning the language yourself, move to a country with that language as its official, or get a teacher/fluent speaker. It'll be handy.

Not to mention the dialect. There's so many....