Talk:Status/@comment-71.173.193.131-20130603043500/@comment-53539-20130611201011

@Kim; For English speakers, Japanese is considered one of the hardest languages to learn. For English speakers, the other European languages are easiest language to learn so they share many traits that are common with each other. :-/

Like all things such as the piano or painting, its possible to learn on your own indeed. But this is not always achievable, especially as the anon is likely doing this whole business blind.

Having tried to do Japanese myself on my own and ended up not being able to pick up the language well enough to do more then basic translations at best... I think I'd faired better with someone to help me with, so I'll stand by the "seek help from those who know" method of approach; go get a professional tutor or live in Japan.

I'm having more luck learning french right now and in the past picked up German quite well. Enough that if I was to spend time in Germany I'd be able to use it in a everyday scenario.

considering I was a anime nut at the time I tried to pick up Japanese, I also consider the reasons I tried to learn Japanese the very wrong reasons for learning a language. I'm not the type, however, who thought watching anime and reading manga for help me learn about Japan and its culture, as a lot of those guys felt it did when I was a anime nut. Thats like watching hollywood movies to learn English, to quote someone on this wikia. :-/