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My best advice... go to Japan. Unfortunately, this is not that easy. So here are some other ways you can study.1. Study hard. If you give up easily, Japanese is not for you. You need something to motivate yourself. Think about what you really want from learning Japanese. Do you want to just be able to understand anime? Do you want to be able to communicate with Japanese friends? Do you want to live and work in Japan? They are all different and the way you will approach learning Japanese can be very different depending on your goals.2. Kanji is a game of memorization. Look at it. All the fucking time. Write it down a hundred times. Read it. Japanese has this amazingly awesome thing called onyomi and kunyomi. That means the same kanji can be read many different ways. Get used to it. Back to tip 1, study hard.3. Grammar is a pain in the butt because Japanese really has so much. There are tons of ways to say the exact same thing, but with little nuances. Again, it's just memorization for most things. The basics (as in conversational Japanese) can be found in most textbooks. The best way to remember grammar patterns is to use them. Speak to other people who are studying or speak Japanese. The best is to speak to fluent speakers.4. Vocabulary. Same as grammar, use it. Practice it all the time. Don't learn words you don't need (a lot of times, this falls into the anime category. Like seriously, do you really need to know how to say all those technical terms from Naruto or Attack on Titan that no one really uses in daily life anyway?).5. Speaking is difficult. You get better with practice. Listen to a lot of Japanese. When you improve your listening, you learn to think faster and in Japanese. Then your speaking will improve. Practice writing as well so that your brain trains itself to recognize kanji and grammar patterns. Find a texting buddy to have conversations in Japanese with. Slowly build your way up to speaking.6. Intonation and pronunciation are extremely important. Repeat after animes. Read everything out loud. Record yourself and fix yourself.7. Japanese is hard only if you think it's hard. That being said, Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to master, but also one of the most rewarding. But nobody says you have to master the language. Back to tip 1, assess your own goals and study accordingly.I don't know how much this helps... I'm not that great at giving general advice. If you want specific help, you can ask me about those things directly. If you want a tutor, let me know and we can arrange that. Other than that, learning Japanese is no different than learning any other foreign language. Good luck.

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