Learning Japanese – The start of a long journey
Today I am starting my journey of learning Japanese.
My background: I took a 6-month low-intensity Japanese course at university five years ago out of curiosity. However I can barely recall a thing: I vaguely remember a dozen hiraganas, but zero katakanas and zero kanjis. I remember that the "no" particle indicates possession, I remember the phrase "watashi wa gakuse desu", I remember that "desuka" indicates questions. That's about it.
Today I picked a random video (OkkeiJapanese & JapanesewithShun – 1 Hour Real Japanese Conversation | About Life, Friends, and Travel #72 ), listened to the first 20 minutes actively and to the rest passively.
I also downloaded an Anki deck (Japanese Core 1000 Vocab + Pitch Accent) containing the 1000 most frequent Japanese words. I removed most fields to only keep the audio in the front card, and the English meaning in the back card. I plan to learn 10 new words a day—which should take me a little over three months—and to focus mostly on input during that time.
I am currently watching Attack on Titan. Looking forward to watching it in Japanese :)