A new start

I restarted my Japanese learning with a lot more confidence and ways to learn.
The options are pretty endless with all the new apps and content on the Internet.

I also have a friend who is studying Japanese in Japan.

My current approach is not very structured yet but I learned a lot more already and I believe my current approach works a lot better and faster.

My interest to learning again sparked this summer when Duolingo brought out its Japanese course.
I had been using it for a few months to learn some Italian for my summer holiday. The app worked amazingly well for me and I think it's a great app for European languages.

Anyway I was very excited when they brought out Japanese but I quickly found out that the way of learning didn't work as well for me as for Italian.
So I gave learning a break again, but after a month or so I felt really determined to learn Japanese so I started looking for other places to start.

After a bit of trial and error I decided I needed to focus on learning kana to have a decent chance.
It felt like a massive and almost impossible task before I started but it wasn't so bad in the end.
It took me about a week I think to feel confident about my hiragana and a bit longer for the katakana.
I'm a month further now and it really starts to settle down.

One of my biggest mistakes in the past is that I tried to learn Japanese with just romaji. So I will go over my old content again but with kana this time.

I also started learning kanji. I have a 20 day streak now and did 470 kanji so far. I don't properly know them yet of course but I keep on struggling trough the 2200 in my anki deck.

More on that later, stay tuned.