Hello from Germany!

[mochimona]

Hello there; i found this forum on accident and decided to sign up, since I want to start learning japanese more seriously.
My native language is german, I am more or less fluent in english and tried to learn japanese two years ago (before covid started). But my japenese teacher left germany and went back to japan, so I stopped attending classes.

I love the japanese cuisine (pretty much addicted to ramen) and I like anime/manga, a lot of japanese games (like light novels, otome but also a lot of jrpgs and stuff) and I wish to be able to at least understand japanese good enough to play video games and read manga in japanese/watching anime in japanese without subtitles.

I work full time and I have a side hustle too, so my time is limited. But I want to make room to do at least a little bit each day to improve. I am not sure which way to learn might be the best for me, but I guess the immersion technique is a good way to start, since I like listening to podcasts/audiobooks and japanese music anyway.

Feel free to ask anything. And I am looking forward to be part of this community.

 

[thomas]

Hallo @mochimona, herzlich willkommen im Forum!

Nice to have you on board! Feel free to post any questions relating to your language studies to our Learning Japanese section.

 

[Buntaro]

Hi Mochimona and welcome to the forum

I am glad to hear of your interest in learning Japanese.

Have you mastered the reading and writing of hiragana and katakana?

 

[日本語 Class]

Welcome Mochimona, nice to have you！

Btw are anime and manga popular in Germany/Europe？I heard its not much (its more in China and Latin America, so I heard) but its good to hear from a person from the actual places

Anyway hope that you enjoy, and that you get to learn Japanese