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by presentation 1393 days ago
If you want to get to native level mastery and full literacy, but learning it to conversational proficiency is actually quite easy.
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Say you. But I’ve been trying to do that for 4 years, with weekly lessons, in Japan, and I’m still having difficulty.

It’s certainly not easy for everyone.

Check out Cure Dolly on YouTube and weep at the poor quality of instruction that you’re probably receiving.

Also I don’t know how much actual conversational practice you get from day to day life - but at least for me, I talk with my wife and my (mostly Japanese) friends in Japanese for hours every day, and that makes a huge difference. Once a week would simply not be enough.