Using authentic materials - that is, materials created by and for native speakers of Japanese, is hard work. It may take time, but since you’re going to be spending the time anyway, you might as well spend it learning Japanese. You may have far to go, but it’s far from impossible. It’s spoken daily by a finite number of human beings who learned it in a finite time with finite resources using their finite energy, just like you. No matter how complex and impossible it may seem, remember that there are a finite number of words used in Japanese. Repeat…You see where this is going? What’s that, you picked up a phrase? A sentence? A scene? You go on, building, growing, increasing until the situation inverts such that eventually you’re no longer looking up the one and only word you do understand, you’re looking up the one and only word you don’t understand. Get an example sentence of with that word in it. Get an example sentence with that word in it. Because I guarantee you will pick up one word. But that’s why you have to expose yourself to it. But, yeah, you won’t understand a lot of it. I say to watch TV and movies, listen to music, eat food, hang out with people, all in Japanese. If I just read a lot then in the near future I’ll be able to do that? To understand that? Pull the other one! Well, you will. After all, how are you supposed to learn all that? No WAY! No WAY! It’s too much, it’s too scary. You hear real Japanese, and it’s intimidating. You see a pageful of Japanese, and it’s intimidating.

You see a wallful of kanji, and it’s intimidating. When starting out Japanese, the idea itself is intimidating. It’s a great question, and I think the answer will be valuable, so here are some points I thought up.

What it was like for me when starting on this journey to becoming one with Japanese. A while ago, someone asked me what it’s like in the beginning.

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