I can’t afford to spend money on my Japanese learning. I can’t afford text books, apps, website subscriptions, nothing. I have been using free anki decks but the SRS doesn’t seem to be sticking. I have gone through Tae Kim’s guide a couple of times but honestly I don’t feel like I’m taking in much. I honestly was never that academic and was an adult diagnosis of dyslexia, autisum and ADHD. When I look up resources, even free ones, they are always supplemented with paied resources. Either a textbook to go with or most of the content is locked behind a payment, or a patreon for anki decks/discords or the like. I’ve looked up different YouTubers, blogs, apps but I feel like I keep swapping about when I can’t acess new stuff and it’s not helping me remember anything.
I do have a bunch of games, some of which are either JRPGs or games which have a Japanese text translation. I can’t buy anything new so some of these are older (like Ys 1+2 for example). I’d love to play the oprginal Japanese games in thier native language some day. I know some things get lost in translation so it’s always been a dream of mine to play through how the original develoeprs and writers made it.
So, is it realistic? Or am I always going to be limited until I can afford to buy things? Are there free tools which aren’t just gateways to paied content? I’m not saying people shouldn’t be paied for the work they do. I’m just asking if there is a door open to me to do this or if I should just forget about it until the tide turns in my favour?
by GivingItMyBest