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I feel like giving up Japanese. I don’t want this to sound like a vent/pity post, but I just need some advice/someone to hear me out.
It’s just so daunting. Sometimes I feel like I know everything I need to learn, but lurking around every corner is another daunting thing I need to learn. It‘s so overwhelming, and I with how much time I’m able to put into it, I feel like I will probably never be fluent. I spend all my time doing school work and my other hobbies, so I really don’t have much time/mental energy to put into Japanese for context, I also have some personal problems that make it hard for me to get stuff done.
I feel like all the fluent people spend every waking hour of their lives studying, and I can only put in maybe a total of an hour over the course of a week. I’ll be honest, I haven’t been putting a single minute in for the past month, but learning Japanese is so overwhelming, it doesn’t feel fun anymore. I have no intrinsic motivation to study, and I feel so lost and overwhelmed I don’t know what to do.
I want to learn Japanese. I really, really, really do, but I feel like if I continue this way, I’ll never learn it, and it’s just redundant. Is it okay to continue this way? Just put in a couple hours a week? Should I just shoot for being able to read and write, not full fluency? I understand learning any language is hard, especially Japanese, but is there an “easy way out”? Definitely not, but Is there any way to make it less daunting? I’m so conflicted, I just feel like I should give up on this dream.