Which shows that the community is always changing! 99% of the people from last month have given up and have been replaced by other new beginners who’ll probably just follow the steps of their predecessors… A never ending cycle… Pretty unique for a big subreddit!
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Most people burning out and giving up before N5 seems bad.
Some people measure their progress in JLPT levels or Anki cards, I measure mine in number of “most beautiful kanji”, “why is this community so toxic?” and “funniest katakana loanword”-posts lol
骨 it’s a little skellyboy. 滑 wet skellies are slippery.
If sharing elementary things keeps even a fraction of new learners engaged and motivated, so be it. It doesn’t stop anyone from posting things they consider more worthwhile. There’s plenty of good info and like-minded people on here for those who are serious about their study, but if you’re not one of those people, honestly who cares? Learning a language is a never ending grind, simple posts can be a fun break.
Not necessarily directed at you, OP, but if you’re sick of new learner posts and care so much about productive study, get off Reddit and go read a book or play a game or something.
Yeah Japanese is super weird cause it seems impossible before you start, then you try it and you’re like “woah this is way better than I thought” which is kinda true there are some convenient things about Japanese then you hit some grammar walls and start listening to native speakers and freaking yourself out and start doubting yourself more and more as the “what you know you don’t know” pile gets bigger and bigger.
Probably similar in other languages but I think day one Japanese should be you being told 200x that this is a multi year commitment and if you think you’ll master this language or even be conversational in a few months it’s not for you. maybe for some genius but it still takes a lot. But I also think learners who are continually learning new vocab and grammar, even slowly, don’t step back enough to remind themselves that only X months/years ago this language looked like absolute gibberish and you can literally parse words and phrases from it now.
This is a joke post but I’ve been in this sub(and studying Japanese) for 6 months and have seen soooo many different kinds of learners, and the biggest thing I think that’s killing off motivation is incorrect expectations about what it takes to learn any language, let alone Japanese.
>99% of the people from last month have given up and have been replaced by other new beginners who’ll probably just follow the steps of their predecessors…
Or there are those of us who don’t give up, reach an advanced level, and just don’t ever see the need to participate in one of those threads again.