Hello everyone, coming straight to the point I want to in 3 months can I learn enough Japanese to read all types and kind of manga (I mostly like psychological, horror, dark themed)
And second If not then how much language I need to know to read adult dark themed manga.
I have 3 months , how much can I gain in 3 months.
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Very unlikely unless you’re a literal genius and a NEET to boot.
Is there any benchmark after which I can comfortably read manga,like this many Kanji words should I know or both genki books or something like that
3 months is barely enough to even read slice of life manga.
Adults stuff will most likely need atleast 1 year of studying for most people, and even then you will have to look up a bunch of words with dictionaries
Not to discourage you, but you’d need at least an intermediate grammar comprehension and about 3000-5000 unique words to understand basic manga and the genres you listed are ususally more complex than that.
Take some more time, acquire the necessary vocabulary and grammar and slowly get into the habit of reading more and more in Japanese. You’ll get there. It’s not a race.
Not enough time tbqh even if you could dedicate every waking hour. It might be enough to start learning how to read hiragana only kids’ books. This is how I started.
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Seriously though, 3 months is nowhere near enough time to learn to read a typical manga. Not unless you are some high level language prodigy.
There’s a limit to how much you can stuff into your brain. The only thing you have any sort of control over is how fast it gets into your short-term memory. Long-term memory is a process you have zero practical control over (though timing your study to be right before you sleep seems to help)
Because of this, no one can tell you how much you’ll learn in that 3 months other than “not enough”. The US State Department estimates 88 weeks of study at 25 hours a week to learn Japanese from English.
If you have a deadline (for some reason) for 3 months, you’re going to have to compromise on what it means to ‘read’. You will read a sentence say “What the heck is that word?” and look it up. Then read another sentence and say “What is this grammar structure?” and look it up.
This can be frustrating, but it’s also studying and you’ll eventually not have to do it. Looking for manga with furigana can help with the study because looking up kanji is painful
zero chance, at most enough to read slice of life manga while consulting a dictionary and *still * not understanding everything
All of the above, and if you want to consume psychological, horror, and dark themed manga in such a short amount of time, then you’re going to want to focus a lot of your learning around psychological, horror, and dark themed manga.
What I mean is you’re going to have to spend a lot of time picking through those manga and learning from them. Looking up the words and the grammar points and using that as your study guide more or less.
It’s not really a matter of “how much language” you need to know to read that stuff, but WHAT parts of the language you know.
For instance, I, personally, can follow slice of life shows and stuff really easily. This is because traditional study teaches you a lot of slice of life stuff to get by.
But when watching Death Note, I’m lost more than half the time, because I haven’t learned crime specific vocabulary.
You could spend YEARS learning Japanese and still find yourself at a wall with the stuff you want to know.
So I’d recommend studying WITH the stuff you want to know. … but do know that this is a more gruelling, slow, and probably painful way to go.
Some resources you might need for this include
* [Jisho.org](https://jisho.org/) – digital dictionary
* [Maggie Sensei](https://maggiesensei.com/) – grammar guide
* [Tae Kim](https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/) – grammar guide
* [Deep L](https://www.deepl.com/translator) – translator*
* [Anki](https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/) – digital flashcards
* [Wanikani](https://www.wanikani.com/) – Kanji learning (free to level 4)
* [Kanji Damage](http://www.kanjidamage.com/) – Kanji learning
*I use Google Translate, but seeing a translation can sometimes help make sense of how words are working together.
Digital flash cards are good for grabbing words or sentences you want to learn.
I can’t really tell you how successful you’ll be in 3 months. These things tend to vary person-to-person, method-to-method, and resource-by-resource.
You may make a lot of progress, you may make only little, you may burn out entirely, all you can really do is try.