Well the title says everything,i learned hiragana and katakana and thought it was enough so i jumped to long ass visual novel and started translating everything i saw,finished a bunch of visual novels this way and bc of this i have some quantity of kanjis carved in my head,i wanna continue playing vns,but now i wanna jump into JRPG territory,i Will be starting Persona 5,i beated this game five times and got the platinum trophy,then i finished Persona 5 Royal two times and got Platinum on that one as well,sadly i only have the japanese version of Vanilla persona 5,i would like to play some Ryu Ga Gotoku too but i have only the Yakuza games,my point is playing long ass games with tons of text to translate,i plan on buying Kuro no Kiseki 1 and 2 too If i get very good,my point is:is this a valid way of learning japanese? I learned english the same way,just playing games and translating,is this a good way to learn? My biggest difficulty is kun and on yomi,do you guys know how i can see which of them is being used?
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You need to learn the language not just the letters or the words
Pick up the two kana but also a grammar book, Genki and Tae Kim are common recommendations
And kanji doesn’t work that way, you never choose or decide what yomi to pronounce, you recognize whole words by context and know how to pronounce words
Yes you can use games just like any native media, but you’re not going to just magically absorb it without doing the studying to go along with it, or at least it’s going to be way slower and more painful than learning as you go. Japanese is highly different than any western language, it doesn’t have the same word order, parts of speech, tenses, moods, or patterns, it doesn’t even have any cognates