Hey everyone! So my situation is a bit odd, I studied Japanese in the past for around one year but then I had to stop for several reasons.Now it has been 3 years that I didn’t touch it at all and I’m all rusty but I want to learn it for real, take the exams and then try to move to Japan to work. (Yes I know how the job culture is there but hey, to each country their own, right?)
What I’m wondering is if it is feasible to reach N2 level in one year and also if you would suggest any other website that I can use as a supplement when not having lesson, right now my routine is like this:
\- 3 Lessons per week
\- 2 Hours each and the 3rd one 1 hour only
\- Working from 9:30 to 6:00 PM, so before that I can’t study on my own.
My level before was around being able to have casual conversations with friends, as such: “Do you want to go to the Cinema next week? Is it 8 PM fine for you?” or “So today I did this and that, how was your day? What have you been up to?” and so on. Kanji were my weak spot.
I was thinking to spend every single bit of time I have available to keep exercising, might it be quizzes or reading. Personally I have always found easier to learn how to talk with others rather than how to write or the grammar, it takes much less time compare to the second one. Thanks to anyone who might help!
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Average JLPT study times are available [online](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese-Language_Proficiency_Test#Estimated_study_time). On top of that, everybody’s aptitude for learning languages differs, sometimes by a lot, so it is really not possible to tell how far you personally will get within a year. Resources are listed in the sidebar/about-page.
To be honest, probably not. Even if you weren’t working, a year to reach N2 would be a big challenge. No way for any of us to no for certain though; you might be the type who picks up language stuff more quickly than most people.
Not with 5hours of Japanese a week. If you do way more outside of your lessons then maybe, but otherwise it’s very very unlikely
Probably not.
When I was learning English I used to use all my lunch break (one hour and half [I’m Brazilian, we are lazy]) to do Anki reviews. If you can do that as well, let’s say your break is 1 hour, it’s 365 hours more in an entire year. If you take bus every day, it’s more time for studying.
Is like a quote that I saw somewhere: “If you can get 1% better each day for one year, you’ll end up 37 times better by the time you’re done.”
It’s not a race, but are people that went from scratch to perfect score at N1 in one year, use this for motivation, but again, is not a race:
[https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/sedr0m/how_i_got_180180_on_n1_in_85_months/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button](https://www.reddit.com/r/LearnJapanese/comments/sedr0m/how_i_got_180180_on_n1_in_85_months/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=share_button)
Looks like up to 7.5 hours a day might get you there.