Here's that tyranny you all whined about in Guns and Ammo for a generation or two.

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It’s really hard to learn a language that you aren’t going to be using frequently. I took 2 years of Spanish in high school, another in college, and used Duolingo for several years on and off. I wanted to learn Spanish (and can read it okay), but it takes a lot of discipline to learn a language.

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I was serious about trying to learn Japanese for real but I missed a semester due to health issues and couldn't catch up properly in my last semester, and it landed me short of able to actually read Japanese in the wild and self-paced courses were too big a lift.

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Tried duolingo; I don't know how it is for other languages but for Japanese it was useless for anything but vocab practice. No grammar coverage at all. Also used an app called kanjisenpai for, well, kanji, which was helpful as a supplement but not a full course.

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So I still watch subtitled anime but now I know Important Cultural Context like that hierarchy is deeply encoded into the language, which is nice.

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