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Originally Posted by Tsuwabuki
The basic moral you should take away from my rather long diatribe is that immersion is the best way to learn a language, so you should maximise the possibility of Japanese language use.
If your area has a Japanese association, that might be a good place to start. Go to Japanese events, find Japanese restaurants actually run by Japanese families, go to Japanese supermarkets. Force yourself to engage in conversations where Japanese is a necessity. Reading functions the same way. To learn first grade kanji, I spent time with the art club at my junior high school and while the students drew or painted, I created kanji squares, and then posted them all over my bedroom walls. They were the first things I saw when I woke up, and the last things I saw when I went to sleep. I learned them pretty quickly.
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Ahh, I see, and I do try my best to completely immerse in Japanese;however, living in the US it's a hard thing to do :\ I've been looking for somewhere like maybe a church or something that has a Japanese service and things like that. And doing my best to find Japanese people at school, I'm afraid the Japanese community is not very large where I live.