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Originally Posted by aliasdarkyin
Not realy, i learnt how to speak Afrikaans in about a year and a half...
I find languages interesting. If u set ur mind to it, anything is possible!
Oh and im not just learning Japanese so that i can understand anime, its just my goal.
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Moving from Dutch or English to Afrikaans while living in South Africa is a lot different from moving from Dutch/English/Afrikaans to Japanese when you don't have an opportunity to speak Japanese.
English, Dutch, and Afrikaans are very similar languages. Japanese is nothing like any of them.
It will be an uphill battle, just be aware. It took me two years of university classes in Japanese and moving to Japan before I could understand television programs. And I'm what you call "gifted" in languages.
And you must learn kanji as you go, and you should learn hiragana and katakana
before learning anything else.