[RealJames]

I'm guilty of not having read this thread at all.

I'm just posting what the title made me think of;

The problem with learning Japanese is KANJI!! Damnit... even at a kanji a day it's 5.5 years to read a newspaper! If you just focus on conversational Japanese you can get very good very fast.. factor in Kanji then suddenly it takes a lot longer to be decent..

My spoken Japanese is... pretty damn good, but I know only about 200 kanji or so, give or take, cuz every time I have a few minutes to study Kanji I prefer to spend that time talking Japanese to someone to work on sounding native lol

problem with that though... once I get fluent but still don't know any kanji, I come off as a total illiterate dumbass

in other words, I hate kanji with a passion, but love speaking and having conversations in Japanese, I'm especially fond of Kansaiben!!