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こんにちは！日本語を勉強しています！
I'm 90 days into learning Japanese. Most of that has been learning kana and I'm now working on kanji and grammar. It's very different from English but I really like the way information is conveyed. I'm struggling with grammar stuff right now pretty bad, particularly conjugation, but it'll click eventually. Also the lack of spaces is definitely something to get used to.
Watashi no nihongo wa warui desu yo.
Watashi mo, but getting better every day.
What tools are you using to study?
I started with Duolingo and while it has all the regular duo problems, I think it actually does a good job with the kana stuff. You can turn off the Romaji too, forcing yourself to read. It doesn't teach grammar, though, so I bought Genki Vol 1, working my way through that, and wotaku.wiki has a lot of good resources.
I really like the Cure Dolly stuff for grammar (though she can be difficult to understand, use the youtube transcripts or if you prefer reading a book someone helpfully wrote it all up). Her approach is totally different from the Genki methods, but I find it easier to understand.
I am also using Anki with the Kaishi 1.5k Kanji deck for kanji and vocabulary. This is honestly pretty painful, I've been doing it for like 10 days now and I feel like I'm doing badly every time, but I am improving. I could probably stand to study the radical stuff to understand more how the kanji is constructed but I haven't found a good resource for that just yet.
{日本人|にほんじん}です
{漢字|かんじ}、{助詞|じょし}、{敬語|けいご}あたりが{辛|つら}いとよく{聞|き}きますが{日本語|にほんご}はそこまで{厳密|げんみつ}に{喋|しゃべ}らなくてもある{程度|ていど}{通|つう}じちゃったりもします
{漢字|かんじ}を{理解|りかい}するのに{部首|ぶしゅ}からいくのはいいですね、{部首|ぶしゅ}と{旁|つくり}についてある{一定|いってい}の{意味|いみ}を{覚|おぼ}えたら{読|よ}めなくても{意味|いみ}を{理解|りかい}するのが{簡単|かんたん}になります
{小学生|しょうがくせい}レベルで1026{個|こ}ある{漢字|かんじ}をとりあえず{覚|おぼ}えれば{日常|にちじょう}で{困|こま}らないレベルになると{思|おも}います
{頑張|がんば}ってください
ありがとう。
私は質問があります。なぜあなたがフルストップを使わないですか。ドイツ語にはたくさんフルストップがありますから。
I usually do use proper punctuation like the Japanese full stop "。",
but recently there's been a trend—especially among younger people—where it's sometimes avoided.
Some even call it “maru-hara” (short for “full stop harassment”), suggesting that ending a sentence with "。" can come off as cold or aggressive.
I guess that's why I ended up not using it myself, especially in casual contexts like social media.
あああーなるほど。冷たいあるいは最終的なものと思われるかもしれないです。けど、ドイツ語に慣れた私にとっては、文の終わりがわがところはどこしらないです。習うしました、ありがとう。
This kind of sentence is difficult, so I used some translator help :/
カッコいい! 皆と同じように僕も日本語を選びました。Lemmyで人気のある言語らしいですね。
でも昔、僕の場合は最初に漢字で勉強し始めたので、予想に反して、読むことや理解することが難しくなってしまいました。昨年から、オンライン新聞とウィキの記事を読み始めたので、単語や文法がだんだん分かりやすくなってきました。一歩ずつ進んでいくんですね！
ところで、日本語を読んで練習するためにおすすめのウェブサイトがありますか？
I hope I didn't make too many mistakes. Writing is still a challenge!
{自分|じぶん}は{日本語|にほんご}{学習|がくしゅう}については{知|し}らないですが（{日本人|にほんじん}だから{当|あ}たり{前|まえ}だけど・・・）、
{子供向|こどもむ}けの{絵本|えほん}サイトとかは{意外|いがい}といいかもしれません
https://ehon.alphapolis.co.jp/
あとはサイト{集|しゅう}みたいなのもあるっぽいですね
https://nihongo-e-na.com/jpn/site/tag/%E8%AA%AD%E3%82%80/
ルビが振ってある日本語のサイトを探すのもいいかもしれないですね、
{慣|な}れたらなろうとかで{本|ほん}を{読|よ}むのも{良|よ}いかも？？
Switchのどうぶつの{森|もり}を{日本語|にほんご}に{設定|せってい}して{勉強|べんきょう}している{人|ひと}も{見|み}たことがあります
ちなみに{書|か}かれている{日本語|にほんご}は{完璧|かんぺき}でしたよ！
がんばいます！
I appreciate the feedback, this Anki deck should hopefully get my vocabulary to that point. I am actually pretty good at getting the meaning usually and the readings are the tough part, so I'm doing okay I guess. It just feels like a lot, but that's true of any language I suppose. I've learned a lot in the last few months. Thanks for the encouragement!