/vt/ - Virtual Youtubers

>>68190851
>what's the guide on actually successfully learning it
Here is something that REALLY worked for me, except I supplemented it down the line
>Learn Japanese: A Ridiculously Detailed Guide
https://www.tofugu.com/learn-japanese/

Here are the steps

Step fucking 1)
>Understand the reason you want to learn Japanese.
Maybe all you want is to know how to read the title of JAV videos and Vocaloid songs
>not that this was my original motivation
In this case, obviously, you'll have a much easier way just going straight to learning how to read than learning how to actually speak or listen to it.
But maybe you want, like that anon, to watch a whole animated movie with no subs. Then you'll have to learn how to listen and the grammar but can skipping the writing part.
Or maybe you want to become japanese, then you'll have to learn the whole thing.

Step 2) DO YOUR FUCKING KANA REPS
Japanese have three writing systems in use, with two of them being one to one phonetically compatible with latin script. These are called "kana" (as opposed to kanji)
>Hiragana
>Katakana
Unless you are really mentally defective you can learn both in the span of a week, it is a simple substitution of the level of those little symbol substitution crypto chicks used to write their diaries without people prying on it
Here is the site I used
https://www.realkana.com/hiragana
ONE FUCKING WEEK, TOPS! If you don't know how to read kana in one week GIVE UP, you are too dumb

Step 3) Here is where your path might fork. You might know how to read kana and that will allow you to read stuff like
>アキ・ローゼンタール
or
>ぺこら
but even a single kanji will fuck you up so you are still illiterate for the most part.

To properly learn kanji there are two ways
1) anki
2) wanikani
The first is free, the second is 6 bucks a month (and it is what Mori, for instance, was using)
https://www.wanikani.com/
IT IS FUCKING WORTH IT! It is made for autists, meaning it turns learning it into a game of grinding.

If you are persistent you'll learn the simplest 200 or so kanji in a couple of months and then you'll be able to read
>兎田ぺこら
as well, and also finally understand why
>誕生日
buffs a stream.

That will only give you vocabulary tho, so if you REALLY wants to understand the language, you'll need to learn grammar as well.
To do so there are three paths
1) Buy (or acquire in any manner you see fit) Genki
https://www.amazon.com/GENKI-Integrated-Elementary-Japanese-English/dp/4789014401
2) Use Tae Kim resource
https://guidetojapanese.org/learn/
3) (and this is how I did it) LEARN FROM A VTUBER THAT EXISTED BEFORE VTUBERS EXISTED IN THE CURRENT FORM
Cure Dolly, just don't get attached because she'd fucking dead
Here is the playlist
>Japanese from scratch: the game-changing course in organic Japanese
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSvH9vH60Ig&list=PLg9uYxuZf8x_A-vcqqyOFZu06WlhnypWj
Path 1 is for regular folks, Path 2 is for self learners, Path 3 is for autists that want to learn language as if it was mathematics

Then, after you learned some kanji, all kana, vocabulary and the basics of grammar all you need is EXPOSURE
Try to read, try to listen, turn the subtitles off after watching things with it on, and get exposed to lots of it
>THEN YOU'LL BE A N9999 LIKE THE REST OF US MAGGOTS