ありがとうございます！！ that is the exact anime i was talking about !! 
… now I have a new anime to watch heh 
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Yeah, so, the questions remains. Maybe someone else will answer it. Maybe the Asher himself (can I tag him?)
As for the sources, if you have time, I would use whatever. Really. Don’t limit yourself to only one source. Like, over the years (it took me around 4 or 5 years to pass N3 since I’ve been constantly busy with study and work), I’ve used everything from Duolingo and Wanikani to Heisig and JFZ to Minna no Nihongo. I’ve dropped Wanikani almost immediately (didin’t want to get hooked on the mnemonics too much since I see them as a nuisance that you will need to eventually get rid off to stop your brain from wasting time going “English - mnemonics - Japanese”: you’ll need to get it straight to “Japanese” as soon as you can)
The main thing is to use what you like and what works for you. I learned LOTS of vocab and kanji just from reading manga, like Yotsubato. For kanji, I now don’t use anything specifically but just mentally write every new kanji I meet and deem important a couple of times. The more you meet them, the more you need them, the more you repeat, so it works by itself reinforcing your memory of it. For grammar, I currently use Bunpro as I said, but I also have a set of long-time favorites like Tae Kim or Japanese Ammo. For words, nothing specific, everything works, just reading or watching anime. Same for the listening, but I also use different podcasts. Finally, for speaking, there are different voice apps
(I know this thread is about memes, but in my experience, taking a conversation elsewhere almost never works, so I’ll just post it here since it might be useful for anyone. And if you think about it, this whole “WhAt’s a GoOd sOuRCe to STarT LeaRNIng?!.” thing is a meme in itself)
P.S. I sincerely feel that the worst thing one can do to their study and mental health in general is to rush things. You’ll burn out and your brain will start hating what you liked just because you did too much of it in a given time. That’s why I made my Duolingo profile private, for example. To avoid this “This guy just passed you in the league” BS. And my life instantly became a bit better
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no i understand and i know that lol, people learn different things in different ways lol. different brains for different people, different things for different people. i was just giving recommendations based off of what works for me, and what I personally use to learn different vocab, kanji, the difference between on/kun readings, and grammar stuff. all I was doing was trying to be somewhat helpful to someone and if I gave them a new resource that they ended up using/liking then its a win, in m books.
I understand that too though, which is why I have been learning japenese for around 3 and a half years now. i have stopped and started many times due to being 1, burnt out 2, it was just a fixation and didn’t want to commit to learning a hard language when I was younger. 3, though, while I did get burnt out a bunch and quit japenese for around 1-2 years, because of my efforts I did remember hiragana and while I never learn katakana I just like make a mental note and move on. kanji is so much easier for me to remember then katakana since I learned hiragana in like a 4-5 days or a week? during school hours LMAO
about the duolingo thing, to be fair, I hate duolingo a bunch, it used to teach the most random shit and like I was learning vocab before I even knew hiragana ?? like why I did learn the vocab “to drink” before I knew how to say し and what おちゃ meant? I think that duo is cool for the alabpaet and kanji from time to time but to use it everyday, its a very bad resource but, for people, they enjoy the feeling like “omg that guy just passed me! now I have to pass him too” while I personally did enjoy that before, I don’t anymore.
yeah its a funny meme because everyone asks, and you get the same answers,
- try duolingo
- get genki
- get minna no nihongo
- study hiragana and katakana first, don’t use romaji
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learn kanji
- learn vocab
- learn pitch accent
- try to be american but not too american when you speak japenese
- pass jlpt tests
- with the goal to: go to/move to japan and talk to real people
- get a job in japan and find a waifu
personally, im glad I waited to learn japenese since there is a lot more resources, espiaclly on youtube, that are entertaining then there were a few years ago.
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Completely agree. I still use Duolingo but just as an extra, and yeah, the recently added kana/kanji learning feature is one of the things they did relatively well. I feel that for most Europeans, Americans etc. Japanese is one of the most difficult languages to learn ever (maybe Chinese and Arabic are close), so I doubt just sticking to one resource will work
And to get back on the Bunpro memes, I just thought of a perfect song to encapsulate the Bunpro Review experience (yes, I’m that old)…
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I feel this and am personally attacked by this one lmfao 
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I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
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I don’t get it… Can someone explain 
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Too soon maybe 
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The Lisan al-Gaib meme is from the Dune 2 movie. The guy in the top/bottom picture is a believer in the messiah, and the miraculous feats he is capable of. So being able to make 800 reviews disappear instantly would basically reaffirm his belief that Paul is the messiah.
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I’ve done 9 of these… 
Thanks for the advice! Once I get minna no nihongo I’ll 日本人になる/sarcasm
I haven’t read Gintama but I googled 万事屋銀ちゃん | 銀魂 Wiki | Fandom
“あらゆる仕事を手数料で引き受ける。” he gets paid for doing odd jobs
“家賃は6万円” His rent is 60,000円.
16,000 XP because he is earns 16,000円 working odd jobs. Minimum wage in japan was 608円/時 source in 2005 when Gintama was published
16,000円 /608円 is 26 hours at minimum wage. 26 hours a week sounds correct for a part time job.
(after paying rent he would have 4,000円 remaining for everything else, which was the cost of 10kg of rice in 2005 米価｜年次統計)
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Speaking of memes, do y’all know any good Twitter accounts for japanese memes?
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Woah, that’s some solid research. Thanks! Then again, maybe Asher sees this. Or maybe I find out how to ping him here 
P.S. Oh, so the usual way works, huh…
@Asher 先生, could you shed some 光 on the origin of this 16000 XP reference (and if my whole guess that it’s actually is a Gintama reference was correct)?
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The real dream
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still counts as studying!
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