Huh? Am I understanding you wrong? I learned multiple languages inside and outside of school settings, and everybody always raved about the importance of immersion. They just packaged it differently, especially in school, where it was about reading books and news and stuff (we had to read the vatican news every week in latin
), writing with your penpals, multiple language exchange vacations, watching movies, analizing sketches, singing along songs. So at least in school, there was lots of immersion by week one with nicely curated native materials (maybe language learning is different from country by country). And most language learning forums for other languages always had huge recommendation seeking threads. I don’t feel immersion is bigger in japanese learning communities than in others. It might feel like that, though, cause everybody is sharing what anime they watch or what manga they read, while other countries don’t offer this vast amount of easy accessable media. I gave up on learning finish, cause I wasn’t finding enough easy accessable material.
Or was it about SRS? That should have been covered in school, too. I still remember us crafting small vocab boxes with SRS a few decades ago
My kids preferred online tools for that, but it was definetly covered in school. Honestly textbooks for school should come with a free SRS tool, since everybody here went to digital schoolbooks anyway
Anyway, giving up on a language, especially if you already have a few under your belt is quite normal. You can only spread yourself out so much. My French learning is on hiatus (I used to be B2 back in the days) until natively finally adds french support ^^ It was so hard finding nice books, and basically impossible to find some nice french series I’d enjoy. Nowadays my japanese listening comprehension is way above my french one, but I can read most french books fluidly without look ups.
Haaaaaahhhh, language learning is a tough but fun journey, glad you’ll keep up the good work woth learning German 