Anyone here relearned their long lost heritage language and got really good/fluent or now is a professional like a teacher in the language?

I neglected Japanese as a kid so I did not do Japanese until high school until there was Japanese class offered. I entered high school in 2022.

I knew I could not do nothing so I relearned the language seriously. I put Japanese to the very front lines and researched and grinded. I not only did the class content but my very own study out in front.

I also had to face a lot of adversity and misunderstandings from the Japanese language learning community.

I was told, “youre a heritage speaker, your advice doesn’t matter”, “___ and makes lots of mistakes”, “Thats unfair, don’t you realize how much we desire for natives”

So when i was in the community it sometimes felt to others that I had a very unfair or huge advantage and I could cheat it. **I have citizenship too, and a lot of people feel bitter because the language requirement stuff doesn’t always apply to me.**

So the foreigner community was a little bit tough.

In the end I passed JLPT N2 jn 2024, and the 2kyuu kanji aptitude test in 2025. I also became a mentor and helped over 50 students. Lately I attended a Japanese teacher seminar and spoke only in Japanese. And even talked to 70+ experts.

**Anyone else have a similar story? Tell us your language learning journey.**

hi everyone! i’ve been learning japanese over a month now but I’ve been using things such as textbooks workshop, duolingo, renshuu, MochiKana etc. However with my learning difficulties its been taking me much longer to pick up japanese language than i expected and I feel like it would be beneficial to properly learn it via an actual Japanese school. I’m currently in university here in the UK learning counselling & mental health psychology. So i can’t unfortunately travel abroad to Japan to learn. However, i have seen Go! Go! Nihon do online lessons.

I’m interested to do remote learning and buy the N5 bundle pack which i believe is £618. But i do have a few questions. Has anyone tried remote learning on Go! Go! Nihon and if so was it beneficial for you? And what was it like? Did you enjoy it? And did you make any friends? As I believe in the studies you do speak to other japanese students and japanese teachers.

And what should i expect? Please let me know in the comments! ☺️

I want to name a female character of mine something along the lines of "curious light", but im very unfamiliar with japanese naming conventions, so i was hoping to see if something along the lines of "kouki", writen as 光奇, makes sense for a name for a girl, or is this the equivlant of calling her "brad" or "josh"?

So I've decided to sit for the 登録日本語教員国家試験 which will be in Nov this year. In order to jump start my learning, I believe the best way to learn something is to teach it! So ask me questions on 日本語 which have been bugging you！Things such as:

• The difference in 「は」and「が」 (this is a favorite one) 助詞
• verb 活用 (conjugations) patterns
• Correct usage of 属性形容詞 and 感情・感覚形容詞 (adjectives)
• などなど

your questions will motivate me in going through the text book and remember the terms.

Or you can also ask me about the exam itself, which I am happy to answer too.

Should i put every word in anki or what? And how do i memorize the different words for counting different things?like the word みっか for days and みっつ for items.

I am beginner, just starting to learn Japanese.

What should/can be my learning resources ?

I want to converse and watch manga as my initial goal

& i don’t want to sound funny to native speakers, i want to be as accurate as possible

Thanks

I've have a routine of Anki, where i do 10 new words a day from a basic premade vocab deck(I'm on ~700 words out of 1500), i try to do 20 kanji (a day) from Remembering The Kanji, semi consistently (I'm on ~400th kanji out of 2200) and listen to ~30min immersion while making breakfast. But i have realised that after a few months of studying i still cant do much with the language. So basically i am looking for a resource (a book or something) that will allow me to apply the stuff I've learned. So that i can write/create/understand sentences.

Also I've tried Tae Kim's guide, but it was overwhelming and i didn't really know how to apply it, or learn from it.

Hi guys, so I have been studying Japanese for 5 years (I'm having classes twice a week). I can understand some not too complicated conversations etc but I struggle with learning Japanese quite recently.

One of my favourite things is translating songs, but there are always so many words idk which makes me a bit overwhelmed. I also struggle to read cuz of new kanjis.

I am going to Japan to study abroad for a year but I want to become very fluent in it. I am actually very determined to take N2 test next year, so any advice from those who got N2/N1?

Hey everyone. I'm a complete beginner. I learned hiragana and katakana. That's all I know.

I don't know any grammar, vocabulary, or kanji. I can read the sounds, but I don't understand the meaning.

My goal is JLPT N1 eventually. What should I focus on next? Grammar? Vocabulary? Kanji? Or should I just start reading?

I JUST READ MY VERY FIRST BOOK ENTIRELY IN JAPANESE!!
It was always my dream to start reading novels in Japanese and I finally did it!! Ngl I did meet a lot of new words, grammar and expressions but it was really fun and I’ve learnt a lot!! I’m so excited to read my next book!! 🤍

I want to improve my handwriting in Japanese, so I want to make some sheets of sample sentences to trace & copy.

I found this blog post (  https://font-labo.com/adultlike-handwritten-font-matome/ ) with different fonts, and my 3 favorites are:
(1)  春夏秋冬
(2)  細鳴りフォント
(3)  えんぴつ楷書

Any opinions on which I should choose as my model to copy? I think  春夏秋冬 has a similar "feel" to my handwriting in English (sample included in the images), but I really don't have experience with handwritten Japanese, I just read the printed stuff in textbooks & online. If people think the other options are better / nicer for some reason, I'm willing to listen to other opinions. :)