Just a little reminder that no matter how hard it may seem now, if you do just a little every day, you WILL see results. Accepting that the journey is a long one, and learning to appreciate where you are now is key.
When I first resumed my studies a year ago, I could barely understand anything, and could sorta clumsily manufacture sentences by essentially translating from English.
Fast-forward to today, and for easier Japanese content, I can understand a lot of it in real time. I also found out one of my coworkers is from Japan, and now we eat lunch together twice a week and talk in Japanese. I'm far from fluent and far from perfect, but to a decent extent I'm actually able to hold a conversation—and it's all thanks to never giving up, and always sticking to my daily routine of at least doing Anki, if nothing else.
Make sure your daily workload isn't enough to burn you out, and find that "Zen" balance of playing the long game. Build that rock-solid habit. A year from now, you'll look back and be really glad you did 🙂
by RYO-kai