I'm still in high school (male, Egyptian) and I started studying Japanese as a hobby around a year ago by learning hiragana and katakana and some basic kanji but then I neglected it for a while until summer vacation, where I would cram 3-4 hours daily learning new vocab/grammar, but I almost never touched kanji (I've been using this deck and almost finished it Jlab: Study Japanese with movies/subs2srs/Romaji/Kana – AnkiWeb).
Now I'm seriously thinking of living in Japan in the future after graduating from medical school so I still have roughly 6-7 years to learn the language, but when I read the "Can I be a doctor in Japan?" part of the wiki here I felt overwhelmed and that it may just be too difficult + I live a pretty modest life so I don't think I can afford that stuff and the costs of life there anyway (I thought I'd get a paid scholarship or something but that seems too competitive).
It started as a simple "why not?!" decision to learn one of the most difficult languages in the world just for fun but now I don't really know whether I shall continue or that I'm just being naive and optimistic and that I shall just give up and not get my hopes that high + would I even fit in there? are Japanese people foreigner-friendly + is it even worth that much of a challenge?
Sorry for that long and dramatic post, I just wanted to get it all of my chest.
Thanks for your time and any advice in advance❤
by Pro_Gamer_XD