Hey yall. First post in here and I haven’t spent a lot of time in this sub, so I apologize if this is a redundant post that the long time users are tired of seeing.
For the past 72 days I’ve studied Japanese every single day for anywhere from 1.5-3 hours. My learning resources are: HumanJapanese (32/45 chapters), a native tutor twice a week, and Duolingo mostly as a method of keeping me from procrastination and also its some form of learning.
While looking back on my very short journey, I obviously can see improvement made as I have no real problem reading or writing in hiragana/katakana. Most basic textbook sentences I seem to understand just fine, but crafting sentences myself organically with correct particle use just seems like there is no improvement.
I go back and for with feeling like a tutor is difficult but will ultimately force me to make larger strides over time, and feeling like I have no business attempting to speak Japanese right now with where my ability is. Every time I learn something new that is a higher degree of difficulty, I get this feeling that learning this language is insurmountable and that I might not be the type of person that can learn a new language (I struggled heavily in school in a group learning environment).
I am 100 percent committed to continuing to learn each and everyday, but was hoping that maybe some more accomplished students out there could share their experiences of feeling hopefully on their journey.
Thanks for ready.
by fgmtats