Three weeks ago I decided to bite the bullet and start teaching myself Japanese, so that's what I've been doing daily since! Doing a mix of immersion and actual grammar studying and it's so satisfying!! I feel like I'm learning a bit more every day, it's so cool to listen to songs I've been listening to for years and understand a few new words each time~ My only regret is not starting sooner, I thought I'd be too stupid to teach myself a language... Until I remembered I taught myself English as a teenager by just using the internet a lot, and now my English is better than my Italian lol
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