This week's poll is from Sapphiresky. What's your fluency in Japanese?

You can submit poll ideas here (and try to keep them manga/anime-related)
http://www.mangaupdates.com/showtopic.php?tid=3903

Previous Poll Results:
Question: I am ___ and prefer reading this kind of romance series
Choices:
Straight and like reading boy / girl romance - votes: 6396 (51.8%)
Straight and like reading same-sex romance - votes: 2229 (18.1%)
Gay / Lesbian and like reading boy / girl romance - votes: 77 (0.6%)
Gay / Lesbian and like reading same-sex romance - votes: 321 (2.6%)
Bisexual and like reading boy / girl romance - votes: 310 (2.5%)
Bisexual and like reading same-sex romance - votes: 693 (5.6%)
Asexual and like reading boy / girl romance - votes: 320 (2.6%)
Asexual and like reading same-sex romance - votes: 547 (4.4%)
Other and like reading boy / girl romance - votes: 98 (0.8%)
Other and like reading same-sex romance - votes: 261 (2.1%)
I just hate romance series - votes: 1092 (8.8%)
There were 12344 total votes.
The poll ended: March 21st 2015

So many people hate romance...

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Perhaps the "I know only the basics" option can be split into "I can read hiragana/katakana/some kanji" and "I know some basic syntax."

I know a lot and can read simple stuff like manga (especially with furigana) without any problems, but am still far from fluent. Watching news is still a a pain :/

i feel the same, i'm still quite a bit lower then you though since i usually encounter a few kanji i don't know every manga i read, usually i can fish out what they mean from context but i look them up to be sure.

but i'm studying Japanese atm so hopefully it will just keep improving

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Reads far to much Manga

I have been learning Japanese for only like a year, so only basics, can understand something, but mostly I still don't know much of kanji...

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I am glad that we survived another sexuality discussion on the web with no causalities but the romance agnostics number is shocking low.

I decided to go against basics and stick with Bits and pieces from anime / manga but that is a work in progress.

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I am straight and I.....oh, its not one of those polls......

AHEM! Anyway, after watching anime and reading manga for about 17 years, I think I picked up plenty of vocabulary and a couple of phrases to have a head start in learning the language. If I new the proper sentence structure for the language, I might even learn to speak it. However, due to a chronic condition I have, called LAZINESS, I have been thus far unable to learn the language in full.

I have studied japanese in university for 1,5 years now (it's my major) and I can read manga and books pretty well with a help of a dictionary (there are just so many kanjis...) but I'm not completely fluent yet.

I'm pretty good at reading and understanding stuff, and in translating said stuff to English. But I don't have anyone to talk to in Japanese, so my actual conversation skills are very limited.

And I don't know a whole lot of Kango. When reading and not translating, I usually just gloss over the ones I don't know and guess their meaning based on their Kanji parts.

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The "bits and pieces from anime / manga" option is popular, because it is picked either by people who don't feel confident enough in their Japanese to choose the "I know the basics" option, and by people who know just a couple of words out of context, which for me doesn't really qualify as knowledge. I mean, I've heard about "kawaii", "ecchi", "kage", "ningen" etc. before, but I still chose "none".

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My current top 3:
Fullmetal Alchemist
Pandora Hearts
3-gatsu no Lion

Bring out the weeaboos...

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I wish I understood Japanese better than I do, but I lent out my textbooks from when I took the class to a friend who's never returned them, so I'm having a hard go at that. I still remember words and grammar but with the lack of practice I've gotten much worse at it since even just a year ago.

Personally I just love learning different languages and understanding different cultures. This definitely had me diving into grammar, syntax, and usage within the English language and language logic itself.

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I wanted to choose "I know only the basics" but I realized that's absolutely wrong few days ago..

I took a placement test for Japanese language lesson. Reading hiragana is fine, I know most katakana (tsu, shi, n, so are the ones I can't remember till now), and managed to understand few words that I know from anime / manga.

But then the grammar nation came... TT__________TT

Even understanding a sentence is super difficult, the only one I can understand completely is "hajimemashite, watashi wa ........... " (introduction speech)

Well, it makes me want to learn Japanese better.

You can find almost all textbooks online, if you don't mind downloading stuff. I find learning languages extremely interesting as well, and though it might be difficult sometimes, learning Japanese definitely is fun.
I would love to learn Korean as well someday, but I guess that won't happen anytime soon

Took some classes in college but I never really got to use it. At this point, I'm at the basic level of ordering food, asking for directions and screaming for help.