Nope but I have learned a few things from watching anime so I'm trying to learn the language. 🙂

I study Japanese at college, already 4 years. Many people say it's the most difficult language to learn, and I agree (after asking friends taking French, Spanish, Italian, Chinese & Korean). Although Japanese use many kanji from Chinese, it's much much more complicated >.<

Sometimes I get a part time job like translating for unimportant meeting or something like that, and it's a pain to predict what verbs they will use (japanese verbs are at the end of the sentence). And they have many forms of speaking, super polite, polite, normal, totally informal... Sometimes I can't even understand simple sentences in anime/movie/drama because they're too informal and shortened. And lazy for a few months? All those kanji will mess up with your mind. You think you remember them, but actually you can read, but it's hard to write.

Studied the basics for two years in college. I can read the alphabets (note plural) and some kanji but I'm far from literate. Kanji is my bane. As far as spoken Japanese, my vocabulary is exceedingly limited and I am only relatively confident in short polite responses. Informal speech, formal speech, archaic speech etc are beyond me. Speaking more than five words ties my tongue in knots but that is normal for me and most foreign languages.

Japanese has to be the most difficult language to learn hands down. There's a reason finding good Japanese translators is like finding gold for scanlators. It takes the difficulty of written Chinese, amps it up by making each word have 1-3 syllables instead one, mixes that with chunks of hiragana and occasionally katakana, adds to that words that may or may not be written with kanji, and dumps two alphabets on top of it all, one for native words and one for foreign words. Most people would be scared off from just by the Chinese words. Its spoken form has different levels of formality and has strong divisions based on gender/class. It actually isn't so bad once you get used to the suffixes.

I've been teaching myself for a few years because I'd like to teach English in Japan one day, and it's coming along okay-ish.

I know all the hiragana and katakana, and about 500+ kanji. I need to work most on my reading comprehension, which is limited—for the most part—to simple sentences. I've been learning particles and sentence structure, though. They've helped a lot.

Mostly, though, I need to learn to make sentences on my own. /SOB I truly fail at that. I can make only the most simple grammatically correct sentences. On the bright side, though, I've gotten pronunciation down...

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not so many japanese here...I wonder why?

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Because what would the Japanese need with an English scanlation database?

I voted once upon a time. I still remember a little, but I have no need for it, so it's really just... dissipated in my brain.

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I started learning Japanese at one point, memorized both hira and kata and was working on learning kanji. But my mom asked why? If I go to Japan, just take my cousin, since she knows Japanese well... and loves going there. Why not keep improving my chinese instead... so fine, opted to do that.

Guess its not that big of a deal really, since most manga does come out in chinese too, just takes a little time.

My Speaking is still quite amateur, but I do know both hiragana and katakana. I'm learning Kanji right now.

I can write simple sentences, and comprehend them as well. But I definitely have a long way to go.

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learning it.
kinda.
I have a cd and some books to learn it, but I just don't find the time to start learning it again.

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To an extent. I mean, I know enough to chug along in an imported manga without too much trouble, but I certainly wouldn't call myself fluent. But fluent enough to sort of get what's going on in manga.

Also, whenever my mom and I go to the Japanese supermarket, she always tries to make me speak to them, but I'm too scared.

Kanji is not the hard part, I don't think. I think the real hard part is the vocabulary, because trying to pick up new words (well, actually, trying to figure out which words to pick up) is difficult for many people, myself included. I could be really really good if I could just find a way to expand my vocabulary, lol.

One thing I can't do very well is read without Kanji.

I know a good amount of grammar, around ~500 kanji and all the textbook verb conjugations. (Slang is lost on me) Of course I know hiragana and katakana...

I can sing Jpop songs pretty well, you only need to know at most 30 verbs and you've got 99% of Jpop songs covered.

Overall... I know SOME... not very much. Not more than French which I took years ago. I only took Japanese for a year...