Been trying to learn japanese for 20 years on and off. Obviously never very seriously.
I can talk like a 5 year old tops. I can probably express a want of something and ask directions and probably understand brief responses.
Somehow translation software while AMAZING takes the excitement out of learning a language.
Though I can tell for some people there is little excitement. A few times in Japan i would start trying to speak in laboured japanese and the guy would just say in perfect english "look, speaking english its much easier eh?"
I chuckled and said "Ya i guess so but its nice to try eh"
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