>>40264945I'm learning now. I can read Satori Reader really comfortably which probably places me N3 approaching N2 at worst. I aim to one day pass the Kanken 2 so I have Mannin no Kanken 250 premium to help with handwriting practice. I don't want to be a wapurobaka (a word processor idiot that has to rely on the suggested inputs to complete writing kanji).
Over time, my relationship with this language has gone from love to hate to apathy. I don't know why I bother. I just study it via massive amounts of reading immersion and spending as little time as I can on Anki so I don't go insane. I'm really still doing it because of sunk cost fallacy. I don't even enjoy Japanese media anymore and I think their writing is more often than not, plainly shit.
I use a little bit of Japanese sign language to talk to a friend though. Sometimes she's with people that use our own nation's sign language and we use JSL (known as shuwa) to have a way of communicating in noisy environments that's just for us and will be honestly unlikely to be figured out by anyone near us.
