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Thank you for that. As a very technical person, I do like scientific terms backed up with diagrams, abstract concepts are not the best way to describe things to me (especially when there’s room for doubt).
I’ve forced myself past R, which is quite hard for me to do, it will play in my mind, but I will concentrate on what lies ahead. Having the Hiragana cue cards on Anki will help too I believe. I dare say “R” will be one of those it will be playing to me a lot.
The problem is, the vast majority of the finer points of language control is learned in infancy or a young age. At least that’s what the scientific journals tell me.
Saying “Make an L” sound, “Make a D” sound and it’s somewhere in-between doesn’t work for me because I just don’t make the sounds in the same way. The vast majority of what I heard as a child was still British English. My parents and the vast majority of people I meet make the British English sounds. American English isn’t something I learned because I wasn’t something I was physically introduced to, hearing it and making the sound without someone in the room is different.
Also, I have the secondary problem of not making friends, or even acquaintances, easily. I know I am going to have to force myself to. But the UK isn’t exactly awash with Japanese, let alone my home city. I am trying to find Japanese classes already though.
The game is Slime Forest Adventure played in an RPG style.
It has been introducing me to the Katakana for the last 6 weeks. You essentially ‘fight’ the “slimes” by typing the phonetics of the kana it presents, starting at Katakana.
The problem is, there’s no sound, it’s purely typing. But it is an interesting and entertaining way to get many parts of the brain involved in learning Japanese.
My first plan before finding this site was the local university, but I missed that by about a month. My next port of call will be a night school.
I think I need some physical interaction with others and actual feedback, also the motivation from doing this will be of great benefit…
…now to just find one in this city of mine…. and kick myself constantly until I do it.
