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I feel like buying a video game that's all in Japanese so I can play it whilst learning vocabulary. It's going to be incredibly difficult but I might as well throw myself in the deep end and start off hard because otherwise it's impossible to give me the motivation to study the language using only the Internet.

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A couple of years ago, I attempted to learn Chinese. I purchased textbooks and everything. My reading comprehension became rather good for a beginner, but then I forgot about learning and gave up. I think it was because I didn't have the motivation, and because I didn't have a teacher. If I am forced to teach myself it allows me to freely procrastinate, but when I have a proper teacher, I never procrastinate and I will always have someone encouraging me to learn.

Recently I decided to make an effort at learning Japanese, because I already knew a bit of it before. I managed to learn Hiragana in about a day, and I think I should start doing some Katakana soon. Even though I don't have a fancy textbook or teacher, I am still managing to make a bit of progress by using online resources. But I'm scared that this is just a short phase, and that in one week I will have forgotten about this again...