>>351882You don't have to wait until you become fluent to reap the benefits of learning. Every month you'll understand more and more and as the other anon said, it increases your enjoyment by a lot to actually understand what she is saying, at least it is like that for me too.
And you might also find that learning a language is interesting in of itself as I did. Everything surrounding language learning is pretty damn interesting I feel, you get a much wider perspective on a lot of things that you didn't have earlier.
Just a few examples.
An insight into Japanese social culture and such, a completely new understanding of translation/localization, appreciating or hating the difference between languages, and so on.
