>>77680847If you're only planning on watching chuubas:
Start off with hiragana/katakana and one word sentences.
Try to pick out one-word sentences (souka, maji, naruhodo, etc) and start to learn to read simple hiragana/katakana messages in your chuuba chat.
Also practice writing and saying the kana out loud (digraphs are the biggest wtf aside from kanji).
Once you start to get a hang of that, start studying grammar structure/particles.
This will make it much easier to recognize words, which in turn makes it easier to look up what they mean whenever you don't know them.
A few months in you should be able to gauge the general direction of a conversation (question, response, statement etc, and a few regular phrases).
Within a year you should be able to understand most verbal conversations, but if you want to read and write in chat decently you better start learning kanji.
Learn how simple kanji are written and how many strokes they have, break complex kanji down into their simpler components.
Use these pieces to form a story in your head for how they relate.
Example: "teachings/doctrine" kind of looks like a "woman" (teacher) pointing a stick at some "dirt" and a "mosquito wriggler", boom, school field trip, a learning experience (it's actually archaic kanji for old, so dirt old woman wriggler but whatevs).
>>77678709The kanji for "fond of" is literally the combination of the "woman" and "child" kanji, ever wonder why loli is so socially accepted?
>>77678809>>77681013It's an actual issue because the ever increasing amount of katakana makes it harder and harder to separate words from each other in ever longer borrowed sentences, sooner or later we're gonna see spaces be unofficially adopted for it to be readable even between japs.
