>>8098325I still believe I could go and be fine on my own.
But I feel like I know "just enough" japanese to be independent, with some familiarity with basic kanjis I'll encounter on signs, menus, basic verbs, and of course katakana and hiragana
Try out Nativlang, they have a good course in *speaking* japanese/understanding it in the context of starting to speak to order stuff, walk around on your own, etc.
their lessons are really good too
For kanas, try out wanikani, or rawdog it from looking at the tables and charts of how to draw them (you need to learn the order of the strokes, can't just learn their shape, you'll need to write them again and again, but I learned both katakana and hiragana in about 3 weeks of free time)
There are some videos on youtube that will take you one "sound" at a time too
It's actually not too hard if you're motivated to learn those two alphabets, and I highly recommend it, it really enhances looking at anything written in japanese, just because you know how it sounds now, and can recognize the english words written in katakana
