Hey it has been 4years since I started to read novels but I ended up here wanting to learn Japanese enough to read novels raws as I got sick of slow translation and MTL SO IF SOMEONE kind ENOUGH to tell me where to start and to end to become able to read light novels as I was when I read them in English which is like thinking in English although it is my secondary language
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/how-to-self-learn-japanese.48839/ My personal advice is don’t go with the expectation of being able to read LN’s any time in the near future. I spent my first two years learning to say “Where’s the toilet” in Japanese lol... Continuous effort and you’ll be able to somewhat read novels with a dictionary in around a year or so
https://www.duolingo.com https://www.lingodeer.com/ https://bunpro.jp/ http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/ https://steven-kraft.com/projects/japanese/ https://www.google.com/
just curious so I would appreciate if anyone can answer this, but do you have to learn a bit of chinese as well to read japanese raws? Cause some words will be in chinese form with japanese pronunciation (光 - hikari etc), or will the japanese raws be mostly in (hiragana/katakana - i forgot which is which)
You mean kanji? I think sometime in japanese (hiragana, katakana..) this is hard to split the words (because it don't have space between words, for example : 'hellohowareyou') or some words have double meaning, that's why they need to use the kanji. This is just my opinion though . Oh right, kanji are also used to shorten japanese words. Also, in manga (and some novels), they will put hiranaga or katakana in small character beside the kanji character for japanese reader who are bad in kanji.
i suggest to start with the books GENKI and GENKI2, they have a mix of vocabulary, grammar and kanji and when you finish it you'll have maybe JLPT 4-3