Thread:Ragnarok6354/@comment-24793850-20140929225713/@comment-11148831-20141029075617

Brace yourself, this is a little long. ;)

It's set schedules for regular students while irregular students are free to choose their classes. It might sound good to be an irregular student but it's not. Most of them have pretty messed up schedules because they can only get slots after regular students have theirs. Meaning, they can't get the slot they wanted if the regular students already got them all.

I first memorized Hiragana and Katakana. Then I followed Japanese people on Twitter and read their tweets one at a time until I got better at reading. There's no easy way to learn Kanji aside from practice because Kanji is not like Hiragana and Katakana. You don't have a chart for that. But yea, I just self-studied through online sources. I don't have the time and money to attend a Japanese class even if I wanted to anyway.