Kind of a dumb question, but does anyone know some ways to learn Japanese, as a beginner (with some basic knowledge) with English as their first language?
As someone who has English has a first language and knows a basic amount of Canadian French (and a small, bad-ish bit of Russian), I’ve been dying to learn a new language again (fully this time, similar to my knowledge of Canadian French), being Japanese. But some of the language kind of haunts me with all the things necessary to learn, which is the reason I put off learning it for so long. I know some basic Japanese stuff like: こんにちは, はい, いいえ, 何, かわいい, です, 私, あなた/君, すごい, 愛して, ありがとう, 大丈夫, ごめん, さようなら, おはよう, バカ, 神, 猫, 犬, キツネ, 狼, 友達, as well as some Japanese suffixes like san, chan, kun, sama, etc. I just love learning new stuff about other cultures, especially the beautiful languages! Japanese is one of those languages that strike me by how amazing the words are written and spoken. I am also aware of Hiragana and Katakana (I have a list saved of most Hiragana letters, nothing for Katakana), though I don’t know too much about it lol. If anyone could suggest a website or app that I can use to learn it, without it being a awful cash-grab like Duolingo (also uses AI, so another con for it), that’d be nice! I appreciate anyone willing to help :D I’m sorry if I sound annoying or anything, the idea just popped into my head just now so I thought this Reddit page was the place to go. I tried an app before (Renshuu) but it was very confusing and as a beginner it was stressful. I was hoping to start with writing/handwriting before I got to speaking it, as speaking Japanese is the thing I’d like to do last (I get nervous trying to speak other languages as I fear I’ll pronounce them wrong lmao, I had the same problem with learning Canadian French).