It Begins!

If you like persona 5 you'll love shin megami tensei 4.

Good Luck :) I was posted to an US Air Base over there for a bit. I never learned Japanese, but it was pleasant to listen to, both spoken and via songs/music.

I would give ten years of my life to do my semester in Japan again.

Persona 5 and learning Japanese nice

Consider Dragon Quest or some kids anime as supporting resources. Japanese is fun, but a lot of work

i've always wanted to learn Japanese but don't have the patience for it lol

I sincerely hope it's a wonderful and exciting experience. :-)

Have fun! I’ve thought about trying to learn Japanese but man, it’s a lot. Best of luck!!

Debatably, don’t skip learning the writing system. Meaning, practice writing as well as reading, deliberate neat handwriting with correct stroke orders, so as writing becomes natural and drifts toward being sloppier, it drifts in predictable ways that native speakers can still read intuitively. The first time you catch yourself thinking words and sounds and finding the characters are just flowing onto the paper on autopilot, you’ll freak out. In a good way. If you don’t have a lot of other IRL resources, find a local Asian market and see if the owners can put you in touch with locals from Japan. (I did five semesters 2002-2004, since forgotten everything, started again with Duolingo, and it’s nice but I feel like you need feedback from a native speaker and you need live conversation practice too.)

Y'all moving to Japan?