>be me
>absolute newfag in nihongo
>"chinese american"
>got force fed and deepthroated chinese cultural stuff by mom
>good news: after trying chinese school for some time, mom didn't think it was right to make me keep going there
>bad news: it's bc she thinks chinese school isn't challenging enough, and basically homeschooled me on chinese with literal prc propaganda coursework that's super challenging
>"stop acting like a retard son, we know you're smart, try your best anon"
>"mom if ur gonna force me to learn a really hard asian language, why can't it be a cooler one like japanese or korean"
>"because you're fucking chinese, and i'm ur mom, stfu"
>anyways, fast forward years
>first year w/o being taught chinese
>use duolingo to learn japanese (spanish got boring), since everything better costs money and i'm fucking 16 and broke during covid
>turns out they give everyone the same course regardless whether u had chinese parents who forced u to learn chinese, or not
>have to handwrite the same fucking characters i learned in elementary over and over AGAIN
>一=1, 二=2, 三=3
>FUCKING PUTA SON OF A BÚHO I ALREADY KNOW ALL OF THIS
>and WHY is everything in kana only, even obviously Sino-Xenic vocab, its so confusing

Rn, what I often do is go into online dictionaries, paste in (the shijintai forms of) compounds my mom forced me to learn, and just see what they're pronounced in Japanese on'yomi.