>In Osaka at a language school right now
>trying to learn Japanese so I can become a permanent resident at some point in the far off future
>it's not going well
>Every school in Japan is "full immersion" learning
>Meaning, they are under the impression that one learns a new language via osmosis
>Would have been better off learning this shit back in the states, where the teachers were actually bilingual and didn't solely care about ROI or money
>stuck between a rock and a hard place, because I emigrated to Japan to get closer to martial arts, as there were ZERO opportunities to learn that shit in the Midwest
>but learning Japanese in the actual country it's sourced from is, quite ironically, more difficult than learning it another country
>was never an autodidact, so that isn't an option either
>tried asking on /trv/ but that place is full of cunts

TBOI is a deliberate slog and you could clear a triple-digit-count backlog in the time it mandates out of you before you're allowed to have fun.