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"sou" not "shita"

Well, it's a past tense form, lol. It's like 'to go' - iku and ikimashita.

I know, reason I said that, no point in saying you used to speak but not anymore when you can still form sentences just fine, right? But yeah, for me I haven't used Japanese in like 6 years so despite having the M2 diploma (equivalent to Advanced for English), I can hardly form sentences anymore, still understand MOST stuff though, but forgot how to even read half the characters;~;

Yeah, that's cool the language is a thing not easy to forget. however I admire ability to pass the exam. What level that was LJPT N5? I self learning but it goes rather slowly and I cant repeat some sentences as good as before.

I bet JLPT N2. Nice

But you are right, i can't give up so easly. I borrowed some useful textbooks in my library. Nice gems. One for grama excercise, second one for main learning.

I actually took classes for a year (and took M5), then self-learned everything else for the next 3 years along with two visits to Japan and just took the exams. I don't know the official names, but here Japanese exams are called M5-M1 (low to high).

M1 is literally linguistics major level, so didn't even bother taking it because yeah, never got close to such a level lol If you are self-learning, I can suggest the books I used, they are really great and possibly the best ones, both of which can be found online just fine if you look for them.

Personally I just used Minna No Nihongo and stuck with that series, but you need to learn the characters first (no need for Kanji until fairly adept at Japanese really since books and whatnot have Hiragana/Katakana pronounciations of Kanji right above them), as the proper MNN books doesn't have any English and is meant for people who can at least read.

Alongside using that, I suggest using the Genki books. Both Minna No Nihongo and Genki are two tome series, but once you go through them fully and if you practice a bit, you will be at the level of being able to live in Japan without issues and even do normal everyday jobs.

Thanks for advise. I look for them. One thing remain. I woudl like to get an app that make flashcards from a picture. Maybe someone made such a thing. Thats my fav way to memorize and recheck.

Here then, always keep Japanese learning stuff in my bookmarks:P https://ankiweb.net/shared/decks/japanese This is one of the better ones out there and has amazing variety as well as having Genki I and II and Minna No Nihongo I and II cards!

I cheked out Minna no Nihongo, and I think I can works with this textbook quite good, cause i can read kana and i know some vocabulary already, anyway i'm surprised it's possible to work with only japanese language quite easy. Anki flahcards seems good too.

Yup, it's easier than people think, once you can read hiragana/katakana, Japanese is by far the easiest language to learn up to an everyday level of proficiency, even if it doesn't seem so at first Japanese having only 2 main tenses and very small vocabulary makes it a joke to learn how to have normal conversations or describe things and whatnot! Just keep at it though, if you let up it will catch up on you...

PS: For reference btw, with proper studying at medium intensity or low intensity high quality studying, after a year you should be easily be able to sit for the first diploma if you want.

The Anki decks are really good. It has a Japanese speaker saying the word so you know how to pronounce it. It’s good to say the word out loud it can help you memorize it better.

Here is a good video with people speaking Japanese so you can get use to the language and learn the words of the beautiful language.

https://youtu.be/ZcD75L4QLrM

Anki seems very useful but there's no good enough app on phone, for smaller deck seems fine. I installed ankidroid but it sux a bit. You can install big database but impossible to delete if it has around 25k entries.

I don’t know what you mean?
How is it impossible to delete it?

Well, i had to wait too long to delete some deck, but i managed to bring this app to factory defaults.
Just for now i try to work with source i have already. I'm learning more from hear than visual, so it won't be so easy for me, but anyway I'll try to focus on JLPT5.

Why is there a waiting period before you delete?

There has to be an option you where you can delete right away. That’s what I do when I’m looking through a bunch of decks to find one I like.

I don’t use anki on the phone because you have to pay for it. It’s free on computer.