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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/Numerous_Birds on 2025-06-30 19:15:59+00:00.

It’s been exactly 30 days since I started trying to learn Japanese and, honestly, even though it’s fun most days, it’s also been kind of a slog getting through basic vocabulary and grammar. But today I finally had the moment that I was beginning to doubt would ever come. I went down a rabbit hole on a subject and found a few articles online that, although extremely slowly and having to look up many words per sentence, I could actually read and understand what the authors were saying. I know it’s a small step but it seriously felt amazing. It felt like it was finally starting to come together, at least a little bit.

I just wanted to share for anyone else early on enough in the process to feel – like I felt this last week – that it would take forever before I could even think about consuming interesting native content and not just the “this is a table and it is green” beginner immersion type stuff. This sub rules. Thank you for reading!