Well, I've been learning Japanese very on and off for a couple years now, so I've known ひらがな and カタカナ (kinda, katakana sucks) for a while now, but just 3 days ago I've started my long and dedicated journey to learning 漢字. Kanji is easily going to be the most difficult part of this journey, as even the grammar of Japanese that typically confuses people has come somewhat easily to me. (Like the difference between は and が.) Though that's in no small part to Tokini Andy and his series going through the Genki textbooks on his youtube channel. (You can find that series here.)

Kinda, I know a few greetings and phrases, and my, albeit limited, vocabulary allows me to make some simple sentences describing things, saying where things are, etc. I'd say my pronunciation is pretty good, but I haven't studied pitch accent and I don't plan to until I can communicate properly in Japanese as it's more crucial to be able to hold up conversation than to be able to tell the difference between 雨 (あめ) and 飴 (あめ) without context. Since Japanese is a very context heavy language, the homonyms in the language aren't as big of an issue as some people will perceive them when they hear that "Oh! Did you know that rain and candy are pronounced the same in Japanese??" Without knowing the intricacies of pitch accent and obviously the fact you would never say those words randomly without any context. For example, a kid wouldn't walk into a candy store and yell 「雨！」(To be clear that is the kanji for rain, not candy.)

Okay, another side tangent finished, and this is the end of my first Japanese learning blog. Thank you, whomever you are, for reading this far. I will now go to bed as it's 6am, またね！