Hi all, I just joined. I recently started learning Japanese.

Here are my learning objectives that I wish to fulfill within 6 months or so

1- Be able to converse in Japanese, even though I don't live in Japan and don't feel comfortable talking online (as in voice chat, text msgs are a-ok).

2- Being able to watch and understand anime without subs (specifically, Yu-Gi-Oh!)

3- Be able to read and understand trading cards (again, Yu-Gi-Oh!)

4- Become fluent in general Japanese. Low priority, because someone told me that this is a bad goal to have as a main as its so far and distant that you can't work much on it. Its still very much an aim of mine though. People also say that you should learn domain-specifically. As in, if you're learning to be able to read a book(s), then learn words in books, their applications etc. Keeping a general approach is not a good idea, they say. I like this concept, since I have precise things I want to be able to learn in Japanese. I will still be doing general japanese side by side a bit so I can improve my overall language afterall.

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I used Duolingo primarily as my study tool but I've been told it's not as good as I thought it was.

Will still continue to use it, just not as much.I'm sitting at about 1800 exp. My main drive was to complete the tree in gold. Didn't study with many resources (just 2-3) but now adding more(like anki, youtube lessons).

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About anki, I'd like to know if there's a place where I can get my deck checked, I don't want to end up messing myself over with learning typos, mistakes, bad cards etc.

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I'm also scared if I learn Japanese I'll start forgetting/losing my grasp on English since I'm fluent in English. I'm also already bilingual so Japanese'll be my 3rd language (if I learn it). I'm still a teenager and I heard this is the best time to learn but I'm kinda lost and am scared of the aforementioned problem. I heard as you grow older it gets harder to learn a language bc the folds in the brain close. So I also have this 'hurry' at the back of my mind. I've had exposure to the language and started learning JP at about age 12/13, but dropped it off early as "impossible" when I got to Kanji. I'm wiser than to not give up bc of kanji now, but its still something that offsets me a bit.

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Hopefully I don't sound skeptical ^^' .