I currently have to use Subtitles, kinda annoying. And I despise dubs since the voice acting is so bad, I mean like the emotions in the voice, its so emotionless in English.
I am a English speaker with some fluency in Cantonese and Mandarin.
How difficult is Japanese? Am I gonna waste a lot of time?
Also what’s the best resource to learn?
Just depends on how much time and effort you put into learning, if you’re willing to study for 3 hours a day you’ll probably pick it up in a couple years, if you do 5 minutes on duolingo a day probably not going to progress very far
Surely if you study for 3 hours a day, you wouldn’t need a couple years.
That’s a quite standard time line to properly learn a language. Also depends what you mean by “pick it up”: getting a soda at the supermarket? Probably a week. Reading their maximum works of literature? Much longer. Having a reasonably smooth conversation and being able to read some small books? 3 years and about right
Depending on the proficiency level you want, but if we include immersion here (which we should as studying per se won’t get you very far on its own) then you will need a couple of years. Unless you’re studying and immersing full-time, there’s no way to speak a language proficiently in less than that.