You can start actually learning Japanese for less than $40

Watching anime doesn't count.
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Carlos Cadorniga
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Trying to learn how to speak Japanese by solely watching anime with subtitles is like trying to learn how to play guitar by playing Guitar Hero. You'll pick up minor things, but they won't really take you that far. You deserve to actually learn Japanese with your own lessons on your own time, and this course on udemy can let you do that for less than $40.

The Online Japanese N5 Course includes 15 lessons on both the written and spoken Japanese language. The lessons contain the basics of writing and reading hiragana and katakana as well as pronunciation of Japanese vocabulary. As a beginner course, it will teach you basic greetings to have simple, daily life conversations with fellow Japanese speakers and you'll gradually work your way towards speaking entry level business Japanese. You'll even be able to learn how to read and write basic kanji.

This Japanese learning course usually costs $150, but you can save 75% and get it for $37. Now pick up this course and ganbatte!

(Translator's Note: "ganbatte" means "do your best")

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Carlos Cadorniga

Carlos is a New York-based ecommerce content writer ready to tell you what to buy. He has previously written for Adventure Publishing Group with toy and movie reviews as well as Anime News Network on anime interest articles because liking anime is the least nerdy thing about him. When not reviewing products, he's probably doing sociological analyses on pop culture that no one asked for. He has been told on several occasions that he does a really good Mickey Mouse impression.

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