Learning Japanese - How I Went About It

I was asked how I learned Japanese, so here it is, as well as I can remember.

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Timelines:
0:59 The way I studied Chinese.
2:43 How I ended up in Japan.
3:46 How I started learning Japanese.
5:44 Why I struggled with Kana.
6:56 The materials I used.
8:59 My ideal Japanese language partner.
9:59 Dealing without looking words up in a dictionary.
10:35 TV shows, soap operas and baseball games in Japanese.

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