As someone who has tried learning Japanese, it took me longer than I am willing to admit that to realize the two were different and things made much more sense after I realized the difference.
That said, learning Japanese is an extremely slow process and even if one does learn enough to understand a novel, one’s reading speed will be extremely slow, even if one is lucky enough to remember enough that it is not necessary to use a dictionary every other kanji. Even upon learning Japanese, it is quite tempting to dump the text into a LLM to have it translated.
That said, learning Japanese is an extremely slow process and even if one does learn enough to understand a novel, one’s reading speed will be extremely slow, even if one is lucky enough to remember enough that it is not necessary to use a dictionary every other kanji. Even upon learning Japanese, it is quite tempting to dump the text into a LLM to have it translated.