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What are some tips for learning to speak Japanese?

TL,DR: Find a way to make learning/speaking fun.There are sad facts that however anyone tries to sugarcoat or lie into your face, stay facts. Such as:1. There is no other way to practice pronounciation than to pronounce. A lot.2. You have to spend a lot of time before you master the language.3. You cannot "rush learn" a language in a weekend, even if you try hard. And so on.Now, there are ways to make that experience painful and ways to make that fun. Different things work for different people, but in general, chanting the same sentence a hundred times in a classroom is a much less fun way of practicing pronounciation than say, learn a song and sing that in the bathroom.Honestly, whatever works for you. Here are some ideas that worked for me:1. Sing a lot in Japanese. Go to karaoke, if needed. For example, the only time when you can practice meireikei (the rudest imperative form) is when you are talking to a younger gaijin, to your dog, or in reported speech. Why not instead learn the song Kanpaku Sengen from Sada Masashi?It's great fun.2. Read something that you have in both languages. Used Harry Potter books sell for 100 yen in Japan. Using the dictionary is the most boring part of studying Japanese, you can save a lot by reading the two languages together.3. If you like movies, watch movies. If you like anime, watch anime (but good ones, please, at least ones with some decent story). If you like reciting poems, learn poems. Folk songs. Whatever you enjoy doing. A TV series that you'd consider silly in your own language might entertain you in another.4. Get a girlfriend/boyfriend. Besides the obvious advantages, again you can save an awful lot of time on not using the dictionary.So, long story short, don't study the language. Do something you like in the foreign language.

How well can Japanese people understand written Chinese, and vice versa?

It dependsSome signs / headlines are pretty easy to figure out for both sides. for exampleEven without the Bear there, this is almost exactly how we would write the sign in Chinese .( this is the same sort of Sign in Taiwan. it’s literally the same 5 Kanji. )Ignoring the hilarious English translation, Chinese probably would understand this sign . at least we know that it’s “do not enter”( see this example. the last 4 words are exactly the same.)Or this, the womens only is basically the same as in Chinese, the part below that is harder but as long as you know that the word for train station is written like that in Japanese you can probably guess out what this is about.( again, in Taiwan. )However, something like thisWe would have no idea unless you know some Japanese and can read that Hiragana and KatakanaSo generally, if it’s written in a lot of Kanji, Chinese has a good chance of understanding as long as it’s not a complex sentence. for Japanese it would kind of depend on 1. how wide is their Kanji vocabulary and 2. if the words written happen to use a lot of words that both sides have.

Is it okay to want to learn Japanese even if your parents keep telling you French is widely spoken and will be better to learn?

Just like learning any skill, learning a language requires time and dedication. Thus, it is fair for your parents to make you question your choice. Time spent learning Japanese will not be spent learning another language.Now as someone whose native language is French, who is bilingual in English and who is daily-fluent in Japanese, what I can tell you about my own experience: if you really want it learn it, do it. It’s not like you can’t learn both at the same times. The 2 languages don’t even remotely look and sound like one another so there is little chance that learning one will affect your knowledge of the other (unlike myself who tried to learn Japanese and Chinese at the same time).However, be aware that learning a language also comes down to your interest in the culture: if none, your initial motivation for learning will fade into oblivion. That is the case for languages I learnt at school apart from English (Spanish, Chinese). Having no interest whatsoever in the culture didn’t make me want to keep on doing my best learning the language.On the contrary, my interest for Japanese Pop Culture and Food has made me learn Japanese on my own (and not because I had to do it at school), which in turn has led me to spent 2 years in Japan during my college studies. To this day, I still speak good Japanese and plan on going back again for a long time.If you have this kind of purpose/goal in mind, then please go ahead and learn.If not I would heavily think about your own motivations before taking a path that is possibly endless.

Is it weird if my main reason learning Japanese is for watching anime without sub?

Not all. Every generation has a different entry point to Japan, it’s culture and people. I am born in the 1960s and my interest started with Samurai movies, martial arts (I did Kendo/sword fighting and Karate) and traditional Japanese arts.A few years ago I taught contemporary Japanese arts and photography for freshmen of Japanese studies at a German university. It was very interesting to see that the new generation of students has quite different touch points with Japan: today it’s Japanese pop culture, it’s Manga, Animé, Cosplay, J-pop and everything coming from Akihabara/Tokyo. - And these student knew almost nothing about traditional Japanese culture, while they taught me about the history of Animé. :-)Takashi Murakami ”Hands Clapsed”, 2015 (at my class I taught especially about Takashi Murakami, the Japanese superstar, who was highly influenced by Manga and Animé.)So go on to learn Japanese and you might discover a fantastic new culture for yourself. It will broaden your horizon in any case!PS: I think there is a Japanese language lesson book which especially uses texts from Manga for to teach Japanese.