You are a computer guy right… How do you think (modern) google translator learned japanese? with grammar, rules and dictionaries? What are you talking? Are you from 1990?

NO

it’s a pattern matching machine. it’s not hardcoded.

GOOGLE TRANSLATOR is PURE 100000000 sentences SRS only without S…. And maybe not much R… Yes it’s bit different but…. 100000000 SENTENCES.

I am disappointed. I thought computers are your friends.

maybe in 5 years google also uses mcd. hell, maybe they do it now. MAYBE THEY BOUGHT YOUR MCD KIT AND FEED IT NOW TO BIG COLD STEEL MACHINES

This program really takes away any possible difficulty, and you are using official language packs.

Just make sure to make a restore point. 😛

I did this on my laptop and it worked just fine.

敵を攻撃する. – attack the enemy
攻撃を始める. – launch an attack
攻撃を続ける. – keep up an attack
攻撃されやすい地点. – a vulnerable point
攻撃または批難から守る – defend against attack or criticism

Now, imagine you’re reading a manga or playing a game and a bunch of characters are gathered around a table planning a big mission/raid/etc. and one of them talks about a “攻撃されやすい地点.” Now, in this hypothetical example, you already know that “されやすい” means “easy to do” and “地点” means “point” or “site.” And you already have that fuzzy feeling for “攻撃” from before so you can now combine all your knowledge (and this is a mostly subconscious and monolingual process) and you’re going to understand that sentence completely. Even if you wouldn’t know exactly how to translate it in English. Understanding that one sentence in that one context is the next step in understanding those words the next time they pop up.

Words exist as words. Assuming they’re words you see/use on a regular basis, they can’t be irrelevant. It’s impossible to learn them incorrectly. How do you skip words (not counting skimming here) when reading? Words can’t be thrown away, because they are there. You’re going to hear and see 攻撃 literally thousands more times in your life.

Anyways, tl;dr version: Don’t worry about it. There is no “wrong” method to language learning. Some methods are faster, but there is no bad way to learn a language unless you’re just pretending to learn one (taking a class twice a week and doing absolutely nothing else, for example). I know that’s hard to do. I used to fret and worry all the time. I was constantly digging around on language learning blogs and websites always trying to compare methods because I was so afraid I was going to do something “wrong.” I’d make a few SRS cards and then spend hours online comparing them to others’ because I didn’t want to do anything wrong. You know when my Japanese finally started taking off? When I calmed down, left all the blogs alone, and started doing fun stuff in Japanese. Just using a J-J dictionary and Anki for about an hour a day picking out words I saw in manga and online or heard in anime and dramas.

Or do you think that when you was learning English you instantly knew every meaning of every word in the first time you found them? 🙂

Btw, many words in your native language stay in this state forever, like “exfoliate”, the only thing I know about that word is that it have something do to with cosmetics.

I’m not entirely sure what learning a word as a word means, but I know that there are right and wrong ways to learn a word (mostly because I seem to encounter the wrong ones).

When’s the last time you sat down and learned a word “as a word” anyways? Words only exist because of their function.

Most of the time, I’ve had ALOT of fun too. I simply never figured out what I will do with “fluency”.

Also, people want to see the Japanese I know but I never find an appropriate time to show them and they wouldn’t understand if I told them anyways.

I’ve even seen a few people on Youtube outright say that learning a language other than the one you’re born with is VERY racist. But because of the Internet and most people’s desire to be credible, most of us Americans will have no capacity to read and little power to either learn another language OR improve upon our own English.