From Flashcards to AI: Studying Japanese then and now.

Back in the 1990s, when I first started studying Japanese, my tools were simple: paper-based study guides, cassette tapes, and stacks of handwritten flashcards. I remember lugging around thick grammar books and scribbling kanji over and over in notebooks, hoping the repetition would make them stick. There was a kind of charm to it: slow, tactile, and deeply personal. But it was also time-consuming, expensive, and sometimes isolating. Fast forward to today, and the landscape of Japanese language learning has completely transformed. There are countless affordable (and even free) resources available online: apps, YouTube channels, podcasts, and yes, even AI tools like ChatGPT.

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