I taught myself Japanese for a year or two before I started formal classes. I'd done a pretty good job, since I got 99% in that class. XD Probably lost my one percent on the vocab. (I mostly studied grammar on my own, not useful terms.) But yeah, after that first year my mark went down to 85% for two consecutive years.
I'm taking Japanese again in university, but I don't know what level to take since I haven't formally touched the language in a few years. D8 The most I do is translate the Japanese manga/books I import every so often. :B
That's still awesome. XD;
I look, about every week, for Japanese classes at the college. They offered them 2 years ago, but..now they only have Chinese and German. ;___;
I talk to my family in Japanese and some of them think it's awesome. But, some get all mad and call me racial things. XDD;