i've always had a penchant for language learning! i was basically fluent in english age 10.. and i got started with translating as a kid by doing english↔️spanish translations to online friends and stuff, and when i started getting into anime i felt a bit frustrated when things got lost in translation and i wasn't able to Grasp the original meaning of things, and also i got sad when i found things in japanese that didn't have a translation so i just had to Suck it up.. so i began learning jp but it was a slowwww ride like i knew hiragana and katakana at 13 but then began slacking off so hard on learning kanji, i knew so few lol so my jp learning went on and off until i was 16 and then i started taking it more seriously again, and now i'm at a stage where i'm pretty confident in it tho it takes me a long time to process still.. Oh a big part of why i wanted to learn japanese was enstars, because there were so few fully translated stories that interested me at the time i was like Ghhhh one of these days i won't need a translator to read them!!! And now i'm the translator. It's awesome.but also i still read stuff from other translators to see their take on it, it's fun 👍 Japanese is a really daunting language when you first start off but when you get the hang of it it isn't as complicated... just a lot of looking up stuff and having like 10 tabs open at all times