This one is going to be short - and angry bear with me.
I'm so sick of hearing that people "want" to learn a language.
Every time somebody hears I'm learning Japanese, they say "Oh, that's cool. I want to learn Japanese too." I look them straight in the eye, and say, "No, you don't." If they question me, I just tell me "If you wanted to, you would be."
The only people I would accept an excuse from is someone who is already learning another language - this is why I can say I want to learn Korean, without having begun learning it. However, if their learning is school-based, i.e. "Oh, but I'm learning Spanish in school" - then it's not really an excuse. I started learning Japanese even though I had French class everyday. The exception to this is of course, if somebody is honestly interested in their school-based language. That is to say, they are actively pursuing knowledge of the language outside of a classroom setting.
Moving beyond all these exceptions, to learn a language doesn't require skill. All it requires is motivation.
If I wanted to learn Korean, I could, very easily. I'm already in the right direction - that is to say, I listen to Korean music, all the time (it's all I've listened to for ... eight monthes now?) - except this does nothing for my Japanese (I can't find any Japanese music I'm really into...).
I digress, my point here is, if you want to learn a language, you can. Don't make excuses. Don't say you don't have time - that means you don't want to learn the language, you're making excuses. Last year, I didn't particularly "have time" - I just spent every second of my spare time immersed or studying or whatever.
On a side, not as angry note, the RTK method has been going well so far. I'm not -that- far into the kanji, and I know some kanji outside of the ones presented, but today I found a kanji and I knew it's meaning from RTK. A lot of these kanji are seeming pretty useless - I've never seen them before (or if I have, I haven't paid much attention), but I'm sure they'll be handy when I'm tackling novels.
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