i used to use 4chan (mostly /i/ and /a/ after a while) but lost interest for a bit. found this board by chance through the oekaki board (don't remember how i found that though) and really like the community here. i don't know of any other image boards or forums atm, but it would be nice to find more.

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even if you don't know/recognize any characters, i feel like trying to transcribe/translate doujinshi/comics from pixiv or manga or literature or text posts will help you pick up on stuff, while having a hiragana/katakana chart open if you're unfamiliar with them. using sites like jisho/tangorin to find and translate words/kanji, deepL translator, the list of kanji by stroke count from wikipedia, jadednetwork's list of japanese SFX, etc.

there was a big list of resources that i used to have bookmarked, but i lost it :( in my search to try and find it, i found this https://tatsumoto-ren.github.io/ which seems rather interesting. scrolling down this thread, djt guide also looks good and i think that was the site i was remembering although it looks different from when i last saw it.