A few random thoughts…
Yesterday, I once again changed my phone into Japanese language mode (having just watched a couple of episodes of pretty princess precure with some friends, my brain just autocompleted/echoed “modo eleganto!” there… 🤦). I wanted to switch back to google maps in Japanese and the only way to do that on iPhone is to switch the whole OS to Japanese… I may have answered a question in that process differently than last time because everything is in Japanese now, including all the save menus etc. I don’t recall that from last time lol. Or wwww. And I have been navigating things from memory of menus and picking up meaning from context (or a few places where I actually know the word AND the kanji (that pairing is suddenly really important lol), like 写真), but that doesn’t help with vocabulary gaining, so I’ve actually been starting to screenshot thing’s and bounce them over to Google translate so that I can grab the Kanji and drop them into shirabe jisho and actually learn them…....