A few months? Welcome to the club. You will soon join the large number of people who have been learning Japanese for YEARS, and still don't understand a word. OK serious now, you really need more than a few months to understand this language.

"Learning other language" needs time, motivation and patience :-) It depend on why you start to learn japanese though, it's always good to talk to native japanese speaker for improving your skill. If you concentrate on just "grammer" of the language, you get tired of it easily. When I started to learn English(and French), I considered myself as 'a new born baby". I told myself that It's normal I don't speak well, don't understand it well and might make lots of mistakes in those languages... because I was like a baby who has just started to learn new language! I tried to listen to some kids shows on TV, listen to the radio(whenever I had my free time),and talked to people in English(even I made sooo many mistakes, I wasn't scared of making mistakes),and copied what people said in the conversation. As you are Chinese, you already have knowledge of "kanji=chinese charactor in Japanse"! I think it's a great advantage! "Writing in japanese" is more complicated than "Speaking in japanese'. Therefore, I recommend you to start "talking to japanese people" to give you a confidence. Be positive! If you really want to imporve it, "You can do it" :-) I wish you the best of luck!

Hi I suggest that you look at what Italki can offer you http://www.italki.com/learn-japanese/en-us