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 Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 4:06 pm
I was wondering what everyone's motivation for learning Japanese is. I've heard reasons ranging from "I want to be able to watch/read anime/manga in the original Japanese, 'cause translations suck" to "I want to go into business" to "I'm fascinated by the culture".
I started wanting to learn because I read manga and watched anime, and got really interested in the culture. I think language is a key part of culture, so I wanted to learn Japanese, to learn all I could about the culture, because I just fell in love with it.
What is your reason?
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 5:35 pm
juunishikyou I was wondering what everyone's motivation for learning Japanese is. I've heard reasons ranging from "I want to be able to watch/read anime/manga in the original Japanese, 'cause translations suck" to "I want to go into business" to "I'm fascinated by the culture". I started wanting to learn because I read manga and watched anime, and got really interested in the culture. I think language is a key part of culture, so I wanted to learn Japanese, to learn all I could about the culture, because I just fell in love with it. What is your reason? Basically the same reason you want, i am Filipino, and i wanna kept to my asian culture, and i just wanna learn japanese cause its cool biggrin
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:18 pm
Originally, it was just because of anime, manga, and video games. But once I really started listening to the language and learning more about it, I fell in love with it. I'm honestly not even so much into the culture, I'm actually more interested in the nuts and bolts of the language.
As a result, I want to become a translator. I love that it's challenging because English and Japanese are such completely different languages. And if I can tie in my first interests with manga, anime, and/or video games, all the better. mrgreen
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 7:48 pm
alteregoivy Originally, it was just because of anime, manga, and video games. But once I really started listening to the language and learning more about it, I fell in love with it. I'm honestly not even so much into the culture, I'm actually more interested in the nuts and bolts of the language. As a result, I want to become a translator. I love that it's challenging because English and Japanese are such completely different languages. And if I can tie in my first interests with manga, anime, and/or video games, all the better. mrgreen I know what you mean. I like to use language to understand culture, and culture to understand language.
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Posted: Wed Aug 05, 2009 9:48 pm
BEcause i have to and because i like it.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 1:27 am
Cain von Schwarzschild BEcause i have to and because i like it. That's as good a reason as any, why do you have to?
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 2:53 pm
I started to learn it so I can communicate with a Japanese exchange student who lived here for a year, and I fell in love with the language, so I continued learning ^^
(uhm, I haven't wrote a single japanese word for weeks O.O I need to learn further but I can't >.<)
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 4:44 pm
Q-Gloaf I started to learn it so I can communicate with a Japanese exchange student who lived here for a year, and I fell in love with the language, so I continued learning ^^ (uhm, I haven't wrote a single japanese word for weeks O.O I need to learn further but I can't >.<) Wow. There are a lot of Japanese exchange students at my school, but I'm like, crazy shy and don't really talk to people anyways, so I'd have to find a way to befriend one of them...... There are a lot of places you can start studying, if you want to. Look in the Learning Tools topic. The sites I recommended are sites I use, and I think the others are worth checking out. But I'm also kind of rusty, seeing as I just finished summer classes, and haven't taken a formal class in over a year. Do your best!!! And good luck.
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 5:24 pm
juunishikyou Q-Gloaf I started to learn it so I can communicate with a Japanese exchange student who lived here for a year, and I fell in love with the language, so I continued learning ^^ (uhm, I haven't wrote a single japanese word for weeks O.O I need to learn further but I can't >.<) Wow. There are a lot of Japanese exchange students at my school, but I'm like, crazy shy and don't really talk to people anyways, so I'd have to find a way to befriend one of them...... There are a lot of places you can start studying, if you want to. Look in the Learning Tools topic. The sites I recommended are sites I use, and I think the others are worth checking out. But I'm also kind of rusty, seeing as I just finished summer classes, and haven't taken a formal class in over a year. Do your best!!! And good luck. The only problem is that I'm Hungarian and I don't think I could pay to those sites o.o" edit: that smart.fm is free and gooood for me, I didn't read enough sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Aug 06, 2009 9:04 pm
juunishikyou Cain von Schwarzschild BEcause i have to and because i like it. That's as good a reason as any, why do you have to? My mother's family is japanese.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:04 am
Cain von Schwarzschild juunishikyou Cain von Schwarzschild BEcause i have to and because i like it. That's as good a reason as any, why do you have to? My mother's family is japanese. Ahh. That's cool, that's cool.
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Posted: Fri Aug 07, 2009 1:06 am
Q-Gloaf juunishikyou Q-Gloaf I started to learn it so I can communicate with a Japanese exchange student who lived here for a year, and I fell in love with the language, so I continued learning ^^ (uhm, I haven't wrote a single japanese word for weeks O.O I need to learn further but I can't >.<) Wow. There are a lot of Japanese exchange students at my school, but I'm like, crazy shy and don't really talk to people anyways, so I'd have to find a way to befriend one of them...... There are a lot of places you can start studying, if you want to. Look in the Learning Tools topic. The sites I recommended are sites I use, and I think the others are worth checking out. But I'm also kind of rusty, seeing as I just finished summer classes, and haven't taken a formal class in over a year. Do your best!!! And good luck. The only problem is that I'm Hungarian and I don't think I could pay to those sites o.o" edit: that smart.fm is free and gooood for me, I didn't read enough sweatdrop Don't think you could pay to, or for? But yeah, I heard about smart.fm, and I didn't think it'd be worth much, but I went there and I thought it was pretty cool.
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Posted: Sun Aug 09, 2009 3:00 pm
I chose to learn Japanese because I have friends in Japan, and I want to communicate with them in their native language.
Also, the language, the food, yadda yadda, but none of that was enough to make me change my major for it.
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Posted: Mon Aug 10, 2009 3:44 am
Jissina I chose to learn Japanese because I have friends in Japan, and I want to communicate with them in their native language. Also, the language, the food, yadda yadda, but none of that was enough to make me change my major for it. I like talking to people in their language. May I ask what you're majoring in?
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Posted: Tue Aug 25, 2009 10:36 pm
I love foreign languages, and Japanese was the first I happened to learn. I've studied a couple others now and Japanese is still my favorite. The culture, both traditional and modern, fascinate me, as well as certain aspects of pop culture.
I ended up as a Japanese major because when I thought about it, there was nothing else I could really make a living at and enjoy. My other hobby happens to be writing, and well, you know how English or lit majors are sweatdrop
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