1. Who are you? (Age, sex, location and everything else you are willing to tell us)
2. Why are you learning Japanese.
I'm asking this because I want to know if the people who are trying (notice the word 'trying') to learn Japanese are just a bunch of weeaboo faggots, or if they have a more sane reason to do so.
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Anonymous2007-08-14 23:14 ID:OU2BqWG4
What do you mean by trying?
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Anonymous2007-08-14 23:21 ID:dpFAf8R2
Because its practically impossible for english speakers to learn on their own. Read this. Its actually pretty funny. http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/
I know the guy jokes a lot, but he hit the nail right on the head, even if he wasn't 100% serious.
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Anonymous2007-08-14 23:23 ID:dpFAf8R2
lol you were once one too huh?
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Anonymous2007-08-14 23:39 ID:QP1uvAXF
I can save you the trouble, they are all weeaboo faggots.
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Anonymous2007-08-14 23:57 ID:OU2BqWG4
Only white people can be weeaboos. Thank god im not white.
I'm learning Japanese from Anime so I can import video games, because they're better than American games.
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Anonymous2007-08-15 10:42 ID:TPpYfHe+
>>6
Actually, the only weeaboo I know IRL is a negro. He's always saying stuff he heard in anime cartoons and writing Japanese stuff in his agenda, etc...
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Anonymous2007-08-15 11:12 ID:TPpYfHe+
This whole fucking board is crawling with people claiming to be fluent in Japanese.
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Anonymous2007-08-15 14:10 ID:NCYeS/7R
1. I'm 20, white male, 6 foot tall, and live in California. I didn't even touch anime till I started learning Japanese.
2. I just have had an interest in Japanese. In my younger days, my parents would take in Japanese study abroad students, so that probably somewhat influenced me. Later I got interested through games, and how all are from fucking Japan. I saw all this, and knew Japan was ahead of us in technology too, and I felt like it'd be a good language to learn. I wasn't exactly sure what I wanted to do in life, so I figured maybe I could somehow integrate Japanese into my future profession.
I also love girls who are like a lot shorter than me, and Japanese are just a shorter race so I think that's kind of win, although I don't really like any particular race. Not to mention they like Americans, and it's not like I'm a nerd, or at least don't look like one, I work out and keep up a good physique.
My plan I guess is to teach English over there or be a translator. It's not like it's my life goal to do that, but I feel like if I abandon it, then I'll have no idea where to go. Also one thing I must mention, languages is the only thing I'm incredibly good at. In my Japanese class I got the highest scores yet I studied for a test like 10 minutes before class where people would study for hours and hours and get scores waaay lower than me. I also tried Chinese and never studied and did better than everyone there besides the people already fluent.
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Anonymous2007-08-15 14:14 ID:NCYeS/7R
12 again, something I forgot to say
My sister is 28 and she went to college for like 8 years and still doesn't really have a job because she kept switching professions and what not, and it got her no where
my brother is 25, and he went to school for a couple years, said school is for fools, then 4 years later he figured out he has to go back.
That's a big reason for me wanting to do this. I got to stick to something, and if I lose Japanese then I don't have any idea what to do.
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Anonymous2007-08-15 14:52 ID:kkosKYw1
>>11
Well hello, this is 4chan, the English version of 2 channeru.
Haven't you ever seen the "このサイトについて" part?
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Anonymous2007-08-15 21:38 ID:hBZgpFoI
>>14
this site nitsute. no clue what that last part is. just started picking up japanese...
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Anonymous2007-08-15 21:47 ID:NCYeS/7R
>>15
pick up rikai chan for firefox and you'd know, sure it's not the answer to everything but it saves time not to mention it shows where words start and begin, and nitsuite = concerning, so you could translate it to something along the lines of "About this site"
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Anonymous2007-08-15 23:14 ID:e1Txx8Py
>>16
Good thing I already know what "Kono Sito" is... rikaichan chokes on it and gives gibberish. It did get 'concerning', though. :p
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Anonymous2007-08-15 23:21 ID:rdx58Wrw
So how do I prevent myself from becoming an elitist jerk who sniggers when other people make mistakes using Japanese?
I've have seen people doing it and now it's happening to me. Not that I'm any good at Japanese, that's the worst part.
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Anonymous2007-08-16 0:27 ID:eedugDs+
When asked I pretend that I liked Japanese before I liked anime, but I lie. I can usually bring up some irrelevant exposure as a kid, comfortably ignoring the deciding period in my life where I loved anime and everything Japanese.
Now I'm one of those creepy guys who can't help but freeze everytime I see an asian girl.
So, anyway, I learned Japenese cause I like green tea. (macha, LOL)
the only reason to learn japanesetalk is if you plan to move there, this makes you a generic WEEABOO anyway
Or are you just another Pokemon Bumming, sushi munching, anime shagging, utadah hikaru listening-to-ing WEEABOO?
Either way you're a fucking WEEABOO
You're a F@G
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Anonymous2007-08-17 21:01 ID:3WOUda2L
(1) European closet aniwota weeaboo. I have some of the stereotypical physical traits too, but since I specialize in hard science, I don't stand out that much. I hold a well-paying teaching position at a very reputable higher-educational institution, so I'm not exactly a social outcast. It's probably best for everyone's sake that I'm not teaching in middle school, by the way.
(2) Because I'm a snobbish wota who likes watching his animu raw and doesn't ever touch translated manga. I've been interested in various aspect of Japanese culture since even before I got into anime, but it wasn't until I was (discretely) running my former school's anime club that I actually picked up the language. Now I'm taking JLPT 2kyu and Kanken 5kyu this fall, and I'm considering getting a master's degree in Japanese linguistics afterwards--for fun more than anything else, although it might help getting an overseas teaching position in Japan later, the sole idea of which is faptastic. Oh, and I dig Japanese girls, but don't we all.
I'm a programmer, and as of late, I've been getting involved with game programming. Seeing as a large portion of the industry is Japan based, I figured it could expand my job market (should things go well for me). Complimenting this, I've always enjoyed learning language (whether it be improving my own, or attempting proficiency in another), and I've found Japanese to be quite interesting (likely due to the vast gap between its roots and that of germanic/latin-base languages). Some tell me this is unrealistic, but it's been working quite well for me so far.
Weeaboos just piss me off. I feel like strangling people when they tell me they're trying to learn "so they can read manga and watch anime before it's subbed"; or the like. Their 'trying' usually consists of parroting phrases from their favorite characters, which makes it all the more idiotic. Real people don't talk like anime characters anyway.
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Anonymous2007-08-21 5:00 ID:2ANNp3q1
>>42
I don't agree with you. Some of these people went on to become anime translators as well, and I'm one of them. If you think we don't read grammar books like everyone else, you are wrong. Some of us do.
On the other hand, I am always pissed that people who claim that they are learning a language for jobs frequently restrict their knowledge to the textbook, and refuse to learn anything outside the classroom, or the "holy text" they have. As such their Japanese knowledge is always limited and their foundations are weak.
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Anonymous2007-08-21 7:02 ID:242byoe1
>>43
Well, I apologize if the stereotype doesn't fit you, but you must admit it does fit the majority.
Yes, I know what you mean. I do a good amount of my learning not with a textbook, but by conversing with Japanese friends of mine. I find that often helps me more than a textbook could. Of course, textbooks have their uses, as well...
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Anonymous2007-08-21 7:25 ID:2ANNp3q1
>>44
Unfortunately, I must admit it does, and I want to kill them as much as those idiots who stare at me with disapproval when I say some vocab that doesn't come from the textbook.
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Anonymous2007-08-22 1:14 ID:hFfi3PZ6
23/m/some place I hate
physically fit, good at some sports, not repulsive to the opposite sex.
My reasons for learning Japanese:
-when I was younger i was practicing martial arts and exposed to the language that way
-one of my uncle's taught me some japanese when I was a kid, i liked it
-I actually love the language and think it's beautiful.
-Japanese girls are cute
-Having been to Japan once before, I can say I'd really like to return, and I'd like to be fluent enough to have a good time.
Sure I like anime, but I don't obsess over it like so many other people. It's a nice way to kill time when there aren't more important things to do.
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Anonymous2007-08-22 11:54 ID:GaH+4Efe
If someone gets into the language and they're a real weeaboo, it doesn't matter in the long run. If they're going to really learn the language/go to Japan they're going to HAVE to learn how to respect the culture.
If you're one of the few weeaboos who gets really fluent at the language, great- I hope you have a good time in Akihabara. Though frankly, I think anyone would appreciate their time there even more if they tried to make contacts with the locals and explored more rural areas.
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Anonymous2007-08-22 13:56 ID:mqc8XVNj
>>47
People who get fluent at the language will learn many uses for it, of course. And their interest would not be restricted to akihabara anymore.
Being a weeaboo and having interest in their culture is never mutually exclusive.
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Anonymous2007-08-22 18:13 ID:ns6utOEz
Well I'm learning it b/c as long as I can remember I have been interested in it. I like learning about languages and cultures, currently I am trying to learn Spanish. Japan is such a fascinating place to me so unlike any other I think. Learning languages I beleive helps you to understand the culture with the words they use. I'm a female and am 18 who resides in the u.s. :)
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Anonymous2007-08-23 4:17 ID:O563uoyE
>>42
OP here, I must say you win the thread so far. Everyone here just comes up with the lamest reasons to learn it, just as I expected. I'm hoping to become a physicist one day (sure, laugh at me all you want), so it might be usefull to me one day in therms of getting a better job (I heard you can earn more in the US or Japan then in Europe).
I don't really like Japan or it's culture more then any other country and I've never been there. I find it strange that so many people have this strange obsession with Japan while most of them haven't been to there nor met a Japanese person. I even know a guy who hopes to learn Japanese by watching every episode of Naruto 5 fucking times. >>49
How's that STD going, Emily?
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Anonymous2007-08-23 7:22 ID:pK1zIBfH
>>50
Do come back again when you've gained certain proficiency at the language. So far the only people who laughed at others not learning the language to make money, are the people who haven't started at all.
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Anonymous2007-08-23 15:22 ID:O563uoyE
>>51
The reason most people like me laugh isn't because they learn Japanese, it is because of their motivation to do so. 99% Wants to learn it because they've seen some shitty anime or fap to Japanese porn. You don't need any knowledge of Japanese to find that funny.
The people who laugh about it don't have that twisted obsession and that's why they never started learning the language. Fact is that unless you're a complete weeaboo, it's very unlikely that you'll ever need Japanese. You're probebly better of learning Mandarin or something, since that could be very usefull in the future.
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Anonymous2007-08-23 15:35 ID:g03PkrQd
Is anyone other than >>46 learning the language because they actually think it's beautiful and enjoy speaking it?
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Anonymous2007-08-23 19:44 ID:4zNTZJQL
Does any one else feel cursed because of english being their 1st and only language they know fluently? >>50
and WHAT? You know you make me feel like a weeaboo >>53
Honestly, I don't think Japanese sounds beautiful, I'd say along the lines of cool...
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Anonymous2007-08-23 19:45 ID:v318wCIS
>>53
I do (>>22 here), but in my experience, that alone is not enough to actually learn a language. A few years back, I picked up Hungarian for I thought it sounded very beautiful and had quite interesting grammatical features, but eventually gave it up within 6 months as I had almost nothing to listen to nor anybody to speak with outside class. Earlier than that, I'd tried to teach myself Norwegian for similar reasons and failed to make any progress.
>>52
I predict that you will drop out pretty quick. Since you're no weeaboo, you'll never need Japanese, will you? Why bother learn it then? That's what you will be asking yourself when you hit the first stumbling block.
>>52
Frankly, your argument isn't getting anywhere. Obviously you're saying that anything not related to making money or improving social status isn't worth learning at all.
There are people in this world who learn things just for the interest and passion and you're not one of them, and you'll never try to understand. Period.
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Anonymous2007-08-24 7:07 ID:N8YeTqDg
>>57
Different people have different tastes. I mean, some people actually read /y/ ffs!
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Anonymous2007-08-24 7:17 ID:fOsVeDY6
>>55 >>52 Here, I never said I'm learning Japanese. >>58
No, I said UNLESS you're a complete weeaboo (which means you have a great interest and passion) it's unlikely that you'll ever need it.
>>59
People loving the sound of Hungarian are different indeed; they got no taste :p
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Anonymous2007-08-25 10:33 ID:QXXe4puT
1. Underageb&, male, part Soviet Russian and part Pally sand nigger, living in Norway (LOL IMMIGRANT).
2. Learning Japanese for potential future studying there. I herd sum things about them having awesome technological faggotry. And since I'll probably end up doing a nerdy job, I might as well learn from the pros.
Bokmål is more common, and I guess it's closer to both Swedish and Danish than Nynorsk is.
Norwegian is close to Danish in writing, but the pronunciation is more like Swedish.
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Anonymous2007-08-29 12:17 ID:50UopGHw
I'm a 22 year-old female living in southern Indiana.
I started taking Japanese because I have a third shift job with a lot of down time and I needed a hobby. I chose that particular language because there's a Japanese family that lives across the street from me and they pay me to help their kids with their homework a few hours a week. I figured that would give me a chance to practice it.
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Anonymous2007-08-29 12:43 ID:NqOWyJE8
the only info you get from me is that I'm 19, and i go to ITT.
and i wont to make video games fro a good company like Nippon Ichi (NIS) or Atlas (any company Mainly enough to still use sprite type games, Disgaea, Rivera T.P.L., and so on) i have only three years under my pelt and i like what have learned so far. i teach others in my house what i have learned. if you want any more info you can go to hell.....
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Anonymous2007-08-29 17:15 ID:5HOANG95
White people are going to overtake Japan.
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Anonymous2007-08-29 23:22 ID:MtSjShd4
>>73
They sure could use some more pink penises or they'll go extinct one of these days.
I know a few people living in Japan via music friendships so I like the thought of being able to visit them / at least be able to read / write correctly.
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Anonymous2007-08-29 23:59 ID:q1cEDwSQ
ate 20s, guy,
I know a few otakus living in Japan via anime friendships so I like the thought of being able to visit them / at least be able to read / write correctly.
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ImmaInTehDark2007-08-30 4:54 ID:DehlS5xm
Meh, Im working on learning Mandarin Chinese..
All the Japanese are supposed to be dying out soon anyways..
Sucks for them hehehe.... .
>>78
That just said that they aren't aborting as much, not that they're getting any more babies.
They're still going extinct.
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ImmaInTehDark2007-08-31 3:37 ID:go6w0/Yj
Heh.
Good thing, I would be pissed if I learned a language that was hard as hell, and never apply it in real life..
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Anonymous2007-09-03 5:57 ID:YbIPH0x6
1. 19, Male, from California. Psych major.
2. Learning Jap language because I will be transfering to a school over there. I plan to expand my studies of psychology by adding some Japanese flavour, or lack thereof, into my learnings.
I feel contempt for the Japanese people and their backwards, way-behing-America racist and disciminatory policies against anyone not Jap. Either way, I feel there are some things western society can learn from Jap culture, specifically in the field of education.
Actually, I hate their collective educational system that puts nothing into individualism that is required in this globalized economy and the way how everything revolves around multiple choice testing and not about what the individual thinks about the issue, which I believe is detrimental. To them, there's always a right or wrong answer, something you would never see in the western school systems. We always have essay questions, they don't.
However, I do take interest in the other aspects of Japanese schooling, such as the social training they receive. Not hadcore at all, but definately better than in western schools.
I hope that's sufficient reason and not at all weeaboo I hope.
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ImmaInTehDark2007-09-03 6:35 ID:xy+kphcO
^^^^Sounds good to me
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Anonymous2007-09-03 16:33 ID:uPTsamKS
20, Male USA
Lived there during higschool because I moved. Had no choice but to learn it. Now I just study it to get college credit. easy double major
I heard some Japanese music and I said "This language must be the ultimate tool of comunikation and the glory of human society!"
And... well, that's all.
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Anonymous2007-09-06 11:50 ID:OOetNV30
1. 17 Male USA
2. I'm Taiwanese, my grandparents were in Taiwan during the Japanese occupation, they spoke some Japanese to my parents, who spoke some to me. Since I knew bits and pieces of it, I decided to learn the rest of it.
QUESTION: Does this make me a weeaboo?
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Anonymous2007-09-07 0:31 ID:KwziKd5y
yes, yes it does. i mean, considering 4% of the USAs population is asian, and the demographics of the people involved in 4chan, you are likely a lonely white 46 year old male living in his parents basement. Presumably un-married, and non-divorced. dont fear however, you get used to it. speaking from experience ofcourse!
In the off chance you are indeed a 17 year old taiwanese kid, then you are still a weaboo, regardless of how much or little you worship japan, just for the sake of pissing you off.
;-P
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Anonymous2007-09-07 7:20 ID:SMFge9bm
>>88
My grandparents were in a Japanese concentration camp during WOII. They it's possible that they knew some Japanese but I don't think they ever used it when they got out. Why did you grandparents learned Japanese to their children? Surely they didn't liked the Japanese a lot.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 8:05 ID:i49ClEdn
1. 20yo Aussie Male
2. Interest in Anime + Wanting to travel --> Hmmm Japan would be fun --> Japanese Major @ Uni
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Anonymous2007-09-07 9:12 ID:zBG2Nkve
>>90
As a total outsider, I've heard that the Taiwanese weren't tortured by the Japanese as much as Koreans or Chinese. Taiwan was a kind of "experimental" colony where all the new stuff was first introduced. Taiwanese may feel a bit more nostalgic, or at least less uncomfortable, about those times because of this.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 11:20 ID:C5usAz2G
>>91
Japanese Major @ Uni comes with a "no/shitty job"-guarantee.
88 here, I wish I knew how to use that quote thing =\
Well if you go to Taiwan, you'll see it's basically a small compact China with various subtle references to Japan everywhere, like in the architecture of old houses and stuff like that. I think Taiwan is pretty happy with their past relationship with Japan.
I think my grandparents spoke japanese to my parents because they were used to it. It was the official language for like 50 years I think. It's like how my parents here in the US speak to me in english randomly instead of mandarin. My grandparents would just speak randomly in japanese to my parents. Mind you, my parents don't know japanese fluently at all, they just know how to say random nouns and verbs, which I learned from them.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 14:31 ID:KwziKd5y
what he means by shitty, is you probably wont end up translating anime, like you think you will.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 14:52 ID:zBG2Nkve
>>96
Is translating anime the only job not shitty with a major in Japanese?
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Anonymous2007-09-07 15:34 ID:NptRcT2x
>>97
Unless you're going to Japan to be an English professor, Japanese is a very difficult major to find a job with. My Japanese teacher told a class that, so I'm not just being a troll.
Sure, you can wind up Translating videogames or anime(I myself would give my left nut for a job in those industries) you just have to be realistic.
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Anonymous2007-09-07 16:20 ID:zBG2Nkve
>>98
Um. I was told there's some reasonably good demand for Japanese speaking people in the job market. I'm writing from Hungary, though. May an other exotic language make this difference?
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Anonymous2007-09-07 17:23 ID:KwziKd5y
theres always international lawer...good luck!
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Anonymous2007-09-07 19:36 ID:zcaTWyAk
Don't feel bad, useless major people. I'm double majoring in chinese and italian, and I know that I'm fucked when I go to look for a job. At least we're not majoring in bullshit like Women's Studies. I'd rather know something I love and be poor than have wasted four years studying something I despised just because I thought I'd get a better job with it. I regret nothing!
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Anonymous2007-09-07 23:12 ID:t6yGU2Ct
STUPID FUCK
DON'T YOU KNOW THAT THE ONLY WAY YOU CAN FUCK HOT GIRLS IS
IF YOU LEARN A FOREIGN LANGUAGE.
KNOWING ENGLISH IS ONLY GOING TO GET YOU SHIT.
GET A FUCKING BRAIN, MAKE MONEY, AND FUCK CUTE GIRLS
D:
but, but, but I am learning a foreign language!
two of them!
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Anonymous2007-09-08 0:25 ID:eXNZ7RuR
>>93
I'm also doing an International Business major. Half my degree is for fun. The other half is to torture myself. Anyway there's more to life than a high paying job. I'd be happy teaching/translating.
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Anonymous2007-09-08 1:47 ID:mmFkz4r/
1. 20, Male, Texas 'n' shit, I wear a cowboy hat
2. I'm learning Japanese because I'm into World War II. I've taken several years of German and am trying to advance beyond "incomprehensible shit" to "mediocre beginner". I'm starting Japanese now. I will embarrass the entire Russian nation by slaughtering their language at a later date. Hopefully, maybe by the time I'm 90 I can read Saburo Sakai's memoirs or whatever the fuck he scribbled on some TP (they actually use bamboo paper in Japan, thus all Japanese are very environmentally friendly and are perpetually bleeding out the ass) and maybe before I die when I'm on the page before last, I might kind of get what he meant. But more than likely I will have wasted my life trying to read books about a war the American nation has turned into a fucking comic book.
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Anonymous2007-09-09 2:33 ID:9QAwnqvf
ろl
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Anonymous2007-09-09 14:10 ID:AO0UQApN
>>105 Texas and a cowboy hat? good luck with japanese since your IQ is only about 4. Just stay on the farm and do hick things (dropping the g on all of our simple english words) like; muddin, fishin, or swimmin, instead of attempting to learn and murder and beautiful language. Fall in livestock shit NEWFAG
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Anonymous2007-09-09 14:26 ID:R5cmzTed
16, Florida.
I have relatives in Japan, who I visited recently. Although they themselves have a good start in the english language, I thought Id meet them half way, and learn their language in return. Our best conversation probably went as follows--
Me: "Kurumi-san, wa doko deska?" (where is kurumi)
Hiro: "She...isht.. in...tha... Ravoratory"
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Anonymous2007-09-09 21:01 ID:0Ax8z0sP
>>107
einstein was a cowboy, you fuckfaced cunt. texas rules.
I wish to get certified in teaching English as a second language after I finish my bachelor's degree and go teach in Japan. I would like to learn Japanese while living there. I have almost no Japanese right now, but I know a little Mandarin.
>>107
OP here,
Seriously GTFO out of my thread. Just as I started getting used to the nicer weeaboos around here some self-proclaimed 'expert' shows up. GTFO failfag.
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Anonymous2007-09-18 16:59 ID:fjCz7T+P
1. Male, England
2. I've been interested in Japan since I was a kid. I find the culture of extreme interest, as well as the history. Also, I find learning the language enjoyable, moreso than other languages.
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Anonymous2007-09-18 20:42 ID:kvJFOeJf
1. 23/m/Seattle
2. I plan on moving there for work in a year or two.
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Anonymous2007-12-30 3:46
ok, a question to people learning Japanese.
anon means anonymous.
What does meme means?
Could you explain it in Japanese, for your exercise?
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Anonymous2008-01-02 5:17
1)15/M/Canada Vancouver
2)basically same as >>120
3) i plan on going there to learn more japanese after high school and get a profession there. maybe english-japanese translator of some sort.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 5:52
1. 17/m/Norway (from Russia)
2. I think I'll study philology/linguistics, where knowing a large and important isolate language might turn out being quite beneficial. I'd also like to study in Japan, if I were to find the need.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 6:14
18, m, france, student in software engineering.
I'm fluent in english and french, and i don't have any language classes anymore. And as i actually like learning a language, i picked japanese.
I used to learn german in high school, but it really sucks. Ach so.
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Anonymous2008-01-02 6:43
19 m Australia
i want to learn Japanese (among others) for business
Japanese people are meek and annoying, and have no real respect for you unless you are 100% Japanese, still its an interesting culture. Also i know how i can make good money from translation and interpretation
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pablol!uMEXICOaX62008-01-03 18:17
i'm a 23 year old m00txican, (from guadalajara) and i'm trying to learn some japanese because i take it as a personal challenge, japanese is my everest, also for the lulz...
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Anonymous2008-01-07 18:38
I'm learning Japanese because I want to move there and buy as much anime and video games as i possiblty can.