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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Anonymous2007-09-03 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.