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  • I want to communicate with my Japanese relatives

    57 7.64%
  • I want to talk to my Japanese friends or make some new ones

    290 38.87%
  • I live in Japan (so for daily life use...)

    62 8.31%
  • My boyfriend/girlfriend is Japanese or want to make one.

    136 18.23%
  • I (will) need it for my job

    152 20.38%
  • To read the manga or understand the anime

    289 38.74%
  • For the video games

    171 22.92%
  • To travel in Japan

    384 51.47%
  • I am interested in Japanese culture/language, etc.

    557 74.66%
  • For no particular reason or others (please specify in forum)

    88 11.80%
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  1. #226
    tsuyaku o tsukete kudasai nurizeko's Avatar
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    I'm learning it because my girlfriend is japanese, i plan on living there or at least becomming a frequent visitor, if i do live there i will need it for basically everything.

    I always thought i sucked at languages but i learned quickly while i lived there.

    It was only 2 months but language is just so much easier when you can see it and try it within its natural habitat, it really makes it easy.

    Im useless at learning a language via textbook and a classroom, it just feels so unispiring and the detailed explaination of every aspect of the language can just make it confusing, but living in it makes it so much easier.

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    Wink For me...

    i find the japanese language enchanting, its like if i hear someone speak in japanese, there is like power and magic. japanese culture is so strong too and it really fascinates me. actually, it all started when i was in gradeschool when my younger brothers introduced me to manga and animation. i was so desperate to understand the dialogue so i asked my mum to enroll me to a japanese lesson class. i studied basic japanese for 3 months only because there were already english translation with every series that i've watched. then i begun to like japanese entertainment (j-pop) when i reached college so the thirst in me came alive again. I even met japanese friends at school so i would really like to learn how to write, read, and speak in Japanese. i'm sure i can get much help from this site. That's my story.

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    For the off the wall reason that I have nothing better to do, I like the anime, and the video games, and I need to exercise my brain a bit. (im an idiot)

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    haha i simply want to learn it cause it's beautiful to me and i plan to go to tokyo me and my boyfriend in the future
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    Red face Some kind of accomplishment

    Minna-sama, kon ban wa:

    It's been a while since I last posted here, so please excuse the silence....

    A year ago, I would have answered this thread by saying that I wanted to make video programs in Japanese. I still do to some degree, but not to impress NTV or Asahi (much less NHK); I am all too aware that market forces don't like playing nice. So for now I am kick-starting my Japanese studies anew because with my life being as batsu (as in "batsu-gemu!" - that is, a Downtown free-for-all) as it is, being able to express myself in the language with some confidence would be nothing less than a real accomplishment.

    Ikemasho!

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    I simply wish to understand the lyrics to T.M.Revoltion songs. That is the main reason I joined these forums anyways! lol

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    Jouralto : you and me are coming from the same place! (not TM Revolution in my case, but I wanted to understand song lyrics). Beware, beware; your interest in things Japanese might expand from that... as mine has done, like a rapid-growing plant!
    Well, I have already made my intro on this thread, anyway.

    I am in the middle of taking Level 1 exams at the moment (well not literally at the moment!), they are pretty easy and I'm hoping the college will run the Level 2 course next year. ^^ I'm also pleased because I learned the kanji symbols for the numbers 1 - 10... ^^ hehe, not much I know, but I'm still happy about it! It took me literally 10 minutes to learn them, I guess because I have a memory that works pictorially... well, 1 - 3 are self-explanatory anyway, lol.

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    Hmmm.....

    There are so many reasons why I'm learning japanese.......for the most part I hope to live in Japan...or at least visit frequently. Also for anime and manga......and because Japanese is just plain kool!!

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    I want to learn Japanese

    well, I'm interested in every language invented and i want to be multi-lingual (i'm just bilingual^_^)

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    Quote Originally Posted by Kye-Jin Jiro
    There are so many reasons why I'm learning japanese.......for the most part I hope to live in Japan...or at least visit frequently. Also for anime and manga......and because Japanese is just plain kool!!
    The japanese ARE cool^_^

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    I am fascinated by languages and cultures and the relation ship between the two things, i am learning Japanese 'cause through learning the language i am learning a lot about the culture.
    Also my girlfriend is Japanese and we are planning to move to Tokyo for a while next year, honestly i can't wait !
    I heard spring already started in Tokyo, here in London it feels so winter still.
    Quote Originally Posted by nurizeko
    I always thought i sucked at languages but i learned quickly while i lived there.
    It was only 2 months but language is just so much easier when you can see it and try it within its natural habitat, it really makes it easy.
    Im useless at learning a language via textbook and a classroom, it just feels so unispiring and the detailed explaination of every aspect of the language can just make it confusing, but living in it makes it so much easier.
    I agree with you, there is no way to be fluent in a language without leaving at least for some time in a country where it is spoken.
    In fact you really have to put an effort if you spent over a month in a foreign country where they speak a different language than yours and you don't pick up at least the basic.
    While the opposite is true, it takes a real effort even to learn the basic of another language while studding it in you natural environment.

    Anyway i have been studding Japanese for only 3 months, yesterday i had my last lecture as beginner, next month i will start another course, basically the continuation of my previous one, called post-beginner.
    I am really looking forward to be able to have a basic conversation in Japanese that goes beyond the 2 or 3 phrases, but i guess i have quite some time to go...
    アンドレア

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    I got hooked on Japanese stuff while I was a kid that's why I'm trying to learn the language.

    Anybody here know of Japan Today? It's a docu show about all things Japanese. I watched a lot of those. Showed some great interesting stuff about Japan like folk festivals, inventions, local cuisine, places of interest etc. Made me dream of going to Japan someday.

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    Argh. I haven't actully learnt Japanese properly.. I was able to understand enough of it from watching anime to know what was going on in a movie.
    That was why I limited my anime ahahahah

    But understanding Japanese will help me understand more of the anime!

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    Am I bad if I only had the patience to read the first page of this thread? <__<;;

    In any case, my little tale:

    Ah, but I do love languages, and if it is one that has really caught my attention with it's melodic structure and beauty it is Japanese.
    As several people have alredy mentioned as a reason, anime introdcued me to the language.
    Being a liberal, sci-fi loving techie, filosofical and non-religious, the Japanese culture also has caught my attention. Oh "do misunderstand me right", alot of aspects of it bother me, such as equality issues and the educational system (you have to pay your way through High School and Uni). But in all, Japan simply ... facinates me. It has become a dream of mine to one day, one day visit Japan and maybe study and/work there ...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Maciamo
    I am learning Japanese because my wife is Japanese, I live in Japan, I like learning languages in general and it will help me find another job that teacher in the future. Maybe also because I am very interested in foreign cultures (for the moment the Japanese one of course) and there is no better way to understand the mentality of a people than through its language.
    Wow, that's almost exactly like me...except the whole wife scenario and I don't live in Japan either...OK, maybe not exactly! Demo (ooo, some really basic romanized Japanese!) I too love to learn about other cultures. I paticularly want to see the Harajuku area (for the fashion, obviously ) and see the Tanatabata(sp?) festival - the story's so sad! But I love the idea of celebrating creativity (something rather lacking where I live, I feel).

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    Well, I love Anime and Manga, but my interest in learning Japanese came from the movies. My first Japanese movie was Godzilla(1984). I've been hooked ever since.

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    for japanese rpg games, final fantasy etc

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    Quote Originally Posted by Miyabi_maru
    I want to learn Japanese
    well, I'm interested in every language invented and i want to be multi-lingual (i'm just bilingual^_^)
    There's no doubt now that the Japanese manga,animation and games are the most popular in the world.When I play RPG,I could do nothing but guess the meaning by some chinese characters.but compared with Chinese characters,there's so many kanji in Japanese have different meanings.Learning Japanese is only to make me understood what they are talking about.It'll be convienent to play all the Japanese games.

    PS Miyabi_maru san: I have the same interest with you~ I could teach you standard Chinese if you want to study and all the people who wish to learn Chinese are welcome.

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    English translations of Japanese video games, animes and mangas take far to long, a fourth dont come at all.

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    i'm learning to be a translator and to make more friends,,,

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    watashi wa baka desu kara,
    nihongo o narate imasu

    Ok, here's basicaly what happened. It was my first semester in junior college and I was taking an english class next to this very loud japanese class. Not nigiyaka, but urusai. They were going on about how hard the class was so me being the idiot that I am decided that I should try it. (It's like when you taste something realy wierd or bad and you turn to a friend and say, here try this. And they know its bad but still try it anyways) It was a very interesting class to say the least. Hard, but fun and here I am still trying two years later--for the reccord it wasn't the difficulty that got me, its the schedule for the advanced classes that wont let me finish. So how do I explain my self in this logically flawed excuse for a choice? Atama ga totemo warui desu.

    With that said, I plan to take the third and fourth level classes soon, then it's on to the "How to read a Japanese Newspaper Class."

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    I would love to learn Japanese because of the Video Games and Culture! I love being able to talk to people all over the world, I hope too in some years after I learn Japanese.

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    Initially, my motivation to learn Japanese was due to an upcoming trip to Kyoto. I thought learning some basic 'travel' Japanese might come in handy. Being a bit of a language nerd, though, I became interested in the language itself and made the decision to study it properly (well, by self-study anyway).

    I'm also mad about sushi/sashimi and Japanese traditional culture so learning the Japanese language should help me delve deeper into these interests. I wonder if anyone's ever tried learning Japanese just because they liked sushi...I'm quite tempted to 'specialise' in food-related Japanese.

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    I lived in Japan when I was 7, 8 and 9, and then again when I was 13, 14 and 15. I didn't really learn any Japanese when I was there except a few simple things, counting, greetings, please, thank you, that sort of stuff. As a youngster I had no desire to learn any foreign language. Despite that I always loved Japan and things Japanese. When I was there I did learn about some of the culture. In my early 20's I realized that I really wanted to learn at least one foreign language and that Japanese was the first that I'd tackle. Now over 10 years later I've finally gotten off of my duff and am starting. I've taken Judo, and aikido when I was younger and recently started taking aikido again (another thing that I've wanted to get back into for at least 10 years). I'm also a huge fan of Japanese food and sushi.

    I'd be really surprised if I never get back to Japan at least for vacation. And I'd really love to be able to wrangle my way into a job over there.

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    I want to learn japanese to epand my horizons learn how to curse some one out in another language and play all the new cool games before they come to america and if they never do oh and flirt with asian girls. Normal teen things.

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