Why do/did you want to learn Japanese?
I'm 100% wapanese according to the encyclopedia dramatica. I guess I get a free pass since my autistic tendencies mean I have little desire to parade my interests for the world to see or seek validation from my peers. I attended four years of college to learn Japanese to play video games and read anime. Right now I'm dressed normally, working in an unrelated industry to pay for college and my internet bill.
Keep in mind that the Encyclopedia Dramatica is just for laughs, and that it is mostly written by 4chan idiots, who are mostly a bunch of perverted sex offenders in denial. On second thought, it is probably best not to spend much time on that website and it is extremely NSFW.Mitsuho wrote:I'm 100% wapanese according to the encyclopedia dramatica.
Anyhow, please re-read what I originally posted. If you are not somebody who goes around pretending to be Japanese, then I'd say you are not a weeaboo/wapanese. However, I really hope you aren't going to college just to study Japanese and basically do nothing with your education other than throwing it away.
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Bonemaster969
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Is there a word for someone that's obsessed with Europe, rather than Japan? Because I thought I was obsessed with Europe. But now all my friends call me a weeaboo everyday and everyone always asks me when I'm going to Japan, not Europe.
Originally, I had never planned to study Japanese. Towards the end of high school, I decided to learn katakana so I could navigate Japanese websites. But then that August, I watched a show called "Love Hina". I thought to myself "Hey I'm a genious, why don't I just learn the language? It can't be that hard." And so, I set out on a magical quest...
About a year and a half later, here I am. I mostly buy Japanese manga because it's way cheaper than English manga and it has much more educational value to it. I still have to use the dictionary on my DS to read (except Yotsubato!), but I find that to be a great way to study vocabulary. Whenever I download roms, it's usually the Japanese versions. I haven't mastered the 1945 common-use kanji yet, but I'm doing much better than anyone else I know that has been studying Japanese. I would always study kanji at home, even if I didn't have class or it wasn't part of the homework. As I sit in class, I would witness the attendance drop like flies.
My thoughts on the language? It has some concepts that are very difficult for a latin-based language speaker to grasp. Besides kanji, there's the use of particles, which for those of you that don't know, are characters that denote whether the preceeding word is a direct object, subject, topic, etc. I knew right from the beginning though, that nothing would ever change just because I didn't like it, so I just dealt with it. I personally enjoy kanji and don't think there's any flaws with the writing system. The radicals work much better than latin roots in my opinion. Even if you don't know what the juukugo means, you can get an idea of it's meaning from one of the kanji. As for grammar in general, it has a solid structure with very few exceptions. There are very few irregular verbs, unlike English, and adjectives are pretty straight forward as well. Now speaking is something I find to be difficult, but that's because none of my friends are weeaboos so I have no way of practicing. I believe that this will probably change when I master grammar and basic sentence structure.
One last thing: grammar in Japanese is VERY IMPORTANT. It is even more important than learning kanji. Without knowing anything about grammar, you will never be able to look something up unless it is in it's plain dictionary form. And the meaning of the sentence will seem very distorted as well.
Originally, I had never planned to study Japanese. Towards the end of high school, I decided to learn katakana so I could navigate Japanese websites. But then that August, I watched a show called "Love Hina". I thought to myself "Hey I'm a genious, why don't I just learn the language? It can't be that hard." And so, I set out on a magical quest...
About a year and a half later, here I am. I mostly buy Japanese manga because it's way cheaper than English manga and it has much more educational value to it. I still have to use the dictionary on my DS to read (except Yotsubato!), but I find that to be a great way to study vocabulary. Whenever I download roms, it's usually the Japanese versions. I haven't mastered the 1945 common-use kanji yet, but I'm doing much better than anyone else I know that has been studying Japanese. I would always study kanji at home, even if I didn't have class or it wasn't part of the homework. As I sit in class, I would witness the attendance drop like flies.
My thoughts on the language? It has some concepts that are very difficult for a latin-based language speaker to grasp. Besides kanji, there's the use of particles, which for those of you that don't know, are characters that denote whether the preceeding word is a direct object, subject, topic, etc. I knew right from the beginning though, that nothing would ever change just because I didn't like it, so I just dealt with it. I personally enjoy kanji and don't think there's any flaws with the writing system. The radicals work much better than latin roots in my opinion. Even if you don't know what the juukugo means, you can get an idea of it's meaning from one of the kanji. As for grammar in general, it has a solid structure with very few exceptions. There are very few irregular verbs, unlike English, and adjectives are pretty straight forward as well. Now speaking is something I find to be difficult, but that's because none of my friends are weeaboos so I have no way of practicing. I believe that this will probably change when I master grammar and basic sentence structure.
One last thing: grammar in Japanese is VERY IMPORTANT. It is even more important than learning kanji. Without knowing anything about grammar, you will never be able to look something up unless it is in it's plain dictionary form. And the meaning of the sentence will seem very distorted as well.
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UnscathedFlyingObject
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Let's forget about keigo, teineigo, kensongo, passive sentences (I get nightmares from this alone), verb forms for every use imaginable, hundreds of homophones, things you have to understand "from context," chopped up sentences, hundreds of sentence patterns for keigo, teineigo, kensongo, and plain speaking and the language isn't too hard at all...
"Sooo, what was it that you consider a 'good salary' for a man to make?"
"They should at least make 100K to have a good life"
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"They should at least make 100K to have a good life"
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