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 Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:54 am
Why'd you choose to study Japanese? What got you into it?
I have to admit, Manga sparked it. By reading, I began to like the Japanese culture, and I've always believed that language and culture go hand in hand. I started taking Japanese as a way to better understand the culture, and I began to really love the language as well, so, here I am.
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Posted: Thu Apr 15, 2010 10:17 pm
Mine would be culture. I was fascinated with kimonos, years later started watching anime, then manga, then video, then language, and not it's intense language study.
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Ivy Lana Lee Vice Captain
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 10:03 am
Yeah, anime was my original motivation. Or at least, it made me fall in love with the language. And it's still a motivation for me in that when I become a translator someday, I would really like to be part of the entertainment industry. ^_^
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Posted: Fri Apr 16, 2010 11:53 am
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:12 am
I was always interested in Japan as a kid, and it never went away ^.^ That's pretty much the long and the short of it.
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Posted: Sat Apr 17, 2010 1:43 pm
Quoted from the old guild: ^_^ heart
Otaku Libra Well I might as well be honest sweatdrop
I got interested because I watch (or at least used to sweatdrop ) a lot of anime, and I can't stand most english dubbed, and I wanted to be able to watch animes that hadn't been subbed yet, or that I couldn't find an english sub for.
I have stuck with it because I've fallen in love with the language though. It's fun for me, and I'm always wanting to learning new things (like accents, I guess it's the linguistic anthropologist in me sweatdrop )
I love learning about other cultures, and I find the best way to do that is not in a history class or something, but talking to people who are part of that culture, and learning their language just helps me feel like I'm learning about the culture more... like how Japanese has very specific endings that can make things instantly casual or formal, those kinds of things fascinate me sweatdrop
If that made any sense at all I'll be surprised -_-; lol oh well ^_^
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 2010 3:33 pm
I'm half japanese and love to read books (novels, magazines, manga, etc) biggrin
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 12:23 am
I've always watched anime since I was little and being half japanese made me wanna know more about the culture. But i think the biggest reason is when I first watched anime in japanese for the first time in middle school. So since then I've been wanting to learn japanese and I now want to become a manga and anime translator.
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 6:17 am
The truth is I must be victorious someone told me japanese was hard so I tried to study it in the mean while I go distracted a-lot and had to deal with some bad explinations but everything else is doing fine and i'm doing well right now! scream
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Posted: Tue Apr 20, 2010 2:42 pm
honestly i saw deathnote and i knew i had to learn it and the cussing people out was a total plus.
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 1:39 pm
I wanna learn crying ... cause I wanna go someday...
I would like to fufill my dream of being a doctor there... And Im too lazy to see if thats on the list.. 3nodding
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Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2010 2:15 pm
I got into anime, but I think the one that really captured my imagination and curiosity was Evangelion. Unlike many series aimed at young people, there were many moments of cultural honesty- giving brief but clear glimpses of every day culture and some of the problems rooted in Japanese society. I was completely blown away that an animated show had such deep and thought-provoking content, but I was also hooked onto the little peeks of Japan scattered through the science fiction.
After that I suppose I was just always somehow involved with anime, games, or manga, and was curious as to how translated versions may be different from the source material. I started casually studying and became serious when I entered college. After two years of intense study I burned out and finally made my trip to Japan, where I have been living for the past year and enjoying the mundane, everyday lifestyle that can't be accessed through games or anime alone.
From here on I think I will continue to study the language and make return trips. I think what fascinates me about Japan is how perfectly it mirrors America- it is the exact opposite, yet so many things seem to be in the same place.
Plus I'm a total sucker for samurai/yakuza stories.
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Posted: Tue Apr 27, 2010 9:21 pm
Same old anime/general culture interest story here. I also love the way the writing looks and the way the language sounds. I started learning the kana around March 2008, I believe. My efforts with learning kanji were sorta on and off. I have a pretty good grasp on all the meanings, stroke orders, readings, and some words for all the grade 1 and grade 2 kanji (and a few other miscellaneous kanji). I wanna learn more, but I'm busy... plus I need to put way more focus on vocabulary, conjugations, particles, and grammar... I hoped to learn and practise here at Gaia... One Japanese student guild I was in pretty much had no one using Japanese at all; people were just discussing Japan in English. The other was good, but became inactive fast. Then I made my own guild, but didn't put much effort into recruiting... and now I'm here!
I don't really have any aspirations to become a translator or go to Japan or whatever. Maybe someday, but it's not really my goal... I'm more interested in anime, manga, music, games, and the Japanese side of the internet. I might also want to translate my little comics and animations to Japanese for the hell of it.
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Posted: Thu Apr 29, 2010 2:54 pm
Well I've always been interested in Japanese Culture and the Japanese language. Sure way back when I was into anime and manga and jpop but once I got into college I started to focus more on the Language and Culture. I actually just graduated with a degree in Japanese Language and Culture which I must say I'm very proud of, but it is kind of useless if I'm not using it so please if you have any questions, I'd be more than happy to give my best answer.
I lived in Japan for about half a year and I def miss it so please let's talk! *^_^* しゃべるの？
よろしく！
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Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 12:30 am
I'm a sucker for the language itself. I really love the simplicity of -masu conjugating; being Canadian, my country killed most of my interest of French by teaching me the same vocab up until high school.. with no real info on conjugating/grammar until grade 8; it was too late for me by then. I was used to months, days, holidays, body parts, and various little snippets.
I liked making codes in high school. When I found out that they offered Japanese in my school, I took it as a chance to "decode" a language. I like the look of Japanese, and the sound. Admittedly, I've liked rather little of the food I've tried. I'm not much interested in the culture. I fear the idea of visiting a big city.
I'm really learning Japanese to read books (manga/etc) and watch anime. Granted.. it doesn't seem like the same stuff other people are in to.
TV: I like boy's stuff, aside from 1 Litre no Namida. I'm a sucker for Berserk, Lain, Ergo Proxy, and Kino. I have a feeling I will like NHK and Baccano. Maybe even Cowboy Bebop, if I watch it this time without being heavily medicated.
As for books.. I'm not one for magazines. I DO have one; it's a fashion thing.. and I'm rather puzzled by the amount of French it has in it. Is this a Goth thing? I got this one for free. I have 5-6 little novels (and yes, I have myself a copy of 1 Litre)...
I haven't really started to grasp the grammar as well until recently; my Jap class was in 2005, and we barely touched on grammar. I ended up getting a skookum textbook (Youkoso), so, I'm limping my way around journal entries. I still do all of my workup in roumaji. I do little kanji by hand (and demonstrated my book stroke-skills in a recent letter to a friend)...
My ultimate goal for this year is to work on a translation of 1 Litre; I'm ultimately dissatisfied by the online ones I've found -- incomplete, or riddled with translator's personal life stuff. (My reasoning is that Kitou was 23 when she died.. and left school early.. how complicated can her stuff be?)
So: summary. I like the language.. mostly the formal side, because conjugation is seemingly simple and clean. Downside: slang. Dear lawd, the slang. I will be the only gaijin using all my pretty -masu on people who seem to have ditched it altogether. At least my penpals' grandparents will understand me...
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