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| malakhim Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5002 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, SpanishB2 Studies: Turkish | Message 1 of 21 16 March 2011 at 1:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you ever think that some language are more suited to your own personality than others? Or even think thast overs are even incompatable?
I have a lot of experience in Japanese, I can both write and verbalize my thoughts fluently in this language. However, lately I feel that the language just doesnt seem to suit my personality. The language fulfills my need to learn a character based language. I love the writing system. Learning the characters was a great motivation for me when I was studying the language actively. It also fulfills my desire to master a complete alien language distant from anything else I know. But unfortunately there is just something about the languages personality I just cant seem to get to like. It just seems a little lacking in assertiveness! Lately I feel that I would prefer a much more loud, boistrous, assertive, "in ya face" language, something like American English or Spanish. No offense to Japanese men, but I think that a lot of Japanese youngsters these days speak a little girly and effeminate. That "shy schoolboy attitude" which many Japanese young men exhibit is just strange from my point of view. In contrast the language of Korean men sounds much more manly and badass! I like languages like that. Is the Japanese language just not suited to my personality? If so, how can I make it suit and reclaim my former love for the language? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lichtrausch Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5960 days ago 525 posts - 1072 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Japanese Studies: Korean, Mandarin | Message 2 of 21 16 March 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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Sounds pretty manly to me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MSRrd41ig&feature=related Edited by lichtrausch on 16 March 2011 at 2:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| malakhim Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5002 days ago 23 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, SpanishB2 Studies: Turkish | Message 3 of 21 16 March 2011 at 2:27am | IP Logged | ||
Yes there are certainly some manly speakers of Japanese, but lately it seems that so many young males are talking much more effeminate than what they used to. A Japanese girl I know even says that she thinks that too many young males nowdays sound a little too gay. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| christian Senior Member United States Joined 5250 days ago 111 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, German | Message 4 of 21 16 March 2011 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know about modern day speaking, but I've always pictured Japanese as pretty manly for men, and very
pleasing for a girl. I hope to learn this someday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5273 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 5 of 21 16 March 2011 at 2:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Toshiro Mifune makes Japanese sound like the manliest language ever:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hG-bIljVFLw 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Matheus Senior Member Brazil Joined 5081 days ago 208 posts - 312 votes Speaks: Portuguese* Studies: English, French | Message 6 of 21 16 March 2011 at 3:33am | IP Logged | ||
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I find Japanese very badass if one is talking with anger.
I understood your point about today's generation, but it's not the language itself. Just watch some samurais videos and pay attention to them, specially when they're talking out loud or with anger. It sounds pretty cool I think. Edit: I didn't see the post above mine. It's what I'm talking about. Edited by Matheus on 16 March 2011 at 3:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 7 of 21 16 March 2011 at 4:28am | IP Logged | ||
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It's not only the language itself, but also the body language. Today there were two Japanese guys in front of me at the checkout counter and I knew they had to be Japanese just from the body language of one of them.
(I found it terribly cute, by the way.) In German and English I can say anything I want without having to use a gendered form to refer to myself. It's painful to get to used to gendered style in another language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LinguaMan Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5075 days ago 20 posts - 34 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 8 of 21 16 March 2011 at 4:39am | IP Logged | ||
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Malakhim, my eyes instantly widened as soon as I saw the title for this post.:) This same thought has been running through my mind for some time now. Specifically, I've been tugging back and forth between Italian and Russian. I feel Italian fits my personality. In my opinion, it's more expressive and passion radiates through your body language when you verbalize your thoughts and feelings. You feel a deeper connection with the language when you feel it suits your personality. On the other hand, Russian satisfies my intellectual desires in much the same way Japanese satisfies yours. It has a completely different alphabet and completely different from any Latin/Roman based language in general. I don't want to abandon Russian but I am attracted to Italian more and the culture...which fits my personality.
Good post! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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