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| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5769 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes  Speaks: Danish* | Message 1 of 28 24 January 2010 at 1:56am | IP Logged | |||||
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Why? Read this, very true, blog!
http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/ "Don't worry, however, since you'll never have to use kanji in "real life", since most Japanese gave up on reading a long, long time ago, and now spend most of their time playing Pokemon..." http://pepper.idge.net/japanese/ Edited by Amoore on 24 January 2010 at 2:04am 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 28 24 January 2010 at 4:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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Read this before, it's hilarious. If you can't take a joke, don't read it.
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| GeekGuy Newbie China Joined 5436 days ago 21 posts - 23 votes Studies: French | Message 3 of 28 24 January 2010 at 8:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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The writing system in Japanese is a little similar to that in Chinese. The few Japanese people I encountered did not seem to even exert themselves when taking Mandrin Chinese. They were just coasting, and perhaps could have done even better if pushed I suppose. But it is pretty easy when you begin with your Japanese curriculum. But the more you learn , the more you will find it complicated.Do need to possess courage to be prepared for the future challenge and get ready to take pains when you are determined to take Japanese.
I do not pretend to be a linguist, but I cannot deny the fact that I like the Japanese language, and suppose it is one of the advanced languages in the world. I have not decided to take this language though. Except for few things I would not like to cover , after all so many people are fascinated with it and I just hope to learn some languages that are not that popular. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6767 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 4 of 28 24 January 2010 at 10:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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The nice thing about learning Japanese is that once you do, you know you can learn any language. :)
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| nadia Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5513 days ago 50 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: Hindi | Message 5 of 28 24 January 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, that was an absolutely hilarious read, thanks for sharing it, Amoore, but I do wish the author gave us a bit more on the "rewarding" side of learning Japanese. It doesn't look as though he/she is really in love with the culture... :(
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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 6033 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes 5 sounds | Message 6 of 28 24 January 2010 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is so encouraging, haha... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Johntm Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5421 days ago 616 posts - 725 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 28 24 January 2010 at 8:08pm | IP Logged | |||||
That was a copy/paste from the article, the author is a Japanese major, so I would assume they would love, or at least like, the culture. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| nadia Triglot Groupie Russian Federation Joined 5513 days ago 50 posts - 98 votes Speaks: Russian*, English, French Studies: Hindi | Message 8 of 28 25 January 2010 at 6:26am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I saw that passage but it didn't look convincing. As I said, I wish he/she would have elaborated on the good points... Of which there were none mentioned. Otherwise it was a great read but just a tiny wee lil bit discouraging. Well, nope, I hope I will get to Japanese one day, whacky cuisine and grammar and all... I majored in French but the forcing of French culture down my throat didn't do anything for me. I was in love with English at the time. While everyone was listening to French songs I was reading the Brontes and so on. Only after the uni, I started to admire the French culture. :) So majoring in smth doesn't necessarily mean loving it. The reason I'm writing this is that a similar article could be written about my country/language/culture and I'm not sure I'd be able to take the criticism/joking without the good sides mentioned. I like very much the series of small books called "The Xenophobes Guide to...", like this one about Russians -- they are also very jokey but not really xenophobic. Edited by nadia on 25 January 2010 at 6:45am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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