I wanted to learn Japanese because I initially wanted to read Japanese. learning Kanji was so much fun for me. it's like slowly decoding an ancient language. and when I at last managed to read, I was so surprised by how much beautiful yet different Japanese is from English and my own language Arabic, and I came to understand and appreciate the culture of its people.
I love you all😆 *I just made a Japanese online school and we're recruiting students until March 26th Sun 12 midnight in Japan time! There's more information in this video! ruclips.net/video/8Ktnb4tEAg0/видео.html
I decided to learn Japanese, because I love Japanese! When I initially learned it, I was fascinated by the different writing systems, the unique onomatopoeia, and so many other things we don't have in English. It started my interest in linguistics, and I have come to love many other things about the culture, but the language itself came first!
I started last November because I want to go to Japan, and also, it is quite challenging to learn it as an English and Spanish speaker, so the challenge is motivating.
OK, so that Duolingo streak motivation is a real thing 😂Duolingo isn't necessarily the best tool overall, but it is useful for getting me to at least look at some vocab every day, and that little bit of motivation makes a big difference!
Duolingo might not teach the nuances of a language very well, but it really excels at getting people to try learning one when they might not have otherwise. I love it for that.
I started learning Japanese (decades ago, still going very slowly) because I wanted to translate old Japanese video games that were never localized to English. There is a lot of gold that we never got to see. Kind of a niche reason, I know. But I do genuinely enjoy the language and a lot of the culture too.
@@Kalernor I didn't, but I heard about many of them through the grapevine back in the day. Because of things like early fan translations of SNES games, we got to see that it was possible.
I have a similiar reason to yours, but its about all of the non-english traslated games not only the old ones, and also the uncensored version of some games
For my part, I'm planning a move to Japan next year, mostly as a "final stage" in my music career (Japan's jazz and fusion scene is absolute fire). Obviously I need to speak the language as well as I can manage. For professional reasons, obviously, but also because _not_ doing your best to fit in as best you can in a new place and culture is just rude.
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It's not really "doing your best to fit in" that is important, it's understanding how you fit in and being very deliberate around it. Like I live her and I know I will never fit in. Both has a foreigner it's basically just impossible to fully fit in to Japanese society, but also as a LGBTQ person, I cannot just "fit in" to some of the cultural boxes Japan places on me. It's really toxic to try, and ignore my identity. This is true for everyone not just forigners living here. So yea it's important to understand that even if you see someone not fitting in, it might not be rude, it's just a byproduct of them not allowing toxic societal standards to dictate their life completely. And we understand that full well cause we face discrimination every day.
@@fourthpanda Good, fegs are anti-social and harmful to society, not to mention it's damaging already abysmal birth rates in first world countries. Many people who live in countries like the US have the desire to live somewhere else, whether it be somewhere like Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Poland, etc. because degenerate lifestyles aren't quite as common. Do you ever take a step back and wonder why people are anti-LGBT? It's not because everyone is secretly gay or has an IQ of 50 as some have claimed.
My story is probably a bit strange. I was in my Spanish class - I'm not a native English speaker - and I had already finished my project, so I picked up a book (I like to read a lot) that was about poetry and at some point I read a beautiful Haiku, it was fascinating and it stuck in my mind. I wanted to know more about Haiku and I found out that they come from Japan, at that time I only knew the general about that country and the more I read about its culture the more interested I was. So here I am, learning Japanese. And one day I will read a Haiku in Japanese.
I started learning Japanese since a year ago, when I was watching one of Indonesian youtuber recording his daily activities with japanese friends there and it was super interesting for me. 日本語わ難しでも私わ好きです
Hajimemashite ! Lise öğrencisiydim. Okul gezisi ile Dolmabahçe Sarayı ' na gitmiştik(1997 yılında) Orada bir grup Japon vardı ve biriyle epey bir bakıştık ve gülüştük uzaktan uzağa . "Hello , I am a student" ten başka İngilizcem olmadığı için yanına gitmeye cesaret edemedim. O neden gelmedi bilmiyorum. Ondan sonra Japonlar ve Japon kültürü ile ilgilenmeye başladım. Üniversitede okurken bir Japonca sözlük bulup aldım . Zevk için karıştırıyordum o sıralarda . O zamanlarda baktığım kelimeler aradan 16 yıl geçmesine rağmen aklımda kalmış. Maalesef geçen yıla kadar dilbilgisi ile ilgili bir kitap bulamadım. Pandemi sayesinde uzaktan eğitim veren bir kurumdan Japonya ' da çalışan bir Türk mühendisin verdiği derslere katıldım ... Şimdi Buusu ' dan çalışıyorum. Seni izliyorum. Japenese Apple kanalını takip ediyorum vs ... Ama çok fazla vakit ayıramadığım için ve konuşacak kimse olmadığı için bu yazdıklarımı Japonca yazacak kadar iyi öğrenemedim şimdilik. Umarım ilerde Japonca yazarım .
I started studying because RUclips was like: you wanna learn hiragana? And I went sure, why not. Now I’m almost two years deep into learning the language
japanese is a beautiful language and because I enjoy a lot of media that uses the language as well as have a career writing music for media I feel that japanese is a helpful second language to have!
my interest of learning Japanese started when I was in high school, I love to study history in general and Japan is one of the many countries that really catches my attention because of its colorful background. So far I can read and write katakana and hiragana, while still working on kanji
About the japanese mythology. I love the whole Izanami and Izanagi story of creating the land of Japan, their marriage ritual, the gods being born and the parting ways where Inazami goes to Yami and Izanagi follows her just to find her wither away and then him escaping and sealing her in the Yami. But besides that, there's the tale of Amarerasu and Susanoo and so many more. Shinto and every related to it is so interesting and awesome😍🥰
I really liked this country and I am studying Japanese because I plan to move to live in Japan in the near future. With japanese I can not only talk to Japanese but also read manga and watch anime in the original language which is cool I think 🗾❤️ 日本が好き。
I picked the language (not english) with the most media samples around. There's so much japanese pop culture around that not only would ensure my learning, but also reward me after I learned it.
I started because:is helpful for career purposes, it will make me able someday to travel in that country without problems, I can communicate to more people around the world and the most important, it makes you seem cool saying you study Japanese in a western country😎
Simply, I have loved Japanese culture since I was a child. It’s my dream to visit Japan, and there is so much beauty in the language. I think learning Japanese would be a personal achievement I can be very proud of! ❤
I started to learn the language becouse of it's pop culture. I like japanese video games and music, and I also like anime. I also wish to visit japan someday and so by the time I get to visit I hope I'll be able to speak the language.
Honestly, I just really like how it sounds (especially in songs), and I like the culture. That was enough for me. Also I have some stuff I want to read, like Neko Udon.
Back then, I'm not interest learn Japanese. But now I'm currently working on it to learn Japanese. It was all started when video recommendations by youtube pop up on my screen. The title of the video is "日本語喋ってるんだけど" or "but we're speaking Japanese". It is really catch up my attention for some reason. I forgot the details because I watched it year and half ago.
I'm Brazilian. I'm interested in learning Japanese because it's an old civilization and it's a different culture. I'm interested especially in the culture like the newspapers, the songs, the movies, radio, all that involves their communication. For starters this young man in the video is really friendly and fun.
I started learning Japanese because I came across Japanese dramas and thought the language sounded super cool! :D Simple reason, but it's kept me going XD
I started learning Japanese because I love anime and Japanese culture. Also it would be a big flex to say that I speak Japanese to my friends. I want to go to Japan some day so this will help.
I started all the way back in like 2015, my motivations have since changed but my overall core is to translate those games and novels that’ll most likely never see a localization. Personally I found that upsetting because there’s so many hidden gems that’s hampered by it being Japanese only. And as someone who consumes such media it gave me an outlook to channel my interests. ^o^
Plesant feeling when watching your videos because of learning Japanese and learning Japanese because of watching your videos :) Main reason why I learn Japanese is mostly it being hard to learn and its fonetics, love
I am going to university to learn Japanese!! can't wait (my reason is because when I discovered seiyuus one year ago, they reignited my passion for learning another language other than English lol)
the fact that many answers on why people wanna learn Japanese are simply the very reasons why I'm keen to actually not only speak, but read and write Japanese as well, is pretty interesting. MY FAVORITE BL MANGAS ARE NOT TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH, and I do think that sometimes feelings and messages might get lost in translation, so I do want to actually understand it in its original language. I also want to go to Japan and make a friend of two with the locals.
I discovered the duolingo application during the 2020 confinement, and challenged myself on Japanese. why Japanese? because everything fascinates me in this culture: the animist side, the food of course, the contrasts between modern and ancient etc.
My biggest reason for trying to learn is quite simple and profound I believe, that just being the simple joy of connections, whether it be shows, games, cultures, art, just learning a new language opens many opportunities to connect to something of interest
At the beginning I wanted to watch anime without subtitles, because at this time my English was finally on high enough level to understand how much I lost watching films with subtitles. But after some time I fell in love. With the language, of course.
My favourite Japanese mythology is Amaterasu and Susanoo! I think the game Ookami (which is amazing) got me interested in it. でも、こくがいにすみたいから、日本語を勉強しています。１２月にN5の試験をすりたい！
La primera vez que pensé en estudiar japones fue para poder entender anime y manga en su idioma original. Pero cuando crecí y empecé a estudiar sobre la mitología de Japón y su cultura, decidí que iba a estudiar lo suficiente como para poder leer una copia de los libros Kojiki (古事記) y Nihonshoki (日本書紀) en japones. Además quiero leer novelas como Kasha火車, Devotion of Suspect X容疑者Xの献身, No longer Human 人間失格 y Genji Monogatari 源氏物語. Por cierto mi parte favorita de la mitología es la historia de Utsushi kunitama no kami y el conejo blanco
I started being fascinated by japan when i was a little kid, obviously for videogames and anime, but growing up interest for that dimmed down and i started to want to know more about the actual culture, then i made japanese friends trough internet and that gave me more reason to learn it. It's been a struggle and will always be, but i like it so it's good.
I started because I just like studying culture and history, and Japanese history is best studied from the original Japanese text and speaking with the people. Being able to enjoy the anime and music is a great bonus.
I will soon begin to study Japanese at university and I’m really excited! I’ve been in love with Japanese culture for quite some time now, and I really hope to visit Japan soon. I’m from Italy and I know that Japanese is really different from my language, but that’s one of the things that makes me want to learn it!
I saw a few minutes of star wars episode three (the part where Anakin and Obi-Wan fight on that lava planet) dubbed in japanese and decided "I like how this sounds. I have to learn it now."
I know you just want to learn why people learn Japanese at all, so here's my story: I became interested in Japan when I read a series of book about Miyamoto Musashi's romanticized life in elementary school, written by 吉川 英治 (Eiji Yoshikawa). Then, whilst looking around about Japan online in high school (before that we pretty much didn't have internet), I found some animes, which seemed fun, but it turned out to be a black hole, as I became obsessed with searching for and watching new anime. English is also a second language for me, and since I watched everything subbed, it also helped my English as well. However, since I watched so much anime subbed, the language itself became interesting after a while. As I grew older, I switched to reading manga, but I also tried to find a Japanese teacher in my hometown. I found one teacher who was actually an English teacher, but she had around B2 level Japanese, so I asked for lessons, and those were my first tentative steps towards becoming determined to learning Japanese for real. Of course, the biggest problem was always finding time to learn Japanese, since I already had to prepare for English, German, high school exams, then college later on. After leaving high school I didn't learn Japanese for a long time, because I lacked money, but mainly determination. Yet, I always had an idea that I would learn it someday. Now I'm 31, an since 2 years I have been learning Japanese again. Since I'm working in an office, I learn using immersion learning which became popular in recent years. For me the online content about immersion was merely a reminder, since I already learned English this way - watching lots and lots of content whilst attending classes. Together with my high school "learning" (where I attended around 80 hours of classes) and my self learning, I think I have been learning Japanese for around 600-800 hours. I feel like I am at the awkward stage of between A2-B1 or N4 where I understand a lot of things, but can still sometimes get lost in things. I can say simple things, but once I want to say things in more detail, my vocab is usually missing. I think I will become fluent in 4 more years. Although I know I can do it, learning Japanese as a European is definitely a grueling experience, so it's no wonder Japanese are not really into learning English on a high level. I can only say one thing: as long as you make it part of the daily routine, you can learn it even whilst working! But better expect at least 6 years until fluency. Unless you can do it full time, then probably 3-4 years.
yeah, my original plan for study Japanese was to be able to watch Sailor Moon without subtitles or dubbing speaker. 🤣 (some dialogues in old polish version were censored)
Because I teach English online and I have clients from Japan, beginner level almost no English. I started learning to manage the session better and understand their phonetical background. Actually I became very interested in Japanese and the Japanese culture and made good friends although I'm still beginner level.
ohh you are so sweet🤍🤍 thank you for your video! it actually happened so randomly omg, i started learning japanese because that's such a beautiful language, i was watching a lot of japanese dramas recently and was so impressed by cinematography and how the language sounds so beautiful so i couldn't help myself, i also listen to japanese songs and they just sound soooo beautiful, and i really related to the person who said they want to be busy, learning languages in general takes a lot of unlimited time and so personally that gives a feeling of having a purpose/goal which i really needed 🤍🤍🌿 love youu
@@zamooti4505 well since the situation in my country Myanmar 🇲🇲 I don’t and can’t go to school so I study online at home and I have more time for Japanese That why my learning process is fast😁
@@ivy_yati3481 How much does it cost to take the test there, in the US it cost $150.00. Online is always better than in class plus all the savings, it better to refine your Japanese using a chat app or in Japan.
yeah, I have some reasons like I'd like to go travelling around japan,meeting people and making'em smile cruz maybe it happens if they hear you speaking his own language. Wanting to learn languages has happened to me more than once time, for example i want to learn dutch to impress my cousins . In addition I'm learning french due to I gonna study in france so y'all can say i like learning leanguges, ah and I almost forgot to say that my first language is spanish so i learnt a bit of english. Psdt: ESPAÑOL me da miedo hablar si no tengo confianza de la persona asi que si alguien quiere hablar conmigo es mejor que tratemos de ser amigos primero o algo asi chill. I also love it is cool
I've watched Ghibli films and anime with my family since I was very young. Then I gained interest in the Japanese culture, folklore and language. For a long time I've wanted to study Japanese, but only recently have I started. I think the motivation comes from my Japanese friend!
My reason I think is very unique and one that isn’t that common. I have been learning Japanese on and off for the past 14 years, started back in Senior High School. However, I was also adopted from Japan. I was born in Toda, Saitama. Due to financial reasons, my single Japanese birth mother could not support me though, so I was put up for adoption. I would like to teach English in Japan sometime soon and ultimately, I want to be an interpreter/translator for English-Japanese and Japanese-English. I have been back to Japan twice to visit and I very much enjoyed it. Was nice to feel like I fit in. I also would like to explore more of the culture and language that I didn’t get to grow up in. Of course besides being born in Japan, I also like anime, manga, popular culture, traditional culture, calligraphy, etc. Besides Japanese though, I’m also learning Mandarin Chinese, Thai, and Korean. I watch a lot of Asian dramas, so I really got into learning other Asian languages.
I've been doing semi-professional work around Japanese culture associations and festivals etc. for about 8 years. I had a ton of connections but couldn't get an actual professional footing without the language and a college degree. So now I'm "back" in college getting a degree in east asian studies/Japan studies and the language certificates.
The initial reason was simple, I love Japanese entertainment since 30 years ago. Then I started getting basic knowledge in high school. The serious part is after I met a girl on online karaoke app. We enjoyed singing together but I wasn't even able to make a proper sentence back then. I tried my best to communicate with her by using various ways like translator and dictionary, mimicking anime lines, etc. but in the end there's always some misunderstanding. The process was slow, but from that point I kept improving my Japanese so that I could communicate in Japanese properly, 3 years later I tried testing myself on JLPT N3 and passed.
So my story is a little messy so I will try to tell it less messy. I used to date a guy for 4 years that loved Japan and he introduced me to anime and we would play go together and since he studied Japanese it became our thing to study it together but I wasn't confident in learning Kanji so I didn't think I could do it. When we broke up it became painful to listen to Japanese for a long time so I didn't study any languages for a long time. Eventually I had to realize I was completely done with learning English (I'm Swedish) and I missed learning a language and had to pick a new one. I still didn't feel confident in myself and heard the Korean writing system was super easy so I figured it could ease me into Asian languages so I'm learning Korean now and now that I'm finally confident I've decided to later on study Japanese in Korean since the languages are more similar than English and Japanese or Swedish and Japanese are, and learning more similar languages are easier. After that I hope to learn Chinese via the Japanese so that I have a perfect train of learning Chinese from Japanese, that I learned from Korean, that I learned from English, that I learned from Swedish. I want to learn languages for the rest of my life so if I still have lifetime after that I will learn Finnish. :)
At first I started Japanese to be able to translate BLs. Because there are not many BL manga translated into Turkish and the manga I want. Then it was fun to learn and I keep going! And to be able to write Japanese coding.
I found anime when I was at my lowest. And it saved me. Fruits Basket. Thanks to that I started watching anime and learnt on my own. Then I visited Japan for 3 months. And I knew I belonged there. I never felt belonging with my family or country or origin. All my life I felt like an alien. I felt all Japanese are my family. It felt nostalgic. Im working to be able to stay in Japan in the near future.
As for a Vietnamese speaker and know a bit English, I find Japanese kinda hard to learn TvT I lost my streak in Duolingo too, but now I'm studying again!
I got interested in japanese for the music! I started in high school. I liked the 80s rock music and wanted to understand and sing it. also, I enjoy the historical stories and the unique writing style too. Certain words can't be directly translated which is so interesting. every language has it's own "melody" when you talk. (intonations and flow)
Eu comecei a aprender japonês já há algum tempo, mas só agora que eu acho que vou realmente aprender. Eu fico vendo os seus vídeos, para copiar o jeito que você fala e praticar a minha pronuncia. Esse é um ótimo canal, espero que continue com esse ótimo trabalho. 😊
Hey! Thank you for making these videos! I've been looking for this kind of content where I can understand 80% of the words and you're using just the perfect level of Japanese for me to understand and still learn something and it feels great. 🙏
Im learning it because i have had a lot of free time where i just play games or scroll Yt. So I wanted something useful and something that will take a long time to finish to keep me occupied
Reason why I started learning last december was because of reading a manga that made me fell in love with the story and I had this weird feeling that pressures my heart, I really don't know how it works but it's just something's pressuring it and it hurts that I want to understand the japanese version of it one day, and it's not enough. Then I wrote a story or mainly a script to draw my own manga, just like that I've fell in love with with some twists. Had some few sketches and started the run, after few pages, this crazy pressuring and painful thing in my heart starts to calm down, so I drew more pages until it's gone. Meanwhile I've been also watching a lot of godly animes and it also gives me the same feeling until I finish the anime and the manga. Today its not that bad anymore, still watching and reading more anime and manga. I'm already drawing chapter 2, I'm halfway of completing n5 and the feeling in my heart is still there but it's not painful anymore but instead I'm motivated. With these weird things in my mind, it made me dream that one day I can speak Japanese and live in Japan drawing and sharing my very cool story for the rest of my life.
i was done learning german since i spoke it fluently and i needed some new challenge and i wanted something difficult and very different to learn to feel a great deal of frustration to overcome once again and that's kinda why i choose Japanese. Also i study linguistics and i thought it would be interesting to know an agglutinative language.
i started to learn japanese becouse i love anime , and how japan looks , and the stile , and i do karate , amd alot of other tings , and my dream is for me to go to study in an small city , and to have frend to hang out evreyday , and to know evreybodey from there , and for them to know me:D
I started learning Japanese bc my closest cousin left me but to Japan, I just want to see him more, I want to know why people like Japan so much. I personally also like JR
I started in high school then stopped and resumed a few times 😆 I would like to read my fav mangas in Japanese and be able to have nice conversations while visiting the country 😍
I started for a few reasons, and none of them were anime like most of my classmates. 😆 1. International relations 2. The challenge of the language! It’s one of the hardest languages for English speakers to learn. So I chose it. Now, I love the food, culture, people, music, etc. ❤️ So glad I chose Japanese and got to study abroad! I lived in Fukuoka and Kyoto for 1 year. 😊
I wanted to learn Japanese because I initially wanted to read Japanese. learning Kanji was so much fun for me. it's like slowly decoding an ancient language. and when I at last managed to read, I was so surprised by how much beautiful yet different Japanese is from English and my own language Arabic, and I came to understand and appreciate the culture of its people.
@it's Rooa صحيح. أحيانا يمكنني تخمين معنى الكلمة اليابانية في حين أجد صعوبة في فهم المفردات العربية الصعبة😅
بالضبط!
Wait same except I originally knew English and Spanish :)
@@marieIIy I' started learning Spanish lately. I'm a bit lazy though. 😅
أفضل شيئ عند تعلمك شيئ هو حبك له خاصة اللغات الاجنبيه
I love you all😆
*I just made a Japanese online school and we're recruiting students until March 26th Sun 12 midnight in Japan time! There's more information in this video!
ruclips.net/video/8Ktnb4tEAg0/видео.html
We love you too 👑😄
we love you too 😭💗✨
Biz de seniii🤍🤍🤍
We love you too
Мы тебя тоже ♡
I decided to learn Japanese, because I love Japanese!
When I initially learned it, I was fascinated by the different writing systems, the unique onomatopoeia, and so many other things we don't have in English. It started my interest in linguistics, and I have come to love many other things about the culture, but the language itself came first!
I started last November because I want to go to Japan, and also, it is quite challenging to learn it as an English and Spanish speaker, so the challenge is motivating.
OK, so that Duolingo streak motivation is a real thing 😂Duolingo isn't necessarily the best tool overall, but it is useful for getting me to at least look at some vocab every day, and that little bit of motivation makes a big difference!
i use duolingo too and it teach me so many things
Me too! Why do the audio speakers need to speak so fast for!
Duolingo might not teach the nuances of a language very well, but it really excels at getting people to try learning one when they might not have otherwise. I love it for that.
I started learning Japanese (decades ago, still going very slowly) because I wanted to translate old Japanese video games that were never localized to English. There is a lot of gold that we never got to see. Kind of a niche reason, I know. But I do genuinely enjoy the language and a lot of the culture too.
How did you play these games before you started learning Japanese?
@@Kalernor I didn't, but I heard about many of them through the grapevine back in the day. Because of things like early fan translations of SNES games, we got to see that it was possible.
Same i wanted to play a lot of Japanese games that where never gonna get translated
@@chroipahtz that's a cool reason. Did you translate any games? which ones?
I have a similiar reason to yours, but its about all of the non-english traslated games not only the old ones, and also the uncensored version of some games
Hi Hitoki, I really appreciate the subtitles in different languages. Thank you!
For my part, I'm planning a move to Japan next year, mostly as a "final stage" in my music career (Japan's jazz and fusion scene is absolute fire). Obviously I need to speak the language as well as I can manage. For professional reasons, obviously, but also because _not_ doing your best to fit in as best you can in a new place and culture is just rude.
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There are some consultation services for people from other countries. If you have problems, please consult with them.🤝
This is a great mindset to have, I really wish more people would think this way when moving to a foreign country, safe travels and good luck in Japan!
It's not really "doing your best to fit in" that is important, it's understanding how you fit in and being very deliberate around it. Like I live her and I know I will never fit in. Both has a foreigner it's basically just impossible to fully fit in to Japanese society, but also as a LGBTQ person, I cannot just "fit in" to some of the cultural boxes Japan places on me. It's really toxic to try, and ignore my identity. This is true for everyone not just forigners living here. So yea it's important to understand that even if you see someone not fitting in, it might not be rude, it's just a byproduct of them not allowing toxic societal standards to dictate their life completely. And we understand that full well cause we face discrimination every day.
@@fourthpanda Good, fegs are anti-social and harmful to society, not to mention it's damaging already abysmal birth rates in first world countries. Many people who live in countries like the US have the desire to live somewhere else, whether it be somewhere like Hungary, Japan, South Korea, Poland, etc. because degenerate lifestyles aren't quite as common. Do you ever take a step back and wonder why people are anti-LGBT? It's not because everyone is secretly gay or has an IQ of 50 as some have claimed.
@@DaddyDuckTown Not puddles man. Don't do my man puddles dirty like that 🥲
My story is probably a bit strange. I was in my Spanish class - I'm not a native English speaker - and I had already finished my project, so I picked up a book (I like to read a lot) that was about poetry and at some point I read a beautiful Haiku, it was fascinating and it stuck in my mind. I wanted to know more about Haiku and I found out that they come from Japan, at that time I only knew the general about that country and the more I read about its culture the more interested I was.
So here I am, learning Japanese. And one day I will read a Haiku in Japanese.
Your Japanese is so clearly enunciated, and it's very satisfying.
俺が日本語の勉強をしたかった理由はただ「パラッパラッパー」というアニメを日本語から英語に翻訳できるようになれるわけだよ。キャラの言う言葉の発音が時々分からないから難しい。
I started learning japanese because of pandemic and I saw mat vs japan's video talking about the language and feel in love with it!
I fell in love with japanese when i saw the trailer for final fantasy x-2 with the great voice acting and the music
O started learning Japanese after I saw it's written script. The brush strokes seemed like an art form to me. I love art so I thought; YES!
I started learning Japanese since a year ago, when I was watching one of Indonesian youtuber recording his daily activities with japanese friends there and it was super interesting for me. 日本語わ難しでも私わ好きです
素晴らしい動画です。ありがとうございました先生。
Hajimemashite ! Lise öğrencisiydim. Okul gezisi ile Dolmabahçe Sarayı ' na gitmiştik(1997 yılında) Orada bir grup Japon vardı ve biriyle epey bir bakıştık ve gülüştük uzaktan uzağa . "Hello , I am a student" ten başka İngilizcem olmadığı için yanına gitmeye cesaret edemedim. O neden gelmedi bilmiyorum. Ondan sonra Japonlar ve Japon kültürü ile ilgilenmeye başladım. Üniversitede okurken bir Japonca sözlük bulup aldım . Zevk için karıştırıyordum o sıralarda . O zamanlarda baktığım kelimeler aradan 16 yıl geçmesine rağmen aklımda kalmış. Maalesef geçen yıla kadar dilbilgisi ile ilgili bir kitap bulamadım. Pandemi sayesinde uzaktan eğitim veren bir kurumdan Japonya ' da çalışan bir Türk mühendisin verdiği derslere katıldım ... Şimdi Buusu ' dan çalışıyorum. Seni izliyorum. Japenese Apple kanalını takip ediyorum vs ... Ama çok fazla vakit ayıramadığım için ve konuşacak kimse olmadığı için bu yazdıklarımı Japonca yazacak kadar iyi öğrenemedim şimdilik. Umarım ilerde Japonca yazarım .
I started studying because RUclips was like: you wanna learn hiragana? And I went sure, why not. Now I’m almost two years deep into learning the language
私は日本に行ってそこの自然が見たいですから憧れています景色もすばらしいです。
最初はアニメ好き,めちゃ興味深く,どんどん勉強なってこのプロセスの中に日本語この言語本体を研究ばかりしめちゃはまって,も勉強の目的は変わった,日本語と言語学習のモチベーション満々増えて.めちゃエンジョイ,これから日本語勉強をもっとやる気出てきる.
私が日本語を勉強を始めたのは発音がすごく美しいと思ったからです。でも日本語の歴史と文化や神話学なども興味があります。私の国の文化とすごく違うから面白いと思っています。
Whoever makes the German subtitles, I love you for using "frug" instead of "fragte"
japanese is a beautiful language and because I enjoy a lot of media that uses the language as well as have a career writing music for media I feel that japanese is a helpful second language to have!
my interest of learning Japanese started when I was in high school, I love to study history in general and Japan is one of the many countries that really catches my attention because of its colorful background. So far I can read and write katakana and hiragana, while still working on kanji
About the japanese mythology.
I love the whole Izanami and Izanagi story of creating the land of Japan, their marriage ritual, the gods being born and the parting ways where Inazami goes to Yami and Izanagi follows her just to find her wither away and then him escaping and sealing her in the Yami. But besides that, there's the tale of Amarerasu and Susanoo and so many more. Shinto and every related to it is so interesting and awesome😍🥰
yo, that is a damn good thumbnail. Love the contrast. Havent seen the video yet but this caught my eye
私は本当に日本が大好きです！ だから私は将来日本に旅行したいので、日本語を勉強するのが好きです、字幕なしでアニメを見ることができるように日本語を勉強しています。❤️❤️
ゲームと漫画です。
Been learning here and there little by little but started seriously this summer. Currently focused on kanji and vocab.
偉大理由のですよ！
I really liked this country and I am studying Japanese because I plan to move to live in Japan in the near future. With japanese I can not only talk to Japanese but also read manga and watch anime in the original language which is cool I think 🗾❤️ 日本が好き。
Your videos are always funny and very understandable. This channel is great!
I picked the language (not english) with the most media samples around. There's so much japanese pop culture around that not only would ensure my learning, but also reward me after I learned it.
I started because:is helpful for career purposes, it will make me able someday to travel in that country without problems, I can communicate to more people around the world and the most important, it makes you seem cool saying you study Japanese in a western country😎
Simply, I have loved Japanese culture since I was a child. It’s my dream to visit Japan, and there is so much beauty in the language. I think learning Japanese would be a personal achievement I can be very proud of! ❤
私の場合は、友達影響の理由でした。元々切っ掛けは全く無いんですけど仲間が日本曲が好きだし、分花も分かるし、日本語強勉したことあるから日本語カもすごいだと思います。そこから私も出来るようになりたいです。
i really love the pronunciation of japanese language the first time i heared it in anime i fall in love 💕💕😘
I'm learning Japanese because I'm in love with Japanese culture and because Japanese sounds cute
Learning a language makes you smarter
And I like Japanese a lot, sounds cool
And I also wanted to watch anime without subtitles
日本文化など好きけど、日本語勉強始めた理由のは小説読めるようになるのため、特にライトノベルです。1年半始めたから４冊単純ができたけど、まだまだです。また、言語習うことが楽しいです 😆
I started to learn the language becouse of it's pop culture. I like japanese video games and music, and I also like anime. I also wish to visit japan someday and so by the time I get to visit I hope I'll be able to speak the language.
Honestly, I just really like how it sounds (especially in songs), and I like the culture. That was enough for me.
Also I have some stuff I want to read, like Neko Udon.
Back then, I'm not interest learn Japanese. But now I'm currently working on it to learn Japanese. It was all started when video recommendations by youtube pop up on my screen. The title of the video is "日本語喋ってるんだけど" or "but we're speaking Japanese". It is really catch up my attention for some reason. I forgot the details because I watched it year and half ago.
I'm Brazilian. I'm interested in learning Japanese because it's an old civilization and it's a different culture. I'm interested especially in the culture like the newspapers, the songs, the movies, radio, all that involves their communication. For starters this young man in the video is really friendly and fun.
Cause I want to get organized, and the Japanese are the most organized, orderly and harmonious people
2:25 私も
1:40
Writing something on desk or whitebkard in japanese make me some points on test often
I started learning Japanese because I came across Japanese dramas and thought the language sounded super cool! :D Simple reason, but it's kept me going XD
3:57 その状況はたくさんあるよ。例えば、あまり親しくない親戚とか知り合いとか遊びに誘われる場合。
I started learning Japanese because I love anime and Japanese culture. Also it would be a big flex to say that I speak Japanese to my friends. I want to go to Japan some day so this will help.
I started all the way back in like 2015, my motivations have since changed but my overall core is to translate those games and novels that’ll most likely never see a localization. Personally I found that upsetting because there’s so many hidden gems that’s hampered by it being Japanese only. And as someone who consumes such media it gave me an outlook to channel my interests. ^o^
Plesant feeling when watching your videos because of learning Japanese and learning Japanese because of watching your videos :) Main reason why I learn Japanese is mostly it being hard to learn and its fonetics, love
I am going to university to learn Japanese!! can't wait (my reason is because when I discovered seiyuus one year ago, they reignited my passion for learning another language other than English lol)
you can start from now if you are not doing it, especially start to understand and memorize the written part, it takes long time
yes, i kinda started almost a year ago so i got some of the basics! thanks for the tip!
@@sotya2855 np keep it up
I started learning Japanese cuz I wanted to get some Kanji tattoos. But I actually love learning Japanese now and want to be fluent someday.
the fact that many answers on why people wanna learn Japanese are simply the very reasons why I'm keen to actually not only speak, but read and write Japanese as well, is pretty interesting. MY FAVORITE BL MANGAS ARE NOT TRANSLATED TO ENGLISH, and I do think that sometimes feelings and messages might get lost in translation, so I do want to actually understand it in its original language. I also want to go to Japan and make a friend of two with the locals.
I discovered the duolingo application during the 2020 confinement, and challenged myself on Japanese. why Japanese? because everything fascinates me in this culture: the animist side, the food of course, the contrasts between modern and ancient etc.
I started studying japanese because i wanted to understand media that is only avaliable in japanese like, videogames and other stuff
My biggest reason for trying to learn is quite simple and profound I believe, that just being the simple joy of connections, whether it be shows, games, cultures, art, just learning a new language opens many opportunities to connect to something of interest
At the beginning I wanted to watch anime without subtitles, because at this time my English was finally on high enough level to understand how much I lost watching films with subtitles. But after some time I fell in love.
With the language, of course.
My favourite Japanese mythology is Amaterasu and Susanoo! I think the game Ookami (which is amazing) got me interested in it. でも、こくがいにすみたいから、日本語を勉強しています。１２月にN5の試験をすりたい！
La primera vez que pensé en estudiar japones fue para poder entender anime y manga en su idioma original. Pero cuando crecí y empecé a estudiar sobre la mitología de Japón y su cultura, decidí que iba a estudiar lo suficiente como para poder leer una copia de los libros Kojiki (古事記) y Nihonshoki (日本書紀) en japones.
Además quiero leer novelas como Kasha火車, Devotion of Suspect X容疑者Xの献身, No longer Human 人間失格 y Genji Monogatari 源氏物語.
Por cierto mi parte favorita de la mitología es la historia de Utsushi kunitama no kami y el conejo blanco
I started being fascinated by japan when i was a little kid, obviously for videogames and anime, but growing up interest for that dimmed down and i started to want to know more about the actual culture, then i made japanese friends trough internet and that gave me more reason to learn it. It's been a struggle and will always be, but i like it so it's good.
I started because I just like studying culture and history, and Japanese history is best studied from the original Japanese text and speaking with the people. Being able to enjoy the anime and music is a great bonus.
I will soon begin to study Japanese at university and I’m really excited! I’ve been in love with Japanese culture for quite some time now, and I really hope to visit Japan soon. I’m from Italy and I know that Japanese is really different from my language, but that’s one of the things that makes me want to learn it!
I saw a few minutes of star wars episode three (the part where Anakin and Obi-Wan fight on that lava planet) dubbed in japanese and decided "I like how this sounds. I have to learn it now."
当時スペイン語に訳されていない楽曲。
勉強して、自分で訳すようにりました。
それを皮切りに、翻訳者にでもなろうとしているね。
あっ、そして、自分の心に響いた言葉なので、その素晴らしさややさしさを、
みんなに届け！という思いで、途中で日本語教師に転身と決心。
こんにちは！あなたを応援しています🇯🇵💓🇦🇷 スペイン語は母音が日本語と似ていて、踊っているような響きで好きです。
応援ありがとうございます＾＾。
I know you just want to learn why people learn Japanese at all, so here's my story: I became interested in Japan when I read a series of book about Miyamoto Musashi's romanticized life in elementary school, written by 吉川 英治 (Eiji Yoshikawa). Then, whilst looking around about Japan online in high school (before that we pretty much didn't have internet), I found some animes, which seemed fun, but it turned out to be a black hole, as I became obsessed with searching for and watching new anime. English is also a second language for me, and since I watched everything subbed, it also helped my English as well. However, since I watched so much anime subbed, the language itself became interesting after a while. As I grew older, I switched to reading manga, but I also tried to find a Japanese teacher in my hometown.
I found one teacher who was actually an English teacher, but she had around B2 level Japanese, so I asked for lessons, and those were my first tentative steps towards becoming determined to learning Japanese for real. Of course, the biggest problem was always finding time to learn Japanese, since I already had to prepare for English, German, high school exams, then college later on. After leaving high school I didn't learn Japanese for a long time, because I lacked money, but mainly determination. Yet, I always had an idea that I would learn it someday. Now I'm 31, an since 2 years I have been learning Japanese again.
Since I'm working in an office, I learn using immersion learning which became popular in recent years. For me the online content about immersion was merely a reminder, since I already learned English this way - watching lots and lots of content whilst attending classes. Together with my high school "learning" (where I attended around 80 hours of classes) and my self learning, I think I have been learning Japanese for around 600-800 hours. I feel like I am at the awkward stage of between A2-B1 or N4 where I understand a lot of things, but can still sometimes get lost in things. I can say simple things, but once I want to say things in more detail, my vocab is usually missing. I think I will become fluent in 4 more years. Although I know I can do it, learning Japanese as a European is definitely a grueling experience, so it's no wonder Japanese are not really into learning English on a high level. I can only say one thing: as long as you make it part of the daily routine, you can learn it even whilst working! But better expect at least 6 years until fluency. Unless you can do it full time, then probably 3-4 years.
さすがヒトキくん、面白いビデオね。👏 今ちょっと眠い、明日バイトの後、絶対見ます。💪
yeah, my original plan for study Japanese was to be able to watch Sailor Moon without subtitles or dubbing speaker. 🤣 (some dialogues in old polish version were censored)
Because I teach English online and I have clients from Japan, beginner level almost no English. I started learning to manage the session better and understand their phonetical background. Actually I became very interested in Japanese and the Japanese culture and made good friends although I'm still beginner level.
ohh you are so sweet🤍🤍 thank you for your video! it actually happened so randomly omg, i started learning japanese because that's such a beautiful language, i was watching a lot of japanese dramas recently and was so impressed by cinematography and how the language sounds so beautiful so i couldn't help myself, i also listen to japanese songs and they just sound soooo beautiful, and i really related to the person who said they want to be busy, learning languages in general takes a lot of unlimited time and so personally that gives a feeling of having a purpose/goal which i really needed 🤍🤍🌿 love youu
First😊😊
I started learning Japanese in August 2021 and this December I will take N3 JLPT test
I hope I can hear good news after you take the test✨
応援している！
@@Onomappu はい ありがとうね😊
Wow, that’s some quick progress. Good luck in December!
@@zamooti4505 well since the situation in my country Myanmar 🇲🇲
I don’t and can’t go to school so I study online at home and I have more time for Japanese
That why my learning process is fast😁
@@ivy_yati3481 How much does it cost to take the test there, in the US it cost $150.00. Online is always better than in class plus all the savings, it better to refine your Japanese using a chat app or in Japan.
yeah, I have some reasons like I'd like to go travelling around japan,meeting people and making'em smile cruz maybe it happens if they hear you speaking his own language.
Wanting to learn languages has happened to me more than once time, for example i want to learn dutch to impress my cousins . In addition I'm learning french due to I gonna study in france so y'all can say i like learning leanguges, ah and I almost forgot to say that my first language is spanish so i learnt a bit of english.
Psdt: ESPAÑOL me da miedo hablar si no tengo confianza de la persona asi que si alguien quiere hablar conmigo es mejor que tratemos de ser amigos primero o algo asi chill.
I also love it is cool
hello are you spanish? ✌
I'm learning Japanese because I want to go there as an exchange student but also because I want to work as a journalist (correspondent) in Japan 😊
I've watched Ghibli films and anime with my family since I was very young. Then I gained interest in the Japanese culture, folklore and language. For a long time I've wanted to study Japanese, but only recently have I started. I think the motivation comes from my Japanese friend!
My reason I think is very unique and one that isn’t that common. I have been learning Japanese on and off for the past 14 years, started back in Senior High School. However, I was also adopted from Japan. I was born in Toda, Saitama. Due to financial reasons, my single Japanese birth mother could not support me though, so I was put up for adoption. I would like to teach English in Japan sometime soon and ultimately, I want to be an interpreter/translator for English-Japanese and Japanese-English. I have been back to Japan twice to visit and I very much enjoyed it. Was nice to feel like I fit in. I also would like to explore more of the culture and language that I didn’t get to grow up in. Of course besides being born in Japan, I also like anime, manga, popular culture, traditional culture, calligraphy, etc. Besides Japanese though, I’m also learning Mandarin Chinese, Thai, and Korean. I watch a lot of Asian dramas, so I really got into learning other Asian languages.
It's the most beautiful language to me
I've been doing semi-professional work around Japanese culture associations and festivals etc. for about 8 years. I had a ton of connections but couldn't get an actual professional footing without the language and a college degree. So now I'm "back" in college getting a degree in east asian studies/Japan studies and the language certificates.
The initial reason was simple, I love Japanese entertainment since 30 years ago. Then I started getting basic knowledge in high school.
The serious part is after I met a girl on online karaoke app. We enjoyed singing together but I wasn't even able to make a proper sentence back then. I tried my best to communicate with her by using various ways like translator and dictionary, mimicking anime lines, etc. but in the end there's always some misunderstanding. The process was slow, but from that point I kept improving my Japanese so that I could communicate in Japanese properly, 3 years later I tried testing myself on JLPT N3 and passed.
Congratulations !!👏(ˊᗜˋ*)ﾊﾟﾁﾊﾟﾁ
おめでとうございます💓
@@ancientpeople3861 ありがとうございます
To move to this one of a kind special place! I want to move to Shinjuku when I'm about 23 😁!!
日本語学びたいって思ってくれてるのってなんか嬉しいな
So my story is a little messy so I will try to tell it less messy. I used to date a guy for 4 years that loved Japan and he introduced me to anime and we would play go together and since he studied Japanese it became our thing to study it together but I wasn't confident in learning Kanji so I didn't think I could do it. When we broke up it became painful to listen to Japanese for a long time so I didn't study any languages for a long time. Eventually I had to realize I was completely done with learning English (I'm Swedish) and I missed learning a language and had to pick a new one. I still didn't feel confident in myself and heard the Korean writing system was super easy so I figured it could ease me into Asian languages so I'm learning Korean now and now that I'm finally confident I've decided to later on study Japanese in Korean since the languages are more similar than English and Japanese or Swedish and Japanese are, and learning more similar languages are easier. After that I hope to learn Chinese via the Japanese so that I have a perfect train of learning Chinese from Japanese, that I learned from Korean, that I learned from English, that I learned from Swedish. I want to learn languages for the rest of my life so if I still have lifetime after that I will learn Finnish. :)
At first I started Japanese to be able to translate BLs. Because there are not many BL manga translated into Turkish and the manga I want. Then it was fun to learn and I keep going! And to be able to write Japanese coding.
Vay be
Çok iyi bir karar
I found anime when I was at my lowest. And it saved me. Fruits Basket. Thanks to that I started watching anime and learnt on my own. Then I visited Japan for 3 months. And I knew I belonged there. I never felt belonging with my family or country or origin. All my life I felt like an alien. I felt all Japanese are my family. It felt nostalgic. Im working to be able to stay in Japan in the near future.
I’m learning because I wanna live there~~
But I also wanna go to a Japanese language school there lol
Tbh kanji is really different to memorize…
As for a Vietnamese speaker and know a bit English, I find Japanese kinda hard to learn TvT I lost my streak in Duolingo too, but now I'm studying again!
Hello, Vietnamese friend.🙋♀️ LOVE Vietnam🇯🇵💓🇻🇳
Here’s my 2 reasons :
日本語がすごく綺麗な言語を思います、えと私の恋人は日本人です。😊
I got interested in japanese for the music! I started in high school. I liked the 80s rock music and wanted to understand and sing it. also, I enjoy the historical stories and the unique writing style too. Certain words can't be directly translated which is so interesting. every language has it's own "melody" when you talk. (intonations and flow)
Eu comecei a aprender japonês já há algum tempo, mas só agora que eu acho que vou realmente aprender. Eu fico vendo os seus vídeos, para copiar o jeito que você fala e praticar a minha pronuncia. Esse é um ótimo canal, espero que continue com esse ótimo trabalho. 😊
Hey! Thank you for making these videos!
I've been looking for this kind of content where I can understand 80% of the words and you're using just the perfect level of Japanese for me to understand and still learn something and it feels great. 🙏
Im learning it because i have had a lot of free time where i just play games or scroll Yt. So I wanted something useful and something that will take a long time to finish to keep me occupied
As I watched anime, my interest in this language increased and it sounds very nice. I really want to learn. 🌸🙆🏻♀️
I will be a seiyuu in my next life. Can't be too early to start preparing 😂 btw, love your videos! 💙
Reason why I started learning last december was because of reading a manga that made me fell in love with the story and I had this weird feeling that pressures my heart, I really don't know how it works but it's just something's pressuring it and it hurts that I want to understand the japanese version of it one day, and it's not enough. Then I wrote a story or mainly a script to draw my own manga, just like that I've fell in love with with some twists. Had some few sketches and started the run, after few pages, this crazy pressuring and painful thing in my heart starts to calm down, so I drew more pages until it's gone. Meanwhile I've been also watching a lot of godly animes and it also gives me the same feeling until I finish the anime and the manga. Today its not that bad anymore, still watching and reading more anime and manga. I'm already drawing chapter 2, I'm halfway of completing n5 and the feeling in my heart is still there but it's not painful anymore but instead I'm motivated. With these weird things in my mind, it made me dream that one day I can speak Japanese and live in Japan drawing and sharing my very cool story for the rest of my life.
i was done learning german since i spoke it fluently and i needed some new challenge and i wanted something difficult and very different to learn to feel a great deal of frustration to overcome once again and that's kinda why i choose Japanese. Also i study linguistics and i thought it would be interesting to know an agglutinative language.
i started to learn japanese becouse i love anime , and how japan looks , and the stile , and i do karate , amd alot of other tings , and my dream is for me to go to study in an small city , and to have frend to hang out evreyday , and to know evreybodey from there , and for them to know me:D
I started learning Japanese bc my closest cousin left me but to Japan, I just want to see him more, I want to know why people like Japan so much. I personally also like JR
I started in high school then stopped and resumed a few times 😆 I would like to read my fav mangas in Japanese and be able to have nice conversations while visiting the country 😍
僕は去年の十一月にアニメが始めて見たから、声優この仕事は面白いと思った。声優さんの言葉分かりたかったから、僕が日本語は始めて学びました。そして、僕が中国語はもう分かるんから、漢字の勉強は難しくないと思います。日本語の勉強楽しい！
お兄さんから日本語を初めて勉強しました。昔古いアニメを見た。面白いと思いました。The Japanese language entranced me as a child Bubblegum CrisisとGoku midnight Eyeがめちゃくちゃわかりたかったです。
hitokiさん面白いですね😂
大丈夫きっとスペインから友達を得るでしょう
私いろいろな理由で日本語を学びたい
まず私は日本に旅行して日本人と話をしたい、あなたもその中にいます
その為、私が外国人だから問題を起こすかもしれないという考えを日本人の頭から取り除き、そして仲良くなり、混ざり合いたい。
I started for a few reasons, and none of them were anime like most of my classmates. 😆
1. International relations
2. The challenge of the language! It’s one of the hardest languages for English speakers to learn. So I chose it.
Now, I love the food, culture, people, music, etc. ❤️ So glad I chose Japanese and got to study abroad! I lived in Fukuoka and Kyoto for 1 year. 😊