/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

What are some good excuses to learn Japanese? I don't want my family to get the wrong idea

[Anonymous No.]

Your rich and attractive Japanese gf's parents will force you two to break up if you do not learn the language of her people.

[Anonymous No.]

What kind of wrong idea could they possibly have?

[Anonymous No.]

Boredom.

[Anonymous No.]

Masturbating to loli.

[Anonymous No.]

You want to read Japanese comics.

[Anonymous No.]

What are Nyaruko's 10D?

[Anonymous No.]

You're an intelligent, well-adjusted individual that wants to broaden his horizons and widen his knowledge.

Or just tell them you want to watch chinese cartoons

[Anonymous No.]

is this tokiko

someone once said his parents hate him for liking japan
i think theyre racists

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271124
to defile your anus with her tentacles

[Anonymous No.]

You want to understand what the girls in your dating simulators are saying.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271136
Doesn't his father abuse him?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271112
I don't want them to think I'm a weeaboo.

Also I know what the first class will be like. The professor will ask us to introduce ourselves and tell everyone why we want to learn Japanese. What am I supposed to say?

"HELLO MY NAME IS ANON I WANT TO LEARN JAPANESE TO IMPROVE MY FAPPING EXPERIENCE"? nope
"I believe the emerging Asian markets are chock full of business opportunities"? lol no

I think I'll just sign up for the Mandarin classes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271141
oh i hope not that would be terrible

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144
How is Mandarin different? What will your excuse be for Mandarin? Why is Mandarin okay but Japanese is not?

[Anonymous No.]

There aren't any, you fucking weeaboo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271148
because more people speak mandarin than japanese

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144
you're thinking about it way too hard.

"Hey anon, why do you want to learn Japanese?"

"For fun."

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271148
Most normal people I've met don't associate Chinese with anime and manga. They think china is going to rule the world and stuff, so they think it's important for business.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271160
Japanese still has 127 million native speakers.

You should learn Spanish or Arabic instead, if those are offered.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271160

That's what you're gonna say when people ask you why you're learning mandarin?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271175

My mom once walked in while I was watching anime and asked me if I understood Spanish ...

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271104
You could move to Japan and teach English or just be a translator in general.

[Anonymous No.]

I rationalize my own personal shame by considering no language to be a waste, and that chinese characters are kind of useful even separate from Japanese

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271104
Research

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144

I'll just say for anime straight up. Whats going to happen? Is the professor gonna beat me up?

[Anonymous No.]

When my mom asked I told her it was so I could play porn games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271196
I'm sure that's the most common answer anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271176
The Chinese government is interested in promoting it's language and culture overseas, so it's easier to get Chine scholarships than Japanese ones. Longer ones, too. A decent score you can get a 12 month course at a Chinese university, that includes free accommodation, a small salary, a round trip through the country and job opportunities. Similar Japanese programs are nearly non existent. If you're not in the top 10% you can still get 6-8 week long courses in Beijing all expenses covered.

I know this because I did some research and talked to a lot of people who've taken mandarin classes in my area

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271244
Hopefully Japan will realize its errors before the country dies.

[Anonymous No.]

Say you think it's cool.
Everyone thinks that chinese/japanese is cool.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271244
I would rather die than live in a socialist shithole like China.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271295
I think densely populated cities are romantic and mysterious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271331

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>>10271244

I'm kinda interested in learning Mandarin but I don't think I could get the spoken part down pat. The whole tonal thing would probably screw me over.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271365
That's why I was considering taking the Japanese course instead. Plus I already know the kana and 600 kanji

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271365
Yeah Japanese pronunciation is very easy for English speakers. I thought about learning Korean once but after examining the pronunciation I quickly gave up. Fuck that shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271422
Me too

The writing is so simple but the pronunciation is crazy.

[Anonymous No.]

>I don't want my family to get the wrong idea

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271422
I wonder if it's possible to learn how to read and write properly without paying much attention to the pronunciation.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271331
>>10271348
That's all fine and well until you are electrocuted or buried under a collapsing building.

[Anonymous No.]

My excuse is that the chinese language pool is oversatuated due to all the other students learning it, so by learning Japanese I am entering a smaller, in-demand field. This better diversifies me and my resume. Japan is the third biggest economy in the world and still has a lot of potential and room for business.

You are welcome to use my excuse. My real reason is so I can read all the obscure, untranslated porn.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271435
That's probably a bad idea. You might miss plays on words involving homophones or such things.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271443
"Your" excuses. Hmph, don't get cocky.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144
>Japan
>Asia

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271148
Japan, and China aren't related at all and only appear together in the minds of Americans.

Chinese - Yellow
Japan - White

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271458
Sure is white. Cracker

[Anonymous No.]

Little girls.

[Anonymous No.]

You wish to learn a "challenging" language.
Because it has a non-Latin alphabet, they'll think it's super foreign and difficult.

[Anonymous No.]

If you are female or a huge homo:
You have an interest in donestic Japanese fashion and want to learn more about the subcultures and designers.

[Anonymous No.]

Say the crawling chaos possessed you and is making you do it.

[Anonymous No.]

It will help to satisfy your pedophile urges and keep you off the streets so that you won't harm real children.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271173
This. Knowing English and Mandarin lets you cover virtually the entire globe for business purposes. As China's economy continues to grow and their state owned corps continue to buy fucking everything even more countries will start accomodating for Mandarin. Just like English.

[Anonymous No.]

I actually have no interest in anime/manga/VNs/etc, but I decided to learn Japanese because I was interested in learning another language and wanted a challenge. No-one really questions me, but I don't tell many people anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

For me, I told my parents that German and Japanese would be beneficial for me as I am taking an engineering course.

[Anonymous No.]

"Because spanish is too mainstream"

[Anonymous No.]

>>10272364
Get out of /jp/ shitposter!

[Anonymous No.]

I'm a spic who doesn't speak spanish and is trying to learn japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

Since when does somebody need an excuse to learn another language? What the fuck? Are your parents going to get angry at you for taking it upon yourself to improve one of your life skills? What's wrong with wanting to improve yourself?

[AnkiIsCrack No.]

>>10272801
This

Also, in my case studying another language satisfied a humanity requirement for university and I could just use that excuse if I ever wanted.

Seriously though...anytime I told people or they found out I could speak some Japanese the reaction was always "Oh wow you can speak Japanese?" or "Wow isn't Japanese hard to learn?" Never any put downs or whatever.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10272919
For me, it was "say something in Japanese"

[Anonymous No.]

>>10272931
>>10272931
>Say something in Japanese!

>俺はジャック。あんたはばか。

>Cool. Now what's my name in Japanese?

>トム。

>Isn't that just "Tom" with a -u at the end?


What were you expecting?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10273027

is tom ur wife

[Anonymous No.]

If you study biology you can always say that Japan's pretty good at genetics so you want to learn some to understand papers released in there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278136

any paper of note would be written in english. it's the lingua franca of the scientific community.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278145
If it's the lingua franca why isn't only called lingua angla and not Franca?

Can I get a #burn_notice?

[Anonymous No.]

I just told them I was tired of learning Mandarin after 3 years, and wanted to study japanese.

That was the end of it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271348
Is there a centralized location for city pictures? Like an imageboard or specific booru or something? Also anything for powerlines, telephone poles and transformer boxes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278169

b/c the lingua franca for trading in the mediterranean during the middle ages wasn't english m8

[Anonymous No.]

You want to get into the business world

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278177
Have you tried starting a "interesting photos" thread on /b/?

[Anonymous No.]

Why does my college not have japanese classes? Is this a common thing? It seems like it would be a popular class for people to take

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278279
>Japanese
No.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278330
My college specifically has a business degree that specializes in Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278291
What the hell is this? Context?

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278348
Which shitty college is that?

Anybody knows that English is the business language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278372
*Everybody

Oops.

[Busta Kaynes !w16.e5rO0c No.]

>>10271104
see >>10277622

If you nigga can't even think of an excuse yourself, you won't be able to learn shit.

Also >>>/lang/

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271568
This is exactly what I said.

[Anonymous No.]

"I want to play Japanese games"
Not that hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10272801
People bother me about learning Japanese all the time. Since I live in California they all say I should learn Spanish instead.

They usually shut up when I remind them that only poor people speak spanish only, and that while there's no one I want to talk to in Spanish, there's tons of people I want to talk to in Japanese.

It's really annoying, I wish people wouldn't judge like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271104
Maybe you don't enjoying being an uncultured plebeian. Make them feel inferior.

[Anonymous No.]

JUST DO IT FAGGOT

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278488
I bet they're bitter because they were forced to learn Spanish in school and has never used it since, instead of getting to learn a language they actually want to learn and use.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278488
I get the "You should learn Spanish" thing at least once a week and barely anybody knows I'm learning Japanese.
Fucking So-cal.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144
My professor doesn't give a damn whether or not we like anime and whatnot. She loves it when our class does admire it's various subcultures and pop culture. You shouldn't be too afraid to admit to anything.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278671
Yeah, just get ready for the associations that will be made.

When I made the mistake of taking a class, I had one guy who talked about 4chan and reddit the whole time, a black guy that cosplayed, read manga and played his weeaboo 3DS games in class, a fat girl that mentioned Junji Ito at least once per class, and that fucking guy that exists in every one of these classes that loved to try and correct the native Japanese teacher about every little thing because he saw it in an anime.

I pretended to be ignorant of everything they droned on about.

The buttfrustration that ensued when the teacher once mentioned that anime is mostly for kids was pretty great, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278706
A fat girl that mentioned Junji Ito at least once per class? She actually sounds pretty cool

[Anonymous No.]

No matter what excuse you come up with, unless you're actually fond of the language and the country there is no way you would master it. It's pretty much the case with every other foreign language you are trying to learn by yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

You mean you don't want them to get the right idea.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271144
For my first Japanese class I never even mentioned the word anime or manga throughout the whole semester.

I never participated in the discussions the two landwhales in front of me were having involving Naruto and Death Note.

On the essays, I wrote masterpieces compared to the rest of the class. I even made up an excuse saying that I used a translator to get complicated words.

It ended up being the easiest course I've ever taken, even though I took one of the toughest teachers.

On the last day, with everyone thinking I'm some smart ass motherfucker, I told them during the last-day-of-the-semester party that I learned all my moon from anime and that I learned absolutely nothing that I didn't already know from the class.

[Anonymous No.]

You want to play Japan exclusive video games

[Anonymous No.]

>>10272670

stop being unwelcoming!

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278488
Wouldn't saying you're interested in Japanese culture and it's a great country and you'd wish to understand the language be okay? There are other reasons to study Japanese other than just the anime, too.

And I used to think too much of other people's opinions too, but now I have been doing what I want and now I think it's stupid to think too much what others would say about such trivial things. You're just limiting what you can do in your life if you think too much like that. And btw I'm not saying now that you'd be stupid or you'd think this way.

Other people don't kill you if you tell them about things you like. I kind of understand people who don't want to tell others they're watching anime for example, but learning a language shouldn't be a secret (well I haven't told my mom I'm studying Japanese either, but I don't have any reason to hide it either, we just don't talk about different things that much.)

I just say this because this just reminded me of one of my friends who lives very limited life because he's always afraid that others would say something bad about it. You guys don't be the same. I understand it's not easy to tell others things you're afraid to tell, but if they're just trivial things, it's stupid to fear telling others. Even if others would say you're stupid because you do something, then so what? You don't die of hearing someone saying you're doing something which they think is stupid. And you can't always please everyone.

[Wintermoot !!kWM0hb9oFSL No.]

a interest in Asian culture.
or you are convinced that one day Japan will take over the world.
>>10271148
I want to know what the people at the local chinese restaurant are putting in my food
>>10272931
"あなたはあほです"
>>10272919
post people reacted with faux Chinese when I told them I,m learning Japanese.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10271160
>because more people speak mandarin than japanese
Yeah. In FUCKING CHINA.

[Wintermoot !!kWM0hb9oFSL No.]

>>10279438
I think Manderin is also spoken in Singapore and Hong-Kong.
You could also use the same argument for Japanese which is even less wide-spread then Manderin/Kantonese.

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>>10278145

True, but he wanted excuses not actual reasons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10278488
>They usually shut up when I remind them that only poor people speak spanish only...
>I wish people wouldn't judge like that.
you-best-be-trolling.jpg

[Anonymous No.]

>>10279396

do u rly be calling people who arent your husband anata? shits weird bruv

[Anonymous No.]

>>10285074
貴様 master race.

[Anonymous No.]

>>10273027

>What's my name in Japanese?

I dread the day someone will ask me that question.

[Anonymous No.]

Learn chinese: most japanese otaku sub-culture stuff is translated, it has a thriving otaku sub-culture of its' own, and the government knows how to make demographics grow and fall, unlike japorea that is going to die out in the next 50 years due to underpopulation anyways.