I started to watch more of Japanese dramas, movies. I was delighted by the atmosphere, they manage to create with actors' playing, music, camera work, video editing, filming locations, thought through screenplay, little details.
The believability is extremely important in movie making, and they are nailing it.
I think learning language that you watch films in makes you feel closer to the culture and the country, understand them better. Probably, this is why I started learning Japanese.
Also language learning keeps up the hopes to travel there one day.
Just like Olya here, I got into it by watching a kind of Japanese series; anime!
My friends used to watch anime and eventually, i got curious so I asked them to introduce me to it. And oh man, you should've seen my face when I realized anime wasn't always set in spring with blooming pink cherry blossoms and some random high school drama.
Now I can't even imagine believing that was all there is to it! (Actually, it's kind of cringe I ever thought that )
However, that's not the entire reason that made me want to learn Japanse. The rest is really just a big coincidence
Originally, I wanted to download an app to learn German but then i saw something called Renshuu with the cute icon of Kao-chan and before i knew it, I was learning Japanese!
Also, this message has gotten way too long, it felt as if i was writing my whole biography
one day when i was a kid i randomly saw a girl on youtube explaining why japanese people uses masks (of cource, this was wayyyy before the pandemic), she talked about japanese culture in her channel ans i fell in love with it. i watched a lot of samurai movies with my dad when i waa a kid, so probably that was the reason it got my attention. i just started really learning japanese years later and then i studied on and off, so that's why i don't count all the time i was "studying". funny thing, while everyone started learning japanese because of anime, when i first started learning i hated it! i used to think it was boring and for kids (said the 7 years old girl at the time lol), but eventually i started to like it.
i did know and watched anime even when i was a kid but the thing that got me here was the untranslated seiyuu (character vas) and utaite lives or clips
it's been two days since i started learning japanese now i know all kana and starting to learn the grammar and kanji
even tho i wasn't interested in learing japanese before, the animes i watched has a small impact on me such as knowing some grammar and basic words
I started learning because of Japanese music! I love 美波 and 結束バンド so I wanted to be able to comprehend and understand the lyrics. Being able to watch anime raw and visit Japan are nice bonuses as well.
I have watched animations such as crayon shinchan, dragonball and Doraemon since I was a young child. I started to pick up some words from then (◔‿◔)
When I grew up, I learned karate, and while learning karate, Japanese would be used time to time.
But I didn't get into Japanese until over a decade later. By then I wasn't practicing karate anymore. One day, I was itching to learn Chinese, but somehow, remembering some of my Japanese from karate, I figured it would come easier instead (and it did).
There was an older girl I knew (and liked) who practiced karate as well. She was the daughter of a sensei I had when I started learning karate. I wasn't always in the same class as her, but I knew her. Then after I got bit by the Nihongo bug in these later years, the internet's algorithm led me to my former sensei and noticed some posts dedicated to his daughter.
I figured through context that it appeared she had recently passed away. I never asked about it or contacted him.
Perhaps there's some universal meaning to having been moved to learn Japanese at this particular time, as with many things in my life. And with her in mind, I'm gonna stick with that for now.
Partially on a whim, but also lots of my mother and father’s friends have gone and taught English in Japan so they were super eager for me to learn. And, of course, anime haha
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