掲示板 Forums - What motivates you??

I'm really curious to know some of y'all answers to this question!!

Why did you originally wanted to learn japanese ??

Was it because of anime/manga/J-drama? A love one or to impress someone? Or just because you resonated with the language?

For me it was simple i wanted to read the original work of all the Light novels I love since reading is one of my passion !!

I wanted to watch my anime without subtitles as they where pretty bad at Netflix. That's was literaly the main objective. It's still my main goal, but I also love to study almost every day and I never kept up with anything this long in my entire life ( voluntarily). Huge part thanks to this app. I even like to learn the Kanji. Who would ever think that was fun after reading all the doom scenario's on the internet.

If I'm at level N3 I plan to study Chinese and I'm told Korean is for free than, if you know Japanese and Chinese, so that one's in the planning too. I'm still debating on the language after that. Arabic is pretty cool too and not as hard as Japanese, but Spanish is good to have. I find that when you study one language all the others become easier and all my French from high school comes back to me too.

I originally wanted to learn Japanese simply because it's an original language for a lot of content that I'm checking on internet (anime, youtube videos, music, games, etc.).
The thing that keeps me motivated is the fact that I'm genuinely having fun just from learning something interesting. Also it makes my day whenever I can casually understand what is written/said on Japanese in places outside of renshuu, even if this is something very basic. Also I have some experience with languages (I can speak freely on 3 languages for now), and learning English was the best decision in my life, I met so many amazing people and found a lot of great content because of this. So I expect something similar from nihongo too.

I originally wanted to learn Japanese simply because it's an original language for a lot of content that I'm checking on internet (anime, youtube videos, music, games, etc.).
The thing that keeps me motivated is the fact that I'm genuinely having fun just from learning something interesting. Also it makes my day whenever I can casually understand what is written/said on Japanese in places outside of renshuu, even if this is something very basic. Also I have some experience with languages (I can speak freely on 3 languages for now), and learning English was the best decision in my life, I met so many amazing people and found a lot of great content because of this. So I expect something similar from nihongo too.

Waa what languages do you speak??

I feel you!! When I read a book/ watch a video/ anime and understand it or at least 70% I simply feels so good inside.

Simply satisfied of all my efforts! It’s the best motivation for me

@yukisane1 Thanks, that would be cool. My French is like very low level. I can make basic sentences. The hard part is also that it is somehow stored in the same place as my Japanese, so every sentence I try to make I mix it up haha. Also because I know 'comprandre' ' crois' and 'pense', but not the word for 'to know' And I bump into that a lot. (I just looked it up and it turns out I did know it, but forgot the meaning haha)

The other day i met two ppl from France at the station and I tried to be kind when leaving so I wished them a 'Bon travaille' instead of 'Bon voyage' I really hope they got the clue that I was mixing up travel and travaille, but I felt pretty stupid afterwards. 😂😅

Mais sauf qu le trop erreur et plus de moitié de phrase ca trouvés dans le dictionaire, je suis tres heureux si tu me veux aider étudier le français. Lire c'est plus facile a contraire de ecrire. Je l'espère si ça logicue j'ecrite ici.

Wow, impressive. Especially Russian/English. I took one look at the alphabet and was immediately discouraged. The letters are the same shape, but diff meaning. I don't know anything about Ukrainian, but my guess is it is close to Russian. Bit like German vs Dutch.

Don't know how similar German vs Dutch are, not very knowledgeable in this sphere. Ukrainian has some similarities, but they are mostly different and just sharing majority of letters, some sounds, words and grammar, like majority of other slavic languages. As example, despite being my native language, I struggled with it decently at school because my surroundings were speaking mostly Russian and practicing Russian didn't compensate for lack of practice on Ukrainian, due to how different they are.

About alphabet - was one of my reasons why I decided to go with Japanese lol. Moving from Ukrainian&Russian to English was fun, even basics like alphabet are completely different, so I decided to continue on this path and chose something completely different again, instead of learning other slavic language or Spanish, German, etc.

I was really into anime as a teen and, like a lot of other people, the thought of being able to effortlessly understand shows without subtitles was super appealing.

Now these days though as an adult, I honestly just really enjoy the challenge of the language and the opportunity to connect with people on their level. Reading Japanese in the wild without translation is the best feeling:)

that’s interesting !! But how? How those it works with your ADHD?

I know reading and understanding it feels different!! What do you usually read? Novels? Light novels? News?

But I found you really admirable! You’re learning to connect with other’s and that’s exactly why I found it admirable!! You’ll make so many people’s day!! Good luck