掲示板 Forums - What motivates you??

ジュエン~1984 は 09月 15日, 8:01に

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.

と言いました。

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.

Ahh, thanks for the explenation. I had no idea Ukrainian and Russian where so different. To me it all sounds the same (I know that's more due to a lack of knowledge on my part than anything else). Slavic languages are very unfamiliar to me and the representation on TV in any slavic language is next to non-excistend (if you don't count in the news but tbh official speached never sound like how normal ppl talk anyway (Thank God for that 😂😂🙏)).

Cool that exactly the thing that discouraged me to take on Russian, enticed you to take on Japanese. I love a new perspective.

Hi ! What motivates me is the thirst of learning.

I was watching anime before, and when the lockdown came i had nothing to do except watching some more, but i didn't really learn anything from the school anymore and i got bored because i enjoy learning new things every day.

I thought one day "i want to understand without the subtitles !"

And so i started based on this motivation. I learned a few words first, and how to introduce myself, and then i learned both alphabets. I started learning more vocabulary and more sentence building and grammar, a few kanjis... But soon the school started again, and i kind of suspended my japanese learning when it did.

However, now i decided to start again, at the intermediate level i had left behind. My motivation this time is no longer anime. I just want to keep going, even though i have school and a lot of work. I want to prove to myself that i can manage it all, and i want to have this "special skill" that others don't learn at school !!

I started studying Japanese purely on a whim, I didn't even know about anime/manga until I was fairly deep in my studies. The more I had learned, the more it felt like I was getting let "in" in a big secret. Preparing for a trip to Japan really motivated me to learn. When I came back home, my motivation wore off, until I found the joy of manga, as well as the excitement of creating my own stories in Japanese. Another trip to Japan lead me to study to N3 level, and now I'm discovering the joy of light novelsand audio dramas.

1. I really like their culture— their anime, light novels, shogi, calligraphy, and the like. Now imagine how much more good shit I can enjoy if I understand the language instead of waiting for translations...!
2. It's surprisingly similar to my native language

3. I get to avoid the dread of feeling utterly useless and unproductive

I started learning Japanese because I have Japanese relatives and although most of them can speak basic English (one of them can speak fluently) its good to break language barriers as they're annoying and it'd be really fun to be bilingual! Also my mum is from Japan so she'd probably appreciate me speaking to her in her native language!

Ohh and I would also like to understand things like anime, vocaloid etc

what is shogi??

Konnichiwa! I first wanted to learn Japanese after wanting to become a manga artist and move to Japan, when I become older. And... Well, if ya wanna go to the country, you gotta know the language !! I don't know much yet, but Im I'm sure I will master it in future !

Mostly I want to learn Japanese to play untranslated video games. Nerdy, I know!

Another reason is because my uncle, who died seventeen years ago, was an English teacher in Japan. I want that connection to him. I'm not religious but I believe in an afterlife and something in particular happened a few months ago that strongly adds to my motivation.

I know some people want to learn Japanese for anime but I'm autistic and have sensory processing issues so I frequently can't even understand English shows without subtitles so that's not one of my reasons lol

I really don't know why I started learning Japanese lol but right now, I'm learning Japanese because I want to study in Japan in the near future.