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Anonymous Poland
6/15/2025, 4:48:21 AM No.211748669
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not gonna lie japanese is a pretty cringe pick as a language to learn
>one of the hardest ones for almost everyone, takes up to 5 years of consistent work to get somehow fluent for an english speaker
>almost zero usecases if you dont want to move there since most of their internet is regionlocked
>the country itself is a late-stage capitalism dystopian hell on the earth, your average japanese person is an overworked corpobug working 14h a day and living in a 12m2 apartment if youre in one of the major cities
>vast majority of their modern culture is extremely plastic multibillion-dolar corporate goyslop
>pretty much a selfhating nation that always felt inferior to whites trying to compete with them in every aspect - politics, economy, cultural development etc.
>japs are rather socially distanced and they dont really like whites so Its hard to make japanese frens irl anyway
can anyone elaborate on why is it so popular to learn amongst people inb4 animes that wouldnt keep you motivated for more than a week
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Anonymous Japan
6/15/2025, 5:25:50 AM No.211749180
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To be fair, Japanese language is a women thing
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Anonymous Poland
6/15/2025, 5:30:44 AM No.211749238
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>>211749180
why would bitches learn it though
I dont think that japanese men makes their pussy tingle and Its basically the major thing their lifes orbit around
Anonymous Turkey
6/15/2025, 5:36:05 AM No.211749317
>>211748669 (OP)
>takes up to 5 years of consistent work to get somehow fluent for an english speaker
Wrong
>almost zero usecases if you dont want to move there
Wrong + would apply to every other language even if it were true
>the country itself is a late-stage capitalism dystopian hell on the earth, your average japanese person is an overworked corpobug working 14h a day and living in a 12m2 apartment if youre in one of the major cities
still better than over 95% of all countries on earth
>vast majority of their modern culture is extremely plastic multibillion-dolar corporate goyslop
it manages to be somewhat interesting unlike every other "plastic corporate goyslop"
>pretty much a selfhating nation that always felt inferior to whites trying to compete with them in every aspect - politics, economy, cultural development etc.
schizophrenia
>japs are rather socially distanced and they dont really like whites so Its hard to make japanese frens irl anyway
theyre like finns but their population actually adds up to a decent amount rather than a sum total of 5 guys and 2 women
anything else you want me to 論破 programmer socks-kun
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Anonymous Russian Federation
6/15/2025, 5:38:03 AM No.211749336
>>211748669 (OP)
>inb4 animes
Yeah that's actually it, weaboo retardation is the only reason why Japanese is learnt.
>>211749317
>better than over 95% of all countries
It's poorer than Poland though. And than Korea, if that matters.
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Anonymous Brazil
6/15/2025, 5:40:23 AM No.211749366
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>>211748669 (OP)
I like japanese because as a portuguese speaker, it sounds very phonetically consistent (the opposite of english). Now, I did try to dip my toe into learning japanese, but I gave up pretty fast. Just the list of kanji alone is demotivating.
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Anonymous Turkey
6/15/2025, 5:41:10 AM No.211749376
>>211749336
>It's poorer than
please refer to
>better than over 95% of all countries
it's also idiotic to base poorer/richer solely off of gdp per capita
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Anonymous United States
6/15/2025, 5:42:19 AM No.211749390
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>>211749336
> weaboo retardation is the only reason why Japanese is learnt
I don't see how that's retardation. Having thousands of hours worth of entertaining nerd media is one of the BEST reasons to learn a language. It makes the language easier to learn as I can immerse myself way more easily than something random like Indonesian. I'd love to learn Chinese but they have no media, so why bother?

Historians learn greek, ICE learns spanish, chemists learn german, and autistic losers learn Japanese. And I had fun learning it.
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Anonymous Russian Federation
6/15/2025, 5:42:43 AM No.211749395
>>211749376
I didn't mean GDP, I meant net wages. Also try checking the price of beef in Japan geg.
Anonymous United Kingdom
6/15/2025, 5:47:26 AM No.211749461
It's one of the most beautiful languages, both written and spoken. Isn't the pursuit of beauty a good enough reason to do something?
Anonymous Russian Federation
6/15/2025, 5:48:20 AM No.211749478
>>211749390
>one of the BEST reasons
No it's not. English is more than enough for all sorts of content. All reasons you may find to read your slop in any language other than English is half-hearted and phoney.
>so why bother
China is arguably the best vacation spot in the world at the time being and the Chinese civilisation is the only actual East Asian civilisation.
>BUT MUH CPP BAD
Learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin.
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Anonymous Canada
6/15/2025, 5:48:35 AM No.211749482
>>211748669 (OP)
Bro, learning any language besides English is a meme. First of all, who can even afford international travel right now?

>learn spanish
So I can visit the most violent countries in the world where corrupt police will shake you down for being foreign?

>learn French
So I can speak to Africans in Africa, Africans in France, or Africans in Quebec? The French are a dying and conquered people, the few remaining actual frenchoids hate anyone that isn't French

>learn Chinese/Korean/Japanese
These are too hard to learn for most westerners. If you are NEET and have 3 hours a day to learn this, go ahead I guess. Let's be honest, 99% of the people that try to learn these never get very far.

>learn Russian
Eastern Europe is a depressing shithole according to anyone that has ever been there. Russians want to move away from Russia.

>learn German
Another dying country. A less smug but more autistic France? I'm going to go to Germany and talk to the North Africans there? Why?

If your language isn't mentioned above, it's either irrelevant or 3rd world and nobody wants to learn it anyway.
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Anonymous United States
6/15/2025, 5:53:10 AM No.211749541
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>>211749478
>All reasons you may find to read your slop in any language other than English is half-hearted and phoney
You have no idea how ridiculously false that is. One of my favorite manga that I own doesn't even have english translations, and most of the others have terrible translations. You miss out on puns and cultural references that sometimes make up like 50% of the jokes and dialogue. It's absolutely worth learning japanese if you're into the real nerd shit. There is no western equivalent of a lot of japanese subgenres.

[spoiler]Yuri, for example[/spoiler]
>he Chinese civilisation is the only actual East Asian civilisation
What?
>Learn Cantonese instead of Mandarin
Don't they all speak pretty good english and just default to english if they see a white guy in HK anyway?
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Anonymous Russian Federation
6/15/2025, 5:56:24 AM No.211749591
>>211749482
>the most violent countries in the world where corrupt police will shake you down for being foreign
Source? I'm not sure whether it worths bothering with Spanish, but South America seems to be a decent place to retire in.
>are too hard to learn
That's exactly the reason to learn them though, merely as a mental exercise.
>less smug but more autistic France
Germany is incomparable to France in terms of economy though. People from all over Europe learn German to work there.
>>211749541
>What
Before like the late 19th century, both Korea and Japan were African-tier ooga-booga shithole outskirts of China. They're entirely European creations and they has never been anything authentic about them even in the beginning, pretty much the same as the Gulf Arabs really.
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Anonymous United States
6/15/2025, 7:00:44 AM No.211750509
>>211748669 (OP)
I'm learning it for the Japanese cartoons and it's kept me motivated for more than a week
Anonymous United States
6/15/2025, 7:05:43 AM No.211750560
>>211748669 (OP)
No one's going to learn Polish bro
Anonymous United States
6/15/2025, 7:09:25 AM No.211750597
>>211749591
>European creations
They are American creations. Don't try to take credit for our work.
Anonymous Italy
6/15/2025, 7:23:48 AM No.211750768
>>211749366
Pro tip: to learn them use Heisig's "Remembering the Kanjis": with that method you can learn 2k of them in a couple of months.
Anonymous Germany
6/15/2025, 7:59:56 AM No.211751201
>>211748669 (OP)
I learn it not because it's useful and easy.
I learn it precisely because it's hard.
Anonymous Germany
6/15/2025, 9:27:41 AM No.211752547
>>211748669 (OP)
Japanese is really easy, it's their writing that is hard to learn.