The vast majority of anime otaku and japanese video game players don't even speak Japanese. They're just ironic weebs following the current fad

I don't speak a lot of fucking languages but still play their games.

Imagine being not only a braindead frogposter but a phonetoddler too.

>>635426345 (OP)

Japanese and Chinese is the hardest shit in the world. Fuck em.

>>635426345 (OP)

This is true

I've been learning Japanese on Duolingo since January and can almost read Hiragana.

hirigana takes one day to learn

dont even make fucked up posts like this as a joke

>>635426345 (OP)

I like anime games and the aesthetic, and barely watch or read any anime. Problem?

>>635426345 (OP)

Doesn't mean it isn't a gateway to encouraging language acquisition. I stopped playing all JP games except in Japanese. People like to bitch about difficulty, but can't stomach just reading a fucking novel or playing a game to pick it up naturally. Just installed 龍が如く0、and I'll be playing that in Japanese once I finish some other stuff in my backlog. Comprehensible input with material you enjoy...pretty straight forward.

I understand ~30% of spoken Japanese



I'm illiterate and can barely read hiragana, but I understand several hundreds of words and a lot of grammar to string them together.



10 years of anime, movies, and playing games in Japanese audio

I learned Japanese because back in 2010 someone made a coomer-bait post on /v/ using a screenshot from HighSchool of the Dead. 

Now I’ve been in Japan for ~10 years, work at a Japanese company and have a Japanese family. Japanese is a fucking meme bros don’t fall for it.

Ah!

don't you have a life? dont actually attempt to interact with actual Japanese people, i guarantee they will laugh at you

Is it really so bad? I realize people fantasize it up, but it's at least surely a shift in one's life culturally and socially. Feel like that aspect would be really good for me alone...getting that shift and kickstart.

Visit Japan as a tourist or as a student. I lived here for 2 years as a student and loved the country but once you really settle in and see through the shiny veneer Japan is very good at maintaining you’ll start to hate everything about the country and it’s people. Also Tokyo fucking sucks and rural Japan is way better but Tokyo is the only place with jobs that pay decent so unless you want to wageslave for ~20-30k usd/year for your entire life you have to live in the central Kanto area which sucks and is filled with assholes.

Why the fuck would I want to speak to a Japanese person? I'm learning it so I can read Japanese.

>>635426345 (OP)

There is no "fad" to follow. Japanese games are better than boring woke soulless westshit

Admit that you're following a trend. You've had 20 years to learn Japanese m8

That's fair, I suppose. I don't romanticize Japan; I know I'm just a gaijin and may not mesh with all their subtleties and differences. If anything, I just see moving abroad in general as an opportunity to maybe shift up my life. I only note Japan because I already actively study and use the language, and the food would be easy on my stomach since my diet is similar. I just don't know how I'd find opportunities beyond the stereotypical EN teacher route.

>>635426345 (OP)

I don’t feel offended/affronted by this because regardless of whether it’s true it doesn’t apply to me

But seriously though, kills dubfags
