Why do you want to learn Japanese?
I want to ask those of you who study or learn Japanese about why you want to learn it. Well, I was born in Japan and I lived there for 15 years before I decided to go overseas for learning English. So this might be weird to say but I find really annoying when I speak Japanese and there are of course some reasons. One of the reason is because Japanese can be too complicated when you speak since it has various of grammar rules such as ”丁寧語”, "謙譲語" and ”尊敬語", which by the way you can understand them if you have studied Japanese before. These are used in an occasion like when you want to speak politely to another person or a group of people. Even myself, whose mother tongue is Japanese can not use them correctly and this applies to heaps of Japanese people especially if they are teenagers. And I don't really like when I talk to someone, who I meet for the first time or someone who is older than me, I have to use polite Japanese. I'm not saying that being polite is a bad thing but Japanese can be too polite depends on how you use it. Also, I realized that every time I talk to a new person, I do try to find out how old he/she is in a conversation before I decide speaking whether polite Japanese or casual Japanese to keep the conversation going. I talk to anyone in a polite way until I find out they are the same age as me or younger than me by the way. So these are some of my reasons why I don't like speaking Japanese. Please let me know what you find interesting about learning English because I'd love to hear that. Thanks for reading.
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日本語は難しいし、文法も複雑です。⊙﹏⊙
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I think all languages have this to some degree. The French "vous" vs "tu" for example. And even in English, it is frowned upon to speak in slang to an elder or some kind of authority.
These kinds of things, in my opinion, are the things that make learning different languages interesting!
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I work in Japan for a few months each year and want to avoid embarrassing moments like those you speak of! Japanese is a very difficult language and I love a challenge. Plus it's completely different to anything I have tried before.. which makes me want it more!
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I learn it just for fun. I want to speak languages other than English and my native tongue,Malay (^~^)
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I learn it because it's pretty interesting man, you know I like dares...
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