Why You Want To Learn Japanese

[TokyoRoze]

AdA YUi TSuKinO wrote:
I want to learn Japanese, because I love Final Fantasy, and I look Japanese

coo

[TokyoRoze]

Spaztick wrote:
I wanted to learn Japanese, for reasons currently unknown to me. I didn't know why or what I'd do until after I started learning. I figured I'd broaden my horizons, but that can't be the only reason. I'll probably move there during college as a study abroad student, get married and have an excuse to stay there.

In short, I don't know.

Very nice, totally the same with me!

[AdA YUi TSuKinO]

TokyoRoze wrote:

AdA YUi TSuKinO wrote:
I want to learn Japanese, because I love Final Fantasy, and I look Japanese

coo

B):D

[Tamai]

It's because I have two little cousins that are learning japanese and I cannot let them be better than me, just kidding. I already speak english (or at least I can read), and I really enjoy learning new languages, first I tried german, but I couldn't spend much time studing, so I stopped (maybe I will finish that after japanese). then I noticed that japanese is very similar to portuguese (I mean the logic behind the language), so it would be easy. Beyond, I'm a sansei, so I'm surrounded by japanese stuff, my mother speaks and can help me often.

[jinksys]

whats a sansei? I looked it up and got this...

酸性: さんせい (n) acidity; Common
産制: さんせい (n) birth control;
三省: さんせい (n) frequent reflection (meditation); Common
参政: さんせい (n) participation in government;
賛成: さんせい (n,vs) approval; agreement; support; favour; Common
三世: さんせい children of nisei; 3rd generation in US;

the only other thing I could think of was that you meant
you are in hawaii or from there.

[TokyoRoze]

Come On people express yourselves!

[Tamai]

jinksys,

The sansei I said is the 3rd generation, son of nissei (2nd generation), and this one is the son of issei (this one was born and came from Japan), I guess that it doesn't matter the country the original japanese guy chose to imigrate, since he arrives there, he becomes a issei, his son a nissei and so on.
I'm not 100% sure about issei, but it's what I've found.

I just couldn't get why you thought about Hawaii.

[TokyoRoze]

how do u type japanese?

[Daisuke]

Download globalime on microsofts website. If you need a toturial go here: http://www.andante.org/ime.html

[jinksys]

tamai,
lol im such a goof
I searched sansei on google and found "sansei hawaii",
which is a japanese bar and grill in hawaii LOL.
I thought it was a hawaiian town.

[Sunny Pig]

A Japanese bar and grill in Hawaii? That I've never heard of. Seems interesting

I learn the Japanese language for Japanese culture and anime. Actually, anime IS culture.

By the way, I have always been wondering...
TokyoRoze-san, how do you place pictures in your signature area?

[Daisuke]

I am allmost sure about that you enter the link to the image between,

Try it out

[Sunny Pig]

分かりました。ありがとう、だいすけさん。

ふさわしいピクチャーを見つけたまで・・・
"Until I have found a suitable picture..."

[TokyoRoze]

OK, GOTO photobucket.com make an acount there
after u do that make sure the pic you want as your sig is on your pc, hit brownse(on tphotobucket) and select the pic an dunder the pic (when its done doin it thing) is 3 lines wiht typing copy and paste the one with the [IMG] into your sig area. Walla! your done! Ie!

[Qbe]

Since I'm new around here, I'll dredge up this thread and add my own $.02.

I've been into foreign languages since high school, but never had any interest in Asian languages or culture (beyond Jackie Chan movies). Last year several things all came together:

1. I gave my 2 year old the nickname "Bundo" (long story). My wife didn't like it. To irritate her, I decided to see if bundo.com existed. It does: it's a Japanese site. It irritated me that my browser could display it but I couldn't read it. I still don't know who The Bundo is.

2. I got into console video games a few years ago, mainly RPGs, and interest in Japanese seems to go along with that. I picked up a book on Katakana from the library, but never worked at it.

3. Last summer my manager called me up (I'm a telecommuter) and told me that even though I'd worked an insane amount of hours all year, I wasn't getting a raise. I took the rest of the week off out of disgust and decided to play a video game. I'd never given Shenmue a fair shake, so I fired it up. Wow! Shenmue put me in Japan, and I loved it. Later that day I went to the bookstore and found a shelf full of Japanese books and Pimsleur courses. I was hooked.

I guess the reason why I keep working at Japanese is that it's fun. Pimsleur lessons are amazing, and I love studying the books. I doubt that I'll ever go to Japan (unless I can work out a business trip somehow). I really don't know any Japanese people, though I'm starting a beginners' class next month just to get some real life practice. Yep, I guess I'd have to say that I'm doing it primarily because it's a fun intellectual challenge.