How do I motivate myself to learn Japanese? I am no longer a weeb but I've been learning the language for three years (intermediate) and it would feel retarded to stop. Is there a good reason besides anime or Japanese women?
pic related was my room in my weeb years.
If I lived in that room and spent my time learning a language I have no hope of mastering in the vague hope of getting a Japanese girl to like me... I would kill myself. No really, I would.
Funny thing is, I had a long-distance relationship with a Japanese schoolgirl that I met on a language exchange app. As pic related lets you see, it was miserable but worth it in the end. God rewards suffering sometimes.
>for three years (intermediate) and it would feel retarded to stop.
Sunk Cost fallacy
Just quit now before you waste 3 more years. You clearly don't give a shit
I know it is, but it is tempting, I will live my life kinda-knowing Japanese. Might as well search for a new reason to continue and have a rare and useful skill.
pic related: My bed with the praying aid above.
literally no reason whatsoever to learn japanese besides catering to your delusional idea of japan. If you learned french, german, italian, latin, ancient greek you could actually obtain some cultural and intellectual value.
There's no value inherent in those languages that Japanese doesn't also have.
that is not a relationship you sad fuck. You never met her, you don't know her, you didn't date her. Your life is a joke
Have you ever heard of japanese literature? no obviously you haven't because it doesnt exist
its called the sunk cost fallacy. personally i dont think there is a future learning Japanese. You master japanese then what? uh you can ...watch anime without subtitles. You can't even get hired translating cause there are already enough native Japanese translators. It also sounds retarded to tell your western peers you know Japanese, because that immeditely raises a red flag and makes everyone think your an massive weeb outcast with yellow fever.
you don't have to know japanese to a get a japanese gf in fact they prefer you not to speak japanese, since most of the time they want to learn English from you. If you look like the typical chad westerner and sign up as a english teacher you are sure to pick up a roastie.
>It also sounds retarded to tell your western peers you know Japanese, because that immeditely raises a red flag and makes everyone think your an massive weeb outcast with yellow fever.
literally nobody outside of Jow Forums thinks this
Even if you're "motivated" to learn a language doesn't mean you're capable.
hahaha those motivational quotes, you really thought you were an anime character or somethin huh, nerd? Japanese is fucking lame now, learn Korean and get with the times grandpa.
>its called the sunk cost fallacy
I agree with this, honestly. Japanese is still a mainstream language for now, but it's value diminishes each year.
If you want more motivation, learn a language that people in your community speak and you'll reinforce your learning with real-world interaction. For example, if you're in the southern US, spanish would be a good secondary language.
It does, but it's pretty much garbage
I speak 5 languages fluently, I think I am capable of it.
No, you're still a retarded faggot weeb. You're a loser in your home country and you think Japan will fix that.
Fly to Japan. Take a taxi to some tiny, country village. Somewhere that it is very unlikely to have a lot of English speakers. Like the Japan's version of the deepest backwaters of Louisiana. Destroy your passport and anything that could identify you, burn all your money, all your clothes. You cannot go to an embassy or a bank and replace these items. You must get a job and save money to fly back home.
I was a weeb my whole life, or at least since I got ilimited internet access and then spent thousands of hours watching all my animes and mangos, and then I stopped because I grew bored of it, and for a good eight years I simply stopped giving a fuck and I was looking down on weebs for still watching that garbage, but then I just got back in and now I'm a weeb again
so, yeah, idk if you can really stop being a weeb
though it's anecdotal as fuck, but that's like telling yourself you'll never play video games again once you're 30 or so, there'll always be that game that will make you go 'well shit, that looks fun, I got time to waste so let's do that' and you'll get back in it
also, though I'm sure the competition must be getting hard due to how normalized animes are nowadays and how many weebs are about, learning japanese could let you either get some money by doing translation shit, or even land an actual job in one of the hundreds of jap studios going worldwide (whether we're talking games, anime or even movies)
I'm considering learning it just to be able to read all those untranslated mangas and novels I couldn't otherwise desu
being able to speak another language is always a bonus, though obviously people will call you a weeb for speaking jap
You can join the coast guard and be sent out on to cargo ships on a helicopter to do translations for Japanese ship captains. Very interesting job
That sounds very interesting, though, I am Swedish.
We don't interact with the Japanese a lot.
>Yes I am true Japanese and I want a job please