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.