Comments on: Japanese Is Useless And A Waste of Time: Stop Learning It

By: Io

Io — Thu, 05 Nov 2015 10:12:17 +0000

You are the result of what you love most. And you probably love to be average.

By: Rofl

Rofl — Tue, 30 Jun 2015 05:42:35 +0000

>written for an INTP? Cuz I found it excellent (すごくおもしろいとおもったね。)

By: someone

someone — Mon, 08 Dec 2014 18:43:19 +0000

I agree. I regret wasting hundreds of hours of my life trying to learn Kanji and writing them a lot of times and reviewing them a lot and then forget them. I’m glad I know English instead of this crazy language.

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By: James

James — Fri, 11 Oct 2013 09:32:36 +0000

It really is that simple. Japanese isn’t important. I don’t have to learn it. I don’t have to deal with it. I don’t have to spend my days suffering in agony for a reward that is not worth it. So, why am I still here? That’s a good question. So is “Why is the sky blue? Why is the grass green?” The answer is the same for those questions as it is for this question; because it is. Or, in this case, because I am. I think, therefore I am. I learn Japanese, therefore I am. Japanese is a part of me now. Whether I want it to be or not, It’s a fact. Trashing Japanese is equal to trashing a part of myself. And I’ve come way too far to do that now. It doesn’t matter if I started learning Japanese simply because I can, or for a more justified and “meaningful” reason, the point is, I’ve started learning Japanese. “It doesn’t matter how I get there, results are all that matter.”

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By: Eme

Eme — Mon, 18 Jun 2012 08:02:31 +0000

Well, This is pretty much the mentality I used for my entire life. That’s why I achieved nothing.
On the other hand, I started learning Japanese just for fun and didn’t plan on sticking with it (as you said, play a game until it gets boring and then leave it), but after so long I’m still eager for every day of learning Japanese.

By: Miss Language Learning

Miss Language Learning — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 23:56:47 +0000

True dat. It’s like spending your time reading drawing websites and looking at purty pictures instead of taking a pen and FREAKING DRAWING.
I used to be like that.
Do something, anything, but don’t go all “Mom help me Japanese is too hard and mean Khatz just made me give up”

By: fio

fio — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:42:44 +0000

But English looks / sounds so ugly now.

I don’t get excited over English words. They don’t make sense.

And how am I meant to fall asleep without softly spoken 日本語?

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By: Miss Language Learning

Miss Language Learning — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 17:28:05 +0000

I think it’s helpful in the sense that it helps you picture what your life would be if you weren’t studying Japanese. If picturing a Japaneseless life makes you feel bad, you know what to do.

By: Chagami

Chagami — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 16:47:53 +0000

You sound like me! For me, positive reinforcement is way more helpful than this negative vibe. However, something I’ve sort of noticed about AJATT is that a lot of things are repeated, just from different angles and perspectives. For a long while, I didn’t “get” AJATT, but then, a post came along and things just clicked. I knew what I needed to do.

This type of negative motivational material doesn’t really work for me either, but it works for some. Just look at the wide range of interesting comments here!

By: panicinduced

panicinduced — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 05:24:18 +0000

Um, what’s the purpose of this post? It’s reeking with negativity. While I respect the opinion, to each his own right? It’s not like a part of you will be taken away just by studying something. I say learn by thinking of it as a hobby (like a video game perhaps?) and it’ll turn into a passion. Don’t think of it as something that you should do, just enjoy the moment of the learning process. That’s it.

P.S: If you’re really passionate about something, you’ll pursue it no matter how hard someone tries to convince you otherwise. Don’t think about the time that may pass, or how it’s too late for you to learn something because you’re old–time DOES pass, there’s nothing you can do about it. By the time you realized that time has indeed passed you by, voila, you’ve already learned the language.

By: Areckx

Areckx — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 23:38:28 +0000

I’ll probably be reading a lot of Chinese scanlations though. With Spanish I’m sticking with books at the library… there just doesn’t seem to be a strong manga community and most Spanish scanlations have been either translated from the already translated English (Multiplicity, anyone remember that movie?) or is a typo-ridden translation of the Japanese.

Bah, I don’t really care, just give me language and I don’t care! BWAHAHA

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By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 17:01:45 +0000

A lot of the translated manga isn’t even that good.

All the goods are the unscanlated ones.

By: Chagami

Chagami — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 16:05:56 +0000

>[…]as I continue to listen and learn new vocabulary and grammar through textbooks[…]
At least for Japanese, excluding RTK, about how much of your study depends on textbooks?

By: Areckx

Areckx — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:36:11 +0000

oh and 最高（さいこう）　always messes with my mind, because I know what it really means, but in my mind I hear “psycho!”

A lot of times I feel like I’m just listening to gibberish(less so in Japanese, more with Spanish and Mandarin) but I know from experience that as I continue to listen and learn new vocabulary and grammar through textbooks, it becomes less and less gibberish and starts to feel more and more like I’m listening to English. (my L1)

By: Areckx

Areckx — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 05:34:05 +0000

I think you got what I meant, but just to clarify, I don’t want to get rid of my English, I just want to get rid of the bad social habits I have.