Why did you decide to start learning Japanese, and why have you continued learning it?

• C

  c***

  2025-07-16

  日本への憧れと「日本語話せたら面白そうかな」と思って始めたんだけど、日本で家族を築きたくなって、日本国籍を取得するのを目指しています

• T

  t***

  2025-07-16

  日本語を学ぶ理由は、家族と話すことだ

• G

  g***

  2025-07-16

  日本の学校に通っているから 日本語からは逃げられない（？）

• S

  s***

  2025-07-16

  I’m a native Japanese speaker.

• 1

  1***

  2025-07-16

  Well i am planning on living there in the future so yeah I'll probably need some basic japanese

• B

  b***

  2025-07-16

  スームズでてりやきバーガーセット購入したい

• D

  d***

  2025-07-16

  As a guy who has traveled to Japan more than anywhere else since elementary school and has been enjoying Japanese media since junior high, I wanna connect to the Japanese culture further by learning Japanese. Also, it feels rewarding to communicate with locals (despite my poor listening skills).

• H

  h***

  2025-07-16

  Because i am half Japanese but raised in Mexico and I feel bad for not being able to properly communicate with most of my family at my grown age😭

• W

  w***

  2025-07-15

  cus I live in japan

• L

  l***

  2025-07-15

  I wanted to learn a new language and Japanese was the winner. Points in favour of Japanese: Completely different way of thinking. Interesting stories (books, light novels, manga ...) Exciting writing system (lots of alphabets, no spaces) A friend wanted to learn Japanese. (unfortunately he decided against it) Today it's more meditative learning, with the hope that I'll figure it out one day and I don't like to give up.

• J

  j***

  2025-07-15

  'cos I am Japanese and I live in a Japanese environment and my first language is Japanese

• S

  s***

  2025-07-15

  I wanted to learn Japanese to make connections with more people and to make enjoying Japanese media easier. I’ve continued to learn for those reasons, it motivates me to keep going

• K

  k***

  2025-07-15

  なんとなく

• R

  r***

  2025-07-15

  about 6 years ago when i wanted to start learning, about a month ago is when i started

• N

  n***

  2024-11-02

  planning on living there when I finish uni because im going to get forced to marry a man 🗣️ 🗣️

• H

  h***

  2024-11-02

  Because I want to visit Japan, work too maybe and they're not good with English

• C

  c***

  2024-11-02

  始めたの理由は、子供の頃からずっと日本のことが大好きだったから日本語も気になりました。まだ続けてる理由は、日本で家庭を築きたくなってきたから、試練として日本語を学んでいます。僕の夢のために、誰かに幸せと安心をさせるように、今この僕の全てをあげれなければ日本での生活に値しません

• L

  l***

  2024-11-02

  I was in a better headspace for a while and when it went back to shit I stopped

• T

  t***

  2024-11-02

  My aunt + I'd be down to visit Japan sometime

• F

  f***

  2024-11-01

  https://tenor.com/view/high-kick-karate-karateka-slam-kumite-gif-22593583

• W

  w***

  2024-11-01

  I liked how the kana (or "letters" as I called them at the time) looked 😭

• A

  a***

  2024-11-01

  I remember when I was 13 and a friend of mine asked me "Do you watch anime?" and I didn't know what she was talking about. Never really bothered with anime. I watched some on TV when I was a kid, but that was all it was to me, childhood shows. At some point I started playing "osu!", when the game hadn't been around long still. I loved the idea of a fast precision game like that and learned to love rythm games through it. A lot of the music was Japanese and I found that some of the animes I watched as a kid continued being made. I started watching anime then. I never realized how different our cultures were before, it was quite fascinating. From then on I was hooked, slowly sliding into the language more and more. I've just been slacking for years, but I am learning, slowly.

• J

  j***

  2024-11-01

  Because I got very into the culture back in high school. and what keeps me going is the people I have met from japan that have been very sweet to me

• N

  n***

  2024-11-01

  I started learning it to torture myself

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