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Hi everyone, I’ve actually been here for quite some time now (though life stuff happened some time ago and i had a 4 month break :/) and i finally decided to say hi and maybe be a little more active on these forums. I decided now was a good time since a new update should be coming soon
But anyways, onto the human being that is me, I decided to learn Japanese because I’m pretty talented/gifted in school and my parents kept saying I was wasting my life by doing nothing except reading, homework and gaming. It went something along the lines of “you are so talented and you use it to do nothing at all” and I decided, you know what? They’re right, I was lucky to be born with these genes, making seemingly pretty complex stuff easy for me to understand, and I DID ABSOLUTELY NOTHING OF USE TO ANYBODY. I was just another seven-billionth of the human population, except I had a talent, but I wasted it doing nothing at all. Then I decided, you know what? I’m gonna be as productive as you can be as a 14 y/o boy from Denmark can be and pick up a new language, I decided on Japanese because of my love for video games, JRPGs being my favorite (my favorite JRPG is ni no kuni if anyone is interested). I had no other languages I really had any connection to at all as I was already pretty fluent in English, and German is taught in schools over here.
This spawned a new, equally nonproductive hobby of mine: anime and manga, at least i’m actually being less useless now and getting a minuscule bit of learning done as I watch it. Japanese is now also a part of my identity I guess, I kinda maybe accidentally said that I was learning Japanese to my whole class even though Koichi said not to, and it has stuck with me since. I haven’t said a word about it in a very long time and people still ask me about it, probably because I’m not very social and a huge nerd and people don’t know what to talk about with me.
So, that’s my introduction, it seems kinda like I’m bragging reading it again but I swear that isn’t my intent, I was just bored and decided to actually write that intro I was told to write a long time ago. I will do my best to reply to any questions you guys ask in this thread.
Welcome! Mmm, danishes.
(my favorite JRPG is ni no kuni if anyone is interested)
Ooo, I’ve been playing the DS version of that. In Japanese, because Level 5 decided it wasn’t worth doing a translation. Been a while since I played, though…
ようこそ, eller “Rart at møde dig” som vi siger i Danmark.
I’m from Denmark too. I think telling your whole class was the right decision. I followed Koichis suggestion and no one about learning Japanese, absolutely no one. I feel it caused me problems. I don’t know about you but when I find a new interest, and means something to me, I easily get ashamed about it (I think that’s normal). At a point (after studying for a year or so) I began to feel like a weird thing for me to keep secret. You know… it is a little weird to keep learning Japanese a secret, if my secret was an odd sexuality I see a reason not to tell people but learning Japanese isn’t worth being ashamed about, learning Japanese is cool.
When I began thinking about this I decided to tell begin telling people around me. But that was really difficult for me. It was difficult for me because I think it is strange waiting so long to tell people about it.
Today, the most of my friends know it but not my family.
I actually started a thread about it here on TextFugu if you are interested.http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/i-need-some-social-support/
I’m sorry about speaking so much about me but it was just because I didn’t want you to face the problems as me.
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