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[LianYL] Stop Being A Weeaboo Shithead, Start Learning Some Real Japanese

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Popularity: 7% [?] Published by LianYL July 16th, 2008 in LianYL

I think I am rather awesome in the Japanese language. I mean, I could spam different words all day long! Kawaii sushi sashimi! Toyota Mitsubishi Hitachi! Arreeeeeegatoh!!!! Soudesoooooookaaaaah? Sew dehsoo neeeeeeeeh! Byebeeeeeee.

HONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

ITAGAKI BENKYOUED NAKAMURA SASUKE NARUTO. GANBATTE LATTE! SUGOIIIII DEHSOOOO NEH?

So awesome.

Did you just see your entire Japanese vocabulary up there? Do you spam these words during otaku meetings, fujoshi bitchsfests and FYG bloodbaths even though you have absolutely no idea how stupid you sound like?

If yes, congratulations! I hate you.

I grew tired of only knowing sayonarrrrra and arrrreeegatoh a few years back and decided to ACTUALLY pick up the language. There’s only so much you can pretend before your language capabilities get ridiculed publicly by yourself. I attended weekend classes at a language school which was the cheapest in town. It started out rather roughly, having to memorise hiragana, katakana and link up the kanji I’d already learnt from Chinese with the different terms. Some characters don’t even mean the same thing! For example, the kanji for watashi and the kanji for jama meant ‘privacy’ and ‘evil devils’ respectively in Chinese. While all my classmates were dreading the memorisation process, I had already started to write the hiragana and katakana characters over a hundred times each day. It’s a brainless practice that you actually benefit from. Sure, it took a lot of time but I had picked up everything by heart in a fortnight. I cleared the entire elementary grammar book alone at home and asked Kwok the Touhou hippy for help with stuff that I wasn’t sure about.

Certain classmates of mine, your typical weeaboo shitheads, thought I had accomplished all my learning easily because I was some sort of genius. “Oooh Lian gets full marks again, he must be a language prodigy.” I consider that an utter insult to all the effort I’d put into my Japanese studies.

Within 2 years I skipped 8-9 levels of courses in my school by studying alone, graduated from it last year, and am now awaiting for their further advance classes to actually start. I suggested Literature classes but the suggestion was rejected because they thought it was too boring for most people. So what do I do now? I read Japanese papers and novels, flipping my dictionary everyday, offering translation services to both academic and non-academic writings and asking DM for help while preparing for this year’s JLPT 1 all over again since I failed last year’s. It kind of sucks to fail with a mark that could’ve passed level 2 because I tried to be funny by applying for level 1 straight after level 3. However, if you consider that JLPT 1 is the standard of Japanese elementary school kids, the attempt isn’t exactly far fetched.

There, I just told you the story of the efforts I put into actually understanding the words I had spammed before. So Mr/Miss Kawaii Sashimi, what have you done for yourself today, other than trying to sound cool with stupid words?

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41 Responses to “[LianYL] Stop Being A Weeaboo Shithead, Start Learning Some Real Japanese”

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1 Ascaloth 202 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 12:14 pm

Kawaii sushi sashimi! Toyota Mitsubishi Hitachi! Arreeeeeegatoh!!!! Soudesoooooookaaaaah? Sew dehsoo neeeeeeeeh! Byebeeeeeee.

HONDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

ITAGAKI BENKYOUED NAKAMURA SASUKE NARUTO. GANBATTE LATTE! SUGOIIIII DEHSOOOO NEH?
2 Kresnik 33 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 12:29 pm

I wanted to take class too, but since I’m working already, that prove to be hard to squeeze some time for it.. >_>
3 Sasaki 41 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:02 pm

Hi I the only japanese words i know are TEMEEEEE and KISAMAAAAA.

:awesome:
4 Kaioshin Sama 101 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:18 pm

Did you just spam the name of a mediocre car manufacturing company? Anyway, it sounds like you have some interesting characters at your school. Go ahead and give them a good shot right in the solar plexus for me okay.
5 WeeBot 1 comment Jul 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm

The biggest weaboo shitheads are the ones who actually take the trouble to take Japanese classes so they can feel above the other average weaboo shitheads who can only fake moonspeak. Are you one of those?

Now there’s a thought.
6 The Sojourner 112 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 2:36 pm

[ID Sojourner]

OMG KAWAII POCKY NEKO DESU NEEEEEEEE
7 C.I. 44 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pm

TOYOTAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

I lol’ed at this article. Which is somewhat relevant to me as I am beginning my own Japanese weekend classes next month.
8 nani 2 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:42 pm

Kuma bentou,daizjobou, nani, NAYAKOURAJA, Iterashai, Zero no tsukaima, benkjou, matte, demo, ureshi, naskashi, ohaio, j’mappele, densha, midori, etc

Anime watching language school rox ur hard work aho
9 nani 2 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 4:45 pm

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WeeBot 1 comment
Jul 16th, 2008 at 2:20 pm
The biggest weaboo shitheads are the ones who actually take the trouble to take Japanese classes so they can feel above the other average weaboo shitheads who can only fake moonspeak. Are you one of those?

Now there’s a thought
——–

QFT

but then again where i live there are no weeaboo’s so i can’t get that annoyed by it. But go ahead and feel yourself better then others if that is what you want
10 dKiWi 73 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 5:04 pm

Yeah, I also wrote every Hiragana and Katakana character over a few hundred times before I could even begin to read chains of Hiragana and Katakana quickly. And even now, Katakana is still a problem.

To a new learner, Hiragana may look more difficult to write than Katakana, but Hiragana still remains much easier to read.

That said, even if your Hiragana and Katakana is good, you’ve mastered only really shit level Japanese. The Kanji will be coming next.
11 Zeroblade 163 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 5:56 pm

I’m taking lessons too and I’d probably be done by the end of college, which should give me enough to pass level 2. Lessons are really expensive though :V
12 0ne 135 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 6:22 pm

I know kimochiiiii yamette iku sekusu shiyou

i am better than u
13 N3O4 3 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 6:49 pm

out of curiosity, how much are your classes?
14 LianYL 785 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

@0ne Oh noes I lose.

@N3O4 You can find the course fees at the site I linked.
15 Nano 79 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 8:12 pm

I heard latte
16 Tsubaki 519 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:10 pm

ORE MO PENISU NO RISINGU!
17 Hinano 112 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:23 pm

WOULD YOU LIKE TO TABERU SOME UMAKI GOHAN???!
18 jpmeyer 101 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

FUJIYAMA GEISHA!
19 Crest 49 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

I can only understand random noises from nubile females and the sound effects of alien appendages.
20 Adun 45 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 9:44 pm

I kind of had the same problem with a friend who studied Japanese with me during uni. When we had to practice speaking he would try to add nya, or chii to the end of sentences. I made him repeat the sentence everytime he did that until he said it properly. Damn weaboo.
21 DrmChsr0 191 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 10:13 pm

0/10

You troll like underage b&.
22 Helix 72 comments Jul 16th, 2008 at 11:33 pm

I think Bunka is cheaper.
www.bunkalang.com
23 dKiWi 73 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:13 am

I had a look through Bunka’s textbook and its really good. Problem is Bunka is in freaking Orchard, while my current language school is in Jurong East. I stay at Lakeside, so Orchard is just T_T

My teacher is a sibei genki Japanese housewife and she’s quite fun. The school’s material probably isn’t as good as Bunka, but the lessons are overall quite fun. We played charades in Japanese in one of the lessons ^^
24 Tsubaki 519 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 12:54 am

I don’t recommend Bunka to anyone who is a slow learner, or have very busy schedules or have little self discipline. It’s a very very good language school, but the speed at which they go through their material is insane. Sad to say I had to drop out of it during my assessment period because I couldn’t keep up the pace of the class.
25 Martin 9 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:21 am

Well done! I suppose the moral here is never underestimate the importance of hard graft when learning stuff - I can see why you felt a bit annoyed. “I consider that an utter insult to all the effort I’d put into my Japanese studies.” Quite.

So you’d recommend learning the hiragana and katakana in your own time as a starting point then, even before taking formal lessons? I must admit I’m interested in learning the language since I miss the satisfaction I got out of learning foreign languages at high school. That and the fact that when I visit the place on holiday it’ll be very useful, not to mention more polite than expecting everyone to speak English because I’m an ignorant tourist. “learning the language as an act of courtesy towards the place you’re visiting” sounds more respectable than being a weaboo shithead I guess. ^_^
26 kokanaden 336 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:16 am

Oh… Japanese? Sure? Easy-peasy. I show you my awesome command of language:

Kan Ni Na…. Oops, that was Hokkien. Sorry. I’m a noob.
27 The Sojourner 112 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 9:24 am

Tsubaki has a point about Bunka not suited for slow learners. Bunka goes at bullet speed when it comes to covering grammar and I would like to point out that they are rather lenient when it comes to conversational skill training. So you might get students who are at a rather advanced level yet they are not very confident with speaking. I recommend Bunka only if you are willing to put extra effort in studying by yourself otherwise you might spend most of your time feeling clueless in class after a few lessons.

Ikoma is not too bad though it is based in Orchard. The cost of studying there is acceptable in my opinion.
28 LianYL 785 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 9:40 am

Then I think I should give Bunka a try.
29 Tragic comedy 14 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 10:41 am

i Studied from those old language tapes i found at my uncle’s place.
30 Helix 72 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 11:02 am

“Tsubaki has a point about Bunka not suited for slow learners. Bunka goes at bullet speed when it comes to covering grammar and I would like to point out that they are rather lenient when it comes to conversational skill training.”

Can learn to read games and watch anime, don’t need to talk much, seems to suit my purposes fine.
31 Tiny Red Man 149 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:04 pm

let’s learn japanese the same way the Japanese learn english: Thru Vulgarities.. ^_^

the only phrases I know: Itai~~, Urusai!! (x3) and minai de, hazukashii~~ I is phail ^_^
32 tj_han 1442 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 1:48 pm

PATA PATA PATA PON!!
33 CDan 16 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

pettan pettan tsurupettan~
34 Helix 72 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 3:31 pm

Belive it or not, you CAN learn quite a bit of Japanese by reading hentai manga and/or doujinshi (At least I did).

Yes, reading. Not just looking at all the pretty pictures. (Use them as positive reinforcement)
35 Stifler 107 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 4:54 pm

“Kawaii sushi sashimi! Toyota Mitsubishi Hitachi!”

Why am I suddenly reminded of Scary Movie 4?
36 Blowfish 27 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 6:54 pm

Oh man your post reminds me of all the stupid girls(and of corse some guys) over here that claim to know japanese…I once was shopping in the japanese district of düsseldorf and such a girl tagged along with me.
When i was buying some stuff in a KOREAN!!!! Shop she suddenly jumped the cashier and threw random words like kawaii at him thinking she was making a conversation.I wish i had a baseball bat with me back then.

These people are not limited to Japanese but other languages too.To know Japanese words seems to be just a tad “cooler” Idiots…
37 madeener 13 comments Jul 17th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

The only Japanese I know is ka ni na (shortcake), chi bai (thousand well-wishes) and arigatonenepok (arigatonenepok). I consider myself an expert in the language. Seriously.
38 Saya 7 comments Jul 18th, 2008 at 1:07 am

I agree! At first I was really stupid and wanted to use just random Japanese but now I want to respect the language, sit down and learn it properly. I was actually talking about this to my friend earlier. We were saying that people say they know a language when really they may only know the basics or a few words or instructions. (Or they just know random words and use them out of context) To actually know a language is alot of hard work. I have a program to learn the grammar and how to speak it, and I’m using the internet as a reference for the Kana etc. : ) It’s cool because I recognise some words!! (from manga mainly…)
39 Orenji 22 comments Jul 18th, 2008 at 4:48 am

It’s like you’re really Japanese!
40 wongtcsg 31 comments Jul 21st, 2008 at 12:47 pm

yes, master lian.
let’s study together.
want?

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