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Thanks for the post on the Yesterweb's fall. I read their manifesto and my brain decided to take a strong dislike for it. Your post helped me understand exactly what is it that I despised so much about it, and I thank you for it.
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lostletters
9 months ago
Japanese was too tough for me, and I'm coming up on 5 years in Japan. Kudos to anyone who can keep up with the rough grind.
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saddleblasters
9 months ago
Lots of good general insights about language learning here. One thing I find strange about Japanese learning is how "communal" it seems to be. There are thousands of little groups on the internet devoted to Japanese, and every day someone new pops in to announce they started learning it, asking questions that have been asked a million times, like "what manga are good for beginning Japanese learners?"
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saddleblasters
9 months ago
I guess it sounds like I’m mocking people by phrasing it this way. It’s just so different from how I learned Chinese, which was quite a solitary experience. Even now, whenever I want to talk in English about Chinese stuff that I find fascinating, I always feel like the only other people who care are a handful of Chinese Americans. Other sorts of people who I feel should be interested aren’t at all.
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saddleblasters
9 months ago
This ends up being unhealthy for me, because my contrarian inclinations cause me to go from just talking about Chinese stuff I like to becoming a full on China apologist, which is of course a completely fruitless endeavor from every perspective imaginable.
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suboptimalism
9 months ago
i think getting too involved in the "communities" is another potential pitfall... you might find yourself spending all your time chatting in english about learning japanese in some discord server instead of actually learning it
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surprised people are still reading this, yesterweb feels like ancient history. nowadays it's all about the benevolent dictatorship of f*d*ri, who accidentally improved on yesterweb by refusing to let any sort of community form...
can't wait for your post on f*d*ri if you end up making one