Is it worth learning Japanese just to enjoy the culture? (ie,

no, you can pick up the nuances just by listen with subs ofc you have to be pretty attentive and a good understanding of their kanji-pronounciation versus their phonetic/slang stuff

of which will take years of immersion in japanese to acquire since a lot of their slice-of-life comedy deals with puns

so unless you have ulterior motives you don't need to

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>>71790081
Is a country's culture defined by their media and entertainment?

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>>71790365
I guess in my case it means anything I can consume and enjoy

>>71790449
Should probably call it their media then.

>>71790081
Been studying Japanese since high school, and I can tell you quite honestly. Don't.
Don't study Japanese.

If you're doing it for the reasons you listed, I can tell you honestly that the difficulty of the language outweighs the benefit

>>71790529
What were your reasons?

>>71790081
Sure, why not. You spend most of your quality enjoying media of various forms so learning the target language of a source of media you enjoy is basically enriching your enjoyment of life.

>>71790529
You probably studied highly inefficiently and took years to reach N3. You class based learners are the absolute last people worth listening to regarding language learning.

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Do you love Japan?

>>71791174
Sure

>>71791174
>Karolina Styczyńska (born June 17, 1991) is a Polish shogi professional. She is the first non-Japanese, male or female, to be awarded professional status by the Japan Shogi Association.

>Styczyńska started playing shogi as a teenager after seeing the game depicted in an issue of the Japanese manga Naruto.

Our weeaboos are actually fucking insane.

>>71791495
pretty dedicated

japanisu isu easy ですよ

>>71792038
am I japaneseing now ですか?

>>71792066
わおー
天才がいるんだー

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>>71792077
あたい!

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>>71790081
Learn Korean instead, it's 17x easier and they have better waifus

>>71792555
It isn't as pretty of a language and their music industry is horrifyingly homogeneous. Can't deny the cute girls, even if they do come across in pictures as somewhat vapid.

kek this place is weeb central

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>>71792555
I would like to visit Korea, but it's always been a backseat in my mind to Japan. I just love traditional Japanese aesthetics. The architecture, the lacquerware.. so much of it just seems to be perfect.

At the same time I look at cultural values like 建前 and 和 and I just hate it. It's fundamentally against who I am.

Maybe I'll look into South Korea. I'd like to visit before anything happens with North Korea.

>>71790081
>To enjoy Japanese modern pop culture such as anime, mainstream music, films and so on:
Basically no

>To enjoy traditional Japanese culture such as Rakugo, Manzai, Nazokake, Haiku and so on:
Absolutely yes. You must learn it.

Good Japanese poems, satires and comedies are supposed to contain some complex and well-hidden wordplays.
It's so English- or any foreign language-unfriendly, but you've got to deal with it as it naturally happens when the language is so autistic it is based on three different characters.

>>71792555
But they have no media besides shitty tv and shitty k-pop

>>71794000
Thanks Davido-kun

>>71790081
No. I'm learning it, but only because I have free time. It's better to focus on other things.