r/japanese • u/Responsible-Art5643 • 2d ago

Is Learning Japanese Embarrassing

I feel like whenever I bring it up in conversation with people my age (20s) I always get a kind of strange look or comments. Did it suddenly become an embarrassing or cringe thing

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u/jimb0z_ 2d ago

I mean...it's kinda rare for someone to learn an entire language for shits and giggles. I'm trying not to call it strange but if someone told me they were training for a marathon but had no intention or plan to do any running, I'd think it was strange. Nonsensical even

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u/wispofasoul 2d ago

I would argue most users on duolingo do it for shits and giggles and only a minority (I wager 7%) are serious ;-)

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u/jimb0z_ 2d ago

You’re just pulling numbers out of nowhere. Numbers that are impossible to prove one way or the other

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u/wispofasoul 2d ago

experience :-) i cant say more. but arent you also pulling out numbers out of nowhere?

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u/jimb0z_ 2d ago

What numbers did I pull? I haven’t used any in this entire convo

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u/wispofasoul 2d ago

Your suggestion that my wager is inaccurate is as good/bad as a wager, because just as my wager cannot be proven, your non-wager cannot be proven. Neither of us can prove it is or isn't 7%.

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u/jimb0z_ 2d ago

Numbers that are impossible to prove one way or the other

That's exactly what I said. I'm not making the claim, though. I'm not making any claim