/jp/ - Otaku Culture

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>>21057201
lol nice write-up, and very true from what i observed when i took classes in college myself, mostly from watching others.

i think i was one of the lucky few that actually got something out of japanese classes because:
1. it introduced me to a lot of real life friends who were into japanese culture and language, which i didn't have before,
2. it got me a paid job helping the teacher, which meant i got to talk to her in japanese all the time as well as lead tutoring sessions where i had to know what i was talking about to teach other students,
3. my japanese teacher introduced me to a really sweet japanese girl who i got to have conversational lunches with every week, and
4. it eventually got me connections for a job in japan, where i am now.

i was really blessed with my experience of japanese classes.

that being said, i wish i'd started doing the things that really had big effects on my fluency from like 6 months in. i didn't really start going with raw anime listening and reading manga till like the end of the first year. and even then, other kids in the class would look at me like i was crazy when i said i was watching raw anime and reading raw manga. now, none of them are fluent at all. i think i'm the only one who came out of those classes with a considerable level of fluency. there was one other girl too, but she had already been studying on her own since highschool with drama CDs and idol stuff, plus she was chinese so kanji was easy for her.