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13965843 No.13965843 [Reply] [Original]

>he has only read books in English

Lol. I can’t even imagine what it would be like to have such a small brain. Becoming fluent in foreign languages and reading literature in various tongues expands your mind in ways that is absolutely inconceivable to your average /lit/ plebeian. But please, feel free to keep jerking yourselves off over which English translation of your favorite meme philosopher is the most DEEP. I’ll be reading classic Japanese literature in the exact way it’s author intended it to be digested in.

>> No.13965858
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>>13965843

>tfw to stupid to learn other languages

there's like a billion new words and grammer rules to learn and if it's in another alphabet it's extra hard.

>> No.13965865

>>13965843
Rude.

>> No.13965871

>>13965843
>he has to read
anon... im sorry

>> No.13965873

>>13965843
uhhhh i've read the very hungry caterpillar in japanese you pleb
get on my level

>> No.13965883

>>13965843
>he can't read the true sanskrit
>settles for japanese so he can authentically cry to Dazai
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>> No.13965913

>>13965858
learn ONE, then you can learn them all this is the key. the skills of language learning are transferable. and there are several languages that share a common vocab with english

>> No.13965920

>>13965865
>cringe

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>>13965843
>japanese
lmao fucking weebs

>> No.13965973

>>13965843
>I’ll be reading classic Japanese literature
Imagine learning a new language soley to read manga

>> No.13965980

>>13965843
Japanese is a low information density language. There is no reason to learn it.

>> No.13965984

>>13965946
uhh I prefer the term waponise

>> No.13965990

>>13965973
OP here.
Actually I started learning it when I was a weeb freshman in college. It ended up landing me a finance Job at a Fortune 500 in Tokyo and a QT Japanese wife though so I think it was a fair investment of my time.
What languages other than English have you read books in anon?

>> No.13966053

>>13965980
From the perspective of one light study, yeah...

>> No.13966059

Grammar is extremely easy to learn .

All you need to do is grind out anki words .

I use a site to extract word from a book i want to read.

http://ctext.org/plugins/texttools/#ngram

>>13965858

>> No.13966061

>>13965843
I'd rather get AIDS and die than learn Japanese.

>> No.13966065

>>13966053
The longer the study, the greater the loss and damage to the brain.

>> No.13966188

>>13966059
Why not just understand how the grammar works theoretically, apply that to the actual language and not snippets of it, develop intuition for it so you can largely skip this grinding altogether?

>> No.13966223

>>13965843
What if English is my second language?

>> No.13966242

>>13966223
It depends on what your first language is. Languages like Spanish and any African nigger languages are filthy and actually a detriment to your brain.
Finnish means you literally have autism so your opinion doesn’t matter at all.

>> No.13966271

>>13966242
>Spanish
>nigger tier language
>More complex and profound that English
>Emperor Charles V: I speak Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men, and German to my horse.

>> No.13966274

>>13966271
than*

>> No.13966295

>>13965843
There are a couple god tier polish books and authors like Gombrowicz or Mrożek.
I wish they were more popular on /lit/ and such places

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>>13966242
Your opinion on the Spanish language is truly a pity. Anyone who sincerely studies the language can see for himself that the Spanish language is one of the most elegant of the existent Romance languages, perhaps its only serious competition being Italian. The language is phonetically quite similar to what Latin would've sounded like. The language of course is subject to great variance, since the Spaniards were one of Europe's greatest conquering peoples. That means that the dialectical variance can range from profound lows (the Amerindian yap, the nasal Caribbean negro woof), to soaring linguistic highs (the pure and mellifluous Castilian of Salamanca, the Italianized tonal zigzag of Argentina). Hatred of the Spanish language is truly a sign of pleb-hood. If you're going to hate a language, please pick on the barbarian tongue of the Slavs, or the effeminate monotone droning of the Nords. The Italic languages are impeccable.

Once a gentleman asked me, "where are the remnants of civilization? I know of none!" I replied very sternly that I knew of some bordering the Sierra de Gredos. He said "In Spain? You must be taking the piss out of me!" I just smiled. It was a sweet moment and I am happy that Englishman of ignorance didn't know about the oasis of the Spanish sierras. God forbid he ever visit and try to teach old Spaniards at the bar how to "drink like an Englishman!"

>> No.13966379

>>13966360
Major cope

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>>13966188
That what i do

>> No.13966386

>>13965843
this was based until
>I’ll be reading classic Japanese literature
lol you idiot

>> No.13966389

>>13966382
>glove
muh anonymity

>> No.13966391

>>13966360
I think anon was joking .
You gone full autist fren

>> No.13966402

>>13966389
Well no one know my skin color plus gloves are comfy.

>> No.13966405

>>13966402
>latex gloves are comfy
What? They're sweaty!

>> No.13966417

>>13966402
That means you're brown/black. Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww!

>> No.13966430

>>13966360
Argentine Spanish is ridiculous. You just like it because they predominantly Europan. Colombian Spanish is better and clearer.

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>>13966386
>weeaboos like it so it’s a bad language

>> No.13966454

>>13966444
Let be honest your learn asian language for an asian gf.

You learn European language for the literature

>> No.13966528

>>13966444
gay trips

bruh you simply cannot wave your patrician dick around and your foreign language is JAPANESE lmao

>> No.13966532

>>13966454
Japanese+ French+English is God tier.

>> No.13966536

>>13966386
>>13966528
I have to agree with you. If one is to learn an Asian language for literary reasons, the clear choice is Chinese.

>> No.13966545

>>13965883
You only need Sanskrit if you want to study Hindu philosophy. If your interest lies in Buddhism, Classical Chinese is best (which can be learned through both Mandarin and Japanese).

>> No.13966549

If it can't be translated adequately in English then it's second-rate literature desu

>> No.13966552

>>13966536
Learn chinese
>read about eating bugs
>read about the Japanese raping your women
>read about tiger penis being a cure for infertility

Learn Japanese
>read about izanagi DIPPING HIS FUCKING SPEAR INTO THE EARTH to create Nippon
>read about raping ugly Chinese bitches and fucking the chinks up in war
>read about Genji fucking mad birches

The choice is clear.

>> No.13966559

>>13966552
Confucius beats all of Japanese literature combined.

>> No.13966577

>>13966552
>>13966536
One shouldn't learn Mandarin but Classical Chinese. Learning Mandarin will offer you barely anything in terms of literature, only the most recent works of post Great Leap Forward China. And China is so culturally impoverished nowadays that barely anything literary or philosophical happens outside of Hong Kong or Taiwan.

>> No.13966634

>>13966577
you don't know what you're talking about
there's no difference to mandarin and cantonese in written form

>> No.13966642

>>13965843
Eh, I don't really agree. My siblings and I are all trilingual, but that's just because of how and where we were raised. In fact none of us is particularly smart. Many of the great Japanese novelists were monolingual, by the way.

>> No.13966655

>>13966634
Cantonese isn't classical Chinese you blithering idiot. Classical Chinese uses different structures, grammar, and is very different to modern vernacular Chinese.

>> No.13966657

>>13966634
Besides this being wrong, it's irrelevant. Cantonese still isn't Classical Chinese either.

>> No.13966772

>>13965843
>he doesnt read in latin
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>> No.13966980

>>13965990
No one cares

>> No.13966996

>>13966980
You cared enough to write that response 6 hours after the fact.
;^)

>> No.13967021

>>13965843
>it’s

>> No.13967031

>>13966772
>he isn't fluent in latin, ancient greek, sumerian as well as both standard and old babylonian
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>> No.13967061

>>13965984
you must be 18 to post here

>> No.13967427

>>13966360
This is actually based. Thanks in the name of Spain (although nowadays liking the language is considered far far right :^) and if we don't stop the progres they'll kill it)

>> No.13968288

English has the most bestest poetry and biggest amount of books to read. Sino languages are a waste of time unless you're into Alibaba store descriptions and eight legged essay autism. Euro and Russ languages are slightly useful if you want to read specific works in their original form and have contemporary utility for communicating with those audiences. Arabic, if you want to read the Quran and communicate with your captor. Latin and Greek, Hebrew and Sanskrit, Tamil and Egyptian, Sumerian, Akkadian, etc - if you don't want to communicate with the living and think their is value in the writings of ancient people.

>> No.13968355

>>13965873
the very quiet cricket is another great read in japanese. the animal sounds are better in japanese.

>> No.13968371

>>13966382
>that penmanship

Yikes.

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>>13968371
That hurt
How can I improve ?

>> No.13968419

>>13965843
I'm too indolent and weak to learn another language, I can never muster up the effort to consistently put the time in. I'll stick to chastising myself for being a brainlet and not doing anything to effect change.

>> No.13968453

>>13968419
Stick to not posting on my board anon

>> No.13968456

It is impossible to become fluent in a foreign language in a country like the US where there is no one to speak said language with. Sure you can travel (which I do) but two or three weeks a year isn’t enough to practice a language

>> No.13968461

>>13966360
Based. And I'm Nordic

>> No.13969055

The only reason I actually want to learn Japanese is to read the literature.
Is the older stuff worth reading in the original language? Anyone?

>> No.13969092

I can't do it, I will never travel and the time investment to learn a language is too great just to read a few books. I get upset because I'm dumb, but it just wasn't meant to be.