I studied Latin for four years just so I could read Caesar and Virgil...

I studied Latin for four years just so I could read Caesar and Virgil. Is it bad to study Japanese just so I can enjoy their culture/media as well?

You can download your silly cartoons with subtitles. F/a/ggot.

That's the only reason to ever learn a language OP

Why don't you learn luxembourgish while you're at it?

Many good doujins of those cartoons are not translated, and even the subtitles of the cartoons are done very badly and subbers constantly engage in autistic fansub wars.

For what reason?

I don't even watch anime but I don't see the big deal. If you're going to learn a language to enjoy yourself with it, why the fuck not?

But you're definitely a cuck for even needing to ask.

Learning latin is as benefical. Both are special snowflake languages

There are very few bad reasons for learning a language. I wouldn't go admitting it, though. Just say you learned it out of a general interest.

That girl is just tipping over into fat territory, by the way.

I'm not using Latin anymore

My friend, there are absolutely no bad reasons out there for learning a language. The only thing you have to make sure of, is that you pick the right one.

I personally think it'd be better if you'd learn another Romance language, since you've already got four years of Latin under your belt; plus, you seem proficient enough in English. You'd have an easier time learning a language that will be 100x more useful than Japanese.

However, if you're interested enough in Japanese media, to the point of considering learning all the fucking writing systems associated with Japanese, then go for it. I'm interested in French literature and music, so I started my journey to proficiency last year. I have a background in Latin as well, so I can vouch for the fact that your four years in Latin were a good four years spent.

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if you like something related to the culture of a region where a language is used, study the language

I like Chinese food so I'm studying Chinese

There's a difference between learning a language to study some of the greatest works of literature ever written and learning a language to watch shitty cartoons.

>learn a language
>waste your time
Pick one, faggot.

Latin was based, thanks for the advice anons

I actually don't think the writing system is too bad and the grammar is surprisingly similar (particles=case uses)

Et tu, vais dars tus RABUS para mim? Tois com caralhus durus.

No. You fucking weeb.

r-rude

OP if you start learning a language and encounter people that are stuying like you, then you will find out really quickly that people who have some of motivation that comes from the inside are more likely to stick with it than those with an exterior motivation.

What I mean is that you are more likely to succeed if you are learning a language for a reason like an affinity for a part of the attached culture/country/people, a linguistic insterest or intellectual curiousity for the language.

Those that start off with 'it has a lot of speakers' or 'it will advance my career' will run out of steam pretty quickly if they don't manage do develop something like this during their process.

Which language you need learning user?

The thing is latin extends to a few things and a number of historical texts

Go for ancient greek or neck yourself. Your porn comes with subtitles, you know?

So does Japanese

I don't watch porn

Japanese media is more than animu. But you already know that.

Go for it

That girl is 15
Also Latin is shit
Had to learn it at school only useful if you want to go into medicine

Wrong, it's also useful to learn about the grammatical foundations of many European languages.

Assuming you mean weebshit, no, you don't gain anything reading those simple and unnuanced works in their original language. Following your line of reasoning you should learn Chinese to read the Chinese classics, which inform many nearby cultures including Japan.

You're retarded

Which is only useful if you then go on to learn several other European languages. Which almost no one learning Latin does. And you could just learn about the grammatical foundations of European languages by studying European languages that are more useful.

Except you don't usually learn about grammatical intricacies when learning other European languages because you don't need to.
Latin is most likely purely a written language and ancient Romans actually spoke a simplified version of it, which would be closer to the Romance of today. But because it's only written, its grammar is much more explicit than that of modern languages and you have to learn a lot more about it to get by.

I guess Chinese is the second most learned language among Japanese scholars for no reason :^)

Could be just because they only have to learn a few more characters and some grammar and they're done. If all they want to do is read the classics they don't have to learn how it's pronounced in modern-day China.

>if you then go on to learn several other European languages. Which almost no one learning Latin does.

>Except you don't usually learn about grammatical intricacies when learning other European languages because you don't need to.

That's why people often learn languages from a different family better than closely related languages: we tend to underestimate the amount of effort required to master them and often stop halfway.

You wouldn't understand. Spanish and French don't even have proper declensions. No other language forces you to spell out the grammar like Latin does.

They don't have "proper declensions" because they have no declensions, period. And I most certainly would understand, Hans, as I studied Latin and Greek in high school, like everyone did in my generation.

Singular vs plural is a declension and they have that. Anyway, you should know better than to shit on Latin if you've learned it yourself.

>Singular vs plural is a declension and they have that.

No, Agreement is an inflection but not a declension. You have no idea what you're talking about.

>Anyway, you should know better than to shit on Latin if you've learned it yourself.

Where have I shat on Latin? I was shitting on lazy, overconfident language learners.

Made me look up wtf agreement is on Wikipedia, but you're talking shit. Agreement just means that the declension of words sometimes has to match (e.g. noun with article). Spanish and French both append shit to the ends of words to signify plural, that *is* a declension.

*to the end of nouns

Not just words.

French definitely does not have cases brah

Okay, what's the fucking source lads

Been waiting for it. Tell us

All I managed to find was a few lame gifs

no videos of her getting dicked

a real shame

she's a pure 14 year old girl, she probably doesn't even know what a dick is

nevermind the fact that she uploaded nudes. she's pure