I didn't vote this time. It's more like, "not even trying, already knew one, no time for another..."

Well, I do learn some Japanese not just from reading manga and watching anime, but I use babelfish (an online text translation site) and by using a kanji/romanji converting site to learn the language. But right now, I'm still learning.

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I read so much mangas, I'm too lazy to watch anime!

Manga I'm loving ATM: Heart no Kuni no Alice

Manga/anime inspired me to learn Japanese. By now, I know 2 languages, English and my native language. I like Japanese, why not learning it? ^^

Knowing more than English as a foreign language is benefit to me, after I realize that I should learn Japanese, I plan on using it to earn a living. Maybe I should translate some books and publish and earn a lot ^^, or maybe I should write books myself.

It's still a dream, though ;)

Actually, I was the first one to vote...

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

There's a college course for Japanese around where I live that I could take even though I'm in high school but no matter how hard I pester my parents, they just keep avoiding giving me an answer on whether or no they will let me take it. I'll be taking German I next year too so i doubt I will end up learning Japanese before I turn 18. I could always take an online course for free but i usually need the help of a teacher to understand a new language, I bet Spanish would be easy to learn on my own though. After I learn Japanese I want to learn Korean cuz of all the awesome online games that are in Korean.

lambspwnd?

Lambs, need more inclusive site polls. I feel left out.

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Livin just to keep from dyin

Well... even before all this, I already know how to speak English and Chinese because I'm Chinese and I live in the US. I can sort of pick up some sentences in Japanese in the anime, but other than that, I haven't taken the time to actually learn it.

i took a japanese class over summer at the local college and learned more than i thought i would and i've been constantly learning korean since i'm korean myself and although i don't think i could be considered fluent i'm studying even more now that i got SAT 2s to deal with this year. but manhwa has helped inspire me to study korean harder, so i guess i can say two languages . raws ftw.

chinese can come after i get through the first two. it might be a little easier afterwards with the hanja and kanji to help me partially define things. or should it be the other way around? meh.

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Well, it showed 100% when I voted.

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Then that's because we both voted on the same thing...

@ahoaho: Then why don't YOU give me a poll suggestion? And a good one at that...

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A just ruler amongst tyrants

hm.. I want to learn Chinese (and I'm trying.. kind of), but it has nothing to do with manga, so I guess that doesn't really count. =P

trying to learn japanese because i hope to go over for a year with a program i found.

though its hard to get off the ground and do not know if i want to spend the money on programs like "rosette stone" which i have heard is good and bad...

two of friends can pretty much speak/read/understand chinese/japanese so picking it up has always been something i wanted to do



i took french is high school, and it was boring and stupid

took german in college and actualy understand a decent amount of it, my sister is minoring in german and has been over there with school program for about a month and a half



edit, didnt see anywhere, how long do these site polls usualy stay up? few weeks, a month?

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-Qui-Gon Jinn

Lack of creativity?

I try to think of a good one.

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Livin just to keep from dyin

I want to learn it so I can read manga raws. (But so far the only part I can read is 'ahhhhh ahhhhhhh nnnng' in sex scenes)

I've only taken a quarter of Japanese class (10 weeks). I can read and write Hiragana and Katakana. I can speak some simple phrases in formal form.

I've learnt quite a bit of Japanese due to Anime. It is a side-effect of watching a large amount of it. I am far from fluent, can't read or write it, but I can watch anime raws and understand enough for it to be enjoyable.