[ SECRET POST #1849 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #1849 ⌋


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Notes:

Secrets Left to Post: 02 pages, 43 secrets from Secret Submission Post #264.
Secrets Not Posted: [ 0 - broken links ], [ 0 - not!secrets ], [ 0 - not!fandom ], [ 0 - too big ], [ 0 - repeats ]
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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I'm totally with you on this. I'm a native English speaker, but I've always been interested in foreign languages. I've studyed French, German, Spanish, and Japanese - with overlap, time-wise - and there were definitely times when I switched between languages without realizing it. Now that I'm near-fluent in Japanese, I'll sometimes find myself at a loss for words in English, but knowing just the right word in Japanese. Fortunately, I've more-or-less proved that I'm into Japanese for more than just animanga (reading books without pictures tends to get you there), so my friends understand that it's just a brain fart in the English-speaking portion of my brain, but people I don't know? Yeah, I get some mocking. Not much, but it's happened.

To the OP - as a Japanese major and fan of Japanese media, I understand. There will always be a few jerkwads out there who are just looking for reasons to criticize people, but most people are pretty understanding. If you don't act like a weeaboo, people won't think of you as one. I find that Japanese people tend to appreciate it when you show that you're knowledgeable about and interested in the culture about a whole (and willing to learn what you don't know). "I sincerely want to understand" comes across a lot better than "w00t anime!"

It may help to read or watch something that's completely unrelated to animanga. That way, if people start eyeballing you like they think you're a weeaboo, you can say - perfectly honestly - that you aren't into it just for the anime and manga, but you also like things like X novelist or Y drama. There's a lot of Japanese novels published in English, and a handful of dramas and movies available in English, too. It won't get the jerks off your back, but it will help "prove" to the more reasonable people that you're not a weeaboo.