To be honest I started because I was procrastinating studying for my exams 
I felt less guilty not studying for Uni while I was studying something else. I had started learning hiragana a few years before but then stopped before I got to Kanji (because theres so many) but this time i kept going.
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I don’t even remember my original reason at this point but I’m too deep in at this point and I feel like it’d be a waste to stop now.
EDIT: oops, didn’t mean to reply to you, sorry about that.
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Yeah It’ll be a waste you’re level.60 lucky to you anyway I’m level.6 I study on my own but I use Wanikani as a dictionary and a levelery(I mean to know which level I am)
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It’s alright! 
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I will do a year of university exchange in Tokyo starting in September if the borders reopen by then.
I want to learn Japanese in order to enjoy as much as possible this year abroad and to be able to more easily communicate and having interaction with people.
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I always liked the sound of Japanese, so I thought it would be cool to learn! And I like the food and culture.
Now that I’m living here, I want to keep studying to become a game translator. Wanikani really helps with all the JLPT N1 vocabulary. 
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I live in Japan and while I can survive only using English, I’d like to be able to feel more like a resident than a tourist. Also has the added bonus of being able to understand a lot of media here without wondering how to get subtitles.
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Welcome and tnx for reply
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You’re so lucky I wish you good grades.
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That’s perfect and the thing is strange about Japan is their food I’m vegan and kinda don’t it every vegetable too.So their food is strange even vegetarian ones
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Welcome to WaniKani, and good luck!
My main reason for studying Japanese is to read all the awesome books that were never translated to English, I think
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So it’s necessary for you to learn Japanese at first place.
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Umm that’s good but I never saw a non-translated book in Japanese-Englsih
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Sort of required but not entirely though. My workplace is all English, and we have staff to help with any translation help, and that can assist with communicating with housing agencies, banks, the town halls etc. I work with people who’ve been here for years and never learned the language beyond some simple phrases and they get along fine.
I just really would like to integrate with the regular world outside of my work more!
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Love the language, become obsessed with it. Fair amount of masochism involved I guess. Probably has some benefits of being trilingual down the road.
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One day, I’d like to be able to read novels and communicate seamlessly. I also plan to visit Japan, and I feel becoming relatively fluent in the language would really help me understand the culture. What helps with all that, though, is the fact I became very interested in the language itself. There are many nuances in Japanese that don’t quite exist in English that I find fascinating.
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It’s definitely hard being a vegan/vegetarian in Japan. I’m vegetarian, but it feels difficult being really strict when there is dashi in everything. I understand the struggle! Tokyo has a lot of vegetarian/vegan restaurants, which makes it a little easier.
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Lots of doujin and niche stuff is fan-translated at best, though.
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Hello! I hope you don’t mind me correcting the heading.
Personally, I want to learn the language in case I visit the country in the future. It’s in my bucket list so it definitely has a place in me. By then, I want to be able to communicate and not be a mere tourist who relies on translations to comprehend stuff.
…and uhhh… probably a bragging right that I know another language aside from my native language and English. Hehehe…
Cheers and good luck to your journey!
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