Has anyones else begun defaulting to reading comics right to left? Every time I see a comic strip these days my eyes immediately dart to the top right, and I have to consciously stop myself from reading “backwards”.
I thought this was kind of interesting, and was wondering if anyone else can share similar changes they’ve experienced in everyday life from a result of learning Japanese.
Another one for me is using Japanese expressions instead of English ones, especially 仕方ない, よしよし, 可愛い etc.
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> Has anyones else begun defaulting to reading comics right to left?
no heh
main thing I feel is different is lack of free time
>Has anyones else begun defaulting to reading comics right to left?
Incidentally, I never got into western comics, so as far as visual storytelling in print goes, the manga way had been the *only* way I was familiar with. It wasn’t until I took a class on (western) comics as literature in college that I felt the need to adjust to reading comics normally.
I’ve caught myself saying「すみません」to strangers a few times. I live in Poland.
I sometimes dream in Japanese. Really weird when your coworkers/friends suddenly speak perfect Japanese in your dreams and they do not know Japanese in real life. Nightmare fuel basically.
That’s interesting although I can see how that would happen :). I personally only ever watched/read/listened to stuff in Japanese during my most hardcore language learning period which lasted a bit over 2 years (I live in US).
After I relaxed a bit more with the language it was weird getting back to reading stuff in English. I often found myself just setting it down in favor of more Japanese stuff…even other languages im learning (like Italian) became harder….because I just keep preferring to do just Japanese.
When I want to flip through books, I usually open them from the “back”, and I tend to think of Japanese idioms/sayings before Western ones. Both of those go back to when I studied Japanese in HS (20 years ago). Don’t think I’ve picked up any new habits since I restarted my studies last year…
Depends on what I’m reading. Someone’s I’ll read a translated Japanese comic and be confused when the order is “wrong.”
For a while now I have this issue of whenever I read a new word i didn’t know in English, I’ll try to sound it out but using Japanese sounds instead of the default. Like if I didn’t know what the word “fun” is, I’d read it or sound it out like I’m reading Japanese.
自分は英語を学びたい日本人です！やっぱり語学習得は実際に使ってみるのが一番ですね！
I am a Japanese who wants to learn English! After all, the best way to learn a language is to actually use it!