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Spaced repetition systems have gotten better

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1026 points domenicd | 1 comments | 18 May 25 11:42 UTC | HN request time: 0.215s | source
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mark38848 ◴[18 May 25 12:49 UTC] No.44021015[source]▶
Why does everybody want to learn Japanese? What makes Japanese so enticing? Why not Mandarin or at lead Spanish?
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1. wccrawford ◴[18 May 25 13:03 UTC] No.44021116[source]▶
For me, it's about the media. I'm interested in Japanese anime and manga, and now light novels.

I'm not at all interested in anything I've seen in other non-English languages, except possibly Korean now, since they seem to be producing a lot of stuff.

However, almost everything that I'd enjoy gets translated to English for both Japanese and Korean now, so there's a lot less incentive to learn them.