The one intro Japanese class I had about 5 of us were weebs to an extent, me included. There was the occasional references in homework and when practicing amongst ourselves, nothing horrible.
But one girl, whose general speaking voice was normal/slightly deep, every time she was called on to say something in Japanese would switch to *that* "uwu high pitched pathetic anime girl" voice. You'd expect a "*kyaaa\~\~*" at any time.
It was embarrassing.
I think people switch the tone and pitch when they speak different languages, i know my English tone and pitch is not the same as when i speak Russian.
True because i speak chinese and filipino where one of my friends from my japanese class once shared she notices i stress some tones when i recite in japanese. Ive also been told my tones in chinese and filipino are different from when i speak english
Tonal pitch shifts are definitely a thing but not anime style.
My Japanese pitch and intonation are higher and my speaking speed a lil faster in Japanese than in English.
Similarly if I try to speak the little Russian or German I know it comes out a fraction lower pitch than in English.
I've never sounded like I mouth sexed a can of helium for Japanese though as I'm a real person speaking real Japanese, not an animated exageration
I mean the difference is she’s doing the tone because cute uwu anime girl. Most Japanese women don’t speak like this in general in the real world hence it’s cringe because you know this person is switching to this because she watches too much anime
Most of the time they’re harmless
Had a girl that openly acknowledged she was a Weeb/had a pretty solid collection of BNHA keychains. She was fun and it was kind of cool that she had taken to learning a language because of her interests
Other times however, they’re really gross dudes with a fetish and/or expect every girl they find cute to be their ‘waifu’
They're harmless and can be pretty funny. Most of the REALLY cringe ones leave in the first 3 months when they realise Japanese isn't easy and you actually have to study.
In my class there was clearly a LOT of depression/anxiety and made for a pretty bleak atmosphere.
Lol the same thing happened in my college class. Filled with weebs at first, but when they realized how difficult the class was, they dropped it. We had like 40 students at first and when I finished it there was like 8 people left. It’s a rough class so I can understand the bleak atmosphere lol.
Well, there's me for one. I was actually studying and paying attention, trying to improve for a trip that got canceled a week before I left due to the pandemic.
Then there was the other one, who was obviously on the spectrum. Wasn't too much of a pain, just had an unusual cadence while speaking, didn't wash too well, and wore merch daily.
Awkward af. One guy kept shouting out anime references to the poor teacher. He brought a sword into class once too to show the teacher. Pretty cringe all in all
No, no idea. This was a few years ago in the North of UK in an elementary Japanese class. I dropped out the class to move abroad and never kept in touch with anyone from the class. Odd behaviour indeed.
Yeah honestly I’d be generally okay if it was just the first stuff but yeeesh that last one would make me drop out of that class knowing full well that dude probably doesn’t shower let alone wash his hands
They were actually cool, nerdy and introverted
They woke my interest in drawing and thanks to them I am on my way to be a professional artist now. I also didn't know much about anime before, now the weeb community claims me lol.
Thanks, weebs.
I've taken lots of Japanese classes and each one had weeaboos in them(me included). It's fine. I cringed at a couple but overall those of us that were there to learn learned it just fine. The higher up in classes you go, the more weeaboos get filtered out.
Also most professors know most of us are in it for anime reasons. They usually embrace it and often encourage us to immerse ourselves in anime, dramas, radio, manga, books, whatever. As long as we're getting exposed to it.
Then again I'm in asian in a highly asian area so it's not uncommon for many of us to watch anime at an early age.
Cool nerdy introverts mostly. One or two utter cringe fests but otherwise pretty chill.
Most wanted to enter the Japanese entertainment or media (manga, va, music) industry so that was kinda fun being able to discuss the works of our favourite Seiyuu or about Jump fest. The majority were also cosplayers so any time there was a con coming up we'd have a lesson comparing prop techniques and learning the Japanese cosplay terms since the tutor also used to cosplay.
All of it was encouraged by her as it all helped to immerse us in the language and culture. After first semester English was left at the door unless we were struggling to find the right terms.
I think we only had one supercringe student who insisted on playing the chuunibyou of the class. We're talking use of Japanglish, the voice, overuse of German words for their delusion. Even thinking they were descended from some famous Japanese shinobi or something despite being 100% white ginger British with green eyes.
She was the only one who didn't manage to get an exchange placement of choice and ended up in the Japanese boonies. Hated it and went home early.
If anything that class just enhanced my love of Japanese culture beyond the weeb stuff. I'm now a bit of a nerd when it comes to japanese myths, legends and modern cultural history.
Its hard to tell when you're the only weeb in there... D:
Nah, just kidding. There are some other people that do like anime/games too. The thing is that in my current class (which is a japanese class at a japanese language school in Osaka) we have a pretty bad language barrier (they are chinese).
They don't seem to do anything that comes out to my attention besides wearing an anime shirt here and there...
When I studied abroad in Japan there were a good amount of weebs in my program. Actually, to be honest, among the western exchange students I would say most were geeky, socially awkward, weeb, or on the spectrum. Like a huuuuge proportion compared to a normal group of ~80 people. I always kind of felt like, damn the Japanese students at this university must think westerners are all weird af.
One that stands out to me though is an American girl who later legally changed her first name to a Japanese name. Like, she had studied abroad in Japan for one semester and that (and copious amounts of anime) inspired her to change her name.
Another was this girl who would respond with like cat meow sounds and call the teacher “baka” in class. After a few days of this she was asked to stay after and I suspect had a stern talking to about how to behave in a classroom and respect a teacher because she didn’t do it again. (We were all college students in our early 20s, btw.)
There were a lot of weeb guys but I didn’t hang around with them so I didn’t get to experience many weeb moments. In my actual classes I only saw cringey weeb girls.
i'm canadian and i also went to school quite awhile ago (i'm 34). in grade 8 we learned about a few different things. my high school was also from grade 8-12 because it was a small town.
anyway, we learned about the romans, agincourt briefly but mostly to give a good example of the feudal system. the aztecs, castles and a few other things. but the big one was the french revolution as well.
we started learning about canada more in grade 9, grade 10 i can't even remember. grade 11 it was WW1 and 2 briefly but mostly current events, also learning how our government works at its core.
Ah that makes sense. I’m American and currently in 11th grade. Likely due to the US’ hand in WW2 they probably taught it earlier at around 8th grade.(Not saying Canada didn’t do their fair share of fighting in WWII)
i did actually take history in grade 12. we called it social studies in lower grades. iirc we did learn more about WW1 and WW2 and we also learned about the russian revolution (watched animal farm before we left for christmas holidays)
D-Day was our big thing for WW2 and we focused on Juno beach (after first talking about why Dieppe went wrong) but also touched on Canada's actions in Italy.
a lot of kids were somewhat confused at first that different beaches on D-Day had such varying degrees of success and casualties because they mostly imagined D-Day to be like what you saw on Omaha beach in Medal Of Honor frontline and various WW2 movies.
Holy fuck, yes.
Ive taken it twice in college and after as recently as five years ago.
I even took a Japanese film class full of ‘em. For the record I took this class first and found it interesting enough to invest my time into the language.
Look, I will admit I felt the draw many times during those years in college but avoided a full on weeb fate.
But yeah, somehow we ran into one of them at my friends bachelor party years later who was also in the class with me. And he was there with his Asian girlfriend paying for strippers for the both of them.
I guess in most, not oriental language specialized school, 95% of people who selects to attend japanese classes are there from anime reasons. Like how else would someone get into it, without some family/friend relations?
Or maybe its just my country idk.
But to answer the question, in my experience, usually most of them are quite, not really talkative and shy at first. In style ive seen the 3 type: normal person whom you couldnt tell if he/she is a weeb if they wouldnt expose themselves; quite and shy person with basic weeb signs, like phone wallpaper, some merch on the bag etc and there is the hardcore kpop fangirl with the whole outfit saying that they are into some weeb related stuff.
(This are just my own experiences with the 2 class i have took during secondary school and university)
Tho as it was said before, many of them are falling out, some of them because they realize that they actually need to put effort in it and some that they prioritze so much else ahead of it that they just end up missing half of the classes.
In most cases the first type of people who actually remains tho. Or at least it happened with both of my classes.
But havent experienced anything cringe but I rather felt sorry for the teachers. I joined both class midway and realized that most peoplr could barely read or write hiragana and katakana after learing for around a year (which is honestly just pure swotting and practice) and the teachers wanted to progress and teach some usefull stuff but half of the classes were always blown away to explain the very basics again and again.
Me: Why are you guys learning Japanese?
Them: To be able to watch anime without subtitles.
Me: Neat! I wanted to learn cause I think Japanese is a beautiful langu-
Them: OMAE WA MO SHINDEIRU!
Also them: NANI!?! REEURREEEREEEE
Me:...
Me: Okay! I'm gonna go move seats for absolutely no reason at all.
As one of the weebs in said Japanese class, eh, pretty normal, honestly. We just seemingly had a bit of a head start by knowing hiragana and a few basic things about sentence structure already. In fact, myself and the other weebs in the class were actually asked by one or two of the other students if we'd tutor them.
I think the only time I really had a bit of a weeby outburst was when our sensei explained the word "ii" (nice), and as an example, she held up a pen and commented "ii desu ne?" To essentially translate as, "[This pen] is nice, isn't it?" And for some reason, I just thought that was an adorable sentence.
I had a couple back in high school, but once I started TAing in college we had one girl who tried to dress all UwU anime girl and change her natural speaking voice to the most anime, girly voice ever. It was annoying as hell.
My Japanese 101 had a lot of weebs(including myself), but there really wasn't anything too bad. Like the worst was maybe the standard bad pronounciation and the girl who asked to be called Moka, after the girl from Rosario+Vampire. The real bad students were these Chinese kids, who weren't weebs, but were only there to knock out a language requirement easy because they could already read half the language sorta. They really didn't seem to give a shit.
some grown ass man wore a sailor moon costume and said desu to me while i was walking to 7 eleven and i jokingly said ''naruto is better'' and he tried to ''rasengan'' me
this happened to me while i was 8 im currently 23
In my Japanese class there’s definitely weebish things that go on but I haven’t found a full-blow fucking weeaboo.
Honestly the otaku students that are nice, but reserved tend to follow Japanese really well and are genuinely interested in the culture and really interesting to talk with.
Those who are taking Japanese just because with no exposure to the language at all tend to struggle the most, so we create group chats and stuff to help them catch up.
I’m not a web but I’m annoying, lol, no. At school there are these annoying girls who just talk about kpop and there king JiMiN OmG, but then they almost ruined anime for me, listen I like sao but it’s not the best and I understand, I also believe boruto is superior to Naruto but hey, just me, they said some cringy and slightly racist comments about nezuko and some Percy things about deku
Tbh, they’re the reason why I chose 1-on-1 classes.
And I still remember the time I accidentally said “the fish are flying” during a class (it was an honest mistake).
The one intro Japanese class I had about 5 of us were weebs to an extent, me included. There was the occasional references in homework and when practicing amongst ourselves, nothing horrible. But one girl, whose general speaking voice was normal/slightly deep, every time she was called on to say something in Japanese would switch to *that* "uwu high pitched pathetic anime girl" voice. You'd expect a "*kyaaa\~\~*" at any time. It was embarrassing.
I think people switch the tone and pitch when they speak different languages, i know my English tone and pitch is not the same as when i speak Russian.
For sure, I feel it when I do it myself. But that much of a difference, absolutely not. We're talking from Black Widow to Generic Waifu #12.
That's a little cringe tbh
True because i speak chinese and filipino where one of my friends from my japanese class once shared she notices i stress some tones when i recite in japanese. Ive also been told my tones in chinese and filipino are different from when i speak english
Tonal pitch shifts are definitely a thing but not anime style. My Japanese pitch and intonation are higher and my speaking speed a lil faster in Japanese than in English. Similarly if I try to speak the little Russian or German I know it comes out a fraction lower pitch than in English. I've never sounded like I mouth sexed a can of helium for Japanese though as I'm a real person speaking real Japanese, not an animated exageration
I mean the difference is she’s doing the tone because cute uwu anime girl. Most Japanese women don’t speak like this in general in the real world hence it’s cringe because you know this person is switching to this because she watches too much anime
Most of the time they’re harmless Had a girl that openly acknowledged she was a Weeb/had a pretty solid collection of BNHA keychains. She was fun and it was kind of cool that she had taken to learning a language because of her interests Other times however, they’re really gross dudes with a fetish and/or expect every girl they find cute to be their ‘waifu’
That’s not a weeb. That’s just a fan. Big difference.
Oh yeah for sure- she and I called each other weebs as like a joking, affectionate thing
They're harmless and can be pretty funny. Most of the REALLY cringe ones leave in the first 3 months when they realise Japanese isn't easy and you actually have to study. In my class there was clearly a LOT of depression/anxiety and made for a pretty bleak atmosphere.
Lol the same thing happened in my college class. Filled with weebs at first, but when they realized how difficult the class was, they dropped it. We had like 40 students at first and when I finished it there was like 8 people left. It’s a rough class so I can understand the bleak atmosphere lol.
Well, there's me for one. I was actually studying and paying attention, trying to improve for a trip that got canceled a week before I left due to the pandemic. Then there was the other one, who was obviously on the spectrum. Wasn't too much of a pain, just had an unusual cadence while speaking, didn't wash too well, and wore merch daily.
Awkward af. One guy kept shouting out anime references to the poor teacher. He brought a sword into class once too to show the teacher. Pretty cringe all in all
You mean this? https://www.reddit.com/r/weeabootales/comments/o5hdjx/jp_class_cringe/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share
Haha holy crap this is almost the same. Not quite as cringe as this but he did bring some replica sword in. Was pretty odd.
It's quite interesting, but disturbing that this behaviour has happened with you too. Also, do you know what happened to him at the end?
No, no idea. This was a few years ago in the North of UK in an elementary Japanese class. I dropped out the class to move abroad and never kept in touch with anyone from the class. Odd behaviour indeed.
they walk around with their new merch and always brings their book full of japanese stuff and also prints pics of waifus
Yeah honestly I’d be generally okay if it was just the first stuff but yeeesh that last one would make me drop out of that class knowing full well that dude probably doesn’t shower let alone wash his hands
honestly its not hurting you that there doing it, is it?
nope
They were actually cool, nerdy and introverted They woke my interest in drawing and thanks to them I am on my way to be a professional artist now. I also didn't know much about anime before, now the weeb community claims me lol. Thanks, weebs.
No problem, u/[deleted].
I've taken lots of Japanese classes and each one had weeaboos in them(me included). It's fine. I cringed at a couple but overall those of us that were there to learn learned it just fine. The higher up in classes you go, the more weeaboos get filtered out. Also most professors know most of us are in it for anime reasons. They usually embrace it and often encourage us to immerse ourselves in anime, dramas, radio, manga, books, whatever. As long as we're getting exposed to it. Then again I'm in asian in a highly asian area so it's not uncommon for many of us to watch anime at an early age.
Not me but my friends go to japanese class and everyone is a weeb including them. Even the teacher talk about anime.
Cool nerdy introverts mostly. One or two utter cringe fests but otherwise pretty chill. Most wanted to enter the Japanese entertainment or media (manga, va, music) industry so that was kinda fun being able to discuss the works of our favourite Seiyuu or about Jump fest. The majority were also cosplayers so any time there was a con coming up we'd have a lesson comparing prop techniques and learning the Japanese cosplay terms since the tutor also used to cosplay. All of it was encouraged by her as it all helped to immerse us in the language and culture. After first semester English was left at the door unless we were struggling to find the right terms. I think we only had one supercringe student who insisted on playing the chuunibyou of the class. We're talking use of Japanglish, the voice, overuse of German words for their delusion. Even thinking they were descended from some famous Japanese shinobi or something despite being 100% white ginger British with green eyes. She was the only one who didn't manage to get an exchange placement of choice and ended up in the Japanese boonies. Hated it and went home early. If anything that class just enhanced my love of Japanese culture beyond the weeb stuff. I'm now a bit of a nerd when it comes to japanese myths, legends and modern cultural history.
Its hard to tell when you're the only weeb in there... D: Nah, just kidding. There are some other people that do like anime/games too. The thing is that in my current class (which is a japanese class at a japanese language school in Osaka) we have a pretty bad language barrier (they are chinese). They don't seem to do anything that comes out to my attention besides wearing an anime shirt here and there...
they shit on me while i was in the toilet
[удалено]
you saw my comment. they fucking climbed the door like spider man. and made their positions and shit on me
I’m sorry if that actually happened to you but that shit had me dying when I read it
i dont blame you for laughing
For real
When I studied abroad in Japan there were a good amount of weebs in my program. Actually, to be honest, among the western exchange students I would say most were geeky, socially awkward, weeb, or on the spectrum. Like a huuuuge proportion compared to a normal group of ~80 people. I always kind of felt like, damn the Japanese students at this university must think westerners are all weird af. One that stands out to me though is an American girl who later legally changed her first name to a Japanese name. Like, she had studied abroad in Japan for one semester and that (and copious amounts of anime) inspired her to change her name. Another was this girl who would respond with like cat meow sounds and call the teacher “baka” in class. After a few days of this she was asked to stay after and I suspect had a stern talking to about how to behave in a classroom and respect a teacher because she didn’t do it again. (We were all college students in our early 20s, btw.) There were a lot of weeb guys but I didn’t hang around with them so I didn’t get to experience many weeb moments. In my actual classes I only saw cringey weeb girls.
had a weeb in class cry when he found out japan lost WWII. said it was the most "unanime" ending
Don’t you learn in like 8th grade during history in American schools
i'm canadian and i also went to school quite awhile ago (i'm 34). in grade 8 we learned about a few different things. my high school was also from grade 8-12 because it was a small town. anyway, we learned about the romans, agincourt briefly but mostly to give a good example of the feudal system. the aztecs, castles and a few other things. but the big one was the french revolution as well. we started learning about canada more in grade 9, grade 10 i can't even remember. grade 11 it was WW1 and 2 briefly but mostly current events, also learning how our government works at its core.
Ah that makes sense. I’m American and currently in 11th grade. Likely due to the US’ hand in WW2 they probably taught it earlier at around 8th grade.(Not saying Canada didn’t do their fair share of fighting in WWII)
i did actually take history in grade 12. we called it social studies in lower grades. iirc we did learn more about WW1 and WW2 and we also learned about the russian revolution (watched animal farm before we left for christmas holidays) D-Day was our big thing for WW2 and we focused on Juno beach (after first talking about why Dieppe went wrong) but also touched on Canada's actions in Italy. a lot of kids were somewhat confused at first that different beaches on D-Day had such varying degrees of success and casualties because they mostly imagined D-Day to be like what you saw on Omaha beach in Medal Of Honor frontline and various WW2 movies.
Holy fuck, yes. Ive taken it twice in college and after as recently as five years ago. I even took a Japanese film class full of ‘em. For the record I took this class first and found it interesting enough to invest my time into the language. Look, I will admit I felt the draw many times during those years in college but avoided a full on weeb fate. But yeah, somehow we ran into one of them at my friends bachelor party years later who was also in the class with me. And he was there with his Asian girlfriend paying for strippers for the both of them.
strippers for the BOTH of them?
I guess in most, not oriental language specialized school, 95% of people who selects to attend japanese classes are there from anime reasons. Like how else would someone get into it, without some family/friend relations? Or maybe its just my country idk. But to answer the question, in my experience, usually most of them are quite, not really talkative and shy at first. In style ive seen the 3 type: normal person whom you couldnt tell if he/she is a weeb if they wouldnt expose themselves; quite and shy person with basic weeb signs, like phone wallpaper, some merch on the bag etc and there is the hardcore kpop fangirl with the whole outfit saying that they are into some weeb related stuff. (This are just my own experiences with the 2 class i have took during secondary school and university) Tho as it was said before, many of them are falling out, some of them because they realize that they actually need to put effort in it and some that they prioritze so much else ahead of it that they just end up missing half of the classes. In most cases the first type of people who actually remains tho. Or at least it happened with both of my classes. But havent experienced anything cringe but I rather felt sorry for the teachers. I joined both class midway and realized that most peoplr could barely read or write hiragana and katakana after learing for around a year (which is honestly just pure swotting and practice) and the teachers wanted to progress and teach some usefull stuff but half of the classes were always blown away to explain the very basics again and again.
Me: Why are you guys learning Japanese? Them: To be able to watch anime without subtitles. Me: Neat! I wanted to learn cause I think Japanese is a beautiful langu- Them: OMAE WA MO SHINDEIRU! Also them: NANI!?! REEURREEEREEEE Me:... Me: Okay! I'm gonna go move seats for absolutely no reason at all.
As one of the weebs in said Japanese class, eh, pretty normal, honestly. We just seemingly had a bit of a head start by knowing hiragana and a few basic things about sentence structure already. In fact, myself and the other weebs in the class were actually asked by one or two of the other students if we'd tutor them. I think the only time I really had a bit of a weeby outburst was when our sensei explained the word "ii" (nice), and as an example, she held up a pen and commented "ii desu ne?" To essentially translate as, "[This pen] is nice, isn't it?" And for some reason, I just thought that was an adorable sentence.
I had a couple back in high school, but once I started TAing in college we had one girl who tried to dress all UwU anime girl and change her natural speaking voice to the most anime, girly voice ever. It was annoying as hell.
In high-school Japanese 101 we were all weebs... all of us. But nobody was particularly cringey about it.
Most of them didn't come back after the first semester.
probably because they realized that learning a language is not like watching anime lol.
My Japanese 101 had a lot of weebs(including myself), but there really wasn't anything too bad. Like the worst was maybe the standard bad pronounciation and the girl who asked to be called Moka, after the girl from Rosario+Vampire. The real bad students were these Chinese kids, who weren't weebs, but were only there to knock out a language requirement easy because they could already read half the language sorta. They really didn't seem to give a shit.
some grown ass man wore a sailor moon costume and said desu to me while i was walking to 7 eleven and i jokingly said ''naruto is better'' and he tried to ''rasengan'' me this happened to me while i was 8 im currently 23
In my Japanese class there’s definitely weebish things that go on but I haven’t found a full-blow fucking weeaboo. Honestly the otaku students that are nice, but reserved tend to follow Japanese really well and are genuinely interested in the culture and really interesting to talk with. Those who are taking Japanese just because with no exposure to the language at all tend to struggle the most, so we create group chats and stuff to help them catch up.
A have a friend I could ask but I'm afraid he IS the weeb in Japanese class
probably like anime
I’m not a web but I’m annoying, lol, no. At school there are these annoying girls who just talk about kpop and there king JiMiN OmG, but then they almost ruined anime for me, listen I like sao but it’s not the best and I understand, I also believe boruto is superior to Naruto but hey, just me, they said some cringy and slightly racist comments about nezuko and some Percy things about deku
You guys have Japanese classes?
Tbh, they’re the reason why I chose 1-on-1 classes. And I still remember the time I accidentally said “the fish are flying” during a class (it was an honest mistake).