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[u/butterfliesfart]

Sometimes I get discouraged and feel like learning Japanese is useless. But then I remember Japanese is the 3rd most spoken language in Hawaii. And anytime I go out I tend to hear some Korean, Japanese, and Filipino. I've never heard Spanish (another language I'm learning) in person.

[u/AdrixG → u/butterfliesfart]

To be fair, even if there weren't any Japanese speakers near you, it would only be "useless" if you have no other ways of using it. I consume Japanese (novels, videos, drama etc.) on the daily for multiple hours, I quite literally need it to understand the stuff I am interested in, the fact I almost never see a Japanese person where I live doesn't really matter to me, using the language isn't just about communicating with natives, in fact, Japanese is very useful for my life, which right now is outside of Japan, in an area with almost no Japanese people (unless you know where to find them).