I personally feel like I understand German-speaking people better the more I study the language.
E.g. my experience was that they are generally good listeners because their language has a sentence structure which forces the listener to wait for the most important information at the end of a sentence.
Bad Denglish to demonstrate:
“I have yesterday night… at the football field… together with friends … (dude get to the point) had a beer”
I can read manga without waiting for a scanlation team to post a poorly done chapter in random intervals. also can read and watch cool anime and manga that doesn’t get picked up for localization by viz or whoever
livin that weeb life
Be a proud weeb! That is incredibly cool and a useful skill you should be proud of.
Keep on weebin!
There’s research to suggest that every language comes with its own specific mode of thinking, which means that for every additional language you pick up, you quite literally gain a new perspective on things in general. I absolutely believe it. It’s also why the party in 1984 was hellbent on using newspeak and outlawing previous languages.