I hate myself, and can't help it. wow im so fallin down to the hell. Who's gonna catch me when my dream's fall down and i have no power to build them up again? wow Im completely lost. Nobody knows who I am and who I'm gonna be. Is anybody out there can help me?
my family are fuckin' shit my school is a fuckin' hell my friends are fuckin' sluts my teachers are fuckin' ratholes my surroundings is a fuckin' chamber totaly fuck! fuck! fuck! YES IM THE FUCK
Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. I remember some of their most heinous crimes. Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people and made them gas attack the subway. Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan.
They say time heals everything but I'm still waiting I'm through with doubt, there's nothing left for me to figure out I've paid a price and I'll keep paying I'm not ready to make nice, I'm not ready to back down I'm still mad as hell and I don't have time to go round and round It's too late to make it right I probably wouldn't if I could cus I'm mad as hell Can't bring myself to do what it is you think I should I know you said can't you just get over it It turned my whole world around and I kind of like it I made my bed and I sleep like a baby with no regrets and I don't mind sayin' It's a sad sad story when a mother will teach her Daughter that she oughtta hate a perfect stranger And how in the world can the words that I said, send somebody so over the edge that they'd write me a letter, sayin' that I better shut up and sing or my life will be over?
Lets talk this over, it's not like we're dead Was it something I did or was it something you said? Don't leave me hanging in a city so dead Held up so high on such a breakable thread. You've got your dumb friends, I know what they say. They tell you I'm difficult but so are they and they don't know me, Do they even know you? All the things you hide from me, all the shit that you do. You were all the things I thought I knew and I thought we could be You were everything that I wanted We were meant to be, supposed to be, but we lost it All of the memories, so close to me, just fade away All this time you were pretending, so much for my happy ending It's nice to know that you were there, So thanks for acting like you cared and making me feel like I was the only one. It's nice to know we had it all, Thanks for watching as I fall and letting me know we were done.
#1 < #`Д´> We're kind of meant to, we're kind of made to hate Japanese people though. < #`∀´> Yeah Japanese people I don't think I feel it same. < #`Д´> They talk such so terribly about them. < #`∀´> I, I, I...... < #`Д´> Like old grandmothers're like "JAPAN GO TO HELL". < #`∀´> Their country's gonna sink to the bottom of the ocean. < #`Д´> Yeah Japan's gonna sink to hell. < #`∀´> It, It is, It's just for all the evil they've done. It's just not even to us but to the Filipino islands and the Chinese. This is so........ < ´A`> But this is for your phone. < #`Д´> .......come next to ....... < #`∀´> They are goint to sink to the bottom of the ocean. One day I honestly believe. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so barbaric. (`⊂_´) MAN DOMINATE YOUR RACE AGAIN!!!!! < #`Д´> When they came to Korea they each thought Korea people were so advanced. You know why ? 'Cause Korean people had utensils to eat with. Chopsticks whatever it was a spoon. Japanese people were STILL EATING WITH THEIR HANDS. They didn't know. < ´A`> You were taught that. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so sad. They're trying to deny their, their, their history. They don't wanna admit their history. They don't wanna admit their mistakes. They don't wanna admit that. You know what ? I was wrong at this. They wanna erase history like it never happened. < #`∀´> Well it did. < #`Д´> That's koreans people anger about them. < #`∀´> And we will remember.
#2 < #`Д´> Is that they did certain things to certain people. < ´A`> You sound very angry. < #`∀´> We are. < #`Д´> I'm not angry. < #`∀´> You can't rape and pillage my grandmother's generation and expect me to forget it. < #`Д´> Becasu I'll meet I'll meet a Japanese person and be like "Hey what's up ?", "Fine", "Yes" at the same time. < #`∀´> Hello fucking A LYING GUY. Forget it. My dad was telling me the stories every day. I'm gonna remember about that about your generation. < ´A`> The Japanese killed every single member of my father's family. Except for him. He hid under the bamboo pot in the cookroom. < #`Д´> Those damn Japanese! < ´A`> They killed his whole family. < #`Д´> What are you doing?! < #`∀´> You can't forget that. < ´A`> His whole family in front him. < #`∀´> You can't. You can't. < ´A`> He hid. He hid underneath the bamboo pot. < #`∀´> And then you're going to tell me that your children aren't learning about it because it's not in their text books. < ´A`> The Japanese. < #`∀´> Pleeeeeeeease! I will hate that. I can't help but hate that. < ´A`> They came and they slaughtered his family.
Erica Daniels was dead tired, and all she wanted was a hot shower and a good nights sleep! A full day of meetings with designers and financial officers had left her totally spent. She always hated coming to New York, not only because of the endless traffic jams, but because it always seemed like every thing was fast, fast, fast with never an opportunity to just take it easy! At least she was in a good hotel with all the amenities, cuz she was going to order room service rather than fight her way through a restaurant crowd. She picked up the phone and dialed eight, in a few second she was being connected with the kitchen where she ordered a Caesar Salad and a hamburger rare. "Twenty minutes," she replied, "good, I'm famished!" With twenty minutes before her food was to arrive, Erica had just enough time to take her shower, so she stripped off her clothing and started the water running, testing it periodically to see if it was the correct temperature.
When she was satisfied that it was, she stepped under it and let the needle like jets massage her aching muscles. The combination of drowsiness and the hot water beating down on her 42dd cup breasts caused her vagina to dampen in sexual anticipation! She really wished that she had a steady sexual partner, but with her job taking up most of her time, she never really had much of a chance to meet anyone. Another problem, at least in her eyes, was that although she was fairly attractive, she was quite a bit over weight and was extremely self conscious about her body, and at 5'5" tall and 190 pounds, she wouldn't be winning any swim suit contests! As the water cascaded over her voluptuous form, her hand dropped between her legs and found her hard clit waiting impatiently for some attention. She was just about to begin a quick masturbatory session when she heard a knock on her door and the voice of a young man calling out, "room service!" Erica reluctantly turned off the shower, put on her robe, and went to answer the door.
"Just put it on the table," Erica ordered the young waiter, while she looked through her purse for a couple of dollars for a tip. As she fumbled around inside her pocket book, she didn't even notice that the top of her robe had slipped open revealing her massive chest all the way down to her big nipples. When she finally looked up, she could see that he was boldly staring directly at her boobs, not even making a pretense of being embarrassed. He was taking a real chance, but after sizing up the situation he opined directly, "Nice tits, baby, wanna let me see the rest of you!?!" Erica was totally flabbergasted not only at his directness, but that she could feel her pussy becoming drenched with juice at his insolent manner!!! "Thank you, no," she stammered, "and I'll be reporting you to your superiors about this little incident young man!!!" He just smirked, and then with almost lightning speed his hand snapped out and jerked the robe off her body exposing her plump form to his hungry eyes! "Oh, baby," he said soothingly, "you gotta let Tommy have some of that pussy!!!" Momentarily stunned, she didn't even react when he cupped her big tits and lifted a thick nipple to his lips and sucked on it greedily! A long moan from deep in her throat was all the invitation he needed to press his advantage and push the older woman on to the bed while spreading her legs wide apart. Her dark curly bush couldn't hide the fact that her vagina was in a state of high sexual agitation, and needed some immediate relief! By now all Erica wanted was to have an orgasm, and if this crude young man could give it to her, well, that was just fine with her!!! Tommy began stripping of his uniform, but never letting his eyes stray from the hot cunt that was drooling just inches away him.
Erica waited anxiously for him to get off his cloths so he could stick his pecker inside of her needy cunt, and when at last he jerked off his boxer shorts, Erica was pleasantly surprised to find that he had a very nice dick indeed, at least seven inches long and very thick!!! She pushed her cunt out towards him, and open invitation for him to take her, but instead of mounting her, however, he walked around to the side of the bed and let his hard cock quiver above her open mouth like an over size lollipop. He didn't even have to ask, she just naturally took it into her mouth and sucked him off. "God, he tasted good," she thought, while swirling her tongue all over his smooth head, inducing him to a quick hard orgasm that flooded her mouth with spurt after spurt of hot sperm! He groaned as his cock jerked in her mouth, while releasing its life giving nourishment down the bitch's hot throat until he finally pulled out of her, his cock now semi erect and covered with saliva and cum. Her eyes were shining with lust, and she reached out and caressed his cock and balls until he was again fully erect and ready for her hairy cunt! Tommy climbed between Erica's thick thighs and sneered, "I'm gonna give you some real room service now, bitch," and he then proceeded to drive his hard spike all the way to the hilt inside her steaming box!!! She let out a muffled scream and begged him to fuck her harder. "My fucking god, you're so fucking good, oh please, do it harder, oh christ, fuck me harder!!!"
Hearing her beg for more drove the twenty year old into a fucking frenzy, and he slammed his meat in and out of her hairy fuck hole like a sledge hammer driving a rail road spike while all of the long months of frustration that had been welling up in Erica's pussy came bubbling to the surface!!! It had been so long since she felt the stiff power of a hard pecker, and it was the most wonderful feeling in the world, being fucked senseless by a hard young cock!!! Erica's cunt muscles gripped tightly to the hard pounding invader, until finally it convulsed and shuddered in a mind blowing orgasm, while Tommy's pecker, feeling it's slick sheath constricting around it, spasmed hard and then spewed a huge load of cum deep inside the shaking pussy! Tommy let his cock rest inside Erica's pussy for a minute or two and then rolled off her and lay beside her on the bed, still half way stunned from the brutally vicious fuck they had just enjoyed together! Tommy glanced at his watch and leaped to his feet saying, "Oh my god, I've got five other deliveries to make, I hope you don't mind if I "eat and run"?!?" Erica just laughed and replied, "Tommy, I'm the one who ate, and you're the one who's running!!!"
"Good evening, Chicago, it’s time again to dim the lights, sit back, relax, and spend the next three hours with your favorite radio host, Dr. Mona Hoffman! It was an incredible day in the Big Windy today, but now it’s time to unwind and Get Connected! My screener, Polly Caston, informs me that out our phone lines are already jammed with anxious callers, but before we take out first call let’s go over the ground rules for our program." "This is a show for open minded adults, so I don’t want to hear from anyone complaining about the content! If what we’re talking about offends you, TURN OFF THE RADIO!!! This is America for gosh sakes, even our President is doing it with the hired help, so get a LIFE! Now that I’ve gotten that off my chest, so if you will, Polly, give me our first caller please!" "Hello, caller, your on the line with Dr. Mona Hoffman, please give you name and make your request!" "H-hello, Dr. Mona, my name’s Gloria and I’m a fifty two year old widow." "What I’d like to do is talk to a young man who would like to tell me what he’d like to do to me." "And I assume that you’d like to do the same to him," Mona added. "Yes, that’s it," Gloria replied softly. "Okay, Polly, do we have a young man on the line who would like to fulfill Gloria’s request?!?" "I can see Polly working through the switchboard, she’s giving me the high sign, okay, who am I speaking with please?" "My name’s Mark." "How old are you Mark?" "I’m twenty three." "Did you hear my conversation with Gloria?" "Yes, I did." "Would you like to fulfill her request?" "Yes, I certainly would!" "Okay, audience, we have a Connection!!!"
"Mark and Gloria are going to be going into intimate detail as if they were alone on the phone, with my little interjections, of course! so, if you’re all quite ready, Mark, Gloria, let’s have at it!!!" "First of all, Gloria, tell Mark exactly what you’d like him to do for you!" "Well, uh, I’d like Mark to masturbate for me." "Mark, would you do that for Gloria?" "Mmmm, of course I would, I’d love to!" "Okay, Gloria, he’s ready, willing, and able, so tell him exactly what to do!" "Mark, can you tell what kind of underwear you have on?" "Bright red bikinis." "Oh myyyyy, I’ll bet you can really see you cock and balls bulging out!" "Oh yeah, it looks like someone stuck a banana in there." "Can you pull it out for me?!?" "Ohhhhhh, it’s out and it’s hard as a rock!" "A-are you cut or natural???" "One hundred percent natural, honey, long, thick, and hard!" "Do you have a girlfriend?" "You bet, very young and very hot!" "D-do you fuck her!?!" "When ever I want to, she’s a little fucking cock hound!" "D-does she suck you?!?" "Like a French whore!" "Jesus, I’m so fucking wet!!!" "Tell me, Gloria, what do you look like?" "I-I’m 5’4", 165 lbs, dark hair, brown eyes, and I measure 40dd-32-42!" "Oh, myyyy, I just love big tits and a big ass!" "Do you have a hairy pussy?" "It’s very hairy, I never shave it!" "Mmmmmm, I’ve never been with a girl with a hairy cunt, my girlfriend keeps her shaved smooth as a baby’s bottom!" "Is she good to suck?!?" "God, she tastes just like sweet honey, and she’s so fucking wet..."
"A-are you jerking your big cock!?!" "Like fucking maniac, baby!" "What about your fat cunt, are you doing your big fucking clit!?!" "I-I’m burying three fingers deep in my hairy snatch!" "Y-you’re a hot assed fucking bitch who loves hard young cock!" "Oh, god I do, I just love hard young pecker!!!" "Okay, now, hold it right there you two, it’s time for a commercial break!" "So all you fellow masturbaters put it on hold!" "Well be back in sixty!!!" Jesus christ, you two, I’ve got my fingers in my own pussy!" "Are you enjoying yourselves!?!" "Oh yes, I’m really close!" "What about you, Mark?" "I’m harder that a piece of steel!" "Good, we’re almost ready to go back on the air, one, two, three, and here we are back with Gloria and Mark." "It’s fiftysome year old Gloria’s fantasy to have twentysomething Mark masturbate for her!" "For the past fifteen minutes they’ve been going back and forth, with their very hot verbal repartee so if our two participants are quite ready, we’ll get back to the game!" "Are you still hard?" "You’re kidding, right? I’m fucking ready to shoot a tonner!!!" "Oh goooooood, I love seeing a man shoot his load!" "So does my girlfriend, she loves getting right in the face, the little bitch is a fucking cum freak!" "D-does she swallow?" "Like it was nectar from the gods, baby, she’s a fucking vacuum!"
"I-I love the taste of hot sperm in my mouth, it makes my pussy so fucking wet!" "When’s the last time you sucked a hard one, cunt!?!" "Ohhhhh, I’m so close, I-it was a month ago!" "How old was he?!?" "I-it was the paper boy, I-I think he’s about eighteen, I’m not sure!" "Big cock?!?" "Not huge, just right for sucking, long and slim!" "Now don’t lie to me, Gloria, you did more than suck him off didn’t you!?!" "W-what do you mean, ohhhhhhhh myyyyy???" "You know damn well what I mean, slut!" "You let him fuck your hairy fat cunt with his hard young cock!" "Y-yesssssssssss, I let him fuck me!" "I didn’t want him to, but he shoved me onto my back and just did it!" "Ohhhhhhhh, please, Gloria, admit it, you wanted his hard boy cock shoved all the way into your hairy old pussy!!!" "Y-you’re trying to confuse me!!!" "Listen to her, Dr. Mona, do you think she’s telling the truth!?!" "This is Dr. Mona again, dear. Mark has a point, I think you encouraged that young boy into fucking your hot wet pussy. Am I right!?!" "O-okay, I admit it, but I couldn’t help myself, it was such a pretty cock, I just had to fuck it!!!" "Of course you did, dear, you were helpless to stop it. Did you let him do anything else!?!" "H-he fucked my tits!!!" "And...?" "Oh god, h-he came all over my chest and face, load after load!!!" "And of course you cleaned it up with your tongue, right?" "I did. I licked it all up, I never lost a drop!!!" "Of course, Mark’s never fucked a pair of tits has he!?!" "Oh yesssssssss I have! My girlfriend has perfect tits!"
"Does she let you fuck them!" "Yesssssss, she had bright pink nipples, I just love putting my cock on her chest!" "How does that sound to you, Gloria?" "F-fucking incredible, sweet jesus I’m gonna cum, I’m soooooooo fucking wet!!!" "W-what about you, Mark? Are you getting close?" "I-I’m jerking it, harder and harder, oh god, there it cums! All over my belly!!!" "Oh, oh, oh, ohhhhhhhhhhhh! M-my pussy just let goooooooo! My clit, so hard and stiff, Cumming over and over again!!! Wonderful orgasssssssssssm!!!" "My goodness!!! That was quite the little demonstration, wasn’t it!!! I could hear cocks and cunts popping all over Chicago!!!" "I’ll have to dry off my hands during the next commercial break!" "This is very damp Dr. Mona Hoffman, I’ll be back in sixty!!!"
Do you feel this? I know you feel this. Are You ready? I dont think so. Somebody give me my truck, So I can ride on the clouds, So I can turn up the bass like BOUNCE BOUNCE Somebody pass my guitar, So I can look like a star, And spend this cash like BOUNCE BOUNCE Whatchu gonna do when the croud goes AH yo? Why you standin' on the wall? Music startin' everywhere, So why dont you just move along? I see you lookin at me like I'm some kind of freak. Get up out of your seat, Why dont you do somethin'? I see you lookin' at me like I got what you need Get up out of your seat, Why dont you do somethin'?
Now you all in my grill cus I say what I feel only rock to what's real Baby bump bump but I can't do that with you only here with my crew I can roll if you can, Dont be a punk punk
I see you lookin' over here, Cant you tell I'm havin' fun? If you care like I know, You would stop starrin' at us and get your own space and do somethin'
I know I may be young, but I’ve got feelings too. And I need to do what I feel like doing. So let me go and just listen. All you people look at me like I’m a little girl. Well did you ever think it be okay for me to step into this world? Always saying little girl don’t step into the club. Well I’m just tryin’ to find out why, cus dancing’s what I love. Get it get it, get it get it WHOOOA Get it get it, get it get it WHOOOOOA Do you like it? Get it get it, get it get it OOOHHHH This feels good... I know I may come off quiet, I may come off shy. But I feel like talking, feel like dancing when I see this guy. What’s practical is logical, What the hell, who cares? All I know is I’m so happy when you’re dancing there. I’m a slave for you. I cannot hold it, I cannot control it. I’m a slave for you. I won’t deny it, I’m not trying to hide it. Baby, don’t you wanna, dance upon me, I just wanna dance next to you to another time and place. Baby, don’t you wanna, dance upon me, Are you ready? Leaving behind my name, my age. Lets go. Like that, You like it? Now watch me I really wanna dance, tonight with you. I just can’t help myself I really wanna do what you want me to. I just feel I let myself go I really wanna dance, tonight with you. Wanna see you move. I really wanna do what you want me to. Uh Uh Uh I’m a slave for you. Take that, I cannot hold it, I cannot control it. I’m a slave It just feels right for you. It just feels good, I won’t deny it, I’m not trying to hide it. Baby I’m a slave for you. Here we go now, I cannot hold it, I cannot control it. I’m a slave for you. Here we go, I won’t deny it, Yeah, I’m not trying to hide it.
>>10 Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. I remember some of their most heinous crimes. Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people and made them gas attack the subway. Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan.
Hey they are all Koreans disguising Japanese. A genuine Japanese aren't like that warby. Check out each criminal well to avoid misleading info.
#1 < #`Д´> We're kind of meant to, we're kind of made to hate Japanese people though. < #`∀´> Yeah Japanese people I don't think I feel it same. < #`Д´> They talk such so terribly about them. < #`∀´> I, I, I...... < #`Д´> Like old grandmothers're like "JAPAN GO TO HELL". < #`∀´> Their country's gonna sink to the bottom of the ocean. < #`Д´> Yeah Japan's gonna sink to hell. < #`∀´> It, It is, It's just for all the evil they've done. It's just not even to us but to the Filipino islands and the Chinese. This is so........ < ´A`> But this is for your phone. < #`Д´> .......come next to ....... < #`∀´> They are goint to sink to the bottom of the ocean. One day I honestly believe. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so barbaric. (`⊂_´) MAN DOMINATE YOUR RACE AGAIN!!!!! < #`Д´> When they came to Korea they each thought Korea people were so advanced. You know why ? 'Cause Korean people had utensils to eat with. Chopsticks whatever it was a spoon. Japanese people were STILL EATING WITH THEIR HANDS. They didn't know. < ´A`> You were taught that. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so sad. They're trying to deny their, their, their history. They don't wanna admit their history. They don't wanna admit their mistakes. They don't wanna admit that. You know what ? I was wrong at this. They wanna erase history like it never happened. < #`∀´> Well it did. < #`Д´> That's koreans people anger about them. < #`∀´> And we will remember.
#2 < #`Д´> Is that they did certain things to certain people. < ´A`> You sound very angry. < #`∀´> We are. < #`Д´> I'm not angry. < #`∀´> You can't rape and pillage my grandmother's generation and expect me to forget it. < #`Д´> Becasu I'll meet I'll meet a Japanese person and be like "Hey what's up ?", "Fine", "Yes" at the same time. < #`∀´> Hello fucking A LYING GUY. Forget it. My dad was telling me the stories every day. I'm gonna remember about that about your generation. < ´A`> The Japanese killed every single member of my father's family. Except for him. He hid under the bamboo pot in the cookroom. < #`Д´> Those damn Japanese! < ´A`> They killed his whole family. < #`Д´> What are you doing?! < #`∀´> You can't forget that. < ´A`> His whole family in front him. < #`∀´> You can't. You can't. < ´A`> He hid. He hid underneath the bamboo pot. < #`∀´> And then you're going to tell me that your children aren't learning about it because it's not in their text books. < ´A`> The Japanese. < #`∀´> Pleeeeeeeease! I will hate that. I can't help but hate that. < ´A`> They came and they slaughtered his family.
,,.---v―--、_ We Japanese help each other when we have problems. ,.イ" | / / / /~`'''ー-、 If enemies apologize, we forgive them because //~`ヾ、;;;;ソ'''''''ヾ、 ,.ヽ ヽ they apologized. We get along by doing like that. /:,:' ... ゞ 彡 彡、ノ) !/ ~`ー'",..- ... 〉 !( But "THAT RACE" is different. i  ̄~` ! 彡 |ノ Once we apologize, they exploit our feelings ,i ,.- 、 ゝ " '" ~ ~` ヾ ,,--、 | and we'll wind up apologizing forever. / _ ヾ"r∂|;! But they make no bones about it. ヾ` '⌒` ;:: "~ ~` 彡 r ノ/ To apologize to avoid troubles should be done i ノ _,,.:' to only Japanese, or "THAT RACE" will exploit ヽ ノ"( 、_,..:ー'"ヽ、 : : : ,i / our feelings and force us, ヽ、 ,. :: :: ヽ ノ:|ラ:)`ヽ、"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard". ヽ、`''''"""''''" ' ,,..-'" // \At last our Japan will be overthrown.
>> Your English is stupid ! It's gotta be like as follows. ,,.---v―--、_ We Japanese help each other when we have problems. ,.イ" | / / / /~`'''ー-、 If enemies apologize, we will forgive them because //~`ヾ、;;;;ソ'''''''ヾ、 ,.ヽ ヽ they have apologized. We get along by doing so. /:,:' ... ゞ 彡 彡、ノ) !/ ~`ー'",..- ... 〉 !( But "THAT RACE" is different from us. i  ̄~` ! 彡 |ノ Once we apologize, they exploit our feelings ,i ,.- 、 ゝ " '" ~ ~` ヾ ,,--、 | and we are going to wind up apologizing forever. / _ ヾ"r∂|;! But they take it for granted. ヾ` '⌒` ;:: "~ ~` 彡 r ノ/ To apologize to avoid troubles should be done i ノ _,,.:' to only Japanese, or "THAT RACE" will exploit ヽ ノ"( 、_,..:ー'"ヽ、 : : : ,i / our feelings and force us, ヽ、 ,. :: :: ヽ ノ:|ラ:)`ヽ、"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard". ヽ、`''''"""''''" ' ,,..-'" // \At last our Japan will be overthrown.
>>10 > Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. > I remember some of their most heinous crimes. > Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his > body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. > Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. > Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than > eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. > Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. > some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. > but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. > He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people > and made them gas attack the subway. > Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. > Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. > It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool > girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. > There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan. Bwahhahahahah they are NOT japanese but koreans.
For goodness sake,don't talk about Koreans here! As soon as I hear the sound "Korean",I feel like throwing up. It's like a taboo word for me because I hate them to such an extent as stated above.
>>62 Do you like Natsukawa Jun? I don't mind.. She fudged her age but who cares? It's down to you even if you were tricked. Idols lie about thier age. Ok?
>>83 It should be spelled out like bum ass, I guess. It must be vulgar expression, cuss words, meaning someone who is less than nothing. I'm Japanese so let native speakers with further explanation.
Where did you see "bumass"? Context helps, you know. Anyway, it can mean a homeless person or just a person without a job. It's just "bum" plus "ass" to make it more offensive.
"bum ass" Check it out at Urban Dictionary.com Native speakers define this word as... A person with no job and no money that grubs off of his boys. Someone who eats other people's leftover food as every meal. Lazy
>>87 No one actually uses the word bumass. Most words on Urban Dictionary are words that were "Defined" as a joke. Your friend was most likely trying to say "Dumb ass" which means he was trying to call you dumb (but in a more vulgar way)
_,..-ー―--、. .ィ'´ `''=、 . ,/ _,; =--=、.,, `i、 i´ r´ ``-、 ? . ,i /´ ,__ `i l l i´,;'''¨''`‐ ,_ :| | ,i i ヒ‐・=、i ´,.、.._`;、|. | `i . i,  ̄´ノ: ´`'’‐` l l Shin Sugok `l l. ノ(__/ _,ヽ、 i´),i ヽ i 、‐--、..,,__ `ー j 「 Lately everywhere I complained to Japanese, ,;''"ヽ, `ヾ,三_ソ' ノ they said, "Get out of Japan" or "Go back where you belong". .,,.;:''"´ll i `ヽ、 ,.ィ´ Then, "Yes I've got it. I'll take all Koreans away with me. .ィ´ i i `;, `ー‐ ''"/‐ 、; And the Emperor too.", I retorted. But I think twice about it. : ヽゝ l、 ヽ / i 、 ``''=、_ That guy doesn't work at all. Hahahaha.
Well, I can only read some of it (all of the English, 20-30% of the Japanese, if even that much). It just seemed heated, and a lot of the English was argumentative... =P
I just didn't like it that way but now I'm sorry that I posted in English there.. The person in question seemed to think I was someone else, and he posted and posted and posted. I needed more patience.
>>10 > Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. > I remember some of their most heinous crimes. > Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his > body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. > Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. > Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than > eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. > Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. > some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. > but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. > He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people > and made them gas attack the subway. > Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. > Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. > It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool > girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. > There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan. Bwahhahahahah they are NOT japanese but koreans.
let's take the expression, " a lot of." for example. You native speakers pronounce it like "a lo(t) o(f)", at a natural speed, omitting t and f sound respectively. Maybe he/she find it hard to catch "a lo o" means the same as "a lot of" when it is pronounced.
This is just my guess so let's wait until 188 shows up again with his/her underwear stained with shit.
I'm 124 but I don't get your joke or a punchline. Are you sarcastic about Brits? Oh man, learning language is real though it's not just about erniching voacaburary, correct grammar usages. We have to know cultural background to understand a joke.
I know explainig a joke is the most stupid thing but I want to know what is your point in 125.
>>126 It's not a joke at all. There is a difference in speaking and accents between Americans and people in the United Kingdom, etcetera. The only people who I can think of who might omit the letters previously enumerated are those with localized British accents or Scottish/Irish accents.
you are an English teacher who really hate in your bottom in your heart, though you say "日本人大好きだよ" in your video. I really hate your kind of kind teacher at a glance but really a hater.
>>132 Is that right? I don't know about network thing. All I know is Internet is a network consists of many networks, which is one of the explanations with Raymond's term for ordinary people without any technical jergon.
It doesn't have the main server that controls the whole net work.
It was first divelopped in case of nuclear war by US and it began to be used by research institutions such as university and all.
And then it was allowed to be used for commercial purpose and Internet service providers come up such as AOL. Each house began to have a PC and got to get access to the Internet. Broad band replaced narrow band. At the same time, the time of web 2.0 has come represented by SNS and blogging. Then taking the most advantage of broadband, Youtube has come into spotlight.
I don't know anything about how internet works but manage to use it. I can surf the net, chat like I do here... I wish I knew more about technical sides of Internet.
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Ahhh, the typing style being used in the past few posts here is killing me. >.<
I hate it when people use "u" instead of "you", "r" instead of "are", so on and so forth. Please, only a couple more keystrokes and it makes it so much more legible...
>>156 In my honest opinion, I think it's just laziness. It's usually people who type slow and actually get a significant speed increase from typing words in shorthand like that.
I've been around a lot of people who are learning to type, due to the nature of my school, and it seems that once they get more proficient at it, they tend to use shorter forms of words less and less. However, I must concur that it DOES indeed seem that kids that aren't very bright tend to use it much more often than those who are.
Either way, using that style of typing makes one seem extremely ignorant, in my opinion... Your opinion?
>>156 I agree. They sure look ignorant when they type like that.
When you look the tendency form another angle, I suspect the writing style plays a role of nurturing a sense of fellowship among kids who are growing up in the same time period as the development of Internet. It's like "We are in the same generation."
Grown-ups who are much older, say in his forties or fifties rarely use the writing style, right? (maybe execept ones who want to look young..) So writing that way help kids identify themselves like, they are differnet from boring adults. That writing style help satisfy themselves with the sense of rebeling against authority, too. Maybe I'm reading too much into the preference to the writing style, though.
I gotta go now. Do >>155 and this post have something differnt from the posts by native Englsih speakers grammar-wise or choice-of-words-wise? Are there something peculiar about these posts that makes you judge these are written by a non native English speaker?
It's kind of odd to say but I guess 155 is pretty good myself.
>>157 I suppose it could be something like that, but I still maintain I mainly see it being used by people of ignorance and people that type very slowly and do it to save time.
In response to your question, which I'll assume is asking if posts by the native speakers and non-natives here are distinguishable from one another:
I'd have to say it really depends on the person. Sometimes from choice of words and from usage of certain words, as well as omissions of connector words etcetera, it can be easy to tell if someone is not a native speaker.
However, this is not always the case. I have seen non-native speakers here before that I could not distinguish between. Some seem to pick up the flow as I call it surprisingly well. It's rather impressive, if you ask me.
It's rather hard to explain, but it seems like many non-native speakers tend to have a more choppy way of speaking; it usually doesn't flow naturally. Sorry for the cryptic answer, but I can't think of a way to explain it any better.
Oh, and sorry for the double post, but >>155 does indeed speak well; I can tell he's not native by the way he speaks, but with a little more work I wouldn't be able to.
>>123 Thanks for the offer. According to a book that instructs American accents, "reduced sounds" are something like this: example 1 (for) Looks like... Who did you do it for? Sounds like... W'j'do (w)it for?
example 2 (had) Looks like... What had he done to deserve it? Sounds like... w'd'dee d'nd'd'zr vit?
>>160 Some of those seem a little exaggerated, notably the second one, but yeah I see what you mean. It's mainly because we're very familiar with the language and will slur words sometimes if we're tired, lazy, drunk, speaking very fast, or just have a habit of doing so. It's normally better practice to enunciate words than to allow yourself to slur them, though. I'm sure the same is true for Japanese; I've heard many people start to run into other words and omit a sound here and there when speaking fast or in any of the above situations. If you need a vocal example, feel free to contact me by email and I wouldn't mind speaking to help you note the difference. I don't think it will be too hard to follow once you get used to it.
Anyhow, good luck; I'm going to try and sleep now - it's early but I've been up nearly twenty-four hours. I'm quite tired.
,,.---v―--、_ We Japanese help each other when we have problems. ,.イ" | / / / /~`'''ー-、 If enemies apologize, we will forgive them because //~`ヾ、;;;;ソ'''''''ヾ、 ,.ヽ ヽ they have apologized. We get along by doing so. /:,:' ... ゞ 彡 彡、ノ) !/ ~`ー'",..- ... 〉 !( But "THAT RACE" is different from us. i  ̄~` ! 彡 |ノ Once we apologize, they exploit our feelings ,i ,.- 、 ゝ " '" ~ ~` ヾ ,,--、 | and we are going to wind up apologizing forever. / _ ヾ"r∂|;! But they take it for granted. ヾ` '⌒` ;:: "~ ~` 彡 r ノ/ To apologize to avoid troubles should be done i ノ _,,.:' to only Japanese, or "THAT RACE" will exploit ヽ ノ"( 、_,..:ー'"ヽ、 : : : ,i / our feelings and force us, ヽ、 ,. :: :: ヽ ノ:|ラ:)`ヽ、"Give him an inch and he'll take a yard". ヽ、`''''"""''''" ' ,,..-'" // \At last our Japan will be overthrown.
#1 < #`Д´> We're kind of meant to, we're kind of made to hate Japanese people though. < #`∀´> Yeah Japanese people I don't think I feel it same. < #`Д´> They talk such so terribly about them. < #`∀´> I, I, I...... < #`Д´> Like old grandmothers're like "JAPAN GO TO HELL". < #`∀´> Their country's gonna sink to the bottom of the ocean. < #`Д´> Yeah Japan's gonna sink to hell. < #`∀´> It, It is, It's just for all the evil they've done. It's just not even to us but to the Filipino islands and the Chinese. This is so........ < ´A`> But this is for your phone. < #`Д´> .......come next to ....... < #`∀´> They are goint to sink to the bottom of the ocean. One day I honestly believe. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so barbaric. (`⊂_´) MAN DOMINATE YOUR RACE AGAIN!!!!! < #`Д´> When they came to Korea they each thought Korea people were so advanced. You know why ? 'Cause Korean people had utensils to eat with. Chopsticks whatever it was a spoon. Japanese people were STILL EATING WITH THEIR HANDS. They didn't know. < ´A`> You were taught that. < #`Д´> Japanese people're so sad. They're trying to deny their, their, their history. They don't wanna admit their history. They don't wanna admit their mistakes. They don't wanna admit that. You know what ? I was wrong at this. They wanna erase history like it never happened. < #`∀´> Well it did. < #`Д´> That's koreans people anger about them. < #`∀´> And we will remember.
>>10 Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. I remember some of their most heinous crimes. Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people and made them gas attack the subway. Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan.
Hey they are all Koreans disguising Japanese. A genuine Japanese aren't like that warby. Check out each criminal well to avoid misleading info.
■Korean Residents in Japan Time Line ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Introduction of zainichi Koreans' historical trail and related cases ttp://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Apricot/9959/nenpyou.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ・1865 Japan pried open closed Korea at that time. ・1894〜1895 Japan fought Japanese-Sino war to stop Qing from taking Korea for a tributary and from interfering in Korea, and won. ・1904〜1905 Japan fought Japanese-Russo war because Russia asked to vacate the area at a latitude of 39 degrees and upper north, and won. ・1909 Hirobumi Ito was assassinated by a Korean. ・1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty conclusion. Since this year about one million Koreans had come to Japan for jobs until 1939. The treaty lasted until 1945. ・1920 Population of widely resident Koreans in Japan grew rapidly and they caused a lot of troubles with their neighbors. → "Travel restriction of Koreans" was implemented. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
・1939 World War II outbreak About 200 illegal Korean immigrants a month kept being arrested in only Fukuoka pref. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At this point about one million Korean residents in Japan. ・1944 1944/9〜1945/3 Period of recruitment of Korean soldiers and labors under national mobilization law and national recruitment low, that is so called compulsive recruitment by Koreans. Very short period and amount of recruited Koreans is small. This had already been applied to Japanese as far as 1939. 1944/12〜1948/8/15 "Travel restriction of Koreans" was abolished and a massive amount of Koreans flooded into Japan. ・1945 World War II termination; About two million Korean residents in Japan Number of Koreans that had increased since 1939 was 700 thousand and they came personally with their own will for jobs. Rest 300 thousand were recruited for Japanese industries or engineering enterprises. ・1945/8〜1946/3 After the war 1.4 million Koreans who desired to go back to Korea, were sent back by Japanese government. 610 thousand Koreans refused to to back and stayed with their own will. They were the root of current Korean residents; only 245 among them were recruited by government or companies.
The memory that we embraced each other against the twilight comes across my mind. Careless words sometimes hurt people and I noticed you left. When I looked into the mirror I found out there was a pathetic man in it, but I've come to think tenderly of him lately. Well, I'll be the way I've been and with dreams in my heart, I'll be walking as far as I go. Say yes. My self-awareness. A melody which runs in my heart at anytime, lightly and gently, spreads to other people's hearts. I hope we can meet somewhere again before walking up the shining slope road.
There's a large red spot on the moon today ♪ It's the same old thing as yesterday ♪ There's a rainbow light caught in a high roof top ♪ There's a sliced beef meet and the smoke won't stop ♪ I've sat down here before to avoid the pouring rain ♪ With the balls turning circles running 'round my brain ♪ I guess I always thought that we could end this reign ♪ But it's my destiny to be the slave of pain〜 ♪
I am >>157. Thanks for your feedback. >>155 was written by me, too. Your observation on non-native's English is interesting to read.
Even if I try to wirte natural English, in almost all cases, I fail. I thought I wrote >>155 pretty good and that it might look like the one written by a native. But for a native Englsih speaker like you, it is easy to tell that it is not written by a native.
Writing in a foreign language like a native is not easy. I'll keep up the good work.
>>177 No problem. If you keep it up like you are now, it probably won't be long before you type like a native speaker. Most of what you say looks normal to me, but other parts are more choppy (for example "Your observation on non-native's English is interesting to read." would probably be better as "Your observation as to how a non-native uses English is interesting to read." or "Your observation on a non-native's use of English is interesting to read."). I suppose it's best that you just keep speaking with native speakers if you wish to speak like one; it will likely familiarize you with how we speak and 'rub off' so to speak.
>>180 If you are using Windows, you have to install Japanese language support. Insert your Windows disc and go to Control Panel > Regional and Language Options. There you can install things for east asian languages and for Japanese. Afterwards, make sure in advanced that you extend support to supported applications, and make sure you add a Japanese keyboard support for the Language bar. After you do the above, you should be able to use the language bar to switch input modes, as well as any hotkeys you set for it to use (and yes, you can do so from an English keyboard). If you need further assistance, google is your best friend. Just search for "Japanese Language Support" and you should find something there.
If you absolutely can't figure it out, feel free to e-mail me and I'll walk you through it.
"You can't help but wanting to copy and paste it somewhere else. But even if a novice like you try it, chances are you'll end up failing to copy and paste."
This is kind of a clever way of spreading this, isn't it?
A life sentence (muki choeki) is the most severe punishment available, second only to the death penalty. Consisting in life sentence with the option of parole, one given an indefinite sentence must spend at least 10 years in custody before they may have a chance at parole. But, The average location the number of years of a parolee got longer year by year, and 2005 was about 27, In addition, all the members exceed 20 years. According to the survey by Center for Prisoners' Rights in Japan, there are 2 persons in prison over 50 years without parole at the time of 2000. Though Japan has a death penalty, incarceration in Japan is typically short. Even serious assault and rape convictions might result in a suspended sentence if it is the first offense. Similarly, even second-degree murder might be given only 5?7 years, usually paroled in 3?5 years if there was no previous conviction. The rate of re-offending for most released prisoners is low, and the popularity of the death sentence is generally attributed to retribution. Those who are against the death penalty are calling for alternative longer sentences, with more than 10 years before being able to get parole, or shushin kei (an actual life sentence with no possibility of parole). Most Japanese tend to recognize that "life sentence" indicates only "life sentence with no possibility of parole" so that many mistakenly believe that "muki-choeki" is not equivalent to "life sentence" and Japanese punitive law does not allow "life sentence" as the other developed countries' do. Although "muki-choeki" in Japanese is often interpreted as "indefinite sentence", "muki-choeki" has leaglly the same meaning as "life sentence".
Hi, my friends. How are you? BTW, do you live in Tokyo and are you over 20 y.o.? If you're so, please try to prevent the fanatic minority-hater, whose initial is "I", from continueing being head of your prefecture,,, in order to keep our country to be modern nation!
>>199 Do you mean how I put the period outside of the quotation marks in >>187? If so, you're an idiot. My way of using quotation marks is the style used in Britain. In British style, periods are only placed inside quotation marks if they are part of the quoted phrase. It is much more logical than the American style.
How are you? My name is Alena. I from Russia, city Cheboksary. To me 28 years. I shall tell to you about myself a little. I corresponded with the man from the your country before. His name Mark. He is from your country. We had a long correspondence and Mark wanted, that I have arrived to him in the your country that I have seen what life there. We have together submitted the statement on reception of the visa in your country! Mark spoke, that will help my in our meeting. I thought, that have met on the Internet the love. I and Mark made the big plans for the future, but in a flash all has changed. From the moment of submission of the statement for the application of the visa has passed 5 months. For these five months there was for what I least waited. Mark informed, that his former wife has returned to him and lives together with him. Soon they should get married. And now in Mark plans there is no me.
I wrote to him some times after that, but Mark have wished me only good luck in the further searches worthy men and have told, that our ways miss. And in October to me there has come the invitation in embassy behind reception of the visa. In the beginning I wanted to throw out the invitation in embassy. To me it was sad, because my dreams were failed, I have nobody to fly in the your country. But my uncle have dissuaded me from resolute actions and have told, that else there is a chance to find worthy the man and to use the visa to a meeting with him. I well know English and practically I have visa your country. My uncle speaks, that it really solves many problems. Approximately in 7 days the visa will be ready, and I should go to Moscow behind reception of the visa. I write to you because in my heart there is an empty seat. I do not search rich or poor. I search careful and responsible man which wants to enjoy a life together. Is this person you? I think, that I ask not much. I have told to you a little about my life. I have told not all about myself, but it will be easier to me to write about myself if you will ask questions which interest you. I have told to you my history, and now I shall look forward to hearing from you with impatience. Write to me! I shall send you more photo in the following letter. I wait you answer. Alena. P.S. I shall answer with pleasure if you write to me on: [email protected]
>>215 216 is right. Another way to say it would be 売春婦, I guess. All three of them refer to a woman who privides sexual service professionaly.
If I am no wrong, slut or whore sometimes means a woman who is too easy and sleep with anybody even though she is not professional. To call a woman like that, ヤリマン is the word.
ヤリ's original form would be ヤル, meaning do. マン comes from マンコ, meaning pussy. Literal translation of ヤリマン would be a pussy who are eager to accept man's penis.
マン comes from マンコ as I explained in the post above and when マンis added at the end of word like, アゲマン, サゲマン, it doesn't mean a pussy itself but a woman.
アゲ 's orginal form would be 上げる、meanig raise, increase, depending on a context. In case of アゲマン, アゲ means increase man's luck for success.
サゲ comes form 下げる. It's exact oppoist of 上げる.
So アゲマン is a woman who increases a man's so if you go out with アゲマン、it's considered your chance of promoting in your company is increased. She brings lots of lucks in your life.
Hilary Clinton is a typical アゲマン, I guess. She saved Bill from lots of torubles and made him US president.
Both アゲマン and サゲマン are kind of vulgar word, so I wouldn't use it in public. And I don't believe the notion of アゲマン、and サゲマン, either.
>>10 > Yeah you are right. Certainly they are ugly. > I remember some of their most heinous crimes. > Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his > body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. > Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. > Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than > eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. > Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. > some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. > but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. > He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people > and made them gas attack the subway. > Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. > Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. > It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool > girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. > There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan.
Hey they are all Koreans disguising Japanese. A genuine Japanese aren't like that warby. Check out each criminal well to avoid misleading info.
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Get your ass over here!! ∧_∧ ∧_∧ <Д´メ > _∧。・゜Aigoo ( @∀@)< Whore brokers kidnapped girls. | ヽ,)´Д`>し . (m9 Asahi つ ( broad coerced abduction ) |=== ) ヽ 人 Y 彡 し`ヽ,) ヽ _フフ ))===zzzzzz レ' (_)  ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄ ̄
_,,,,,_ ⊥_o_| ∧_∧ (Д` ;)88888 Hey boy ! (;∩Д∩< Nature of the issue is not whether |: ヽ,)∀´0゜> Stop by ! / ノ朝ノ or not they kidnapped girls. |=== )斤y斤ヽ (_, ) ) ↑ し`ヽ,) ヽ _フフ ))===zzzzzz しし' Here they are now.
Well here's a thread I can actually post in =D I'm trying to practice my Japanese by reading as much of it before my AP test =/
If anyone needs help with their English homework or something, or want me to translate something in English, feel free to ask me =D Although I'll have to ask my dad to read all your posts.
>>234 Welocome aboard, young man. You can post here about whatever you want. Sometimes this thread's traffic is few and far between, sometimes is very busy. Alomost all the time we talk about nonsense here...
These following two threads are the ones you can post in English. JFYI Enjoy the ride!!!
Someone already answered the question in the first thread, and the second thread is just plain weird =D
I have a question to Japanese folks. Why do you guys wear t-shirts with random English words on it? I mean very occasionally someone in America will get like a tattoo, or a t-shirt with random kanji on it (Like: 力). But at least that makes sense because it's symbolic. But when I visit Japan sometimes, I'll just see random english phrases on the wall, or on t-shirts, etc.
I'm not mad, or trying to say you guys should learn English, but I just kind of find it weird...
>>238 As western people seem to consider Kanji exotic and use them as a part of design without knowing the meanings, I guess we (Japanese) also consider English (or any western languages) chic and use them as a part of design without knowing theri meanings. While I've seen a young Japanese girl wearing a T-shirt saying "I am a BITCH," I've also seen a macho western man wearing a tatoo saying "台所." I don't know if I answered your question, but this is how I view the situation.
>>245 I'm not a student any more. In fact, I passed the national exam held in the middle of February. I've been studying medicine hard for a couple of months, but 2ch has always been my friend. I'm gonna get medical training as a resident at a uni hospital from tomorrow. It's gonna be so tough, but I'll try to hang on.
"名無しさん@英語勉強中 :2007/04/01(日) 13:10:01 >>238 Do you agree with the notion of Jock in American school culture?"
Well see this is the good and bad thing about America. We're so big and diverse that we have deserts, mountains, fields, artic land, etc.
I mean you guys know the stereotypical cowboy American right? So that's *kinda* like Texas I guess. Then there's New Yorkers, Alaskans, etc.
So to answer your question, I guess I do have to agree, in some schools there is that mentality of "cool kids". But honestly it died out in my area (Mid NJ), and if there are "jocks" they don't act like one on purpose or consciously.
My first introduction to voyeurism was about 15 years ago on holiday; I was in my early thirties. I had always enjoyed watching women on the beach topless. In the hotel pool changing room I noticed two small holes had been strategically drilled into a cubical wall. One was at chest height, the other just below waist level. I was curious and took a look, both spy holes provided a surprisingly wide view of the next cubical. I decided to wait and see if anyone came to use it.
After a few minutes I heard footsteps, I opened my cubical door slightly to see who was coming.
I was slightly disappointed at first as a woman in her mid 50s, who I had seen earlier on the poolside in a rather conservative red two piece costume, approached.
She looked rather ordinary with curly permed hair and a rather plain complexion.
I had hoped it would be a pretty younger girl. However, my disappointment soon disappeared and my heart began to race.
I removed my swimming trunks to allow my cock some room to expand as it had already become erect in anticipation of what I was about to see.
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>>262 > All of us can say or talk freely. > I think, though, many of you/us have some serious problems. > Why don't you go to an appropriate thread? > Am I wrong?
Yes you are correct. We should spread it all around the world that how ugly people are in Japan. I remember some of their most heinous crimes. Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people and made them gas attack the subway. Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan.
■Korean Residents in Japan Time Line ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Introduction of zainichi Koreans' historical trail and related cases ttp://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Apricot/9959/nenpyou.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ・1865 Japan pried open closed Korea at that time. ・1894〜1895 Japan fought Japanese-Sino war to stop Qing from taking Korea for a tributary and from interfering in Korea, and won. ・1904〜1905 Japan fought Japanese-Russo war because Russia asked to vacate the area at a latitude of 39 degrees and upper north, and won. ・1909 Hirobumi Ito was assassinated by a Korean. ・1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty conclusion. Since this year about one million Koreans had come to Japan for jobs until 1939. The treaty lasted until 1945. ・1920 Population of widely resident Koreans in Japan grew rapidly and they caused a lot of troubles with their neighbors. → "Travel restriction of Koreans" was implemented. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
・1939 World War II outbreak About 200 illegal Korean immigrants a month kept being arrested in only Fukuoka pref. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At this point about one million Korean residents in Japan. ・1944 1944/9〜1945/3 Period of recruitment of Korean soldiers and labors under national mobilization law and national recruitment low, that is so called compulsive recruitment by Koreans. Very short period and amount of recruited Koreans is small. This had already been applied to Japanese as far as 1939. 1944/12〜1948/8/15 "Travel restriction of Koreans" was abolished and a massive amount of Koreans flooded into Japan. ・1945 World War II termination; About two million Korean residents in Japan Number of Koreans that had increased since 1939 was 700 thousand and they came personally with their own will for jobs. Rest 300 thousand were recruited for Japanese industries or engineering enterprises. ・1945/8〜1946/3 After the war 1.4 million Koreans who desired to go back to Korea, were sent back by Japanese government. 610 thousand Koreans refused to go back and stayed with their own will. They were the root of current Korean residents; only 245 among them were recruited by government or companies.
< `Д´> When I do a bad thing, I say "I'm Japanese". ( cheering and clapping ) < `Д´> Always. < `O´ > If we step on someone's foot, ( "Sumimaseng" : "Excuse me." in Japanese" ) < ´A` > ????? < `∀´> It's a small patriotism, isn't it ? < `A´ > Yeah small..............
>>272, 273 I'm Japanese, and based on my experience, especially during the morning/evening rush hours, Japanese are brutal. They almost never appologize when step on other's foot, hit others with the corner of their bags, sting others with their umbrella, etc. etc.
>>274 I'm also Japanese and I totally agree with you. A couple of bicyclists bumped their bikes against me from behind when I walked along the shopping street yesterday. At the time, they said nothing while passing by me. We should be more aware of what we reall are!
>>276 Totally. On my way to the station this morning (it takes about 15 minutes on foot), I had 3 unpleasant incidents, something similar to what >>276 mentioned.
>>275 Unfortunately, that is not the case these days. I would say, only 1 out of 100 situations, you would get appologies, such as "Shitsurei (excuse me)."
>>279 I do NOT think that the parents "forgot" to tell their children how to bow. Beside that, they "aren't" know how to bow. That's because people have no feeling for the etiquette which normal human do as usual. Therefore, I could detect that these (DQN) people doesn't know the consequence of bienseance (<--is this spelled correct?), which is even more important for the next generation when the children did grow up.
Most people lost their morality--that's what the "Today's Japanese People" is.
>>279 I do NOT think that the parents "forgot" to tell their children how to bow. Beside that, they "aren't" know how to bow. That's because people have no feeling for the etiquette which normal human do as usual. Therefore, I could detect that these (DQN) people doesn't know the consequence of bienseance (<--is this spelled correct?), which is even more important for the next generation when the children did grow up.
Most people lost their morality--that's what the "Today's Japanese People" is.
Don't you think you're one of them ? I'd like to ask you a question in order to prove it. Do you believe it is true that the Earth goes around the sun ?
I often find that I don't like other people. They disgust me by how they look or by the stupid or annoying things they say, among other things. For example, one person I know looks okay and isn't too stupid but they have horrible disgusting breath. I prefer people on TV to people in real life because they aren't so flawed.
>>267 It's true that they are flawed in reality, but the TV allows them to hide their flaws and seem like they are great people even if they really aren't.
I wish I could tell that guy I hate his breath and that he disgusts me, but I'm sure that wouldn't end well. Why is his breath so bad? What causes bad breath?
You know what's annoying? It's the election coming up next Sunday. Some stupid candidate is right now speaking loudly just outside my apartment. I don't understand why people tolerate this nonsense in every election.
>>299 I know...... 2 candidates and his supporters were totally blocking the passage at the train station this morning. I nearly made a complaint but I was in a hurry so just gave them a dirty look. If I encounter that again, I'll tell them to get away!
>>298 All three of those sound bad. Anyway, it's the worst breath I've ever smelled. Whenever he talks to me, it makes me wince. I wonder if he knows how bad his breath is.
>>304 Some people don't seem to be sensitive enough to know if they have bad breath, smelly hair, smelly feet, etc. So probably this guy doesn't know that he has one.
Yeah youve got to tell him that he sucks as a human being, or he doesn't get it. It's also better for him to know the truth, so he could take proper action.
candidates making noise around train stations are ok but right in the middle of residential areas?? that's insane. that'll wake sleeping babies or disturb studying students. absolutely good for nothing.
It's like having a peace of crap you dumped this morning unknowingly on your face. You want that to end, do you? You've got to tell him and save his face.
If no one else has ever told him though, why should I be the one to? Maybe it is better than he never know. Other people will probably secretly think he is gross, but they will pretend to like him anyway. I will probably never see him again after a few months, so I think I can just tolerate him until then.
>>300 In the US it is customary for candidates to put a sign with their name on it every meter of the city they are running in. You can't drive for 10 seconds without seeing one of their signs. If you aren't careful, they will put a sign on your property too. You guys have it easy, if all they do is drive those vans with speakers on them around and yell "VOTE FOR ME!!!!!"
Hey, look at me! I'm Japanese and I imitate the American "culture" as best I can! And by "culture", I mean inaccurate stereotypes perpetuated by biased media outlets. I think that because I can speak fractured English that I'm cool and hardcore!
>>313 Do you mean it is legal for the candidates to put a sign on a private property? Because in Japan, that's illegal, and if they are caught (and they will be, because their names are on the signs, lol), they will be deprived of their rights to run in the election.
Have any of you guys visited America? If so, which do you like better? Japan or America?
I've went to Japan a few times and I absolutely loved it =) I love how everything is so close and you can travel through most of the country in a train. I also love how clean it is over there. Sometimes I think the garbage in Japan is beautiful =D
I mean, maybe it's just because I only visited on vacations and don't live there everyday, but America is kinda miserable sometimes =/
I mean there's barely any good news when I turn on CNN, and everyone here is so depressed =/ Everything is so spread out, and I barely get the sense of a community, and everything looks so desolate.
I mean in NYC, everything is so loud, dirty (They actually have janitors mopping the streets!), and everyone's always yelling at each other, but when you go to Tokyo or something like, it's so much different =)
IDK, maybe it's just because I don't have to study or work when I go to Japan =D
>>334 I went to NY last month and I kind of liked it there. It must be one of the most exciting cities in the world! Though I agree that it's not the cleanest place on planet... I once lived in Tokyo. Everything was loud and dirty there too.
In Japan, there is only good news like cherry blossoms are blossoming or tempratures are rising. People are totally optimistic so there is basically no suicide in Japan. We are doing great.
As for bad news, that's because bad news sell. Second, I think there are as many good news as bad news but, as media, they have responsibility to report bad news and then have people think what each and every person can do to tackle the problem.
BOYCOTT JAPS BECAUSE The denial of Massacre of Nanking The denial of sex-slavery so-called "comfort women" The denial of forced labor against many Asian peoples The denial of abuse of Ryukyu civilians by army The worship to war criminals The destruction of Filipino catholic churches The occupation of Ryukyu (Okinawa) The suppression of Aynu people The illegal prostitution of Southeast Asian girls The restriction of foreigner's human rights The death penalty
I was talked to a foreigner on my way home, however I couldn't answer her questions... Because I can't speak English at all. I've got to started studying English!!
The sentence that I learned today is as follows.
-I can almost understand what you are saying, but I can't speak. -I wish I had studied English while young. -Please excuse my poor English.
>>250 It's sorry for you. You can understand what is written one. Reading is deffernt from speaking. If you had had something relaxed, you could have answered her. No efficient, no progress. Never mind. Try, try, try. We can a good time to speak to foreigners.
First of all,you have to learn the rules of English grammer harder. "talk to" consists of two parts of speech,that is,"talk" is a intransitive verb and "to" is a preposition. You can't make a passive sentence by using them,so be careful not to make a sentence like "I was talked to a foreigner...."
>>353 You mean that he has to learn English grammar rules better, not harder. Also, you can't say "I was talked to a foreigner", but "I was talked to by a foreigner" sounds okay, even though it isn't textbook English.
The real winners make foreign people learn Japanese and speak in Japanese. They don't know how much time and efforts we invest to write in English here. We deserve to make Japanese officilal language here.
So the title of this thread will change to Chat in Japanese. :p
everybodys talking about NOVA? my talking in english is not very good but im not feeling like going there. if anysome who have going there were here? tell us how's nova
Hey! what the fuck!!! Where is k-tan or any other stupid Kotei?? I miss them!! I haven't been here more than three month, and this place is almost desserted!!! deserted!! ?? Let's talk about something anything!!
ok. thank you. I'm going to watch Matsuzaka pitch.
nice to meet you and what are you here for? how old are you? what color is your hair?and how do you feel about a man who is attructted to both males and females and is now married to a woman and have a child but often have sex with a guy like me?
I just got home from watching Daisuke Matsuzaka's first career MLB game. Living in Kansas City has finally payed off for once in 5 years. Although he was up against the Kansas City Royals (Worst team in the MLB) he pitched quite well. Did anyone catch the game on TV? I know it's very late at night in Japan, but according to the US media, there were alot of fans watching. I was sitting a bit to the 3rd Base side of home plate, so you might have seen me on TV. I'd have been the guy with the Royals hat on =P
>>383 They think he's being insanely over payed. His salary for one year is higher than the combined salaries of every player on the Kansas City Royals team (The team he pitched against today). The Royals weren't really a test of his ability, because the Royals are the worst team in the MLB (as well as the worst hitting team) but from what I saw, he will probably do pretty good this year. And to be fair, most American baseball fans don't even know his name, much less his stats from when he played in Japan. All they know is that a Japanese pitcher got payed a crazy amount of money =P
>>384 I see. As you could easily assume, Japanese media only show us the footage of avid supportes of Matsuzaka in the U.s., so if we are not careful, we automatically get the impression that all the baseball fans in the U.S. are excited about Matsuzaka despite the fact that he is receiving an outrageously large amount of money.
Although I'm not particularlly in favor of Matsuzaka, I hope he will meet the expectations of American baseball fans, because if he does only so-so, it could impact the bilateral relations between the 2 countries, lol~~
>>385 He got booed (I don't know if Japanese people boo...mmm...heckled? Jeered at?) during the game for doing things that pitchers in the MLB just don't do. Contrary to what American pitchers do, he takes a lot of time between pitches to play with the ball, warm his hands, walk off of the mound, do stretches and everything else. His release is also one of the slowest I have ever seen, and it was driving the American fans crazy. I don't think very many American fans went to the game for the sole purpose of seeing Matsuzaka (Maybe 100 out of 23,000 in attendance at the game) but if he can consistently pitch like he pitched in yesterdays (it's past midnight here) game, then American fans will probably accept him. Just like with Ichiro Suzuki, he will probably never be a big name player in the MLB though (He will never have the same type of name recognition as someone such as Roger Clemens or Randy Johnson)
>>388 It seems that Japanese may be a little more patient in that kind of situation, but I always get impatient and feel like fast-forwad the Sumo matches, lol Has it also been the case with Nomo? At least I have never heard that the Japanese pitchers pause too long, so what you mentioned was news to me.
And in Japan, Ichiro is treated as a kind of hero because, reportedly, he has been so successful in the Major league, but if I understand your last part of the statement correctly, he is considered probably as good as other Major leaguers, but not exceptionally good? is too long
>>392 Yes, mine is black, too. But I've been thinking about coloring it with 3 different shades of brown. I saw it done somewhere, and thought it very beautiful. Do you have any plans to color you hair? Or have you already colored it black, lol
Shaving is really tempting to me. But I just cant bring myself to do it. It takes a lot of guts go bald, you know. And Matsuzaka was great. He is a shoein for the cy young awarsd.
I haven't post anything recently. It's kinda boring being here mainly because I foung more interesting chat rooms. I guess you know about them. Anyway, have fun talking in here about racism which doesn't creat anything constructive.
>>390 Because Ichiro is on the Seattle Mariners, he has almost no name recognition. Especially not when compared to someone like Barry Bonds or Jason Giambi. If he were on a better team, maybe he'd be considered great (his stats are impressive enough) but since he's on such a lousy team, noone pays any attention to him. So the Japanese media was basically lying to you. (Though I'm sure he's popular in Seattle =P)
The US Media lies too. According to the national news, the entire city of Kansas City was excited and anxiously awaiting their chance to see him, but it's an absolute lie. Almost noone (even at the game) knew he was pitching, who he was or why they should care. They were at the game because it's the first week of the year (which always has high attendance)
>>398 I understand, and if you have nice grey hair, we call it "romance grey," so it's not too bad. But if you are starting to lose your hair, I strongly recommend that you shave it, instead of waiting to have "barcode." I think barcode hair is very pathetic, lol
>>412 You know, if your hair is dark, you have to bleach it first or the gold color will not show. And the problem is, bleaching really hurts!! I've seen some young men actually crying because it hurt so bad, and one of them even asked for pain-killer tablets! The only way to avoid major pain is to wash your hair without using your finger nails, but only with your fingers, in that way, you won't hurt your skin. Good luck!
>>408 I guess you mistake Matsuzaka's annual income for the amount of money the Red Sox paid to the Seibu Lions (his former club) to get a right to negotaite with the club to get him.
It's ridiculous his annual income is more than all income combined of starting lin-up of the Royals even though Royals is financially poor club.
He is the best of the best as a starter and he'll be in All Star Game and become a household name this year. I am not saying this because I'm Japanese. I wouldn't be surprised if he wins Sye(sp?) Young Award this year.
>It's ridiculous his annual income is more than all income combined of >starting lin-up of the Royals even though Royals is financially poor club.
What I mean above is that you are wrong. Matsuzaka's annual income form Red Sox is not surprisingly large. It's 5 million dollars or so per year. That means combined annual income of Royals starting line- up is far larger.
>>421 If you add up the cost of his post (50 million US, I think 6 billion yen?) and his salaries when added up (About 55-60 million if he performs well) you come up with about 100-110 Million Dollars. For the 2007 season the Royals have been on a spending spree, so our total salary is up to about 60 million a year. In other words, a team like ours has no chance of ever getting or keeping any stars like Daisuke =P since this is probably the most our team has ever spent (normally we'd spend more like 30 mil)
>>423 Don't worry, if you die horribly and he turns into a super saiyan, we will revive you using the Dragon Balls.
>>421 Oh, and I realize that his yearly salary isn't 50 million =D, it's more like 8 (with bonuses) and will top out at around 11. I was counting the 50 million that the Red Sox payed just to negotiate with him.
>>428 How do you feel about Japanese players looks. Matsuzaka doesn't have looks. His nose is like pig's, isn't it? Matsui (Yankees)'s face is terrible although he has great build.
Only Ichiro is up to par, I think.
It's not that the more handsome, the better they play. I know. I know. But as a Japanese myself, I wish Matsuzaka and Matsui were good-looking like Jeeta(sp?) on NY Yankees. If they were, they could attract more female baseball fans.
Matsuzaka's wife worked for TV station who hosted sports program. She is like Arnold Shwartzneger's wife so to speak. She is beautiful. Actually she interviewed Matsuzaka for the show and they got to go out together.
Matsui was reported to have been seeing two actoresses but both relationships didn't lead to marrage. Sorry for rambling on and on.
>>429 Although he is 6 foot (according to his stats) he looked like a very short ugly guy. He definitely won't have any female fans in the US. And after searching for his wifes picture I can say that he is too ugly for her. Fortunately for him though, he is rich =P so it doesn't matter.
It surprises me how cute some of the girls that end up with Japanese celebrities are. Although Hard Gay is sortof a good looking guy, I couldn't believe that he got married to a model >< it's aggravating.
>>430 Hard Gay is a nice man. But his popularity has declined because audience got bored his character as a Hard Gay and he ended up proving he is not a real gay by getting married with a woman.
He makes appearance on TV far less often now. But maybe that's good for his back. He said that his back hurts because he shake his back too hard.
>>434 yeah, he hurt his back and cannot move it as fast as before. But you know what? He is extremely good at drawing cartoons? He helped Nakayama Kinni-kun by drawing a para-para manga for him, which lead him into his major appearance on TV. Although I'm not particularly fond of him, I kinda hope that he will make a come back by making the most of his talent as an artist!
>>434 The second he got married, I figured the Hard Gay act would be over. Hard to be Hard Gay when you are married to a model =P I know he always claimed he wasn't actually a homosexual, but him getting married kinda ruined it =D
>>436 Really? He draws too? So he can wrestle, draw, AND shake his ass? Damn, I wish we could all be so talented lol.
>>438 True. But at the same time, look at Yakumaru (=Yakkun from Shibugaki-tai), for example. He cannot sing, dance or act but he is doing an MC on the morning show everyday for many years, appears on commercials, etc, making a huge amount of money. Same holds true for Matsui Kazuyo, the inventor of Matsui-bo. She is supposed to be an actress but not successful at all, but making a huge amount of money advocating a good-wife/good-mother figure. There are so many others like that in the entertainment world in Japan, so I think Hard Gay should get some share for some of the talents he has.
>>439 I feel bad about Yakumaru earning more money than he deserves. I don't call him an entertainer. He often trys to say something funny which only he thinks funny and actually not funny at all.
One thing that works in favor of him is the fact that he used to be a member of a popular boy's group. He has a fan base from that era. Although he was not such a popular member of the group, the fans of that group who was then school girls and now housewives feel nostalgic when they watch him on TV.
So they use him as a MC. I myself don't want to see him on TV.
Why do you guys have to talk about, of all people, Yakumaru and his validity in the entertainment industory? LOL It's the last thing I would talk about ! Anyway Yakumaru has probably the "likability factor" that' s only perceived by middle aged women, which Hard Gay guy will never ever be able to acquire.
Below is a profile on a certain SNS. He calles himself bilingual. My definition of bilingual is that they speak two languages perfect without any mistake or unatural expression and flow. Do native English speakers here think the writing below is perfect? Would you believe he is a native English speaker if hadn't told you he isn't? Give me your feedback, guys. Thanks.
-------- Why is 6 afraid of 7? For those of you who wanna know the answer!! If you read all of my profile, there may be a clue.
As you can see, I'm bilingual in English and Japanese. I am the kind of person who wants to answer a question about English whenever I see it. I can speak a little Cantonese, German. Just between you and me, I was born in 2651. For some reason, I live in the 21st century.
I like Japanese, Chinese, and French food, but I miss food called Popplers from the 27th century. Especially, I love ramen noodles and takoyaki (octopus balls), but takoyaki is hard to come by in Michigan. It's ok, though, cause I can eat Chinese food here.
Maybe, there's some meaning for you to drop by at my page. Leave me a message!!!
(cont) Incidentally, I came to San Francisco in 1998 from the 27th century. After that, I was in Japan for a while. I lived in Los Angeles from 2001 to 2005. I was an English teacher in Tokyo in the first half of 2006. I moved to Michigan in August 2006.
Why am I in Michigan? It's secret. Haha, just kidding.... I am a Ph.D. student at Michigan State University, studying the 21st century Political Economy.
Thank you for reading all of this.
Here's the clue. Count one to ten, especially emphasizing seven to nine. If you still don't get it, give me a message here, and I will let you know the answer. -----
>>445 Your definition is utterly wrong. Do you think you can put all native English speakers in one bag? It is crystal clear that you can't do that! There are some native speakers who have only several thousand vocabularies. on the other hand, others have about forty thousand ones. on top of that,writing skills are very different from person to person. In short,you're so crazy to have such a silly way of thinking!
I guess nobody won't answer such a trashy quiz.(eight→ate)
>>447 You have a point there. But what I meant was now matter how good at English as a second language, chances are you can't write like a native English speaker.
I have read Japanese writing which is written by a British guy. He has a wide variety of vocabulary and write very good Japanese. But He makes mistakes that's impossible for a native Japanese speaker to make. I guess there are common mistakes that non native Japanese speakers make being influenced by their mother tongue (English).
The same goes with Japanese who learn English. No matter how they are good at English as a second language, they make a kind of mistakes that are never made by native English speakers. I think that is because their English is in a way influenced by thier mother tongue. (Japanese)
As you say, vocabulary level and writing skill depend on person to person among native English speakers. But When you compare an essay written by a native English speaker whose vocabulary level and writig skills is not so good and an essay written by a non-English native who has very good command of English, I guess you can tell easily which is written by a non-English native.
The essay of the non native itself (content) might be better than the native apeaker, but I think you can see mistakes dotted here and there that was never made by a native English speaker.
My definition of bilingal is a person who never makes mistakes that are common as a non native. I know bilingal person makes mistakes when they write, but that's different kind of mistakes that's common for non-native. You may not agree with my definition again, but I hope I managed to get my point across.
So let me go back to my first question. Do you native English speakers here are convinced without any doubt that the writing in >>445-446 is written by a native English speaker if you didn't informed it was written by a non-native?
By the way, >>447, I think your answer to the quizz is right. :)
I would doubt that >>455-446 was written by a native speaker even if I hadn't be told the writer wasn't one. He has some awkward sentences that I don't think a native speaker would ever write...
Like this one... "Maybe, there's some meaning for you to drop by at my page. "
I think what he meant to say is like, "Maybe it's not just coinsidence that you dropped by at my page. Something like destiny drew you to my page.."
Maybe his writing above (445-446) is not long enough to judge but still, if you are a native English speaker, maybe you find something awakward about it other than what >>450 pointed out...
Oh, in that case, he should have said something like "Maybe there's some meaning in you dropping by my page."
Here's some other stuff: "It's secret." -> "It's a secret." "studying the 21st century Political Economy.": the "the" shouldn't be there "I am the kind of person who wants to answer a question about English whenever I see it.": "a question" -> "questions", "see it" -> "see them"
There are probably some more, but I don't feel like pointing out any more.
The heart is only a muscle. It's a meaty pump that shoves and sucks the blood that carries the oxygen that carries the electrons that keep us alive. It beats forty or a hundred and forty times a minute, hour after hour,day after day,until,between one contraction and the next,it falters and stops. When surgeons lay the heart open to repair valves and carve out damaged tissue, they find no spirit hiding there,no seat of the soul.Biologists can trace it back down the evolutionary path to the earliest twitchings of life in the sea. Yet who can accept that we're merely meat?Whocan shake the suspicion that we're more than two-legged heaps of dust accidentally sprung into motion? Whatever the doctors and biologists claim,we go on using the word ''heart''as if it pointed to an emotional center,a core of integrity. We trust those ○.We're sary of those who are heartless and hardhearted.Have a heart, begging for kindeness.Home is where the heart is,we say.
What is this circle in?
1:who never give up anything 2:who speak from the heart 3:who can screw up courage 4:who have a change of heart 5:who is in two minds 6:who is sex crazy doctor
>>453 I see. Usage of an article is the most difficult part to improve for non-native. Your correction to the original writing gave me a lot to learn from it. Thank you. :)
>>456 Did you write it? Anyway, I think that the heart often represents the emotional part of a person, while the brain reprensents the rational part of a person. I suppose this is because you can feel the effects of your emotions in your heart, which makes people feel that the heart is where emotions lie. You'll notice that people often claim to get headaches when thinking about complicated things, as well. I think that's an effect of our association of the brain with thought, though, rather than the cause. I think that it was scientists who first discovered the connection. Anyway, regardless of what people feel, the brain is where both though and emotion lie.
>>458 >Did you write it? No,I didn't.Actually,this is my friend's writing. By the way,this description of yours impressions is very nice. Heart is body parts.But another reason is attachment. It's interesting,isn't it? Excuse me for disturbing you.See you later.
Ask anyone about that girl, they call her 'notorious' Wearing flashy episodes on You walk with rumors and walk away from friends You’re all alone, but I think you’re cool I have always been attracted to you I don’t care what they say about you I want to kiss and hold you tight
I want to peek into her heart If I only could find my way through between the curtains at night And sneak into her dreams quietly I want to be the wind and watch over her by her side Will she laugh and say 'I’m alright'?
Barefoot boy, who are you Why do you have that look on your face like mine? You know those abandoned stairs? I'm finally going to climb up there tonight So don't you go to sleep
I actually realized a long time ago That there is nothing that I want here Barefooted boy, who am I Why do I have that look on my face like yours? With my shoes off and all
I waited for the sunrise quietly At the runway I'll peel off the ambiguous sky And burn the wind I'll show the world that I can fly
I've been told by many people That it's just an illusion I want to understand, too But it's just impossible
I waited for the sunrise quietly At the runway I'll peel off the ambiguous sky And burn the wind I'll show the world that I can fly
It's all right if we vanish in a flash Leaving not even a memory to anyone I'm beginning to understand the loneliness We want to choose the way that is best
No matter where you end up, the real enemy Continues to grow, hidden inside of ourselves
Despite our mistakes We keep hurting ourselves No matter what color the traffic light is I won't hit the brakes It's all right if we just crash
The setting sun reflected in a puddle of water Is orange and sad but a little warm Though we speak not a word We know we all feel the same way
It's like magic, isn't it You can always see through my feelings right away
Despite our mistakes We keep hurting ourselves No matter what color the traffic light is I won't hit the brakes It's all right if we crash, go faster It's all right if we crash, we'll remember everything It's all right if we just crash
>>481 Guess what have I been thinking about? I've been using my head so hard to know where you live. There is a clue that it's 1:00 AM in California where 480 live. I guess you live in central America,may be choicago or something.
>>486 Guess what have I been doing until now? I consulted my dictionary to know what"the eastern time zone" is. Thanks to you,I became a bit more familiar with America. but I guess you've already fallen asleep and having a peaceful dream.
■Korean Residents in Japan Time Line ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Introduction of zainichi Koreans' historical trail and related cases ttp://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Apricot/9959/nenpyou.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ・1865 Japan pried open closed Korea at that time. ・1894〜1895 Japan fought Japanese-Sino war to stop Qing from taking Korea for a tributary and from interfering in Korea, and won. ・1904〜1905 Japan fought Japanese-Russo war because Russia asked to vacate the area at a latitude of 39 degrees and upper north, and won. ・1909 Hirobumi Ito was assassinated by a Korean. ・1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty conclusion. Since this year about one million Koreans had come to Japan for jobs until 1939. The treaty lasted until 1945. ・1920 Population of widely resident Koreans in Japan grew rapidly and they caused a lot of troubles with their neighbors. → "Travel restriction of Koreans" was implemented. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
・1939 World War II outbreak About 200 illegal Korean immigrants a month kept being arrested in only Fukuoka pref. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At this point about one million Korean residents in Japan. ・1944 1944/9〜1945/3 Period of recruitment of Korean soldiers and labors under national mobilization law and national recruitment low, that is so called compulsive recruitment by Koreans. Very short period and amount of recruited Koreans is small. This had already been applied to Japanese as far as 1939. 1944/12〜1948/8/15 "Travel restriction of Koreans" was abolished and a massive amount of Koreans flooded into Japan. ・1945 World War II termination; About two million Korean residents in Japan Number of Koreans that had increased since 1939 was 700 thousand and they came personally with their own will for jobs. Rest 300 thousand were recruited for Japanese industries or engineering enterprises. ・1945/8〜1946/3 After the war 1.4 million Koreans who desired to go back to Korea, were sent back by Japanese government. 610 thousand Koreans refused to to back and stayed with their own will. They were the root of current Korean residents; only 245 among them were recruited by government or companies.
Anybody home ? Yeah Japanese are ugly. I remember some of their most heinous crimes. Shinichiro Azuma who was a junior high student then, cut a kid's head off his body and surprisingly left it on the school gate. Joe Obara killed a British dancer and surprisingly cut her in chunks. Tamotsu Nagata who was a clergyman raped or sexually harassed more than eighty innocent school girls surprisingly in church. Mamoru Takuma broke into a primary school and stabbed children with a knife. some of them were killed, I don't remember the number of victims though. but the worst evil I recall is Shoko Asahara. He was a stupid religious charlatan, brainwashed a lot of innocent people and made them gas attack the subway. Masumi Hayashi made poisoned meal and let her neighbours have it. Some of them died and some ten people were sent to hospital. It's nothing but a terror. Masato Okazaki killed a junior highschool girl by beating her head out with a rock. He is a sort of devil in man's shape. There must be a lot more violent and grotesque crimes in Japan. But they are all Koreans disguising Japanese. A genuine Japanese aren't like that warby. Check out each criminal well to avoid misleading info.
Americans resemble the dog the dog is behind in evolution -- the mammals -- rather than -- I think that it is close to a dinosaur there is also no hole of sweat -- summer -- 口あけて HAAHAA -- って -- it is る Although Pakistanis compare Americans to a dog well It is said that this is because a dog is a disgusting animal in Islam.
Americans resemble the dog the dog is behind in evolution -- the mammals -- rather than -- I think that it is close to a dinosaur they have also no hole of sweat -- in the summer --- In order to lower body temperature A breath is carried out by the mouth. Although Pakistanis compare Americans to a dog well It is said that this is because a dog is a disgusting animal in Islam.
Americans resemble the dog the dog is behind in evolution -- the mammals -- rather than -- I think that it is close to a dinosaur they have also no hole of sweat -- in the summer --- In order to lower body temperature A breath is carried out by their mouth. Although Pakistanis compare Americans to a dog well It is said that this is because a dog is a disgusting animal in Islam.
No! I hate such a blunt expression. I was wondering if you could have the tip of your tongue moving around on a part of my body whose shape looks like chrysanthemm petals.
Kermit the Frog: What's wrong with your drummer? He looks a little crazed. Zoot: Oh, he's just upset about missing the Rembrandt exhibit at The National Gallery. Animal: [Correcting him in a wild, angry tone] Renoir! Renoir!
"He seems to eat constantly and is often seen browsing the internet or talking to people via instant messaging. One such incident led to Blob pretending to be a model/physics expert named Naomi and cyber seducing Beast - leading to the discovery of Magneto's survival and, eventually, to the Ultimate War saga." What!!!!
She is a native speaker of English. How come most of us know her well is that she once made us angry by changing this thread into "nareai thread" with Bernard. at the time,I didn't mind what they were doing at all but some people got angry with their behaior.
Well,how can I expain to you about her? Anyway,it seems to me that she is a cheerful person and has a bit better command of English than me. She is a Japanese girl who is said to be around 40 years old or so. lol
>>646 Oh, dear! You miss her,don't you? Reading your post,I'm sure you're a good person. Probably 644 is also yours. If she happned to see post,she would be very pleased.
Yeah. Maybe she is still peeping this thread instaed of posting here.
She used to write here she was bullied in her class, so that's what I was worry about. Now she graduated from high school and she is free from the mean classmates.
All I wish is that she has adapted to her new environment and is having fun. I am a bit curious which uni she entered, what club activity she is doing. If she failed university entrance exam, I hope she has met nice people in prep school.
haha okay? I could post a livejournal link, but actually, my life is so boring that noone reads it. xD
Ummm, well, I had a pizza party for my cousin today since she was in town. My cousin, who is only 4, had a Nintendo DS, and he is surprisingly good for his age! Oh! And I'm going to Japan this summer. Tokyo, Kyoto, Osaka...you know TOURIST places. hahaha But hopefully I can practice some of my japanese.
>>655 Good. You can put the link to your blog here if you aren't afraid of the chance of bombardment of mean comments to your blog.
I've heard that a pizza delivery girl is in a typical adult video over there. She delivers a pizza to a house where a man live and she is invited to come in his place and there they f*ck and all. hehe
Kids are good at handling digital devices including mobile phone and video games. They'll grow up on such devices.
Why don't you meet someone you meet in this thread on your trip to Japan? Scaryrrryyyyyyyyyy??
I am surprised that blog is a big hit here in Japan, too. Actually, some of the TV dramas these days are based on a blog written by an blogger who is not in show business. I mean ordinary person.
I've read somewhere that Blogs written by Japanese are more in numbers than the ones in English.
Personally, I am not kind of person who make my personal life open to the world through Internet. I thought average Japanese person think the same way. But seems like my guess is wrong. Lots of Japanese people set up their own blog. Maybe Japanese people's mentality has been changing.
It used to be that Japanese people, me included, kind of too shy to let everybody know their personal lives. But to hink that blog is popular here in Japan, things are changing...
>>659 You don't have to be too worry about Japanese people here in this thread. After all, they are all ENglish learners and kind of eager to study. That means they are diligent people, not pervert.
I don't assure you 100%, though.
Are you going to meet some Japanese you got to know on the net during your visit to Japan this summer? Do you have Japanese friends here in Japan?
Most Japanese people, myself included, feel that way,too, I think. And Most people don't have any desire of killing themselves, but 30,000 people do every year in Japan.
>>666 Haha, that makes a little bit of sense, but still, you never know. xD
Well, my mom wants to be a world traveler, so we are going all over the world. So I'm going to Japan because she wants to see the shrines in Kyoto. We've already been to China,Mexico, Canada, and this winter we plan on going to Egypt.
I have some friends who are from Japan, but no friends who actually live in Japan. Do you have any English speaking friends in America, Canada, ect?
>>668 Your family really are globe trotter! Is your family wealthy, I take it? How can you afford the travel expenses, I wonder.
No, I don't have any friends overseas. I used to chat on the net, email people overseas, but keeping in touch with them is kind of difficult. ANytime soon, we stop exchanging e-mail.
>>670 Yes, the anonymous system sometimes can make people seem angry or cynical, but I don't mind at all. At least they are saying what they want to say,even if they are afraid to give a name. Maybe it gives a little bit of freedom, so, they have every right to say what they want. It's okay, It's just the internet.
>>672 No, we aren't weathly, we just save up all year long. xD I'm excited about Japan though. I want to buy lots of clothes and CDs.
Ah, I see. Yeah, sometimes it's difficult to keep in touch with people online. Because online it's easier to forget about people, somehow. But it takes effort! All it takes is just one person to keep emailing, so as long as one person doesn't quit, there is still a chance of keeping that friend.
>>674 I've done cyber on the net. I didn't know what it means at first. but I soon understood it. One British girl aske me if I want to try it and I said yes.
It was an amazing experience. I enjouyed it. haha. That was the time I felt most happy and rewarding about learning English.
You must want to go Harajuku and must be interested in cloths sold there. Harajuku fashoion, so to speak.
>>675 Hahaha, well,I guess that's one way to practice. xD
I think I might go to Harajuku. My mom really wants to see the people who get dressed up weird there. xD I just want to buy clothes there that I can't buy anywhere else in the world. n_n
oh yeah, I've heard that song. Gwen Stefani is pretty outrageous, but I guess it's good that she does what she likes to. Some music artists only behave how the public and the media want them to behave, and that's a bit sad, I think.
>>682 I think that one of the reasons why they dress like that and go out in town is to get much attention from people.
So if you ask them politely, chances are they say yes. Plus, if you are a traveler, and are from overseas, and intersted in that kind of costume, then they will be happy to have their pictures taken.
Japanese people in general, generous to cacasion(sp?), white people putting aside if the tendency is good or bad.
>>684 I think some people do it just for attention, but other people might do it because they just love it. When I was younger, I used to be afraid of wearing certain clothes because I was so afraid of what people would think of me, but really, it's no big deal. Eventually I got the courage to wear what I liked to wear without being embarassed, and now some people actually say that I'm stylish. o_o
But I'm glad they won't mind me taking pictures.n_n
And I'm glad that I've spoken with such nice Japanese people here. xD I was a little afraid that people would just think I'm a stupid gaijin, but it seems (for the most part) that it isn't true.
When you are young, sometimes you suffer from peer pressure. Kind of sad.
Japanese here in this thread and other threads in English board are never xenophobia. They, me included are in one way or another are interested in foreign cultures and want to know different cultures. As for average Japanese, too, they are not hostile to US people. They love Hollywood movies and music of US.
If you are interested in Japanese culture, including fashion, music, Japanese people think it's great and feel happy about that. So don't worry.
I said again and again to you, foreginers that you should post here, but that doesn't mean that I am always here on call to respond to your posts. I just come here when I am in the mood. :P
For my homework, I have to read a story about an interracial relationship written by a South African woman, and write a summary of it. It's a stupid story, though, and I don't want to finish reading it. Why do teachers always give stupid assignments?
>>693 I hate my teacher. He's full of himself and he makes fun of me for being quiet. Then there's all the stupid assignments he gives. I wish I wouldn't have been fooled into taking his class.
■Korean Residents in Japan Time Line ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Introduction of zainichi Koreans' historical trail and related cases ttp://www.geocities.co.jp/HeartLand-Apricot/9959/nenpyou.html ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ・1865 Japan pried open closed Korea at that time. ・1894〜1895 Japan fought Japanese-Sino war to stop Qing from taking Korea for a tributary and from interfering in Korea, and won. ・1904〜1905 Japan fought Japanese-Russo war because Russia asked to vacate the area at a latitude of 39 degrees and upper north, and won. ・1909 Hirobumi Ito was assassinated by a Korean. ・1910 Japan-Korea Annexation Treaty conclusion. Since this year about one million Koreans had come to Japan for jobs until 1939. The treaty lasted until 1945. ・1920 Population of widely resident Koreans in Japan grew rapidly and they caused a lot of troubles with their neighbors. → "Travel restriction of Koreans" was implemented. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
・1939 World War II outbreak About 200 illegal Korean immigrants a month kept being arrested in only Fukuoka pref. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ At this point about one million Korean residents in Japan. ・1944 1944/9〜1945/3 Period of recruitment of Korean soldiers and labors under national mobilization law and national recruitment low, that is so called compulsive recruitment by Koreans. Very short period and amount of recruited Koreans is small. This had already been applied to Japanese as far as 1939. 1944/12〜1948/8/15 "Travel restriction of Koreans" was abolished and a massive amount of Koreans flooded into Japan. ・1945 World War II termination; About two million Korean residents in Japan Number of Koreans that had increased since 1939 was 700 thousand and they came personally with their own will for jobs. Rest 300 thousand were recruited for Japanese industries or engineering enterprises. ・1945/8〜1946/3 After the war 1.4 million Koreans who desired to go back to Korea, were sent back by Japanese government. 610 thousand Koreans refused to go back and stayed with their own will. They were the root of current Korean residents; only 245 among them were recruited by government or companies.
>>620 I did? Awesome, I didn't know I had an invisible strip dancer. ^-^
>>624 If it's empty, why not fill it with something? Pick up a hobby or three and start to socialize with people who share your interests, and then expand to people beyond that.
>>626 Hi keira! (^-^)/ It's really been quite some time since last. >>653 I hope she's doing okay too =/
I can't remember the last time there was any serious conversation going on here in the first place. It's usually just perversion or stupid copy-pastes about Korea vs. Japan vs. United States. Is there any actual, serious discussions in English on 2ch anyway?
2ch is 99.9999 percent in Japanese and 99.9 percent of the threads are not serious. So if you talk about Egnlish ones only, possibility of seeing something serious going on is ... 0 percent.
I used to post a lot, but as I said, I found more interesting chatrooms, so I'm sorry I'm not motivated to do the same as I used to. I just happened to take a look.. Anyway, have fun talking with anonymous people.
For some reason it didn't show up the first time, so I had retyped it and resubmitted. Sorry for the useless double post.
>>721 Sure; let me know where I can find the room you speak of. I plan to keep visiting here as well.
>>722 I'm not entirely sure just yet; I'm sure there must be people here interested in English? I first came here because I'm trying to learn Japanese, and I figured why not help with English (as I help several people on a personal basis with their English).
Maybe I didnt treat you quite as good as I should. Maybe I didnt love you quite as often as I could. Little things I should've said and done, I never took the time.
Maybe I didnt hold you all those lonely, lonely times. And I guess I never told you, I'm so happy that you're mine. If I made you feel second-best, Im so sorry, I was blind.
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died. Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied.
Little things I should've said and done, I never took the time.
Tell me, tell me that your sweet love hasn't died Give me one more chance to keep you satisfied.
>>691 Maybe the story is significant somehow. I don't think the teacher would give the assignment to you just to annoy you. xD
But I guess I know what you mean. I have to write an essay on American National Identity. But Americans don't really have their own identity! just a bunch og other cultures mixed together.
School shootin!!! That's cool!! I wanna experience a school shooting or two in the future!! But it's just simply impossible in Japan, you know. Guns are not available for ordinary people in Japan... and Japan is relatively a peaceful place... that just sucks!!
>>744 Believe me, you don't want to be involved in a school shooting, or even a lockdown. u__u
It's very sad that people will just be walking to class and then get shot and killed for no reason. The shooter just has mental problems.
LA can have problems with school shootings, but I think that's because they have gang problems.Lots of schools in LA actually have metal detectors(like in airports) at the front gate so they can be searched before going to school.
It might be a good thing for Japan not to have guns. The only reason Americans can have guns is because when the country was first being made, people could defend themselves against the government if they wanted to. But now some people have guns just for protection. There is a gun in my house, but that's just in case we need to use it for an emergency situation.
I just got home from school. Yeah, I saw the news on TV at school about the shootings. They happened in the state I was born in x.x (I don't live in that state anymore, though).
Unstable idiots come to school with guns and open fire. These things are bound to happen, but it doesn't make them any more right...
Korean people say,“Korean women were taken away to brothels by Japanese people. There is the evidence. (1)” park6.wakwak.com/~photo/image/ianfu01.jpg But it’s not true because they are mere advertisements saying “Wanted comfort women. Salary of 300yen a month, and you can borrow 3000yen.” By the way let's think about the value of yen in 1944. www8.plala.or.jp/shinozaki/s19-1944.pdf A policeman’s salary was around 45 yen a month then. A policeman’s salary is around 200,000 yen a month today. www.keishicho.metro.tokyo.jp/saiyou/keisatsu/keisatu.htm 200000÷45=about4444 In short the rate of price increase is 4444 times. 300yen×4444=1333200yen… It’s amazing! A comfort woman’s salary was 1330,000yen in current value. And she was allowed to borrow 13,300,000yen. Assuming 1yen=10won, “Salary of 13,300,000won! You can borrow 133,000,000won!” Whoever read this knows that they wanted to be hookers. Can this be expressed as “TAKEN AWAY” ? (1) Reference “Korean Government HP”(It has already been deleted) www.hermuseum.go.kr/eng/exp/Experience01_2.asp
>>764 You weren't important enough! Go find the next guy who you think is borderline, and poke fun at him until you knock him over said border. Only then will your death-wish come true. ;D
The democratic party is anti-Japan. They hate Japan. As soon as the party won the recent election, America decided to present North Korea with crude oil and attack Japan verbally. I can't believe Japan still allies with America.
If you could go back in time to when you were 3 years old but retain all the knowledge you currently have, would you? I would. I would able to fix all the mistakes I've made, and I would be able to use my knowledge of the future to my advantage.
likewise. n_n Are you in the states? Canada? Australia? England? I think you mentioned earlier about coming from Virginia? Or maybe I'm just confused about a different forum. xD
That's really kind of a sterotype and isn't quite true.
It's true that athelic people and cheerleaders are popular and have lots of friends, but so do a lot of other types of people. Especially with clubs. ( Theatre club, cultural clubs, ect.)
At least that's how it was when I was in highschool. Noone in particular 'ruled the school'. But the most famous people were those who did the morning buletin.
>>795 Oh, thanks for clearing that up. I didn't realize that I had a typo in there. >_>;;
>>794 but yeah, highschool drama deffinatly aren't always true. Actually, I knew quite a few football players and cheerleaders, and they were nice people. Which dramas do you watch? xD
>>795 Oh, Isee. So they kind of play a role of anchorperson on TV station or maybe narrator or DJ or MC.... Their voice is heard every morning and that's why they are widely known among students... That's what keira meant..
Another topic.
I've herad US students are told to express their ideas clearly in fron of many people, getting their ideas across to make themselves understood. It's kind of like a presentation skill.
To nurture the skill, I've heard that teachers in US make students do "show and tell" where kids bring something important to school and do a presentation about it in front of classmates. Have you done "show and tell" at school?
I can't remember the title of the drama but if I am not wrong in Beverlly Hills 90210, I think I've seen arrogant cheer leaders or football players... Maybe I'm wrong. I don't remember.
>>797 Show and tell is usually only done in kindergarten through 3rd or 4th grade. I did it a few times back then. It was hard for me to pick what I wanted to bring and talk about, and I was nervous to talk in front of the class.
>>798 Well, I never watched Beverly Hills 90210 (I've heard of it, of course). but that's the way it is in almost every single American TV show that has a high school in it, so I wouldn't be surprised.
But yes, it's a requirement to have speaking skills. When I was younger the teachers would have the class do show and tell. It was a way for the kids to know their classmates better, and to not be nervous in front of people. It's also emphasized a lot in high school. Giving presentations to the class happens all the time.
And in English or Government class, students are encouraged to give an opinion on how they feel.
There are also participation points in most classes. If you raise your hand a lot, or volounteer to answer a question, you can get points that way. But if you are quiet or distracted the whole time, you may lose points.
>>801 Show and tell wasn't the only time we had to speak in front of class. We had to do toastmasters speeches a few times every year in my elementary school. That's probably not as common as show and tell, though. In Junior High and High School, there aren't as many presentations, but you still have to present at least one project a semester in English and social studies classes. Don't you present in front of class in Japanese schools?
>>803 Yeah, I heard that students from Japan don't get high participation points because they are very shy.
The title "Beverly Hills 90210" comes from address where the imaginary high school is, right? Japanese title of the drama wasn't "Beverly Hills 90210." The series was veeeery long, right? and it was given two names in Japan based on situations the characters are in. I mean, the drama where they were were in high school was titled "Beverly Hills High school White Paper."
After they graduated from high school, The drama was titled, "Beverly Hills adolescent days White Paper." Those are wrod for word translation of Japanese titles of Beverly Hills 90210.
By the way, this is a photobook available in Japan. Just go to any bookstore in Japan, and you can buy those stuff. Many Japanese men love them. Japan is a child porn heaven.
All through my education, I had absolutely no oppotunity to stand in front of the class and do anything, exept music class?? thing. So I ended up being extremely nervous everytime I'm in front of people more than 3.
>>804 Well, not as much as Americans do. Class representitive students ( class leaders?) often have a chance to speak in front of classmates but other students seldom have opprtunities to speak in front of classmates.
We Japanese english learners are often told that Americans are trained to speak up in front of people since they were little kids. Some English club take the method of show and tell to hone presentation skills.
>That's strange...I wonder why they changed the names for the japanese airing.
Because 90210 doesn't make sense at all for us. No Japanese can guess what it means. This happens often. Believe it or not, That's the case with Hollywood movies titles that come to Japan.
>>820 Wow, I never knew that. It's interesting really.
It would be bad if I ever had friends to visit in Japan. I'd probably embarass them, since I'm pretty outspoken. n_n;; And I hug a lot. Maybe I should practice being more reserved before visiting
>>820 I'm not sure exactly what you mean by class leaders. In America, schools have student governments elected by the students, but they never do any speaking. They just attend meetings. In addition to that, each class has its own representative to send to the meetings and give a report of what went on in them, but the meetings are very seldom.
Anyway, it's true that we have to do a lot of speaking in front of class in American schools, but I've never liked public speaking anyway.
>>826 I meant it as in classroom, so I guess they are different. In junior high and high school, every class during a certain period (as in period 1/2/3/etc.) would sent a representative to a meeting and they would report what happened, and it was the same in elementary school, but there were no periods, obviously...
>>823 There's a proverb like "When in Rome, Do as the Romans do." But if you stay in Japan as a traveler it's not a big problem to act like an typical American in my opinion.
For us, it's a good chance to see how foreigners act in their culture. Maybe I wouldn't know what to do if I was huggged at first, but that's a good thing to experience foreign way of greeting.
>>825 Well, my school days were over long time ago, so I don't remember much about my school days. but in general, average school kids are less opportunities for publik speaking than US students. That's for sure.
>>831 I guess that's a bad thing that public speaking isn't taught in Japanese schools, because it is a useful skill, but I think I would've preferred a system like that. Actually, I know I would have. I still get really nervous speaking in front of people. A lot of Americans are that way despite our schooling. Some people are just naturals, and don't even need to be taught it, and others find it hard even after a lot of practice. Nature is a lot more important than nurture in public speaking, IMO.
>>832 In US, people who have a good sense of humor are admired right? To put a nice joke or two in public speech is considered good over there right? It's almost impossible to say wisecracks and all to make listeners laugh.
I thought almost all Americans like public speaking but after reading your comments I found that I was wrong. I'm kind of relieved to know that notall Americansare are naturals in terms of public speaking. ^^
X It's almost impossible to say wisecracks and all to make listeners laugh. O "To me," It's almost impossible to say wisecracks and all to make listeners laugh.
>>834 You don't usually say "to me", it would be "in my opinion" or "for me" in this case.
>>833 Yes everywhere is the same, some people are shy in front of others. But if you push them to do conversations and presentations and seminars etc ever since they're children, it will improve IMO. They won't become geniuses but it will be better. Jokes are good but sometimes you'd end up with people who never laugh at all...
>>833 Yes, good public speakers almost always make jokes to make their audience laugh in my experience. I've never had too much trouble telling jokes normally, but I've never really used them when giving a speech because I think that I'll look stupid, I guess.
I have two little brothers. One of them's outgoing and is great at public speaking, but the other one is just like me and gets nervous. It seemed to me that they started out that way, too. The one who's good has always been that way, and I and the one who isn't good have always been bad at it. That's why I think that some people are just born good at it, and some people just aren't.
I have heard a funny story. There was an international conference where an important American man told a joke in his speech. An interprter at the conferance thought his joke was bad and not funny at all, so she didn't translate his joke. Instead, she said to the Japanese audience there that he has just said a joke, so I'd appreciate if you all laugh now.
Japanese audience all laughed as the interpreter instructed them. Seeing Japanese audience laugh, the American speaker were satisfied with the audience's reaction to his joke.
I don't know tif his story is true or not though...^^
I think that interpreter sure did a bad job. Usually it's a rule to try to convey every pun, joke, etc possible. The thing is, people's taste in jokes are different when they grew up in different cultures. Like, many jokes in English won't make it to French, and also from French to English. Sometimes it's best to try to make up a joke of your own in the same lines.
That is why I find the interpreting job to be very difficult. You can do it when there is a conference (large audience), but when you have to translate for one-on-one conversations, if your boss said a joke but you did not translate it, it would be awkward. If you told the other person to laugh, he would look at you with awkward eyes...
warotawwww But I wonder what the interpreter would have done had the guy told the sequal to the joke or something that was related to the joke. That could have really compilicated the job. So I think the story is not true. Translating jokes basically impossible. especially when it's a pun.
In movies, everytime a joke that's basically impossible to do a literal translation on comes up, translators come up with their own alternative. Those alterenatives are always, without exception, no good. But you can't altogether ignore jokes, so it's catch 22. (I wanted to use this phrase catch 22. sorry.)
>>847 That would be true^^ But it's just wrong! Audience were there to listen to him!! Not some stupid know-it-all interpretor!! Interpretor shouldn't upstage the interpretee!! lolllo
>>854 True. They are like a superman/woman. I've participated in an international conference out of curiusity. The simultaneous interpreters there were like GOD. They did sperb job. How can they translate something from language to another language with lighting speed.
I know they studied hard to acquire interpriting technique and super command of English and tiny portion of English learners can reach that level.
>>849 Then it would be polite still to translate it and then laugh afterwards. The listener will know that it was meant to be a joke. Usually that is how I do.
>>862 From what I read in 860, I take it that you have interpreted between two languages... Are you fluent in a language other than yhour mother tongue?
Ok, I'll be the interpreter here and interpret >>860. >>860 feels that you're annoying bastard and should be put to death. Well then. see you in the afterlife.
>>863 Sorry, no I'm not annoyed, but I'm not a pro interpreter, since I haven't done any course or degree in interpreting. I figured I shouldn't talk about myself too much so I answered quite shortly, sorry if it offended you. English is not my native language and French neither but I did French<->English translations for business partners.
Wow, this thread was really active while I was asleep / heading to school. I'm at school now, so replies won't be close together usually, but I'm around.
As for the previous topic of American public speaking - yes, from childhood we are indeed exposed to a great deal of public speaking (at least in the schools I've been in). However, some people just never really get too proficient with it; the naturally-shy types. However I've seen many, many people overcome their fears of public speaking through school. There is even speech classes for these types of people who have trouble public speaking. It may make us more voiced in public than many deem to be good in other cultures, but it's perfectly acceptable here. But as someone pointed out earlier, "When in Rome, do as the Romans do", id est, try to act as others do when in their culture's land. So if I were, exempli gratia, in Japan, I'd likely try to act more reserved in public than if I were in the United States, because what is acceptable here may not be acceptable there (and vise versa). However, between close friends, I can't say I wouldn't act as I do normally (though, unlike keira here, I don't tend to touch others very often, and seldom allow others to touch me without implicit or explicit permission unless they are very close to me). There are plenty of cultural differences, but nothing too bad, I don't think.
>>869 Amazed. You can handle at least three languages. I thought your first language was English.
You don't need degree here in Japan to be a professional interpretor. There're private language schools to train would-be interpreters and going to that kind of school is the common path to be a pro who works as a freelance conference interpretor.
But almost all students there can't reach the professional level, although classes given there can be of help to improve your English.
Which is more important for you, being glued to 2ch thread on call 24/7 and going to school. The former!! of course, which is too obvious! Posting to 2ch is your top priority. You know that.
Actually you were born to post in 2ch. That's what your life is for. Don't forget what's on top of your to-do list, dude. It's to post here.
Go straigt away to the pricipal's officce and tell him you quit as of today, being busy with 2ch.
>>873 Haha, 2ch is actually nowhere near the top of my priority list. :( Not to mention my Japanese isn't good enough to read most of 2ch...
I'm just bored right now, in one of my Networking classes. I'm supposed to be studying for a test I'm going to have in about twenty minutes, but the subject matter was easy for me this module, so I'm not going to bother.
>>872 Yes there are drill classes and courses taught privately here for interpreting too, but without a degree you will need to prove that you are able to interpret, usually through recommendations. My friend does freelance interpreting too and she's quite good at it, usually finding more-or-less stable work. I'm not as good as it may sound like, because I'm starting to lose my French abilities bit by bit.
>>876 Oh? You think so? While I don't like the term 'geek', most of what I do involves computers. I'm a programmer, with my main language being C/C++. As for touch-typing, I've been doing so for years and am much faster at it than most of the population is at typing altogether. No need to be trolling me. :P >>877 Top five? That's hard to say. If anything, my top five are to graduate, head off to college, attain a degree, get a job, and to continue my education - not necessarily in that order. I also wish to become proficient with Japanese, as I love languages, and began learning Japanese for both business purposes and because it's a lot different than English, and thus I find it fun. I also like to write, and hope to publish a book sometime during my lifetime.
>>879 Seems like you have bright future ahead of you. As for learning a foreign language, it takes a lot of efforts and time. Just wishing to be fluent in Japanese gets you nowhere. Maybe your major will be computer science and second major will be Japanese? Anyway, good luck.
>>864 http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/04/17/vtech.shooting/index.html >Police identified the gunman who killed 32 people on the Virginia Tech campus >before turning the gun on himself as student Cho Seung-Hui, university police >Chief Wendell Flinchum said Tuesday.
>>880 I know just wishing will get me nowhere. I've been learning on my own with the aid of a couple books and some friends of mine for a while. I'm also planning on taking a Japanese course once one is available to me (likely in the fall).
>>888 Oh. I'm at home right now, but I have to go to school in about 20 minutes. I won't be able to use the Internet there, though. Today, I only have to go for about an hour and a half, so I'm glad about that, but I wish I didn't have to go at all. How come you're in the library?
>>892 I'm not in Japan, but it's 2 am there as you can see on this board. It's 10 am here. My school has a test too, but I don't have to take so I'm at home. lol
>894 Me too. I'm in CA. It's 10:30am You mean STAR testing??? We are doing STAR testing right now. I don't have to take it. But I had to come to school so that's why I'm in the library.
>>898 Yes, I live in CA, too, so I mean STAR testing. I don't have to take it because I'm in 12th grade, and I don't have to go to school while it's being taken, but I have to go in a few minutes because we're still having some classes. :(
>899 Yeah! That's exactly same thing!! Well, I'm 11th grade, but I'm exchange student. So I don't have to take test. And I had 1st period before STAR testing so I had to come. And we have classes after STAR testing too! So, this week is kinda easy for me...but boring...
Neither. Well, I wanted to go abroad since I started learning English. I wanted to be able to talk in English. And last year, I got offer and I came CA.
I didn't realize that Star testing was going on right now...huh. Well, good luck with that. It's pretty easy, but really boring. xD Are you guys in Northern/Central or Sotuhern California?
>>908 I heard south central is dangerous place in Cali. In lyrics in rap music, there's a mention of South central. How dangerous? Have you visited there? Lots of low income African American?
>>910 Depends on what area. LA itself isn't that bad, especially in the richer areas. But Eat LA has a terrible reputaion. Like I mentioned earlier in the thread, some schools have metal detectors at the entrance to make sure students aren't carrying weapons.
I haven't felt homesick, I think. I might had, but I didn't realize that. problem...hmmm... It's not problem but, beginning of my exchange was hard. I couldn't talk in English very much, I didn't know how to communicate.
>>920 I see. What do you think is the biggest difference between school life in US and Japan? Have you joined a club? I mean, after school activity, such as football, baseball and other clubs
>>922 Do American teens use cell phone like Japanese teens?
Japanese teens send text messages all the time when they have free time or play games on cell phone. Are American teens are like that, too?
I heard cell phone technology is far more advanced in Japan than US. It's the norm cell phone has a built-in camera in Japan but in US, not many cell phone don't have a digital camera. That's what I heard.
Some kids are using all the time, but not so many, I think. I don't have cell phone here, so I don't know what's kind of accesary in it. But some cell phone have camera I guess. Not all.
>>923 Most American teenagers have cell-phones as well. Japan's cell-phone technology as I have seen doesn't seem to be much different than ours. To answer your inquiry about the cameras on them, most phones here do have cameras now.
>>929 Yes. C/C++ is a programming language; it's for writing software.
>>930 We have built-in camera long time, let's see at least for more than 5 years, while in US market, built-in camera has just become common recently, right? Plus, we have more things to do with cell phone. Contens on the net accessed with a cell phone is rich in Japan. SNS is accessed by cell phone, blogs can be accessed by cell phone, too. Cell phone culture is more advanced in Japan than US.
>>931 We've had built-in cameras for years as well. SMS, and phone web-browsers etcetera are quite common as well. As I previously stated, I don't think there is very much of a gap between the cell-phones in Japan and the United States. Japan may have more people who keep and read blogs using them, but we have the exact same technology...
>>933 We can handle electric money with cell phone. So we can shop without real money. We can watch digital TV with cell phone. We can send more colorful e-mail called decoration e-mail than US. We have alarm in cell phone that help kids let adults around know when they are facing kidnapping. We have wide selection of ring tones available on the net. We even can set whole songs with vocal as a ring tone. We have cell phone of universal design for elderly. We have strage media that can save more data than US's.
If we confront someting we don't want to see, we just hold cell phone right in front of eyes, then we can managed to avoid seeing what we don't want to see. Another beauty of Japanese cell phone on the market.
Japan's cell-phone market is booming, and its technologies are developing at a crazy rate, which shows how Japan is proud of its cell-phone field & development. An example of this would be the small pixeled-square you can see on most japanese websites, which are not present in other countries' websites.
However development has its stages as well, birth, boom, zenith - stagnation, death. I think right now Japan is in the boom stage whereas USA has gone past it, into the stagnation stage.
Why? People's tastes are somewhat different. In the USA, people tend to use the mobile phone more as a tool to call people (at a first priority), then to surf web, especially for GPS services, and then afterwards is the geek community using it for surfing the real web (blogs, whatever) or whatelse. Which shows how more people are "geeky" (in terms of mobile phone) in Japan.
"If you're firghtened of dying,and then you're holding on,You'll see devils tearing your life away. But, if you've made your peace,then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth"
What do you guys think of this quote? It's not necissarily a quote about religion or anything, but how people accept death.
A korean guy shot 33 American people to death. But he didn't do anything wrong. He must have been under pressure from the society, in a word, racial discrimination. Sad thing is, however, he killed himself too. He shouldn't have done that.