Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 81

>>902
Hmmm... I see. Thanks. I guess you are Japanese. Good luck to your study abroad.

Yeah, I am Japanese.
Thanks! Good luck your school too!!

>>904
AFS or YFU?
What made you decide to study abroad?

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.

oh wow, other Californians in this thread? xD

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?

southern* I mean.

I really need to read over my posts before I hit the submit button. xD

>907
We are doing STAR testing but I don't have to take it. So I'm in the library, and I'm so boring right now...
I'm in Northern CA.

>>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?

>>906
You got an offer?

You have to be an excellent student to get the offer?

>>909
Oh, I see.

>>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.

*East LA I mean.

Also, most of the reason why LA has such problems is because of gangs.

Not really...?
There was no people who want to be exchange. I guess.

>>910
They won't do anything to you
if you don't do anything to them.
Just be friendly and it will
be okay.

I meant,
>911

Well, I got to stop by for a little while,
but now I have to go to my classes.
But I only have one class today, so I'll be back soon I guess.

byebye!

>>914
Have you felt homesick?
What was/is the biggest problem you have experienced so far?

>>917
Later

>>915
All righty

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

Hmmm... If I can speak English more, It's really easier than Japan.
I've not joined a club.

>>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.

I see.

Thanks to the Internet, you can stay connected to what's happening in
Japan and you can keep in touch with friends in Japan, too.

Skype, SNS, blog, e-mail, youtube...you name it. With all these stuff,
there's almost no distance between Japan and overseas.

Asian people are more discrimated against because of the shooting incident.

>>889
I said before I'd like the invitation, but you never told me where to go.
I'm still interested.

The shooter wrote violent plays.

http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2007/0417071vtech1.html

>>927
If you can handle C/C++. what can you do?
I mean, is it for making a program or software?

>>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.

My cellphone doesn't have Internet access, but I know a lot of people whose do.

>>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
You are just in denial.

>>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.

Even if you don't want to admit it, cell phone culture is more
matured in Japan than in US.

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.

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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.

>>935
We can do all those same things, but instead of refuting your
list there one by one, how about I just link you to this?
http://www.apple.com/iphone/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iphone
Coming out very soon. (June 15, if the listings I've checked are correct)

ttp://www.nationstates.net/ Create your own nation!
Rule it as you see fit!

>>950
Forget not making new thread part!

hello every one.

ooh, an iPhone. Those look really nice.

"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.

i phone your mom.

>>944
what'd she'd say?

iPhone looks nice.

In that Hello clip I wonder how many movies
did you guys identify?

Flintstones, Amelie Poulain (the only non-English
"hello" in the whole clip!), Zoolander, and the Incredibles
are the ones I'm sure of ...

Then there's Travolta in a movie I did not
recognize.

What about you?

>>945
to eat your veggies.

lol.

I haven't been to the English section here for a while.

I think this thread was at around part 45 last time I was here.

Hi again.

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.

>>950
I bet this Korean guy is just crazy.
Any guy has been under pressure from the society.
You should not justify any crimes.

>>950
He didn't do anything wrong?
That's sarcasm right?