Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 127

I'm now late 20s and still listen to Avril, but I think there is no way I want to say it in public.
So, instead, I usually claim that I like Eric Clapton or something.
Several years ago, I heard if a man in his 20s or over in America says he likes Britny Spears, he is regarded as loli-con.
For some reason, I think I can say it more easily to Japanese.

>>950
It's all right. As I said before, I'm all right with copycats. Musicians can't
get away with being at least somewhat copycat.

I'm just a little too old to chase THE newest stuff and THE most original things.
If she's clever and is a good vocalist, that's good enough for me.
I just don't know anybody like her. That may be due to my ignorance, and that's
fine by me.

Of cause, I'd really appreciate if you can educate me, but Alanis Morissette
sounds really different to me. She really opens up her throat and ringo is more
japanese, like 麻生首相 lol

and hey, she doesn't sing Japanese !

>>952
Wait 10 years and you won't need to care about what people think of you.

besides, I think you really have a problem if you are a guy in your 20's and
you take 60 year old men over 25 year old hot chicks. www

>>950
By the way, my favorite is Marunouchi sadistic. I agree that Kabuki chou no Jouou
is kind of showy and attention seeking. I like it too though.

>>906
Who's that little cutie?
I'm curious.

>>956
I think that little cutie is Sekimori Hinowa.
Kagari has thigh like a serpent. But if Hinowa's thigh bump against Kagari's thigh, It is Kagari's thigh which will probably beark.
Taking Hinowa's thin thigh into cosiderration, her thigh is comparatively strong.

What's moral fiber?

>>958
I think moral fiber likes a thigh wnivh is not fat and not hard but strong.
In a word, it is compared to Hinowa's thigh which is strong through it is thin and soft.

does anyone know we can study and speak english by like a skype for free?

I'm not sure if you can study English over Skype but it is possible to talk to English people and learn by talking to natives that way.

I guess speaking english is the most difficult and skillful step in English components.

aye, same here

The city threw a parade for the football team downtown.
This time no car flipping.

>>949
How nice of you to think of us!
I'm fine; I've just been a little busy lately.
I'm in charge of scheduling Girl Scout cookie delivery in my town.
Around 1300 cases of cookies will be arriving here next week, and my
team of hard-working Girl Scout leaders will be distributing them
to all of the troops in town.
I spent all day on the computer today e-mailing, e-mailing, e-mailing...
Do Girl Scouts/Guide in Japan have to sell cookies too? It's a huge
fundraiser here.

I will check in again soon.

I've never heard of Girl Scout cookie delivery.
But it reminds me of one of the episodes of Ally Mcbeal season 5.
When Maddie came to her house for the first time, she was going to buy some cookies.
Perhaps she first thought Maddi was a Girl Scout?
If so, it makes sense to me that she got the wrong idea. Thanks!
By the way, I don't come up with any Japanese counterpart to it off the top of my head, even a similar one.
Sorry...

I love cookie very much, so just give me a cookie.
Cookie monster is my idol.

Model scouts are everywhere on the streets and it's a big fraud here.

>>964
I guess you didn't join it, did you?

>>965
I don't know much about Girl Scout and Boy Scout thing.
I don't even know if they are volunteer organization and what they do.
All I know is they go camping in summer and all that.

When I was an elementary school student, there's a boy who is a member
of Boy Scout. I wan't his friend so I didn't ask him about Boy Scout
but I saw him wearing a Boy Scout's uniform. As far as I know they learn
how to make fire at camping site and all. They learn survival technique.
Maybe the Boy Scout I'm talking about is deffierent from that of in USA.

>>964
Is Dickinson college good one?
There's a web community called Mixxer made for language exchange.
I'm a member of it but haven't contacted with anybody there.

Instructors and profs of Dickinson college uses SKype for language
exchange for their classes. Next Skype session is Feburary 6th.
They gather Japanese participants on Mixxer or mixi, Japan's
largest SNS.

The totall time is about 50 minutes. In the first half, students
ask questions in Japanese and Japanse who signed up for the session
answered them in Japanese. In the latter half, free English chat.
Chat isn't text chat but voice chat.

It sounds like fun but since I'm NEET, I won't join the session.
Probably they will ask "What do you do?" to me among other things.
it's hard and shame for me to say I'm NEET to them. Harder for me to
lie to them saying I work for....
Shiiiiiiiiiittttt...

Boy Scout is organized by Free Mason.
The USA had been established by Free Mason, for example George Washington, Thomas Jefferson.

>>970
Why don't you tell them a job that you used to do.
I work one or two day so I feel the exactly same way.

>>369
Yes, these activities are some of the things boy/girl scouts do, and of course,
they do volunteer works varied from cleaning public places to collecting donations from pedestrians.
In addition to them, they perform things, such as climbing a mountain, going to the sea and so on.

The reason why I know these things is when I was in elementary school, I belonged to a boy scout for a couple of years.
At that time, I didn't think it was fun to join them, but now I regret not having appreciated those activities..

>>972
That's an idea but I'm too honest a person and I don't like to tell a lie
even when talking to people online.
You can sign up in Mixxer and join the Skype session with Dikinson
college students. They seem to do such lessons on Skype regulary.

>>974
Thanks for the info but I'm not interested in that kind of style.
2ch is enough for me to have fan and to study English.

>>975
To have fan, 2ch is not the right place.
You should go to Akihabara, if what you need is an electric fan.

>>954
Stupid me. You're right.
I think I should change my favorite to younger one.

Here is good place for students learning English even if they are not good at it.

http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/
You can watch most of the NHK World's programs here.
You can't watch some. (NHK world's programs were only watched on satelite,
cable TV or other means but from Feb. 2nd. you can watch some of them
by streaming. I said "some" because as of now, I confirmed that some can't
be seen on the website by streaming. In that case, the monitor said
"you can't watch this program" or something like that.

Double click the display of the shows then you can watch them in
full screen. (not very clear resolution, though but at least you can read subs
when Japanese is spoken.)

Some programs are about Japan's pop culture such as this.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/imagine/index.html
If you like anime, manga, video game, I think it's worth watching.
Promotion video on the program on youtube.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLr9hYfSyUw&feature=related
Program discription:http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/imagine/index.html

This show is aired on Wednesday (rebroadcasted several times a day)
so wait until next week. I confirmed that this programs can been watched
by streaming on the website.

If you're interested in Japanese lesson, this is for you.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/nihongo/index.html
PR video on youtube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkBGkrLzino&feature=channel

J-melo is a J-pop program.
http://www.nhk.or.jp/j-melo/english/index.html
PR on youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTyd5Hx_JVw&feature=channel

TOKYO EYE is about life in Tokyo in various perspective
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/tokyoeye/index.html

OUT and ABOUT
http://www.nhk.or.jp/nhkworld/english/tv/outabout/index.html

These are programs I'd recommend.

I have nothing to do with NHK by the way.
I'm just an ordinary English learner. As I said NHK World is originally
broadcast for residents overseas but some of the programs can be seen
NHK's terrestrial channels which means you can watch them in Japan.

So I have watched some of the programs before Feb. 2nd. I can answer
any questions about programs I've ever watched so feel free to ask if
you have any.

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Shhh, all the Japanese people are sleeping right now!

Good morning, Amorica.

My pretend stock portfolio has nearly regained the losses it suffered five days ago.

It's strange though because mine gained quite a bit while the market today suffered
quite a bit. I'm looking into it!

>>985
Isn't it just that your stocks' price rose even when overall stock
price (You call it Dow Jones Industrial average?) went down?
If so that means you are a capable investor.
How do you choose stocks to buy? You buy them online?
You keep an eye on and are updated with financial market?

Almost no university students buy stock. Even adults know less about
stocks in Japan than American people. We are less educated about stocks.
Japanese tend to save money in their bank accounts instead of investing
in stock market.

じゅい

>>986

Precisely. I'm planning on becoming a financial securities analyst in the future.
Stock analysis and investing piqued my interest a while ago and I've just decided to pursue it..
I'm not using real money here, by the way, but pretend money (on xearn.com). That way I can take
risks and experiment with different ideas I have and the funds are limitless in case I make a big
mistake.

My strategy right now is value-investing over the long term. In other words, looking thoroughly through
a company's financial statements and valuing the equity before making a decision. It's an old method
which strangely isn't popular today, but is time tested as a very profitable one. It's a similar strategy
that Warren Buffet alleges to using.

Although I'm still a novice, I think I am learning a lot more by doing rather than studying the abstract
concepts of it all through books and university courses.

By the way, I've heard from my professors that one of the key differences between the East and West is
that the East tends to save money (something like 40%) while the West does not save at all and some of
them claim that is the reason why China is on the rise.

>>988
Is it a kind of investment game? I've already opened up lots of windows
and lots of things to read now so if I opens another window my PC might
freeze. I think I'll check xearn.com later.

Does that mean you are seeking "Income gain" rather than "capital gain,"
meaning you don't seek quick money but you hold stocks of for quite a long
time and wait and see ? Maybe I am wrong.

I don't know if China's economical growth attributes to the tendency
to save money. All I know is Japan's personal saving rate is higher than USA.
I think the number is a lot higher than 40%.

>>989

In a way I guess you could call it a game. To create a portfolio on xearn, you have
to click the "Join Xearn" button at the top right. Then fill in all the appropriate
registration blanks, check your e-mail (I think), and presto.

What I seek, in short, is undervalued companies of marvelous quality. The value will (or at least should)
follow their success if they meet all the criterions which I look for.

Trading for quick money is just about the opposite of what I am doing. When I first started
trading and didn't know anything, I tried "riding the waves", so to speak, in order to make
quick cash (bought low, waited for value to rise high, then sold). That tactic is extremely
risky and in the long run I barely made any profit (probably just a thousand dollars in a
month).

In my opinion, investing isn't about making quick money. Trying to make quick cash with stock
trading is just another form of gambling. It's speculation. Some argue that speculation isn't
even investing at all.

>>990
haha, well, though you said “just thousand dollar in a month”
in the real life, if you could earn thousand dollar every months just through stock tradings, you would be happy enough !?

>>989
People who hold stock for a long time end up getting
regular income gains.
But most of the profits will be made by capital gain
if long-term investment is successful.

For example You know Microsoft stock price rose as much as 100 times over
a coulpe of decades.
In this case buying and selling frequently would have bred more income.
But it's also difficult to know the stock price change for a
short term.

I guess Buffet is aiming to get profit by capital gain in the end.
He made his investment as much as ten times by selling petrochina stock.
His selling timing was very good.
Petrochina's stock kept rising after his selling for a while.
But in the long run, Buffet's sell timing was quite right.
He rode on bubble wave and succeeded in getting away before
china bubble economy suddenly collapsed.
When stock price is overestimated, long-term inversters will
sell stock.
They buy when stock price is underestimated and they sell when
it is fairy estimed or overestimated.

oh lmfao, Micsosoft is the greatest f**king company in this world you know

AT one point Microsoft became 550 times.
It must be at least 100 times as of now.

Strangely Buffet didn't buy high-tech stocks like dell, microsoft
, which later became several hundred times.
His tactics is never to invest money into what he can't understand.

This thread is moving so slow lately now that Sparky isn't posting.

That's right, we need Sparky back. Meanwhile, enjoy this Japanese prank show.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzyASg1O85g

>>998
If there's one thing I love, it's meticulously crafted misfortune.

I tried, but I couldn't make a new thread. Please make a new thread if you
think you can do it. The below is the tenplate.

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