Hey!!! you NEETs, nerds, YouTube-link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis, Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers, Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters, Big-boobs fans, Weeaboos from all over the world, learners of Japanese who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, and cunning linguists. And let's hope the Internet-addicted housewife will come back soon!
Would any native English speakers here do me a favor? I'm looking for a RSS reader that matches my need. There has to be some features in it.
1) It checks site update every 1 minute (or less than 1 minute.) Lots of RSS reader's interval for update check is every ten minutes or longer
2) When it founds site update, it notifies me by a popup. By this feature, I can notice when site update is done even when I am reading other websites or doing something on my PC. Popup has to be easily recognizable because when I'm concentrating on reading a website or doing something with my pc, a small popup on the corner of screen is hard to be recognized.
3)When RSS reader finds updates, it lets me know by sound. Sound Notification. By this feature, Even if I am away from PC, it can tell me when updates is done. Just one second of sound is OK.
I looked for an RSS feed reader again and again that matches my need and found one, but unfortunately, it doesn't have 3) sound notification. I'm exhausted looking for it by reading English websites. So, I'm asking you native English speakers. As far as I know, there're no Japanese RSS reader that meets my conditons. I looked for Japanese one thoroughly before but one reader meets 2) and 3) but sitecheck interval is 30 minutes.
Some meets the condition of 2) and 3) but update check interval is 30 minutes or more. What I'm using now meets the conditions, 1) and 2) but it has no sound notification.
If you find an RSS reader that matches my conditons above, I'll return you a favor. If you have a paypal, I'll pay you 1000yen(=$11.99, 7.58pounds)through paypal or I'll do something you want me to do in returen, like looking for information about something Japanese you are interested in or both.
Tell me if you're interested in my offer. If you find one, I'll show you free mail address here and interact with you so that you can tell me about the RSS. If you want me to pay you before you tell me the name of RSS reader, I'll do it although I prefer see how the RSS works in advance.)
>>10 Sorry, don't do RSS myself. Even if I found you something I couldn't show you how to use it as I don't know how to do it either.
>>2 Both of the Japanese accents in that second link (especially the guy from Osaka) are remarkably good. That guy has to have had some experience in English outside of school. Because of that, I don't consider those to be very accurate examples of foreign accents, because the vast majority of native Japanese speakers do not speak that fluently. And honestly I think it would be very hard for a non-native English speaker to tell apart most of the native English accents, as the speakers are clearly speaking slowly and more fluently than they would normally. The links I posted earlier are examples of the absolute extrema of variation that you can get between American and British.
This guy speaks as if he were speaking conversationally, instead of struggling over every word and trying to perfect it like most speakers here. Thus he sounds exactly like what most English-speaking Japanese tend to sound like.
>>11 There used to be a few threads in English board of 2ch where people talk about English pronunciation and some people reacorded their English and uploaded their audio files there.
The man from Osaka is one of them, reading the "Please call Stella..." as a sample and put his file on the site linked in >>2 other than the 2ch's pronunciation thread.
It was more than 5 years ago so I don't remember much about him but he said he's never been to abroad. Basically he taught himeself English pronunciation. But he had a friends from America so seemed to have asked the friend to listen to his pronunciation and give him feedback.
>>15 It's truly amazing how well he pronounces English. It sounds like a mild regional American accent. Like... Alaska or something. I would never guess that he was Japanese.
What is 'Japanese' anyway? If we go back a few thousands years, most of of the ancestors of Japanese people were from either Korea or China possibly by small wooden boat. Third, fourth generation of Japanese Americans, most of them get married to other Asians and their identity would be 'Asian Americans.' It's stupid to call names to each other among Asians.
native american mafia is anti-american. thay are not american. but america is their land. white got owned. but japan is not korean land. they are illegal immigrants.
People love fair-minded people. It's just very simple. Who likes mean bigots? If you go abroad, you will be a foreigner to them. Most of them will be nice to you unless you are very narrow-minded and full of hatred. Let's be fair and nice.
now japanese porn is copying of america lol in past , japanese porn's girl is not enjoyed in sex but now, japanese porn is popular about erotical girl known as "Chizyo"
japan always do monkey's imitation by America lol lol lool
>>63 Japanese women have a horn on their head. As its evidence, I can give you a scene In wedding ceremony, where a bride put a hat on her head to hide her horn. After the ceremony, they let out what they are: a awful ogre.
>>17 I am sorry for replying so late in the thread. Yes, I would say that southern accents would be considered strong. I come from the state of Kentucky in the US, and many people here speak with a noticeable accent.
Not to mention the use of southern slang words, etc.
What the fuck are you all fighting over? Are the NEETs out in full force right now or something? We went from a thread about regional accents to clumsy nationalist dick waving.
By the way amateur porn is more arousing than anything commercially produced,I actually like it when the woman is enjoying sex.
On the topic of accents, I have lived in Arizona for most of my childhood. I have been told that I have a very light Texan accent with some Californian habits thrown in. Many people here sound pretty neutral to my ears, but my perspective is probably skewed.
I will take TOEFL in September. But, I don't buy textbook for TOEFL still, because I don't know what textbook is good for TOEFL. So, please tell me good textbook for TOEFL.
first of all. korean own japanese porn industry. most man in videos are korean. womans are japanese. because they are proud to enslave or rape japanese woman. only narrow intelligent japanese think that there are good korean too. i am sure that that is very rare.
I notice that when it comes to porn, American porn generally includes slutty actresses overdramatising their enjoyment when having sex. Japanese porn more frequently has women who appear to be unconsenting or are forced into sex. I think this is based on our respective countries' histories of laws regarding sex and pornography, as well as different cultural points of view. For example, Japanese porn censors the penis and vagina whereas American porn does not.
79 :Tokyo city boy KazuKata ◆DnH0jkg8I2 :2010/10/03(日) 07:31:24
Porn is useless. Shinjuku 2 town distric is a very friendly area, isn't it? How often do you visit the area?
noo it doesn't... I heard of aubergine (eggplant for UK English) with miso paste, but never in miso soup. Do they put tomatoes in miso soup in Japan? does not feel right.
>>91 I know I know but I think that it is hotter than the heat of miso soup. Temperature must be the same if it is in a sponge state. The point is not known. I am irritated by because of the wonder.
Basic miso soup with some tofu and nori and scallions is my favourite. That, or ramen with and egg and some meat, I don't care which. Or even better- miso ramen!
95 :Tokyo city boy KazuKata ◆DnH0jkg8I2 :2010/10/03(日) 09:36:01
I must go to church now. Go to your nearest church(^-^*).
Nanashi-san is living in oversea ,why do you know SAPPORO-ICHIBAN ? Is SAPPORO-ICHIBAN famous also overseas? Although it will be a major company to be sure .
Today, I'm so blue. Because I made two messes in the time doing part-time as a waiter an izakaya yesterday. First, I carelessly broke a glass on the tray I had. Second, I dropped a pizza customers ordered in front of them (Of course, I apologized them for that.)...orz What was worse, the manager gave me a penalty, extending my fixed time of the day working in there for 10 minutes.
Ah, I must go to there to work...orz I hope I have no mistakes today...
>>100 Everyone makes mistakes. You shouldn't feel too bad about yourself. Probably you are too tired? I hope you can take a day off soon.
I came from the thread called ' I blame Japanese English education for my not being able to speak English.'
One of the posts there says s/he doesn't want to talk with other Japanese people in English because if s/he did so, the typical language errors the Japanese tend to make would be fossilised and never be corrected. That's why s/he doesn't want to practice speaking with his/her fellow Japanese people in English. S/He says it's not only a waste of time but detrimental.
I said we can find a lot of us who want to learn English here in Japan, so we should take advantage of it and try to teach each other.
Japanese porn has a combination of [age] and [sage]. Blurring the part of the video is one of sages. American are a kind AGE!AGE! people, aren't they? Have you learned the effective expression, posting with age or sage here?
Now I answer >>103's question. I think native English teachers are better than Japanese English teachers. Their English are so clear and corrected. On contrary, Japanese English including mine isn't so good... What is worse, their pronunciation is uncorrected. I'm sure. English education by Japanese teachers can't speak English fluently must be vanished. Instead of it, all Japanese school should take native English teachers to teach every student in English- class.
By the way, would you(=>>101 and >>103)mind if I copy and paste your post into the thread called "Ninja Hattori- kun subtitle" in Owarai-Kobanashi board? I have a thing I wanna write in there. OK?
>>105 I read somewhere that when first learning a language it may be better to learn it from someone who speaks your language natively. Then, when you get more advanced, you learn it from a native of that language. Because it's easier to understand for someone who doesn't know the language, but when you already know it well you can learn how to speak correctly from a native.
"because in japan. child can see porn video. so we must conceal things. becase if they saw it, they might do mimicking of it." japanese police think like this. rules are something useless in japan. it is often said that japanese plitics are gray. because when there are white opinion and black opnion in politics, they made gray opnion.
>>105 埋地, thank you for answering my question. So you think it's better to learn English from native English speaking teachers and probably Japanese English teachers are a waste of money and if we can, they should all be sacked and native English speaking teachers should replace them. Oh, well, then I would be out of my job...
Well, you were talking about wanting to copy and paste part of my post? I didn't really understand what you want to do with it. I just said cheer up, that's all. Does it serve you anything in the thread...Ninja-thread?
A native English speaker is not necessarily good at English teaching. He must know how to teach English, of course. For example, he must know English grammar. A native English speaker doesn't necessarily know English grammar as taught in Japanese schools. Moreover he should know Japanese people's way of thinking. For example, he should know what is difficult for them to learn English. Also he must speak Japanese fluently. Usually it's hard to find a native English speaker who satisfies those conditions.
A more practical strategy is this: Learn English from a Japanese teacher and use a native English speaker as an informant who shows correct pronunciation, usage etc. This strategy is usually taken in English teaching TV programs of NHK.
>>106 nanashi, thank you for replying to my question. When you are an advanced learner, you should try to talk to a native speaker of the language but when you are a very beginner, you can use someone like myself... Is that what you say? I agree with you to a certain degree. If possible, it's better to have teachers who speak English as their primary language but at the moment it seems quite impossible. There are tens of millions of schools throughout Japan and there are enough native English speakers to cover all the classes all over Japan.
Advanced learners should also learn English only from native speakers of English, if it was possible but because of the same reason I said earlier, we should use what we have already had. The second best will be advanced learners should try to teach one another and practice talking to each other or write something to each other like, in this thread. Of course it is very nice to have someone like yourself, because it just gives real opportunity to use the language. I mean to use the language in order to communicate rather than just to practice... I hope I could make myself understood...
I have known from this site that it is the best policy to read Japanese book during in this country, and to study English after having taken a trip abroad to US.
if there was not Japan in the world, China as it is today could not exist Japan ever has offered to help China about 8 trillion yen($80 billion ) in total. free money ,free licensing of technology ,yen loans, and trougth Asian Development Bank 仇故不恩 コ没有的中国人
>>111 So you are an English teacher? It's good that you're still practising English even after you're already a teacher.
About English: English, like the US, is a "melting pot", in the sense that English is not based primarily off of any particular language or language group, but instead is a mix of many language groups (mostly Germanic and Romance). It has an enormous functional vocabulary, exceeding almost every other language, with many words having several synonyms. Because of this, and because of English's pervasive influence throughout the world, the language is changing and evolving all the time. Formal English will not change a lot over several decades, but conversational English will be noticeably different after 50 years or less. Also, English has an absolutely huge amount of slang. This is something that changes every day, and native English speakers often have difficulty keeping up with it. For this reason, I say that English below university-level can be fairly accurately taught by a non-native speaker, but at advanced levels, a native would better be able to explain its nuances, idioms, profanities, dialects, and lingoes.
The following picture is a letter of appreciation from the Chinese Consul of Nagasaki to Japanese fishermen in 20th May 1920. See the words for the place name that the Chinese survivers drift to. It is clearly described as "Senkaku Islands, Yaeyama District, Okinama Prefecture, Imperial Japan"there(日本帝国沖縄県八重山郡尖閣列島). Which means that Chinese Government at the time undoubtedly recognized the Senkaku Islands as Japanese territory. This is the absolute evidence that prove right of Japanese claim over the Islands.
Winter Year 8th of Republic of China, 31 Chinese fishermen from Fujian state faced storm and wrecked, drifted and cast ashore Uotsuri island, Senkaku archipelago, Yaeyama County, Okinawa prefecture, Imperial Japan. Mr. Sonban Tamayose who was official of Ishigaki village, Yaeyama County, Imperial Japan, kindly took care of Chinese fishermen and could let them back to their father land. It was real sign of humanity. We hereby present Grateful letter and show our deepest appreciation to him. Resident Consular of Republic of China in Nagasaki Japan May 20th, Year 8th of Republic of China
what a ironic! the evidence which exposes China's lie is the letter of apreciation from China's government to Japanese. Now Japan is being invaded by the people who are descendants of the persons rescued by the kindly Japanese in the past. lack of gratitude, virtueless Chinese!
people barely know this historical fact. China had bigest battle ship fleet in Asia. bigger than Japan's one. China bought it from Britain. there is no such history like peaceful China was invaded by Japan. if may I corrent it, "China where had bigest army in Asia was invaded by Japan" but still smells like a impossible. therefore. "Japan was invaded by China in the first place"
Thank you for your comment. No, it's not too long. Thank you for your thorough explanation. At university-level or later native speaking English teachers can give us better information which serve us better. I agree. It's just that we seldom have any opportunity to use English here in Japan unless we pay certain amount of money. Well, I can use this thread to make my English better...
did you know Canada once took 120 Americans hostage and killed them all? They cut their heads off. The Canadians are barbaric. It snows a lot in their country. Only barbarians get snowed on. And they eat our children! The US will invade them and take them over one day.
If you don't have any chance to use English, then don't study. If you don't have any chance to use English, then don't complain your English doesn't improve. As long as you don't have any chances to use English, there's no point in studying it and complaining your poor English for that matter.
>>129 Nice to meet you, イギリス人 san. In each school, there are at least one native speaker of English. They are called ALTs(assistant English teachers). Japanese English teachers(JET) talk with them before and after we go to classes. I guess we get to practice our English a little bit in that way. Also I try to read English books, which happened to be the topic on the forum I originally came from. Ah, I go to an English cafe every now and again. The English cafe I go to always has at least one native speaker of English, who is from UK, the U.S., Australia, New Zealand, and so on. We've got to order one soft drink(or beer) and we can stay there as long as we want to, but we've got to pay \150 per 10 minutes. What else do I do? I sometimes watch CNN, which is the only English news channel available on our TV. I watch uploads of Youtube and enjoy stupid TV programs like 'the United States of Tara.'
Thanks for asking a question, because without one, it's difficult to keep on speaking here on the thread.
the bilingual brain bring lots of merit, not only speaking other language with people but also our health, so dont say that in obsolete narrow thinking
>>130 I think you are right. If you don't have any chance to use it, probably you don't need to try to use it because you don't need to. Hmmm...As far as my English goes, it is fine and there is no need to study it more. It's just my hobby, I think.
>>132 Oh, then you are studying English for your health. I'd say brisk walking or swimming for an hour or so on daily basis is a lot better for your health.
Did you know that the girlfriend of the founder of Facebook is Chinese? I'd say he can go out with more gorgeous girl than her. She is on the ugly end, I'd say. Is he into Asian beauty? On our standard, she's not beautiful at all, with slant eyes and square jaws and all but from western standard, she looks exotic, typical Asian.
Perhaps it's the same as Lucy Lue in the movie Charlie's Angel isn't beautiful at all in our standard but to westerners' eyes, she's Oriental beauty?
I don't understand why Facebook is featured a lot these days. What's the difference between Facebook and MySpace? Some say Myspace is dead and Facebook will rule the web but to me, they are both SNS and I can't see speific differences.
Are there any reasons to support why Facebook will rule the web from now on, while the reigning of Myspace is over?
I don't think this thread will do for a teacher to improve his English skill. If will do, how poor theacher's skill is. Japanese theachers who teaching English is really suck.
>>158 I don't think average high school students can do that. but this thread is still high school level. whether this thread will do for teacher is a completely different thing.
Reports of yesterdays anti-China rally in Shibuya is nowhere to be seen on Japanese mass-media. Even the Chinese media covered it, was top billed news on CNN etc. and all over the world, but nothing, absolutely nothing not even on NHK. This is seriously fucked up.
>>159 The way I would use it, a practice is a place where one practises a profession, such as a medical practice or law practice. In British English, 'practice' is the noun, and 'practise' is the verb.
>>131 Thanks very much for your input. It seems that there's a variety of options to practise languages (or at least English). Are there any online methods you'd be interested in trying out, or any methods you can think of that you haven't yet come across? Are there any online methods which you think could benefit both students and teachers? I suppose this question is relevant for anyone reading this, but may apply more to someone more familiar with the teaching systems.
facebook is dengerous for japanese social system. the privacy information often use for crimes in japan. in fact. there is a community which contain privacy information. its called Mixi. it would make crimes on 2ch. hatter attack someone while they are hiding in anonnymouse. and thats actually. japanese culture. japanese always attacks someone.
>>171 english education in japan is completely US oriented. spellings of words are US style (example: labor instead of labour). pronunciation is also US, though mine is just a japanglish.
>>180 you mean "in" high school? even if you are a high school kid, you'd better be educated to find a place to have sex outside school.
>>182 I'm not sure that this is actually a characteristic specific to Japan. Recently in the US, news reports covered a lot of suicides after bullying, including bullying gay kids. It's sickening. Bullying in school seems to be a big social issue even in the US.
>>182 Facebook is a tool for socializing, and people have to be careful what to reveal. If you write on the wall something like "I am playing online poker at my workplace, and winning 100 bucks!!" you might be caught by your boss, and be in a trouble.
That's the same as mixi. You're not supposed to say "I drove home last night after having 10 shots of tequila," and that's the cause of most troubles at mixi. You have to behave well or hide your evil.
Japanese government and politician have been chicken since defeated by US. They can't insist on their opinion and always apologize anyone else. In that point, Japan is far inferior to some neighbor countries, such as China, South Korea, DPRK.
>>187 Have you heard of the people who were getting robbed at home because they would update their location using the "Places" feature to let people know they were somewhere out and about?
>>196 I think that's what any government wants; for their people to stay stupid. It's said that even some of the anti-Japan movements in Korea is encouraged by the Korean goverment so to take the heat off their domestic issues.
But yes, >>170 is too obvious. Whatever did happen to the freedom of press?
korean taked over japanese media. they dont report any bad of DPJ or China or Korea. first of all. its mass-media power since korean DPJ won the election. as i said. there is no good korean even if you think the one is good korean. every korean work for destroying of Japan. they do what they can do for it. the action which they dont get japanese citizenship is a already anti-Japan action.
each korean is mad since they received brainwash at korean school. where DPJ paid support money. even the korean-american believe lies of south korea. when they do what they learned from their kind, its big threat for Japanese.
>>193 I have never heard of it. That's scary. But, I wouldn't worry about that too much, because the burglars have already targeted them before they left the city, and I am a person who have nothing valuable at home.
>>191 People in the US love networking more than Japanese, and they have several circles of friends keeping in touch constantly. It's different from Japan where no one has time for social life if he is working.
Facebook is a time saving way to manage your network, you can check what your friends do with a very short time, can send the invitation for parties and take RSVP, etc... That's the value I see in the Facebook.
>>228 I remember there was a thread here where someone translated comments by foreigners who were wondering why Japanese video game protagonists are always teenagers. One person replied to say that it's natural because many Japanese consider high school to have been the happiest time of their life, which is curious. I think in America most people would say that about college, not high school.
>>249>>246>>242 dude, this is not a tread for those who can't write english. there are whole bunch of threads out there where meaningless posts like yours are acceptable. please leave this thread, or just die now.
Whether it is dirty or not is a highly subjective matter, and thus it has little to do with an exigency of joy that indeed helps to establish smooth conversational interaction between us. It all depends on the way you articulate your genuine interest in a particular issue. Now, would you like to touch my pantsu with your lips as a sigh of surrender?
>>257 Indeed if we do have an exigency of joy, wherefore and from whence may we acquire it? To me the greatest joy of this thread is the capacity that it grants me to hear the undiluted (although frequently narrow-minded) opinions of the quotidian Japanese lady or gentleman. I do much appreciate sincere efforts toward cooperation in achieving said goal from my Far Eastern acquaintances.
>>270 I don't watch traditional news, because it's extremely biased. I get all of my news off the internet. If our government did that, I would be kind of surprised, but I wouldn't care.
The problem with our news is that news companies publish shitty stories to try to attract more viewers and make more money. The important news is never shown if it's boring.
>>283 I think so too. But are you all Japanese or not? I want to know how foreign threads like 2ch are like. AA is there? Characters like monar or yaruo are there? And expression like "taberuo( ^ω^) " or "itteyosi(゚Д゚)" are there? Im very interested in them.
>>285 No,there are thouthans of god. Gods are exit in Everything. Not there should be only one true savior not be only one power. All powers are to be balanced.
So many people are in the tonnels like succesion of the chairs that didnt care anything spare,or mountains like fuji-yama,and go strait and across the river by car...it is a snow world,many people are there I think it is not a real world and feel its wrong sentence it is.
U are stream of the location like pro-restling in low of the chairs and stractures like fuji-yama oh it is not a bathroom but I feel so.... and then it is difficult to express but then very big camera was there suddenly so I very astonished and ran away from there ... I dont understand what was happen at that time.
I am about to go to bed... but I had a question for you all... What do Japanese people think about what happened in World War II? Mainly, about what America did. We fire-bombed Tokyo, and dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. America committed a lot of war crimes, so do modern Japanese still think about this?
In America, many people are still angry about the attack on Pearl Harbor, which is silly because it was very small, and was nothing compared to what we did to Japan.
>>294 Oh,its very serious question. My answer is that it is now,only a history. And not think so more.So we dont criticize America. But we Japanese are always criticized by china and koria at that point. it should be all settled by treaty for peace. So it is not fair,we think and angry for that.
....My english is so poor.Im afraid it is not correct expression.
Not angry against other countrie.It is no meaning. It does not have a meaning that either country is justice or not. However, we should reflect on having done the war that cannot win. I quarrelled against other country which we cannot win, and we are so much defeated. We should not repeat it. That's it.
>>294 The US official position on the use of nuclear bombs is that it was inevitable to save a half million US soldiers' lives by ending the war. It was a lie. There was a Russian factor which motivated the US decision to use the bombs. This is a bit complicated story so I don't explain it here.
>>177 I'm home! Any other online method I might be interested in? Well, I am interested in online conversation lesson using Skype. From what I gather, there are reasonable price English lessons available by the means of Skype. Well, first of all, I should buy the video camera and microphone for the device? Actually I don't know much about the method. I also heard most of the teachers who provide the online lessons are either Filippinos or Indians, which seems to be a lot of fun.
>>294 You are a very fair-minded person. I think Japan made terrible mistakes to try to expand and control all the Asian countries. The US made a big mistake in dropping two bombs which resulted in so many civilian casualties. That was, however, a sad incident which happened more than 60 years ago.
Now, most of the Japanese like the U.S. and yearn for their lifestyle. Probably some of us like America too much, somehow forgetting our own value and beautiful traditions, probably?
>>317 People despising コテハン at anonymous boards has nothing to do with their abilities. It's the KY of going to a masquerade without a mask and saying "please acknowledge me" that people don't like.
Is it necessary to have correct pronounce? I hear tv program made of unnative country, for example middle east. They don't have native speaking, but they can have communication with natives.
maybe you'd like to tell us something in english, but unfortunately what you've just posted doesn't make sense at least to me. maybe it's good idea to learn how to write in english first. then you should come back here to post your opinion, i think.
>>325 well, even what he >325 has tried to say didn't make sense, we still can guess what he had tried to express. So don't be too hard on him. Let's just appreciate all the ppl, who at least try to post something in English here. Thanks^^
>>324 One can know the correct pronunciation of a word by looking up a dictionary. If one can read and write English and is always careful about pronunciation, it's not a big problem to speak English.
>>Teacher I'm interested in "Teacher" who insist he is English teacher in Japan. as you know, this place is anonymous bulletin board. therefore, no one can identify who you are. so, would you mind answering some of my questions?
questions are as follows.
1: What grade of school do you work for? 2: If you have taken TOEIC test until now, what your TOEIC score is? 3: What is the most problem with English education in Japan? 4: What do you think about your students' English ability.
These questions came from my curiosity so that I don't have any other intent.
I would appreciate it if you would answer those questions.
>>329 I'm not sure about that. Speaking is a different skill though it's related with other skills.
To me the difference is like watching sports (or coaching a sport team) and actually playing them. Even if you know how to throw slider in baseball as knowledge, you may not be able to throw it by yourself, until you practice a lot.
>>330 I'm not the Teacher but I have experienced English education in Japan and maybe its problems. I respected English teachers so I'm not going to say my terrible English ability is because of education. Japanese education basically puts stress on technology and engineering. Not that all Japanese are good at it including myself. Still English education is often for it too. The first sentence "This is a pen" is to explain things correctly. But for actual use, we often need more cultural side of language, such as polite expressions, which could make most Japanese feel confortable to speak English, or sometimes the way of apologize gravely.
thank you all for answering my question. That's good to know.
>>310 I use a name so that people can recognise who I am. Then people can ask questions to me and I can answer questions and they'll know who I am, especially since I am a foreigner.
>>329 English is extremely hard to pronounce. But it does follow patterns, so the best way to learn to pronounce it is to look for those patterns.
>>341 Your English is actually very good. Written, at least. Also, it may seem weird to Japanese but English usually does not have different "polite" ways of saying things. The most you can do is say things like "please" and "thank you", but aside from that most things are the same.
well, you cannot say high school level in one criterion. I would say the expressions ppl use here are more broad than what we learn English in high school and the topic is sometimes about politics. I don't think many Japanese can discuss well on those topics. and what is your goal to set the level on this thread? there are some intelligent ppl on this thread too. you don't have to determine this person is around this level or the other person is around this level.
>>360 I guess it's a variant of "take it or leave it" which means an offer is non-negotiable, you have to take this offer, otherwise you have to give it up.
"love it or leave it" probably means that for this thing "it", you can just love it or hate it, but there is no middle ground in-between. Some people really like it, others hate it like a hell, but there is no one who kinda like it.
KY is read the air. Air is something we spontaneously feel among the people in the place there. Nonverbal messages you catch from the other person. Without that instinct, we cannot survive in Japan. So if you were called 'you are KY', it means you are not suited to the society in Japan.
>>362 KY is an abbreviation of "kuki yomenai" ,the meaning is that you can't feel other people's mind and can't behave so that it is expected by other people. Japanese express this like "read the atmosphere". But I think it is peculiar to a Japanese. Japan is small country. But there are a lot of people. So people try to avoid troubles. And all people tend to take a behavior expected by others. So japanese should feel an "atmosphere" that other people expect. If you can't do this, you must be criticized ,called "You are KY".
By the way, KY came to be famous by the then prime minister,Shinzo Abe. He insist very righ-wing and hawkish ,but people are not such interested in his claim. Many people suffered from poverty. So they were interested in economy and the employment. But Abe still talked about national security and North Korea. So people called him "KY".
Some English textbooks of high school say“may”is used in more possible conditions than“might”. But one of my ALTs says both are the same as to possibility. Which claim should I believe? Of course my Japanese English teacher was unable to answer that.
>>346 >English usually does not have different "polite" ways of saying things.
I think English does have diffrent polite ways of saying things, and those differences are embedded in the sentences; E.g. Open the window. Can you open the window? Could you open the window? Could I ask you to open the window? Have different degrees of politeness, don't they?
>>373 "I may go to the store" or "I might go to the store" both work.
"May I go to the bathroom?" is used but you cannot say "Might I go to the bathroom?"
"Might" is past tense of "may" but it does not matter for sentences like the first pair. You can say "Might I have gone to the bathroom?" if you forget whether you went to the bathroom and are wondering if maybe you did.
>>377 The general rule is, the longer and more passive the sentence is, the more "polite" it is. So if I said, "May I inquire as to whether or not one would prefer for the window to be opened?" would be really, extremely polite, but only because it is very long.
>>378 Thank you for answering. But I knew that usage. What I really wanted to ask was whether“may”is stronger meaning than“might”in conditions just like the first pair you showed. The textbook says so, but the ALT doesn't. I'm so sorry for my poor expression.
>>330 On an anonymous board ,people are not only expected to give themselves a name but are strongly despised to do it because they are supposed to respect and enjoy the anonymity. I understand that so I’ll go underground or just disappear. Before doing so, however I’ll answer your questions. 1. I teach at a senior high school (age 15 to 18). 2. I’ve never taken TOEIC test. 3. one of the big problems is that people don’t feel comfortable having conversation in English after studying for as long as 6 years. 4. They are pretty good. Their main purpose for learning English is to get great scores in English to enter prestigious universities.
>>408 I know 2ch has a strong culture of anonymity, but there are times when it's counterproductive. For example, qualifications are important in an educational context, as when there's complete anonymity other posters won't know whom to trust to answer their questions correctly. Wikipedia in particular has had problems with this. Another good argument for the use of handles is that in relatively small groups it can facilitate more effective communication because people can draw on the information they've accumulated about one another in the past to help them interact in the present.
I think both of these points apply to this thread. I would answer a teacher asking a grammar question differently from a middle school student asking the same question. In the first case, I'd be more likely to use technical terminology and cite authoritative sources, whereas in the latter case I would probably try to give a simple explanation and perhaps make an analogy to a similar aspect of Japanese grammar.
It's interesting that the use of handles is called KY, since to read the atmosphere in real life, you need information about the other party. Without some background information, not to mention facial and verbal cues, language alone doesn't convey enough information to respond properly. There was a pretty interesting article about this on the Yomiuri website if anyone is interested. http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/adv/wol/opinion/society_100927.htm
Anyway, I guess this got kind of long, but I don't think you should go underground or disappear. The people complaining about your handle are probably the same ones who post nonstop about sex and Korea.
I see your point. But please keep in mind "Everyone who has handle name is not always despised".
As you can see, there are some people who have handle name without trip code. In spite of that, they haven't gotten any trouble. Can you figure out why that is possible?
If you still want to be non-anonymous user, it's worth thinking better of what you said.
Now, I realize that theacher's duty is not to indoctrinate students with enjoyment of using English but to pass them in entrance exam. It sound slightly sad, isn't it?
>>411 >probably the same ones who post nonstop about sex and Korea. I don't think so. It's your prejudice.
>>411 When we have a conversation, we know who we are talking to. In the society where anonymity is cherished, how are we able to have a fruitful conversation? Probably no one wants to play catch while venting their emotions. The site was quite interesting. I understood that the Japanese do seem to respond to the pitch or intonation of the speaker’s voice, from which we try to guess how the other party is thinking about ourselves, while (according to the scholar’s research) in western countries, people usually know from facial expressions what the person they are talking to is feeling like,; whether he(she) is really enjoy talking with them or he (she) would rather stop his (her) conversation and leave. >>413 Thank you for your advice. Yeah, it is kind of a bit sad. I know it would be more enjoyable if they realized learning a language is to communicate.
>>411 Uh, that's why the terms "do that shit at yahoo boards/mixi/blogs" are common. You know the general rule of 2ch: "If you can't discern the truth from the lies, then you're screwed". It's your own fault if you believe misinfo, it's your fault if you click on a virus or a browser crasher here.
The kuuki, the K part of KY at anonymous boards is "You are a nobody, I am a nobody. We could be arguing today and totally agreeing tomorrow without knowing. Let's enjoy that, a place where a NEET and a politician can talk on equal ground". Ignoring that is indeed like going to a masquerade without a mask. Of course others will be upset with you, you're shitting on the party to fulfill your attention whoring needs to feel special, to be acknowledged.
The only boards that handles (screen names) are openly admitted by the admins are under the 馴れ合い category, the rest are for passive temporary handles known as 捨てハン. If you want productivity or whatever, building reputation and stuff, you're at the wrong site. There are hundreds of other sites for that, and also enough egos to deal with in real life. Don't bring it here.
>>427 I guess you can keep your anonymity at your own will, but you cannot say someone to keep his anonymity. If he wants to reveal his personal info (though that's not necessarily accurate always), he can do. Or when he wants to hold their identity across posts even on a board without ID, he can use a trip. These are also a part of 2ch culture. No one has to respect him, but he does not have to be expelled from the board either, by saying I am a teacher. Your understanding of 2ch culture seems a little too narrow.
So I'll take votes- who wants me to keep my name and who wants me to go anonymous/leave the board?
Again, the only reason I keep a name is so that people know that I'm a native speaker. Aside from that I don't care what people know/think about me. I could call myself 英語圏の人 if you'd prefer. Or is that too KY?
>>437 Meh, don't worry about it, you are pretty far from KY. Besides, you're a native English speaker and that's a legitimate reason to have a name on this board anyway.
>>437 taking votes here would be pointless, you can vote "yes please stay" yourself 20 times and viceversa. i dont think the ky stuff is about you, you and igirisujin seem to know your place as a foreigner.
To me, this is a thread for having random chats with native writers or others who like to write in English. And your "nanashi" name is a good marker for me to write to when I want to talk to someone real.
"英語圏の人" is also fine with me, but I can imagine someone on this thread would feel offended and say you are KY.
>>436 The point is that there is no problem with him using handle. Though he gives us handle, he still remain anonymous. If you will, you can disguise yourself as him whenever you want unless he doesn't use trip. Therefore this is not a big problem.
However there are some key points when you use handle. If he can't get those points, he should not use handle unless he intends to annoy us.
>>437 I don't care whether you use your own name or not. As I said earlier, that is completely meaningless unless you use trip. We can easily pretend to be you with a variety of intentions.
>>456 oh, I think it is only man that say "kita!kuru!" Woman usually say "iku iku" not say "kita kita". anyway at least I never say "kita kita" but "hau! hau! foch!".
The phrase "I'm coming!" is actually a misspelling of "I'm cumming!", from "to cum" which means 射精する. "To cum" and "to come" sound exactly the same, so people often say "to come" when they mean "to cum". This makes a lot of jokes when people say "I'm coming!" meaning 「来ています!」 You cannot however say "come" when you mean semen (精液), because "come" is a verb and "semen" is a noun.
>>486 > Congragulations Kame-chan, for earning your top spot at the Best Jeanist! > and Jin too, he was ninth. I also saw by show business news yesterday. Even so, as for KAME, the face is changing rapidly. His face became unattracive .
>>481 Thank you. I wasn't sure of which Japanese word to use there. And yes, you are correct. So when people say "I'm coming!" it means they are going towards the listener. So that doesn't make much sense in sex. That is why it is just a misspelling of "cum". >>483 I don't know the origin of the word "cum" but I don't believe it comes from "come" for the reason I stated above. "I'm going" would make more sense, or "It's coming". Unless it derives from the latter?
Word Origin & History cum (v. and n.) seems to be a modern (by 1973) variant of the sexual sense of come that originated in pornographic writing, perhaps first in the noun sense. This "experience sexual orgasm" slang meaning of come (perhaps originally come off ) is attested from 1650, in "Walking In A Meadowe Greene," in a folio of "loose songs" collected by Bishop Percy.
>>367 Thank you for the detailed explanation. I am sorry that the reply of gratitude is late. I may be unable to understand in fact. Even if the same question goes up, please do not get angry.
>>502 models, no. in regard to "talents", yes. they are forced upon the public by the agencies and ad companies. then when they have a TV show nobody watches them because their popularity is fake and limited to fans.
>>504 You are saying that talents only appeals to fans, well that certainly guarantees that a known number (ie the fans) watch the ads. That means they are at least attractive to their fans, and helps companies sell goods; so your argument doesn't make sense at all. Just because you are not a fan of a certain celebrity doesn't mean the company will lose out. You simply don't count .wwwww
In Europe there is a kind of balance between the southern and northern nations. The first have every convenience of life, and few of its wants: the last have many wants, and few conveniences. To one nature has given much, and demands but little; to the other she has given but little, and demands a great deal. The equilibrium is maintained by the laziness of the southern nations, and by the industry and activity which she has given to those in the north. The latter are obliged to undergo excessive labour, without which they would want everything, and degenerate into barbarians. This has neutralised slavery to the people of the south: as they can easily dispense with riches, they can more easily dispense with liberty. But the people of the north have need of liberty, for this can best procure them the means of satisfying all those wants which they have received from nature. The people of the north, then, are in a forced state, if they are not either free or barbarians. Almost all the people of the south are, in some measure, in a state of violence, if they are not slaves.
>>506 the talent fans dont buy the products. the sponsors want to reach the public, but are blinded by fake survey results. its a fraud commited by the talent agencies and ad companies, and talent fans take part in it by voting for their idol gazzilion times. if the talents really were popular to the public, their TV shows should be watched more. read this. http://toki.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/musicnews/1269088228/
>>515 I have seen that before but thanks for pointing it out. I am old enough not to care about the undrground ties of JE manipulating the system, I don't care about who sells what, and heir sales survesy. I just enjoy looking at Kame-chan's petite physique and beautiful eyes. I am that shallow. wwwwww
there are a lot of Japanese food restraunt which are managed by Korean or Chinese. so Minister Matsuoka made a public label of Japanese restraunt. but Korean media in Japan bashed him in another way. them he commited suicide. and label policy was ruin.
to American or European. if you want to eat real Japanese food instead of fake food of dirty Koreans., plz support real Japanese food. and plz stop eating garbages.
>>519 I have seen a lot of conspiracy theories on Japanese media, but your story about connection between Matsuoka's death and Japanese restaurants is the most ridiculous one by far. I'm impressed.
Relations of a variety show entertainer and Namie Amuro carried out the catastrophe. A variety show entertainer and a singer cannot have balanced after all. That is, the catastrophe was in sight from the start.
>>522 Seemingly, there is much trouble. It seems that reception of Chinese people and South Koreans is the worst. Not to mention salesclerks, Chinese people and South Koreans have started trouble also with the visitor. They like trouble like the Senkaku Islands incident the other day.
For owning, growing or trafficing, you'll definitely get a few year term, though they might suspend it if you're lucky enough. Funnily enough though, consuming marijuana in any form is not illegal in Japan and if you can swallow down all the weed you unlawfully posses before an officer arrest you, then you are no longer a suspect of any crime. It's a silly flaw in the law.
it's not quite severe in Japan comparing other asian countries such as china,malaysia for example In china or malaysia capital punishment would be carried out
Not as often as we would like but they visit here. Would you like to talk to a native speaker of English? Yeah, I know. It's more fun and comfortable to talk with them just like playing tennis with a professional tennis instructor. When you hit a ball somewhere wide away from you really aim at, they will receive it and hit it back in the way it's very easy for you to enjoy continuing a rally. I would like them to show up too.
They seem to be very happy together. The guy is over forty and his wife is in her twenties and from China. I wonder how they met up with each other. I hope she is happy in Japan.
>>577 Before going to bed, I have a question for you. I heard you had passed EIKEN supreme grade. So you are called Sensei(a black belt holder). Is it true?
Sorry for the question while you indulge yourself in fun.
580 :Tokyo city boy KazuKata ◆DnH0jkg8I2 :2010/10/06(水) 23:57:40
I've long been with eiken supreme grade certificate. I'm a gay.
Thank you very much for the answer. I didn't know you are a gay. I thought you are a straight Oyaji.
584 :Tokyo city boy KazuKata ◆DnH0jkg8I2 :2010/10/07(木) 00:10:33
Actually, I'm bisexual. I once married and I have a son. I've been single and my ex-wife has been single, too. My son's been raised by her. I have supported him financially.
Have you divorced with her, from the reason that she did not have a figure you liked? You might be lying, as you can find it when you was trying to marry with her. What occurred between you and her? Would you mind telling me about that?
>>584 I am saddened to hear that. If your partner was of same sex, would the family have stayed together, even if he was not your type? Also, is there an arranged marriage tradition in Japan?
Although the London boots were not interesting, they were taking charge of the chairman of a program. Namie Amuro parted from Atushi and it was a correct answer.
>>609 In the view of people living outside of London, London Boots represent the punk spirit you have there. On the same note, I wonder if London is somewhat similar to NY, in that neither presents the whole of the country, but their are just very unique and special cities that don't really belong to any country, spirit-wise?
>>612 Hmm... it's never occurred to me that London may represent the image of the country as a whole. Of course, there are many things in London which, when seen, make people think, "ah, that must be England"... but I wouldn't say it represents England, as there are so many other places which are more 'English'. London does have its own charms and its own unique character which can't really be found anywhere else.
Sometimes when I visit London, I take a walk to somewhere I've never been before and just get lost for the sake of getting lost; to see things I'd not otherwise see, and just for the fun of exploring.
On a separate note, is there any reason London Boots are called London Boots? One's from Yamaguchi and the other's from Osaka, both of which are pretty distant from London.
According to the Internet info., London Boots used to call themselves "Fugu-no-suke"-"Fugu-taro". Here, Fugu means blown-fish famous in Shimonoseki, Yamaguchi prefecture, and xxx-no-suke, xx-taro reminds us of the old comedy duo called "Some-no-suke"-"Some-taro". Anyway, the stage name London Boots is based on the name of the fictitious comedy duo London Boots themselves used in their performance, and the name is given by Ryo (the one with yellow hair). But again, this is the Internet info., so I don't know if it's really the case.
BTW, thanx very much for your view on London. Very interesting.
>>614 I did a bit of research too... had no idea that knee-length platform shoes worn by women were known as 'London boots'. They probably go by a different name here (the boots, not the duo).
And a little off-topic again, but after a bit of thinking, I'd say the most English city is probably the city of York, which still retains many characteristics from its long history, even from the Romans and Vikings through to the Mediæval periods.
>>618 That's true, York is home to one of Europe's largest Gothic-style cathedrals, built around 1250 on the site of a destroyed cathedral. They have also found altars to the Roman gods and demigods Jupiter, Mars, Fortune and Hercules, as well as symbols of the Norse gods, such as Odin and Freya. These days, there's also a mosque and several Buddhist sects.
I thought, ".....that sounds strange", because I believed up until just now that London Boots were pure imports from London, but I did some checking and found out that you are right. They originated in London of course, worn by heavy-metal and punk bands there, but were brougt to Tokyo and sort of reinvented in Tokyo. http://hosono.co.jp/londonboots.htm
I think it's a similar situation as "Igirisu-pan" that we have in Japan. Noone knows why it's called by that name.
>>620 Ah, now I see! Those boots are very reminiscent of the British punk movement of a few decades ago. Hardly ever see those around these days, so it's interesting to see them still in fashion somewhere.
That igirisu-pan looks just like normal, everyday, freshly baked bread here. It looks tasty.
>>621 The Roman and Greek gods are pretty much the same, but with different names. The Roman demigod Hercules is another name for the Greek demigod Heracles. Jupiter, Roman god of the sky, is the Greek god Zeus. Mars is the Roman god of war... known to the Greeks as Ares. Fortuna is the goddess of fortune, the equivalent of the Greek goddess Tyche.
>>622 I have a question for you. If I remember collectly, you received your master's degree a few years ago. So I wonder if you know of any good books on how to write thesis in English? I'm not talking about books on grammar or punctuations, but books that specifically tell you how to logically structure your paper, relationship between paragraphs and so on. The thinner books, the better, but if you could recommend one, I'd very very much appreciated it!
I'm asking this because you always write very simple but logical and easy to understand English.
>>623 It's been a couple years, but there are a couple I can recommend. However, I've just gone to bed, so I'm afraid that I'll have to answer you in more detail tomorrow. Remember, too, that your tutors have read through many theses and are also able to give helpful hints and tips for layout and readability, as well as pointing out things which may have been missed or glossed over.
umm...interesting. I'd never thought about where the name of the comedian, London Boots comes from. But I'm happy that Amuro Namie, the superstar is now relieved of that foolish guy, Atsushi. He should be fooling around with some second class gravia idols... not that beautiful talented Amuro.
The reason why they chose "London Boots" as their stage name, I think, comes from the image you get from the boots.
The type of shoes was in fashion and very popular among fashion conscious young people and considered cool at one time in the past, but now (and the time they chose it as their stage name, too) it would be hilarrious if someone worn it walk in the streets. The style of the shoes IS out of fashion now and never be cool. Nobody wears them now. Thet's the point they tried to make when they chose the name. It's like, if you listen to MC Hammer or Rick Astry and think that's cool, your friends would laugh at you because they are never popular anymore. That's in the same context of why they chose LOndon Boots as their stage name.
When I was child. there was a boots which called London boots in Japan. I wear it when I was little prety boy. because My mother loved it. Adult womans always surrounded me. because prety enough.but I always fear it. and cried.
Now before I go write an essay for my Theology class, I wanted to say something that I've noticed. In writing, two very common mistakes I see Japanese speakers make are 1) replacing "r" with "l" and vice versa. "R" and "L" are two different sounds in English- the first is an "alveolar central approximant" and the second is an "alveolar lateral approximant". This means in "r" the air goes across the centre of your tongue; in "l" the air goes around your tongue, and the tip of your tongue touches behind your teeth. 2) Articles, like "a" and "the". You say "a" if you do not know which one, or if it could be any; you use "the" if you mean a specific one. So "a house" could be any house at all, but "the house" means one specific house. If there is more than one, then you do not put "a", so "the houses" for specific houses but "houses" for any houses, not "a houses".
Maybe that will help you guys with speaking even better English! Although many of you are already very good at it.
>>644 I'm interested in your question even though I can't answer well. I'm looking forward to hearing his response. in the meantime, let me try.
1. this suggest that whole species of Dog is friendly. 2. this is similar to No.1 question. but I feel more unspecified. 3. say about a particular dog.
I'm still elementary learner so that I don't have even a little confidence.
1) You can't really use this one properly, as you're using a singular article for a plural noun. 2) Talking about dogs in general, as >>647 says. 3) Either talking about dogs as a species, or talking about a particular dog. It depends on the context the phrase is used in.
>>623 Personally, I'd recommend the simply-titled "How to Write a Thesis", by Dr. Rowena Murray. It's not exactly a thin book, at 320 pages, but is split into clear parts that go into stage-by-stage detail, and outline what you need to consider as well as giving tips every now and again. It covers sections from approaching your supervisor, through to structuring and what benefits you may gain from the type of language you use.
If this may be a bit too heavy (as some of it covers doctorates and PhDs), I've heard that the more 'friendly' "Excellent Dissertations!" has helped many an undergraduate through writing a dissertation, though not so much help at further levels.
I'm not plugging these because my university published them, but because they're very useful.
- The dog is a friendly animal - Dogs are friendly animals
But "Dogs are friendly animals" is definitely the most common usage in everyday speech and writing. "The dog is a friendly animal" is more likely if you're watching a nature documentary or reading an article in an encyclopaedia.
"The dogs are friendly animals" still sounds like you're writing about a particular set of dogs.
And don't worry too much about the apostrophe - that you recognised where it's supposed to go is a big step ahead of a lot of native speakers' grasp of the English language.
>>654 Thank you very much!! and an another thing that I still don't understand is when I want to write about an uncountable noun like "sheep" in general which sentence is correct?
1) A Sheep is a friendly animal. 2) sheep are friendly animals.
3)There are many sheep in the house 4)there is many sheep in the house
I've also learned that since uncountable nouns are singular I always need to use "is" and "much" with them like "There is too much milk in the pan". How about "sheep"?
>>654 Thank you soooo very much for recommending good books for writing theses. I'll Amazon them right away.
You know, your responses are always very trustworthy, so I sometimes print them and keep them for future reference. I'll do that for your explanation on the articles this time, too.
>>655 All but 4) are fine... 1) is technically correct, but we're far more likely to use 2). 3) is correct, but you can't really use 4), for a similar reason to the first 'dogs' sentence. 'Many' implies you're talking about plural, so you can't really use a specifically singular verb in conjunction with it. There is one person, there are many people.
I wouldn't recommend keeping sheep in the house, as they don't smell very nice.
Igirisujin's got it. Damn, it's almost as if he were from an English-speaking country or something...
And regarding the "dogs'" vs. "dog's", if it's plural and possessive, then the apostrophe always goes at the end, so "the many dogs' bones" or "the one dog's bone". But that only works if there's an s. In fact, it goes for anything that ends in an s- you can say "Jesus' bone" (or also "Jesus's bone", either work). Irregulars like "women" are just "the two women's purses".
>>660 Judging by the quality of peoples' writing at schools here, it's a wonder that it's still classed as English-speaking. I'm not going to go blaming the Internet, though I'm sure it sped up the process, but it's mobile phones that have left a huge scar in the country's literacy...
>>656 Thank you, and I'm glad you feel that way! If I might ask, what is it you're studying?
>>661 i find myself frequently saying "lol" and "brb" and "wtf" and "lolz" and "kk" in real-life conversations as if they were words. Despite that, I continue to conjugate my subjunctive and undangle my prepositions and always make sure my apostrophes are in the right place. I like to call myself a grammar nazi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlHxg2UzCag what the hell is 'Queen Kong'? i never knew there was a female version of 'King Kong'. it looks so funky and bad in a good way i wanna watch it.
>>675 Charlotte, in this instance, is commenting on how she feels insecure about her thighs. Miranda's comment is a playful way of saying, "You may be insecure about your thighs, but I am even more insecure about my chin."
>>677 I am Japanese, but it means that Charlotte is not confident of her thighs because those are fat, maybe while Miranda thinks her chin is very ugly, maybe.
We Japanese are taught that the English intonation system of an interrogative sentence must go up at the end of the sentence. On the other hand, the book written about New York University's language institution class said the English intonation system go straight or up and down at first, then they finish down.
In fact, I often hear people saying in that way though that is an interrogative sentence.
I'm quite confusing. Is there anyone who can explain it?
>>678 I understand what this means: "You may be insecure about your thighs, but I am even more insecure about my chin." But I don't understand why "Well I'll take your thighs and raise you a chin." means it.
>>681 As a native speaker of American English I'm not conscious of it, but it seems like both are correct. Could you provide an example of this problem you're having?
>>682 Miranda is actually probably just saying that she'd rather have Charlotte's thighs instead of her own chin and she'd be willing to trade, but that show is kind of silly so you should take what they say with a grain of salt.
>>682 It's a gambling term like in poker. Someone raises the stakes (chips) confident that they can win, but the other person not only takes that raise but meets it with another raise.
Excuse me, everyone, can I ask you for a favor to help me? Yesterday, the manager in my part-time work place gave me a container for a stool test. But I've never done it before. So, could you tell me how to do it?
http://www2.ocn.ne.jp/~ronboo/sinjuku.jpg London boots are those in Japan. You can't imagine the ugly guy on the left is very popular among japanese calebs. Even in japanese standard, his face is the lowest kind. But he seems to be very attractive in talking and keen to fashion.
>>661 My major is anthropology. It basically encompasses all the human activities, so I have an endless list of reading to do *sigh* Many students and researchers used to go to undeveloped regions to listen to what the indegenous people have to say. But these days, the focus is more on their own countries, for there are silent or voiceless people, such as minorities, in any country. That'll probably be the area I'll be working on, but not for sure yet.
Anyway, thank you very much for recommending the book. You've been a great help!
Oshio shouts to the audience "Do you want to know why I'm here? I'm here to kill you all!".
I don't know much about the trend of music. Music like Rage against the Machine, Limp Bisket and Red Hot Chill Peppers imitate ohio's music? I don't know diffrences among them though.
>>707 That's something that even native speakers screw up frequently, it's more important that you speak as often as you can among native speaking friends. We aren't aliens from another planet, we're people and we all make mistakes, so if a problem like that pops up don't be afraid to ask.
>>726 What do I think? Well to be honest I don't actually like Nirvana, but Manabu's music sounds rather different. I have never heard of Manabu until now. He sounds really nasally when he sings in English, though. Plus he hasn't stuck a shotgun in his mouth yet, although I rate that as a bit of an improvement over Kurt.
His voice is very bad to japanese listners too. I guess he has alrady taken as much doses of drug as Kurt Cobain. In a way he caught up with Kurt. He made her girl friend take three tablets of MDMA, she died of MDMA later. Oshio's life style is rockn' roll.
its not really wrong as long as it happens. it doesnt matter how often it does. but it would be strange if you ask like "how often does it snow in mexico?" cause we all know that it never snow in mexico. you can simply use "does it snow in〜?" in that case.
In Boston it snows a lot. I like looking at snow but having to walk through it is annoying. They usually clean up the snow though so it's not that bad. The cold temperature is worse.
>>738 It's sometimes considered rude not to look into someone's eyes when talking. Do you really not in Japan? It's a sign of either mistrust, shyness, untruthfulness, or a combination of those in the US. That isn't to say that you ALWAYS have to look at someone's eyes, but when greeting them, or addressing them, and at least occasionally during conversation it is expected. It also makes the person know that you're talking to them.
>>740 >That isn't to say that you ALWAYS have to look at someone's eyes, >but when greeting them, or addressing them, and at least occasionally >during conversation it is expected.
Same here. I mean staring always is rather rude. You do that when you fight against someone.
Hirosue Ryoko has got married with the candle artist... It's raing here today, must be it's Igirisu-jin's tears. I have a shoulder you can cry on. I wonder if their candlelight of love lasts forever...
Igirisu-jin still has Mari Okamoto, who's said to look like Hriosue.
Apparently he thinks he's in better command of two languages, English and Japanese, than normal native speakers of both. Fine. Whether it is true or not, it doesn't mean he can judge things better than everybody else, does it? Well, he is second to none to act AS IF.
His messed-up ego, it seems, is doing XLellent mental gymnastics to convince himself that he's awesome when in reality he's just an expected working poor making believe himself that he is too good to be true.
>>742 Thank you. It's at times like these that a friendly shoulder is appreciated. Just before reading that, a magpie passed by my window - a lone magpie is an omen of bad fortune, unless you tip your hat towards it, then address and greet it with the traditional, "Hello, Mr. Magpie, how are you today?". It's a strange superstition, but at least it makes use of hats. Of course, I'm not wearing a hat since it's indoors, as it is considered rude to wear a hat whilst indoors.
While this Okamoto person does somewhat resemble Hirosue, there are still a couple things wrong. She doesn't have Hirosue's smile, and she's wearing a strange green baseball cap at a strange angle.
You're not alone, though. It's difficult to imagine taking someone else's child into a family when it's not your own. But then, sometimes some things in life happen that you would never think could happen. I bet Hirosue, ten years ago, never thought that she would marry a man who wears a rotting snake-fish through his ear.
Hirosue family have very interest relation of blood lines. there are many Korean yakuza and some celebrities. it tells us how Korean became a celebrities. Jew made hollywood. there are many Jew celebrities in US. almost same things are happen in Japan.
Hey guys I've been bloging in English since last month. I designed it for foreigners. Unfortunately only 14 people abroad have visited my site so far. Can any of you take a look at my blog and give me advice? Google search recognizes the site, and I pasted the URL on related movies on YOUTUBE, but they just don't seem to be working. http://mkstressfree.blogspot.com/
766 :Tokyo city boy KazuKata ◆DnH0jkg8I2 :2010/10/09(土) 22:17:59
Have you tasted bodies of me in their 20ies? Their thighs are very good [ for me to put my thigh on them ].
It is fine weather having said that it was a rainy day today in yesterday's weather report. It is the optimal fine autumn day for an athletic meet. I will go out for somewhere.
That's great. I might follow the suit. There are nice parks not so far from my place. "Sports Day," which is one of the national holidays, is tomorrow. Are you going to do something special tomorrow?
People say the Japanese in general work too much for too long hours. Some of us are asked to work overtime without being paid or with paid but just a little bit. It was criticized internationally and the government tried to do something about it. I think so many national holiday was made because they wanted to make up for the problem?
>>782 I have to do some shopping too because I need some new winter clothes. I hate it, though. I'm a kind of guy who doesn't even try clothes on at the shop hoping they will fit me all right and go home and later end up finding they don't. Do you enjoy shopping?
>>763 As with most SM plays, candle play may be harmful if they don't know what they are doing. Since he is professional, however, they should be fine cherishing their love and lust.
I don't know him personally but have heard of him on the Internet. Browsed his website, too. I heard somewhere he earned lots of money through his personal website due to huge access from overseas. Affiliate program, maybe. He seems to be a very influential man for those who love Japanese Otaku culture.
He's a son of president of famouse company(shoes company?) but he himself is an entrepreneur, too. He seems to to have excellent programming skills judging from the fact that he has worked for Internet giant such as Microsoft.
I never adore Otaku culture but it seems like he's living his dream and he looks happy. The British accent from a man who looks like a Hong Kong B-movie actor sounds extremely weird to me.
>>790 i dont know who he is. I am not Otaku. or he is not famous in japan. it seems that he works for overseas only. and i expected that his name choo is Chinese name.
>>790 Though his accent is very 'English', there are a lot of intonations which give him away as being Chinese, even if you weren't able to see him. Perhaps habits picked up from his parents or friends while growing up, as even though he's British, minorities often stick to their communities. Hadn't heard of him before, but a quick search brought up his deleted Wikipedia article (deleted for lack of notability, as most sources had been written by him). His father is a notable shoemaker, but I wouldn't wear any of his shoes. Mainly because they're all for women, as well as being very, very expensive.
>>804 Hamilton and Button didn't do very well for Britain, coming 4th and 5th. Korea's next weekend. Don't really know much about Formula 1, but my cousin is a huge F1 fanatic, so I hear everything from him.
>>821 Probably you're right about his accent. As I'm just an English learner, I don't think I can distinguish the difference. He doesn't try to hide his Otaku hobbies such as collecting girl figures and stuff. His house is full of such figures, including obscenity ones. His wife must understand Otaku world. If not, she wouldn't have gotten married with him.
>>831 Found he's actually from a Malaysian family, but of eventual Chinese descent. After a little more reading, it seems that many people speculate that his wife was initially very critical of his figurine collection (especially the obscene ones), but puts up with it because of the ad revenue his site generates. Of course, that's a pretty cynical view, and she might actually be into it or just pay it no mind.
Hirosue was a regular customer to a roppongi-aoyama club where drug users got together. At that time Hirosue's strange behavior was the center of attention in japanese media.
Oshio and Hirosue have a common friend who was both the fixer of a biker gang alliance and famous drug dealer. The man was the man who was beaten by asasyoryu in roppongi. Hirosue's ex-husband is a junior of the biker gang alliance and the man was said to introduce oshio to show-biz.
Hirosue's ex-husband was a member of a "teamerチーマー, japanese then-new youth gang, and later became a member of a famous biker gang(暴走族 which has a long history) alliance, which was controlled by the man who introduced oshio to show-biz. The exhusband's old friend korean since primary school and a fellow of the teamer was killed in nishisinjuku street by half a dozen man with mask and metal bats. The korean was said to be a sub member of Yakuza, japanese mafia. http://livedoor.2.blogimg.jp/googleyoutube/imgs/6/a/6a6f490f.png Here is the copy of OKAZAWA's blog. Okazawa called him long-time buddy.
Rather he seemed to be taking care of the biker gang group. At last He couldn't mangage the problems between his group and another yakuza. kanemura fled. His group was driven to disband for ever.
I don't know kanemura's death had something to do with a row with another yakuza though.
>>848 Some people from a nearby city have taken and re-dubbed clips from the Tintin animation using their local accents and dialect. These videos can be found on Youtube if you search for 'teesside tin tin'. They represent the language and typical behaviour of people from that city. I would not advise anyone to try and learn English from them, though.
>>841 it must be strange feeling, to have that kind of like-hate hierarchy for people you hardly kno wanything about and will never meet in your lifetime.
Yesterday, there was an athletic meet in my city. Even it's middle of October, I got a sun tan. Living in a country is very busy in Autumn. Next week, there is going to have the Autumn festival, even there is a putter golf tournament, playing with old men in the neighborhood association.
Japanese loves group events. and hate person who dosnt join to them. the one will be banished. sometimes. its might be murder. Japanese culture is really barbaric to control barbaric. the group events to watching each other. I am scare of it. because I am victim.
there is no privacy in japan. people always finding the private infos. if you try to conceal it, people hate you and will attack you badly. there are some foreinger who think its racism. no its culture. eveybody know your girlfriend or boyfriend. and their detail. its not fun for me. but there are people who fun of it.
>>872-873 Wow your life sucks. I am Japanese and am very comfortable with my privacy. Don't blame others and society, it's your fault you have no spine. You can fulfill your obligation of joining group events and still maintain your privacy.
when I was child. my family moved to other place in japan. so was totaly stranger. I learned marshal arts at that time. then Teacher of mine asked me that my father's job and more things while I was confined in another room. I was very scared of it. I thought that I might be even killed at there.
KY=misreading the situation The Japanese love to behave themselves like a bunch of sheep. They tend to go with the crowd easily. For instance, when a girl sees something and say, KAWAII!, the other girls follow suit. I feel it's strange, even though I am Japanese(man).
when japanese child bullies one, the method is write email with "you sould die". or tell how to commit suicide. even there is a child who force to write a will. and that not the end. when bullied child commited sucide, Parents of bully say that its natural result.
there was a incident that bullied child was killed by bully. then what? prarents of bully start bullying to parents of killed child. like "this town became famous becuase of your stupid child. you must take responsibility" so victim parents leave the town. and police do nothing. this is japan.
>>883 Though your English is very poor, I think your sentences have contents worthy of reading it. Previously, in this site, there sometimes were played bullying some people who had some thing to be blamed for, especially, in netwatch board. I think that there, means of them had common ways. First, talking about writings of a person's in there, and finding put his privacy, sometimes going to his house, which was found out from IP or such things, then after having exhausted discussions of his doing, they have him know what were wrote about him in here. Sometimes, he would write something against them, then they tease him, and blame him for his wrong doing. And, sometimes, they have a offmeeting in front of his house. I think his sort of bullying is not peculiar to this site, but to characters of Japanese people. I think that just, nasty aspects which were hiddlen in daily lives are revealed in anonymous circumstances.
are you guys sure that its happen all over the world? even if so, I believe that Japan's one has hight rate. and I believe that its cause of 30,000 sucide actually.
>>751 イギリス人's story is very romantic and English to me. I have questions. Could you answer me? Here is first question. In the first series of jojo's bizarre adventures(ジョジョの奇妙な冒険), adolescent JoJo found a raven on the twig. Raven is ominous creature in England(in general raven is not a good creature in today's Japan. But it doesn't have to do with religious or superstitious reason). So JoJo throws a stone at the raven through his crotch to ward off the curse of raven. Just throwing a stone is not enough. JoJo has to throw a stone with his back toward the razen and throw a stone through the crotch. Is JoJo's action familiar in the U.K? Please don't think JoJo is modern person. He is the man of the industrial revolution ages.
Second question. did you know that hirosue's ex-husband has a record of bad boy in shinjuku and that his long-time friend(submember of yamaguchigumi's branch) was beaten to death in the street? Hirosue's exhusband had been boasting relationships with outlows, thugs, gray zone people in his blog, including the man mentioned above.
I thought that "read the air空気を読む" was Japanese phrase. Is kame girl here japanese? She should have been studying in the U.K and I thought She was european. Kamegirls consist of European expatriate in UK and KG2ch from Japan?
>>890 Hmm... there are so many superstitions tied to ravens here, both good and bad. According to one legend of King Arthur, he didn't die, instead turning into a raven. This might be part of the reason that ravens are kept at the Tower of London, as they are seen by some as royal birds. Legend goes that if the ravens were to leave the Tower, the country would fall.
In a similar way to magpies, in some parts of the country, people used to tip their hats to crows so not to offend them, fearing that the crow might curse them otherwise. In Scotland, a raven circling above a house is foretelling a death, and a lone raven above a house in England brings bad luck. In Wales, however, a raven on the roof brings good fortune.
Apart from in days long one, when children were used to throw stones at crows in fields to prevent them from eating seeds, I've not heard of any stoning of crows or ravens, although "stone the crows!" is an expression of amazement or surprise here, but not used very often. However, different regions have their different folk customs and superstitions, so it's impossible to know them all, and there could well be somewhere who believes that something like that would ward off a crow-curse, in the same way that some people believe that to break a Gypsy curse, you must take a nearby twig, snap it in half, then throw the pieces into a river from a bridge so that the twig goes under the bridge.
Is this JoJo a member of the working class, or is he an upper-middle class modern(ish) gentleman?
As for your second question, I've learned much about Hirosue's past from this thread over the past few days. It's difficult to imagine someone who boasts about having seedy underworld relationships as someone who cares about the wellbeing and reputation of their family. She seems to have a very bad sense of judgement when it comes to men.
The miners trapped undergorund in Chili will be rescued soon. I watched a video fottage where one of the families are excited about the idea their beloved husband or father will be rescued in no time.
I know this rediculous but one idea crossed my mind. Not all families love their husband or father so some of them might feel happy if he is kept trapped underground. I believe not all family has good relationship with each other.
And they must smell really bad now trapped in hot temperature without taking a shower for as many as tow months.
I'm looking forward to seeing a video footage that shows the moment of first miner come back to the surfave. I wonder if the president of Chili will hug him? Of course he'll do because he wants to win the next election, but I bet he'll try not to breath in air while he does so. Don't miss out on his facial expression that shows his negative feeling about the smell of miners.
Legends in Britain is always changing. is it ok for British? dont they feel value of originality? Japanese legends was written in a book at about AC 700. so we cant change it.
>>916 It's not really a case of legends changing, but different regions having different legends or versions of legends. I suppose this might be to do with the number of times it's been occupied by other nationalities. The native Britons, Celts, Romans, Vikings, Anglo-Saxons and Normans all had their own ways of thinking about myth and legend, tying in with their own lifestyles and religions.
>>915 "Because it can produce a few notes, though they are very flat; and it is nevar put with the wrong end in front."
>>917 駅: In the old days, there were stagecoaches which run from a sation to another sation. 驚: It shows that a horse jumps when he is surprised. 馴:Taming of a horse etc.
Today, in Japan, is last of 3 straight holidays. But, I had to go to university because today is a substituting class-day... So, it doesn't make sense as 3 straight holidays for me.
>>922 I think you should let fellow Japanese learners practice their English regardless of what they wish to talk about. Have you no sense at all? When learning a language people do talk about their private lives. >>920 Please don't be discouraged by that troll and continue. >>895 The KY concept is plastered all over this thread. Even the school kid from Antartica would know it by now. >>897 She is the takoyaki girl.
>>926 >I think you should let fellow Japanese learners practice their >English regardless of what they wish to talk about. >Have you no sense at all? When learning a language people do talk >about their private lives.
IMO, it's egocentric to think that one's personal life is worth talking about in public.
>>929 It depends on what you watch on TV, that you think of Japanese TV show programs. Japanese New program can not broadcast American or British accidents like CNN and BBC.
>>917 I don't really know much about birds... just about some of the myths and customs surrounding them. Myth and legend was something which heavily interested me in my youth.
Even though I'm not at all qualified to answer your question on nationalities, 'igirisu' sounds a lot more like 'English' than 'England'. Though it's a different convention, I guess it's similar to how 'doitsu' is 'Germany'. It sounds like 'Deutsch', which is the German language rather than the country, or 'berugi' for 'Belgium', which is similar to 'Belge', which is a singular Belgian in their own language.
>>929 We can watch News show by satellote broadcasting. If you want to watch BBC,CNN,National Geographic, you have to set up a parabora. And some Japanese News show there.
Terrestrial TV has only 7 channels in metropolitan area. TV producers are stupid compared to those in USA and British. And I admit the Japanese people are stupid. people.
If you find anything boring here on this board, you can just ignore it move on. That's all it is, isn't it? If someone wants to talk about their everyday life, it's fine. It's like someone gets hurt?
>>941 I'm saying, can't you just ignore it? Because there is a negative repercussion such as another fellow English learner might not know what to talk about and just shut up. Especially beginners should be treated kindly.
>>943 It's actually either Asturian "ingles" or the Old French "angleis", but Portuguise is a lot similar to Spanish, so maybe the French one in this case. http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ingl%C3%A9s
Superstition is superstition. It's made up by human. Birds and animals never know such a stupid thing. If they could understand our words, that would be nothing but nuisance for them. This kind of thing shows us how stupid and selfish humans are.
駅: In the old days, there were stagecoaches which run from a sation to another sation. 驚: It shows that a horse jumps when he is surprised. 馴:Taming of a horse etc. I guess the majority of japanese don't know these facts or use them unconsciously.
I suppose meaningless posts in these days such as >>986,987 are result from infection of malicious programs. In other words, that's computer virus. There are these kind of computer viruses for several years. so there is possibility that someone in this thread is infected with virus.
I recommend checking your computer thoroughly.
I rather hope these posts were done by a insane person.