Let me hear your opinion about "why japanese people have so much inferiority complex in their English abilities". I suppose that is a reflection of an image Japanese people have for US. They evaluate its culture and admire it too much.
Well I guess we are programmed to study English inevitably. We ought to face the fact; here in Japan so many people are studying English nowadays. Our inferior complex that is given might provide the demand of the thing by post of war 2’s America doctrine for Japanese government
We japanese suck up on someone who speaks English fluently. and think they must be something. But English is a just tool to communicate with people from other countries. If you have nothing to say to these people even in Japanese, how can you speak that in English??
>7 That's most common opinion Ive heard so far. But I dont believe it. Because the occupation peiod of US in japan, it's like 50 years ago. and I dont think weve been dragging these influences until now.
In addition to the above explanation, I would say taht the pronounciation of the Japanese is strange to the natives a little. I think that is the factor which further militates against the motive of us to speak English.
Pronunciation is not as important as stress or intonation. If you don't put stress on the proper part of the word, you won't be understood, even if you have an excellent pronunciation.
>>15 nope youre only seeing it from the japanese side . there are much more people who speak weird english and japanese katakana-english is only one of them . i think katakana-english is much more easy-to-understand than aussie english because my english is new york or new england english .
>20 I guess you are right. Dont stick too much to your pronunciation. English is a second language unless you were grown up in english countiries even if you would be making great efforts to speak as a native. If you get the point of how to convey your intension to others in english, it is not a big deal you are pronunciation is excellent or not.
Hello! I’m the one who wrote NO.7 Good day isn’t it? I’m still in a day because I went to some nightclub and discussed the matter that we are confronted with my friends. A friend of mine he is American who is high school teacher came and talked me about his thought, he said that I don’tCare anything what you are thinking about America have been dominant influence to Japanese. Though if you feel so,It’s not my problem. Maybe it is public opinion that all of Japanese have. Be honest I don’t know what America did to Japanese.” When I heard of his saying. I was little confused. Here in Japan when it comes to talking about the bilateral. Apparently we are too much conscious to the relationship. Comparing which means have me say that America people Do not always pay attention what Japan says. Their attention is obviously heading to Europe countries on the ground of Their cultural background.
Therefore the bottom line is... I would say we don’t have to convert our culture into American’s culture. We don’t need to feel about the inferior complex. They don’t care whether Japanese feel about it or not.. Off cause now that the international language demand have been increasing rapidly. Seems like it is to be continue. See you later guys !
sorry, i cant catch what you mean. I dont want to be too picky, but please be more careful in your grammar. My understanding is that "we, japanese, do not have to adjust ourselves to american way, because they, american people, dont care about us very much." Is it right? Does it make sense?
>23 I just dont get it at all. Your standing point is like We dont have to have inferiority complex about our english abilities BECAUSE they Americans never care about our feelings? Of course, not.
The inferiority complexes that we have for english are obviously our problems. You dont have to care if some chinese men who live in Japan feel inferiority complexes about their japanese. So, we care because we pay attention for what they think about japan so much. but They never care something they dont have to do with. "I dont care "is really typical prase for expressing americans.
Hi all! I have been studying English for a while. Very naturally, I have many English speaking or learning friends. Some time, I hear same kind of opinions like above posts, say: "Inferior complex toward USA makes Japanese people study English so desperately." I have to say "Oh yeah? Is that so?" I mean, what the hell are you talking about? Have you studied mathematics because of your inferior complex toward Einstein or someone like that? C'mon guys! Someone may want to think that way. But never take it as a general opinion of entire Japanese people because it is so untrue.
English (or any other language, for that matter) is merely a means of communication. No more or no less than that. There are some things I'd like to say about the English education system in Japan, but that's a completely different topic.
Hello all! Especially >>27>>26 At the beginning I would like to show you my appreciation. I’m glad to talk to you Because I’ve been coming to 2Ch since I found. It is the first time that I have productive talking. I convince that you think same way. Even we have different viewpoint. So let me clear a few cases, which are founded from my fieldwork in ordinary scene.
1.why some of Japanese ladies are so gullible when they are asked out to foreigners? Do you know what white people define those who people? 2.Why many Japanese young mothers are rushing to get their child to study English so younger age even the child has not handled enough our native tongue. 3.Why some Japanese guys want to have make love white girl?
My opinion might not be general. Even though I saw so many the cases. Thanks.
>>3.Why some Japanese guys want to have make love white girl? I guess they are just being curious. Y'know, wondering how it is like to do with blonde girls. Seems nothing wrong with that to me.
Hi, Im not so sure we have inferiority complex to US. The answer for this question, it depends on people. But clearly, we have one to our english. Its quite obvious, isnt it?
How many people are studying english right now devoiding of opportunity or plans for using it? and we are really sheepish to follow this third English boom in Japan blindly. But, I guess we cant blame people who are saying "Japan is becoming an internatinal so that you should make your kid learn English as soon as possible". Because we ,more or less, feel enviousness of people who speaks english fluently next to you. This follows we take English for really common way to make good reputation of yourself. You can make people jealousy by using it.
>> 28 > English (or any other language, for that matter) is merely a means of > communication.
I completely agree with that. But, at the same time, I think it's possible that the incentive to study English is from his/her personal inferior complex. For instance, one may start studying English, if he/she has been made fun of by an American, to strike back. A certain number of English learners could have this kind of experience, I suppose. Indeed, I have been embarassed many times because of my poor English. Those experiences have made me study English harder.
>43 English What do need to learn English for?? From what ive known, some japanese congressmen said English should be the common language in Japan a couple o years ago. What happaned to that propopal?
Well, what you are saying is very straightforward and easy to understand. Yet very twisted, though. My only question now is, what the heck are you writing that kind of comments in English if you think it is totally unnecessary for us to learn it in the first place.
They love English. Because its something make themselves look good. They all say "I scored 900 at TOEIC or I was exchanging student in univ I know this word. I understand this book without translation..." Those are all bullshit. They never use English in front of people cause' they are too pussy and scared of being made fool of. I have no interest in your accessory-like English. Go tta hell suckers!!
People boast their some English score as if they were somebody. But on the whole the people who study English enthusiastically There are no chances to talk to English people. It’s very funny things here that the people are too afraid to make mistake. Seems as if they were a kind of organic tape-recorder. These domestic products, which are invented by terrible Japanese English Education program often case malfunction. But please forgive them.
So far they have no choice but practice themselves. You know what? They didn’t qualify member of society
Hey guys!! Stop talking about the shit!! Who cares when we make a mistake!!??? hey61!!! we r not afraid of making mistakes!! U know the saying" failure is a mother of invention!" so pls!!! Stop blaming each other!! you know...thats sad and strange!! We r all Japanese who r studying english. we should encourage and help each other!! i think those who r saying those bullshit to others are not afraid of speaking eng..but we have to admit there are some who r!!! you know...it sounds ridiculous when you say " i know you are afraid of making mistake so that u cant have a convasation with foreigner!! Am i wrong??!!!""" FK it!! Dont listen to those guys who r saying.... "JP are..bla bla bla..."
When I use English, sometimes it makes me so dull that I wonder how I can express my inner feelings with correct adjective for instance, though communication is running through to each other on real time. Well...that might be caused from my environment that I haven't been grown up with speaking in English. At such moment, I used to find that there are a decisive difference in feeling between people who speak English and us who speak Japanese, and I remember a wise saying that says "when you speak English, think everything in English.". I think most of Japanese people have heard that once at least. The saying "think everything in English" has another meaning that says "abandon one for accepting another one." We have to consider about this issue. I think, "abandon one for accepting another one" means not only forces everyone to accept but also makes people to stand at another point of others.
Isn't it "OMOIYARI(思いやり)"?
Even so, a party does not accept our opinion's existence, unless we insist very strongly...ugh!!
>from87to90 We don' needya here. All bunch of guys who misunderstood an intention of this thread, gotta hell out o' here. Go for another place to find somebody plays with U. >89 I dont like your twisted mind You must be a big twisted fuck has no one whom plays around with. Its such a pity that youre such a disgusting shit.
Here is for english only thread. if you can't hadle to speak english, you don't have any rightment to writre here. i do you a favor to write some in japanese for just in case. ここは英語だけだよ、もし英語で話せないなら何も書く権利はないよ。 もしもの為に親切に日本語で書いておくけど。
Well Well. at last you can write englisht I didn't see that you do it.good to hear that, though it's a little bit funny, because it seemS your english is out of order. hahaha ! you've gotta need DICKtionary! seems you're fago. I'm not in a mood to mention your mistakes but you drived it.
it's kinda funny that everyone's "cursing English" is nearly perfect. if you all could study the normal words as well, you wouldn't have such a problem. Anyway, I don't think fighting on a BBS will really improve your English. ...Unless your reason to learn English is to get into a fight with an American or British or Australian or whoever.
Also I noticed some of you who are writing in this thread are using really bad English like 13 or 14 year old kids. Are you learning English from chatting on the internet? It is not very healthy to learn English from kids on the net. You will never be able to speak mature English. When you talk to someone who is the same age, you just sound stupid.
Alright 109, I know what you mean. But for me, this thread is more comedy relief than a learning experience. Don't let your brain rot with all these naughty words! :-) You seem too reasonable to let that happen.
>>117 Isn't it right to express it "having a debate" rather than "having a fight"? And, I guess you already know that it's a comfortable game with logical thinking for brain and communication.....right??
I think this intercultural language is one of the tools. People come here want to criticize someone's mistake. But this thread isn't a thread for making fun of others. People should be more polite. Can you take these nasty words to others when you are talking to them face-to-face? If you don’t, you shouldn't do this here.
In addition to people who are coming here as non-native English speakers aren’t good enough to express their feels in English. Off cause I’m not good enough too, though,the worst problem here is that a few people deliberately provoke unnecessary controversy with their inferiority complex.
Therefore the others don’t lose your mind in order to Make a constructive conversation.
Hi, Im kind of stuck in a depression lately. I used to use american video dorama like Ally Macbeal, 90120(?). I got used to their speaking speed and can follow the plot but still dont catch the details.. and I hate "Dictation". Thats big trouble here.. I guess its almost impossible to learn Grammar, voca, dict, reading at the same time on the same level.
Yeah, Using expressions youve learned and make sure you can use them in appropriatre context. it isnt too bad right? unless you think its nonsence using english to non-native.
When I was still a university student, I had lots of friends from overseas. You know they were kinda “Exchange students” stuff. Some of their Japanese ability was improving very fast as they spend most of their time with Japanese speaking friends. Funny thing was every single one of them trace exactly same patterns in their linguistic improvements, which is:
In the beginning their Japanese were extreamly polite, just like straight out of textbooks. Sounds little weird. Gradually, they start picking up more colloquial phrases and their Japanese gets better. And then they start picking up bad words and very bad words, their language get rougher and sometime even rather offensive, because they think its cool to be able to use those kind of wards in foreign language. Maybe they do not even realize how impolite to use such phrases and words they are using at this point.
Then at the certain point, they start realizing that using rough language all the time and being offensive is not very smart thing to do even if it was in foreign language. Finally they start using more appropriate language.
This thread is right in the second phase I mentioned above, I guess. Many of us using English, which is rather good, but not good enough to know that being offensive all the time does not mean you are good at that language. Sorry for a long post, I betta go.
Me, too, I have some friends from college who are international students. Their ability to speak Japanese is pretty good. For my part, I somehow think that they are perfectly functioning in Japanese society. Their Japanese sounds perfect to the point where I feel like that. What I want to know is how English- speaking people think about my English... Well, it's not so important. At least I don't think I have difficulty in communicating with people. But it's definitely an interesting point, i suppose, don't you think so? This kind of thread is sure facilitating people to write and communicate in foreign languages, which is nice. I strongly suggest that we set up a thread where we discuss in French. What do you think?
The first time I went to jail I was 18 years old. I had gone AWOL from the navy, was living with 3 prostitutes, and befriended an older Marine. The Marine and I decided to pull an armed robbery of a small convenience store. A policeman happened to be in the area, and after a long chase we were arrested and went to jail. We ended up in different tanks in the Sonoma County Jail in California. I was 6'1" and weighed about 180 pounds. I wasn't a small guy and figured I could pretty well take care of myself. I was in for a big surprise.
Their were 20 men in my tank, it was split into two 10 man pods with 5 bunk beds in each pod, a day room was between them. The day room had four large steel tables to eat on, a toilet and shower was in the rear. The first night I was approached by 3 men. Two of them were about my size and the third was about 20 pounds and 6 inches smaller. They asked who I was and what I was in for. I told them and then one of them asked if I had ever been fucked. I said "no and I wasn't planning on it "he said "we're going to fuck you". l was filled with fear like I had never felt before. I swung at him with a left hook and as he blocked it his partner swung and hit me in the face knocking me to the floor. One of them grabbed me by the hair and slammed my face into the concrete knocking me out.
When I woke I was on my stomach, my pants had been pulled off, my legs were spread wide apart with one guy sitting on each leg and the other guy laying on my back. The guy on top was slapping me awake and said I want you to feel this. He proceeded to drive his cock deep into my butt. I had never felt such pain and tried to get away. They held me in such a way I knew they had done this to someone before. He fucked me for what seemed like forever and then came in me. Then he switched places with another one, and all three raped me. After it was over I was held in a head lock while they debated if they should kill me or not. I was asked if I was going to snitch and I told them "no". They said they would kill me if I said anything to anyone. I really thought I was going to die.
The next day they left me alone, I was numb and didn't know what to do. I was raised not to snitch on people and to handle my own problems and this was reinforced in Navy Boot-camp. As much as l wanted too, I rejected snitching as an option. I was looking at 5 years to life in prison for the armed robbery. If I snitched and then went to prison they could very easily have me killed. I was from another state and knew no one in California. I was so terrified and filled with shame and fear. My options were so limited, I felt paralyzed and helpless. I had no one to talk too, or to help me.
That night the same three came back to my bunk. They said I was their punk now and it would do no good to try and fight because they'd just take me down and hurt me again even worse then before. My head was throbbing from the beating, my right eye was black and swollen shut, and my butt hurt. They told me to take a shower and shave all the hair off my body from the neck down. I was just like a robot and did what they said. Going along was better then getting beat or killed. I didn't reason it out I just did it.
After shaving they told me I was going to give them all head. I didn't want to and resisted. I said "please don't make me do this. I couldn't imagine sucking a mans cock!! I was slapped and my head was forced down to the first guys cock by my hair. I started sucking his cock and he gave me instructions on how to suck it. He grabbed me by the hair and forced his cock down my throat when he came. I thought he was going to gag me to death and I puked on the floor after he let go. The others must have been turned off cause they left me alone that night. I was still in shock the next day and wondered what would happen next I even thought about killing myself.
The next night the same three came to me again. This time they told me to take off my pants. I was given Vaseline and told to lay on my stomach and put some on my butt. I did what I was told. This time they told me to help by pushing like I was taking a shit as he pushed his cock in my ass. It made it allot easier as he took his time working it in making it less painful. It was still uncomfortable and I felt like I had to take a shit while he was in me. This time he fucked me like he would probably fuck a woman and it wasn't near as bad as the first time. The second guy fucked me about the same way while the third had me give him head at the same time. Their was nothing pleasurable about it yet I was perplexed about getting a hard on. I was afraid about it because I thought they would beat me if they saw it. I also wondered if I could be homosexual. That really bothered me!
I now know that when a man's Prostate Gland is stimulated he will get an involuntary hard on. It was very confusing at the time. I was able to keep them from noticing because they always had me lay on my stomach for sex. Things started to tapper off after this and they weren't so demanding. I would have sex with one of them at a time, and at different times, however others in the pod started to become interested.
I would be woken up at different times of the night and asked to perform sex. I would just do it rather then risk being beaten. The men began to treat me gently and after a week or so they started letting me play cards with them and gave me candy bars and stuff. Before that I was ostracized, no one talked to me nor would they eat with me.
After a time some of them would even protect me against the three that originally raped me. They would abuse me by calling me a punk and asked things like, "do you like getting fucked in the ass bitch" and "what would your girlfriends think of you now". They even got into my things and wrote to the girls I had been living with and told them I was a punk. Sometimes they would pull my hair or slap me while I gave them head. The other guys started to get on them about it. I appreciated them sticking up for me and started to like them. These other guys treated me real well during sex. Some of them preferred getting head and some liked fucking better.
Even though I wasn't saying no anymore they all knew they were raping me. I knew it was established that I was a sex toy and if I ever flat refused I'd be beaten badly. I thought of the first three as violent rapists and the others as opportunists and in reality nice rapists. They wouldn't come out and take sex violently but would take advantage of a scared young person who they knew couldn't say no.
At this point I was trapped in this role. I reasoned that I had better Just make the best of it and get past this the best I could. After awhile the sex wasn't all un-pleasurable, however I became rudely aware of what frustration many, many women go through. As I would lay on my stomach getting fucked some of the guys treated me just like a women. As they got hotter and hotter they'd start grinding nicely and kissing on my neck and back and rub on my sides, legs, butt, and stomach. This felt so good and I'd Just give in to it and enjoy it. I would start fucking them back so I could grind my cock into the bed and get my own pleasure. It felt really good, but right when I would start getting real hot they would usually cum and put all their weight on me before I could orgasm. Then after we got up they wouldn't talk to me or even look at me. It really made me feel like shit.
Short but words piled sounds comfortably at one of ear, and that's coming cruelly into another and the heart.
Somebody can imagine the smile on your mouth. They'll see you as if they got a time slip car. You've spit spit and spit words out out and out.
...and, they realised intuitively how despair had come to you at last.
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By the way, are you praying for death still now? Or, do you think yourself is a special existence?
Anyway, it's not so difficult to guess some of them here learn something from you without pity. Talent sometimes be merely a strong poison that leads person into abandonment only.
Now, my coffee break is over. I get to start my work again.
Some people said language is a tool of communication. I agree with them. Tools get rusty if you don't use them. Since I don't have any opportunity to use them, only when I go abroad, I am really envious of people who use English everyday at work or at college, wherever. That must reinforce your incentive for improvement. So I have a question to ask, for people who dont use english but make it progress constantly. What is your motivation??
ある人々は、言語がコミュニケーションのツールだと言いました。 I agree with them. Tools get rusty if you don't use them. 私は彼(それ)らと同意します。もしあなたが彼(それ)らを使わなければ、ツールは錆びているようになります。 Since I don't have any opportunity to use them, only when I go abroad, 私が私が外国へ行くという時にだけいくらかの(どんな)彼(それ)らを使う機会を持たないので、 I am really envious of people who use English everyday at work or 私が本当に羨みます、仕事で毎日の英語を使う人々または at college, wherever. That must reinforce your incentive カレッジで、ところでは、どこでも。それはあなたの奨励金を補強しなくてはいけません for improvement. 改善のために。 So I have a question to ask, for people who dont use english したがって、私は、質問事項があります、人々のためですenglishの誰をdontが使うか but make it progress constantly. What is your motivation?? しかし、それをたえず前進させて下さい。あなたの誘発は何ですか??
a few days ago,I think this thread had comparatively better responses than now.I'm sorry for the fact that this "English Only" thread had died of vacant communication between the low-level participant's scribbling,which is so endemic in 2CH.