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You have thick glasses, and most Asian people aren't yellow.I LOVE that wolf eel shot you posted, Cythraul!
Bet you can't tell where my sweater ends and my skin begins! HURR HURRR
How'd you learn English being in Japan? We have Japanese classes here at my college, I never took one though, I took Spanish instead. So as a reuslt, I have no idea how Asian languages work.
damnromulans
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I am American, so I learned English by speaking it as my first language. I work in Japan as an English teacher.
Asian languages work the way other languages work. As for the main East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese share characters but the grammar is wildly different, Korean uses hangul letters and vocab derived from Chinese but the grammar is similar to Japanese.
Japanese has 2 "alphabets" and a system of several thousand kanji/Chinese characters. unlike Chinese where each character has one reading, in Japanese the same character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context and placement in a word. It's a stupid language and I generally dislike the way it sounds.
Asian languages work the way other languages work. As for the main East Asian languages, Chinese and Japanese share characters but the grammar is wildly different, Korean uses hangul letters and vocab derived from Chinese but the grammar is similar to Japanese.
Japanese has 2 "alphabets" and a system of several thousand kanji/Chinese characters. unlike Chinese where each character has one reading, in Japanese the same character can be read a whole bunch of different ways depending on context and placement in a word. It's a stupid language and I generally dislike the way it sounds.
My Brazillian friend is having fun and looks fun! Where there any women in thongs at the beach?
btw, why so big krampus?
me in rio again, i'm hot or what???
Stereotypes.
I think it's funny you teach people who know the "stupid language". Spanish syntax was ass backwards to me at first, totally different to what I speak. Like instead of saying that tall man it's "Esa alta hombre" adjective/verb. And it's mine. "Es de mi", which translates to it's of mine.What are hanging letters?
I like language learning in general, though all I've learned are Germanic and Romance languages. I guess I'll have to try a Slavic, non-Indo European language(ie. Basque, Finnish, or Sami), and an Asian one.
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HOLY SHIT DUDE THAT'S LIKE THE FIRST TIME ANYONE'S EVER SAID SOMETHING LIKE THAT TO ME EVER.
I haven't spoken a word of Chinese in nearly a year, but I'm almost positive this is wrong.
Eligos
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Dakryn, can you link me to your post about krampus being UM"s wet dream? I would like to sig that shit.
damnromulans
Klingons do not faint
Oh is it? I don't actually know Chinese, but I've heard people who know Chinese griping about Japanese because in Japanese kanji have too many different meanings and readings. I stand corrected.
I don't know what hanging letters means.
Japanese is a stupid language and Japanese people are cool but their English education system blows, they learn from elementary school through high school but probably 90% of the population is non-functional outside Japan.
I don't know what hanging letters means.
Japanese is a stupid language and Japanese people are cool but their English education system blows, they learn from elementary school through high school but probably 90% of the population is non-functional outside Japan.
damnromulans
Klingons do not faint
Thank you Onder, your praise is as the Carpathian Mountains are to creating shadows over Transylvania. I wish to channel Buddy Holly and look like I am not mentally handicapped.
I'm also like 10 cm taller and probably 500 kg heavier than most Japanese women (being an AMURRRRICAN and all) so you could pick me out in a crowd no problem!
I'm also like 10 cm taller and probably 500 kg heavier than most Japanese women (being an AMURRRRICAN and all) so you could pick me out in a crowd no problem!
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DarkBliss
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How intriguing. I'm a linguist, so this kind of nerdy stuff is appealing to me.
I need to get me a teacher's diploma as well so I could educate the uncivilized nimcampoops here. Dunno, maybe next year. So far, I'm merely a multi-tasking clerk at an insurance agency, doubling as a freelance editor for a recording company that sends me recorded Kabbalah lectures from the USA to transcribe or printed out files of said transcriptions to correct.
Ah, you should see our office at the insurance agency. Whenever the boss is out on a meeting, the place becomes a kindergarten. We play hide and seek, "midget and giant", sing songs and the ultimate guessing game of "what the fuck is written here", making up funny alternatives on the double while trying to decipher the cryptic handwriting of many left-handed agents.
panzerfaust666
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damnromulans
Klingons do not faint
Hahahaha fuck Japs for the hell they brought on the rest of Asia in the first half of the 20th century. I'm ethnically Korean (it says "Korea" on my US passport for birthplace) and I think Koreans are basically better than Japanese people on accounta they're better looking, taller, and do better in school/are better at English.
That said I went to the Atomic Bomb Museum in Nagasaki last weekend, and met this tiny old woman who survived the bombing. Let's just say I now feel a little bad about going "HUH HUH IT WAS A BLAST" when someone asks me how my trip was.
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