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Hello....i'm a gamer and i know a few words in Japanese
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Reason three made me want to kill myself on occassions.
I recognize I'm a nerd, but these people in the class were far beyond the definition. Thank god I bailed out of that shit.
One of my friends who returned from a year Japan has been helping a lot of the japanese exchange students with various things on campus. The japanese students usually get dragged to the "japanese club", which is a fate worse than death. At one of the more recent ones, my friend said that some of the students started to watch some shit ass anime, to which the japanese students responded with this horror striken "What have we gotton ourselves into" look.
I recognize I'm a nerd, but these people in the class were far beyond the definition. Thank god I bailed out of that shit.
One of my friends who returned from a year Japan has been helping a lot of the japanese exchange students with various things on campus. The japanese students usually get dragged to the "japanese club", which is a fate worse than death. At one of the more recent ones, my friend said that some of the students started to watch some shit ass anime, to which the japanese students responded with this horror striken "What have we gotton ourselves into" look.
Yeah, we definitely have our fair share of those guys in my class. Especially the know-it-alls. They're kind of dicks.
Sadly, I think I fall underneath the anime freak category. I wear contacts (close!), I have an anime keychain, and I own one anime shirt. But I don't yell random shit, and I've never called anybody chan. Oh well.
I think it's funny when people ask the Japanese exchange students to say stuff in Japanese. Afterwords, they ooh and ahh over it like Jesus just said it.
Sadly, I think I fall underneath the anime freak category. I wear contacts (close!), I have an anime keychain, and I own one anime shirt. But I don't yell random shit, and I've never called anybody chan. Oh well.
I think it's funny when people ask the Japanese exchange students to say stuff in Japanese. Afterwords, they ooh and ahh over it like Jesus just said it.
norinrad21
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A guy at the local computer shop once invited me over for a supposed anime night, needless to say I haven't been to the computer shop again and i've tried everything to avoid him.
One girl in my class will forever be known as Spear girl.
She came to class with dice bags hanging from her belt, tons of anime nick nacks, would constantly talk about their roleplaying sessions which would intermingle rpg and anime characters (heard them once talking about a tenchi/FF7 cross thing....ewww), and to top it all off she had this huge wooden "I made this myself spear" that she would carry around everywhere.
There's many times i wanted to shove something in my ears to make the pain stop. I remember one point when we had some middle age japanese woman who drew manga come to the class to talk about her life. During the middle of the class spear girl does the most horrible geisha laughs (you know the ones you hear in animes) i've ever heard. I just gotta wonder what that lady was thinking.
She came to class with dice bags hanging from her belt, tons of anime nick nacks, would constantly talk about their roleplaying sessions which would intermingle rpg and anime characters (heard them once talking about a tenchi/FF7 cross thing....ewww), and to top it all off she had this huge wooden "I made this myself spear" that she would carry around everywhere.
There's many times i wanted to shove something in my ears to make the pain stop. I remember one point when we had some middle age japanese woman who drew manga come to the class to talk about her life. During the middle of the class spear girl does the most horrible geisha laughs (you know the ones you hear in animes) i've ever heard. I just gotta wonder what that lady was thinking.
ManDudeChild
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I'd fit into the deer in the headlights category. I tried taking a Japanese course in highschool, as I thought it would be useful learn for both import gaming and fun. Boy was I wrong. I didn't need the credits or anything (I had a few more credits than needed) and certainly am not an "anime nut" or know it all. The problem arose when the teacher told everyone to stand up in Japanese at the BEGINNING OF CLASS ON THE FIRST DAY and like 80% of the people stood up. Kind of misleading from my point of view, as it was supposed to be a class for beginners. Anyhoo, i'm rambling on here so, long story short, I dropped it after a week or so. Pity too. I'd love to try learning it again if I could be taught it from square ONE, not starting from five and working my way up somehow.
:lol :lol :lol
I've seen that girl! And the roleplaying game is called "Big Eyes, Small Mouth". I shit you not.
I'm not that hardcore (nor would I ever want to be). And that fucking geisha laugh! The girl in my class does that! But only when there's a guest speaker.
One time, one of the speakers acknowledged it. He was speaking about the multi-cultural business program. He said something about the problems that English speakers were having in Korea. It was mildly amusing, mainly for his unusual facial expressions. This girl, the spear girl, laughs the most annoying, high-pitched, squealing laugh I've ever heard in my life. She proceeded to do so for another 5 seconds in spasmatic gasps. The speaker looked right at her and said, "Wooooooah! I must have said something insanely funny!" She kind of giggled and looked away. She didn't say anthing for the rest of class.
I've seen that girl! And the roleplaying game is called "Big Eyes, Small Mouth". I shit you not.
I'm not that hardcore (nor would I ever want to be). And that fucking geisha laugh! The girl in my class does that! But only when there's a guest speaker.
One time, one of the speakers acknowledged it. He was speaking about the multi-cultural business program. He said something about the problems that English speakers were having in Korea. It was mildly amusing, mainly for his unusual facial expressions. This girl, the spear girl, laughs the most annoying, high-pitched, squealing laugh I've ever heard in my life. She proceeded to do so for another 5 seconds in spasmatic gasps. The speaker looked right at her and said, "Wooooooah! I must have said something insanely funny!" She kind of giggled and looked away. She didn't say anthing for the rest of class.
JackFrost2012
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miyamoto sama uhhh nintendo de hataraku koto wa uhhhh dou?
The only problem with that article is that he is ridiculing certain stereotypes (manga freaks etc), while simultaneously basing the entire rest of his argument on reinforcing other stereotypes.
The guy reads like he tried and couldn't hack it, so he gave up. Katakana and Hiragana aren't difficult. The actual spoken language isn't *that* difficult compared to some in the World (although its a nice easy generalisation to build on)
I think he just need to calm down a little.
The guy reads like he tried and couldn't hack it, so he gave up. Katakana and Hiragana aren't difficult. The actual spoken language isn't *that* difficult compared to some in the World (although its a nice easy generalisation to build on)
I think he just need to calm down a little.
Brofist
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Ferrio said:
I studied a year and a half at Kansai Gaidai, a uni right in the middle of Osaka and Kyoto. There were some guys there that had 4-5 years of Japanese under their belts, and they couldn't hold a basic conversation worth shit, while some 1st year students were like walking tape recorders.
All those "credentials" don't mean a damn if you aren't going at it with the right mindset. And the degree in Japanese literature..please...that means fuck all.
LinesInTheSand
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Respect +10 FerrioFerrio said:
Brofist
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Ferrio said:
That sounds about right.
My gf had to teach a high school Japanese class in the US for a couple semesters as part of her teaching certification back in Japan. The class kept asking her questions about anime, and video games...cause of course every Japanese person is a walking anime/manga/video game encyclopedia. When she couldn't answer most of the question, they were all freakin shocked. One fucker had the nerve to ask her to the senior prom, I almost paid a little visit to her class
Mandarin is more annoying than hard. In general, I'd say Chinese is easier than Japanese for one reason: lack of amiguity. Now, I realize when speaking it there can be plenty of problems distinguishing sounds and such, but when reading/writing you can pretty much tell what means what. Its just the memorization of all those damn characters! Buuuuuut you have to pretty much do that in Japanese anyway, just in a more piecemeal fashion since you can fall back on hiragana until you actually learn the kanji (I guess for Chinese there's always pinion- if that's how its spelled....). Still, there's a great deal of ambiguity in all facets of Japanese language from the pronunciation of kanji to the bajillion honorifics/politeness levels to the excrutiating pain of trying to read things in katakana (ok, it can be kinda fun if its a word like....banana, for instance, but for stuff like universal service or commitment, its not very fun. Its a no-brainer why the Japanese have an initiative to see if some of these words should be replaced with more native equivalents).
Kobun Heat
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Hey, I've been to Kansai Gaidai. My friend went there.
Anyway, I just wanted to comment about how hard I just laughed, literally unable to breathe, on reading about the girl doing the geisha laugh. Jesus CHRIST.
Anyway, I just wanted to comment about how hard I just laughed, literally unable to breathe, on reading about the girl doing the geisha laugh. Jesus CHRIST.
shoplifter
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Jim Bowie said:
I can't allow ya to diss that game, as it's actually good.
On the other hand, in the four and a half years I took Japanese I saw so many people who were just......wow. I'm glad I got in when the getting was good, two or three of us in my exchange group (Chubu Daigaku reprazent!) were anime fans, but christ...we knew when to stop.
I fully admit though, that my primary motivation in taking Japanese was to be able to import more games.
i ran across that video last night.impirius said:
http://gamelayer.dreamhost.com/junk/nintendojo_badjapanese.wmv
:lol
Escape Goat
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aoi tsuki said:
:lol @ that guys laugh
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