Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:18 pmI've visited Japan twice and I'll be moving there later this year.
I've only been to Tokyo, it's a nice place. It's pretty busy and crowded, but the people I've met are nice.
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:18 pmPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:19 pmPosted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:20 pmNERVUN wrote:Arumdaum wrote:Sort of. >.<
I just learned to read/write kana and some basic stuff for like a month late in the year before giving up, but I still learned some stuff. :>
Ah! Ok. 2009nen ni watashi wa nohongo wo benkyou shimashita. (2009年に私は日本語を勉強しました.)I would have said that I studied "a little Japanese," but I didn't know how to say that. :<
A little = sukoshi 2009nen ni watashi wa nihongo wo sukoshi benkyou shimashita (2009年に私は日本語を少し勉強しました) or in 2009 I studied a little Japanese.
Ack, completely forgot about 年!
Thank you.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:21 pmDakini wrote:I've visited Japan twice and I'll be moving there later this year.
I've only been to Tokyo, it's a nice place. It's pretty busy and crowded, but the people I've met are nice.
Wait, really?
Where?
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:22 pm
Just... seriously... where the hell do you get your news from?I'm guessing Natural News.
That shit's been all over my facebook because some of my fb friends are idiots.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:22 pmNo they do not!
They always use 年 to mark the year and of course documents tend to use the reign name so today's school bulletin was 平成２５年９月５日, but to see the numbers in kanji is rare. Even when using the Western year it's written in numerals. 2013年.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:23 pmI do that a lot, usually to get weird looks because otherwise it just doesn't work well.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:24 pmYou're right, I thought Arumdaum was asking if the kanji for year was always in kanji or whether it was used at all. I'm tired.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 7:24 pmJust outside Tokyo. I'm taking the "long distance" part out of my long distance relationship.
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"All japanese people are lolicons!" - Ilyasviel von Einzbern
Eh, I'd like to visit it someday, but I wonder how they react to Chinese people. I mean, I'm not from China and haven't even set foot there, but still.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 8:46 pmこんにちは!
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Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:05 pmKonichiwa minna-san, Seitonjin-desu. Ore wa anata no subete o aishite~
Arigatou-gozoimasu.
Yay crappy Japanese language skills >.>
I like Japan's culture and food. Love the history as well.
Government? Not at the moment. Shinzo Abe is a nutter. Anyways, I gained interest in learning Japanese because I want to be able to do song covers and the like in Japanese. And watch anime without subs.
Arigatou-gozoimasu.
Yay crappy Japanese language skills >.>
I like Japan's culture and food. Love the history as well.
Government? Not at the moment. Shinzo Abe is a nutter. Anyways, I gained interest in learning Japanese because I want to be able to do song covers and the like in Japanese. And watch anime without subs.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:09 pmNorstal wrote:Jamjai wrote:I heard Japan is weird and guys do make-up enough to make them look like 100% Japanese girls
"All japanese people are lolicons!" - Ilyasviel von Einzbern
Eh, I'd like to visit it someday, but I wonder how they react to Chinese people. I mean, I'm not from China and haven't even set foot there, but still.
/is Chinese and frequently goes to Japan
It's fine actually. Expat Chinese perhaps? You'll be fine. Near Ueno in Tokyo there are significant amounts of Chinese people there.
I'm planning to move to Japan in the near future.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:25 pmNorstal wrote:Jamjai wrote:I heard Japan is weird and guys do make-up enough to make them look like 100% Japanese girls
"All japanese people are lolicons!" - Ilyasviel von Einzbern
Eh, I'd like to visit it someday, but I wonder how they react to Chinese people. I mean, I'm not from China and haven't even set foot there, but still.
MIxed bag I'm afraid. There's a lot of people who are fine with Chinese, there's a number who are not. In general, what Asians of all stripes tend to find is that you guys have it both better and worse than other gaijin. On one hand, you can blend in, which means when you don't WANT to stick out, you don't (And believe you me, there are times when you don't. I don't mind the whole cultural ambassador bit, and I usually don't mind English leeches, but Skuld's Holy Hammer, when I'm in the restroom, I have a singular purpose in mind and striking up a conversation with someone because they have wanted to talk to a foreigner is not it). On the other hand, a lot of Asian friends have reported the problem is that because you are Asian, Japanese are very quick to assume that you are actually Japanese and thus tend to react somewhat badly when their expectations are not met. Japan and Japanese culture likes norms and anything that violates those norms faces a rough time of it. Foreigners can get away with it because we're not expected to know... but if you're Asian, many will assume that you do.
Like I said, it's a mixed bag.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:37 pmNERVUN wrote:Norstal wrote:"All japanese people are lolicons!" - Ilyasviel von Einzbern
Eh, I'd like to visit it someday, but I wonder how they react to Chinese people. I mean, I'm not from China and haven't even set foot there, but still.
MIxed bag I'm afraid. There's a lot of people who are fine with Chinese, there's a number who are not. In general, what Asians of all stripes tend to find is that you guys have it both better and worse than other gaijin. On one hand, you can blend in, which means when you don't WANT to stick out, you don't (And believe you me, there are times when you don't. I don't mind the whole cultural ambassador bit, and I usually don't mind English leeches, but Skuld's Holy Hammer, when I'm in the restroom, I have a singular purpose in mind and striking up a conversation with someone because they have wanted to talk to a foreigner is not it). On the other hand, a lot of Asian friends have reported the problem is that because you are Asian, Japanese are very quick to assume that you are actually Japanese and thus tend to react somewhat badly when their expectations are not met. Japan and Japanese culture likes norms and anything that violates those norms faces a rough time of it. Foreigners can get away with it because we're not expected to know... but if you're Asian, many will assume that you do.
Like I said, it's a mixed bag.
Ha, because you share a "common" ancestry you're just expected to know. Wonderful. I've always just gotten the vibe of the Japanese being particularly xenophobic in their culture.
Posted: Wed Sep 04, 2013 9:57 pmNovaya Tselinoyarsk wrote:NERVUN wrote:MIxed bag I'm afraid. There's a lot of people who are fine with Chinese, there's a number who are not. In general, what Asians of all stripes tend to find is that you guys have it both better and worse than other gaijin. On one hand, you can blend in, which means when you don't WANT to stick out, you don't (And believe you me, there are times when you don't. I don't mind the whole cultural ambassador bit, and I usually don't mind English leeches, but Skuld's Holy Hammer, when I'm in the restroom, I have a singular purpose in mind and striking up a conversation with someone because they have wanted to talk to a foreigner is not it). On the other hand, a lot of Asian friends have reported the problem is that because you are Asian, Japanese are very quick to assume that you are actually Japanese and thus tend to react somewhat badly when their expectations are not met. Japan and Japanese culture likes norms and anything that violates those norms faces a rough time of it. Foreigners can get away with it because we're not expected to know... but if you're Asian, many will assume that you do.
Like I said, it's a mixed bag.
Ha, because you share a "common" ancestry you're just expected to know.
You misread that, it's more "Because you LOOK Japanese, people assume that you are Japanese and thus know." In many ways, it's akin to the annoying American concept that if you're in the US, of course you're an American or want to be one, and speak English.
Wonderful. I've always just gotten the vibe of the Japanese being particularly xenophobic in their culture.
Not really, I find their level of xenophobia not particularly better or worse than any other nation's. They do tend to be less violent though.