My wife is Japanese. Been married more than 18 years, and only lived in the U.S. for 3 of those...How do you guys communicate when you’re on a trip there? I thought barely anyone can speak english there.
My wife is Japanese. Been married more than 18 years, and only lived in the U.S. for 3 of those...How do you guys communicate when you’re on a trip there? I thought barely anyone can speak english there.
Go there Flame, go!I love japan!
why?
i have a plan to repopulate the country! im going to be they lord and saviour.
Long life to Deutsche Bahn! /sTrains come on time, moving staircase is always free on one side, so you can walk without up or down without back-slapping, everything is just so well organized.
Speaking of... most public toilets have spray disinfectant mounted on the wall (so you can spray some toilet paper and wipe the seat with it), the seats are heated, and the seats wash your ass tooYou can measure the culture of one country by its public toilets,
Let's also not forget that Japanese is BY FAR the easiest language to learn, so if you simply are willing to learn, you can reach the level required for everyday conversations in a year! The ONLY hard part is learning the characters, so if you get that down in a month or so, everything becomes a joke.My wife is Japanese. Been married more than 18 years, and only lived in the U.S. for 3 of those...
Speaking of... most public toilets have spray disinfectant mounted on the wall (so you can spray some toilet paper and wipe the seat with it), the seats are heated, and the seats wash your ass too
Not to mention, the vast majority of the population are polite and civil. I love America, but after living in Japan for so long, I can't stand Americans (as a people/culture).
Edit (now that I went back and finished reading your post): It's also considered so safe that it's not uncommon to see children walking around parks late at night. If you leave a wallet or bag with a laptop, phone, etc on a train... 99 times out of 100 you just need only figure out where the last stop was on the line for that train, and your item will be waiting at the office. With all of your money intact. OH! and kids often go to-from kindergarten via train. By. Themselves. Wow...
I kind of disagree on that. It is hard for me to believe it could be any easier than Spanish, or going to the point English. Those two languages are ridiculously easy.Let's also not forget that Japanese is BY FAR the easiest language to learn, so if you simply are willing to learn, you can reach the level required for everyday conversations in a year! The ONLY hard part is learning the characters, so if you get that down in a month or so, everything becomes a joke.
Much like @urherenow I have lived in Japan for about 12 years now and can’t say that I would rather live anywhere else. It’s safe, clean, I don’t have to worry about my kids walking to and from school and I don’t think I have seen a better healthcare system anywhere. Yes, Japan has it’s own problems but they are no where near any other country I have ever been (about 12 I think).Speaking of... most public toilets have spray disinfectant mounted on the wall (so you can spray some toilet paper and wipe the seat with it), the seats are heated, and the seats wash your ass too
Not to mention, the vast majority of the population are polite and civil. I love America, but after living in Japan for so long, I can't stand Americans (as a people/culture).
Edit (now that I went back and finished reading your post): It's also considered so safe that it's not uncommon to see children walking around parks late at night. If you leave a wallet or bag with a laptop, phone, etc on a train... 99 times out of 100 you just need only figure out where the last stop was on the line for that train, and your item will be waiting at the office. With all of your money intact. OH! and kids often go to-from kindergarten via train. By. Themselves. Wow...
Let's see what there is in Japanese... Kanji? You need to know 3000 of them tops to get a linguistics diploma and a mere 500-700 for everyday life and work (most you will learn by repeated exposure to them) and even those are often shown along their Hiragana counterparts, so it's not hard to understand them anyway. Many different words? As if, compared to English (1.4 million words or 4+ billion words including forms), Japanese has a mere 89000 different words (253000 including forms), which is nothing and to be honest, you won't need more than 10000 tops. Grammar? Besides syntax being the exact reverse of English (verb goes last in Japanese and talk is almost exclusively done in passive), you have TWO tenses, present and past, making it a joke to learn and to ask a question 99% of the time you just need to add the "ka" at the end. So really, besides learning the characters, it's a joke and it's no coincidence that to go from complete beginner to top diploma (M1) you only need 5 years (5 diplomas, one per year, M3 alone is at a better level than the average Japanese person)!I kind of disagree on that. It is hard for me to believe it could be any easier than Spanish, or going to the point English. Those two languages are ridiculously easy.
That said, I believe getting into a basic conversational level in a year is possible, Japanese never sounded hard to me, but going from basic conversational to actually being able to discus some complex topic in eg. politics, science, philosophy, literature, etc... that is a whole different thing.
And regarding the writing system, hiragana and katakana are piece of cake sure, but Kanjis seem fucking infinite and a PITA to remember the correct stroke order and write them right... Nope, that is way too hard.
True, you have two tenses, but a lot of other shit like modes get into the verb conjugation.Let's see what there is in Japanese... Kanji? You need to know 3000 of them tops to get a linguistics diploma and a mere 500-700 for everyday life and work (most you will learn by repeated exposure to them) and even those are often shown along their Hiragana counterparts, so it's not hard to understand them anyway. Many different words? As if, compared to English (1.4 million words or 4+ billion words including forms), Japanese has a mere 89000 different words (253000 including forms), which is nothing and to be honest, you won't need more than 10000 tops. Grammar? Besides syntax being the exact reverse of English (verb goes last in Japanese and talk is almost exclusively done in passive), you have TWO tenses, present and past, making it a joke to learn and to ask a question 99% of the time you just need to add the "ka" at the end. So really, besides learning the characters, it's a joke and it's no coincidence that to go from complete beginner to top diploma (M1) you only need 5 years (5 diplomas, one per year, M3 alone is at a better level than the average Japanese person)!
I'm pretty sure you can hire a translator to get around I remember that nutcase Logan Paul had one with him while he was being disrespectful.How do you guys communicate when you’re on a trip there? I thought barely anyone can speak english there.
OMG WAPAN IS AMASING!!!!1!I'm not a weeb so I'm not one of those OMG JAPAN IS AMAZING!!! sayers
I see Japan as just another country.
Indifferent about it.
I'd like to say that if the opportunity arises to go to Japan one day, I'd purely go for the scenery of Mt Fuji
Maybe the culture.
I do like asian films, more specifically the horror films they produce but anime, no thank you.
OMG WAPAN IS AMASING!!!!1!
THEY MAKE HENTAI FOR US!!!1
japan is better than wapan
japans weebs are less cancerous than wapan
japan is the land of giant acid spiting wasps that are the size of your hand
so its just another land mass with GIANT FUCKING WASPS and earthquakes
You’re a lucky son of a gun.My wife is Japanese.
If you are taking those examples from fansubs, either change the fansub team you get your stuff from or stop taking fan translations literally. "Sae Ireba" refers to being needed and being satisfied with having, so it roughly should translate to "satisfied with you being here" (hard/literal translation is impossible between English and Japanese as Japanese is more of a contextual language). Anyway, if you actually give Japanese a try, you will see it's not anywhere near as hard as it looks on paper (metaphorically, not literally reading).True, you have two tenses, but a lot of other shit like modes get into the verb conjugation.
Imperative, conditional, presumptive, provisional, etc, etc.
In english verb conjugation is way more simple, and you only have conjugation for present, past and past participle, future is made up using an auxiliary verb, almost everything else is made using auxiliary verbs...
Take this example (title from ending song of Love Hina, don't judge me for the bad taste, I was too young):
Kimi Sae Ireba
If I were next to you
One verb translates to three words in English (well, I am lying, the "I" pronoun is implied but is not part of the verb), well that kind of thing is not there in English (it is there in Spanish anyway).
PS: And to show more how it is a PITA, that translation above is wrong because it actually means
Kimi Sae Ireba
As long as you are (here?)
With Sae and Ireba mixing up in a very weird way to mean "as long as" / "to be/to exist for living things".
Hell, the grammar is not easy either.