This thread is for the discussion of the language, culture, travel, daily life, etc. of Japan. Let's talk at random in Japanese and English. Take it easy!
I intend to go to Japan some time in the next two years. I also aim to have at least a basic understanding of the language. Going there out of interest in the culture, not looking for girls or anything. What should I expect? I've been to China but I don't speak their language and all I got was looks, and I don't really know how different that is compared to Japan.
Alexander Brooks
Idk they're hot.
Colton Collins
Japanese women pointed at us on the street today. I wonder if they were disgusted by us or if they were happy to see foreigners.
Lincoln Allen
これって全国区?
Landon Morales
They we're painting at you because you probably have a massive dick and they're embarrassed about it
Benjamin Murphy
>Going there out of interest in the culture, not looking for girls or anything.
It's okay brah, you can. Just don't be a cringey douche about it.
>I don't really know how different that is compared to Japan.
It's pretty different from Japan. Besides chopsticks, white rice and Chinese characters everywhere it's pretty different.
Jason Gutierrez
Probably disgusted
Caleb Howard
My kids say they realize when they are staring at tourists but they can't stop themselves. Many of them say things like they want to talk to them and use their English or that they look like they need help so they want to try to ask but they're too shy. So if you get stared at or get strange looks I think that could explain a lot of it. I get stared at and gets looks often but also I get ignored or treated like anyone else most of the time.
Nathaniel Cooper
お月見しています
Dylan Lopez
Wow that sounds great I love it when women stare at me
I'll stare back
Angel Long
Where do you live? In Tokyo, nobody stares at me.
Camden Smith
I've never noticed anyone staring at me, even in the countryside.
Evan Cox
月見バーガーはもう一度発売された。やった。
Austin Evans
Probably because you're Korean
Jackson Johnson
一年ぶりに日本に帰ってきた。やっぱりここはいい国だね。安心して生活できる。
Ryder Parker
Tokyo is pretty much different from China, you go farther west, you will find culture is more chinkanized but it's still different from mainland China.
Aiden Foster
because we can't tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese person.
Isaiah Campbell
That's what I was expecting. Has anyone ever approached you or anything?
Kayden Morgan
thanks user. It's a beautiful photo.
Grayson Murphy
今とても綺麗ですね
Jaxon Bailey
sat in the Chinese store today and it's absolutely packed, I knew the moon cake festival was soon but I googled it and it's actually today lol
That has to be Chinese, the characters are very dense and detailed as opposed to Japanese characters !(◎_◎;)
Joshua Kelly
He means his students.
Ian Clark
Who wants to try my new invention?
The jap-seeking missile
Liam Smith
Yeah a few times. By people who want to practice their English Usually
Cameron Myers
Apparently the reds made Chinese writing (on the mainland at least) much simpler so that even idiot peasants could learn to read.
Blake Powell
>!(◎_◎;) r-(x.x)
John Williams
Why do all the Americans in this thread feel the need to advertise it in their name
Ryder Ward
晚上好!你身体好吗?
Bentley Martin
Traditional Chinese is just a meme anyway, everyone uses simplified now or people actually use pinyin, hell when it comes to long sentences even some p f the natives I know can't hold a proper conversation and frequently use wrong characters
Isaiah Scott
Yes, today is 十五夜(jyugoya) did you get moon cake?
Henry Sanchez
Why do people from flyover countries get annoyed by the smallest things?
Hudson Rivera
God no it tastes like shit, even most Chinese will agree with me on that
Nicholas Cook
If I was american I would do so because the most of anonymous american flags are incredible assholes.
Xavier Harris
Btw I did actually see a few Japanese girls and women in the store today
Because it allows others to ask them specific questions that regulars can't?
Daniel Taylor
I guess they tend to hate anonymity even in Sup Forums because of their incredibly stronger egos than European. .
Caleb Flores
You could say that about most flags really Australia isn't really fly over land, unless you're flying from Indonesia to Antarctica in which case it's likely you'd stop off in Sydney or Melbourne anyway. You're not the crunchiest peanut in the packet are you?
Jayden Powell
This sounds like the most likely answer Yes but most Europeans/Aussies visiting don't do this. I guess it's just an American thing, they always have to be the centre of attention.
今見てきた。綺麗な満月だね。 kek we prepare a Japanese dumpling like a instead of moon cake.
Dylan Gonzalez
アメリカンホモというのは日本人のおばさん
Alexander Evans
いよいよ腹が減ってきた
Nicholas Ward
地震
Hunter Diaz
だから中国語で返事されても読めないんだよ まあ漢字のおかげで大体の意味が理解したけど
I don't know any of the language at all but from what I've heard, historically there was a lot of reliance on referencing classical literature and the like, so even if you could learn to read, you had to be quite well-educated to read or write anything important. Obscurantism is fun.
Cooper Bell
マレーシアってマレー語が主流なの?それともシンガポールみたいに英語?
Brandon Jackson
>自分の知らない言葉が生まれてて ネット社会の現代でもプチ浦島太郎状態になるんだね。
Ryan Lopez
おひさ~
Jayden Ward
But putting on a trip shows everyone that you're not just some anonymous American who may or may not be an arse-hole, but a tripfag and therefore automatically an arse-hole. No matter how you look at it, tripfagging is worse than posting anonymously.
Eli Hughes
震源地は?
Levi Thompson
FUCK
James Gomez
おぴざ~ もう九月だね
Levi Lopez
Complaining about tripfags for no reason might just be worse than being one, just my 2 yen
Chase Thompson
プー太郎生活大変やね
Christopher Young
That's why communism was so popular, in fact I discussed China's history before Mao with one of my friends who went to Fudan and she said communism was better and she's one of the most intelligent Chinese people I know
Communism is marginally better for povos insofar as it doesn't substantially change their material well-being, but makes them feel better compared to everyone else. That's about all that can be said in its favour. For everyone else it's utter shit (and anyone who says otherwise and isn't either poor or a party-fatcat-to-be is a useful idiot (even if they are clever in other respects)).
That said, "Chinese communism" now isn't really communism at all. They do a number of things well (most of which China did well pre-communism too). Actually in a number of respects they remind me of Meiji Japan (but dressed up very differently).
The real fascinating thing about communism in China, to me, is how enthusiastic a lot of the leaders (especially early on) were about social Darwinism and racial theory.
Henry Anderson
>he measures things in """"""""meters"""""""
Parker Taylor
誰だって母国が一番落ち着くだろ? おまえだってそうだろ?だから早く母国へ帰れよ
Benjamin Nguyen
Not the same guy but I agree with him, trips are for cunts.
Nicholas Gray
What's the matter with you?
Sebastian Gutierrez
>10 man apartment Sounds pretty homo, bro
Ryan Bennett
kek I love it when japs use ambiguous phrases like this, I always imagine them meaning it in a bad way
Jonathan Barnes
一つの民族に一つの国境がこれからのグローバルスタンダード
Austin Edwards
さっさと渡米しなよ 大好きな白人の男と結婚すれば
Parker James
>Communism is marginally better for povos insofar as it doesn't substantially change their material well-being, but makes them feel better compared to everyone else.
Tell that to the millions upon millions of casualties of various man induced famines across China, Eastern Europe, and now Venezuela.