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Hi. Living in Japan now, focusing on Japanese, but also keen to maintain and improve my french and indonesian. Serious or light hearted, I can do both.
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    私が知っている限り、処理、処分という意味です。 始末するとは片付ける、処理する。。または人か動物を殺す
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    April 9, 2012
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    It means, can we make less emotional/less intense/less personal .....comments? Can we 'cool it'.. is asking, 'Please, everyone, can we calm down a bit?' instead of 'on' , you could say, 'with' or 'in our approach to' Can we all calm down a bit before making/posting comments?
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    April 9, 2012
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    February 1, 2012
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    Our Future

    Have you ever thought about your future? Casually or seriously. Consciously or unconsciously. Where would will you been  be  after in 10 years? Would Will you been  be the same as you are now? Or better? Or worse?
    Sometimes I think about  reflect on these questions or the like. And I always conclude that I don't want to remain the same as I am. I long for a better life. I wish to travel to different places, so I can know the world.I also yearn to know people of different races and nationalities.
    Well, I think most of you wish the same for yourself.   yourselves.
    However, we must do something if we really want to make it.
    Do you ever do anything for that  take any steps/take any action to increase your chances of making it?

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    February 1, 2012
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    日本の方に返事して頂くのを待っている間に、一言を書かせて頂きます。 鉛筆で書いたら、日本語が書きやすいのです。 それと便利っていうよりも使いやすいといったらいいかもしれません。文章の順番に関してははっきり分からないんですが。
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    January 30, 2012
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    こういうつづりや書き方はパケット料金を倹約するためのメール用省略形ですから読みにくいですね。現地で暮らしてインドネシア人とよくメール交換しないと、なかなか紛らわしい。商売をし続けたいと思うと滞納しないようにと言っているそうです
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    January 29, 2012
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    soigner : infinitif ou passé SVP dites-moi quelle phrase est correcte.. ' c'est où je vais pour me faire soigner' ou bien ' c'est où je vais pour me faire soigné ' merci d'avance
    January 29, 2012
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    日本の方々 日本語 ちゃんと使ってほしいと思うですが part 7 The association which administers the JLPT (Japanese Language Proficiency Test) 日本語能力試験 puts english words into the test every year, trying to force foreigners to accept their belief that these words are now japanese words. I asked some japanese friends and co-workers one of the questions that appeared in last december's test. The question asked to choose the most correct word for a certain sentence, from the following options 'sense, nuance, scale and conscious' all in katakana of course. Of the 5 japanese people I asked, only 2 chose the correct answer. The JLPT association is wrong and unprofessional to try to test our understanding of english words. Their job is to evaluate our understanding and proficiency of japanese. Inserting english words into the JLPT also unfairly disadvantages the non-english speaking foreigners who take the test, as they usually dont have as thorough an understanding of these english words as english speakers do. And they have the audacity to charge us 5000 yen to take the test. I and many others ,not only foreigners but free-thinking, aware Japanese people also, wish that all Japanese people (those who automatically imitate what they hear on tv or what others say,) and the mass media, would have more pride in their own unique and beautiful language, remember who they are, and just laugh at the pretenders, instead of copying them.
    January 29, 2012
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    日本の方々 日本語 ちゃんと使ってほしいと思うですが part 6 Sure it may have happened in other parts of the world in history, but always as a result of conquest/colonialism or necessity, not as a result of fashion, whim or image. Is a country's language free for any other country to take and absorb en masse into its own language? Are hundreds and hundreds of words from any one language ripe for the pillaging, as easy to take home as free plastic holiday souvenirs? I think definitely NOT. The japanese word-borrowers (an inaccurate word, as its unlikely any of these words will ever be 'given back') need to understand that language is a pre-eminent part of , if not inextricable from, culture. They are inseparable. Taking all these english words and stating that they are now japanese words is arrogant and culturally insensitive. Did they never think that it might be offensive to native english speakers to see long lists of english words hijacked, bootlegged and mispronounced? Would they just as nonchalantly call the didjeridoo a japanese instrument because they made one out of bamboo? or the sari a japanese garment because they tied an obi around it? They should try to imagine how they would feel if hiragana was taught and used as the 'new native script of South Sudan' or if tatami mats, kotatsu tables and futons were distributed in England as 'new Anglo Saxon furniture.' or if Sumo was held on the beach, and called ' New Hawiian sport'. It is an especially depressing trend for foreigners with a real interest in learning japanese and speaking it well. We learn new japanese vocabulary, enjoy the sound and image of it , look forward to hearing and understanding it, but we are denied this chance, and have to listen to so many english words. Our progress is blocked. English words, scattered through japanese speech, shatter the music and spoil the magic of japanese. It is frustrating and disappointing. Japanese sometimes doesn't feel like japanese anymore . It takes so much of the esthetic appeal and exotic allure out. We didn't fly half way around the world to be shortchanged like this, buy textbooks and enrol in language courses, study diligently, only to hear or be taught, for example, ' これは町のシンボルをアレーンジしたオーダーメードオリジナルラベルです。' (this is a custom made, original label, showing the town's symbol arranged on it). Or, 私はスピーチをする前にオーナーとアーティストのインスピレーションについてリーサーチをしました(before giving a speech, I did some research on the artist's inspiration, with the owner. ) Its very boring.
    January 27, 2012
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    日本の方々 日本語、もっと自慢してほしいと思うですが part 5 In other countries,.. while its normal and natural for new words to be introduced by emerging younger generations, they are words that already have their roots in that language or ones that are re-adapted or tweaked as slang, or words to name a new thing or concept, such as wicked, sick, bomb, planking, ranga, brekky, tune (as in, to sweet talk a girl) etc. No-one feels as urgent a need as the japanese to change their own language so comprehensively and rapidly. Nowhere else is there such a willingness to passively accept it . In each of the other countries in which I have lived, Australia, France and Indonesia, there is a love of and pride in the national language. People are proud of their own language, it resonates with them. It would be weird and unthinkable to say, 'lets stop using these 700 words from our own language, and use the words from that country instead'. It would just never happen. I have heard one long term foreign resident in Japan say that the phenomenon is just evolution of the japanese language. I find such an opinion very anglophone ethnocentric. Evolution implies 'improvement', for a higher chance of survival. Japanese survived perfectly well for over 1500 years without using any english words at all. Furthermore, that is why we have translators and interpreters. More and more english words replacing japanese words does not improve japanese, it detracts from it. The aim of evolution is to become smarter (not more basic), while preserving uniqueness and richness of variety.
    January 27, 2012
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