>>665 Oops, I misunderstood about the violation. Only Kago broke the law. Maybe.
Matsushima is very rich. she must put her child, who is a girl and around 3 years?, into an expensive private school. I think she probably wants to raise her child like Utada Hikaru.
Wow! you want to be a teacher! Which do you want to teach, French or Japanese?
I like to put in pork, shrimp, squid, potato, corn and soba. I think pork or bacon, and corn is a good choice for you. Just taste and check it on your own tongue.^^;
I used to eat it when I lived in Oita that is a rural part of Japan.
>>666 Oh, I wonder if Matsushima will live in New York, then? I figured she would live in Los Angeles.
I think that I would teach Japanese. French people don't seem to move here much or be populated in a certain area. However, there are many Japanese in California and Hawaii. The ones in Hawaii are probably OK, but there aren't many teachers in California who are qualified to teach Japanese students. Because we have poor bilingual education programs, most teachers use a method where they put the students into completely English classrooms and let them figure things out by themselves. What happens, is the students either get a slow start and never totally catch up, or their parents are very strict, and they excel. But, they usually forget how to speak Japanese, and I think that is too bad.
I found some soba at asianfoodgrocer.com. I will try to talk my mom into trying okonomiyaki. ^_^
>>672 If she lives in LA, she will definitely be looking for acting jobs. She probably doesn't mention that to reporters because she would be embarassed if it didn't work out. I hope we see her in American TV shows and movies soon!
Yes, English and Japanese are completely different. I don't know if I'll ever be able to learn Japanese well, and I still don't know if I want to be a teacher anyway. But, I read an interesting fact lately. A TON of people are studying Japanese now, compared to before. It's because of Japanese entertainment!
That reminds me... I once read that hundreds of years ago, people would be killed in Japan if they spoke another language too fluently. For example, a foreigner speaking Japanese, or a Japanese speaking a foreign language. I read that everyone was suspicious of those people, and that they could be spies. Now, it seems to be really praised.
when i was a child, mangas and animes and video games are defined as evil things by grown-ups.they insisted those cultures keep children from woring for examination. but now, those cultures have grown up to be one of main cultural exportaion for other countries. and japanese government uses those otaku cultures for diplomatic strategy. adults are always so selfish.
>>691 Maido arii (^_^)b >>696 Yahoo translator can be useful, because it gives you a breakdown of what part of the sentence is translated as what. >>709 私は、怒りません。私がそれらの人々に答えないので、私は退屈します。 素敵な人がいるとき、私は話します。
>>712 Girls don't usually say maido arii as a thank you but I think it is okay because you do look boyish in some video clips.
internet.watch.impress.co.jp/cda/news/2006/12/18/14276.html It says YouTube may create a Japanese version of YouTube in order to meet JASRAC's demands. I don't know if this is an attempt to part Japanese users from their website. Would you upload your videos to our YouTube if they do?
>>731 I picture someone putting on sunglasses or something when he/she says "maido arii." Hahaha. If YouTube creates a Japanese version of their website, I will definitely upload my videos (if it's allowed) and will probably spend more time there than on the original YouTube. When you say that it will satisfy JASRAC, does that mean TV shows and music videos will be allowed?
>>740 I don't think so. They are even less forgiving about the use of their contents compaired to RIAA, because Japanese audiences/consumers are relatively submissive. TV and music clips will be strictly controlled.
Anyway, I'm glad to hear that you will upload your videos there too when we have our (most likely degraded) version of YouTube.
> Why Osaka? Maido arii is an Osaka dialect mainly used by traders.
>>742 Haha, don't submit! Revolt! j/k ^_~ Ah, well. I don't think that much will change, even if a seperate Japanese YouTube is made. So many foreigners love Japanese entertainment now that there will still be Japanese stuff all over the place. I could be wrong, but it seems like most of the Japanese material that is on YouTube right now was uploaded by foreigners...
>>744 I have a quick question that you could help.
Should I always place the period inside the quote when a sentence ends with a quote? What about question marks or exclamation marks?
And what if you remove the "Sorry" from >>744? Do I have to change the first letter inside the quote capital like this? "Seperate" should be "separate."
If you are not sure, I will just follow your ways of writing.
>>747 Like most American families, we open presents on Christmas morning. While many families spend the rest of the day with relatives, and have a fancy dinner, we just spend the rest of the day at home, watching movies and enjoying each other's company. >>750 I'm sorry, I missed it. I usually just use Internet Explorer.
hi magibon Weekly magazines exclusively dealing with comics began appearing in Japan a few decades ago. As those magazines flourished and grew, so did the quality of manga, resulting in the development of the manga culture, a feature unique to Japanese society. In this new genre of expression, there are works whose stories are equivalent to those of novels. And there are others whose drawings themselves can be qualified as art. Japanese comics are not only for children, but are also legitimate reading material for adults.
Works which have won high acclaim in comic magazines are often made into animated cartoons and broadcast on TV. A large number of animated cartoon programs are aired on TV every week.
I have heard that some Japanese cartoon programs are exported abroad. Have you ever seen a Japanese cartoon on TV in your country?
>>753 They are all over the place, and are becoming even more popular every year. In a regular bookstore, one will almost always see a section devoted to Manga. It was not this way just a few years ago. There are also some Anime that have become incredibly popular, such as Dragonball and Sailormoon, which have been around for many years, and Rurouni Kenshin and Inuyasha which are more recent for us. There are many others, but I don't watch very much TV, so I don't know all of the names. The Japanese duo Puffy have a cartoon running in the US and have released a CD. I recently read that HALCALI will be performing the theme song to an American cartoon. I think that this is just the beginning of a Japan mania in the United States. (*^_^*)/
As I said, I don't watch that much TV these days. My understanding of Adult Swim was that it was what Cartoon Network called the span of time at night when they showed cartoons that children shouldn't be watching. Is it an actual show?
But, I think it has popularity among guys in their teens and twenties, from what I've heard about it.
