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Post by Vurtax on Jul 30, 2008 4:59:06 GMT 12
If he meets Suzuko i'll beg him to interview her for us.
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Post by thedarkfiddler on Jul 30, 2008 5:01:45 GMT 12
Advertise for us! You are like, the only one there that can advertise for us. That would be a big boost to our membership!
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Post by Praetor on Jul 30, 2008 5:46:29 GMT 12
^ I think there is a fundamental problem with that, Spencer.
We can't have members that don't know English.
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Post by thedarkfiddler on Jul 30, 2008 5:47:41 GMT 12
...Well, I am pretty sure that he will meet some Japanese people that speak english... or english speaking tourists.
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Post by JbstormburstADV on Jul 30, 2008 8:38:06 GMT 12
...That's a problem, and I'm not sure how we can circumvent it.
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Post by thedarkfiddler on Jul 30, 2008 8:55:03 GMT 12
The fact that not all Japanese people speak only Japanese, and that I'm sure there are quite a few that speak english? If he gets lucky enough to find anyone there that speaks english and is an advanceshipper...
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Post by Praetor on Jul 30, 2008 18:59:07 GMT 12
^ Yes, I am aware of that, so we'll just have to hope that the members can speak English.
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Post by Vurtax on Jul 31, 2008 6:07:36 GMT 12
I can only imagine how slim the numbers of english speaking advanceshippers there are in japan and with the dense population he'd literally have to stop people on the street and the numbers get slimmer as i go
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 31, 2008 6:48:58 GMT 12
Actually many schools in Japan require English classes so there are more people over there that understand English than you might think.
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Post by Praetor on Jul 31, 2008 8:30:34 GMT 12
^ But the question is, are they fluent?
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Post by Matkin22 on Jul 31, 2008 18:36:44 GMT 12
Just as fluent as any other country where it is mandatory to know a second language, such as Canada with French, and some areas of America with Spanish.
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 31, 2008 18:40:42 GMT 12
I was going to make the Spanish/America correlation as well, but its as Matkin says. While not everyone is fluent most have a good mastery of the basics.
Its hard to go from some of their sounds to ours. Mostly because we have combinations that they don't and its hard to make your vocal cords learn new sounds after the first few years of life. Actually its the same with ears and tone of voice. But then again I'm probably just starting a ramble so I'll just stop.
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Post by Matkin22 on Jul 31, 2008 18:45:29 GMT 12
It's the way we use our vocal cords too. The part that hangs down at the back of your throat (always used to think it was the tonsils, but I think I was told differently a while ago) isn't used in English, French, or any language based off of Latin I believe. It's commonly used in Scandinavian toungues though, which is why we still have it.
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Post by LuciferIX on Jul 31, 2008 18:54:08 GMT 12
Well you're right its not the tonsils, they're job has to do with the immune system. I think what you mean is the uvula.
And while I don't really now about the Scandinavian languages the Germanic and Romantic (Latin) based languages that English and French are would be far more similar to each other than the Eastern languages. The "th" sound is one of the harder sounds for them to create because there isn't even an equivalent sound in their language.
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Post by Praetor on Jul 31, 2008 20:07:52 GMT 12
But the languages you guys were talking about are latin languages. If English is your primary language, then learning German or Spanish is easier than learning Chinese or Japanese, and vice-versa. I think LuciferIX said some of this already in the above post.
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