Yiuel Posted July 30, 2005 Report Share Posted July 30, 2005 This morning, at work, I thought :I really need some change. I need a new work. I'm bored in my bakery.Yesterday, I was speaking with a neighbor, and I said about what I felt was Japan in my mind :A mere map in an atlas, and a language in booksYet, it came right tonight, i have a job offer in Ebetsu, that is, northern Japan! Mixing both thoughts. I wish I'll get the job (and it's more than probable), and moreover, I'll try to keep on sending messages from Japan if it happens.Did such thing ever happen to you?URESHIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII*(*Happyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King Tutankhamun Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Wow, congrats Ugo.That sounds like a very interesting adventure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paal_101 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Dude! That should be a great experience What kind of work are you going to be doing? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 It seems I would be an English teacher in a small community close to Sapporo (Ebetsu). (I know, I am French, but I'll read English grammars when doing my work, so, in the process, my English language will grow better, as will my Japanese : you know, Kids in Japan generally aren't able to speak English decently...)What is great about that place is that it is far from Tokyo (so, cheaper) and they do not have a strong dialectal speech, as Hokkaidou (the northernmost island) was settled in recent times by people from all over Japan (the effect being the same as in Quebec... a single French even if the motherland had several languages). So, I won't learn a strong dialectal Japanese (as the (in?)famous Oosaka-Kansai-Ben). (They do have a simple dialectalization, but Quebec's French as well, so, I don't bother much being Hokkaidoish) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paal_101 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Sounds fun Maybe you'll get to meet some Ainu Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Most (at least some) kids would probably have some Ainu ancester. (As I probably have some native blood myself, as most Quebeckers) Most Ainu now speaks Japanese, even though some can still speak their native language.(There's a linguistic theory that implies that probably all eastern Japan (east and north of Nagoya) might have Emishi (read Ainu) blood, as it seems that the eastern dialects of Japanese are reminiscent of Ainu language... ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EKen132 Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Welll....I hope you really get to experience the culture. That would be so neat since you have always had a sort of devotion to all things Japanese. I'm happy for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 I have noticed something strange about my devotion to culture. It happens to be a mere luck that I settled on Japanese culture, stemming from the fact that I was interested in the language more than any other language (except, possibly, Esperanto). For culture in a general sense, it's funny how much my favorite music style comes mainly from middle-east. I am prone to like about everything, as long as it is Joyful Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argalius Posted July 31, 2005 Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 Wow, sounds pretty cool, when do you have to decide? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted July 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted July 31, 2005 It seems I won't be going yet, it seems they found someone before my teacher could even send my own answer... Oh well, I'm still supposed to go next year, wether to work or study. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clodhopper Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 Oh, too bad. (I think.) (Is it bad?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 2, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 It isn't THAT bad, but I'm still waiting, bored.Nippon ha mada desu. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clodhopper Posted August 2, 2005 Report Share Posted August 2, 2005 What does "Nippon ha mada desu." mean? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 Japan, not yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clodhopper Posted August 3, 2005 Report Share Posted August 3, 2005 In what language? French? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 No, romanized Japanese Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clodhopper Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Oh, that's why. I tried to translate it on the babelfish program but all that appeared was "Japanese ha mada desu." Either that or "Japan ha mada desu" one of those. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Black Op Posted August 4, 2005 Report Share Posted August 4, 2005 Hopefully you'll make it to the Land of the Rising Sun one of these days, Yiuel. BTW: Are there any online Japanese-to-English translators that actually work? I use Babelfish and Google and it's basically translated as jibberish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gee Posted August 5, 2005 Report Share Posted August 5, 2005 I've never seen a decent translator, I'm guessing we'll have to wait until we've reached a whole other generation of translators. I'm sure google's cooking something up Also clodhopper, yeah Babelfish or any other whole sentece translators I've seen doesn't take romanized Japanese. A converter would be a cakewalk, although then you're facing the problem with the fact that there's so many homonyms in Japanese, and the converter wouldn't know which words you were saying (because in speach it is only decided by context and in a minor degree intonation). The result is a translator that will just take the first meaning of every word. But Babelfish couldn't even give me a correct translation of 'nippon ha mada desu' when I entered it with Japanese characters (it gave me 'Japan still is', which is much to literal), so the converter would be useless anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 6, 2005 日本は未だです。This is how it is written in genuine Japanese.At least, as a consolation, I had a great experience thursday. I went to my mother's friend house, and there lives a Japanese, and there were two young Japanese visiting as well. At first, both I and them were shy, and the one who lived there (Yoshimi), couldn't believe it at first (as all Japanese I met, she kept on saying "Sugoi! Sugoi!"). And we had a susi-pâtî, I made most of the sushi And then, everything went better, and we could speak at last Japanese a little . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Manuel Marino Posted August 22, 2005 Report Share Posted August 22, 2005 (edited) Ciao Yiuel... today is 22... so... will you really do the trip or not? I've got a friend who lives in Japan with a japanese girl. He met her through the pen pal system and they live together since some years.Please tell us everything about your japanese adventure... it's very interesting. Edited August 22, 2005 by Manuel Marino Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yiuel Posted August 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted August 22, 2005 I'm not going until next year, it seems. Oh well... I still have my courses beginning in september. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akya Posted August 22, 2005 Report Share Posted August 22, 2005 Go Yiuel Go ^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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