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IpseDixit wrote:I'd also like to try and do one language at a time, so my intention is study Dutch for the first four months of the year, then pass on to Hebrew for the next four months, and finally Japanese.
księżycowy wrote:I've tried doing this before, to various degrees of success (mostly due to my lack of perseverance at the time). But I'm kinda thinking of revisiting this strategy myself over the next year.
vijayjohn wrote:How'd you get interested in Japanese, Ipse?
księżycowy wrote:Best of luck!
vijayjohn wrote:But what got you interested in Japan all of a sudden?
IpseDixit wrote:Anyways, as a person who lives in a country and a continent where you're constantly surrounded by history, what fascinates me about Japan is its modern and technological side (that's also why I'm fascinated by the US, well at least some portions of it
vijayjohn wrote:IpseDixit wrote:Anyways, as a person who lives in a country and a continent where you're constantly surrounded by history, what fascinates me about Japan is its modern and technological side (that's also why I'm fascinated by the US, well at least some portions of it
And by Israel?
IpseDixit wrote:I'd probably pick Korean instead but I can't help but think that Korea is a bad copy of Japan (sorry about that).
Luís wrote:Well, isn't Japan also a mix of past and present?
I've never been to Japan, but I've been to South Korea and it's definitely a rather dull place (particularly when compared to China)
Luís wrote:Well, isn't Japan also a mix of past and present? Much of what Japan is today is also shaped by its history.
IpseDixit wrote:Luís wrote:Well, isn't Japan also a mix of past and present? Much of what Japan is today is also shaped by its history.
Yeah, but architecture-wise the modern side of it seems to be the predominant one by far, at least in the big cities.
vijayjohn wrote:IpseDixit wrote:Luís wrote:Well, isn't Japan also a mix of past and present? Much of what Japan is today is also shaped by its history.
Yeah, but architecture-wise the modern side of it seems to be the predominant one by far, at least in the big cities.
Isn't that also true in Israel...?
IpseDixit wrote:My goal for Dutch and Hebrew is to reach a level where I can be a tourist without having to resort to English
vijayjohn wrote:"traditional Israeli architecture"?
Aurinĭa wrote:IpseDixit wrote:My goal for Dutch and Hebrew is to reach a level where I can be a tourist without having to resort to English
So you mean native-like level? Good luck getting people not to respond to you in English.
Antea wrote:I was in Tokyo ten years ago. People in shops or restaurants didn’t speak hardly any English at that time. I remember my husband asking in a restaurant in what consisted the menu (because it was written in Japanese), and the waitress kindly explaining to him all the menu speaking only in Japanese After maybe 5 minutes of explanation in Japanese, my husband recognised the word “bento”, and that was what we ordered.
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