Yet another chat thread for non-practice purpose
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This thread is for chatting in English but not for practicing writing English.
Plese go to the "Chat in English" thread if you want to write something in English as a writing practice. I've just finished watching a great documentary on Michael Jackson's alleged
child sexual abuse. It's divided into two videos:
"Leaving Neverland" Part 1 2019 HDTV ENGLISH Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zmXRfbadJw
Although it's very long, it never tires you because it's beautifully made.
The first two hours of video focus on what a great guy Michael was.
The remaining two hours reveal the alleged darker side of his. >>129
While I admire them and I respect their will, seen from a metaphysical point of
view of myself, ending your life for the physical world doesn't seem to be a
good idea to my eyes. Such people must be very good people, too good to lose.
Lots of monks sacrificed their lives in Tibet also, which made me sad. >>130-131
It seems to be good videos. I've watched the whole episodes in season one of the Big Bang Theory. They use
lots of scientific terms and they speak fast (maybe at a normal speed for
native speakers, but fast for me), which I like, but due to my limited English
skills my comprehension of their conversations were far from perfect. I'm going
to watch them again once I've finished watching till the latest season. >>132
Just another place for chatting. This board is for English learners and not for
native speakers, as a result I found many of the posts in other threads were
being made for practice purposes. I just wanted to focus more on the content of
the posts.
Your comments are welcome regardless of your English level as long as you want
to focus on the content of what you want to say. Last night I was watching a YouTube video, rather I was listening to it, on my
tablet when I slept and this morning I found my tablet was out of battery.
YouTube doesn't allow users to watch videos with screen off. Neither does
Netflix. I want this limitation be removed. I came to know that Jim Watkins is now the owner of 8chan. I tried to access
8chan yesterday, but the site was down. It seems that Cloudflare decided to end
providing its service to 8chan because of the mass shooting that happened the
other day.
I don't know if it's a good thing or not for us to have such websites. Nowadays
I came to think that such websites are having more negative influences on our
society than positive ones. Even though I'm using 5ch, which is similar to
8chan, I sometimes wonder what the online world will become like if we
abolished such websites, and I wish for such an online world. Having a place where you can express your thoughts freely is a good thing, But
people seem to tend to go too far. In real life it's not always the case that
you can have such a place. It must feel suffocating if you don't have any place
to freely express your thoughts. I wonder what is a good balance and what is a
good way. I'm 5ch people stick to some threads which they find interesting. I wonder if
they do similar things on Reddit. It seems that they just create a new thread
whenever they come up with something they want to talk about then they soon
abandon it. I wonder what they do when they want to talk about something over a
long period of time. One of the reasons why I like a thread like this thread, which has a long life,
is that you can come back to where you left off and continue talking. Maybe it
will give you a feeling that you are keeping up with the conversation, and
maybe it will give you a feeling that you belong somewhere. The more I focus on the differences in people, the more isolated I feel.
I want to understand the differences, and through which I want to understand
myself, but in the end I want to seek for integrity and unity. I wonder if
that's achievable or not. Often I find myself unable to express what I want to say due to my limited
English skills. It feels suffocating.
Maybe it's about time for me to start studying the language more seriously
using learning materials such as grammar books. I wonder how would I feel if/when my English becomes more dominant than my
Japanese. Would I become to feel reluctant to think in Japanese?
Japanese immigrants to an English speaking country must have had such a point.
I'm just curious. Overcoming the silent period must be one of the toughest points in learning a
language. It can be quite long. >>123
>>I have been thinking of starting reading English books.
What do you mean, "starting reading" English books? Do you by any chance mean
that you haven't been reading English enough books in English so far?
Seeing you write in English that fluently, I thought you've been reading numerous
books in English already. >>145
I don't know what exactly you mean by the "silent period." But if you mean
a period when most others remain silent in a forum like this and you're
practically the only one writing, then I guess the situation is more or less the same
everywhere whether in cyberspace or real life. Most people don't have enough to say.
Even when they do talk, their comments are one- to two-liners. People sometimes do
write five or even ten lines. But they too are almost empty in content, and after you
reply to that comment, then the other one shuts up again. People have always
been that way and I've stopped expecting anything from others. I basically believe that
the world is nothing but a world of monologue. Yesterday I watched yet another series of documentaries on Michael Jackson.
He's a true enigma. I suspect he really did molest numerous boys aged seven to
14 years old or so, but most of them were huge admirers of Michael. So, even
those few of them who later on started to accuse Michael had to take a lot of
time and inner turmoil, maybe ten years after the molestation took place, before
they actually took action.
Even if the superstar really did do all that to those
children, he must have suffered a lot, as well as the kids. Normal people,
non-pedophiles, don't have to suffer in that department. But Michael had to.
Michael was genetically programmed to be a pedophile, if he really was one.
And he was the world's number one superstar, with huge amounts of money.
No wonder people went cray about him, including young attractive women and
young boys as well. I myself can't blame him too much for probably been
tempted to be intimate with some of those admirers. >>146
I have read 2 or 3 books in English. I'm sure that I've read 2 English books,
and I'm sure I've read a very short English book. I have tried reading some
other English books, but I have never succeeded in it. That's the only books
I've ever read in English.
The two English books I've read were just normal general so-called
self-help/self-development(?) books. Normal length.
My laziness gets in the way every time I come to think I should read English
books. I can read Japanese books very fast and it takes more than 10 times the
amount of time if I read the book in English.
Not every book is worth reading spending lots of time in it. Most books I come
across are not very good, weather it's an English book or a Japanese book. I
don't know if the book is good enough to carefully read until I actually read
it. It's kinda risky to start reading English books without knowing if I find
it worth the read with the amount of time I spend on it. This sense of risk
keeps me from reading English books.
Plus reading books on digital devices hurts my eyes, and buying foreign books
at overseas shops cost money. (I wish they had English books at the library.) Another big mystery to Michael Jackson is the possible long series of surgical operations
on his face. Obviously he underwent a great many of them. I have a hunch that he
had at least a hundred of them. And all those operations must have combined to
give his facial skin and other tissues an excruciating pain. How he must have suffered!
He must have taken huge amounts of pain-killers all the time, perhaps hundreds of
such tablets every single day. Some of them must have been seriously dangerous.
In the final stage of his life, nearing his death due to his overdose of a very potent,
hence possibly very dangerous, drug, he hired a full-time physician. The doctor
is one of the most excellent in his field of medicine and very popular among
his patients. Michael hired that excellent, popular physician all to himself,
24 hours a day in his later years. The physician may have given Michael
a huge dose of this potent drug upon his request. Then he died.
I still don't know enough about all that, but with what little I know so far,
strongly suspect that Michael, in a way, asked his full-time doctor for
some kind of mercy killing on him, unable to endure any more
pain in the aftermath of all those surgical operations and of
all those accusations in connection with his alleged child sexual abuse.
What a tragedy indeed! >>147
By the "silent period" I meant the period when you can't express your thoughts
freely due to lack of knowledge of the language. Babies have a silent period
for the first 6 months or so after birth. Language learners have a hard time
talking to people because they can't express themselves or they can't
understand what other people are saying because their language skills are not
good enough.
I have been lurking on some other places, and I still don't have the guts to
start writing there.
(I guess possibly there are some people here who want to join us but are not
confident enough with their English. But this place don't have a large
population, so I don't know.)
In order to overcome the "silent period," you need to either accept that fact
that your English is not good, or to wait until you become confident with your
English. I think I don't have the guts to accept my inability to express myself
in English.
The above is communicating with people. But there is also another domain, which
is to communicate with yourself, or in other words, think in the language. It's
suffocating and frustrating to find that I can't think in English as well as in
Japanese. We all have passed this stage with our native language when we were
little. I feel like I'm going through the silent period again with English this
time.
I don't know which is a better idea, whether to start using the language as
soon as possible or to wait until it becomes to feel natural to you. >>149
Unbelievable! So you've read only a couple of books in English, all of them rather casual,
not very serious, and yet you've managed to learn to write in English that fluently, huh?
You must be a genius. I'm not kidding.
As for me, I've read more than 700 books in English, perhaps even more. (I stopped
counting them when I reached the 650-book mark. After that, I stopped
giving a damn about how many books I'd have read. I started to pay attention to
the quality and level of what I read.)
When I say 700 books, I am assuming that the average number of pages per book is 300. And this number
of books doesn't include books half or only partially read. Books partially read are
counted as zero. Numerous magazines and newspapers I've been reading too, but when I
read such stuff, I usually don't read them from cover to cover, so I count them as
zero books. So, in principle, when I say I read more than 700 books in English,
I mean I read them through, from cover to cover. If I count all the partially read books
and if I combine two half-read books as one full book, and if I count five books,
which I read only partially, as one full book, then the number of books I've read
will amount to 1,300 books or so. But here, I'm not bragging. All I'm saying is that
it takes such a huge amount of "labor" to learn to read, speak, write, and understand
English. It took me at least that much time and energy anyway. And still now I
am very much dissatisfied with my English ability. Maybe I'm stupid and untalented,
but my lack of talent and low IQ (which is 109) are not my faults. If I really want to become
a really good communicator in English, I think I would have to leave Japan
and stay at least 20 years in an Anglophone country or read five times as many
books in English. And as a professional translator of business and technical documents, I have been writing
English for four to 14 hours every day for the past 37 years (sometimes slow, sometimes
very busy). In the past five years, though, I've become rather old and I don't have to work
as hard as I used to when younger. So I do much less translation and I read what I want to
read and I speak about what I want to on YouTube and so on. >>151
Well, as for me, when I was 16 years old or so, that is, about four years after I started to
study English at school (at the age of 12), I was already beginning to speak in English,
at least trying to do so. In those days, we had very few people from abroad in Japan,
particularly in non-Tokyo areas. Besides, as a man, I had even fewer opportunities to
speak in English with anyone. Women, on the other hand, enjoy far more chances to
speak it with foreigners, who are constantly looking for Japanese partners to
enjoy friendship -- and possibly romance -- with.
By the age of 22 or so, I thought I was comfortably speaking in English about just about anything
that happened to come to my mind. But that, as I look back on it now, was far
from enough. By the time I reached that age, I had read 120 books in English all right.
That was the best I could have done by that time, considering my limitations.
Without going to an Anglophone country and without good friendship with any
native speaker or any foreigner at all for that matter, and without the Internet
or YouTube and without easy access to movies, the only means of keeping in
contact with anything communicated in English was through reading books in
English. What you wrote about Michael Jackson is very interesting. I know only a little
about his surgeries and scandals, but very superficially.
It must have had lots of psychological factors behind what he went through, and
that's something that can happen to anyone as long as you are a human, if not
to the same extent.
I've heard of some people who had one surgery after another without ever
getting satisfied with the result of it or to fix some new problems the
previous surgery has caused. This kind of thing can happen to anybody, I think.
(I don't know about the pedophile, I don't have it, but I don't know if I
develop something of the sort in the future or not.)
He indeed seems to have had too much to hold. It's difficult to even imagine
how big it was. Toru Matsumoto (松本亨), an NHK English conversation teacher decades ago,
said at the age of 50 that he had read 2,000 books in English. He then added that
that was not enough at all. He said he should have read as many as 5,000 of them.
He always stressed the importance of reading things in English if you wanted to
be a good communicator in English. In those days at least, reading must have been
crucial. But I strongly suspect that reading still today remains by far the most
important aspect of language study. Not only in language study, but also in
all other intellectual fields, reading should occupy by far the most important position.
That's what I strongly suspect. >>152-153
> And still now I am very much dissatisfied with my English ability.
> If I really want to become
a really good communicator in English, I think I would have to leave Japan
and stay at least 20 years in an Anglophone country or read five times as many
books in English.
This testimony of yours makes me realize the difficulty of acquiring a
language. From where I am, your level of English is not even mesurable, and yet
you say it would take 20 more years living in a foreign country to reach your
desirable level in English.
A long way to go for me.
I want to eventually make English my dominant language. It looks very hard, but
I'm going to give it a shot.
I keep track of the books I read. Almost all the books I've read are, as I've
mentioned, written in Japanese. I can guess what it is like to read 700 English
books. Admirable. (Even if it was in Japanese, it's something.) I want to
achieve similar things in the future.
The number of books one can read in life is quite limited. 700 books, or 1300
books if considered partially read books, might look a lot, but compared to the
number of books available that are interesting or worth reading, it's small
(that's what I feel), and with my slow reading speed and my English ability I
would need to give up lots of books I can potentially enjoy reading. I have
read only a couple of English books. A long way to go. >>144
your sentence is wong gramatically.
X I wonder how would I feel
O I wonder how I would feel >>154,456
Having been determined at such a young age seems to be something. I was like
other normal Japanese people who started studying English after having become
an adult.
Learning a language has definitely become a lot easier today than in the past.
We have the Internet and lots of English materials available. Nowadays I see
some Japanse online who were born and raised in Japan and have become fluent in
English, at least in pronunciation. (Maybe we will start seeing more in the
future.) Achieving such a level must have been far more difficult in the past.
I, too, think that reading is something special regarding our intellectual
activities. I want to have access to that activity soon. >>158
Thank you for the correction. You are right. I appreciate it.
There is a website called Lang-8, which was once popular but now depopulated
(that's what I heard). I wanted to use it, but I didn't.
Having your sentences corrected must be a good way to improve your writing
skills, I think.
I appreciate people correcting my sentences, but my writing must contain too
many grammatical errors. (I spot some myself.) >>137
I think you can usepad the setting in your ipad, whwre
you can change your setting of screen to quite black. >>161
That might help.
I heard that if you are using an EL display, making the display darker
significantly reduces the amount of electricity it uses. Unfortunately my
tablet has a normal LED display. People are saying that Cloudflare might stop hosting 5ch on its DNS servers.
There is a possibility that 5ch may become inaccessible in the near future. These several days I've been reading and seeing this and that on the Internet concerning
Michael Jackson. I've just finished watching this 90-minute documentary on him. This was
exciting and informative.
The Death Of Michael Jackson - Whose Fault is it?
_There will Never be another Star Like Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=soQq6XBufXE The following 90-minute documentary on Michael Jackson is truly great. It's beautifully
done not just in giving thoroughly-researched information but in artistry as well.
New MJ Documentary: March, 2017 (Man in the Mirror) with Earnest Valentino
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXWRyvoYnic
Without knowing how he really lived and what exactly happened to him, I had always
sensed something profound in the way he looked, behaved, talked, danced, and sang.
I was right. I really had sensed his existence intuitively without knowing who he
really was. Just like Karen Carpenter, Michael Jackson was a true superstar
with complexities and profundities that never cease to obsess people. シンクタンクがこれからの日本に必要な理由
https://toyokeizai.net/articles/-/296673
What an insightful article. I'm going to read the two books of his mentioned in
the article. I have a suggestion to Mr. OED.
From what I gather, you know a lot about English grammar and have skills needed to explain it to
English learners. The way you provide sources and explain in detail cases in point is mesmerizing.
So why not try that on your Youtube channel? YouTube is all about interactions. So just take
the most of the two way communication features on the video platform. You prompt your viewers
to ask any questions related to English, and you answer them, like you do in Q &A threads here.
As long as you post videos there, it's better to have large audience and earn some revenue,
and you deserve it. Become a go-to person for English questions on Youtube.
Don't be a run‐of‐the mill Youtber when in fact you're a jewel.
Develop a solid reputation that you can handle any English question, which I know you can.
Some YouTubers who are good at English speak about how to study English, their study history,
but to my knowledge if limited, no one answer English questions like you do here.
You can handle really difficult questions so that's what separate you from those self-proclaimed
advanced English learners. For Youtubers, it's important to nurture your community, find demands of
audience and meet up their expectations. That's what you should care more.
I imagine from the number of your subscribers, that if you urge viewers to ask English questions,
no one does so at first. So the second best is that you just start to answer questions posted somewhere like Yahoo Chiebukuro.
Don't mention 5channel though, as it doesn't necessarily have good reputations and some
are allergic to it. The most important thing as a Youtuber is nurture you community and increase
your fans. Your quality answers would show viewers that you're someone to rely on when in trouble.
It does take time to make yourself high profile on Youtube but that's worth a try. Another idea is, to think that virtually there's no national boundaries on Youtube as long as you speak
English, you can focus on English speaking people who're interested in Japan.
Hey, Tokyo 2020 Olymipics is coming up! what a timing!
You introduce about Japan in English, say on another channel as It's not a good idea to make focuses
blurred. Two main pillars of your channel could be ,1) to teach English and 2) to introduce Japanese
to English speaking people. Mingle with Youtubers who are interested in Japan and lead their
fans to your channels.
The good news is that the most popular foreign tourist destination is not Tokyo but Osaka, where
you live. The reason is that there's Kansai International airport and you have Kyoto and Nara around.
Osaka plays a role of a hub when they travel in Japan, whether they go east or west. Meet them in
person if possible and make your life even more colorful. Once you talk with them on Youtube, no need
for icebreak, You and they would be already bodies when you first meet them in person.
The best news is that you don't even have to pay me consultant fees even if you successgully
increase your viewers following my advice. I wouldn't refuse to be getting paid if you insist though.
I woudn't mind Amazon coupons, either. >>167 >>168
Wow, I'm surprised to know anyone was still interested in this thread. I had given up
on it long ago because no one seemed to be coming here any longer.
Thanks for your considerate suggestion. But I'm afraid I'm not interested in soliciting
questions. I'm not interested in earning money for that either. For money, I've always
been working as a freelance translator and if I want to, I could get even more
customers. But I don't want to work too hard.
Then why have I kept on answering questions on English all this time? Here and
elsewhere on the Internet, it was not obligatory for me to answer a specific
question. Although I tried to answer all questions unanswered or that no one
had given definite answers, the principle was that I was free to answer
or not to answer a question. And that's the beauty of it.
These days, though, I become less and less interested in answering these
questions on English grammar and comprehension. Why? Because I'm beginning to
realize what has always been obvious: that people are basically, that they
don't want to pursue truth.
All they want to do is get the results quick. They
don't need truth. All they want is money. I they can't earn money with their
English proficiency, then they want to impress people, making themselves look
and sound as if they're intelligent, good at English, versed in a wide range of
disciplines. As far as the number of posts is concerned, there are almost no posts other than operatives'
As a result of the operatives continuing to distort information, the English board lost its trust and became depopulated
It is now a waste board. When uploading videos on YouTube, I have never once even thought of earning money or
answering stupid questions about English grammar. If I ever want to live up to anyone's
expectations, I would want to inspire professionals, not beginners. If I ever do think of
talking to any student, I would want to talk to serious students who never stop
studying -- not to become someone impressive in the future or to earn money
but for the pure pleasure of knowledge and of sharing it with others for altruistic motives.
Of course, I am aware that we have to eat. In order to eat, we have to earn money.
Basically I have had to earn money by using my English ability. But that has never
been my final end. I've always been pursuing something beyond that.
I've always wanted to contribute to society in some way or other, not by making money
or selling anything or manufacturing some stupid cars or machines or selling stupid houses or
anything. I wanted to contribute something more mental -- if you know what I mean.
I've wanted to bring some source of eternal joy to people by sharing my knowledge
with them. But sadly, almost no one wants anything such. All they want is to find out how to
learn to speak and write good English quick with the minimum amount of effort.
To such people, I have nothing whatsoever to offer. I've never even for a split
second been anyone remotely similar to that.
YouTube and all other websites already have thousands of so-called English experts
who are ready to teach them how to learn to speak and write good English
in the shortest time with the smallest amount of effort.
On YouTube, I'll go on doing what I've always been doing. To share what I know
with others, who may be in the absolute minority, perhaps one out of every thousand
or even one out of every ten thousand. I don't want to answer questions
that serious students would usually not dare to ask but would keep trying to
explore through their own effort. Never once in my life have I had anyone
who would answer any of my millions of questions. I have answered all those
questions on my own by finding them by reading hundreds (or even more) of
books in English and watching thousands of movies and dramas in English. In short, I hate lazy people. The lazy usually want to get the results quick. They study
hard for several years all right, but to become someone that can impress people or
to earn money. That's all. When they've attached some status with the help of their
knowledge or skills, they don't study any more -- at least not as hard as when young.
I hate those people's guts. They absolutely don't deserve to talk to me. I wish they
were dead. Or rather, I wish I were dead. I have no business living here in this
depraved world.
If I remain active anywhere on the Internet, it's because I enjoy saying something
to confirm to myself that I have learned a certain area of information or attached
a certain level of knowledge. I would be thrilled to death of course, if one out of
a thousand viewers would take interest in any of what I had to say. As far as the number of posts is concerned, there are almost no posts other than operatives'.
As a result of the operatives continuing to distort information,
the English board lost its trust and became depopulated.
It is now a waste board.
There is no writing other than the operatives' faked stories.
You opratives look so miserable. As far as the number of posts is concerned, there are almost no posts other than operatives'.
As a result of the operatives continuing to distort information,
the English board lost its trust and was depopulated.
It is now a waste board.
There is no writing other than the operatives' faked stories.
You opratives look so miserable. As far as the number of posts is concerned, there are almost no posts other than operatives'.
As a result of the operatives continuing to distort information,
the English board lost its trust and was depopulated.
It is now a waste board.
There is no writing other than the operatives' faked stories.
They operatives look so miserable. >>173
>>If I remain active anywhere on the Internet, it's because I enjoy saying something
>>to confirm to myself that I have learned a certain area of information or ●attached●
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