Chat in English (英語で雑談)　part 207

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Previous Thread:
Chat in English (英語で雑談)　part 205
http://lavender.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1511354807/

Hey!!! All you NEETs, nerds, YouTube link spammers, pedophiles, neo-Nazis,
Yukorin enthusiasts, Nanako SOS admirers, Part-Time-Preachers,
Diplomats' spoiled sons, losers who can't remember Kanji characters,
Big-boobs fans, Weeaboo from around the world, learners of Japanese
who are too lazy to update their Japanese blogs very often, cunning
linguists, stupid fan girls of Johnny's Boys, Touhou pirates, and
that electrical super-gay who suffers from mental disease - This is your thread!
Let's hope the Internet-addicted housewife will come back soon!

We all wish for permanent world peace!
※前スレ
Chat in English (英語で雑談)　part 206
http://lavender.5ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1516987808/

2018/04/30(月) 05:43:18.03

Welcome to 5ch. But be careful to a person that comes sooner or later and begins attacking you just only because you are a foreigner.
It is better to use applications to filter such commences.

By the way, I started participating in Reddit, where I can get to know the writing styles of native speakers that are vastly different from such as newspapers.
It is similar to this site in many aspects but it seems more addictive due to Karma. I feel more relaxed to write in this site because I don't need to be afraid of being downvoted. This site is free, for better or worse.

2018/04/30(月) 09:00:05.95

>>225
>White people should be banned around the world.
So you prefer black guys? hum...

2018/04/30(月) 10:50:48.45

>>245

> >>236
> IP is short for Internet Protocol address, last time I tried to post on some Japanese chan all posters outside of Japan were range-banned. Anyway, why are you even learning English for? Just curious

No.I am learning I am forgetting unwillingly.

2018/04/30(月) 10:52:39.71

>>246

> >>237
> Everyone be careful, this poster may have shown this thread to a group of Japanese learners on the website known as 4chan.

Why slould be carefull?

2018/04/30(月) 21:13:07.24

Sperm smell eveywhere at this time of the year!

2018/04/30(月) 23:47:36.95

the dramatic political change of north korea has made me feel bewildered and even scared...
i can't tell what's happening next and how it will affect my humble, ordinary life.

2018/04/30(月) 23:50:56.03

The two Koreas will be unified and then they will demand more asserive apology and comensation money over the haitorical issues from Japan.

2018/04/30(月) 23:52:11.21

I want a hard long gaijin dick.

2018/04/30(月) 23:59:14.76

>>246
Why? I've also heard that some people say it smells like cuttlefish as well as in Japan.

**名無しさん＠英語勉強中** (即位 MMf5-Ycl1) · 2018/05/01(火) 00:18:01.88

>>254

> Sperm smell eveywhere at this time of the year!

Fuck off stupid.

**名無しさん＠英語勉強中** (即位W c1bd-x1HS) · 2018/05/01(火) 00:29:03.09

>>250
That’s true.

What kind of trees are they? Everywhere sperm smells recently...

**名無しさん＠英語勉強中** (即位WW 71bd-QIl8) · 2018/05/01(火) 00:50:21.30

>>252
Chestnut trees, but when the flowers bloom.

2018/05/01(火) 01:13:48.24

>>242
Many people on 4chan don't like Reddit because the karma system forces everyone to have the same opinion and not be offensive and so acts almost like a self-censorship.

2018/05/01(火) 01:14:32.65

>>242
But 4chan is mostly shit too, plus it uses eay too many slang which wouldn't even be understandable to native speakers. What topics do you discuss on Reddit anyway?
Also it's good that you're reading if you're not reading for at least one hour a day you will never learn English and might as well commit sudoku

also why was it nagasugiru? I didn't even write that much

2018/05/01(火) 01:15:28.95

>>255
oh, you have to format your posts by yourself. What kind of retarded bullshit is this? It's 2018 for fucks sake

2018/05/01(火) 03:28:20.06

>>255
I think that's for spam prevention.
And one more thing, at an inactive forum like here it's kind of customary to enter "sage" in your email section to avoid frequent bumps and other threads going to archive.
By the way, where did you know this place? Are there any more guys like you watching here without posting much?

2018/05/01(火) 04:03:50.57

>>257
somebody asked on djt (daily japanese thread) on 4chan if the Japanese have the same thing for English and somebody posted this

2018/05/01(火) 04:35:23.79

FUCK

2018/05/01(火) 07:10:15.00

the thread here is so slow. it is hard to maintain a conversation like this.

2018/05/01(火) 08:38:13.99

It's due to the time difference.

>>255
I like to discuss subjects relating to languages and politics.
I need to be very careful to read between the lines in the site to the extent that I've never done here.

2018/05/01(火) 13:50:29.30

>>263
英語で雑談　has reddit subre.

2018/05/01(火) 21:55:17.97

I don’t like GW because of those stupid holiday drivers and annoying familes with small kids in stores. They are literally everywhere!!!!

Nothing worse than annoying fucking kids!

2018/05/01(火) 22:24:06.52

So I'm away from Japan during GW every year.

2018/05/01(火) 22:41:45.52

You must be rich enough. Super expenive during GW right

2018/05/02(水) 00:29:27.58

How can I get good-looking rich white gaijins?

2018/05/02(水) 00:44:55.78

>>263
take it easy.
those annoying little kids will eventually support japanese social welfare system,
and partially help you live your life after your retirement.
at the age of child-decresing society, each one of them should be valuable for us adults.

2018/05/02(水) 00:45:12.75

>>266
post your boypussy

2018/05/02(水) 02:28:18.16

>>267
I’m allergic to kids. No thanks!

2018/05/02(水) 06:45:16.63

When you go shopping, every now and then you see these kids running around at a shop like an unleashed monkey.
Some people find them adorable, but I hardly think so.
Surely watching YOUR kids having fun is one thing, but when it comes to seeing some brats of other's playing? that wouldn't be fun at all.
Honestly, when girls say they like kids, I don't believe them.
Think they can only say that either because they don't have one around, or are just trying to impress on some guys that they are cool with kids.

2018/05/02(水) 08:01:24.79

There are many foreigners who want to ask questions about Japanese. Several sites provides places for such questions but each site has shortcomings: too strict codes or low quality answers.
I wonder why foreigners coming here do not ask such questions. This site is so free that it could attract rubbish.
But at the same time it is highly likely that wrong answers will soon be corrected by other people. This will be an ideal place for Japanese learners.

2018/05/02(水) 09:20:22.42

>>271
What was your object in saying that?

2018/05/02(水) 14:52:53.07

Right now some annoying kids are playing outside my house, actually in the road. What kind of parents are they? I mean allowing kids to play in the freaking road? Fucking yutori parents...

I wish we had a “child detector”. I heard that in the States, sexsually convicted criminals can be detected on a map on the Internet. Wish we had the child version of it so that we can avoid fucking kids as much as we can.

2018/05/02(水) 16:56:35.15

2018/05/02(水) 17:13:10.36

>>273
You have an excellent command of English.
It's amazing.
I can understand what you mean as followed:

Some kids are playing loudly on the road just in front of my house, making me annoyed.
I wonder in what kind of discipline they are being raised.
Why do their parents allow them to play on a bustling road?
These parents belong to the so-called "yutori" generation, or those who were educated under the relaxed education policy.
.....

2018/05/02(水) 17:20:48.70

>>275
Thanks for your proofreading. Much apreeciated.

2018/05/02(水) 17:30:32.72

>>275
Are you gaiiin by any chance?

2018/05/02(水) 17:43:50.54

>>277
No, not actually.
I don't think there are many non-Japanese speakers on the 5channel online forum.
In the same vein, I assume all users are Japanese speakers, whether they are gaijin or not.

2018/05/02(水) 22:54:44.01

I’m back from gym and grocery shopping.
You know what? I was taken aback by annoying brats at Eon because it’s past 10pm and parents are supposed to bring those shit-smelling kids to bed! The Yutori parents...

Well, people say “like father, like son”...right?

2018/05/02(水) 23:05:21.29

I’m eating chips from 湖池屋 this time.
Did you know 湖池屋 is doing this campaign “じゃがいも復活感謝祭” just Calbee is doing the same thing.

I think Calbee ones are my taste.

2018/05/02(水) 23:12:58.34

>>279
chill out there, Japan doesn't need anymore serial killers

>>271
on 4chan we have enough Japanese to answer our questions about the language

2018/05/02(水) 23:35:42.45

I don't like cheap potato chips much. I mostly eat chipstar. But it is expensive so I rarely eat it.

2018/05/02(水) 23:39:59.39

> >>275
> Are you gaiiin by any chance?

Are you a sniffer?

2018/05/02(水) 23:44:33.13

>>287

Their parents are the ex left wing activist.
So,Your idea is quite right in that meaning too.

2018/05/02(水) 23:58:13.01

I said there is a rule that can stop Chinese from buying our land, but I might have confused it with some other matter.
Also I thought I would be ok with just eating gyoza and ditching other Chinese food, but I forgot about mabo-dofu.

2018/05/03(木) 00:56:43.72

I want to go home.

2018/05/03(木) 01:03:50.70

>>282
I admit that chip stars are nice.

2018/05/03(木) 01:04:53.98

>>285
I like 青椒肉絲 by the way.

2018/05/03(木) 01:05:16.70

>>286
Are you still working or what?

2018/05/03(木) 02:23:07.42

https://i.imgur.com/qimfUGw.jpg

i eat rameeeeeeeeeeeeeenn

2018/05/03(木) 02:39:36.80

>>290
That’s not even ramen anymore, dude.

2018/05/03(木) 04:37:59.91

>>290
What's the object? lol

2018/05/03(木) 10:10:15.40

Ramen always reminds me of the memory where my friends and I are drunk so badly that some of us throw up outside the restaurant in the middle of eating,
busting out the place like they just saw their long gone grandfather alive.
And I bet some of you guys can relate to this type of story as well.
I'm just so grateful of the fact that I myself have never messed up like that yet.
Once I stand out in the public doing something juvenile like that, I can't shake that off my head for a while for sure.

2018/05/03(木) 12:13:22.15

>>281
Oh, I didn't know that 4chan has many Japanese users. Are their explanations good?

Anyway, Reddit is a good resource for us Japanese to be familiar with the variety of writing styles. Some people write really good sentences, sometimes it seems to excel the level of newspapers.

2018/05/03(木) 18:24:44.54

Ugh I hate it when gaijins mix cursive and block letters!!! Should be illegal!!!!

2018/05/03(木) 19:05:09.66

>>293
Hi,
I think your command of English is excellent, very smooth, natural.
You seem to be able to express your thoughts in English as freely as if it is your mother tongue.

If you don't mind, may I ask you a few questions?
1) Are you Japanese? If so, are you a returnee child, so-called 帰国子女 in Japanese?
Or maybe you have an experience of studying abroad?
2) How have you become so good at conversational English?

I'm Japanese myself, a learner of English.
I have only a limited command of English and want to improve it very much.
If you have any advice for me, I'd really appreciate it.
If you think my questions are too inquisitive, you don't need to answer me.

Thanks for reading this.

2018/05/03(木) 23:06:28.00

Today is Kempo Day.

2018/05/03(木) 23:11:08.65

Chimpo day?

2018/05/04(金) 00:46:27.73

yet. Chimpo day coming 25th century. Don't hesitate your hidden penis.

2018/05/04(金) 01:30:09.40

>>307

> yet. Chimpo day coming 25th century. Don't hesitate your hidden penis.

You.Hide yourself.

2018/05/04(金) 02:02:26.59

>>298
Hold back fucking stupid.
Don't fuck with us anymore.

2018/05/04(金) 02:30:40.31

>>296
That's so nice of you saying that, but actually my writing skill is very limited unlike you might think I am.
That being said, since you asked me so politely, I'll try my best to answer them.

1) I'm 100% Japanese, back in college I used to stay shortly in Canada for learning English though.

2) As for this part, there's not really a special technique or anything.
I just always read/listen VERY carefully to movies, passages, books and podcasts, etc. sometimes again and again.
As I was working on that, you may or may not notice there's a pattern they follow in most of their lines.
I analyze and learn them by words to words, rephrase them in my own words when writing. It's actually that simple.
Even when we speak Japanese, you can totally see that almost everyone follows the similar sentence structures, right?
Those ones that don't quite fit in them will sometimes sound a bit awkward imo.
Phrasal verbs (such as "walk down/stand up") and rephrasing & avoid using too many of the same words in one sentence also help you in this.

In conversational English, I think it's very important to pick out the words that's commonly in use, not some random words from your dictionary;
always remember you don't write in a literal translating way, because you can't be sure that they sound right.
Whenever you feel you can't find the right expression for your ideas, just look for another more natural way of saying them.
And most importantly, immerse yourself in English. Only this will nurture your sense of what's right or wrong.
Double the amount you see English everyday if you think your English is not good enough. (Personally I don't think you need to)

Your English is very good, so whatever you are doing now, just keep it up. Maybe that will get you to the point that you are going for there.
I think that concludes my little pieces of advice, I hope this will be of some help.

2018/05/04(金) 06:10:30.47

This is the longest post I've ever seen here.
I like reading long articles especially in newspapers.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/02/sports/redskins-cheerleaders-nfl.html

This is the one I recently found. It contains about "3000" words!!!

2018/05/04(金) 10:11:20.61

>>302
Thank you very much for your answer! Your kind advice has struck home to me.
I’m 100% Japanese, too, and have never stayed abroad.
I’m learning English because I simply like to do so. But I sometimes feel very anxious about whether I am doing it right way.
I knew from your answer that your natural way of writing is supported by your great efforts and hard work.
This encourages me very much because if I keep working, it is possible that someday I might be able to write English freely and naturally like you do.
Thank you again for your kind and detailed advice. I’ll keep it in mind and keep studying. :D

2018/05/04(金) 12:18:09.62

Fuck. Remember the annoying kids I talked about the other day? They are screaming and playing in the road at the moment. What bugs me most is that super loud noises this kid’s car thing makes by scratching the ground.

Fuck them. Hope a huge meteorite would drop on their empty-heads right now!!!!

2018/05/04(金) 13:43:09.94

I always screamed until I got hoarse when I was a child.
Declining birthrate leads to intolerance toward children.

2018/05/04(金) 13:47:58.65

got horsed?

2018/05/04(金) 14:13:52.63

Are you talking about something obscene? Sorry, I don't like the one.

By the way, writing "recognizable" sentence is relatively easy but writing flawless and natural sentences is by far difficult.
The former can be likened to driving a car and the latter is almost identical to flying a plane.
I sometimes correct Japanese learners essays. Some of the advanced learners can produce almost error-free essays, still, those tend to be full of unnatural expressions so that I have to rewrite them from scratch.

I don't know how to achieve native levels in naturalness.

2018/05/04(金) 20:19:56.14

Fuck unified Korean table tennis team!!!!

2018/05/04(金) 23:19:36.04

>>305
I remembered the movie Kimi no Na wa, which I watched on TV several months ago.
I think you would die too if a huge meteorite dropped there, which I don't mind.

2018/05/04(金) 23:25:42.02

That over-rated movie is so lame....

**名無しさん＠英語勉強中** (JPW 0H16-/ihs) · 2018/05/05(土) 02:20:36.86

What is your best movie ever?
I like "ガタカ"

2018/05/05(土) 04:44:35.90

I like GHOST WORLD

2018/05/05(土) 06:52:44.85

Good morning!

2018/05/05(土) 07:08:54.19

Good morning!

I'd like to ask whoever writes in English on a daily basis about how to type on smartphones. I use gboard and voice typing. Is it the common way to write, or are there other better ways?

2018/05/05(土) 15:15:24.00

I has grown increasingly nervous as the Golden Week holiday season draws to a close.
It is always a difficult ordeal to return to work after a long holiday.
I am wondering what to do today because I have made the schedule vacant for the last two days of the holiday.
And today draws to a close...
Have a great day, everybody.

2018/05/05(土) 15:18:22.24

>>316
Correction:
The word "has" in the first sentence should have been written "have."

2018/05/05(土) 15:46:23.67

Jesus!

2018/05/05(土) 22:37:07.10

Which girls do you guys like most?

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BULBTr3CEAAMIW_.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BULb5_HCUAA3CHA.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUL8mYQCUAAjayO.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUMXaNSCEAE7dL_.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUMyFv2CIAAy2t3.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BUNPuZ0CIAAFkQ3.jpg

2018/05/06(日) 00:53:13.82

>>320

> What is your best movie ever?
> I like "ガタカ"

I like argo.

2018/05/06(日) 00:55:58.63

This thread get a lil bit serious recently.

That's nice for me.

2018/05/06(日) 01:04:00.84

>>323

> Good morning!
>
> I'd like to ask whoever writes in English on a daily basis about how to type on smartphones. I use gboard and voice typing. Is it the common way to write, or are there other better ways?

I use google keyboard.
What's gboard?

2018/05/06(日) 03:53:57.97

If I remember correctly, gboard is called google keyboard before.

2018/05/06(日) 04:08:45.33

Fuck all gaijins in Japan!!!

2018/05/06(日) 09:10:45.36

>>332

> Fuck all gaijins in Japan!!!

Fuck you.

2018/05/06(日) 09:15:24.77

This thread is nice.

But,Take a look at sister site as listed below.

http://bbs.sp.findfriends.jp/?pid=thread_detail&;id=115921&pager_type=pager&page=1&w4&w4

That's ok if you don't come to the site.

2018/05/06(日) 09:20:27.12

>>326
in this website...everyone is just tweeting, not chatting.

2018/05/06(日) 11:03:11.00

>>312
>What is your best movie ever?
I'm a gaijin, but I like japanese cinema a lot. My knowledge of it is quite limited, however.
Some of my favorite japanese directors are Yasujiro Ozu, Hiroshi Teshigahara and Masaki Kobayashi.
What do you guys think about them?

2018/05/06(日) 13:06:53.21

Umm, I don't know any of them...
You are quite familiar with old movies. Sometimes foreigners remind me how little I know about my own culture.

Now, I get addicted to Reddit. I spent hours reading and posting in them. This is no good. I should abolish this habit.

2018/05/06(日) 13:42:19.90

If I remember correctly, there used to be a geek whose nickname was subject.
He would often visit here and posted ascii art a lot. It seemed to me that he suffered from some mental illness
I sometimes talked with him and he said he is from England.
I forgot almost everything he told me , but there is one thing which still sticks in my mind.
He said that he was a big fan of Ozu Yasujiro, and saw a movie entitled " Tokyo Monogatari" many times.
His remarks whetted my appetite for what's so appealing about it.

2018/05/06(日) 14:11:56.94

Hi buddy
does anybody know nicer english school that costs us not-expensively in los angeles?
i thought it was in or nearby korea town possibly

2018/05/06(日) 18:30:24.68

>>339
Why learning english in U.S writing in english?

2018/05/06(日) 22:00:01.32

I hate it when I find out a partner doesn’t take care of pubic hair.

2018/05/06(日) 22:27:11.83

i thought i would rain tomorrow but it begins to rain now...
i don't want to go to the office while it rains.

2018/05/06(日) 22:34:25.71

Why don’t you take a day off?

2018/05/06(日) 22:46:25.30

i do if i can but i have to go.
i hope no delay of train will occur tomorrow morning.

2018/05/06(日) 22:58:14.50

Good luck. I’m going to Costco tomorrow to refill the gas.

2018/05/06(日) 23:51:17.31

thank you.
i remember that i once applied for a job at costco
but i failed the 2nd round of the interview.
at the 1st round of the interview, i also took several kinds of tests including english, mathematics etc.
i scored perfect for the mathematics but the english test devastated me...too difficult.

2018/05/07(月) 00:28:49.60

Gas is a lot cheaper at Costco than most gas stations, you know that?

The English test at Costco was too difficult? I thought it’s a piece of cake to get a job at Costco... apparently it’s not.

Anyway, have a nice week!

2018/05/07(月) 01:07:19.08

>>347
Do you mean gas for autobile?

2018/05/07(月) 01:08:10.50

>>341

> I hate it when I find out a partner doesn’t take care of pubic hair.

What's pablic hair?

2018/05/07(月) 11:33:15.67

>>327

> >>326
> in this website...everyone is just tweeting, not chatting.

Then you make a chat.

Chat in English (英語で雑談) part 207

Chat in English (英語で雑談)　part 207