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Nowadays my Japanese is nearly non-existent since the Chinese pretty much kicked it all out of my brain. But I studied for about two years and learned all the grammar up to maybe N2 or whatever their rating system is?ntan1 posted:I'm Taiwanese American and I will tell you that Chinese has no grammar and is ez.
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Atlas Hugged posted:Nothing makes me sadder than going for a jog around the little pond in my condomunity and seeing grandma smoking into the stroller while feeding the infant a bottle of water. Please, don't do any of that. I do not understand the pan-Asian obsession with feeding infants water (I've seen this in multiple countries and parents of multiple nationalities engage in this behavior). If you don't, then there's not enough street pissing. Otoh, chinese formula. Well, maybe better feed the kid something potentially less deadly.
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Btw, let's have some NK stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmzpMP3bEE
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Sheep-Goats posted:Chinese children will not drink milk out of a bottle unless the nipple has inch long hairs jutting out all around it. rofl
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nickmeister posted:Nowadays my Japanese is nearly non-existent since the Chinese pretty much kicked it all out of my brain. this is one of the worst things I could ever think of happening. Seriously, I'm so sorry
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JaucheCharly posted:If you don't, then there's not enough street pissing. Nah the formula here is fine. I wouldn't subject my kid to the mainland.
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The Great Autismo! posted:this is one of the worst things I could ever think of happening. Seriously, I'm so sorry well, it's a lot louder
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JaucheCharly posted:Btw, let's have some NK stuff they are so busy competing with everyone that they lose out on the most important things. wisdom
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Atlas Hugged posted:Nah the formula here is fine. I wouldn't subject my kid to the mainland. Oh sry, forgot that you talk about Taiwan. I'd be scared of mainland seeping in.
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JaucheCharly posted:Oh sry, forgot that you talk about Taiwan. I'd be scared of mainland seeping in. Bangkok represent.
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An Austrian village has had to post bouncers at the church doors to keep Chinese tour groups from disrupting funerals with self sticks... http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38611900
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JaucheCharly posted:Btw, let's have some NK stuff https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=biZlMd66MDY
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ladron posted:All languages with even a SMIDGEN of chinese also have counting nouns, which is insane. korean, thai, (iircc) japanese, etc. To be fair so does English, at least for groups of objects. E.g. a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese etc.
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winnydpu posted:An Austrian village has had to post bouncers at the church doors to keep Chinese tour groups from disrupting funerals with self sticks... HALLO
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i hope they went to see hitler's birthplace
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winnydpu posted:An Austrian village has had to post bouncers at the church doors to keep Chinese tour groups from disrupting funerals with self sticks... If you wanted to keep mainlanders out of any area, all you'd have to do is put up a sign that says " 葬礼 " (funeral) and nobody would go near it. Chinese people really, really like to avoid funerals, and any other instance where they might encounter ghosts. Darkman Fanpage posted:i hope they went to see hitler's birthplace Now I want to see what a Chinese tour group does at the Ann Frank house. . .  Blistex fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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chinese guests REFUSE to go on the haunted mansion ride
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Blistex posted:If you wanted to keep mainlanders out of any area, all you'd have to do is put up a sign that says " 葬礼 " (funeral) and nobody would go near it. Chinese people really, really like to avoid funerals, and any other instance where they might encounter ghosts. I want to see how fast the whole popularity of Hallstatt declines once somebody spreads the rumor that it's haunted by the ghosts of salt miners from the ironage. Bearded ghosts with torcs, barechested with glowing blue eyes.
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would you be able to get a sick apartment cheap if you murdered the occupants a couple of times?
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Jose posted:would you be able to get a sick apartment cheap if you murdered the occupants a couple of times? Asia actually has major issues relating to this. Any apartment or house that is not new might have ghosts so very few people will be interested in it. However this doesn't mean the owners decide they should knock the price down at all and still keep ludicrous prices in place and in the case of Japan (and Korea I think?) even for rentals you have to give the landlord an effective bribe known as key money to even get in which can be six months rent. Places will go vacant for years rather than anyone compromise. What eventually breaks the dam is either a buyer shows up whose lust to own property is so irrational they will pay what is asked or some deal involving friends or tit for tat involving a business, in either case this keeps future deals just as stilted. raton fucked around with this message at 17:37 on Jan 13, 2017 |
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Sheep-Goats posted:Asia actually has major issues relating to this. Any apartment or house that is not new might have ghosts so very few people will be interested in it. However this doesn't mean the owners decide they should knock the price down at all and still keep ludicrous prices in place and in the case of Japan (and Korea I think?) even for rentals you have to give the landlord an effective bribe known as key money to even get in which can be six months rent. Places will go vacant for years rather than anyone compromise. Are people just as likely to not pay rent when they're leaving out of spite?
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Couldn't you out Chinese the landlord on sales price/rent? Do u know China has longest continuous history? Many ghost must live in old house unless u think China history is too short for ghost.
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Your internet is disturbing my home's Feng Shui
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Outrail posted:Are people just as likely to not pay rent when they're leaving out of spite? I'm not sure about that. There are other things that prevent that -- loss of face being one, the likelihood that the landlord would just throw all your poo poo out in the street and the courts and the cops wouldn't give a poo poo being another. But it seems possible, yeah.
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Omg, the ears of the girl in the 2nd video. She must have suffered terribly in school
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Sheep-Goats posted:Asia actually has major issues relating to this. Any apartment or house that is not new might have ghosts so very few people will be interested in it. However this doesn't mean the owners decide they should knock the price down at all and still keep ludicrous prices in place and in the case of Japan (and Korea I think?) even for rentals you have to give the landlord an effective bribe known as key money to even get in which can be six months rent. Places will go vacant for years rather than anyone compromise. i was just thinking about that hong kong real estate website that had cheaper properties where someone had died
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Key money is some ridiculous bullshit.
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He Who Smelt It posted:To be fair so does English, at least for groups of objects. E.g. a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese etc. yeah, because I'm always ordering 5 prides of lions and 3 sinisters of ravens in my everyday interactions, which is what it completing your analogy implies
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JaucheCharly posted:Omg, the ears of the girl in the 2nd video. She must have suffered terribly in school Big ears are like crooked teeth, make you look younger and cuter. (apparently)
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Fojar38 posted:Nor does homosexuality exist in Japan it is a western import please ignore these medieval woodcuts of effeminate samurai fuckboys It's just a phase schoolgirls go through, pay it no mind. staberind posted:to be fair, its adventurous, I did the same thing at about 20, but actually learned Japanese.  at 16, but it was a school thing.
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Blistex posted:Big ears are like crooked teeth, make you look younger and cuter. (apparently) My cuteness confirmed. Thx. I also have moles. Guess rich people will pay crazy money to lick them, like in that Murakami novel.
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JaucheCharly posted:My cuteness confirmed. Thx. I also have moles. Guess rich people will pay crazy money to lick them, like in that Murakami novel. it's a sumo culture, they pay by the pound over there
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Imperialist Dog posted:Please tell us you're exaggerating. Or something. Haha no. This was the common attitude among the immigrant Chinese families I knew and among my classmates/friends. Hell, my parents were less strict in that they eventually accepted me going to a decently prestigious (we get good readings since we have a bunch of Nobel prize winners) state school when I got a full scholarship. Well Tbf at least my mom didn't care about prestige as much if it involved me becoming Doctor. I learned this when she applied to the direct med program at U of Washington for me! That was an interesting "thanks for your application" email. Incase this is too much parental bitching, I wanted to say this obsession with college prestige and becoming a doctor is like the norm amongst Chinese/maybe Asian in general immigrant families and definitely is linked to cultural shennagins regarding face from China Arbitrary Coin fucked around with this message at 09:37 on Jan 14, 2017 |
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Jose posted:i was just thinking about that hong kong real estate website that had cheaper properties where someone had died Hong Kong is definitely Asia but also kinda not really.
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"Real Estate is a good investment because it never decreases in value" was a common belief I encountered in Korea and Taiwan. That's one of those things that will eventually be proven wrong, but it won't be pretty when it is.
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Real Estate is a good investment because it never decreases in value" was a common belief I encountered in Korea and Taiwan. That's one of those things that will eventually be proven wrong, but it won't be pretty when it is. Sorry, but this time it's different. I know that has been said in thousands of bubbles throughout the history of humanity, but this time it's actually different because *reasons* so buy now or be forever priced out.
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JaucheCharly posted:Btw, let's have some NK stuff This is really good and I love that it's not just them ragging on North Korea but actually bringing up a few things they thought were really good about NK
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Baronjutter posted:Sorry, but this time it's different. I know that has been said in thousands of bubbles throughout the history of humanity, but this time it's actually different because *reasons* so buy now or be forever priced out. Might literally be true for Vancouver.
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Atlas Hugged posted:"Real Estate is a good investment because it never decreases in value" was a common belief I encountered in Korea and Taiwan. That's one of those things that will eventually be proven wrong, but it won't be pretty when it is. Real Estate is a pretty safe place to park money, not really for money making purposes but so you have an actual usable asset even if the stock market takes a poo poo. As long as people don't buy property expecting it to be worth 10x as much in 10 years it's likely that 20-30 years down the line they'll see some semblance of a profit if they sell.
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