Please talk to yourself in English, and leave.
Others don't need to give a response.
This year will be over in three days. I want 4-chan to be
more and more popular.
I think 4-chan system is better than 2-chan, because the
"sage" system is wonderful. By using "sage" everybody
uses the same ID. If a poster doesn't use "sage", he/she
has to show an independent ID. But how is it possible?
The founder of 4-chan must be a programmer.
I noticed it for the first time. It's not 4-chan but 4-ch.
It's snowy today here in Japan.
In retrospect, however, it was burning hot in this summer.
As almost all Japanese people remember,
there were bad things happening this year, such as
flooding, earthquake, and so on.
Environmental destruction caused devastating disersters.
The world has been crying. And it started to retaliate
against human beings.
What should we do to help it?
Nothing can stop it. The other day, a huge earthquake
happened before flooding lots of nations
surrounding the indian ocean, killing numerous people.
The more prosperous human beings are, the more
unfortunate things happen.
This is dilemma. We live happy to destroy the earth.
It's snowy today here in Japan.
In retrospect, however, it was burning hot in this summer.
As almost all Japanese people remember,
there were bad things happening this year, such as
flooding, earthquake, and so on.
Environmental destruction caused devastating disersters.
The world has been crying. And it started to retaliate
against human beings.
What should we do to help it?
Nothing can stop it. The other day, a huge earthquake
happened before flooding lots of nations
surrounding the indian ocean, killing numerous people.
The more prosperous human beings are, the more
unfortunate things happen.
This is dilemma. We live happy to destroy the earth.
What the...?
I'm sorry I didn't want to post the same message.
My mistake.
South Korean dramas got very popular in Japan this year,
especially among middle aged house wives.
Japanese mass media nicknamed Pe yonjun (a korean actor)
Yon sama( sama nearly means sir).
He made it easier for both Japanese and South korea
to be friends.
According to the TV news I watched before,
those who is learning the Korean language
have been incredably increased in several months.
Che Ju( an actress also from South Korea) is surely
beautiful.
I'm very concerned about the big earthquake and
tidal wave. The newspaper says that more than 22000
people were killed by the huge tidal wave. It must have
been more frightening than "Jaws". But a big earthquake
may hit our are as well soon, which has been said more
than twenty years. But we don't still have a big earthquake,
so I feel we may have a big one next year. I'm living on
the seventh floor of an apartment. I'm going to make an
evacuation plan during the Christmas break.
But anyhow I wanna go to a coffee shop to relax.
I'd stay home in this whether, if I were you.
Looking out of the window in my room,
it's heavily snowing outside, tough in where I am.
But it sounds good to me to have some coffee anyway.
>>9
I think that's a wonderful thing. I'm not Korean, but I am Asian and I'm happy to see that the hatred from sixty years ago is finally disappearing.
>>4
Let me put you straight.
It depends on what 2ch message board you post on.
The "self-introduction" board (I'm not sure this is it, though)
adopts the same system.
>>13
Yeah.
But it's quite a different story about North Korea...
They threatened to blow up Japan by ballistic missiles or
whatever..Well, it's better not to talk about
political matter, I'm sorry.
When we think of the past history, it's amazing to me that
the Korean actors and actresses have gained such high
popularity among Japanese people. In a sense some
Japanese people were apt to make little of Korean people.
It's the first time that Korean actors and actresses have
exploded in popularity here in Japan in our history.
And I think this tendency will be good and meaningful
for both the Japanese and the Korean.
It's funny that this thread made it to 4-ch.
Japanese Monologue Thread @ 4-ch:
http://4-ch.net/nihongo/kareha.pl/1101840094
English Monologue Thread @ 2ch:
http://academy3.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1103938145/l50
It's terribly difficult to completely understand English
radio programs. I'm now listening to KFNX(Arizona's
Talk Station) through SueferNETWORK. But it's very
fun to listen to CNN news through this radio station.
I have heavy stiff shoulders. I heard only Japanese have
stiff shoulders. I wonder if it's true or not.
Cleaning and rearranging my room is really tough job.
It took much longer than I thought. But after
rearranging my room I really feel refreshed. I feel
as if I were in a different world.
The period from 29th December to 3rd January is New
Year's break for most Japanese, though it depends on the
companies where they work.
I'm enjoying my free time now. But even if the New Year is
just around the corner, I'm less excited than before.
But I'm looking forward to watching the Pride(Mixed Martial
Arts in Japan) on TV on New Year's Eve. In the past few
years martial arts have gained high popularity. So even on
New Year's Eve two different martial arts programs will be
broadcast on TV. The promoters say they want to get higher
audience ratings than the NHK sponsored New Year's Eve
song show, which has had an audience rating of about fifty
percent for many years.
But on the other hand, the professional wrestling has been
declining in popularity in Japan. We cannot watch the
professional wrestling matches on TV in prime time today.
Maybe the Japanese have got tired of watching fixed matches.
Again I've stayed up till the wee hours of the night.
I gotta go to bed.
I take naps these days. I usually don't. Maybe I am getting older?
When I was crossing a street, a car was running towards me
at a violent speed. I was almost hit by the car.
I jumped to the side, when I sprained my right foot.
But the driver went away without stopping. These days
more and more people are getting indifferent to others
and self-centered.
I have to make a sectional bookcase. It's my last
job this year. Assembling a lot of parts is not that
easy.
Oh, my God!!
My CD player is out of order now!
What should I do?
I burned something on a CD-R and when I put it in the player
so that I would listen to it, that happened!
Can burned CDs break CD players down?
Things like this has never happened before.
I'm so depressed.
It took about two hours. I have to make one more
for my wife. I wanna finish ASAP.
Now everything's over. I really feel relaxed. Tomorrow
I gotta watch MMA. It will be so exciting.
New Year's Eve is a big event in Japan. We eat
buckwheat noodles, listening to a Buddhist temple
bell. When I was young, I went to a shrine at mid-
night, and waited for the gate of the shrine to open
for more than one hour. Famous shrines were packed
with more than one hundred thousand worshippers.
But I don't go to a shrine at mid-night any more,
because it makes me so tired and I want to get
enough sleep nowadays.
I hope that 4-ch will be one of the biggest message boards
in the world in the near future. But same type of English
message board, "World 2-chan" couldn't last and was gone
aftera all. I want more and more people to post in 4-ch.
Then ask them to come.
Few people read the Anonymous thread on 2ch, now that
the thread does not work to attract people to 4ch.
It's very difficult to express daily trivialities in English.
Maybe our brain cannot cope with two languages.
My English has been highly influenced by my native
language. I think even bilingual children cannot be free
from the influence of one language, which is usually the
language that they learned from their mother. If we want to
speak two languages perfectly, we need two brains.
The last day of the year has come. More than 20% of men who are
over forty are still single in Japan today.
It' fun to cook New Year dishes. Oh my, I forgot to buy rice yesterday. I gotta go to a shop to buy rice.
Lucky for me, I was taught the English language before any other languages, which means I do not have to learn it later on in my life. However, learning Japanese has been somewhat difficult, due to the grammar and kanji. I would also like to think that this small passage uses correct English spelling and grammar, since all of my sentences contain at least one verb, and are clear, concise and properly puctuated, unlike a lot of other posters in this thread.
It's already past 2:00 p.m. here in Japan. We have only
ten hours left for this year. I hardly wait to eat "Toshikoshi
soba=年越しそば" (buckwheat noodles eaten on New
Year's Eve) .
Business Eikaiwa is the best material for learning English.
It will start soon. I'm so exited. I feel so good on
New Year's Eve this year. I hope I'll have a lucky year
next year.
Expressing one's feelings is one of the best way to get rid
of one's stress.
Good English is wonderful, but it is not something to flaunt in front of others who are less fluent than yourself. Rarely outside of writing is there ever a need for perfect English, and having a good grasp of spelling and grammar does not guarantee that you will remember not to write excessively long sentences.
I watched two TVs at the same time, because two TV
programs I wanted to see were broadcast just around
the same time. I want to stop it next year, no, this year
because it makes me very tired.
I just came back from year's first visit to the shrine.
Many people visited the shrine. Interestingly enough
a lot of young people were hanging around there.
They must have visited the shrine not to pray but to
meet their friends. All of them had a cell phone, and
were often sending email to someone, or reading email,
or just talking aloud.
Lonely people tend to be attracted to the place where
a lot of people get together even if it is a shrine or
a temple they are least interested in in their everyday
life.
Something I was thinking about recently...
The language you learn as you grow up is taught so much by example, and eventually becomes such a tool you use it instinctively, that it's easy to do a lot of things without consciously realising the rules behind them.
If you attempt to learn a new language in later life, your earliest references will probably include a lot of rules on grammar, spelling, and why words are formed in different ways, and even then it's difficult because you don't have the same level of experience to borrow from.
So, even though they sometimes make mistakes, people learning a second language probably know more about how it actually works than most native speakers do.
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I am not going anywhere for New Year's Eve.
I will be sitting in my room, in front of my computer
or reading a book.
Later I will watch the fireworks from my window.
According to the weather forecast, it was to be cloudy or
to snow on New Year's Day all over Japan. But to my
surprise it's a sunny, wonderful day in our area today.
What happened? It may be a nice year this year.
I will be able to go to a shrine this afternoon. Now I'm
looking forward to New Year's cards being delivered.
I want read them ASAP.
I got New Year's cards from some persons who I seldom talked
with in my workplace. There are some people everywhere in the
world who have a strong sense of duty.
I wonder if I can improve my English skills this year.
I feel it hasn't changed at all in the past few years.
I ate too much. During New Year vacation, I'm apt to eat
too much. Tomorrow I gotta eat much less.
Sleeping is the best way to relax.
I watched a video. The content was that a star was to hit
the earth, and scientists tried to change the orbit of the
earth and they succeeded.
I have to make my New Year resolutions.
A half moon, Orion's Belt, Sirius are shining so beautifully
in the night sky.
I was born in the year of the Rooster in the 12-animal
Oriental Zodiac.
>>55
Me too. I am a metal rooster!
Only one more day. I feel sad. I want to get something
that gives me permanent peace and satisfaction anytime
and anywhere.
Some people in 2-channel are so disgusting.
Bob Sapp fought against Vanna for the first time
in his life on 31 last month on K-1 ring, and
when in the third ining, it happened!!
"I can't no more", he said to his seconds, whining like a poppy.
I thought my ears deceived me at first, but it was true.
A massive, heavy, and ugly man like him shouldn't have
said things like that.
Many Japanese have been fans of him, but...
Who could give up so easily if he were a fighter?
Bob Sapp is over. He got a lot of money. Now he can't
be hungry. After all he has proven to be a second-class
fighter. But on the other hand, Fedor has proven to be a
real first-class fighter. He is not only strong but also
good-mannered.
I've remembered that I didn't take a bath last night.
The last day of my vacationl. What should I do today?
Fisrt I have to think about it.
I'm gonna a rental video shop.
Expresing one's opinion in a foreign language is very
difficult.
My work will start tomorrow. Frankly speaking,
I want to enjoy more holidays. But it can't be
helped. I have to work for a living.
In a sense I envy students, and often look back
on my college days with nostalgia. They really make
me feel nostalgic. I enjoyed chatting about this and
that with Te at his room till late at night.
I understand that growing up means to realize that you have to give up a part of your life in order to live at all.
But I don't understand why it has to mean that you have to give up more and more as you grow older.
A child who is under ten can learn any language
perfectly, if it is brought up surrounded by that
language. But after this age the ability to learn a
foreign language perfectly becomes less.
And it's impossible for grown-up people to master
a foreign language perfectly. But why?
When we are grown up, the habits of our own
language become too firm, and so it's impossible
to break those habits, in other words, our native
language won't let us learn a new language, that is,
a new habit.
Too tired. I did it too much.
To post on a message board, you have to be able to write your message without having difficulty, otherwise you can't continue posting.
>>68
Did what too much?
Smoking cigarettes and drinking a few beer has become a habit of mine recently.
I wonder if these are symptoms of me growing old.
Posting in a thread is fun. I wonder why so many people post
not their feelings or opinions but only trolls. Posting only meaningless trolls will make them bored in the short run. I can't stand such boredom.
Stupid people don't know what they are doing. They are like stray dogs. The mentally sick guy is The mentally ill guy is a nuisance to all the posters in that thread, but he doesn't notice it. He thinks everybody makes him pleased.
I ironed my shirt myself, and have a dull pain in my lower back.
I'll have three days off. What should I do? Maybe relaxing at
a coffee shop is the best.
Brain studies have indicated that children under the age of 13 utilise a different portion of the brain to learn languages. I wonder what this means for me? I would like to learn two or three more languages, but I am already much older.
Me,too. I feel very sad. I wish I were a child under 10 now.
You are always as young
as you feel
Time and tide wait for no man.
What should I eat for lunch? I may go to an all-you-can-eat restaurant, but it cost a lot, and I may not be able to eat that much.
It's too cold in my house, though I use the heater. I have a
headache because it's too cold.
I have to review what I studied in class today.
Five hours worth of study will be killing me.
Incidentally, it was very cold outside.
If it had been strongly windy, I woundn't have gone to school!
When my girlfriend gets in a bad mood or looks irritated, I can't stand it. Then I shout at her. We may break up. I can only love the girl who is nice to me.
Whenever I get angry at her, we make up sooner or later. Maybe we are made for each other. But how long?
UN officials say over 150,000 people died in the tsunami disaster, leaving a large number of children separated from their parents. UNICEF has also expressed concern about increasing cases of child trafficking. They say criminal syndicates are likely to take advantage of the chaos. I wonder why some people can do such bad things.
I'm in a depressed state. I can't commit myself to anything. I feel I'm a faliure in life. I couldn't be promoted to department chief. That's the main cause of my depression.
I'm sleepy. I wanna sleep, but first I gotta take a shower, which makes me tired.
It's very difficult to distinguish between self-love and true love. Even if I say that I love my girlfriend, in most cases it would come from self-love. That's why many people break up so quickly. So I can't judge whether my love toward my girlfriend is only self-love or true love. Even if I want to sleep with her, it comes from my sexual desire or loneliness. But on the other hand I feel something which is different from only sexual desire or self-love. But I don't know what it is.
It takes a long time to decide what to do. I did almost everything. What would be the best way to feel most relaxed.
Today it's a national holiday, Coming-of-Age Day. Many people have become 20. I envy them. I felt happiest and most free when I was around 20. I went to that movie theater for the first time.
I wasted a lot of time. But wasting time is, in a sense, important.
I need to study more. Off to university I am!
Again I have to go to work tomorrow, though I don't want to. But I don't know the exact reason why I don't want to go to work. I get along with my boss and coworkers at the office. The salary is not bad, and I have more days-off than my friends who work for different companies. I can make a lot of free time for my hobby, but I can't bring myself to work there. Maybe I haven't been able to promoted to the head of the section or I'm getting older and can foresee my future . When we can see what the future will be like, we can't be excited. Anyhow I have to fight depression.
Did you arrange to meet her? What tibme were you to meet? She went to the Shiga Highlands. I'm gonna talk with my teacher about high schools.
I met a thalidomide lady. I couldn't say anything. Because she cannot be worried about anything. She has to just accept reality as it is.
Last year my hopes faded away. I thought there was absolutely no hope. But hopes have risen thanks to her. I've found myself in hope. My future looks hopeful.
I got drunk last night,
then woke up today to find that I was late for a meeting.
When I went there in a hurry I found it had been cancelled.
Now I can't go back to sleep.
I need a better schedule plan.
It's freezing today. The weather forecast said it would be -17°C overnight on Saturday. So cold.
I'm wondering where he lives. He uses Celsius. Does he live in Hokkaido in Japan?
if you cannot write English well, don't get me in the pop-up windows in Yhaoo Chat. I can't believe it. Even if I send some message, the guy never gives re a response. Get out there.
I drank. Today I was able to drink with comfort. I could have a comfortable talk with my coworkers. I may be used to the new work place before I'm aware of it.
i captured a video tape on my pc.