∧＿∧ In this thread, you can talk English with each other.
( ・ω・) Let's drink tea together and chat about this and that.
（つ旦0 Ramble, communicate, have fun!
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Im studying English.
Hello,Everyone!
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where the fuck is everyone?
This is a ghost town.
This is iichan, it's a slow board. I'm tired from work. I'm going to play some video games and go to bed.
僕は日本語を習います、日本人の友達が出来れば嬉しくなる、僕のMSNはPhenstyle@yahoo.comです、友達になりませんか？
ステファン君
公共の場にメールアドレスを掲示するのは危険だ。
まず、このBBSで交流しよう。
我々日本人は君を歓迎するよ。
Tokyo sucks. there's no heaven.
hi ......i am from China .nice to meet u all .....i am here for japanese learning
>>273
Welcome!
Japanese chicks are phuckin' awesome.
>>276
http://bp3.blogger.com/_a7jkcMVp5Vg/R215TMhM3gI/AAAAAAAACzo/XD-V-mO_AaM/s400/love.jpg
It's people like you that made someone write this PostSecret.
Active thread for chatter in English of the english board of 2ch.
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1198673379/l50
>>279
Perseverance is the key. Keep trying!
Any language is tough, but you must do your best to surround yourself with the language. Try reading things in English as much as possible. If your favourite websites have English versions, try using them. Even try talking to yourself in your best English!
Surround yourself with the language in many different ways. It has been working for me (although with Spanish rather than English. it should still help you.)
If you just keep posting on messageboards with English people, I'm sure you'll master the language in no time!
Make sure they write proper English, though...
Happy New Year to all!
you think english is difficult? try learning french
lol where is the japanese version of this?
What do you mean?
You want to chat in Japanese? Or are you searching for "Chat in English" threads in Japanese communities?
Yesterday I talked to a girl on the phone everyone - It's been 2004 since I last talked to a girl. Well, back then I still didn't talk much to girls. Incidentally, I'm an recluse (Japanese equivalent "Hikikomori"; in some sense)? and I don't like talking to much to people, not even my family or friends. All I do is internet/gaming eat and fap. I've been in my room ever since i graduated from high school (2004).
That said, it was nice hearing a girls voice after all this time. I'm not very social at ALL and I was quiet most of the time speaking with her. She wants me to call her again later tonight. but something is holding me back. ._.
By the way, I meant her on Myspace. After conversing with her, she gave her phone number to me w/o my asking. So yeah. She's korean and very pretty (nice too). Though theres a narrow age gap between us - I'm 23 she's 16, not to bad I suppose.
Wish me luck anons.
>>288
Good luck!
But.. good luck with what? Are you trying to go directly from hikki to a relationship? Unpossible!
I'm still waiting for Jenny
>>290 Hey Hows it going, Sorry its been so long.
i think french is really easy actually
jenny is cool :D
I'm sort of a recluse, but I talk to people a lot. Unfortunately, when I talk to women, I don't know whether or not I'm holding their attention. I think I'm boring...
>>296 Hi, it's been along time my friend, how are you doing, sorry if it took so long to reply. Elephant ROCKS ^_^
I am in Sydney Australia. where are you?
>>299 Hey, I'm in Mount Vernon,Washington (USA) ^_^
>>299 How are you doing ^_^, it's been along time since i've on here, but i finally have more time.
big one and piss isn't food so don't eat lol
>>301
What is the figures after your name?
Do you have to call out all of them when I call your name?
If so, I don't wnat to make friends with you because calling your name will make me exhausted all the time. lol
Oh, my... I made a terrible mistake !
Correction
>>301
What are the figures after your name?
Do I have to call out all of them when I call your name?
If so, I don't want to make friends with you because calling your full name will make me feel exhausted.
>>304
I don't think jenny55972002 really cares if you type out all the numbers after her name. I don't think anyone would expect you to do so.
>>305 Is this more convenient?, shortened my screen name.
is Mount Vernon a mountain jenny :D?
>>307 No, But I Live north of the city of Seattle, But there is alot of mountains around where i live Mount vernon is a city :D
>>302 Kids, never eat trains, especially ones which can fly in space. Your dentist will hate you forever.
Apparently I can't post to 2ch any longer. Great.
As far as I can tell, the error message I'm getting says "Foreign domain restricted (.se) ... Use a 2ch viewer." -- would that mean that the whole .se top level domain is blocked? Or should I read this as "Your domain, which is in .se, is blocked."?
Annoying, either way. I guess I'll have to try and find a proxy now.
Hello. I'm a new user of this board. Please excuse me if I make a faux pas.
Anyway, is it true that Niconico douga has a "narrower" audience than Youtube? That is, unlike with Youtube, most of the people who go to Niconico douga are the same kind of person? As a person who spends most of his life in front of the computer, these sorts of useless facts interest me.
I don't know if I'm wording my question in an understandable way, so I'll apologize in advance for any confusion.
>>310 Do not panic, this is just a technology-based extension to the "no gaijins allowed" signs which have been popular for years, a hallmark of perhaps the most racist nation in the world.
>>312
Well, maybe. It's understandable that certain large ISPs who generate a large amount of crap would be blocked. But a whole country? Or my tiny local ISP? Makes no sense.
>>310
I am a regular Neet poster in 2ch's "chat in English" thread.
I want you to come back there by findig a good way, although
I don't know much about proxy things.
The more people who are interested in Japanese gather there, the more fun the place gets.
>>311
I searched for info about it on the net, and found the niconico douga's press release.
Acording to that, as of March 20th 2008, subscribers of niconico douga has reached 6 million people.
If you can read Japanese, check here.
http://blog.nicovideo.jp/niconews/2008/03/001026.html
Niconico's users are limited almost to Japanese people so it's natural that users of niconico are far less than youtube users. Niconico is based on Japanese language only while youtube is based on English, which is the language whose speakers are a lot more than Japanese speakers and youyube is doing localization which means if you access youtube from Japan, the pages of youtube are shown basically in Japanese. If you access it from China, then pages are shown in Chinese.
Even if you live in US, if you change settings then pages of youtube can be seen in your preferable language, say, Italian or whatever.
>>314
I saw that you reposted >>310 to "Chat in English" - thank you!
It seems that posting from university does not work, and I'm not having much luck with proxies either. Most 2ch viewers won't work, since I don't run Windows. (I'm not sure how that would help anyway.)
There are a couple of other things to try, but it doesn't seem very promising. Ah well. Maybe the block will be lifted...
Another English poster here and I'm getting the same error. It seems like a recent thing as I was able to post just a few days ago.
>>316
Ah, you saw my post there!
>>316-317
I don't know why 2ch block users from overseas. Maybe 2ch's servers can't handle traffic from overseas anymore? Or some people from overseas cyber attack 2ch so access from overseas started to be banned?
One American 2ch user in youtube board of 2ch all of a sudden
was denied access to 2ch a few days ago. Below is a post by a Japanese giving him advice in which he tells him three ways to be able to access 2ch again, The post is the same as >>97 of
http://academy6.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/english/1207506976/
I tried translate it in English.
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There are only three ways. C
Change your ISP or buy a 2ch viewer, or look for proxy thatis not banned by 2ch.
http://2ch.tora3.net/
The URL above is not "2ch.net" but it is 2ch's official website and not suspicious. The website says "2ch viewer" but in this case it doesn't mean 2ch exclusive use browser but it's more like a "Right to use 2ch." Even if you buy this right, you can't access to 2ch with IE or Firefix so the "right" comes with 2ch exclusive use browser.
・N.T.Technology
This is a company that manage 2ch's servers.
Most of 2ch's servers are in USA.
This company also manages 2ch's viewer(=●)
Jim from N.T.Technology PIE
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=CHWi2-R0uM0
http://jp.youtube.com/watch?v=JitcAwajlNA
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I don't think you'll bother change your ISP just to post in 2ch. Plus, there's no guarantee that 2ch'll accept access from your new ISP. ● costs 350yen(3.5USD) a month or if you pay yearly fee in sigle payment then US$33.00.
Looking for proxies seems the best idea. I don't know much about proxy things but I heard some proxies are already banned by 2ch. So it may not be easy to find a effective proxy.
Or as you say, just wait until 2ch lift blocks.
Anyway, I hope you guys can post in 2ch again soon!
>>315
That's not quite what I meant--I was not asking about the number of people who visit niconico douga, but the type of people.
For example, perhaps I am incorrect, but: from the comments, those on niconico douga seem much more pleasant than those on youtube.
Then again, I could be incorrect--perhaps it only seems that way because I visit youtube more often, and thus have seen more impolite comments.
I just posted to 2ch a minute ago with no problems. I'm in the US, by the way.
Maybe it's just certain boards where you can't post, or it may be a temporary thing.
>>319
Now I understand what you meant.
Well, niconico douga's videos have their shares of abusive comments, too. (alothough, that depends on videos you watch, I guess.) Actually, I was surprised to read that you think niconico video has better comments from users than youtube.
I don't watch youtube videos posted by people other than Japanese people often so maybe I don't know much about comments
posted on videos by American or British or whatever. But as far as comments on videos posted by Japanese people, they are less abusive than those of niconico's. That's my impression. It's fuynny that you and I have exact opposit impression on these two
movie websites.
This may not be off the track of your question but I'm under the impression that niconico has more dense population of Japanese Otaku people and more anime related videos. This my be because niconico's people tend to double as 2channelers.
But as the statistics show that nicinico's subscribers has reached 6 million, people other than otaku actually has subscribed to it, it seems. In case of 2channel, too, it's otaku population was dense at the early stage of the forum but now general people (people other than otaku) use it, too.
But Both 2channel and niconico still have big influence of otaku people intact in my opinion.
>>317
Where are you (posting) from? You said "English poster", but I guess you mean the English board. Come to think about it, I haven't seen イギリス人さん posting in a while either.
>>318
Thank you for the tips. I believe a proxy would be best, but it seems that all proxys I can find are blocked. (Or they just don't work.) I'll try posting from an ISP in the .com or .net domains next.
>>320
Yeah, I can see US posters all the time. The problem is that as far as I can tell, my entire country is blocked - and this is on the "English" board, which is about the only place I really can post, given that I'm really just at beginner level Japanese.
When I went to Italy I could post to 2ch,No prob.
Many Japanese living in Europe and USA or another country,
always post 2ch.
:) i need some sleep
I'm posting from the United States in the English board. Well I guess trying to post would be a better way of saying it.
288 here,
Things didn't turnout so well. I don't think i can actually care/love for a girl because i get too jealous and i need attention a lot. I'm a HUGE stalker as well. :(
Meh, she was boring anyway.
>>327
Do you find yourself becoming less and less socialized during your reclusive time?
I mean, if you don't talk much, your communication skills worse and worse from my experience and think like celf-centered.
Going out with a girl vertually on the net or not help you have
socializing experiencess, so I would say you should take advantages of that kind of occasions.
Sorry if I sound judgemental but, before you say going out with a girl is not your cup of tea, you should try it. Just live and learn while you are still young.
>>327
Pretend to be a protagonist from a visual novel.
Those guys are usually pillars of morality, often to a ridiculous extent, right?
I see people are talking about the blocking issue right now.
Chat in English (英語で雑談) Part 112
Is anyone else here in Sweden, and have you been able to post there lately? It would be nice to know if it's the whole .se top domain that is blocked, or not. (So far I've tried three different ISPs, and my university, with no luck.)
>>314 Still here? Say hello from me.
Jenny is the coolest poster :D
HELLO JAPANESE
I AM HAPPY YANKEE
YOU ARE A LIAR!
>>330
Yeah, I'm here. I'll copy and pate your post there.
Hmmm... You tried more than 3 ISPs and sitll no luck...
Maybe 2ch seems to be having a tough approach to posters from overseas...
Some days ago, 2ch was threatned by DDOS attacks from Korean ISPs and didn't function. The attack seemed to be done aiming at the busiest time for 2ch, which is at night. I heard that it took a few hours for 2ch to get on the normal track.
I heard 2ch had similar collective attacks from China, too.
Sweden has nothing to do with those attacks so I don't understand why accesses from Sweden or maybe from other countries are blocked.
I hope you'll be able to post as before as soon as possible.
>>330
I'm still able to post fine, just haven't been so active
lately due to work. We had a discussion about why it may not
be letting some foreigners post, but apparently no specific
countries are blocked. One guy was saying that 2ch just didn't
like open proxies, and that some ISPs have a problem because
of them, but I still don't see how that really has anything to
do with it.
Some people have been saying that 2ch reader apps can sometimes
get around these blocks, so have you tried any of those? I don't
really see how that would work either, but I guess it's worth a try.
http://janestyle.s11.xrea.com/
The error I'm getting is 「海外ドメイン規制(se)。」. To me that looks like a block on the whole country. (But I'm just at beginner level, so...)
>>334
I'll be back, but it might take some time.
>>335
Yes - I was fearing the worst for a while, but it's nice to see that you can still post.
Didn't you need a US$ 30/year subscription too, to get around domain blocks? That's what I thought from the discussion, and some Googling. Besides, I need to find a reader that works for Unix, I don't even have Windows at home.
>>336
I use this on Linux: http://jd4linux.sourceforge.jp/
I have no idea how any reader would help you with blocks though.
>>336
Argh... it does sound like a countrywide block. Though I'm
wondering if it's just that your hostname ends in .se, rather
than .net, .com, etc. Perhaps your ISP changed the hostname
format, which might be why it came into effect out of the
blue.
As for the 2ch 'Gold Account', that's right, it's about $30
(from http://2ch.tora3.net/) and seems to be a sort of
white-listing service. As for readers, so far I've only found
a Windows one (Jane Style) and a Mac/OS one (Thousand), but
will have a search and try to find a Unix-compatible one.
>>337
I only have a vague idea, but I think you need a reader to use the subscription service. Or something.
>>338
It is most likely the fact that I have .se hostname, yes... And as far as I can tell, it hasn't changed.
The good news is that I have to change ISPs soon anyway, so it's only a matter of finding one that uses a .net or .com domain for its customers instead. Hopefully. Paying for 2ch seems a little weird for someone like me who can't really post anything intelligent in 99% of all threads. (Yet.)
I'm posting from .sg and every single time, no matter what board, I always get this message
書きこみが終わりました。
画面を切り替えるまでしばらくお待ち下さい。
and it never changes. And the post is never made．I simply have no way of getting around this, I tried using 2ch browsers but it didn't help either. Wargh!
Here, have a double chocolate chip cookie I got from Subway's... つ●
ﾑｼｬﾑｼｬ
(｀･ω･´)
(ノ●＼)
>>340
Have you ever tried and click your browser's "back" botton
to get back to the thread after the message are shown?
After getting back to the thread in which you're posting your comment, click "reload" botton, then, you can check your comment
is posted or not.
I haven't used 2ch browsers and I am Japanese posting from Japan
so what I worte above mey not help you, though.
Of course I did that, I'd refresh the thread to see if my post appeared... 100% of the time, it doesn't appear. No matter how many times I repost. It's like the "書き込みが終わりました" is a lie!
I wonder if it's to do with the way the ISPs configure internet connections here, they put large groups of users under one big proxy server (I'm bad at understanding how internet connections work but it's like how a huge amount of people end up having the same address)
Glad you enjoyed the cookie, I liked it too. I treated myself to a small bag of handmade Famous Amos cookies, but I finished eating it (´・ω・｀)
Bored, bored, bored.
>>342
It sounds like a trick to confuse spambots.
Do you get the same thing if you try to post from somewhere else? (work/school, friend)
Yeah :( I've tried internet cafes, schools, friends' houses... same error.
I managed to post there ONCE using a Canadian proxy they hadn't picked up on yet. Next time I tried they detected it.
Wait....so 2ch blocks all foreign IPs? I just went into 2ch and saw a bunch of threads on some board.
>>346
As far as I know, even if your IP is blocked, you can see threads but you can't post if your IP is blocked.
I don't think all foreign IPs are blocked. Some people from overseas can post.
hey wassup,bullshit vanila ice!
I'm Fuckin' monkey!
nice to meet u!
Yeah, thank god they don't block IPs from viewing threads. I'd be at a bit of a loss if they didn't, thanks to so much discussion being centered in 2ch...
I wonder if there will ever be a day when 2ch really dies and fragments the Japanese online community into little pieces...
Even if 2ch died, chances are there'd be another similar forum would show up.
Basically 2ch is a website owned by one individual so if he gets
bored, then he might sell the right of running 2ch to anyone
who are interested. The amount of money would be huge.
Hi. I first time here, and I have some question: how you all create this nice mmm... figure like that:
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（つ旦0
と＿)__)
>>351
Depends a little on what you mean by "create", I guess.
A quick intro, with some links:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shift_JIS_art
There is a FAQ thread in the AA board which might be helpful:
http://4-ch.net/ascii/kareha.pl/1104923197
ur7ug8it8otgg9ugtdf8ytryretdftuytdyfutytrgt7yfyuf8yf7rf7uyufuy7t9
http://www.travelintelligence.com/travel-writing/1001179/Asia/Japan/Kanto/Tokyo/Mad-in-Japan.html
How does this make you feel?
