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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1649 of 1702 15 June 2015 at 2:58am | IP Logged |
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Here's the YouTube link if anyone is curious and wants to take a peek:
Final Fantasy 13 Start to Finish Video with Commentary in Japanese *edit* It looks like the keyword to use in your search is 実況プレイ. Yes, it's even in rikai-sama. They have a word in Japanese for recorded playthrough of a video game. I'm telling you this language has too much vocabulary. Edited by kraemder on 15 June 2015 at 4:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6125 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 1650 of 1702 15 June 2015 at 6:58am | IP Logged |
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Watching now, yeah, there's a lot of words in Japanese. For me, with the subs that game much easier to understand than that guy talking.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1651 of 1702 15 June 2015 at 7:05am | IP Logged |
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Yeah the subs can really help. I vary from understanding him really well to being clueless and I'm
understanding the game dialogue really well with the kanji. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4873 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 1652 of 1702 15 June 2015 at 9:32am | IP Logged |
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Well, they're called "let's plays" in English and German, so it's not like Japanese is
the only language that's got its own "word" for it. But thanks for the recommendation! I'll check it out. There aren't really that many good Japanese 実況プレイヤー on YT... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1653 of 1702 16 June 2015 at 5:14am | IP Logged |
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I had intended to find FF 13p2 originally but found the above link so I started in on that. I just pulled up part 2
by the same author and I think he made an upgrade to his recording hardware. It looks so much clearer and the kanji in the game is much easier to read. On the downside, at least for the intro dialogue, it seems like they stepped up the difficulty level some. I'm sure they'll dumb it down again as they get into more normal small talk however. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1654 of 1702 20 June 2015 at 12:58am | IP Logged |
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I'm several episodes into the ff13 part 2 series and I can happily say that the intro dialog is indeed a fluke.
The rest of the dialogue is really easy to follow. I've been thinking about the JET program and teaching English in Japan and I really want to go for it. I'm just sick to death of my job at my company even though the pay is ok and the job security is very good. Looking at the process it looks like it starts in the fall and then concludes in the spring and you don't actually go until the summer. So it would be well over a year before I got to go. Therefore I'm going to be looking for other opportunities as well that wouldn't take as long. Not to mention the fact that I could easily get turned down. I'm 38 years old now and the cut off used to be 35 years old so I picture them preferring young applicants over me. Also, although I have a college degree from UMASS Boston I wasn't a very good college student and would take classes because they looked shiny and I didn't know what the hell I wanted to do and frankly I wasn't studious. I didn't take classes with an eye on my gpa as competitive students do. I think I can get two good letters of recommendation from credible Japanese professors I've had though which is really good. I'm reading a book (just bought it) called A Journey of Self: Six Months in the Japanese Countryside. I can't say it's super inspiring but there's no horror stories yet and it's appealing enough. I haven't gotten too far into the story yet but he's a pretty good writer so I can safely recommend it if you're looking for Japanese travel literature. As for my Japanese studies. I'm currently studying the white rabbit flash cards but scanned into my srs program - flash cards deluxe. It looks surprisingly good. I'm on set one which is for JLPT 4/5 I think but just got the two more advanced sets too. The vocabulary is a step up I will say even if the kanji is easy. They have 6 words on each card and at first I was trying to learn all six words in one go but even though I often know many words on a card it wasn't working well. So I split it into three decks (easy to do on a flash card program) and I'm doing words one and two right now only. It's going much better. I'm also using the flashcard app part of the IOS Japanese app. For words I encounter as I study or whatever. I was briefly using my srs app to learn and study testing myself listening, reading, and English on side one (production). I'm finding it's just a bit of a pain and not worth the effort. I do plan to get a grammar deck going soon too for the N2 grammar that I don't encounter so much in the real world. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1655 of 1702 23 June 2015 at 4:03am | IP Logged |
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I finished the book about the guy who went to Japan to teach English. I think it's called a Journey of Self
or something. Anyway, he only stayed a year. He barely talked about the language at all. In brief he studied no Japanese in advance because he thought he could just pick it up (he sort of picked up Spanish in Spain back in college), then got there and felt terrible about not learning the language at all, not even a little as time went by, until some kid told him not to speak Japanese because Americans should speak English. He didn't talk about not studying the language after that. I guess it went without saying that of course he didn't study Japanese. I think his experience was a very good one and I guess his book is motivating me to go myself. Well, there's been a lot building up to that anyway. I think subconsciously I've been wanting to and I've reached a conversational level of Japanese and I pretty much realized that I don't care for insurance claims at all right now no matter how many promotions I get. I was told it would get more interesting as I went up the levels but it's not. It's just people calling me and wanting money and me trying to reason with them. A claim is a claim. Per the book I read, one guy in the Jet program was living on an island (I think?) but definitely had no running hot water and had to pump water into a tiny tub that he barely fit in scrunched down. Since there was no hot water he lit a fire under the tub to heat up the water before bathing himself. The whole process took 40 minutes. There would have to be some big perks to compensate for that kind of lifestyle. I don't think they would give me enough perks to go for that. I want hot water and electricity and I might be able to live without high speed internet but only if I could go somewhere else to get it and it wasn't too inconvenient. I emailed my former Japanese professors about them giving me letters of recommendations and or any advice. Since the JET program application process takes an eternity I'm wondering if I could go teach English there sooner and still apply. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5184 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 1656 of 1702 28 June 2015 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
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I live in a medium sized town (or a small city, Tucson) and there isn't a lot in the way of meet ups and what
not. It dawned on me that Phoenix isn't -that- far away so I looked and sure enough there's a Japanese language meet up group. I went up to the language meet up and there were 15 people or so that came. It was fun. What shocked me is that one of the Japanese people that seems to be a regular works for NASA. I don't know the specifics of what he does but immediately thought of 宇宙兄弟 . I hadn't watched that anime in years and couldn't remember the name but I'll be asking his opinion of it very soon. I was really surprised. すごいね？ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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