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Originally Posted by laurel
I read the thread about JapanEx as well; I am sorry that I couldn't see you there, but you don't have to be envious with CPU and other guys. For, whenever you visit Japan, I'll gladly guide you (*ﾟ∀ﾟ)
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Will you?! Woah that would be great! But I think it'll take me two more years to save enough money
or I might ask my parents to pay for the trip as a birthday present... ^.^
As for the Japan Ex in London, I was only joking. I will go to the one in Barcelona, but that won't be til November. Loads of people here are really fond of Japan, you'd be surprised to see how many.
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Originally Posted by laurel
That's the problem with English education in Japan (I taught English a few years ago).
According to the average result of TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language), Japanese people achieve good mark in grammar section; but they just know the rules. Most of them can't -- or won't speak English. Maybe their knowledge on English grammar makes them afraid of making mistakes, I guess?
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Yeah, same here. But you need to have a good grammar level to be able to speak fluently.
I also think that Japanese is too different from English. I know this two Japanese girls who are studying Spanish at university and they say they find it much easier than English due to pronunciation similarities. Guess it just depens on each person.
LOL don't ever say to a Catalan person that Catalan is an Spanish dialect. I must admit they're rather similar though, but that's just cause they both come from Latin.
And yes, feel free to ask anything you want.
I've only been studying Classical Latin for a year so my knowladge on it is quite limited xDD I'm good at doing translations, that's basically all we've been doing all year cause that's what Latin's all about.
WoW I loved your website!! You must have spent a lot of time working on it, good job!
And yes, the picture of that soup is the one I was referring to. The reason why we don't usually eat it any other time of the year is because it's a hot dish.
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Originally Posted by laurel
People say that Almodovar's first movie "Pepi, Luci, Bom" depicts people's life during the rule of Franco, but I can't get that. When you have time, will you tell me about Franco, please? m(._.)m
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I'm afraid I haven't seen that film, sorry.
Next year I'll be taking History of Spain so I'll be able to go deeper into the matter.
I don't think I can tall anything you don't already know about Franco... It's a bit of a taboo subject among Catalan people. During his dictatorship, we were not allowed to speak Catalan at all, if someone did they were sent to prison. Also (and that is quite hard to believe) left-handers were forced to write with their right hand cause they were considered to have some illness. Their left hand was tied behind their back so that they would not use it. I think it also had some symbolism involved, as if being left-hander meant being against
right-wing ideology.
Hope this was useful ^^
Talk to you soon!
Pd- Thanks for the explanation on -sama/-san.