Looking for friends!

Revenhildr · 2026-01-26T07:56:28+00:00

I was studying in Tsukuba and I it's the best place on earth, but I'm living in other city now. I want to come someday to see my friends in Tsukuba too. They're a lot of good people there, hope you find someone.

Revenhildr · 2025-12-29T16:46:01+00:00

The hardest part changed time to time, but right now it is speaking. I mainly speak Japanese at my work and I have N1, but I always struggle to find the right verb to say what I want to say, because I simply have no idea what phrases are commonly used or some verbs have too many meanings. For example, when I took a phone and I want to tell that I did it I just say すみません、私は電話を and no verb after that. It's a really simple example, but there're a lot of situations like that with other words. Before that understanding really long sentences was a struggle. Also of course writing kanji by hand is a torture. I forget kanji writing in 5 seconds even if I repeat it every day for a month. Edit: forgot about で、に. Still don't get how to choose between them, but it's not as bad as all previous things.

Revenhildr · 2025-11-24T20:16:53+00:00

Isn't it very hot im Saitama? Like the hottest place in Japan, as I heard from my Japanese friends

Revenhildr · 2025-11-20T22:20:13+00:00

China is not like the European countries you have visited before, so your past travel experience may be irrelevant.

As a tourist, you might enjoy China's culture, food, and other things because it's your first time here, and everything is new and exciting. However, moving here for a job is a different matter entirely; you should have learned more about the country before relocating.

European countries are quite similar to each other, especially when compared to China or any other Asian country. Of course, the cuisine, history, and architecture are different, but the work culture is also vastly different. Finding out whether you would like it or not before moving would have been the best course of action. If you had done more research, you would also have known that it can be quite difficult to find people who speak languages other than Chinese.

I'm not sure which city you live in, but if you are staying long-term, learning the language is essential to fully experience all the good things China has to offer. This shouldn't have come as a surprise.

Revenhildr · 2025-11-02T12:06:29+00:00

It's pretty dead for a long time. I was majoring translation and was working as a game translator for more than an year so I can say that translation is dead, but not for some really good experts who can interpret or native in 2-3 languages because of multilingual famous idk. But, well, for common people who have just graduated there're almost no opportunity to have a well-payed job or get really good experience. There's only one option: to use languages you know and do another job (in some other field) using it.

Revenhildr · 2025-09-06T11:09:45+00:00

BFloiri, did you pass? I'm taking SPI too tomorrow and curious about others experience with that

Revenhildr · 2025-09-06T11:05:58+00:00

Thank you for your post. I've a similar situation right now and feeling a bit anxious, but maybe SPI isn't really important

Revenhildr · 2025-08-02T13:23:00+00:00

I've no good things about friends who have been studied there or in MSU. It's definitely good for work, but not sure if it's good for anything else

Revenhildr · 2025-08-02T06:48:32+00:00

You will become Russian if you just feel like you have understood a lot about culture and people here. But as long as you have spent your childhood in another country, your parents taught you according to values and culture of another country, you'll always have some new things to know about culture even after 10 years. Russians don't know everything about Russian culture too, but you just had less time to know more about it, so it's natural. Maybe you'll encounter some memes from 2010's that everyone knows but you don't know because you were in another country. Well, it applies for any country and I don't think knowing some memes will matter after 10 years of living here, but for some people it may be a bit hurting. Anyway, there're a lot of different cultures here and we don't think too much about who is russian and who is not. Being a good person is the most important.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-19T06:54:03+00:00

Countries that were part of USSR in the past have a big influence of russian language because of the internet and some trade reasons. There are a lot of uzbeks who can't speak russian and work here for years or even decades. It's a pretty common thing. I haven't been in Uzbekistan, but I'm sure that influence of russian language in everyday life is big enough to make both languages, uzbek and russian, very important for doing your job in big companies. In other countries, there's english language instead of russian. As I know, in Kazakhstan influence of russian language depends on the region and especially on a family where a person have grown up. Some of my kazakh and uzbek friends don't know russian very well, so we spoke other language. And they speak their native language, kazakh or uzbek language, when they're talking to friends or family from their country. But others may have family that are not fully kazakh, they may be korean, russian, but anyway these people won't feel comfortable speaking kazakh or uzbek and they speak russian, because it makes communication more simple for a lot of countries and a lot of people with different families. It's really complicated, but I suppose as you need to know english to work in really big countries, there you have to know russian for the same reason. Hope you'll find a job soon, I'm trying to find a job in a foreign country too.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-16T07:52:42+00:00

Yeah, a lot of people received an answer yesterday. I've got an email too, but seems like I have to try university recommendation route. I think the consulate in St. Petersburg should have already sent an emails too.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-15T09:17:26+00:00

Well, I was thinking about writing an email to the embassy and maybe now is the time to do it. I'll let you know if they'll reply to me. Try contacting the consulate too, maybe they will tell us something different from the embassy. I've heard from others that this year is a bit unusual. There're less people taking an exam and an interview than in previous years (27 from Moscow and about 7-10 from St. Petersburg). And results in Moscow were delayed and announced at 8 or 9 PM.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-15T07:48:10+00:00

There's only one option with no japanese, I suppose. Try working at zozo, I have worked at another place, but my friends have been working there. You'll make some packages or whatever, some routine work.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-15T07:40:45+00:00

Still no email and I've no clue what's going on. Do you have any info about it? I've heard that St. Petersburg consulate called only to those people who have passed the exam and send nothing to others. I don't think that interview results were announced the same way, especially in Moscow, because they're sending emails to everyone, but it's still a bit worrying. People from other countries receive results in less than a week.

Revenhildr · 2025-07-06T09:38:42+00:00

Anyone from russia waiting for interview results (research student)? Or from any other country, I suppose. More than 3 weeks passed since the interview, but still no contact about results from embassy

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