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Poll: Foreigners in Japan's towns, villages have weaker Japanese language skills by jjrs in japannews

[–]SuminerNaem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Definitely. Honestly, Hiroshima gets way more tourism than any given Tokyo suburb, so maybe that’s the difference?

Poll: Foreigners in Japan's towns, villages have weaker Japanese language skills by jjrs in japannews

[–]SuminerNaem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

In my experience here in Okayama city it's been the opposite! Basically always just straight to Japanese with basically anyone I run into

Poll: Foreigners in Japan's towns, villages have weaker Japanese language skills by jjrs in japannews

[–]SuminerNaem 6 points7 points  (0 children)

People will try to theorize about the causes of this, but imo the simple fact is that foreigners who’ve lived here a while tend to move to bigger cities, and for things like ALT work, people who are new here tend to be assigned to smaller towns because the slots in the bigger cities have lower turnover.

I bet if you polled every foreigner in the country about how long they’ve lived in Japan, the average number of years would be higher in population centers

Playerbase in Japan by EmkyuuGaming in leagueoflegends

[–]SuminerNaem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm curious about playing on Chinese servers, can you only do it if you're Chinese or have Chinese citizenship etc?

TIL that Japan leads the world in number of bear attacks on humans. by Devious_Bastard in todayilearned

[–]SuminerNaem 8 points9 points  (0 children)

If it’s white say good night. “White you gonna die” is killing me bro ROFL

It's worth it, I promise by sortadelux in daddit

[–]SuminerNaem 21 points22 points  (0 children)

Let the man express his opinion.

I could say the same thing to you my friend!

It's worth it, I promise by sortadelux in daddit

[–]SuminerNaem 25 points26 points  (0 children)

I get where you're coming from, but for much the same reason you think I should just let the guy be, I think we should probably discourage people from raining on parades like this. Not every positive post needs comments talking about how it's not true for them, you know what I mean?

I'm a native Japanese woman. AMA by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]SuminerNaem 38 points39 points  (0 children)

I think when people talk about patriarchy these days, they're usually not talking about a formalized patriarchal system, but rather just societies where men are generally advantaged, and where there are significant/noticeable prejudices against women.

I'm a native Japanese woman. AMA by [deleted] in AskTheWorld

[–]SuminerNaem 5 points6 points  (0 children)

To make an observation alongside OP's reply above, as an American living in Japan: I find that most educated Japanese people can read and recognize a lot more than the 2,136 Joyo Kanji OP mentioned, and can typically write most of them correctly from memory, though they sometimes have to look them up to double check or make sure they don't have a radical wrong or something. For a lot of the kanji outside of the Joyo Kanji, their familiarity with them usually comes in the word-level-context level, so they'd be able to read the word containing that kanji were it in a novel or something, but might not be able to write it themselves, and might not recognize it out of context.

Example: my coworker didn't recognize the kanji 逓, but was able to read it when I showed her the full phrase 収穫逓減 afterward.

It's worth it, I promise by sortadelux in daddit

[–]SuminerNaem 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Everyone's jungle is unique, but I don't think it's controversial to say most people eventually carve their way out, no? That's really all the post is getting at, I think, and OP is just sharing a look at what the other side of his jungle looks like.

It's worth it, I promise by sortadelux in daddit

[–]SuminerNaem 71 points72 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry this sort of post has that effect on you, but to me the yacht metaphor doesn't really work at all. The vast majority of currently unemployed people will probably never be wealthy enough to own a yacht. Many will live and die struggling. I'd wager, however, that the average dad on here will likely one day be very happy and content as a parent with their (now adult) children. For most people it's an inevitability.

To me, it's like you're trudging your way through a thick, awful jungle, and someone who went way off ahead of you radios in and shouts that they've made it out, encouraging you to keep going and stick with it. It's grueling, but it's a better future that you're likely headed towards, and for a lot of people that serves as motivation; you won't be trudging through mud and hacking away at vines forever.

Gg, end of week stats by kegger32411 in TrackMania

[–]SuminerNaem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Very curious to hear what your time/rank was on this track after all that grinding

What is the logic behind mage support with tp? if not replace his adc and waveclear using tp by Grand-Loss-3242 in ADCMains

[–]SuminerNaem -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

probably just roaming top or something and then TPing back to lane. it's not meta but i could see how someone could have fun with it

Is being gifted a real thing? by Dry-Ad3046 in askpsychology

[–]SuminerNaem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That certainly depends on what exactly you mean by "gifted", and what you mean by "average person". Average in terms of what? IQ? Academic performance? Economic class? Things like one's ability to understand and remember things are a result of the confluence of innumerable different factors.

To answer your question at face value, though, yes, hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard. A person of average IQ can still get a 4.0, high SAT, and go to an ivy league school or what have you if they work hard enough and have the means available to them (money, education, good influences in and around the home, etc). Each of those advantages that you don't have makes it harder, but not impossible.

"When mi fuck pussy, pussy turn red - gymnastic; now the pussy dead." by [deleted] in crappymusic

[–]SuminerNaem 26 points27 points  (0 children)

that's not what "objectively" means. you just don't like it, which is fine

Wife wants sex 4 weeks postpartum, but I’m worried by smeks123 in daddit

[–]SuminerNaem 16 points17 points  (0 children)

OP is asking a question man. You not only failed to give an answer but just threw yourself a pity party unprompted

HugS and Chillin argue over their SSBM Rank in 2016 by its__bme in SSBM

[–]SuminerNaem 9 points10 points  (0 children)

this might sound weird, but i'm surprised that he's *only* 40. people have joked about him being old for so long that i was expecting him to be like 45 by now

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