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"Boogeyman"

Has he gone? He was our #3 poster for a while I think.

Well... He brought the posts in eh?

Kawada wrote:
> I know virtually all of the young people are learning English
> nowadays. They have a killer school scheudle as well, the kids i
> was teaching would have 6 days of school, from 8 til about 5,
> then they'd have all their after school stuff their parents make
> them do. On top of that even on Sunday they'll still have to come
> to places like the English school and what not, i felt sorry for
> them, that's why i always made my Sunday classes quite easy.

Wow that's tough, what day did they get off? I don't think any of the kids here could go through all that. Isn't all this after school stuff expensive too?

Machie wrote:
> Did you experience that just in the cities or outside.

I was only in the city, i'm pretty certain the more rural you go the less English will be spoken

> I can't
> remember where you got to in Japan. There's probably a big drive
> by the government to try and get people to speak English. Though
> I think it should be us learning Chinese :)

Well English is easier to learn so it makes sense they'd learn it rather than us learning Chinese, especially when the international business language is English as well.

> I saw a news article on youtube about this american wealthy
> family having a chinese nanny and teaching the little girl
> mandarin as well as English. I hope for the parents sake she
> does business work in China otherwise it's probably a waste heh.

Not really, it's always good to be able to speak other languages

Yeah business in china is booming, they have the most wealthy people in the world there :)

Kawada wrote:
> China was bad for that, everyone would try and speak English to
> you and show off their skills, had no chance to practice your
> Chinese skills

Did you experience that just in the cities or outside. I can't remember where you got to in Japan. There's probably a big drive by the government to try and get people to speak English. Though I think it should be us learning Chinese :)

I saw a news article on youtube about this american wealthy family having a chinese nanny and teaching the little girl mandarin as well as English. I hope for the parents sake she does business work in China otherwise it's probably a waste heh.

And some of the thigns on that site are great, the fart and the furious :)

I did like the little slogan on the skin moisturiser i used there

*Make The Skin A Brand-new Looking*

Oh yeah... That Silvery colour.

It's nice when people are prepared to work. Atleast they won't have the problem we have here where people don't want to work and with the stupid amount of benefits they get why should they? some kids at my 6th form get £30 a week in EMA and they £100 bonus for turning up to 6th form. The joke is that their parents are rich, but because they live in different houses (e.g. one of the kids dads is a lawyer and on about 85k a year, but he lvies with his mom who is on 12k he gets full benefits, eventhough his dad gives his mom and him loads of cash)

Boogeyman wrote:
> lmao! now theres something I didn't know. I know they have wacky
> signs though, ebcause they can't convert to english so it says
> stupid things on the signs, plus I'm catching up to you machie
> on the top posters bit :)

The top 100 poster of all time use to be a different colour. Hedfix had it for awhile. I wonder if they'll ever bring it back.

Yes you're referring to Engrish. A few of the asian countries have it. Havent seen any myself but I do have an artbook I got from Japan and it's full of it. Sometimes it doesnt make any sense. I'll have to try and find some.

Here's the website. Engrish.com

Most of the kids though realise they have to work hard in order to make a good life for themselves, some days they would be saying how they hated it and what not but they knew if they wanted to do well they would have to work hard for it.