School...sucks

[nes_pwnerer]

Berring you have the cash, why not go back?

Anywho, if I do end up going,  you guys'll need to fill me in on what to look out for so I get to see everything, video game wise and the country itself. The article at the NES section at AtariHQ has only gotten me more excited.

[Doc]

If given the chance to go to Japan, I say, GO FOR IT!

[nes_pwnerer]

Oh, I'm keeping my fingers crossed and picking up every penny I see on the street. Ok, well, I'm not that desparate for money...Damn it! I need a job..

[vealchop]

Dumb and Dumber has some classic lines that go by really quick if you don't pay attention.

"I don't wat to go to Aspen. Besides the French are assholes."

[manuel]

Yeah, anyone still in school? It sucks to be back, right?

That's why I'm glad that I'm a teacher.

What do you teach?

When I went to school I actually liked it.
Now university sucks. I just wish all was over already. I will be graduating next summer with the master's degree hopefully.

[Doc]

Yeah, anyone still in school? It sucks to be back, right?

That's why I'm glad that I'm a teacher.

What do you teach?

When I went to school I actually liked it.
Now university sucks. I just wish all was over already. I will be graduating next summer with the master's degree hopefully.

11th Grade American History.

[KennyB]

Now university sucks. I just wish all was over already. I will be graduating next summer with the master's degree hopefully.

A master's degree in ....? I'm guessing your studying to become a doctor or something like that, because your 27. And here in belgium , if you are graduating when your 27 you're either studying as a doctor ( or something like that) or you liked high school  (or you took a school break)

[manuel]

Master's degree in Japanese studies, Chinese studies and Theoretic Linguistics. (maybe a bit more difficult combination than your normal economics or politics study...) I think I won't take the doctor's course later.
I'm already 27, yeah...  
Why this took so long is that I had to do military service and then I had to take a 1 year break in order to study in Japan. In Germany we don't have the "credits" system, so I couldn't use the credits earned in Japan to use towards my graduation. That was a year "lost" if you want to put it that way.
The first year in university I could't take many classes, too, because I had trouble finding a place to live in Munich.
So actually, if everything went perfectly and I did not study a year in Japan, I would have graduated at 25. But hell, I don't regret the year off. Japan was a great experience nobody can take from me any more.

[KennyB]

Then you can tell me the difference between chinese and japanese  Are they 2 completely different languages or are they similar ?

[manuel]

Not similar AT ALL.
The only similarity is with the characters, which the Japanese stole borrowed from the Chinese.
The languages themselves are as different as they could be, because their morphological structure is different. Phonology is also totally the other way round.

Japanese is an agglutinating language, Chinese to the contrary is an isolating (=analyctic) language.

If you're interested, here's some good reads:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agglutination
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isolating_language

[KennyB]

That sucks  I wanted to learn chines because because it's gonna be a new world language but then i learned that nintendo games are in japanese ( they are japanese right ?  ) and suddenly it was less apealing 

If i understand it right in japanes you would say 'duckling' and in chines you would say 'little duck' ?

[manuel]

Sorry for the late answer, but as a principle it is how you said.
In Japanese you just add a lot of suffixes to a word to change it's meaning. In Chinese you express the same with many words.
It doesn't work so well with nouns though. You can see it in verbs.

Just for people who are interested, the Chinese and Japanese characters for "duckling" are the same.

子鴨

The pronunciation is different. Kogamo (Japanese) and Xiaoya (Chinese)

[kezja]

From my limited knowledge, some of the numbers are pronounced similar.

As for school...  It is my senior year in high school and I'll be heading off to college soon enough.  All those questions and insecurity...  When will it stop!?!

Seems like teachers are having fun busting out all the homework and projects at the last minute...  Why oh why!?

[Switchstance]

I end school since a lot of years. Sometimes the nostalgia invades me and I want to comeback 'cause I enjoy school.

[Doc]

Seems like teachers are having fun busting out all the homework and projects at the last minute...  Why oh why!?

Because we feel students are EVIL.