[Zarxrax]

...and boy are my arms tired!

:sweatdrop:

If anyone wants to check out my pictures, I got a lot of them.
http://www.zooomr.com/photos/baclontz/
They are in reverse chronological order though, so maybe its better to start at the last page and work your way back.

There's some awesome gundam pics.

[Threvlin]

Welcome back! How was it?

[Zarxrax]

It was nice.

[Theendofallthingspurple]

It was nice.

Did you say hello to anyone, or did you just bullet through people like I do sometimes?

[Doomimus]

Yay! Zarx is back!

[NodMan]

Go to Kobe, like I suggested?

[NLAlchemist]

WB i hope you kissed the girls like i said I am planning to go next yr

Nice pics

[Zarxrax]

Nope I didn't do any of that.

[asterling01]

that shrine looks totally awesome, i wish i could go someday...

[Ken-Chan]

Epic gundam

[Raster88]

that shrine looks totally awesome, i wish i could go someday...

me too, it would be too awesome for words :p

welcome back zarxrax! i hope you had fun :D

[Tazuto]

31 pages of pictures WTF

[darkzi]

whoah big gundam..I say it works and they will use to to rule the world

[Hockey-kun]

arms are tired? too much wanking dare I say? :)

[alucard151]

hmm. Good to here u liked Japan. Makes me anxious for this next year and a half to go by. i move to japan March of 2011. ill be there till 2014. ^_^ i'm excited already.

[NodMan]

Firstly I gotta say "What no chickies?" (Blowjob bars are legal over there for a reason) :P
Secondly that Gundam doesn't have a beam sword <_<

[scarmullet]

hmm. Good to here u liked Japan. Makes me anxious for this next year and a half to go by. i move to japan March of 2011. ill be there till 2014. ^_^ i'm excited already.

Ah, what are you going for?

[alucard151]

im in the NAVY, Japan is my next Duty Station.

[scarmullet]

Nice, I plan to go over there and teach English. I need to learn Japanese first though.

[NodMan]

Nice, I plan to go over there and teach English. I need to learn Japanese first though.

I've got a buddy that is from Belgium, that barely speaks Japanese but got the job because his English is "Ok". He works for a private school too. So I doubt you'd need any Japanese ;)

[abyssion1337]

You don't actually need to know Japanese to teach English in Japan(which you should know if you were really serious about this and had done the research), however I've played with the idea as have a lot of people I know, I'm not sure how much longer Japan will actually need more English teachers

[daikaisho vanguard]

How can you teach a foreign language without knowing the native?

[NodMan]

"OH oh its magic! You know!"

[abyssion1337]

well my information claims that you will most likey be teaching an upper level class(which is supposed to be a lot like teaching an English class in America; they already understand English it's just about perfecting it(which as we all know is a huge pain)) Though I'm told that those teaching a beginner English class might get a bilingual aid

[Doomimus]

My mom teaches beginning and intermediate ESL to students from all over the world. While being a native Spanish-speaker helps greatly when teaching Latinos, she also manages (very well, apparently) to teach others whose native language she doesn't speak (including Japanese, Korean, Russian, etc.).

[scarmullet]

I've got a buddy that is from Belgium, that barely speaks Japanese but got the job because his English is "Ok". He works for a private school too. So I doubt you'd need any Japanese ;)

Well, I'll learn Japanese out of principle. If Someone comes here, I'll expect them to know a spot of English. To not be a hypocrite, If I go to a foreign nation for an extended period of time I'll learn their language.

[Doomimus]

It makes sense because then you're not just dealing with teaching them English. You're adapting to another culture on top of that.

[scarmullet]

It makes sense because then you're not just dealing with teaching them English. You're adapting to another culture on top of that.

right, WHO am I to make someone that is in the Majority go out of their way to speak a language that they hardly ever have to speak.

[NLAlchemist]

lol i have been learning Japanese for about a yr and a 1/2 now it's fun

[abyssion1337]

RPI recently dropped its language program, I will likely need to find another learning medium

[darkzi]

I tried to learn japanese before but apparently my dvd's were the outdated form of their language....and I thought we had issues; but I gotta say teaching english in another country is pretty easy nowadays you are just a mature form of teaching someone like a child...though I highly recommend no baby faces

[Doomimus]

I'm studying Japanese (rather sporadically, but still studying) with Teach Yourself Beginner's Japanese. The book/CD package was pretty cheap and so far I've learned a lot from it. Rosetta seems very interesting, although I can't say I've got the necessary pocket money for it. ^^;

[HylAz10]

really want to go to japan one day, but it just seems to scary for my. And WOW at kyoto station!

[Bludsztain]

I'ma go there one day to, I already bought and started studying Rocket Japanese about a month ago.

And I want a kotatsu...

^^

[Issitheus]

My school offers RosettaStone for free to all students, so I tried it out for Japanese, and it was tough. I hardly understand anything.

[abyssion1337]

I could pirate Rosetta stone, of course, Roseatta stone's learning cure is entirely based on trial by error, it's hard unless you really really really stick with it

[Bludsztain]

If it was hard to learn I'd recommend Rocket Japanese, It's really slow, and it's an audio course so you can re-wind and put it on your iPod and stuff. I kinda' feel like an idiot for learning from it at times 'cause it's so slow, but hey, as long as you actually learn a language, 't doesn't matter how you did it right?

-eh... but it's like a hundred dollars as opposed to free...

[abyssion1337]

either is free

A pirate I was meant to be
Trim the sails and roam the sea

[Tazuto]

My school offers RosettaStone for free to all students, so I tried it out for Japanese, and it was tough. I hardly understand anything.FREE rosetta stone WTF how your school afford that???

[abyssion1337]

it's probably pretty easy for the school to do that as an organization

[Tazuto]

it's probably pretty easy for the school to do that as an organization
still requires A **** LOAD of money to get that many copies and for different languages

[abyssion1337]

not terribly much; this is much less about the organization argument and more for rosseta stone's marketing, anyone who tries it will supposedly find that it works, after they graduate they won't have it for free anymore so they'll be paying Rosetta stone if they need to learn a new language, it's an investment on their part

[Tazuto]

meh, ill never be able to afford rosetta

[Issitheus]

We don't have the program, there's an online version. The school provides login information and we can do it at home.

[abyssion1337]

is it a complete version?

[Zarxrax]

Meh, rosetta stone and stuff is pretty lame.
http://www.alljapaneseallthetime.com
http://kanji.koohii.com
http://ichi2.net/anki/
http://www.guidetojapanese.org/

That's all you need.

http://www.nihongonobaka.com/

[abyssion1337]

I think I'll try those, unless they don't really work and you're just trying to screw with me, in that case I'll have to show just what a guy with a magical hand that shoots bees can do

[NodMan]

I think I'll try those, unless they don't really work and you're just trying to screw with me, in that case I'll have to show just what a guy with a magical hand that shoots bees can do

Gets one hell of a "Dick Hertz" when jerking it? :P

[abyssion1337]

it's not constantly shooting bees

[Filleraol]

arms are tired? too much wanking dare I say? :)
hah, was thinking the same thing :D

No but, great to have you back again.
Now get back to work! (A)

looks like it was an awesome trip (didn't have patience to look through all the 31 pages) :P