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[Mataresa]

Thanks! Alan is my actual name while the 989 is a reference to my date of birth: 1989.

Now we know everything about you.

 

[shinobi2u]

The last couple of days I have been pondering about something and I thought, why not ask some help with fellow witcher fans (though it has nothing to do with the witcher). I have to much free time which I waste and want to learn another language. Now after some research I have come with two languages wich I can't decide between. Therefore I hope someone of you has some valuable input to help me. The two languages are Chinese and Japanese.

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Why those two? Because one; I was always very much interested in the asiatic culture and two; they both have great economies and you never know if learing it will be useful someday.
Now ofcourse I already did some very broad research and an occurring theme seems to be this: China has surpassed the Japanese economy in the last few years and is still growing while the Japanese economy has been staying even (some sources even say shrinking). Therefore, from an economic perspective, Chinese would be the safer bet.
But, if you will look at a specific part of the economy, namly the technology industry, japan is still ahead of China. Some other things to also take into consideration are the ability of them to speak English. Appearently at Chinese universities you are required to speak at least some English if you want to pass and more Chinese people just speak English.

I'm throwing this question on a couple forums hoping someone has first hand experience.

So I'll throw in my two cents here. Chinese is definitely the harder of the two for a couple reasons:
1) Their writing system is far more complex than the Japanese kanji system which borrowed from Chinese.
2) With Chinese you still have the differences of Mandarin and Cantonese.
3) More difficult to pronounce than Japanese (in my opinion).

That said, China is a huge nation with a huge amount of people. Given the amount of outsourcing there, it would be a handy language to know for business. However, as you said, Japan is definitely more of technology based nation and more 'advanced'.

I always found Japanese culture fascinating and took two years, unfortunately I'm not really keeping up with it and don't really have many chances to utilize it.

Now we know everything about you.

Uh oh, I smell identify theft.

 

[Alan989]

Now we know everything about you.

Well, my date of birth is already on my profile page, but I just put it here to save you guys from searching for it, as I know you're all a wee bit lazy.

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So is anything else going on around here, or am I alone again?

 

[Sephira]

Alan is my actual name while the 989 is a reference to my date of birth: 1989.

 

[wichat]

:rofl:


I love this videos. I cannot avoid the laughs!

 

[Alan989]

Oh for fecks sake!

 

[Sephira]

Oh for fecks sake!

Sorry, couldn't resist. :evil:

 

[SerieLis]

Going to miss that AL...RIP
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Even though that fact was known for a long time, when CDerpRed was active...oh well.

 

[Sagitarii]

Daily reminder

 

[Alan989]

Daily reminder

Sounds like a waste of money if you ask me. Why would you pay for online videos on YouTube when it's free anyway? There's the reason why I don't subscribe to digital content: You don't get anything.

 

[Glaroug.531]

Your brother Al would be sure to shake his finger, being the brilliant and generous patron of the arts and sciences that he was. I hear he left a healthy sum to public broadcasting stations across the world in his will. O, why do the good die young?

 

[Alan989]

Your brother Al would be sure to shake his finger, being the brilliant and generous patron of the arts and sciences that he was. I hear he left a healthy sum to public broadcasting stations across the world in his will. O, why do the good die young?

RIP other me.

Now I sound like a bloody schizophrenic! :crazy:

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Great. I'm fucking bored again! Anyone have any ideas on how to alleviate this condition I'm suffering?

 

[Mataresa]

Watching teenie romantic comedies of when you were young and remembering, when you thought that was how life worked. ^^

 

[Alan989]

Watching teenie romantic comedies of when you were young and remembering, when you thought that was how life worked. ^^

You're just trying to wind me up aren't you mate?

 

[Mataresa]

Nah, that is what I am currently doing. Also having candle light and tea. ^^ Now after "100 girls" I will watch "Crank" I think.

 

[StaGiors]

So tonight I lost at the annual poker game I play with my friends around this time of the year. Was just me and one of my friends the ones left with any marks at the end of the game. I ended up losing my somewhat big advantage in the end. Oh well. No money involved we just play for fun.

Oh and here's some music. I haven't posted any in quite some time, and now I'm doing it in the wrong thread. Cause I'm a rebel. Come get me Sid.

[video=youtube;eGlAkiCN4-M]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGlAkiCN4-M[/video]

 

[Kinley]

http://liquidadvertising.com/holiday2014/projre.html

This left me with so many questions.

What? Why? How?

Motherfuckin' Gary Busey?!

Why does he turn into a plane towards the end? Scratch that, it's Gary Busey.

 

[ReptilePZ]

... what?

 

[eskiMoe]

It's like greetings from an alternate reality or something. Unreal.

 

[Garrison72]

http://liquidadvertising.com/holiday2014/projre.html

This left me with so many questions.

What? Why? How?

Motherfuckin' Gary Busey?!

Why does he turn into a plane towards the end? Scratch that, it's Gary Busey.

. Did they pay him for that?