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by laurieg 7y ago
Topics like this really make me feel the pressure. I'm getting older and I want to have kids but I'm not in a good enough financial situation to do so. It's hard to bring a person into the world when you are not sure about be
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Very fun! I just started taking singing lessons and it's fascinating how deep the everyday act of making sounds with your mouth goes! I was gifted with a somewhat deep voice so I could only see a couple of the singers. I wish there w
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Putting on a clean pair of socks and shoes that fit. It might not seem like much but it's something I appreciate every day.
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If you want to learn more about Jennicam listen to the second act of this episode of This American Life from 2006: https://www.thisamericanlife.org/312/how-we-talked-back-then The episode is from 2006 but has an interv
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by laurieg 7y ago
This is correct. In Japanese it's so easy to rhyme things that rhymes just aren't interesting or unusual.
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This is maddeningly common, even these days. Unfortunately, many mono-lingual people don't realise that language does not map perfectly from one word/phrase to another. When I used to translate people in the office would come up a
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by laurieg 7y ago
This seems to work well for social drinking situations but if slam a couple of whiskeys and then come pick you up one morning you're committing a crime and have no reasonable way to know about it.
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When people talk about a mono-racial Japan it's worth mentioning that the census data for Japan doesn't record ethnicity. Depending on where the statistics come from data may have been calculated by assuming that everyone with Ja
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I'm not doubting you, but I find it genuinely puzzling how our experiences can be so different. For me, being treated differently to Japanese looking people is just the norm. At first I assumed it was my Japanese level or some other f
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by laurieg 7y ago
As a visible minority in Japan, experiences like this are extremely commonplace. In fact, I think the frequency is the most troublesome part. Every time you step out of the house there is someone there to remind you you are foreign. Just
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by laurieg 7y ago
Mornington Crescent is a station the you only stop at going one direction on the London underground. If you go in the other direction it disappears. Here it's being used as a short-hand for a complex situation/set of rules. The
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Get up around 7.30am. Practice the piano for 30 minutes. Quick shower and a shave and then out of the house to get on with my work day. I started skipping breakfast a while back for diet purposes but I was surprised by how much simpler it m
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by laurieg 7y ago
Somewhere, there is a Japanese news website with the headline "Marksmanship taught in American schools". Yes, this is true in a sense but it is definitely hyping up the "mysterious Japan" angle.
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by laurieg 7y ago
I agree wholeheartedly. I've tried again and again to do a full time job and I just can't handle how soul sucking it is. I'm 30 and in my life I've had a total of less than a year of full time employment. It's not a
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In general I think the system is rather good. If you have a job lined up getting into the country is pretty smooth and renewals are mostly straightforward. Probably the most common source of problems I see is the rule that you must have a
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by laurieg 7y ago
A slightly frivolous question but I'd like to hear your opinion. If you were to design an immigration system from the ground up, how would you do it? How would you decide who gets work visas etc? I deal with immigration to Japan a fair
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by laurieg 7y ago
Let's say I see the word: 銀行 and want to look up the first character. I notice that the left hand side is 金 so I go to a dictionary, turn to the kanji radical section[1] find 金 and then find the original character by number of strokes
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by laurieg 7y ago
Compare it to going for a walk. How do you know if you've gone for a walk successfully? Did you walk a mile or ten? Did you walk slowly or quickly? Did you stumble or stride firmly? Whatever happened, you went for walk. Meditation is
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by laurieg 7y ago
I think this is a reasonable way to turn a long interview into a cohesive story for the listening. On TV it's we use "noddies"[1] to cut together interviews and this is the audio equivalent. If you're interested in a di
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by laurieg 7y ago
I have had very similar experiences to the author when doing a magazine translation job from Japanese to English. Very regularly the editor would take issue with me writing an English translation that sounded natural but didn't use a
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by laurieg 7y ago
I love Times Car Sharing and use it heavily, but I find the pricing structure a little bit obtuse: There are various "packs" for example a 6 hour pack, 12 hour pack etc. The 6 hour pack means you don't get charged anything e
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by laurieg 7y ago
This looks awesome! Does anyone know where I can buy one in Japan?
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Ask HN: Looking for books on computer science and software for young people.
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Exactly. When you are well rested and in a good routine you can have late nights and be ok. Just watch out for the things that come with late nights: excessive alcohol, eating lots of food late etc.
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Another interesting part of getting PR by marriage: you only have to live in Japan one year. You could get married in another country, live there 2 years minimum and then move to Japan and get PR after only one year of residency.
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I thought it might be useful to add a comment mentioning what the changes are in layman's terms. Prior to the recent change, everyone working in Japan was a "skilled" worker. There was no language requirement and essentially
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Very well thank you. To be a little more serious, I sleep around 8 hours a night, usually from around 10 or 11 until 6 or 7. This fits well with sunset and sunrise times most of the year. The biggest "hack" for me is getting up at
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by laurieg 7y ago
You say you have trouble finding and maintaining a job. How many jobs have you had, how long has each one been and how did each one end?
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I have been teaching languages for years and the bottom line is the vast majority of adults don't put in the hours. 1 hour a day is seen as a really dedicated adult language learner. If you only did activities that involve languages fo
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The difference between an edited and an un-edited conversation is night and day. Editing takes out all the stumbles, half-sentences, unfinished ideas etc. The reason it's not more common? Recording a 2 hour podcast takes 2 hours. Re

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