Because, Japan.

[Corinthian]

When Japan and South Korea aren't hating.

 

Korea pop group Kara (the girl group) on Japanese talk show.

 

 

When there are sexy women, there is no such thing as international conflict - only foreign intercourse.

[JasonJ]

 

 

When Japan and South Korea aren't hating.

Korea pop group Kara (the girl group) on Japanese talk show.

 

When there are sexy women, there is no such thing as international conflict - only foreign intercourse.

Sexy as they may be, it's still and only (reality check) conversational intercourse here

[Ivanhoe]

[Ssnake]

Nine people choke to death eating rice cakes in Japan, 13 hospitalized.

 

Same procedure as every year, Miss Sophie.

[toysoldier]

Oh, yeah, that happens every new year. I tried those, yummy but tricky to swallow, even with a perfectly healthy esophagus.

[Panzermann]

Japanese seem to have an affectiion for dangerous food making the mochi cakes the vegan equivalent to fugu fish?

[wendist]

When Japan and South Korea aren't hating.

 

Korea pop group Kara (the girl group) on Japanese talk show.

 

http://youtu.be/BgOtONcoT9E

In this clip they all speak japanese, don´t they?

 

To my untrained ear the Korean girls sound like they are quite good at it. Is it common for Koreans to learn japanese or are the two languages just very similar?

[swerve]

Not very similar. A lot of linguistic scholars think they're related, but others think it's unproven. The grammar's similar (& unlike Chinese) which probably aids learning, but apart from words both have lifted from Chinese (another aid to learning), they don't seem to share vocabulary.

 

To a non-speaker (e.g. me) they certainly sound vaguely similar - & totally different from Chinese.

Edited January 6, 2015 by swerve

[JasonJ]

Japanese seem to have an affectiion for dangerous food making the mochi cakes the vegan equivalent to fugu fish?

 

Whole fried fish can be pretty tricky to eat as well. After peeling off the main back bone, all the little pointy rib like often dont peel off with it. While eating it, most need to be removed with one's own chopsticks otherwise something sharp and pointy is going down. Although fried whole fish.. must be like this else where.

 

 

When Japan and South Korea aren't hating.

 

Korea pop group Kara (the girl group) on Japanese talk show.

 

In this clip they all speak japanese, don´t they?

 

To my untrained ear the Korean girls sound like they are quite good at it. Is it common for Koreans to learn japanese or are the two languages just very similar?

 

 

The two languages have many similarities. I would say the two are more similar to each other than either is to any Chinese. For example, word order in sentences is pretty similar and both have somewhat similar particle use. And of course, giving that both languages where influenced by Chinese, both have many words that have similar pronunciations.

 

Although there is still a great deal of difference between the two. Japanese has only 5 vowels where as Korean has 8 (or more, depending on how you count it). Individual syllables have different consonant features. In Japanese, except for plain vowel syllables, every syllable starts with a consonant and ends with the vowel sound. Where as Korean can have consonants sounds before and after the vowel in a syllable. What makes Korean consonants difficult is that depending on the word and the letters before and after a giving syllable, some consonants change.

 

About the similar words, as mentioned, those are the words that came over from Chinese. So then, the local-like very basic words like numbers, this-that, nature related, animals, parts of the body, etc in Japanese and Korean are very different from each other as they originated in their respective native lands and not from China. The words that sound similar are usually more sophisticated words. So in effect, the most commonly used words are different, thus entirely incomprehensible.

 

Both also have two number systems. One being sino and the other being native Korean/Japanese.

 

So then, to the girl group called Kara, yes they are speaking Japanese. They are pretty good. However the span of language proficiency is very wide. So they are neither very good nor not so good. The level is good enough to be impressive. In fact the show host asked them how long they been learing Japanese and they said 2-3 years and he was very impressed. Kara has released some songs in Japanese although some of their songs in original Korean also get played in Japan.

 

Here is one of the Japanese songs called "Jet Coaster Love". Of course their singing in Japanese is very good.

 

http://youtu.be/Bp363npAK_o

 

They had a good run in Japan. One of the few Korean bands to do very well in Japan as part of the (South) Korean wave of music and TV drama. (stupid islands hurt the wave). The group is down to 3 members now though after being 5 members for a long time. So I don't know if the remaining three will continue much more.

 

So with that said, I should post a popular Korean song version of theirs.

 

Edited January 6, 2015 by JasonJ

[rmgill]

Oh, yeah, that happens every new year. I tried those, yummy but tricky to swallow, even with a perfectly healthy esophagus.

Those rice cakes can be deadly...

[wendist]

My thanks to you both, swerve and JasonJ.

 

"So then, to the girl group called Kara, yes they are speaking Japanese. They are pretty good. However the span of language proficiency is very wide. So they are neither very good nor not so good. The level is good enough to be impressive. In fact the show host asked them how long they been learing Japanese and they said 2-3 years and he was very impressed. Kara has released some songs in Japanese although some of their songs in original Korean also get played in Japan."

 

Did they mention anything on why they decided to study Japanese? Could it be their record company who persuaded them to learn Japanese to improve their chances to make it big in Japan?

 

What foreign languages, if any, do kids in Japan/Korea learn in school? JasonJ, you mentioned earlier in this thread that you teach english. Is english a required language to study?

 

Lots of questions, I know! Got curious that´s all.

[JasonJ]

My thanks to you both, swerve and JasonJ.

 

"So then, to the girl group called Kara, yes they are speaking Japanese. They are pretty good. However the span of language proficiency is very wide. So they are neither very good nor not so good. The level is good enough to be impressive. In fact the show host asked them how long they been learing Japanese and they said 2-3 years and he was very impressed. Kara has released some songs in Japanese although some of their songs in original Korean also get played in Japan."

 

Did they mention anything on why they decided to study Japanese? Could it be their record company who persuaded them to learn Japanese to improve their chances to make it big in Japan?

 

What foreign languages, if any, do kids in Japan/Korea learn in school? JasonJ, you mentioned earlier in this thread that you teach english. Is english a required language to study?

 

Lots of questions, I know! Got curious that´s all.

 

Questions are fine If there are some I don't like, I don't answer

 

They didn't say why they learned it. But it must certainly be for going on music tours in Japan. Economic reasons. I don't know to what degree Japanese is required in Korean schools but it can't be high since English and Chinese would take greater priority. But despite that, in many shopping areas in Seoul, many people have some ability in Japanese. The Korean pop culture wave that swept through Japan combined with Korea's entry in 1st world economy levels raised the number of Japanese tourists. So many Korean's that have some Japanese ability must have learned it on their own to improve their sales I think.

 

In Japan, English is required starting in the 1st year of Junior High School. Some (or most?) Elementary schools start small levels of English teaching in the 5th grade or so. I've seen on the news that they want to make English required by 3rd grade. English has been one area where Japan really lagged behind the others throughout Asia. The classes are typically heavy on grammar and vocabulary with little attention to actual practical and functional use of it. Combined with typical Japanese shyness personality, it makes for a disaster. Japan has been addressing this finally though, or at least is trying to. So as a selling point, some nursery schools and Kindergarden schools (ages 3-5) advertise that they have native English speakers doing short English lessons to help get more kids. At my private school, the majority of students are elementary school kids and they come after elementary school for the English lessons.

[wendist]

So you get to work with the motivated kids, good for you! (Or at least the ones with motivated parents. )

 

In Sweden there has been a marked increase in the number of students who choose to study Chinese as a second foreign language (English is mandatory) in the hope that it will pay off when they start looking for jobs. But I wonder if that is a good strategy for most of them. They are not likely to ever become very good at it and the Chinese counterpart they (might) have to work with will probably speak better English than they speak Chinese. The Swedish kids might be better off studying more English.

[JasonJ]

So you get to work with the motivated kids, good for you! (Or at least the ones with motivated parents. )

 

In Sweden there has been a marked increase in the number of students who choose to study Chinese as a second foreign language (English is mandatory) in the hope that it will pay off when they start looking for jobs. But I wonder if that is a good strategy for most of them. They are not likely to ever become very good at it and the Chinese counterpart they (might) have to work with will probably speak better English than they speak Chinese. The Swedish kids might be better off studying more English.

 

Yea, most are, more or less, motivated but I do have my share of unmotivated kids though

 

As long as they keep some form of Chinese in the loop of their routine life, I'm sure it'll pay off in one form or another. But if they study it and then afterwards never have some form of Chinese in their regular life, they'll just end up losing a lot of what they studied. So yeah.

[Mr King]

[Mr King]

[JasonJ]

Back to the hentai I see. しかたない --> can't be helped.

[Mr King]

Japanese porn stars hold a 12 hour booby groping Aids fundraiser.

 

NSFW Video of the event

 

In Japan the perverts are respectful, and the vaginas pixelated. Now if they could just shoot Japanese porn without the women sounding like my dogs squeaky chew toy, I could indulge in it.

 

Does South Korea make porn? Because damn are Korean women hot.

 

 

<-----There has to be a Caucasian in this gals family woodshed somewhere.

 

[Corinthian]

Yes, South Korea makes porn. They have quite a thriving porn industry (from my POV). But I still prefer JAVs.

 

ETA: There's a South Korean version of Tokyo Girl - minus the mask, though.

Edited January 15, 2015 by Corinthian

[Mr King]

Yes, South Korea makes porn. They have quite a thriving porn industry (from my POV). But I still prefer JAVs.

 

ETA: There's a South Korean version of Tokyo Girl - minus the mask, though.

 

I need to search these out for uh research or something.

[Corinthian]

IIRC her name is Yuma. hehehe

[Mr King]

IIRC her name is Yuma. hehehe

 

I found a Japanese Yuma first..... not at all disappointed.

 

[Mr King]

How does the pixelation of Japanese porn work, by that I mean is it a censorship law that all porn produced and sold in Japan has to be censored in that way? I imagine your average Japanese porn consumer to be pretty internet savvy, what, if anything, is done about the petabytes or more worth of uncensored porn out in the wilds of the world wide web? Why do they censor genitals? I'm not knocking Japan here with these questions, I am honestly curious.

[Corinthian]

IIRC that's Yuma Asami. AFAIK, she retired or went on leave from the JAV scene because of cancer (ovarian I think). She's one of my fave JAV idols. There's one JAV where she comes to her home, interviewed, and then suddenly from the back of her sofa comes out this nekkid guy. She starts laughing as he puts her down, spreads her legs, and starts doing the deed. Maybe scripted, but her reaction all throughout seemed natural. Quite a kinky video actually....

[JasonJ]

How does the pixelation of Japanese porn work, by that I mean is it a censorship law that all porn produced and sold in Japan has to be censored in that way? I imagine your average Japanese porn consumer to be pretty internet savvy, what, if anything, is done about the petabytes or more worth of uncensored porn out in the wilds of the world wide web? Why do they censor genitals? I'm not knocking Japan here with these questions, I am honestly curious.

 

Yea, those are fair questions. And the porn industry exist so there is stuff to post about it. But I'm not touching it