/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

How long before Japan gives up on their limited language, and just adopts English as an official language?

I guess 50 years, but possibly sooner.

(Unlike spanish, chinese, french etc., Japanese isn't spoken outside of its own borders, and as we become a more global society, the need for international language becomes a necessity. Imagine when the trans-euro trains are built, and we're all going to Tokyo from Paris in 25 minutes)

[Anonymous No.]

Oh lol.

[Anonymous No.]

I lol'd

[Anonymous No.]

>trans-euro
>Tokyo from Paris

>train
>25 minutes

Copypasta failed

[Anonymous No.]

Railroads over the open ocean? Awesome.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913531
>Imagine when the trans-euro trains are built, and we're all going to Tokyo from Paris in 25 minutes

Can't wait!

Also, never. World ends in 2012. Nips won't master English in that time.

[Anonymous No.]

Never. The japs are stubborn as fuck

[Anonymous No.]

>>913543
>World ends in 2012
Doing it wrong. The mayans didn't believe that the world will end in 2012. They just thought some mad shit was gonna go down.

[Anonymous No.]

English > Japanese

Japan > England

[Anonymous No.]

>>913545
sugoi sugoi

[Anonymous No.]

>>913554
Hey, are you from US by any chance?

[Anonymous No.]

this thread is so code geass like in appearanc3

[Anonymous No.]

>>913561
If I was from the USA, how would I know that English originated in England?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913531
14500 miles per hour. Fuck yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913561

Argentina, actually.

[Anonymous No.]

>limited language

lolwut?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913574
Americans don't think that English originated in the USA. ಠ_ಠ

[Icekin No.]

>>913585
In before that Ragnarok Online screencap.
I wouldn't mind English becoming globally spoken, it's the simplest language I've seen so far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913552
If by "mad shit", you mean "Armageddon", then yes, mad shit's gonna go down in 2012.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913585
As an american, this is news to me. But it's also extremely unsurprising. I can't wait to abandon this shithole strip of land and leave all the "me first" pricks behind.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913582
I'm not OP, or trolling for that matter. But Japanese really is a limited language compared to English in a few aspects. It becomes very evident if you read Japanese poetry or poetry translated into Japanese, for example.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913602
>simplest

I take it it's the ONLY language you speak, then.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913602
simple to grasp (and fucking easy considering anywhere in the world you can be exposed to English as often as you like) but it has more words than any other language by quite a wide margin, and it absorbs other languages easily, making it incredibly versatile.

*huggles english* (^_^)

[Anonymous No.]

>>913581
Best language ever, and fuck the normal spanish

[Icekin No.]

>>913614
French also, which is far more pointlessly complex than english.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913615
incredibly versatile, but also incredibly hard to learn, since the grammar is cluttered by remnants of ages long dead, pronunciation and spelling hardly ever matches, and similar pitfalls.

[Anonymous No.]

Name one country that has ever given up its national language for another without the use of force / losing a war ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913615
>*huggles english* (^_^)

You made an incredibly valid point, but don't ever do this again...

[Anonymous No.]

>>913608
No it isn't, you faggot. Go make a thread about it on /x/, see what they tell you. They're crazy about that 2012 shit

[Anonymous No.]

>>913611
I find it to be quite expressive, I have no idea what you're talking about. Poetry doesn't tranlslate well from English into japanese because the languages don't mesh up properly.

japanese just tends to be more on the literal side a lot of the time, so that when it hits on metaphor, people don't fully grasp it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913616
The Spanish of Argentina is unpleasant.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913615
>absorbs other languages easily

When it absorbs WORDS, yes, it's verstile. When it absorbs GRAMMAR, shit falls apart faster than chinese toys.

[Icekin No.]

>incredibly hard to learn
>english

[Anonymous No.]

>>913649
English doesn't absorb grammar, except when idiots like to pretend that "anime" is the correct pluralisation for the word. This falls apart when a normal person applies sensible rules, but weeaboos get irate about this shit.

Japanese grammar? in MY english?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913615
>...absorbs other languages easily

Yes, by comparison, Japanese has absolutely NO WAY to incorporate foreign words into the vocabulary. I mean, their language hasn't changed at all in hundreds of years; completely useless.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913654
Oh, right. All pluralizations have "s" on the end and there's no precedent for a word to be the same both singularly and plural. I forgot.

Thanks, Cap't English, I don't know what I'd do without you.

[Anonymous No.]

English? Japan will make engrish the national language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913659
Applying the "rule" to all Japanese nouns is not a case of absorbing grammar?

Oh, I guess I'm mistaken.

BRB, feeding my fish.

[Anonymous No.]

Culture, guys, culture.
I live in a small country, and my language is only spoken inside the boarders. Its old fashioned, and i often miss things from other languages f.x. English. But i wouldn't want it it to disappear, although it probably will sooner or later. The government have already made plans to remove certain characters from our alphabet because they aren't international. This will most likely happen to Japanese too if they started accepting English. That would be sad now, wouldn't it?

[Anonymous No.]

English rocks, see how many esoteric rules I apply here:

"I'm totally digging these pseudo-anime shit's so cash!"

[Anonymous No.]

English has significant numbers of "exceptions to the rule" as well as an incredibly broad range of vowel sounds. Add that to the fact that four countries have their own dialects that have been evolving for centuries....plus major pronunciation shifts by locale....

Yeah, English certainly makes sense to be the global language.

What ever happened to stuff like Esperanto?

[Anonymous No.]

ESL-fags, is it harder to speak or write/read english?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913674
gutten hassem man schviesenhangenblitsenfragen

[Anonymous No.]

in this thread, shit bongs , trolls and a fucked over OP that doesn't realize that europe have over 25 different languages.

[Anonymous No.]

ugh, english sucks so much. why didn't germany win the war, i'd so rather speak german in my daily life. english has absolutely retarded phonetics thanks to being repeatedly raped by french and whatnot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913665
>That would be sad now, wouldn't it?
no

nobody speaks latin, but I can learn it if I want.

same goes of Japan

languages just serve to divide people, yes the flipside is they unite the people that speak them, but people are just as united by their dialect of English, for example in Singapore, they are proud of their Singlish. 90% of Singlish can be understood by anyone else who speaks English, and Singlish-speakers can converse in pure English too.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913673
Write

[Anonymous No.]

>>913678
>europe have
And yet you can't even get English right

[Anonymous No.]

nah, reading/writing it trivial. especially if you know few other european languages. speaking is batshit hard sometimes, due to the fucked up english phonetics.

[Anonymous No.]

fuck monolingualism

[Anonymous No.]

What happens if this "self defence forces" bullshit is just a cover for the biggest military buildup of all time and Japan totally wtfpwns the world and we're all speaking moonspeak in 40 years??? HUH???

[Anonymous No.]

>>913531
>>913676
Considering how touchy Japan is about its "unique culture"...

I doubt Japan is gonna bounce their language any time soon, barring invasion, of course. And even then, echoes of japanese language would likely continue to exist through "bad language" like swearing and name-calling.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913696
I beg to differ (france)
French people speak the most horrible english ever.
And that's from a frenchfag.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913678
>doesn't realize that europe have over 25 different languages.
and they all speak English as their second language (usually better than Americans do).

[Anonymous No.]

>>913694
Code geass, but completely backwards

[Anonymous No.]

Language is a soft power in the scheme of world conflict. English is the single most powerful of any soft power, that's why more countries buy into it every decade. And each one that does increases the power English has.
The second biggest soft power in the world is American culture. Enjoy your Hollywood movies, and the world being slowly westernized/Americanized.
It is inevitable that we the world eventually will speak one language. A Neo-English is the most likely outcome, one that uses a phonetic alphabet and more intelligent rules.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913680
Slow down there, Professor Grammar; you're not in much of a better position.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913703
True, France is the exception. Don't they even have a law banning forgeign words being used in the media to keep the French language "pure" ?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913676
I don't want unity. Its boring.
I'm 100% sure that if japanese didn't exist, there wouldn't even be a /jp/. It wouldn't be an exotic, fascinating country. 2chan doesn't have an /us/ board for a reason.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913704
culture - fine. but most countries dub the fuck out of english movies and everything, so that is not going to fly for the language.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913719
PRetty sure they're the only country that didn't just absorb "personal computer" and instead made up something themselves. But I might be pulling that out of my ass; I recall reading it somewhere may years ago, but have no proof.

[Anonymous No.]

>but it has more words than any other language by quite a wide margin
You know, I've read this before, but it's always been in the context of online arguments. Is it true? By the way I've also read you can get by with just a few words in Japanese since it has a limited vocabulary, which is definitely not true.

>but also incredibly hard to learn, since the grammar is cluttered by remnants of ages long dead, pronunciation and spelling hardly ever matches, and similar pitfalls.
That's laughable.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913672
Esperanto, and similar created languages, won't ever get big enough of a following. A language needs a cultural anchor to work - Esperanto et al don't have that, and so they won't succeed.

"Languages are simply dialects with armies," someone once said. I think that we will see a global language at some point, but definitely not in 50 years. The world is still too large.

[Icekin No.]

>>913719
If they do, it ain't working. French people use more english words in their everyday speech than even french canadians, who massacred the french language so badly it's barely recognizable anymore.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913703

I find funny how a single person can claim the right of speaking on behalf of 60 millions people.

[Icekin No.]

>Pretty sure they're the only country that didn't just absorb "personal computer" and instead made up something themselves

First time I heard that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913734
>That's laughable

How so? This is how I've come to understand it as well; a mishmash of archaic french and germanic words and spellings, evolving over the years to something that's quite unlike the origins. Can't say if that makes it hard to learn though, because I'm native.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913734

# The Second Edition of the Oxford English Dictionary contains full entries for 171,476 words in current use, and 47,156 obsolete words.
# To this may be added around 9,500 derivative words included as subentries.
# Over half of these words are nouns; about a quarter, adjectives; and about a seventh, verbs; the others are made up of interjections, conjunctions, prepositions, suffixes, etc.
# These figures do not include entries with senses for different parts of speech; such as, "noun" and "adjective".
# This suggests that there are, at the very least, a quarter of a million distinct (250,000) English words, excluding inflections, and words from technical and regional vocabulary not covered by the OED, or words not yet added to the published dictionary, of which perhaps 20 per cent are no longer in current use.
# If distinct senses were counted, the total would probably approach 750,000 words.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913733
Well, we call them "ordinateurs" or " pc" (pc being personal computer) so it's kinda mixed.
Anyway, you'll find a few english words but not that much.

[Anonymous No.]

English ppl dont speak english -_-

[Anonymous No.]

>>913747
The French I speak is perfectly intelligible thank you very much.

>>913754
Yeah I'm laughing at both the "hard to learn" part and the "hard to spell" part. To me, the hardest thing about English is getting the prepositions right, spelling has never ever been a problem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913759
Get back to your bed.

[Anonymous No.]

>> That laughable

It's a facts that f.x. German is an easier language to learn than English. It's just that we are all exposed to English everyday, so it's the circumstances that fault that it would be easier.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913758
Because it's a fact, talk to anyone in France, you'll see it yourself.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913785
What do you mean by f.x. ?
German is fuckhard to learn because of the way words change depending on case.
HURR AKKUSATIV, DATIV, I hate that shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913789
look at how often you see "weird" versus "wierd" and "decieve" versus "deceive"

There's a list of the hardest words to spell in English - "weird" is on there, I seem to recall.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913797
Only dyslexic retards have problems with orthograph.
Just knowing the sound of the word is enough to write it correctly in most cases.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913797
i blame the "i before e, except after c" shit that they drill into school childrens brains

[Anonymous No.]

>>913789
Thanks for the anecdotal evidence, I'll go ahead and file it under "G".

[Anonymous No.]

>>913819
I before E except after C is correct, though.
>>913810
Ah, but spelling for "deceiver" and pronunciation for "deceiver" differs.

[Anonymous No.]

Spoken English is very simple. Even if you do it incorrectly, meaning can be discerned.

Written English is a train-wreck of dumb rules, but like spoken, can be understood done wrong. Unfortunately, your mistakes can act as a sort of barometer to how stupid you are. Provided the reader's English is better, of course.

[Anonymous No.]

The other reason I'm laughing is because this is an incredibly general statement. Take any language and chances are "the grammar is cluttered by remnants of ages long dead, pronunciation and spelling hardly ever matches, and similar pitfalls".

[Anonymous No.]

>>913802
Not who you're replying to, but--
f.x. - For example

And german is fairly consistent in its rules. There may be a lot to learn, but consistency makes it easy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913831
Minor difference.
Some languages have much bigger discrepancies between how you write a word and how you spell it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913531
I'd rage if I could contain my laughter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913802
f.x. = For Example. If you guys don't recognize it then it might just be something I've adopted from my own language, so just forget it.

Anyway, i don't know your native language, but thats pretty normal in my mothers tongue. The only thing i find weird about German is that objects have genders or something. That i never really understood.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913719
France doesn't ban english words in the media, the law is limited to advertisements when there is a french substitute. But it includes tons of technical terms that get used for years before an official body of old faggots decides to mandate a translation. Like a CD-rom is legally to be called cédérom. I fucking wish I were making this up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913719
The French are retards about the purity of their "culture."

[Anonymous No.]

>>913831
>I before E except after C is correct, though.

then why is "weird" correct when the rule says it should be "wierd"?

[Anonymous No.]

http://www.mipmip.org/tidbits/pronunciation.shtml

English fails.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913863
Emglish fucking wins

if the whole world was English-native, it would be a better world.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913827
Am I supposed to do like the other poster and speak for 60 million people? Durr hurr.

[Anonymous No.]

You can't even rhyme in Japanese

[Anonymous No.]

>>913849
Well, french is my native language and the words constantly changing depending on their role in the phrase is traumatizing me.
Der becoming dem, die becoming der, and all that dessen, deren shit is killing me.

Then again, a lot of people complain about french being hard to learn too.

[Chao !!eFZ1anCCqZ2 No.]

English is ridiculously overcomplicated and difficult to learn, however the upside of this is that it is not very limited. It does lack select aspects I've found in Russian, French and Japanese that all are very handy when you get used to them, but it's nothing you really feel is missing until you know you're without it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913870
Exceptions exist.
however, saying french canadians kill the french language is too much.
Actually, their french is better than mainland french from a historical point of view.
They're still using old french, never getting some of the new words we have there.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913878
As an English speaker, I find good French enunciation to be impossible for me. I can read it just fine (for my limited level, that is)

[Anonymous No.]

French sounds like the verbal equivilent of someone taking a liquid shit.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ - France/English

[Anonymous No.]

>>913797
weird is weird, not wired
deceive? I before E except after C

God, get your fucking mnemonics straight.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913890
French people have the hardest time with english pronunciation.
And I always laugh when I see the french learning manuals.
man-jay dew poo-l'hey fuck yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913878
Yes as far as I've heard French should be a lot harder than German. But that might depend on your own native language. f.x. many Europeans have an easier time pronouncing Japanese than an American or British would since we're used to different vowel sounds.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913899
Lies; French is fantastic for music lyrics.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913899
Feels good man.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913876

[Anonymous No.]

>>913849
we use e.g. to mean "for example"

[Anonymous No.]

I raged so hard at this thread

when I read someone using 'et al' in place of 'etc' I almost burst a vein.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913920
That's true, pronouncing japanese doesn't seem very hard to me, compared to when I see all those ARR KOO HEY ID
threads.
From a latin language point of view, german is fuck hard.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913938
most of those old bits of latin get misused these days

[Anonymous No.]

>>913856
I before E except after C
Except in the case of neighbor and weigh
and a shitload of other words with ei in them
their

[Anonymous No.]

>>913914
It might sound good but the lyrics in the french song are always stupid and obnoxious.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913909
More like we don't do any effort. Kids start learning English very early, but almost never by native speakers, and they never fix their accent later on.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913932
Thanks. I'll start correcting myself from now on.

why doesn't /jp/ have more thread like this?

>>913934
In Europe A-ni-me is an Japanese cartoon
In America Annie-may is your imaginary girlfriend you love and talk about all the time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913965
Blame the educational system, If it weren't for my family, I would be speaking the shittiest of english.
A lot of people try really hard but when the teachers say they got the fine accent while they sound like tourist crap, the children can't do a thing.

>>913967
Because of those "LOL NOT /jp/ RELATED" people.
But it seems there are more civilised people than usual today.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913983
I blame more the lack of subbed English shows on TV. It has a huge impact in countries like Finland.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913967
Shit, I don't have an imaginary girlfriend named Annie-May, I'm jealous of americans now.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913983
you mean us, europeans?

[Anonymous No.]

>>913993
Yeah, that too, I'm sure if we could have CNN or BBC without having to get cable, we'd be much better off.

>>913994
Shhh you're not supposed to say it !

[Anonymous No.]

>>Blame the educational system, If it weren't for my family, I would be speaking the shittiest of english.
>>A lot of people try really hard but when the teachers say they got the fine accent while they sound like tourist crap, the children can't do a thing.

Quoted for truth.
I know a a lot of people who can read/write good English, but their pronunciation is so bad i don't think they would be able to manage living in a English-speaking country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>913903
Let's talk about Japanese for a second.
Literary works were written using bungo (文語) right up to the end of the 19th century. Bungo uses obsolete words and grammar derived from classical Japanese and privileges kango (words of chinese origin) over native words. They finally switched over to kougo (modern japanese) but messages from the emperor and laws still used bungo right up to the end of WWII.

Further back there is Japanese poetry that uses Classical Chinese structure with Classical Japanese readings written in craaazy flowing script. I don't remember the name of that, I picked up the book then put it back down.

My prediction is that if it took their country getting invaded to finally get them to stop using classical Japanese, I don't see the modern version going away any time soon.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914034
One of the saddes things is the fact that they believe that their spoken english is good, namely because of incompetent teachers who believe they have an Oxford accent when a nigger speaks better english than them.

How many times have I gotten in arguments with my english teachers while telling them the correct pronounciation for a word...

[Anonymous No.]

>>913531
>Japanese isn't spoken outside of its own borders

Funny how isolationism and losing the war that drove their colonialism will do that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914034
One of the saddest things is the fact that they believe that their spoken english is good, namely because of incompetent teachers who believe they have an Oxford accent when a nigger speaks better english than them.

How many times have I gotten in arguments with my english teachers while telling them the correct pronounciation for a word...

[Anonymous No.]

>>914067
>invaded

You mean "defeated," yes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>How many times have I gotten in arguments with my english teachers while telling them the correct pronounciation for a word...

Ditto.
Seems weird that they are even allowed to teach language when they cant do it properly themselves.
Makes me think about those scenes often see in school-life anime's english class'. Horrible pronunciation

[Anonymous No.]

>>914067
Where I come from we have no Bungo.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914109
Reminds me of that time where my english teacher tried talking to a british exchange student with her "oxford" accent.
The guy was like " What the bloody hell are you trying to tell me ?"

[Anonymous No.]

English has many varieties

you non-natives would probably find my accent pretty hard to understand

[Anonymous No.]

>>914166
There's a difference between an accent and an accident, we're talking about accidents here.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914183
holy fuck i almost shot mountain dew out of my nose cuz of u lol

[Anonymous No.]

>>914166

How's dem alligators taste?

[Anonymous No.]

>>914166
BAYOU DWELLER

[Anonymous No.]

>>914166
you know, in all my experience dealing with native english speakers, it's THEM who have issues with various english dialects. foreigners usually have much less trouble understanding various english accents.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914166
All languages have different dialects(i figure thats what you meant). I'm a Dane, but theres dialects like Sønder-Jysk which are incomprehensible to even us native Danes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914189
i have yet to meet a native who i didn't understand, and who didn't understand me

be they American, canadian, British, Australian or African.

On the flipside I often have to modify how I speak to make it easier for non-natives to understand me. Sometimes I do it automatically. I live in London (zone 2, pretty central) so I come across tourists basically every time I go outside.

Japs are among the better ones to be honest. French too. Spanish and Italians mostly are the worst.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914189
I think you're on to something. It might be because non-natives "learn" the language and not take it for given as the natives do.

[Dawnfag No.]

>>914189
You've never seen a foreigner deal with a scot.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914222
>>914189
I think the natives are just teasing you, to make you feel good. Like when Japs say "Your Japanese is very good" when it obviously isn't.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914225

The scot punches them, right?

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4257966.stm

[Anonymous No.]

English makes girls sound fucking snobby

case in point: Utada hikaru
i cant stand her english

[Anonymous No.]

>>914238
Wow. She speaks perfect English.

[Anonymous No.]

English is currently the most-studied language on the planet, and 1/5 of the population of China is currently learning it. So yes, if there would be a global language it would be english, if it isn't already.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914238

OOH, SO NEN DES KARR

[Anonymous No.]

>>914268
Your idea intrigues me and I would like to subscribe to your newsletter.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914251
Born in New York.

[Anonymous No.]

somewhat related to >>914238
Danish, my native language, sounds fucking ugly and it feels like you cant say anything serious while speaking it. But it perfect humorous stuff, since it sounds so "not-serious" all the time. Either that, or you're dead serious, as in "I'm going to cut your dick off with a scissor and feed it to my pet turtle". Kinda black/white. So i use English sometimes when i have to say something which is neither.

[Anonymous No.]

"I'm going to cut your dick off with a scissor and feed it to my pet turtle"

Why did I lol?

[Anonymous No.]

>>914238
agreed

[Anonymous No.]

>>914529
Heh. I guess Danish cant be serious after all.

[Anonymous No.]

THere needs to be a universal language. What origins it has or hasn't is irrelevant so long as it's possible to communicate well.

[Anonymous No.]

Nice sounding languages:
- French
- Arabic
- Italian

Horrible sounding languages
- Anything from scandanavia except Icelandic
- German
- Chinese
- German
- Dutch
- German
- Thai

OK sounding languages

[Anonymous No.]

>>914564
Arabic sounds like someone hacking up a loogie.

[Anonymous No.]

Said >>914564.

[Anonymous No.]

>>Nice sounding languages:
>>mine

>>Horrible sounding languages:
>>your's

>>OK sounding languages:
>>everyone else's

[Anonymous No.]

eh, by 2100 we're all going to be speaking chinese anyway!

[Anonymous No.]

>>914808
Mandarin dialect unfortunately, it's either that or everyone will speak Spanish.

[Anonymous No.]

But english is the EASY MODO of the languages, so yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914034

Well, I think they could adapt quite quickly.

>>914225

Jesus christ, I still remember when I had to speak to one somewhat old scottish guy. Sure, he was a nice guy and so on, but I didn't have a clue what he was talking about during long sentences. It was like... "Mordor-English", but worse.

>>914564

Hmm, singed russian is quite.. Nice, atleast for my ear. Specially if its a woman who's singing. Let's take hmm.. Origa for example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9uX6nt4g78 Ok, thats not quite "good" version, since its in jewtube quality,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bOhI-P6de4

[Anonymous No.]

>>914882
>This video is not available in your country.
Fuck you and your country.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914882
Origa's pronunciation of the russian is less than perfect, however.

[Anonymous No.]

>>914882
why cant americans view this??

[Anonymous No.]

English is emphatically not an easy language, and I say that as an English speaker.

Honestly I think that title should go to Korean.

It would be Chinese if not for their insane writing system and reliance on implication and ancient idioms that don't make any sense.

[Anonymous No.]

>>Imagine when the trans-euro trains are built, and we're all going to Tokyo from Paris in 25 minutes
Trains moving faster than escape velocity? lolwut?

[Anonymous No.]

>>914959
Koreanfag, get out!

[Anonymous No.]

>>914914
>>914937

Oh god I lol'd. Hmm, but seriously, I don't know, maybe its just jewtube being an ass again...

[Anonymous No.]

If you think that Japanese will disappear from Japan then you don't know shit about Japanese culture.

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the mayan calendar is a circle. tell me where a circle ends.

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>>914925
what, her russian is fine and awesome.

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>>915013
π/0

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>>915013
When you go outside of it's bounds.

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>>915063
lol, win