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re: Ichiro still can't speak english
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:38 pm to OnTheBrink
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:38 pm to OnTheBrink
He can speak English well enough if he has to. He's a very private guy and uses it as a barrier from the American media.
I read that years ago from a Mariners beat writer so I'm sure he's even better now.
I read that years ago from a Mariners beat writer so I'm sure he's even better now.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:39 pm to lsu480
quote:More fail in this short sentence than humankind can comprehend.
Jews are #1, Asians are #2. I know, Israel is in Asia but you know what I mean.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:40 pm to BayouBengals03
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Yankees Ichiro > Mariners Ichiro
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:41 pm to cheesesteak501
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If I was going to live in a country for more than a year, I would learn the language.
I figured after living in a country for over a year, you would pick some of the language up by default.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:45 pm to cheesesteak501
If you moved to Japan around age 25 and had 15 years there, how much Japanese do you believe you would truly learn?
Would you become fluent?
Sure it's nice when other guys learn multiple languages, but I'm not sure it's so easy
Would you become fluent?
Sure it's nice when other guys learn multiple languages, but I'm not sure it's so easy
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:46 pm to cheesesteak501
actually, he can speak English, and read English and understand spoken English.
what he is not willing to do is to misunderstand a question, or speak English poorly, with an accent and be misunderstood and made fun of.
by having a translator, he is guaranteed to know the question's intent and to have his ideas expressed in language the audience can understand.
what he is not willing to do is to misunderstand a question, or speak English poorly, with an accent and be misunderstood and made fun of.
by having a translator, he is guaranteed to know the question's intent and to have his ideas expressed in language the audience can understand.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:47 pm to Dalosaqy
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More fail in this short sentence than humankind can comprehend.
Not really. If you look at IQ studies they all have Jewish at the top. Obviously this means they are considered a race so where is the fail?
This post was edited on 1/23/15 at 12:48 pm
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:49 pm to LL012697
don't take the bait, you'd have to be stupid to believe that.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:52 pm to cheesesteak501
he can speak English. I bet it something to do with wanting the people from back home to understand him. He has tons of fans there, obviously
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:52 pm to LL012697
2012 Yankees > 2001 Mariners
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:54 pm to cheesesteak501
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This is mind boggling to me. Aren't the Japs supposed to be the smartest people in the world.
What is mind-boggling to ME is that people associate the ability to speak multiple languages with extreme intelligence. There is no correlation. I know a guy who is fluent in 3 languages yet he is one of the bigger dumbasses that I know….difference being that he is a dumbass in 3 languages instead of 1.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:55 pm to cheesesteak501
Maybe he's subconscious about his English or even his accent and would rather just have a translator even if he can speak it and read it.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:57 pm to lsu480
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If you look at IQ studies they all have Jewish at the top. Obviously this means they are considered a race so where is the fail?
because most Jews on earth were in ghettos in Europe for 100's of years, and rarely married outside their tribe, those EURO Jews are considered the most homogenous gene pool of all peoples. the trouble comes in distinguishing Jewish religion from the Ashkenazi Jews of northern Europe, who are the people who are the homogeneous gene pool. OBVIOUSLY, there are black and north African racial combinations who practice Judaism. And that is why a poster challenged whether "Jewish" is a race. Judaism is a religion.
This post was edited on 1/23/15 at 1:01 pm
Posted on 1/23/15 at 12:58 pm to sassyLSU
Ashkenazi Jews are the only ones who count
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:02 pm to lsu480
I wonder how those people who publish such studies as referred to having Jewish people #1 in IQ, found out who were Jewish. From grade school on, I never once had any test asking what my religion was. I remember IQ tests in grade school, beginning in the 3rd grade. None of them asked the race of the person or the religion. So these results referred to must have been done with the specific intent to isolate Jewish results and Asian results.
Look far and wide on the internet, and you can see state scores by race, including black, white, asian and "Hispanic", but no Jewish category.
Look far and wide on the internet, and you can see state scores by race, including black, white, asian and "Hispanic", but no Jewish category.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:05 pm to cheesesteak501
It has nothing to do with his intelligence level and everything to do with him not having respect for our dialect and wanting to learn our language. Believe it or not, America is heavily looked down upon throughout much of the world. I would assume some eastern people wouldnt want to poison their mouth with our language. That's ok, I think the Japanese are savages so we're even. They make good food though.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:07 pm to DelU249
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he said he could read the shite, he didn't say he could speak it all that good
nice
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:07 pm to sassyLSU
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actually, he can speak English, and read English and understand spoken English.
what he is not willing to do is to misunderstand a question, or speak English poorly, with an accent and be misunderstood and made fun of.
by having a translator, he is guaranteed to know the question's intent and to have his ideas expressed in language the audience can understand.
This.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:07 pm to dnm3305
quote:Wow.
It has nothing to do with his intelligence level and everything to do with him not having respect for our dialect and wanting to learn our language. Believe it or not, America is heavily looked down upon throughout much of the world. I would assume some eastern people wouldnt want to poison their mouth with our language. That's ok, I think the Japanese are savages so we're even. They make good food though.
Posted on 1/23/15 at 1:08 pm to SouljaBreauxTellEm
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If you moved to Japan around age 25 and had 15 years there, how much Japanese do you believe you would truly learn? Would you become fluent? Sure it's nice when other guys learn multiple languages, but I'm not sure it's so easy
John Travolta learned portuguese in 15 mins in Phenomenon and you dont think I could learn Japanese in 15 years!!!???
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