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[yuumi2891103]

Katsu-san,Thank you for sharing the progress on your build, and the good news about your wife
I second the notion that writing / calligraphy can be relaxing.Currently I am practicing Hiragana, chapter 'greetings' on Duolingo, then on to Katagana writing
Happy birthday in advance for your daughters ! Many more for all of you in good health, prosperity and happiness
My best regards to all and be safe

George-san,

Thank you for your kind thought for us.
I deeply respect for your learning the language of foreign country.
Here in Japan, we Japanese are learning English since our junior high school. At least one hour a day, at least 4 days a week. Same as in a high school as well. Plus at an university as well. Most of us learn it at a prep school and a vocational school, too. Totally 10 or more years. But I guess maybe only 3 or less percent of us will manage to handle English speaking. For us, English makes us feel like a language of another planet. Also, I guess western people feels same for our language. The difference between us is, you are willing to learn our language while we are forced to do it.
George-san, you will surely be able to handle Japanese in near future.
And if we could meet in person, you will see how awful my English speaking and hand writing of Japanese characters.

All the best, my friend,

katsu

 

[Riceball]

George-san,

Thank you for your kind thought for us.
I deeply respect for your learning the language of foreign country.
Here in Japan, we Japanese are learning English since our junior high school. At least one hour a day, at least 4 days a week. Same as in a high school as well. Plus at an university as well. Most of us learn it at a prep school and a vocational school, too. Totally 10 or more years. But I guess maybe only 3 or less percent of us will manage to handle English speaking. For us, English makes us feel like a language of another planet. Also, I guess western people feels same for our language. The difference between us is, you are willing to learn our language while we are forced to do it.
George-san, you will surely be able to handle Japanese in near future.
And if we could meet in person, you will see how awful my English speaking and hand writing of Japanese characters.

All the best, my friend,

katsu

That's much better than here in the US where we only learn a foreign language during junior high school but it's not required for all of your years in school, but that might depend on the state and school district. But the problem that most Japanese run into with English is that while they may learn in for years in school, they might not get the chance to use or practice it afterwards and so it becomes rusty (at best) or completely forgotten. This has happened to me with my Chinese, my Mandarin is extremely rusty because, although my parents and grandparents spoke it I never had to use it so now, as an adult, I have a hard time remembering my Mandarin. To add to it, I married into a Cantonese speaking family and I've spent so much time with my wife's family, I now speak Mandarin with a bit of a Cantonese accent.

As far as learning Japanese is concerned, I find that Japanese is a very easy language to speak. There are very few words in Japanese that aren't easily pronounceable by an English speaking person once how it's pronounced. It's also very consistent, everything is pretty much always ah, ee, ooh, eh, or oh and where it is in the word, what other characters are in front or behind it seldomly, if ever, changes the sound. Japanese words are also not pitch sensitive, like in Chinese, where many words sound the same but mean different things depending on how you change the pitch and intonation of the word. What I did find difficult, and got lost in, was learning the different ways of speaking depending on how a person is related to you.

 

[George]

Riceball exactly: degrees within (in)formalities can be highly confusing.

You can catch up when convenient with both Mandarin (ChineseClass101) and Cantonese (CantoneseClass101) on the internet.Lots of audio to practise with.I hope that helps

 

[Cadeus]

HELLO, Yummi-san! I decided to find you today and saw this whole thread for the model you are building. It is very beautiful and I love it!. I am happy to see you and your family doing well at this time. You have always inspired me. Thank-you.

 

[Analyzer]

That great progress on both the model and the wife!

 

[yuumi2891103]

That's much better than here in the US where we only learn a foreign language during junior high school but it's not required for all of your years in school, but that might depend on the state and school district. But the problem that most Japanese run into with English is that while they may learn in for years in school, they might not get the chance to use or practice it afterwards and so it becomes rusty (at best) or completely forgotten. This has happened to me with my Chinese, my Mandarin is extremely rusty because, although my parents and grandparents spoke it I never had to use it so now, as an adult, I have a hard time remembering my Mandarin. To add to it, I married into a Cantonese speaking family and I've spent so much time with my wife's family, I now speak Mandarin with a bit of a Cantonese accent.

As far as learning Japanese is concerned, I find that Japanese is a very easy language to speak. There are very few words in Japanese that aren't easily pronounceable by an English speaking person once how it's pronounced. It's also very consistent, everything is pretty much always ah, ee, ooh, eh, or oh and where it is in the word, what other characters are in front or behind it seldomly, if ever, changes the sound. Japanese words are also not pitch sensitive, like in Chinese, where many words sound the same but mean different things depending on how you change the pitch and intonation of the word. What I did find difficult, and got lost in, was learning the different ways of speaking depending on how a person is related to you.

Wow, you must be an expert of languages. And your families are very international. It is nice to know about your opinion of Japanese language and it is very inspiring and interesting. Thank you so much!!
I think the western countries, especially USA is consisting a nation with peoples came from many foreign country. And that is one of the big reason that they are having many chances to deal with foreign language and interested in learning one. I think you may not feel any hesitation to try to speak with a foreigners. This makes you understand the person with different opinions with having a debating. We basically think that we must have same consensus and if you are disagree, you will try to hide your true mind for thought of not to against other people. That's why we are not good at debating. We Japanese were living in a island isolated from any other country. If we see the people not native Japanese, it's a Gai-jin and usually difficult to communicate. And we feel very difficult to speak freely with them. And the poor pronunciation of our English makes us having a feeling of Inferiority. If we were not, there may be many more good Japanese modeler posting in this fine forum.

Oh I need to stop rusting my English anyway.

Riceball exactly: degrees within (in)formalities can be highly confusing.

You can catch up when convenient with both Mandarin (ChineseClass101) and Cantonese (CantoneseClass101) on the internet.Lots of audio to practise with.I hope that helps

You are also a good example of what I said about US people in a good way!

HELLO, Yummi-san! I decided to find you today and saw this whole thread for the model you are building. It is very beautiful and I love it!. I am happy to see you and your family doing well at this time. You have always inspired me. Thank-you.

Wow, Cadeus-san, thank yo so much for stopping by. I'm having a hard time to build that part of the model now. So the progress is very slow now.
Thanks to you support, I will put up a few in a couple of days.

That great progress on both the model and the wife!

Thank you very much always, Analyzer-san.

 

[George]

Practice makes perfect, Katsu-san.Whether this is about language or modeling

 

[Riceball]

Wow, you must be an expert of languages. And your families are very international. It is nice to know about your opinion of Japanese language and it is very inspiring and interesting. Thank you so much!!
I think the western countries, especially USA is consisting a nation with peoples came from many foreign country. And that is one of the big reason that they are having many chances to deal with foreign language and interested in learning one. I think you may not feel any hesitation to try to speak with a foreigners. This makes you understand the person with different opinions with having a debating. We basically think that we must have same consensus and if you are disagree, you will try to hide your true mind for thought of not to against other people. That's why we are not good at debating. We Japanese were living in a island isolated from any other country. If we see the people not native Japanese, it's a Gai-jin and usually difficult to communicate. And we feel very difficult to speak freely with them. And the poor pronunciation of our English makes us having a feeling of Inferiority. If we were not, there may be many more good Japanese modeler posting in this fine forum.

My family isn't all that international, my wife and I were both born in the US while our parents are from Taiwan and Hong Kong. That explains why my side speaks Mandarin while her side speaks Cantonese.

As far the US and exposure to foreign nations go, we're not really (as a people) as egalitarian and accepting of foreigners, even tourists, as many other nations, even Japan. Americans tend to have an expectation for everyone in the world to speak English and can get impatient when they don't or not speak it well. There are even some who have this attitude that you shouldn't bother trying to correct someone's pronunciation of foreign words, they're like, who cares or, you know what they mean. You'd be surprised at how many people butcher Japanese even though Japanese words are very easy to pronounce for an English speaker.

 

[yuumi2891103]

Practice makes perfect, Katsu-san.Whether this is about language or modeling

Haha! you have no idea how many 'practice' I make during the build of one single model.

My family isn't all that international, my wife and I were both born in the US while our parents are from Taiwan and Hong Kong. That explains why my side speaks Mandarin while her side speaks Cantonese.

As far the US and exposure to foreign nations go, we're not really (as a people) as egalitarian and accepting of foreigners, even tourists, as many other nations, even Japan. Americans tend to have an expectation for everyone in the world to speak English and can get impatient when they don't or not speak it well. There are even some who have this attitude that you shouldn't bother trying to correct someone's pronunciation of foreign words, they're like, who cares or, you know what they mean. You'd be surprised at how many people butcher Japanese even though Japanese words are very easy to pronounce for an English speaker.

'English and can get impatient when they don't or not speak it well.'
Oh, I can understand about that. Unlike the Japanese, the pronunciation is the key of your language. It's just like singing a song carrying a right tune and melody. That's just because Japanese people adore to be able to speak English like native. And that's why I wanted to learn it since juvenile. Most of us don't want to watch English movie in dubbed version but in original language with subtitles.

 

[George]

Same here e.g. with Studio Ghibli movies I use original audio and subtitles
Sidenote: Please consider watching the japanese movie Still Life.The pace of the movie is slow, and the music and nature are beautiful.
Sorry for going off-topic

 

[SmilingOtter]

Katsu-san: the English language is a bizarre combination of several other languages, and anyone who learns it as a 2nd language has my sincere respect. And please don't downplay your ability with it - both your posts here and your "thank you" video from a while back are completely understandable.

 

[yuumi2891103]

Same here e.g. with Studio Ghibli movies I use original audio and subtitles
Sidenote: Please consider watching the japanese movie Still Life.The pace of the movie is slow, and the music and nature are beautiful.
Sorry for going off-topic

Thanks, George-san, I'll check it.

Katsu-san: the English language is a bizarre combination of several other languages, and anyone who learns it as a 2nd language has my sincere respect. And please don't downplay your ability with it - both your posts here and your "thank you" video from a while back are completely understandable.

Thank you, Tom-san. I'll keep it up!

Oh, By the way, My daughter made a English version of 'Making a face mask'
She will be happy if you check her English performance.

Your advice and comment for this movie including her speaking will be highly appreciated.

Sorry about going on off topic, I will put up the progress of model building soon.

Thank you !

katsu

 

[SmilingOtter]

I had no trouble understanding her English or her instructions.

 

[yuumi2891103]

I had no trouble understanding her English or her instructions.

Thank you, my friend.

When I told her, her eyes turned to .

 

[George]

For what I could hear, her english is perfect ! Calm voice too
I thought the video sounded and looked professional, so please convey my compliments to your daughter.

 

[joberg]

No problem understanding your English Katsu-San; if I could do as well in Japanese, I would be a happy camper. As we know, the main languages in the U.S. are: English, Spanish, Mandarin/Cantonese and French. I'm only speaking French and English and "understand" many more (about 10/15% when the speaker is speaking face to face)...Eager to see your next update!!

 

[NakedMoleRat]

Thanks, George-san, I'll check it.



Thank you, Tom-san. I'll keep it up!

Oh, By the way, My daughter made a English version of 'Making a face mask'
She will be happy if you check her English performance.

Your advice and comment for this movie including her speaking will be highly appreciated.

Sorry about going on off topic, I will put up the progress of model building soon.

Thank you !

katsu

Nice video. Watched, liked, subscribed and commented on it.

 

[yuumi2891103]

For what I could hear, her english is perfect ! Calm voice too
I thought the video sounded and looked professional, so please convey my compliments to your daughter.

Thank you, George-san. She is so happy like walking on a cloud.

No problem understanding your English Katsu-San; if I could do as well in Japanese, I would be a happy camper. As we know, the main languages in the U.S. are: English, Spanish, Mandarin/Cantonese and French. I'm only speaking French and English and "understand" many more (about 10/15% when the speaker is speaking face to face)...Eager to see your next update!!

Thank you always, joberg-san,
You are so talented in language.
If I could handle those language like you, my life should have been different.

Nice video. Watched, liked, subscribed and commented on it.

Than you so much for your kind action!

Her Youtube movie advertising fee have gone up to $ 250 in the last three days.
She said it will be a little help for her to buy fabrics and cost for travel expenses. Thanks to everyone.

They are on a briefing for the next project.

OK, back on to the rail.

I have been thinking about the hinge fixture of canopy a weeks.
Since I added the gimmick of tilting cockpit, that was turned to be a trouble. Last night I got an idea and I tried it this morning.

This is an extending rod for a small mirror I bought at a 100 yen shop.
I cut them up for an appropriate length.

And set them on a base.

I put the kind of universal joint on the tips of these rods.

And put it on here.
The base is glued on a bottom of the fuselage and linked to a canopy bulkhead.

It's moving like this.

For a rainy day.

Test fit to the main fuselage,

The fairing behind the canopy bulkhead was one of the stuff makes the things complicated. Anyway...

I haven't decided whether I attach that fairing on a canopy side or main fuselage side but the issue was solved anyway.

The next issue is making a hinges for tilting canopy and get the nose and main fuselage together.

If I could make it, the most complicated part of this model will be over. Perhaps.....

Thanks for looking!

katsu

 

[stevielewis]

I think that will work, Katsu-san!

 

[George]

So cool again and again