"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
04/24/2014 at 17:21 • Filed to: None
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"ptak appreciates old racecars" (racecarptak)
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Or more specifically, what magazine this is?
thnx
Roberto G.
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:25 |
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Sometimes Google scares me...
PanchoVilleneuve ST
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:27 |
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That's Finest Cars of Japan, issue 11, if my google-fu is correct.
http://deagostini.jp/nnm/backnumber…
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ptak appreciates old racecars
> PanchoVilleneuve ST
04/24/2014 at 17:28 |
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Thank you! "google-fu" :D
AthomSfere
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:29 |
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Übel
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:30 |
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I don't recognize the 4th character, but it's "Japanese (something) car"
Edit: Eh, fuck it, close enough
Moves-Like-Senna
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:31 |
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Fluent in Japanese and reporting! I don't have time right now to look into it much but it's - "Japan's Great Cars" (translation may be a little rough)
http://deagostini.jp/NNM/?title_cod…
The issue you posted is the Jan 4th 2014 issue.
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AthomSfere
> Übel
04/24/2014 at 17:34 |
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It's MEI / Name.
As best as I can make it:
More or less Exceptional Japanese Cars.
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Übel
> AthomSfere
04/24/2014 at 17:40 |
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Okay, thanks. It's been about 5 years since I've taken Japanese, and I've had a bit of Chinese since then so I'm more than a little rusty with my kanji :p
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AthomSfere
> Übel
04/24/2014 at 17:42 |
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LOL, NP. I started to learn Cantonese, could carry a convo and then stopped.
I thought about learning to read and write it, but realized it would screw up my Japanese reading like French screwed up my English vowels... So I stopped!
How far did you get with Chinese?
RazoE
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/24/2014 at 17:49 |
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If you have an android (and you should), download the official "Google Translate" app. You scan the text with your camera and it'll translate in real-time. Trippy.
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Übel
> AthomSfere
04/24/2014 at 17:54 |
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I got further in one year of Mandarin than I did in two of Japanese :p I would've been able to get by as a tourist in China just fine, but I wasn't quite conversational. For whatever reason, I never could get the hang of Japanese all that well.
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ptak appreciates old racecars
> Moves-Like-Senna
04/24/2014 at 18:00 |
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Thanks man! One thing, in that link you posted, does the "298" in the yellow part of the banner refer to the pages? I'm doubtful somehow.
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AthomSfere
> Übel
04/24/2014 at 19:13 |
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I was learning Hong Kong Cantonese, slightly different than the main dialect. It wasn't hard converse in, but pronunciation... They have tones like Thai basically and words sound exactly like other words to me. Famous example: Say essentially hai and it means yes, use another tone hAI and it means vagina.
But as far as negatives and basics go, peasy!
Japanese I never had much issue with either, five sounds more or less. What I do have trouble with more than anything else are counters though. Part of me wants to use them for everything, another part wants to never use them. Why cant it just be instead of .
Languages I don't enjoy learning:
Korean, Thai, Russian!
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Übel
> AthomSfere
04/24/2014 at 19:20 |
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Yeah, tones are a universal part of Chinese. The mandarin word for yellow was a tone away from being the word for porn :p
For wherever reason, Japanese vocabulary just never stuck with me. I could read it fine (as long as it was hiragana or katakana) and know what was a noun, adjective, whatever, but past that I'd have nothing.
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AthomSfere
> Übel
04/24/2014 at 21:36 |
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LOL, Hiragana I learned in one night, Katakana I still fumble with because it all looks like Kanji or Hiragana to me. as the katakana vs Power for example is an issue.
Kanji - it takes work but it isn't too bad.
I thought about trying Mandarin but between the Cantonese, the Japanese and the lack of Mandarin speaking people around me anymore... Just haven't committed. I really just want to pick one and become 100% fluent for something.
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Moves-Like-Senna
> ptak appreciates old racecars
04/25/2014 at 09:34 |
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No problem! That's the price (anything in Japanese with a is price. I don't see a page count for the issue but it covers a few generations of Skylines, 200GT, Sport800, R360 Coupé and Sansa EX.