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Originally Posted by tommasi
Sorry, when I say talk shit, it doesn't mean someone is talking bad things. It's an expression in English and in this case, people making comments about Japan based on false assumptions. To me, that is someone talking shit.
Of course I meant when you live in those countries, your ability to score high on those English proficiency tests would help you better understand local cultures.
I was just using it as an example and it's not a good comparison since English is pretty easy language to pick up and you don't need to have TOEFL scores to prove that you are fluent.
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Oh, yeah I understand then. Talk shit as in saying false things.
I don't know if english is significantly easier per se than e.g. japanese (with kanji excluded). Had I spent as much time studying/reading/writing/speaking japanese as I have english, I would've been fluent a good while ago.
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Originally Posted by Paul11
Are these really bad?
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What do you mean by "really bad"? It's not "life and death" bad (well most of it). But the thread asks for what people thought is bad or less good in Japan.
And yes, I would like to be able to buy meat. Not feeling like a stuffed turkey on a train would also be nice. I would like to eat genuine foreign food. But it's not like I would go and moan about it, if there wasn't a thread asking for it specifically.
I would, however, really like to feel like the police force is able to protect me.
Also another thing I just thought of. On really hot days in June, they often didn't enable the fan in the trains. I don't get why, as I assume they are aware of the heat in those trains, those days..