Remember me?
It has been a year since I removed myself from this forum, but in my absence I have periodically reminisced about my English experience in Australia and my attempt to influence, even in the slightest way possible, students of the Japanese language.
Perhaps you might remember me as the one who arrived with the humblest intention of positively encouraging and guiding students who study Japanese under a less-than-perfect education scheme, but who left with a deeply contrasting and aggressive explosion of prodigiously bad taste and impetuous rebelliousness.
For those of you who might on occasion leaf through my old, often seemingly deluded and paranoid posts relating to the cultural subtleties of Japan (as opposed to the mere linguistic technicalities of the Japanese language), I hope that you will see that all was done in good humor and make an attempt to understand the true intent of my correspondences.
Rather than pose as a Japanese dictionary, which your schoolteacher is more capable of doing, I attempted to give an unrestrained portrayal of Japan's cultural acceptance of non-native speakers in an attempt to help the users of this forum utilize their Japanese skills more appropriately, as opposed to more 'correctly'.
Perchance I brought my views to this forum a little abruptly and unexpectedly, however I attempted to cushion their impact on their readers through often comedic and exaggeratedly impulsive follow up replies, some of which, from my current point of view, were quite unbecoming to say the least -
Towards the end, I admit that at times I quite irresponsibly implied the mishaps of my family's elders (an example being the events of WWII) in my attempt to parody the often irrational mindset of anti-Imperialist WWII time Japanese. Having said that, I also recall more than once presenting an inflated version of my own criticisms relating to the modus vivendi of the more avant-garde group of young female Japanese.
At no time did I purport to be the bad guy of the forum; my rantings were one of the outcomes of my failure to tactfully put forth some of the somewhat unsettling truths about Japanese culture and society through the eyes of a young Japanese male who has two eyes, two ears, and a significant amount of experience with current and past students of the Japanese language. I initially attempted to present a clear and arguably fair set of facts about my country's culture but these were fiercely rebutted by several users who possessed next to no experience in Japanese culture. I was without doubt angered by this naive stubbornness, and I countered it by carelessly slipping down the road of bad taste.
Had I merely sat here and corrected phrases, perhaps I would have been better received by the majority of this forum.
As a year has passed, most of those of you who may remember me will be well into your University studies by now. Maybe you have decided to continue Japanese and maybe not. I just hope that I did not steer any of you away from the language with my rather cryptic propositions or my sometimes inappropriate digressions. For those of you who have decided to continue in your pursuit of Japanese fluency, I offer you all my best wishes and hope that somewhere along the line you have been able to extract something beneficial from my unceremonious lessons in Japanese sociology.
As for me, I am in my second year of my Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science at Osaka University Medical School / School of Allied Health Sciences. My English skills have proven to be nothing short of invaluable and I have my parents to thank for my unconventional upbringing which permitted my advancement in the language.
I will be visiting Sydney and possibly other Australian destinations in a few months' time and it may be nice, if any of you are willing, to finally meet some of the users of this forum in public. I will surely extend my greatest hospitality to any of you if you ever travel to Osaka in the future.
Anarchistically yours,
The infamous Takuya Ando.
It has been a year since I removed myself from this forum, but in my absence I have periodically reminisced about my English experience in Australia and my attempt to influence, even in the slightest way possible, students of the Japanese language.
Perhaps you might remember me as the one who arrived with the humblest intention of positively encouraging and guiding students who study Japanese under a less-than-perfect education scheme, but who left with a deeply contrasting and aggressive explosion of prodigiously bad taste and impetuous rebelliousness.
For those of you who might on occasion leaf through my old, often seemingly deluded and paranoid posts relating to the cultural subtleties of Japan (as opposed to the mere linguistic technicalities of the Japanese language), I hope that you will see that all was done in good humor and make an attempt to understand the true intent of my correspondences.
Rather than pose as a Japanese dictionary, which your schoolteacher is more capable of doing, I attempted to give an unrestrained portrayal of Japan's cultural acceptance of non-native speakers in an attempt to help the users of this forum utilize their Japanese skills more appropriately, as opposed to more 'correctly'.
Perchance I brought my views to this forum a little abruptly and unexpectedly, however I attempted to cushion their impact on their readers through often comedic and exaggeratedly impulsive follow up replies, some of which, from my current point of view, were quite unbecoming to say the least -
Towards the end, I admit that at times I quite irresponsibly implied the mishaps of my family's elders (an example being the events of WWII) in my attempt to parody the often irrational mindset of anti-Imperialist WWII time Japanese. Having said that, I also recall more than once presenting an inflated version of my own criticisms relating to the modus vivendi of the more avant-garde group of young female Japanese.
At no time did I purport to be the bad guy of the forum; my rantings were one of the outcomes of my failure to tactfully put forth some of the somewhat unsettling truths about Japanese culture and society through the eyes of a young Japanese male who has two eyes, two ears, and a significant amount of experience with current and past students of the Japanese language. I initially attempted to present a clear and arguably fair set of facts about my country's culture but these were fiercely rebutted by several users who possessed next to no experience in Japanese culture. I was without doubt angered by this naive stubbornness, and I countered it by carelessly slipping down the road of bad taste.
Had I merely sat here and corrected phrases, perhaps I would have been better received by the majority of this forum.
As a year has passed, most of those of you who may remember me will be well into your University studies by now. Maybe you have decided to continue Japanese and maybe not. I just hope that I did not steer any of you away from the language with my rather cryptic propositions or my sometimes inappropriate digressions. For those of you who have decided to continue in your pursuit of Japanese fluency, I offer you all my best wishes and hope that somewhere along the line you have been able to extract something beneficial from my unceremonious lessons in Japanese sociology.
As for me, I am in my second year of my Bachelor of Medicine and Bachelor of Pharmaceutical Science at Osaka University Medical School / School of Allied Health Sciences. My English skills have proven to be nothing short of invaluable and I have my parents to thank for my unconventional upbringing which permitted my advancement in the language.
I will be visiting Sydney and possibly other Australian destinations in a few months' time and it may be nice, if any of you are willing, to finally meet some of the users of this forum in public. I will surely extend my greatest hospitality to any of you if you ever travel to Osaka in the future.
Anarchistically yours,
The infamous Takuya Ando.
