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I’m on my second gopro (a hero 10). It will overheat in the shade outside in summer. The battery also crapped out quite early, though they did find another one to send me (I bought it new from them directly, but after newer models released). I don’t see myself buying another of their cameras.

Neat! I have a video on the topic in my to-watch list, but hadn’t looked into the details yet so far.

Korean due to it being an alphabe

Technically, it’s not; it’s a syllabary like Japanese katakana and hiragana.

Is it actually that hard while Japanese phonology is considered “easier” to pick up.

Japanese is dead easy for an English speaker so long as they remember that vowel length matters, and the R is not a standard General American R.

Korean has a couple of sounds/features (tense consonants) not in use in General American, but nothing insurmountable. I’d call it more difficult but only very slightly so.

Tone

Korean is actually considered to be undergoing tonogenesis, so that’s kinda neat.

Tone isn’t a huge deal; even if you get it wrong, there’s usually only one thing that makes sense in the context of the sentence. Not a worry in Korean at the moment. Japanese has pitch accent which can cause the same issue (If I’m running through the field plucking はな (hana), you’re not going to think it means ‘nose’ here if I get the pitch accent wrong).

One can pick up reading Korean more quickly than Japanese (if no Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja experience otherwise), though I found bacchim to be annoying. In exchange, Korean tends to have some grammatical features lacking in Japanese, but I never got far enough to learn what those were (outside of some more forms of address/honorific).

• bailing hay/straw in the summer for a neighbor from
• working at a fast food place
• working in retail at a farm store
• working at a movie theater

All before I turned 18 starting at 13. At first for the money, then to be out of a tough home situation as much as possible.

They could have briefly sent a fax to a Samurai, in theory. Technically not one in Japan since no cables, but a Japanese embassy in the UK (as in a group of people rather than a building) could have sent a commercial fax.

Joetsu, Niigata, Japan. I can’t put my finger on it and was only there for a day, but I don’t feel any need to go back. Weird layout, bad roads, rusting (not that that’s rare for Japan outside of the metropolis areas), etc. People were a mixed bag as well, though no one was overtly unfriendly.

Having lived a number of years there, where in Houston you are can feel like entirely different cities (and, in terms of distance, probably should be).

Hah, nice! Thanks for the deep-dive. I only ever learnt Plätzchen when I studied German in the early 2000s in the US. At least so far as I can remember 20-something years later.

Well, I went from English (a mess) to japanese (differently a mess), so there is some masochistic aspect in there.

I considered learning Danish, but thought I might start with something a bit more pronounceable (I do not have faith in mastering stød or the various sounds very quickly).

Heh, I was thinking of Norwegian småkake. It’s crazy how much Danish I can read in posts around here now that I’m learning bokmål Norwegian. Well, not that surprising with history, I guess, heh.

In German, it’s diminutive, but it’s not from ‘cake’. I think it means little discs/plates or something, but it’s been a long time.

Out of the two: fly first class. The honest answer is I’d rather be on a train or a ship, though.

In some languages, it’s more like ‘cakies’ = little cakes.

I had them once when I was living in Houston, TX, USA. Unfortunately, I can’t have gluten-containing foods anymore so anything wheat-/flour-based is out. Thankfully, I can get corn tortillas. I mostly just cook things at home, these days.

I’ve eaten at a few Peruvian restaurants as well and I’m sure other countries that aren’t coming to mind right now. I just mentioned Mexican (and derivatives/fusions) as that was what the post was talking about.

not me, but I also have aphantasia and no inner voice that I can hear so that may be why.

My wife and I did a lot of travel so far this year. A ton of places, particularly more rural ones, had squat toilets. Even bars we went to in bigger cities would have them. Even when we lived in Tokyo, some places I used to frequent had them. It really just depends on the area.

For that, we’d need younger, educated, critical thinkers to actually vote. Usually, the three of those factors don’t exist together. I think voter turnout for youth is still like 50% or less. I know the populist far-right party got some votes recently for being good at social media, different, and offering simple solutions (most of which were “foreigner bad!”), but it didn’t seem to translate as much in the last election making it seem like more of a protest vote if anything.

I’ll agree that it’s better than taco bell, but that’s a really, really low bar. I’ve never found taco rice to be that good (within Okinawa or otherwise); it’s not terrible or anything, but often very bland.

In Japan over a decade here. There are still a lot of places with squat toilets and some people suck at using any toilets and are gross. I would not be surprised about this, particularly at a drinking establishment late at night.

It’s getting easier to find, but it was really hard for years. Even if you find a place that does Mexican (or TexMex or CaliMex), the menus tend to be limited and it tends to be expensive. I think the place I go in my nearest big city (Sendai) has tacos that are only a few cm in diameter and like 500 JPY each (pre-tax median annual salary is < 5 million JPY).

I found one place that did decent TexMex in Tokyo and it really went downhill after corona IMO. Not only did the menu get smaller, the prices went up.