Learning any language is impossible to imagine without practice. And no one will argue that it is best to practice with a native speaker of the language being studied. In our case, with the Japanese.
But, unfortunately, in Russian cities, representatives of the Land of the Rising Sun do not go in crowds, so you have to look for them on the net.
So, where to meet a Japanese?
Interpals . (www.interpals.net/) . One of the most popular resources for finding pen pals. Here you can immediately indicate the level of knowledge of foreign languages and your native language. Thus, the search bar will mostly reflect native speakers of the language you specified.
Of course, one cannot ignoreFacebook (https://www.facebook.com). A huge number of Japanese have accounts on it, and it will not be difficult to find several interlocutors at once (or they will find you themselves).
The Japanese who are interested in Russia and Russian culture are likely to start a page in the Russian social networkIn contact with
(https://vk.com). In this case, the advantage will be that such Japanese themselves will willingly want to communicate with you - they also need to practice the Russian language, just like we do Japanese.
Window to Japan: Correspondence . (http:// en- jp. org/ penpals. htm). This is a Russian-Japanese correspondence club. On it there is an exchange of addresses of those people who wish to correspond. You send your questionnaire to the club administration by e-mail, it is sorted and distributed on the Japanese Internet. The same is true for Japanese letters.
Service Lang 8 (http:// language-8. com/ ) is intended for learning a foreign language in practice. On this site you post your text in Japanese, it is checked by native speakers. You, in turn, check the text in Russian, composed by a Japanese.
And now about the sites, where to meet the Japanese, on which knowledge of English is required:
Oh , my Japan ! (https://ohmyjapan.com/) Designed specifically for English speakers who are passionate about Japan and Japanese culture. Here you can find friends with similar interests, practice Japanese and English. The site also gives recommendations on how to properly correspond with a Japanese in English.
Japansugoi Community
friends
http://japansugoi.worldfriends.tv
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Search on this site is set by profile. When registering, you will have to indicate quite a lot of information about yourself (up to religion and body type), you also need to upload your own photo so that your profile is reflected in the search for other users.
A what to do if you want not just to reprint grammatical constructions, but to train a "living" language? There are resources for this too.where to meet japanese .
I must say that modern Japanese are far from being too modest, so the offer to chat “live” can come pretty soon (especially if you are a pretty girl).
Skype (http://www.skype.com/). A program that can provide several types of communication at once: video, voice and text. Proven way to communicate for years around the world.
A very popular resource in Asian countries isline (http://line.me). This application is for PC and smartphones. Designed for video calls and instant sharing sms and voice messages. The main difference between Line and applications of the same type is the presence of a built-in social network with support for blogs and comments.
In order for communication to really look like a constructive dialogue, start communicating with the Japanese when you have at least elementary grammar knowledge and, albeit a small, but stock of vocabulary used in everyday life. Otherwise, when you try to read messages in Japanese, you will dig into dictionaries, and when writing your own, you will suffer, trying to pull out the right word from the depths of consciousness.
Do not try to tell everything about yourself at once and more and do not arrange an interrogation. It is better to communicate in short phrases, asking unobtrusive questions, while not forgetting to answer the questions of the person with whom you are corresponding.
The international language is English. Therefore, if you can’t communicate normally in Japanese, then start with English, simultaneously pulling up Japanese in the classroom.
Everyone who just started to correspond with the Japanese faced the first questions and problems. The first and probably the easiest question is what language the correspondence is in. Naturally, the most common language is English, it is used by 95% of Japanese who want to meet foreigners, but you can also meet those who speak Russian. Of course, for a long and fruitful communication with the Japanese, ideally, it is best to know the Japanese language, or to perfect English. In the majority, all communication comes down to this: "I don't understand yours." And in the end, the Japanese lose interest in you. To prevent this from happening, one of the options is to learn Japanese in parallel.
And one more piece of advice that I would like to give to novice scribes: experience shows that at first it is better to write in short phrases in simple, even broken, English about your life than to load a distant and still unfamiliar "in the first lines of your short letter" friend with extensive knowledge of kabuki theater, anime manga, or Japanese martial arts. Also, the Japanese are not very verbose (though not all), so ask a lot of questions while answering them at the same time.
If, despite repeated attempts to enter into correspondence with the Japanese, no one wants to answer you, think about what you missed by sending your letters. What language do you send them in? In what encoding? Etc. Taking into account also the spam factor (not only we, but also the Japanese suffer from "junk e-mail"), it cannot be ruled out that those Japanese who recklessly posted their ads on the Internet with their e-mail address are now being attacked by spammers and may not thinking about sending all incomprehensible mail (or letters "with kryakozyabry") coming to their address to the trash can. This is especially likely if you send letters in Russian encoding. Therefore, if you suspect that your letters do not reach the addressee, we advise you either to write in English (in the international encoding Central / Western European), or (if you nevertheless decide to write in Russian to those Japanese who have declared their desire to correspond in Russian), send letters in Russian JAPANESE ENCODED ONLY: JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC etc. (Unfortunately, so far, few of the "fans of correspondence with the Japanese" know that the two-byte Japanese language encoding tables include, in addition to the signs of Japanese writing proper, almost all the national alphabets of the world, including the Russian Cyrillic alphabet, which means that it is possible to correspond in Russian using the Japanese encoding of the E-mail message ).
If what is written in the previous paragraph is a complete misunderstanding for you, and you want to ask the question: "What do the words mean - Russian encoding , Japanese encoding and other cryptic words and expressions used above?", then you need to first understand the basics of computer literacy (at least familiarize yourself with the methods of national text encoding in e-mail messages). We hope that some of the links below will help you learn about this presentation.
In addition to this important computer information, below you will find links to sites that host addresses of Japanese people who want to correspond with foreigners.
We wish you good luck and new pen pals!
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useful links
Russian-Japanese Network (RYaS) Russian page of the Japanese multilingual site of electronic correspondence with foreigners. The site was created by the Japanese and is dedicated not only to the correspondence of the Japanese with the Russians or those who speak Russian, but also the correspondence of the Japanese with the French, Spaniards, Italians, Germans, Portuguese, Koreans and Chinese.CORRESPONDENCE WITH THE JAPANESE Correspondence club on the website "WINDOW TO JAPAN". On this page, new addresses of Japanese people who want to correspond by e-mail are regularly posted. You can also submit your details to be posted on relevant sites in Japan.
Newsletter SAKURA The main goal of this project is to help you find pen pals. Of course, not in simple correspondence, but with a bias towards the topic, which is called “Japanese studies”.
dating japanese We want to immediately note that the ads posted on this site are taken from two sites, from among those links to which are given above. And one more very important detail, there is a section dedicated to tips for those who are just starting to correspond with the Japanese. Believe me, the Japanese are very specific in e-mail correspondence.
Communication with the Japanese? This is very easy to do: "1. Install support for languages written in hieroglyphs in Windows. (Start, Settings, Control Panel, Regional and Language Options). 2. Go to the site http://www.tcup.com/chat (Do not forget that Moscow and Tokyo have a 6 hour time difference). 3. Register with Penpal http://www.penpal.net and try to chat. To do this, it is best to familiarize yourself with some of the features in communicating with the Japanese, which I described above. 4. Download Skype http://www.skype.com and try to find someone from Japan" (these recommendations are posted on the Internet by one of the forum members at homenet.corbina.net).
CORRESPONDENCE EXAMPLES Here are examples of possible correspondence in Japanese by e-mail. Solely for educational purposes, the texts given are slightly simplified (just a little), so that the details do not overshadow the main thing. In addition, all letters are provided with the necessary comments. The most useful material for those who are going to correspond with the Japanese. The principles of correspondence are demonstrated. In addition, much attention is paid to the explanation of vocabulary, grammar, as well as the explanation of hieroglyphs (information on the site www.komi.com/japanese - "Japanese Self-Teacher").
How to wish Happy New Year New Year in Japan (the holiday coincides with the European New Year) is one of the brightest and most widely celebrated holidays. The form of verbal congratulations depends on when you start congratulating: before the New Year (before January 1) or after (information on the website www.komi.com/japanese
Writing a New Year's card (12/23/2006) In general, New Year's cards in Japan are not at all like ours. Firstly, that they are just classic postcards, when on one side there is a picture with text, and on the other - only an address. Often they sell again "clean" postcards, and the sender writes and draws everything necessary on his own. There are also those where the drawing takes up about half of the postcard, and the rest of the space is left to be filled in manually. There are also such blank postcards on which you can print photos. Often people create a postcard on a computer and then print it even on their home printer. And yet, it is still believed that a fully printed postcard is not serious, disrespectful towards the addressee, so you need to write at least words of congratulations by hand. And, of course, the reverse side, where the address and name are written, is filled out exclusively by hand (information on the site www.komi.com/japanese - "Japanese Language Tutorial").
Japanese network encodings Although the Japanese language itself is not very complex, it uses one of the most complex writing systems... All this, of course, causes problems with the use of Japanese writing in computing (databases (SQL), e-mail, news, WWW). Such a large number of characters cannot be represented in one byte. Therefore, multibyte encodings are used when one character occupies two, three or more bytes.
A consequence of the arbitrariness of the code table Russian Internet and e-mail users are constantly faced with the problem of text encoding mismatch. For various historical reasons, in different computer systems, the placement of letters of the Russian alphabet (Cyrillic) falls on different code values. (It is worth saying that such problems in a somewhat weakened form are valid for all alphabets that have letters that are not included in the Latin alphabet, especially these problems are exacerbated if there is an exchange between them and the Cyrillic alphabet).
Email problems Email has several issues that you need to be aware of in order to use it most effectively. The most important problem is the encoding problem, from which, as we will see below, two things follow at once...
MANY ENCODINGS, BUT ONE HEAD... The number of main languages spoken by humanity is not precisely calculated, but there are about 200 of them. On the one hand, this is good and they need to be preserved as elements of the culture and identity of different peoples. On the other hand, the presence of a large number of languages makes communication and mutual understanding between different people difficult... Unfortunately, the situation in the world of computers is approximately the same. Now we are not talking about programming languages (of which there are also many), we are talking about various encodings in which information is presented ... If the first 128 characters were initially standardized and recognized by almost all countries, then there is some chaos with the second 128 characters. Of course, there are many countries and national languages, too, so these 128 characters were given over to national languages. Everything would be fine, but even here there is no unity. Take, for example, Russian symbols, which are of most interest to all of us. Three encodings are widely used here: DOS-866, Win-1251 and KOI-8, although there are several less popular ones.
Correspondence with the Japanese Tons of helpful tips on the Fushigi Nippon forum.
friends An interactive database of those wishing to find pen pals. You can set the selection by age, language of correspondence, place of residence in Japan, etc. (On the website: www.japan-guide.com Note: site in English).
Video chat "Chatroulette" is a unique place. In it you can meet a person living. Web chat is easily configured for both western and eastern territories, one of which is the amazing, unique, mysterious Land of the Rising Sun. This name was assigned to Japan thanks to the Chinese, whose state was located in the west. The word "Japan" came into the Russian language from the Europeans. The Japanese themselves call their country Nihon, or Nippon - "Source of the Sun."
Chatroulette web chat is set to Japan in the following way:
- We are looking for a drop-down menu at the top of the page.
- Click in chatroulette on All countries.
- Select Japan from the list of countries.
Communication with the Japanese Chatroll is fraught with a lot of unpredictable things, so it’s better to first get acquainted with the character traits of your interlocutors.
No matter how ridiculous it may sound, but Japanese chat roulette differs from Russian not just like day and night, but like day and... a meteor shower: there seem to be common ground, but you dig deeper - and you see that there is nothing in common!
Unlike representatives of Western civilization, the Japanese lack a sense of self-worth. They will not strive to stand out from the team, since the main thing for them is the position to be like everyone else. Those who fail to do so usually leave Japan. The rest live and live in the unique atmosphere of yenryo - respectful distancing, entailing yoroshika - the principle of silent mutual understanding. Every Japanese considers it his duty to understand what the interlocutor says between the lines (the principle of honne - true intentions), which allows you not to climb into the soul of a person once again, crossing the line that is important for any Japanese - personal inner space. The latter for the Japanese is not so much a taboo, but rather an indicator of social kinship, determined not so much by blood, but by the situation that led to a conversation about something intimate. This state of affairs automatically brings the Japanese closer, making them members of one social group that only they can understand.
The concept of friendship is not alien residents of Japan, but it is somewhat different from the usual weeping into a girlfriend's vest or a night "bazaar" in someone's kitchen in an attempt to find out who respects whom more. The Japanese are friends evenly and calmly, talking on neutral topics (weather, hobbies) and do not hesitate to interrupt all contact with a person for several months. In this regard, online communication is ideal for making friends with a Japanese guy or girl who may not be too sincere, but will easily make contact with even the most henna gaijin - a strange foreigner. Why strange? Yes, because it's not Japanese. And that's it!
Before deciding how to meet Japanese people, first answer yourself the question: “Why do you want to do this?”
If you are a girl, and thanks to your acquaintance with a Japanese, you want to solve your material and personal problems by marrying him - stop! One important thing to remember is that if you use men, one day men will use you. I will not tell here the unsuccessful stories of the marriages of Russian girls with foreigners, there are too many of them on the net to repeat once again, and I will not recommend the sites of marriage agencies, since I have never used them, I don’t use them, and I don’t advise using them ...
Acquaintance with the Japanese as a goal makes sense only in one case - if you are studying the language and culture of Japan, and you need to communicate with native speakers.
The easiest way to get to know Japanese is through language learning websites.
Here are some of them:
- http://www.busuu.com/ru
- http://www.italki.com/learn-japanese/ru
- http://ru.livemocha.com/learn-japanese/japanese-language
In many cities of Russia there are centers for studying the Japanese language, where all kinds of meetings with native speakers are held.
- ANO "Japanese Center" at Moscow State University, Moscow http://www.jcenter.msu.ru/
- Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Moscow http://www.linguanet.ru/collaboration/japan/
- Cultural Center "Japanese House", Moscow http://www.japan-center.ru/about
- Department of Japanese Culture VGBIL Moscow http://www.jpfmw.ru/
- ANO "Japanese Center in St. Petersburg", Moscow http://www.jpcenter.spb.ru/
- Japanese Center in Nizhny Novgorod http://www.jcnn.ru/
- ICC "Japan", Yekaterinburg http://www.ikcjapan.ru/origami
- Club of lovers of Japanese culture, Orenburg http://www.osu.ru/doc/2142
- Municipal cultural center "Siberia-Hokkaido", Novosibirsk http://www.sibirhokkaido.ru/ru/node/61
- Japanese Cultural Center in SFU, Krasnoyarsk http://international.sfu-kras.ru/japan-center
- Japanese Center in Vladivostok http://www.vladjc.ru/index.html, http://www.jp-club.ru/
- Japanese Center on Sakhalin http://www.jcentersakh.ru/main.html
- Japanese Center in Khabarovsk Japanese Center in Khabarovsk www.japancenter.khv.ru
Today you even have the opportunity to settle a native speaker at home! If you join the youth organization AIESEC http://www.aiesec.ru/, then acquaintance not only with the Japanese, but also with Americans, Cubans, Indians, Italians and other foreign citizens will become a reality for you!
The surest way to find Japanese friends is to go to Japan, but we'll talk about that some other time, because first you need to find out what the Japanese think about Russians in our blog. Learn Japanese!))))))
All blog articles can be found in the Table of Contents.
Japan attracts many Russians with its unusualness, dissimilarity to Russia, which causes a desire to get to know the culture of this country better. It is best to do this in communication with the Japanese themselves. The language barrier can be a stumbling block in this. Of course, in Japan, as in Russia, many speak English, but such a “triple translation (Russian-English-Japanese and vice versa) can pretty much distort the meaning. Learning Japanese is not easy, so there is a desire to find friends in Japan who study Russian. Such people are probably interested in Russian culture and will certainly want to communicate with Russians.
There are special sites for such international dating, one of them is interpals.net. When registering, the maximum data is indicated: gender, year of birth, country and city, hobbies, favorite books, films, music, a free-form story about yourself, a request to other users (here you can indicate, for example, residents of which countries you would like to meet , or vice versa - indicate the categories of people with whom there is no desire to communicate), the purpose of acquaintance (from improving language skills to romantic relationships). In addition, you must specify the languages in which the user is able to communicate, and the level of proficiency in them.
The site has a convenient search system where you can select a country (Location), language (Language), gender, age range (minimum age - 16 years old, maximum - 110) and the purpose of dating from the list. In this case, you need to select the female gender, Japan in the Location item and Russian in the Language item. In the "Keywords" field, you can specify some additional criterion - for example, your favorite writer, then the system will find those who know Russian and who also love it (if, of course, there are those on the site). True, it cannot be guaranteed that only Russians living in this country will be on the list, but you can already read about this in the profiles. Then you can write private messages to people, add them as friends, comment on their photos and posts - in a word, communicate, like in any social network.
There are also sites that are specially adapted for communication in order to learn languages, for example, lang-8.com. Here, when registering, along with other data, the mother tongue and the language being studied are indicated. Each user writes a blog in the language he is learning, and those for whom this language is native help him by correcting mistakes. To do this, the system shows each user on the main page posts in his native language. There are a lot of Japanese and Japanese women studying Russian on the site, their posts in the language will definitely come across. The matter is not limited to correcting errors - the site has various communities of interest, a system for sending private messages.
Another similar site is itaki.com. Here, when registering, they also indicate the native and studied languages, whether the user is interested in the paid services of a teacher, whether he wants to establish friendly relations with other visitors or only wants to study with a teacher, as well as the usual personal data. To achieve the above goal, after registration, you must click the "Find a partner for learning a language" button, select Japanese in the "he/she speaks" item, Russian in the "he/she is studying" item, from the countries - Japan, gender - female. You can even enter a specific Japanese city. From the two sites described above, itaki.com compares favorably with the presence of a Russian version.
There are other sites of international communication, which are also used by Japanese women who study Russian.
