Screamin' Burrows

It is often said that globalization opens international markets, which is one of the reasons why learning Japanese is important. Japan is the third largest economy in the world after the United States and China. The Japanese economy is larger than those of Germany and the United Kingdom, which are ranked fourth and fifth largest.

The Japanese language is the ninth most spoken language in the world, with 128 million people speaking it as their first language in only two countries. Globally, Japanese is spoken by 128.3 million speakers.

It might be more difficult to find a Japantown than a Chinatown, but the Japanese diaspora can be found in several countries. Brazil has the largest Japanese community, followed by the United States, the Philippines, China, the United Kingdom, Peru, and Canada. Japanese communities are also found in Europe, South America, Central America, South Korea, Australia, New Zealand, East Asia, Southeast Asia, South Pacific Islands, Qatar, Pakistan, and Russia.

Japanese historians say that each language has its own background. Few offensive words exist in the Japanese language that pertains to the bodies of animals and humans compared to other languages. The fact is that an agricultural country like Japan is more focused on plants and rice than animals such as cattle. The Japanese do know bad words and can use them although they are too polite to use such words in public.

Japanese linguist Haruhiko Kindaichi believes that a country’s national character is reflected in the language. For the Japanese, they try to avoid speaking directly. It’s because they care for and are sensitive to other people’s feelings. The downside of this is that it creates mistakes in using honorifics.

Haruhiko Kindaichi, who creates dictionaries of the Japanese language, said that people should think about how they use the Japanese language, although he said that as languages change, he could tolerate how the younger Japanese generation often speaks new words.

The ”spirit of words” or Kotodama in Japanese, makes the language important to the people. Kindaichi believes that the local accents are important in shaping the language, making it richer since the accents and dialects fill up the gaps that the standard language cannot fill.

In the United States, more and more students realize that being able to communicate in another language is a vital feature of a well-rounded U.S. education. Communication and language are the core of human experience and it is important for the U.S. to educate its students to make them culturally and linguistically equipped to communicate with the local multiethnic society and global audiences.

Because English is no longer the exclusive language of business, it is critical that people start learning other languages in order to communicate in the language of the customer.

Among a large number of foreign languages, learning Japanese creates a variety of benefits for American and other students.

The Pacific Rim and Asia continue to increase their global importance. The relationships between the U.S. and Japan have strategic and economic significance. Thus, it is critical that more Americans should be proficient in Japanese. It’s common knowledge that the Japanese are very nationalistic and even if they can speak and write in another language, they would prefer to have their written texts in Japanese. Thus, access to information could be easier if people know the language. Fluency in Japanese allows people to improve communication and gain deeper knowledge and a higher understanding of Japan as a nation and as a culture.

As the Asian economy rises, more opportunities for work would be available. Japanese is a language that is not commonly taught or studied, like French, German or Spanish. Learning Japanese will boost your professional value. When you learn Japanese, you’ll have less competition in opportunities available in different fields, such as business, social sciences, humanities, technology, science, journalism, and tourism. If you want to be a translator for the government or a language services provider, your competition is lower when you speak Japanese compared to other more commonly taught languages.

You could also have better chances of promotion. If you’re working for an international corporation, speaking a foreign language like Japanese creates more opportunities for you to be assigned to an overseas branch.

The Japanese culture is unique. It’s a combination of traditional and modern practices. Typically, social conducts are not something you will see in the West. Their cultural traditions are ingrained in the people, young and old, and these traditions dictate the way they react, interact and behave. These are also manifested in the way they write, read, hear and talk. The younger generation could exhibit very modern behaviors, talk and dress differently but they still follow traditions their elders have taught them.

Understanding the Japanese language will open your eyes to Japanese history, martial arts, entertainment, culture, and fashion.

Learning Japanese will help you to appreciate your own culture as well as your own language because it improves your communication and cognitive skills. Accessing a culture that is very different from yours will heighten your awareness that cultures and languages vary.

As a student, learning Japanese helps you gain broader perspectives, higher thinking skills, and new learning strategies that you can apply to your other academic subjects.

Your proficiency in Japanese can be your stepping-stone to teaching English in Japanese high schools or even working in some local Japanese organizations of the government. The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme (JET) is an annual program where foreign students who pass the criteria and review process can stay and teach in Japan for one full year. It is a program to promote internationalization through the development of mutual understanding between Japan and other countries. Its aim is to increase Japanese education in foreign languages. You can continue to study the Japanese language during your stay.

Other Asian nations, such as Korea, China, and India exerted influence over Japanese history. Although the Asian cultures are different, they also share some similarities, which you’ll be able to recognize when you study the language. You’ll see the values they share with the country, including aesthetics, ethics, and religious beliefs.

It will likewise help you learn other languages in Asia. Japanese grammar is quite similar to Korean grammar. Both have advanced honorifics system to show respect to persons of higher stature, older family members, and strangers. Their writing system has similarities with the Chinese writing system, therefore, it would be easier for you to learn and understand either Chinese or Korean.

Japan is a nation that is geographically isolated. Considering the devastation of the country during WWII and the fact that natural resources are scarce on the island, it’s impressive how the Japanese were able to turn things around. It is astonishing how the Japanese were able to rely on their scientific knowledge and creativity to make their country economically successful. They are leaders in various fields of technology such as fermentation processes, industrial robotics, semiconductor manufacturing, electronics, and optical media. They are great innovators, attested by their being on top of the list of patent filings in the world. Each year, around 420,000 patent applications are filed by Japanese inventors.

If you work in the technology field, especially robotics, learning Japanese will be very advantageous for you. You’ll be able to understand Japanese cutting-edge technology. Aside from the robotic tools that help the manufacturing and other labor-intensive industries, Japan has created various robots, including animals and humanoids for various applications.

Do you still remember the Aibo robot dogs? They are being utilized in facilities that care for the elderly. Other robots including the Tree, humanoid Pepper, and Paro, the furry seal often coach and lead the elderly through their daily exercises. Palro is a small humanoid conversational robot used in elderly care facilities to guide them in their daily routines or conduct conversations with them. Another version of Pepper has become important in filling the lack of workers in the food service industry. Japanese inventors have successfully created human-like robots as well that are able to conduct a normal conversation.

Globalization has opened new markets and allowed countries to engage in trade faster. However, there is always the problem of communication because nations speak different languages, which is why learning new languages is increasingly encouraged. Being able to speak other languages improves economic ties because communication is facilitated and understanding is enhanced.

Improving understanding and communication depends on accurate translation. For high-quality Japanese to English, English to Japanese, or any other world language, rely on the expert translators of Day Translations, Inc. Our translators are all native speakers and we have subject matter experts to ensure that your Japanese translation comes out perfect.

Get in touch with us at 1-800-969-6853 or contact us anytime. We are open 24/7, 365 days of the year. Our translators, who are located worldwide, can respond to your translation request quickly.

Sitecore Experience Manager contains the Sitecore content management system without the Experience Database ( xDB ) enabled and without the

After he was drafted to the SmackDown brand during the 2019 Draft, The Fiend defeated Rollins at Crown Jewel

Micromate Marketing Corporation is one of the Provincial Distributors of Yakult Philippines Incorporated in Region I Prohealth Sales Distributor Corporation

Not only is arbitrage legal in the US and most developed countries, and consequently, the arbitrage opportunity will disappear as the prices of the

BioShock Infinite's first downloadable content is a staged arena mini-game in which you fight wave upon wave of Columbia's badguys while attempting to get high scores on the leaderboards and earn buckets of cash.

The best way to earn the cash is to complete Blue Ribbon Challenges, which provide fun and sometimes extremely challenging twists to each stage.

For instance, early on you might be asked to kill all the enemies using skyline drop kills; later you need to possess one enemy and have it kill another while you've tossed the second into the air using Bucking Bronco. Not an easy thing to do, especially if you want to stay alive while doing it.

Each round you beat you move on to face tougher hordes.

Between each round you upgrade your health, shield, or salts and pick weapons for the next fight. You can spend your cash to upgrade your vigors or your arsenal, similar to in the main game though it all happens much quicker. You also get various pieces of gear between rounds.

You can unlock a total of four stages that get progressively harder as you go using cash you've earned as well. Dying during any round in each of the stages results in either forfeiting your rank on the leaderboard and continuing where you died, or starting over from the beginning.

If you like this sort of challenge, you'll enjoy Clash in the Clouds.

I actually think it's well worth the five bucks, if only because I enjoy spending more time in Columbia and because while it's far from perfect, I still find the combat in Infinite pretty fun.

There was too much of it in the main game, but in a combat-focused side game like this it's much more interesting, especially with the Blue Ribbon Challenges.

Another reason I enjoyed the DLC is the inclusion of a little BioShock Infinite museum. You can take the cash you earn fighting and unlock various character models, concept art, and some modern tunes given that old time religion sound that permeated the base game.

Better still, hidden in this little museum is a secret that helps shed just a tiny bit more light on the mysteries surrounding Booker, Comstock, and the city of Columbia, not to mention inter-dimensional travel and the origin of the vigors.

If you got a kick out of the game's story the first time around, finding these few extra clues is well worth your time, and a nice touch to a DLC pack that's largely all about killing things.

As horde-battle combat goes, I had a lot of fun with the DLC, but I'm looking forward to the coming two-part Burial at Sea far more. Heading back to Rapture to uncover the mysteries of that city's fall from grace sounds like a lot more fun to me.

I also think the DLC underscores one of the great missing elements from Infinite: stealth.

What an enormously satisfying thing a stealth / non-lethal approach would have been.

Having just recently played Dishonored: The Knife of Dunwall, I realize how much this option adds to the overall experience. Stealth wouldn't necessarily work great in this particular DLC, but I'd love to have more if it one way or another.

Even just the more open-ended approach to any given combat we saw in Far Cry 3 would have spiced up Infinite to some degree (just as the level of writing and world-building in Infinite could have helped Far Cry 3's rambling narrative.)

But here, at least, in this first DLC pack, we get the combat distilled to all its best parts. Maybe not a Buy for everybody, but for $4.99 I think the price is right.

On a final note, as much as I'm really not a competitive multiplayer shooter type of guy, I do think it would make sense to have a similar DLC centered on that. Let people choose from regular human, Handyman, Fireman, etc. and go crazy in huge, sprawling maps with skylines, tears to open up, and so forth. It could be really fun.

BioShock Infinite: Clash in the Clouds DLC

Platform: Xbox 360, PS3, PC

Developer: Irattional Games

Publisher: 2K Games

Released: July 30th, 2013

Price: $4.99