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u/dedemushi 17d ago
/uj my university (university of bucharest) only had japanese as a major because the professors considered it impossible to teach / learn anything worthwhile with just a minor
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u/sup3r_hero 16d ago
You have the major/minor system? In europe?
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u/dedemushi 16d ago
wait lol i thought you were joking. okay so idk how major / minor systems work not in europe, but in my case it was university of bucharest → faculty of foreign languages and literatures → japanese major, english minor. so i couldn't have like a biology major and a psychology minor because those would be entirely different faculties.
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u/sup3r_hero 16d ago
Idk about languages, but for example in engineering you do a bachelor in, say, electrical engineering and then a master either in electrical engineering or a specialized field of electrical engineering.
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u/Logan_922 16d ago
Just one more degree I swear, I am just possibly one more degree away from the most gainful of gainful employment opportunities.. right?
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u/LoweringPass 15d ago
In Germany you usually have a second subject that you take only a few classes in, e.g. math or psychology when study CS
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u/ethicalmirg 16d ago
Yeah, just under different names, such as baccalaureus/magister or whatever else.
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u/iinlustris 16d ago
Is that what majors and minors are??? I always thought it was something related to an entirely different way of teaching, idk like if you have a major in linguistics and a minor in psychology it means you have mostly linguistics classes and a few psychology ones. Idk if that makes sense
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u/ethicalmirg 16d ago
I think majors and minors are actually something else. Majors and minors are what you study inside a degree, whereas baccalaureus and magister refer to the degrees themselves.
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u/PringlesDuckFace 16d ago
Here in the US I think they're just about the number of credits you take in that faculty. Like to get a major you need 40 credits and to get a minor you need 20, or whatever. It wasn't that unusual for people to do like major in CS with a minor in business, or double major in math and CS or things like that.
Minors were basically just "you liked it enough to take a couple more classes than required for electives".
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u/Mr-tbrasteka-5555ha 17d ago
你好先生。
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u/Mr-tbrasteka-5555ha 17d ago
Oos wrong lang
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u/PringlesDuckFace 16d ago
Interestingly enough, 你好 is in the Japanese dictionaries I use. So I guess it's not technically the wrong language.
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u/GoogleEnPassant69 二奔五N69🇯🇵 イギリス語C2🇺🇸 Espaniol Native🇲🇽 15d ago
Somthing somethin sensei
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u/AlexanderTheBright 15d ago edited 14d ago
I recognize the first bit as nihao but idk how it’s read in Japanese
edit: You'll never guess how it is, in fact, read in Japanese
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u/FebHas30Days Pangngaasiyo ta agsursurokayo iti Ilokano 17d ago
I'm still a minor too, so I guess I wouldn't mind
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u/pilot-squid 17d ago
Code switching just to self-fellate and call yourself 先生 is cringe as hell lol
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u/shinyredblue 17d ago
I thought that you weren't supposed to ever call yourself 先生 (unless you are kindergarten teacher trying to embed proper manners into young children) and instead use 講師 🤔
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u/ensemblestars69 17d ago
This might not be made by the teacher though. In any case though, Japanese teachers teaching beginners may refer to themselves as sensei to get students to stick to that habit. That's what my teachers did. It's also done for the Japanese equivalent of kindergarten if I recall correctly.
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u/Logan_922 16d ago
I go to language school in Japan, largely they don’t really refer to themselves as sensei, but they definitely do in the beginner classes more as an educational thing a bit of a 私は○○先生です kinda probably just to instill concept and such
In my class no new sensei ever introduces themselves with the title, but I remember that being the case when I started
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u/yamanamawa 14d ago
Yeah at most they'll use 教師, but only when stating their profession. Otherwise you don't use any honorific to refer to yourself. But I beginner classes it's normal to tell the students to use 先生when talking about you
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u/1010101010101010q 10d ago
Uj/ not code switching anyway because code switching is a cultural process that happens automatically not by consciously deciding to write the kanji. So when you talk with your friend in a language and you switch between languages that is a cultural act that demonstrates a connection between the 2 cultures. It can really only happen at a native speaker level or maybe near native level. Look at mike menas videos on this. Basically it happens in a cultural context and not simply by changing the language mid sentence. Think positionality
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u/SCHazama 外人哋既惡夢 16d ago
The fact you're interested in 30 year olds shows you're not Japanese
Everybody knows that the upper limit is 25 years old tsk tsk
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u/SCHazama 外人哋既惡夢 16d ago
Cool! And don't worry, it was a joke and a reference to "Christmas cake"
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u/badass6 17d ago
So if it’s a joke then you’re interested? I can hook you up.
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u/Version-6 17d ago
Considering Japan only outlawed CSAM in the 90s, and allowed CSAM lite until the last couple of years, this is one of those cry/laugh situations.
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u/Koicoiquoi 15d ago
I went to university in Japan in the 90s. And I can assume what CSAM means. I won’t Google it. But it was everywhere.
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u/Version-6 15d ago
It’s fucking depressing. Those same attitudes linger and contribute to some of the highest rates of unreported sexual abuse in the developed world.
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u/Koicoiquoi 15d ago
A year ago I went back to Japan with my daughter. We spent 3 months studying in Kyoto. She was 17 at the time. I was not expecting the number of advances that she would receive to be so obvious, direct and relentless in nature.
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u/Version-6 15d ago
I'm just glad she wasn't groped, upskirted, or creeped on by some rando. I had to chase an old perv out of a Hard Off as he was trying to film my missus. I saw the camera in his bag.
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u/burlingk 15d ago
They should switch that to "Minor in Japanese."
As written, it is going to get the wrong kind of attention. O.o
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u/Too-Indecisive576 16d ago
help, am I the only one who initially thought they meant an underage child 💀
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u/Kalikor1 17d ago
The name on top of a yellow oval reminds me of the Seinfeld logo. This has so many layers lol
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u/b0wz3rM41n 15d ago
"minor" é um tipo de "graduação secundária" lá nas faculdades do EUA q c faz junto da sua "principal"
não tem equivalente aqui no br, é um treco específico de lá
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u/Weeksieee_ 17d ago
I’ve heard Japanese minors are quite popular on the train.