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    <title>Ai : The Most Beautiful Language & "Kugelschreiber!" (6)</title>
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Which language do you believe is the most beautiful?  I found an interesting topic in What a strange expression! community.<br /><br />http://lang-8.com/discuss/1288?c=173<br /><br />I don't think there is the most beautiful language because all languages are equally beautiful.  And the beauty is easily influenced by the subjects.  But I would like to know what language sounds beautiful for you.  In my opinion, any language sounds beautiful when it is spoken by girls. ^o^<br /><br />The person who created this topic says that the Japanese language is one of the most beautiful languages and the German language sounds guttural.  I don't know if Japanese sounds good or not, but I like Japanese poetry, both modern one and classic one.  If you are interested in beautiful Japanese poetry, phrase, or words, I recommend you a book, "声に出して読みたい日本語（こえにだしてよみたいにほんご）".  It makes us want to pronounce such Japanese.  About the German language.  It sounds very cool for me.  I know this is a little bit silly, but I feel that I can defeat any enemy if I shout "Kugelschreiber! (a ballpoint pen/a Biro)".  XD  I wonder if Germany people call Kugelschreiber other name for short?  I would like to know other cool words like Kugelschreiber to save the earth.  Haha, I'm only joking. ^w^
<br /><br />Posted at Sun Jun 07 14:53:16 UTC 2009<br />]]></description>
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    <title>Ai : The way of greeting (4)</title>
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My University is in Kyoto.  There are so many foreign tourists.  I am sometimes asked how they can go to tourist spots.  Last week, I was asked the directions to a famous temple in Kyoto by an American couple.  I managed to tell them how they can reach there and we talked a little.  At parting, they said "Arigatou(Thanks)" and joined their palms together.  The day before yesterday, a French couple said to me "Konnichiwa(Hello)" to ask me the directions to a station and joined their palms together.  I realised that they regarded joining their palms together as the way of Japanese greeting.  You may already know, Japanese people don't do that.  We generally bow as our greeting.  It is when we ask a person to do something difficult, when we sincerely appreciate someone's kindness, or when we sincerely apologise to someone that we join our palms together.  I was not offended by their misunderstanding, but I will explain about that if  I met a person who misunderstand the way of Japanese greeting again.
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