"Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Ryan Ginstrom" <ginstrom@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > "Ken Yasumoto-Nicolson" <ken_nicolson@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:6afefaef.0403021533.5ecf3bd3@posting.google.com...
> > > Eh? I'm being totally whooshed here!?! Or did you reply to the wrong
> > person?
> >
> > Actually when I wrote that I was extremely drunk, having just returned
at
> > 3am from a shinnenkai session. One thing Okinawans like to do is drink.
>
> Shinnenkai?!? I knew the Okinawans were the laid-back sort, but not
> two months worth of laid-backness?

If it's any consolation that was probably the last of them. Now it's on to
the BBQ parties.

> > But didn't you start that "JLPT2 Failure!" thread? I just meant to say
that
> > your Japanese seems to have gotten a lot better really quickly.
>
> Oh, I see what you mean! But, I failed it, so... And I've been here
> for almost six years (eek!), not two.

Has it been that long? Time sure flies, don't it.

Nevertheless, it seems just a few short years ago that you were having
trouble with some fairly simple Japanese. To be able to gist-read a
newspaper is quite a step up from that. Have you been doing anything in
particular to study?

-- 
Regards,
Ryan Ginstrom