Bunkajin?

In Japanese there is a word, 文化人 which means cultured person.

I really don't think this is me. I know very little of literature or art, even compared to most university graduates...

I had a genuine interest in studying but it has been numbed by I feel two factors.

One:  The stupid academic system which I've discussed no end.

Two: The inability to compete with people from privileged backgrounds.

As for two how far do you take this....

"I never went abroad as a kid so I should give up on working for the United Nations"

"Anyone can do anything if they put there mind to it"

I fall between the two camps.

I never had any foreign holidays as a kid but someone high up in Toyota in the UK shook my hand and one of the top linguists in Canada offered to train me.

That said I don't think I could hack it in an EU job in Brussels... or compete with a top privately trained artist, or beat Super Rich Kid Magnus Carlsen at chess.

A street kid asked me if there was any point in him trying in life when other people are given such advantages. I said of course it is you can do anything if you try. He seemed to believe me...

But it is seeing these people with these advantages that made me quit and become an alcoholic.

In the next part of my life I hope to excell at painting foreign languages and chess as well as my physical training no matter what others around me are doing.

I am very proud to say I was a world class linguist despite all the odds.

Yeah im speaking to you

After I walked in to Uni and tore my degree up, A woman called Jarmila Hickman just stared at me. I stared back. She reciprocated. I imagined her thinking "you sub human wretch" Then I wrote this review of her book Shifts in Media Discourse: A Diachronic Study of Russian and Czech Headlines Coward lecturer won't fail students By Joshua of Liverpool on 12 Jan. 2013 I was a student at the university this coward teaches at and in the first year of my course she described the students I was in a group with as "the worst lot we've ever had." If she had any convictions she would have thrown them off the course. Come the fourth year these self same students were getting 2:1 degrees with the same appalling attitudes. Me and a handful of others were perceived as idiots for studying. Jarmila is responsible for failing these students and wasting years of people's lives - not just me but a handful of other talented students. We are many thousands of pounds in debt for her appalling behavior. No, I haven't read the book, but I am sure it is well written and informative. Jarmila is a coward for not sticking to her principles but I am sure the book is worth reading and there will be stuff in it of interest for anyone interested in the evolution of that most puristic of Slavic languages. The next time I saw her she looked at me sheepishly... I know Jarmila was a cog in the wheel, and I also don't know if I would have done the same in her situation, but she did not fail those students. I took her sheepishness as an apology. Another case in point is Karim Menacere who I reviewed on Rate my Professor Pros: He actually turned up to teach classes, unlike some of the other lecturers. Cons: I put significant amount of work into writing essays and reading books on translation only for this buffoon to give higher marks to students who took photographs on their holidays and called it "critique of translation". This lecturer's marking criterion changed entire degree classifications and I felt very short-changed by the 2:1 that I got. Several students who were (and still are) morons got 2:1 degrees. Karim's own colleagues even apolgised to me in his absence for the grotesque behaviour of him and his colleagues. This lecturer pulled me into his office, handed me a dip trans exam paper and said "this will be more your level". I am in debt for this condescending, patronising behaviour. In total I and a few others wasted six years for his hideous behaviour - two at A level and another four at university. I remember Karim asking me why I didn't carry on with French at university - the answer simple - I didn't want some arrogant, short-sighted buffoon "teaching" me for astronomical tuition fees. I want to share what I think of these pair as they wasted a hell of a lot of my, and a handful of other committed students' time.

Stop! Lawsuit time

When I was studying at a uni i can't name a particular lecturer responded to a fellow student taking pills in an attempt to kill herself and waking up in an awful state in hospital by telling her mother that "it was a pathetic cry for help." I so, so, so, regrets not putting this imbecilic man-child in intensive care the first time I ever met him. I'd have done a five year sentence, but it would have saved a lot of people a lot of suffering. This same person let students use high powered eletronic dictionaries in exams (i couldnt use one, our Japanese professor Kenichiro Hada agreed with me that the guy i'm on about behaved disgustingly) in order to make his teaching look better. He also favouritised students, making me waste my time whilst others coasted through. His own colleagues even berated him. This guy is currently living in the South of France. He was paid a salary of about £50,000 by the University or so I assume. This twat didn't even have to work twelve montths a year to get this, just 8 or 9... I am banned from naming him, but people who read this KNOW who he is.

Back to languages

Some time in the last few years I became disillusioned with forein languages due to the actions of a gang of dickheads in education and the rich kids I was at university with. I kind of gave up on Japanese to English translation as I realised I was competing with a bunch of over privileged kids in the job market. Living in Liverpool I don't see spoilt brats all that much, but when i go to airports they are so frequent... I can do Japanese to English translation, or could do but not as quick as the spoilt brats. The advantages these ones are given is absurd, it is SO unfair. I am really proud to say I passed a translation agency test with one of the best agencies in the world for Japanese to English (I can't say which one due to an agreement I signed). I persoally think completing Kanji gold was a massive achievement and I'm also really happy to have done well on the kanken games on the DS. I had a boss lil Japanese wife and she was awesome. I now work in Eccomerce and hope to get back into French to English translation. I have been primed for this task by Alexandre Coutu who is a Quebecker who wrote this great book http://www.lulu.com/gb/en/shop/alexandre-coutu/le-qu%C3%A9b%C3%A9cois-en-10-le%C3%A7ons/paperback/product-20413778.html I loved French at A Level and I'm a bit sad I didn't do it at university. I reasoned at the time the market for translators would be flooded.... Over the last three to four years I have played a daft amount of chess online, largely so i didnt kill myself drinking. I am now doing more refined study which i hope to write about. All the blitz games I played were wastes of time, but stopped me from drinking. Ive now replaced blitz addiction wih Spyro the Dragon... This gives more time to serious language study... I have been hammering Turkish verbs and am starting to improve at reading Turkish. i can spot common words.i am listening to dictaphone recordings as well.

eccomerce language learning

This year I travelled to Turkey as part of my job trading coffee grinders and lamps. I learnt a new language for the first time in a while and was really pleased with the results. A guy in the grand bazaar was made up with my use of Turkish and people even offered me stuff for free though I wanted to give them money. I studied the Turkish verbal system and many people were very impressed with this. I am working through the vocabulary masterlist which I published on here, and am also using my new tool, the vocabulary masterlist. I am working with the vocabulary map I designed as well as doing other things. In the last year or two I have been working in eccomerce and am delighted I say I helped to fund a baby which has been born to Syrian parents in Istanbul. I am hoping to learn Magento programming this year.

Silly cunt is on £100, 000 per year but can't even spell his own name

This cunt, Karim Menacere is on £100, 000 per year but doesn't even notice that his own name is mispelt. This is the same daft cunt who told me that an exam paper would be too hard for me and failed to notice that students were downloading essays off the internet.

A Recall to Arms

I became very disillusioned with foreign languages due to the actions of one dickhead, Karim Menacere. Let me elucidate. This cunt told me that an exam would be too hard for me and basically called me an idiot. I am five figures in debt for this fucking idiot. I worked my way up from care just for this worthless arrogant wanker to squat, spread his ass cheeks and shit on six years of my life. The reason this cunt called me an idiot is that at my time in my life I couldn’t afford a digital camera to take photographs of a picture and call it critique of translation. I sadly let dickhead put me off foreign languages for a very long time. This year I trained under Alexandre Coutu who taught me French to English translation. Alexandre was supportive and I actually got something for my money! I have an unending supply of work. I am having another go at studying foreign languages again and won’t have some daft cunt like Karim Menacere putting me off. To make a comparison between Karim and a good academic we Have John Redmond who is a poetry professor at Liverpool University who I know socially through a chess club. He praised me for improving at chess and even signed a book he wrote for my Mother! How much am I in debt for John Redmond? Not one penny. My study of Arabic has just started in full and I can read the script. My study of kanji didn’t help as much as I thought it would which was quite surprising. Kanji characters are very different to the Arabic script and this really surprised me. I have learnt all the medium characters and am moving forward. An idiot once advised me that you should never use study pieces written in Romanised script and I consider this to be absolute nonsense. I am starting to look at the Arabic Verbal System today as well as studying vocabulary with Anki. I am going to move on to a more oral study of Arabic with Linguaphone and Assimil. In the past I have tended to focus on the written aspects of language.