From Jacques.Kilchoer@quest.com Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:39:34 -0800 From: Jacques Kilchoer Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2001 10:39:34 -0800 Subject: RE: DBA job market in Australia and Asia? - OFF TOPIC KIND OF Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Title: > -----Original Message-----> From: lerobe - Lee Robertson [mailto:LEROBE@acxiom.co.uk]> Sent: jeudi, 15. mars 2001 00:35> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L> Subject: RE: DBA job market in Australia and Asia? - OFF TOPIC KIND OF>>> Erm..... has anyone out there taken the time to learn Japanese ?? I am> looking at starting in the next couple of weeks and would> like to hear if> anyone has struggled and know how hard it is - I know French so any> comparisons would be great.I speak english and french. I took two japanese classes about 12 years ago because I was bored. So I wasn't as motivated as some other people might be.I thought that the pronunciation and vocabulary were fairly easy, but reading/writing very difficult. You probably already know that japanese has two alphabets in addition to using a set of characters similar to chinese characters. I wouldn't plan on being able to read japanese unless you are willing to spend a few years on it.Most japanese people with which I tried to speak japanese knew english better than I knew japanese, and I ended up speaking english with them. So I didn't have a lot of opportunities to practice my japanese. On the other hand, I didn't go live in Japan.I did get to practice writing with a paint brush (for my own entertainment, not part of the class curriculum.) Since I'm a poor artist my attempts at paint brush writing were pathetic. Jacques R. Kilchoër (949) 754-8816 Quest Software, Inc. 8001 Irvine Center DriveIrvine, California 92618 U.S.A.http://www.quest.com