on Thu, 12 Aug 2004 Nicolas Cueto wrote: > > Alejandro Tejada asked: > > What's the main operating systems of PC in Japan?
> Windows, hands down. So XBox still had a chance to displace Sony in their own market! ;-) > > I've read somewhere that NEC computers are > > a majority in Japan, or it was long ago? > > Long ago, there's a good chance NEC were dominant. > All the schools of all > the schoolboards I taught at 15 years ago, for > example, had installed > "top-of-the-line" CALL rooms (40+ PC's, projector > screen, printers, all > networked, though no internet), and everything had > the NEC brand. > (Incidentally, those rooms also collected a lot of > dust.) And, knowing > bureaucracies, if two or three schoolboards went NEC > then the likelihood is > also high that many (most? all??) other schoolboards > nationwide went NEC > too. Similar to the motto: "Nobody gets fired for buying from Microsoft" > Things now, though, may have changed. This comment, > too, is just a guess > from experience. For example, the private jr/sr high > I was at most recently > was originally NEC based, but this year they re-did > one of the CALL room's > with Dell machines. Must be the economy and > everyone's efforts to cut down on costs. Dell? Not Sony or Toshiba? :-( > > Talking with some japanese people, i learned > > that relatively few japanese could speak > > english with fluency. This was a surprise for me. > > Sadly, that's still probably true. But, then again, > coming from Canada, I > can't speak with pride about the general French > ability of Anglo-Canadians > despite years of education and, more importanly, > despite the fact that it's > one of our official languages. I believed that French is mostly speaked in Quebec... > (Y ademas, Alejandro, me imagino que en tu mente > estaras haciendo una > comparacion entre el nivel de ingles aqui y ese > nivel tan alto que existe > por casi toda Europa. Si es asi, yo pienso que no es > una comparacion > razonable. Por ejemplo, como ya sabras, los sistemas > de letras y la > gramatica son bastantes diferentes, y, ademas, el > ingles forma parte tanto > de la historia europeana como la de sus paises > coloniales. Pero pensando > positivamente, me parece que a lo mejor despues de > una o dos generaciones > mas, la abilidad en ingles aqui tambien se vera > significadamente mejorada. > Por ejemplo, en una de los high-schools que enseno, > casi todos los maestros > de ingles hablan el ingles "pera-pera". Interesting, indeed! I had to look in google for pera-pera: >From this page: <http://www.jalt-publications.org/tlt/articles/2002/08/mieuli> Pera-pera is a great Japanese word that means fluent or talkative. > En contraste, hace quince anos antes > que, de las dozenas de maestros de ingles que yo > conocia en las escuelas > publicas, solamente dos o tres hablaban o entendian > el ingles > suficientemente. Puesto que, espero que las cosas > esten cambiando > veramente.) Do you think that RunRev and Transcript have a chance to get introduced to english students and japanese english teachers? Are you able to type EASILY Japanese with unicode characters within RunRev fields? > Now, if only I could draw, I'd be all set. <g> If you could take photos, and control Photoshop or another image editing application then you are almost ready! ;-)) > Enjoying and benefitting from this education thread! Actually, RunRev could benefit from opening the educators list, but this time by sending an invitation to suscribe. :-) > http://kweto.com Your image "Still under construction" wins my laugh for today! :-)) al ===== Visit my site: http://www.geocities.com/capellan2000/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? New and Improved Yahoo! Mail - Send 10MB messages! http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
