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Japanese: The Law Of Inverse Returns - College Term Paper

Japanese: The Law Of Inverse Returns



The law of inverse returns states that the better the foreign learner's Japanese
is, the worse the reaction of the Japanese native population will be to the
learner's use of Japanese. In this paper, I argue that the better the learner's
Japanese is, the better the treatment to the learner of Japanese from native
Japanese. I will argue this point by making three statements and then provide
opinions and reactions of others whom I have interviewed over the Internet. The
better the Japanese language that one has, the more the freedom he feels. I felt
this feeling while I was in Japan and I could finally go to the bank and make a
deposit or withdraw without fumbling and literally making up my ...

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I had the opportunity to visit a retirement home once
a week. During our visit with the elderly, we also cleaned up. doing the normal
housekeeping that was necessary for them to live in a cleaner, better
environment. I am very glad that I had Japanese that I was able to understand
the retirees, especially when the needed someone to talk to and when I was able
to understand and help them clean where they asked me to. Through the
understanding that I had then as a missionary in the Japanese language, I feel
that the full-time workers there were less worried about us performing duties
for them because we had better Japanese. This resulted in the better treatment I
received as I was in Japan because of the position I was in able to serve.

The second argument I would like to make on a related topic of being less
burdensome to the Japanese. Everyone doesn't like a lazy person, although a lot
of people in America like being the lazy person. In Japan if you aren't busy
doing something, it ...

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I grew up
here and still live in America, the time will come that when I am able to read
the books and the newspaper that Japanese people read, function at a job,
somewhat like a native Japanese and hopefully be a productive tool for society
in Japan and teach others my experience here in the United States.

Having a Japanese learner with the ability to speak better Japanese than
normal, we have talked that he will help provide a less burden for the native
Japanese and that he will be able to provide better for the society because the
fact that the better the learner's Japanese the more likely he is to be literate
and productive. Thus the last argument. The better the learner's ...

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Added: 3/25/2005 11:33:03 AM
Category: Miscellaneous
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