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f
17 January 2005 14:00
How about Belgium Tangawiya? are there any funny stories about living there? people or anything?
m
17 January 2005 16:39
Findme! Japan is a great country, I love to be here. I was before in America, the life there is easier but japanese are warmer.
------ "The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, while the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man".George Bernard Shaw
t
17 January 2005 18:28

Salam findme,

In Belgium there are many moroccan people and especially in the capital, Brussels. In some places, we dont have the impression we are in Europa. There are 2 streets in Brussels where there are only moroccan, pakistan and turkich shops, it s so funny to go there and you find eveything you are looking for. In Ramadan for example, chebakia, baghrir, halwa, sfouf and... are sold. A commune in Brussels is named Bni makada a place in tanger because there are a lot of moroccan y especially from tanger and everything is sold as in Morocco.

If you need any information, dont hesitate.

And in America, i suppose its other thing, can you speak a little of your country?
t
17 January 2005 18:35

Salam, merrakch

I didnt know one of the yabiladian were living in Japan, it s so interesting! I thimk you are the only one, isnt it? And tell me, do you have learnt japanes easily or do you speak english there. Last year i was learning japanese but this year i study in Spain and in my university they dont teach japanese, it s a pity but i hope i can continue in belgium this year. I m so interested in this lenguage and its culture and especially people, they are so kind.

Thank you very much.

And 3wacher mabroka.
m
17 January 2005 18:38
Brussels is the best place in the world for the moroccan people,we don't feel ourselves strangers and we can find everything we want.
t
17 January 2005 18:48

Hello moro,

I agree with you.
m
17 January 2005 19:03
Many moroccans from others countries when they see our way of life, they don't believe it.
f
18 January 2005 09:08
Hi Marrakech
I heard that life in the states is easier, and ou confirmed that, but I would say that Japan is a safer place to be in, but warmer? I dont think so, Japanese people are the coldest I have ever met!
f
18 January 2005 09:17
hi tangawiya
I m glad to hear that you have whatever you need there in belgium, you dont know how lucky you are, here in japan, I would be really happy to see just a little piece of olive in a salad, international food is practically inexistant, there are no moroccan restaurants in the city I live in, there a couple of turkish retaurants though, very good, I might add. Internationla food here is restricted to asian, so you will find a bunch of chinese and korean restaurants, there is vietnamese as well, there is also a very pleasant small china town in a city not very far from the one I live in. When it s ramadan my parents send me all I need from home.
Japanese food is good though, much more lighter than Moroccan cuisine, but I just cant get used to eating raw fish or raw eggs, or even sweet beans. You know that they eat a kind of very small fish alive? So usually there is a cup full of water where a lot of these tiny fish is swimming alive, they drink it with the fish and everything, they say it feels good when the fish is moving inside their throat, I would never understand that.
f
18 January 2005 09:26
I am very happy for you moro and tangawiya, it must feel good feeling at home in a foreign country, more than the food, being able to meet people from your country and having the chance to speak your native language, that sounds like heaven
tangawiya, you mentioned sth about learning Japanese, well it is a difficult language to master, at least more difficult than french or spanish for us, but we Moroccans can learn languages easily, all the students that I know here and myself managed to learn it in one year, and we re actually taking classes in japanese, we write reports and stuff in japanese as well, but il is so much fun speaking it, because it gives you the chance to understand the culture more, to really get what is happening around, especially with all the nuances and the different ways of talking depending to whom you are talking and also depending on whether u r male or female, it s lot of fun, carry on learning it, and if you need any help I m here for that, you can ask me any questions you want, and you re welcome to visit if you wanna practice!
t
18 January 2005 12:34

Hello,

Moro, where are you from?

Findme, i didnt know that japanese are the coldest people, i m so astonished. In Belgium those people are very warm and kind. It s stange. But i think merrakch has told of the difference between the american and the japanese and of course they japanese are more warm. It s like in Belgium, Belgiun are very cold, in the sreets they dont talk with anybody, they live their life, seldom take care of the others, it s a pity! It s for that reason that i hate this country, i have born there but i dont like it, it s so different from our arabic culture, we know the hospitality, if sbdy has a problem, we go directly to help him,...
Now, i m in Spain, i have been here since october and i like very much their way of life, it s near our culture, the first day i arrived i didnt have any flat to live in, i had to look for it, and a girl i met in the bus had proposed me to sleep in her house before i find sthg. It s very nice of her. And the majority of spanish are like that. In Belgium, you cant imagine this. And there are many other differences... I m leaving Spain within 1 month and i m very sad to think about it. I have been here only for 4 months and it s like i have lived here for a long time, it s the contrary in Belgium.

Findme, I m sorry, i thought you were living in America, it s for that i was asking you about this country. Annd where are yoou from iin Morroco?

Merrakch, you are from Japan also, isnt it?

Thank you.
t
18 January 2005 12:59

Salam findme,

Concerning the food you were talking about, a have seen once in the tv that japanese eat fish alive but it didnt chocked me at all, eating dogs or mouses is worser! Can you tell me if many people consume that or only a minority? Thank you. In Belgium, we have many moroccan snacks, restaurants, pubs...and tunisian, pakistan, turkish,...we have everything you need. I imagine that in japan there is nothing from Morocco, it s normal, you hasnt the idea of opening a moroccan restaurant or something like that there, i think it s a good business... but of courses very difficult in the beginning.
Yes, of cousrse i would like to continue the study of japanese, but the pb is that i havent practise the language since june, month of the exam. And i have forgotten everything but i think when i will be in belgium, it will be more easy...but i have missed 4 months, it s so much, i will see...i hope to follow it. I like it so much! And thank you for your proposition to help me, i will tell you lately, ok? Within 1 year, i can go to stydy in Japan during 1 year but i dont know if i will do it...1 year is a very long time without seeing family and friends, and i dont know if there is place in the university...

Thank you.
a
18 January 2005 13:19

Hello everyone,
Sorry for cutting into your conversation,
this is just to pass on this web address to all of you. it's one of my favorites, full of all kinds of information. I hope you'll find something in it that you like.

[www.ceoexpress.com]
Almot
a
18 January 2005 13:20
C´est une bonne idée mais il nous faudra 3 "tor": Corrector, Translator et Moderator:-)

- "Corrector" d´othographes
- "Translator" anglais---> frenchy
- "Moderator" en anglais


a
18 January 2005 13:23

alximo,

this is an ok site for help with translation

[world.altavista.com]

Almot
s
18 January 2005 13:33
Brian is in the kitchen



grinning smiley
a
18 January 2005 13:33
thanks Almotnanbi for the reminder, I knew it already winking smiley

there are also 2 other interesting web translators: google translation ans www.freetranslation.com.

From your nickname (ALmotanabi) I would have asked rather for an Arabic Forum, than we could at least read the orignial version of the "Almotanbi "poetry winking smiley

Cheers
a
18 January 2005 13:51

That's a good one alximo, lool

and yes, the real Almotanabi is one of my favorites, well, I do like all good poetry, Arabic, French or English and if there's a forum in arabic some day on yabiladi, believe me, I will be one of the first yabiladiens to sign on.
you take care and let me know when you see one,

thanks,


Almot
a
18 January 2005 13:55
sfenj a écrit:
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> Brian is in the kitchen

Chicken is in the kitchen
Kitchen cooks the chicken smiling smiley


a
18 January 2005 13:57
almotanabi a écrit:
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> > That's a good one alximo, lool
>
> and yes, the real Almotanabi is one of my
> favorites, well, I do like all good poetry,
> Arabic, French or English and if there's a forum
> in arabic some day on yabiladi, believe me, I will
> be one of the first yabiladiens to sign on.
> you take care and let me know when you see one,
>
> thanks,

Right, Than we would need an arabic keyboard and an Arabic translator (the Arabic mentality we have it already smiling smiley).




m
18 January 2005 16:18
Hy everybody,strange that we are so few to use english, no?
s
18 January 2005 17:07
alximo a écrit:
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> Chicken is in the kitchen
> Kitchen cooks the chicken


Chicken doesn't want to be eaten
It jumps from the oven
And runs in the garden grinning smiley


I'm a rather talented "new generation poet", don't you think? grinning smiley





Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 01/18/2005 05:29 by sfenj.
18 January 2005 17:27
titi7605 a écrit:
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>
> salam
> on l'appelle pas on lui offre un mouchoir


mdrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
m
18 January 2005 17:33
L'7awli is in the garden and doesn't want to be eaten so what we gonna do, discuss with and take the risk to become friends and then eat only Khizo...
s
18 January 2005 17:33
n
18 January 2005 20:50
hi findme, (i find u)
i think that u live in japan, and i see here that u spk fluently english but i wanna know do u spk also japanese, or u use just english, if yes its hard to learn it. 10x
take care
oh my god its really very very good idea its time to practice my english in a writting

findme a écrit:
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> I happen to be live in Osaka, and its people are
> really simple-minded, they would mostly stare at
> you in the train or the bus, sometimes they would
> just stop you, ask you where you from, and then go
> their way. They are actually perfect at making you
> feel as a strange creature, but no harm is done.
> now here is another weird thing: once I read in
> one of the polls at a japanese-english forum the
> famous sentence "dont touch me we're married!" and
> that resumes everything about how japanese couples
> or even mixed couples stop making love after they
> get married. How strange is that? does that exist
> in other countries? it is so much the exact
> opposite of how we were brought up to believe.



S
18 January 2005 20:59
Salam a tous, Je suis tous a fais d'accord avec cette idee ki va permettre la difircification des langues ds ce forum est ouvre un autre angle pour debatre diffrent sujets.
Go for it....& Cheers!!
a
20 January 2005 15:33


Happy Eid to everyone,
I would like to post a new subject for this group, but don't know if we should continue on this page or start a new subject.
What do you think?
Almot
w
20 January 2005 15:53
SAlam almontanabi,

Please open a new subject.

I will put it on the English forum when i create it.
... as soon as possible !

winking smiley
"Marocainement vôtre"Le Webmaster http://www.yabiladi.com
a
21 January 2005 01:33

Thank you Webmaster!

Your help and encouragement are appreciated and crucial to make this trial a success. I’m sure all English speaking Yabiladiens agree with me.

Thanks,
Almot
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