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Yesterday I started a conversation with a Japanese man in Kantalk, who is a rewarded horrible novelist. I found the words I could speak out was woefully inadequate; but out of surprise, I had a wonderful discussion with him. Within 5 minutes, he invited me to join a skypecast with his friends. There were three Japanese middle-age men talking with a Taiwan second year student at university.

At the start of the conversation, the novelist was the host that he let us introduce each other. One’s name was Joker, and the other was Ken. Joker’s sound liked students, but he mentioned he had visited Taiwan for business, stranded around Taipei to Kaohsiung so I supposed he was a businessman who copes with trade. Ken revealed that he saw many tourists came to Japanese when he was a…maybe a guard(?) in the airport. My stammer had become more aggravated when I finally got it that there was no youth at all. Nevertheless, I enjoy the talk very much since they raised many aspects involving tradition, media, manga, opera, singer, and very few feelings of trauma in the history. I was certain that we were all curious about each other’s opinions and feelings even though we might have generation gap(luckily, we didn't have) because we had many similar points.

Of course, first they asked about why people in Taiwan have such enormous interest in them since we have equivalent culture in different ways. I answered them in three parts:1) Opera 2) Anime 3) Manga 4) Literature. They laughed when I had the example of Densha Otoko(train man), which is a story relate to a 23-year-old otaku wins the love of a beautiful office lady.

It made cross-countries people felt more relaxed and found this conversation was more commonplace at the same time. It produced 100 times more confidence to meet the demand of fluency in communication. Though we may not find there is a huge harvest for input in conversation, the sustainable encouragement inspires learners’ bountiful endurance to custom-made active learning.

I have not been accustomed to the trend of anime, so I only told them the hottest one is Keroro; suddenly, they went mad. It is a story about out space funny fogs go prevailing the earth. Joker moaned ”Please fuck me, no~no~.”(Quite funny sound, no offensive) I felt interesting that why they feeling amazing, and unbelievable. Later Ken said that he cannot resist the culture shock that the most popular character in Japan has influenced Taiwan so immensely(I guessed he disliked it like many in Taiwan). We talked over the length of 30 minutes and stopped because the novelist had another skypecaste to follow.

This talk seems very promising, and I may soon be finding a skype discussion to join. By far I get into the area of output very few since I still focus on my input activity, but I envision a more interesting conversation with other people learning English.