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Can you hear me now? Yoi!
Topic: Current Events 4:07 pm EDT, Oct  8, 2007

The following is your Speaker's practical guide for Black Hat Japan.
Attached you will also find a PDF with helpful instructions regarding your arrival in Japan. If you have any questions, never hesitate to Ask. Thank you.

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Plan on speaking at about one third your normal pace.

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Talk style and difference of language structure Japanese sentence structure is different than English. English is Subject-Verb-Object, but Japanese is Subject-Object-Verb. This means the translator needs to hear the complete sentence before they can translate it.

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If they never get a chance to breathe, you are talking too fast. With these reasons, especially "Machine gun Talk" or "Elevator Pitch" type of talk style will fail completely.

Wow. This is going to be tough.

[At Bluehat, during Jeff Forristal's presentation]
Caleb: Thats' how fast you talk
Me: Really? Are you kidding me?
Caleb: Yep, that fast. And with hand gestures. Lots of hand gestures



 
 
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