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  • #61
    Originally posted by Aivo½so
    One of my friends is a Japan freak, he has learnt to speak Japanese from pirated anime videos and often starts speaking Japanese when he's drunk. I don't know Japanese myself but I've studied several languages and I've gotten the impression that he actually has learnt to express quite a lot of things simply by watching videos.
    Back in 2000 I was in Kosovo and my team's translater was a 19 year old Albanian guy who learned to speak English and French both by watching movies from those countries. He already spoke Albanian and Serbian and was teaching himself to speak Spanish when I left by watching Spanish soap operas.
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    • #62
      I guess he didn't confess to speaking German as well?
      In da butt.
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      • #63
        Wraith, great link!

        I read them all!!

        crazy place...

        I guess I need to Kancho some people soon... with the force of "THOUSAND YEARS OF PAIN!"
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        • #64
          Originally posted by Pekka
          I guess he didn't confess to speaking German as well?
          Nope, he didn't speak German.
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          • #65
            now that was a total miss... what is the only german genre that has export? YES!
            In da butt.
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            • #66
              Originally posted by Wraith
              Ah, almost forgot a very entertaining link:

              I am a Japanese School Teacher:
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              Stories from a gaijin teaching English in Japan.
              Awesome stuff!
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              • #67
                Someone I know says his stories are made up. For instance, while the guy says the first 3 years "ichinensei, ninensei, and sannensei", "chyu ichi" would be what the really use to denote first-grades on high school. She also says she's never heard of anything like kancho.

                Maybe one of the people living in Japan could comment on it?
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                • #68
                  Kancho is quite real. The GF used to see it happen when she was in grade school. It suprised the hell out of her when I did it
                  If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.

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                  • #69
                    Anata-wa manuke desu!
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                    My literacy level are appalling.

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                    • #70
                      Watashi wa Charisma-man!
                      If you look around and think everyone else is an *******, you're the *******.

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                      • #71
                        Originally posted by Timexwatch
                        Kancho is quite real. The GF used to see it happen when she was in grade school. It suprised the hell out of her when I did it
                        You wouldn't happen to have a link for it?
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                        • #72
                          Never mind: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho
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                          • #73
                            Someone I know says his stories are made up. For instance, while the guy says the first 3 years "ichinensei, ninensei, and sannensei", "chyu ichi" would be what the really use to denote first-grades on high school. She also says she's never heard of anything like kancho.


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                            • #74
                              --" "chyu ichi" would be what the really use to denote first-grades on high school."

                              Out of curiosity, who is this friend? I can't find any references to chyu ichi except a few names. Did she mean jyuichi? That'd be eleven, but it's both off by a year and not how the Japanese would describe it.
                              That could be a shortened form of chyugakkou no ichinensei, but that would be middle school (high school is koutougakkou).

                              --"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kancho"

                              I've actually heard of a video game based on this... given Katamari Damarcy, that story may be true as well.

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                              • #75
                                She's part Japanese, part Belgian (and not exactly a friend).
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