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The Daily Yo-ji: A New Approach for a New Year
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Saturday, December 25, 2010. A New Approach for a New Year. As I mentioned in the previous post. Living with Japanese, day-in and day-out for four years has changed my relationship with it. I'm a lot less interested in trivia, and more concerned with whatever I'm gonna be expected to know how to say on that particular day. Well, thank you for that. But please direct your attention here. I hope y...
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The Daily Yo-ji: Taboo Topics: What Japanese People Talk About that We Don't
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Thursday, September 1, 2011. Taboo Topics: What Japanese People Talk About that We Don't. Went blog-topic fishing on Twitter and got a good question from takayamakouichiさん. 12300;アメリカに行って、迂闊に意見すると大変なことになるトピックは何ですか？妊娠中絶以外で! If I were to go to America, what topics should I avoid if I don't want to cause trouble? Other than abortion.". Sometimes I hear " The Economy. So instead of going too broad a...
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The Daily Yo-ji: February 2013
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Monday, February 18, 2013. Jokes, Explained : Trying to be Funny in Japanese. TV work gives me lots and lots of chances to think about how to be funny in Japanese. Chances to try to be funny, on the other hand. Of course, being the silly foreigner who says something dumb and amusing is incredibly easy. Saying something intentionally funny, not. Is this going somewhere good? Once, on a KBC mornin...
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The Daily Yo-ji: Nines and Rays?
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Saturday, March 9, 2013. Changes on the horizon for the YouTube channel, and for us in general. Back to Japan, back to work, and back to the kind of focus on building something that I haven't had the need for in about a year. Here's what's up with teh jokes this time around:. It's a Q and A session (Get it? Cause "nine" is " kyuu. And "rays" are " ei. Style of kabuki. The kabuki plays that a...
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The Daily Yo-ji: March 2013
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Saturday, March 9, 2013. Changes on the horizon for the YouTube channel, and for us in general. Back to Japan, back to work, and back to the kind of focus on building something that I haven't had the need for in about a year. Here's what's up with teh jokes this time around:. It's a Q and A session (Get it? Cause "nine" is " kyuu. And "rays" are " ei. Style of kabuki. The kabuki plays that a...
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The Daily Yo-ji: The American in Japan:
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Thursday, January 26, 2012. The American in Japan:. This is a conversation from facebook that I got caught up in and decided to bring over here:. It started because last week I had an idea for a comedy routine that I thought would work in Japanese. And he laughed for something like 5 minutes straight. Without getting into issues of racism, I think it's safe to say that the roles for foreigners o...
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The Daily Yo-ji: Japanese People Are Staring at Me...
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Saturday, November 12, 2011. Japanese People Are Staring at Me. If you're a foreigner in Japan (excepting those of Asian descent), you've been stared at. A lot. Or "How long stay Japan? And then it's on into chopstick, sushi, and samurai territory. And keep in mind, I don't mean to make fun of anyone or imply that Japanese people can't speak English well. But I have noticed that in general, ...
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The Daily Yo-ji: 疾風迅雷 + New TV Job
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Sunday, October 2, 2011. 疾風迅雷 New TV Job. I know, I know. you guys are all like "WTF? What is this, 2008. But there is an explanation. I have a new TV job starting tomorrow. It's a mid-morning bangumi called " Sawada De su! On KBC. I'm doing a 5 minute cooking segment that they've roughly titled "Bobby's Cooking." It's all live, and it's going to be Monday Thursday for the next two weeks. But wh...
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The Daily Yo-ji: March 2012
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Saturday, March 3, 2012. Got some really supportive comments on the last post, so I thought I'd give you the latest news, most of it good:. The Saga TV show I work with has put up some money and some equipment so that Yuri and I can do some filming ourselves, and I can turn my "Bobby's Kitchen" cooking segment into a "Bobby's WORLD Kitchen" cooking segment. So that's all very encouraging. There'...
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The Daily Yo-ji: July 2012
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Now Featuring 1級 Grammar, Everyday Japanese That You Won't Find in the Book, and Language and Cultural Trivia! Tuesday, July 17, 2012. Japanese has made me write dumb. I was really interested in this interview I read with Jay Rubin, who handles a lot of the Murakami-to-English translation. Particularly this excerpt:. Q: Murakami sometimes directly incorporates English phrases into his novel. Does that fit well in your translation? The number one problem I have in co-authoring an all Japanese blog with my...
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