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flemmings ([personal profile] flemmings) wrote2006-01-05 10:06 pm
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This sporting life is gonna be the death of me, but before I die I must note this:

[livejournal.com profile] daegaer has slashed Japanese for Busy People.
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[identity profile] summer-queen.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:15 pm (UTC)(link)
For a moment I wondered if poor Biji-san was about to get in over his head....

[identity profile] sodzilla.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
*bemused look* So what's next? Phonebook fanfic? "Oooh, there are a ton of Svenssons here all listed next to each other, that's SO siblingcest!!!"

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
You can't complain at the lack of characters, at least.
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[identity profile] mikeneko.livejournal.com 2006-01-05 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Tanaka and Smith? No. No no no. The oyaji must at least be -attractive,- dammit.

[identity profile] xsmoonshine.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 12:04 am (UTC)(link)
Unattractive people need smut too! =0

[identity profile] shiny-monkey.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
(cry) I stopped using JFBP as a text a while ago, but unfortunately I still have it, so I went back to look at it. My eyes, my eyes, my beautiful eyes...

My beautiful eyes...

[identity profile] flemmings.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 05:55 am (UTC)(link)
'...that I've had ever since I was a little girl', to quote Dorothy Parker. I know nothing of this textbook, so I'm assuming it's the illustrations that are doing it?

(Agree with qwerty. Unattractive oyaji need equal time.)

Re: My beautiful eyes...

[identity profile] shiny-monkey.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 06:26 am (UTC)(link)
Honestly, the illustrations are fairly simplistic and kind of cartoony, so it's not as though it's grotesque to imagine Tanaka-san and Sumisu-san having tender relations, or Hayashi-san coming between them, no pun intended. It's funnier than not, simply because of the situations which, if one is of a particular turn of mind, can be interpreted ambiguously ^^

As a textbook, JFBP is maa maa -- it's not intended to give the reader a genuine foundation in the language, but really not a bad start; all the conversations are done in Japanese and in English, with relevant vocabulary translated and explained in context in each lesson. It's for people who don't have time for full-time Japanese lessons. Busy people, ya know. It was the first "textbook" I ever had for Japanese, and I keep it just because I don't get rid of books (I'll be an old lady who dies under a collapsed pile of books and newspapers!), but there are better ones out there.
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Re: My beautiful eyes...

[identity profile] mikeneko.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 08:46 am (UTC)(link)
(Agree with qwerty. Unattractive oyaji need equal time.)

Aaaaa, you do not understand. There are -videotapes- that go with this book. Smith is the big-boned, looming lawyer dude in the square hornrims, and Tanaka is the small, mildly pudgy section chief. You must watch Smith oh-so-stiffly admiring Tanaka's vase over and over . . .

And, given that Some of Us are first-year repeat offenders, that's yet more over and over.

Re: My beautiful eyes...

[identity profile] shiny-monkey.livejournal.com 2006-01-06 09:49 am (UTC)(link)
Ahh, ahh, I missed out on the videos, and I think it's probably best for me that way. The only multimedia Japanese text I have is "Beginning Japanese", which is a whomping big text (no illustrations and no pretense at continuous characters) plus 10 audio CDS =T

(and I still suck)
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