So You Want To Learn Japanese?
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great work
just lit my fire to learn the language
hahaaaaaaaaaa…
there are about 2 liters of tears all around my desk…
this is a 100% fun..didn’t laugh that much for a long time!!!
Hahahah great article man, funniest stuff I’ve read in a long time!
This is the funniest piece of writing I’ve read in months!
Great work, Dan, and thanks to Thunder Guy for posting it on his site!
Absolutely great job !!!!! In fact, 80% of it – true…..
That’s great…wow I was laughing the entire way through
As someone who has been studying Japanese daily for the past 6 years, I thought I was going to die laughing through most of this. It’s all absolutely true. And the sad thing is, I keep coming back for more of the pain.
I doubt you will ever see this comment, but thanks for the laugh.
You’re welcome, Oranda.
This ‘essay’ drips with so much sarcasm, I could wash the dishes in it.It was a quite funny and interesting lecture, although some of the jokes are RACIST. Honestly, laughing at the hight on japanese people was NOT nice.
Other than that, good job.
I must say, I almost lost my motivation to learn Japanese after reading this.
ALMOST.
^_~
A little to exaggerated for my tastes but funny nontheless XD
Don’t scare them too much Mr. Barrett, Japanese is not that bad…plus people will believe you…and you’ll just make more “know-it-alls” who will preach this to their other Japanese language classmates like the bible…lol.
Just to clarify, there are 2,000 kanji and they’re not that hard. Hiragana and Katakana are cake, I’m sure most of you will agree to that. Yes the grammar is annoying, but thats with almost any language. Keigo (Polite Japanese), I must agree is…well a bitch. It’s a whole set of verbs that you have to know, with specifics in when you’re talking about me (yourself), talking about you (the other person), or talking about others. The thing is, you wont use or hear Keigo unless you’re watching someone working, or you’re working. Japanese people are using Keigo less and less, and most students I have observed and talked to say they don’t use Keigo in the classroom, as it over formalizes the bond between teacher and student. Even so, you’re a foreigner, and you won’t be expected to know it….too add to that, Japanese people will never make fun of your Japanese (at least in front of you) unless you make a stupid mix up and say a improper or perverted word…but I guess most people would laugh in that situation also
Also, Japanese people aren’t all short. Most of the men were taller than me…I would say they seemed about 5’5~5’10 ish to me…you make it sound like they’re midgets or something…they’re average I think. My boyfriend is 1/2 Japanese and he’s 5’10…so I dunno…I saw freakishly tall people there too…so
Ya never know.
HAHAHAHA Seriously dude that is some funny shit! I was laughing so much that my sister asked why I was crying!… Im sure the “Know it alls” you were talking about includes Jitensha… I also loved that you wont be using any method of writing or reading in “real life”…HAHAHA awsum text…. too bad you had to say you were joking
Don’t f*ck with Evangelion, dude.
By the way, you make it sound as if it is a ghetto, but it’s actually better.
And this was EXTREMELY funny! I can’t even make a funny joke now after reading all this.
P.S. You forget to say about the Yakuza skinheads and pig-cops that usually attack everything that is darker or taller…
…and than you go to the nearby police station and murmur in anal pain: “reipusaremashita!”
BUTT seriously, Japan is my dream and even if I get beaten by hobbits daily, it would pay off after doing all the Korean girls.
i like to learn japanese language also like live japan but it’s dream how to true my dream…..
l like to live japan
I like to learn japanes language in japan. watashi wa nihon go ga totemo daisuki. watashi wa hantoshi gurai nihon go benkyo shimashita. watashiwa nihon go (nat) shiken gokakushimashita. watashino shorai no yume wa nihon e iku koto des(u). sayonara….
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Hi really i wish to learn jap some one help me
It’s a proven fact that when a disclaimer is included warning readers that the article is a joke, a very sad majority will proceed to gasp in horror at the content therein and correct the author.
I thought it was freaking funny. That’s exactly how Japanese appears when you’re starting out.
Racism and narrow mindedness, a pathetic attempt at humor.
Sarcasm only works if it’s funny. Looking at 2 random examples; joking about the word holocaust and saying Japanese people don’t read they just play Pokemon… isn’t funny.
This article just hints at a hidden cultural superiority complex and an immature vindictiveness and bitterness with no forgiving humorous aspects. Good sarcasm is tempered with self deprecation. None of that here. This is just flotsam. The average American can’t do humor.
“As a man thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
Tom, everyone has a different sense of humour. The ridiculous comments about Japanese people seem fairly innocuous to me. (Maybe the same is true of your comment about Americans.)
As they say in Australia, It’s a joke, Joyce.