apparently, in the early nineties, family circus (yes, that family circus-do you know of a non-animated one?) produced a whole series of nihongo/eigo...well, i guess i'd call 'em "learning music video song thingies," for lack of a better phrase. lots of white kids filmed with a soft-focus lens, running around and doing stuff, which would be sung about (in someone's lovely treacly voice) in japanese, then english, then japanese again (and so on, und so weite), with helpful subtitles included. and for some reason, they were showing it on the asian channel at 1:30 in the morning.
so, not having anything better to do than learn (i am at college for a reason, you know), i sat and watched, and sang along when the repetition was sufficient to stick in my feeble brain. some of the songs, like the nighttime song (i curl up in bed at night!!!) and the rain song (something about the midori grass), may not provide the viewer with many usable japanese phrases, but they were still fun!
i was really jammin' to the days of the week song (one of the white girls was doing an m.c. hammer poorly, but with enough enthusiasm to make up for it), but the spider song creeped me out. KUMO!!!! i was also surprised how well i know the various family-member names. see, watching anime does provide you with real-life skills! hopefully some of this will bury itself in my subconscious, but i think you have to watch these vids quite a few times to get any nihongo down pat.
...still, isn't it cool that they show stuff like this on t.v.?
...and according to petey pablo's latest, being a virgo makes me a bona fide freak.
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