Sunday, November 4, 2007

Lost in translation?

This is a little clip I stumbled across, as you can see English is not as common in Japan as one might think, compared to other countries. This clip reminds you of it and makes light of the Japanese ability to speak English.



There are many web-sites that capitalize on this such as http://www.engrish.com/. I sort of wish I had sattelite TV and able to get some foreign channels outside of the Spanish ones.

2 comments:

tokyobilly said...

that's a pretty funny clip... those things are always good for a laugh!

i found engrish a lot funnier before i moved here and tried speaking japanese... i'm sure i sound just as funny to them. honestly, those guys seemed to know way more english than i know japanese... i know how hard it is to learn another language and so i always respect the effort!

it still cracks me up though...

Brian S said...

After speaking to Aya after I showed her these YouTube clips; which she enjoyed and understand how poor the English really was now that she knows what she knows now.

She said that the host of the show was or is a very well known Gaijin (maybe in certain sections of Japan) who is known to speak very fluently in Japanese.

Someday I wish to speak half as good.