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From a traveler recently:
“I’m going to visit a barber while I’m here in Tokyo.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah I am very interested in Japanese barbers because of YouTube.”
“Do you speak Japanese?”
“No but I have memorized my lines. Can I practice them on you? *nails it*”
“I’m going to visit a barber while I’m here in Tokyo.”
“Oh really?”
“Yeah I am very interested in Japanese barbers because of YouTube.”
“Do you speak Japanese?”
“No but I have memorized my lines. Can I practice them on you? *nails it*”
Was there, in the entire world, a single teacher you could go to learn how to politely ask for a haircut with number two clippers in Japanese prior to YouTube?
I think we underestimate the value created by the Internet so scandalously.
I think we underestimate the value created by the Internet so scandalously.
I think I also credit YouTube with greatly, greatly increased Japanese ability of many travelers, since a motivated student can get, hmm, 10X more listening practice, from a wide variety of linguistic targets, in one year than I got by majoring in it for four.
Not a daily occurrence, but I occasionally meet people who get off the plane with a better accent than I have after living here for 15 years.
“What’s a better accent?”
Suffice it to say that is a complicated can of worms but the are able to successfully play the character they want to be playing automatically, in a contextually appropriate fashion. This requires no small degree of skill.
Suffice it to say that is a complicated can of worms but the are able to successfully play the character they want to be playing automatically, in a contextually appropriate fashion. This requires no small degree of skill.
