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Re: Why are you learning Japanese? | Tofugu.com

Fredy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 02:46:17 -0000

Haha. A "why" question is usually a hard one. I personally wanted to learn Japanese because I was interested in Asian cultures. I noticed that Asian kids were smarter in school, so by learning about their culture, I thought I'd get smarter too. Just kidding! I hope I didn't offend anyone. No, but seriously, I thought the writing was cool and artistic. More or less, through cultural diffusion, I was introduced to anime, and Japanese imported electronics before I even knew they were Japanese. So when I looked into learning a new language, I thought of Japanese, since I was interested in its culture, both the "futuristic" one that is known, and the traditional culture. Plus, I looked into other languages and they're much more difficult to pronounce. I like learning new languages and new things about different cultures. Japanese will just be one I pay more attention to and hope to trully study in the future.

Re: Huh? What? Questions? | Tofugu.com

Fredy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:01:29 -0000

This is a type of website I've been looking for. Haha. It's entertaining and informative. It's a rare combination. I think y'all are doing great so far. I wish y'all good luck with everything. Thanks for the hard work!

Re: Huh? What? Questions? | Tofugu.com

Fredy — Fri, 15 Jun 2007 03:18:52 -0000

Here's one question! How do you subscribe? I click on "SUBSCRIBE" and then it takes me to a feeder page. I don't use feeds of any kind. I guess I'm less intelligent about the web then I thought? I already subscribed to the newsletter. How would I log in? Is that option available for everyone or just the web designers? Maybe it's just too late and I'm confused and sleepy.
PS: You're welcome.

Re: Are you a J-Doramaholic?

Fredy — Sun, 17 Jun 2007 23:35:12 -0000

I am a Gokusen addict... Gokusen! Fight-oh. oh! I watched like three episodes today of the second season. I didn't do my homework during the year because I got bored and I thought watching something would wake me up. So I'd go to bed at 3 and wake up at 6 with not much done. Haha. Okay it's not that bad, that happened once, and I only watched one episode. But yeah, someone told me to watch it because I wanted her to watch Heroes (one of the best shows ever!)! So now we're both hooked on Heroes and now I'm hooked on Gokusen. Then I also passed it on to a friend and now he likes it. Ahh. But yeah, Gokusen is like inspiring me to become a teacher... haha. Maybe I'll watch that other one? Not sure about it. I almost watched an entire episode of Hana Yori Dango cause my friend asked me to download it, but I stopped. Gokusen is enough... at least till I finish it! Uhoh... My eyes hurt now... too much computer.

Re: Beginning Japanese I: Where do self-teachers start?

Fredy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:53:37 -0000

Haha. This is a good entry, considering I have the rest of summer to learn a full school year of Japanese I. I was supposed to take an online course for Japanese I, but it costs too much money. The Japanese teacher (who is actually Japanese, unlike the Spanish teachers at my school!) says she'll see how much Japanese I've learned to determine if I should go to one or two. She said, "Make sure you know all Hiragana, and some Katakana and Kanji at level I." So far I've been memorizing Hiragana since Monday... I made flash cards, since they work for me. Though, all I've memorized were the vowels and ka ke ko ku ki, haha. I'm working on it. I'm glad I got the first step down, or at least I'm starting correctly. Also I found a pdf that has a Japanese 1 curriculum, so I think I'll looseley follow that. The Japanese teacher and my friends got back from a school Japan trip yesterday. (Man, I wanted to go!) So, before I ask her, I was wondering what other suggestions, websites and books are helpful for learning Japanese. I'll email her later on and show her some suggestions and I'll probably put some of her suggestions here.

PS: I found this website, and it seems pretty good: http://learnjapanese.elanguageschool.net

Re: Beginning Japanese I: Where do self-teachers start?

Fredy — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 13:57:12 -0000

As lame as this sounds, I just looked up Genki on eBay and I was amazed I could read the cover. haha. Hiragana is awesome...

Re: Profile 1: Segata Sanshiro > Chuck Norris

Fredy — Tue, 26 Jun 2007 19:03:07 -0000

Damn it... "Segato Sanshiro! Segato Sanshiro!" Has been playing in my head non stop after this video. I just gotta hear an S word and then "Segato Sanshiro! Segato Sanshiro!"

Re: Beginning Japanese II: Pronunciation is King

Fredy — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 01:47:17 -0000

First thing: I'm very happy that I was able to read the picture without anything! YES! But maybe cause it was in order. Correcting pronunciation is hard when you're self-teaching. I guess recording yourself would be the best thing to do. After getting over the fact of what your own voice sounds like, you gotta compare it to a recording of whatever you were trying to say. That's gonna be fun... As for butchering a language, I think I got used to people butchering Spanish, but I shouldn't! I suppose teachers get used to it eventually, but if they want to be Great Teachers, they must not give up on it. This is basically like choir or playing an instrument. Practice makes perfect. You gotta listen to good players, or in this case speakers, and listen to yourself. I should explain the "slow and practice" thing to this guy who basically thinks he's memorized all hiragana in a day, and is aiming for all the katakana in the weekend. He's very... "intelligent". I'll recommend this site.

Re: Beginning Japanese II: Pronunciation is King

Fredy — Sun, 01 Jul 2007 00:33:05 -0000

You bought one?!

Re: ウルトラローライズデニムビキニパンツ (Ho Pants)

Fredy — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 12:54:35 -0000

Haha. That's hilarious. "An unholy union of Brazil and Japan." So true... haha. Yeah.. that's just wierd. haha. Speakin of Photoshop, I need to learn how to use it, I can't even do that much on Photoshop and I've had it for years.

Re: By Request: Favorite Japanese Music (Erin)

Fredy — Fri, 06 Jul 2007 18:46:29 -0000

I'll look these up... I desperately need to listen to new songs... Doesn't matter the language. Ayano Tsuji's was alright, how old is it? The Pillows were good. Natsukawa sounds like a pretty good singer. First time I listen to Japanese folk music. I heard Famurueta and Toki no Kawa. The m-flo song was pretty good. Out of all of these... surprisingly Rimi Natsukawa was my favorite. But I think I could listen to m-flo the longest. But that's just from listening to each artist once. Never saw FLCL, I guess I'll check it out since it's only six episodes.

Re: By Request: Favorite Japanese Music (Erin)

Fredy — Tue, 10 Jul 2007 18:14:58 -0000

FLCL is wierd... the fact that I don't know Japanese is not helpful since its so fast and random. It's not bad, though! I didn't say that! But it's just random! Haha. It's good. Random. FLCL=Random. In the end of the episodes I'm like "HUH!?" Yet I get it, but I kinda don't. I'm on episode 5. I don't like watching 500 episodes of Anime or anything(Maybe HEROES) a day. I don't know how these people can just sit there on Youtube or Veoh and watch Naruto or GTO for like entire seasons in one sitting. I like to absorb what I'm watching and make it last. haha. But yeah, just saying FLCL, not bad.

Re: By Request: Favorite Japanese Music (Erin)

Fredy — Wed, 11 Jul 2007 22:00:50 -0000

Finished FLCL! NOT BAD! COMPLETELY CONFUSING AND RANDOM! BUT NOT BAD!

Re: Godzilla Youtube Feature

Fredy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 01:42:18 -0000

haha. Yeah... go away. Just kidding! Glad to hear from you, I guess. Yeah. That sounds wierd... Just a bit. But yeah. I saw this videos already. haha. Have a good vacation!

Re: Godzilla Youtube Feature

Fredy — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 15:32:35 -0000

Haha. That's awesome. I liked how you connected all of them through video responses. that's really smart. haha. Have you gotten a lot of subscriptions and views?

Re: In Japan, be Humble

Fredy — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 14:59:51 -0000

Ha. I like this post. I really liked the end when you talked about learning about the culture is part of learning the language. Also, it was wierd to listen to Godzilla speak English. I wasn't used to that. Haha.

Humbleness has it's time and place. I think it ties in with the level of respect found in Japanese culture. Ahh... I'm thinking of a bunch of things to write but I can't really write it in an organized form. Basically American culture, including the language, is very direct, I guess. I think external would be a better way to put it. I suppose, though I'm probably wrong, that Japanese culture would be internal. Like when you try to explain something, American culture would probably say, "I need 5 days off." Then you lead to explain those days, "To take care of a sick aunt." Then in Japanese culture you'd say, "My aunt has been very sick recently. I need some days off."

Uh... I think I'm writing a bunch of random things, so I'll stop before I get confused myself and go way off. It's just I remember this from freshmen year in a Business Support Systems class. The Japanese teacher was also the Business teacher. I think I'm probably way off.

Still, I understand what you're talking about. Hopefully I'm at least showing it. (...)

Re: In Japan, be Humble

Fredy — Thu, 26 Jul 2007 00:36:26 -0000

Haha. What's next? What if someone says, "I am VERY humble." I kept thinking about that.

Re: A Work in Progress

Fredy — Sat, 28 Jul 2007 16:03:04 -0000

Yay it's fixed! It sucks about the comments thing! Good luck getting that to work again! I like the new layout, but it isn't as inviting. I still like it better though... it seems more advanced or professional. Good luck on everything! Especially when more people start reading and joining! I know it takes a lot of time and work to get this stuff done.

As for Live Lessons? How would those be done? I mean... would it be like through Stickam or something?

PS: The Eyoung site down there, I just noticed it. I clicked on it, and somehow I accidently clicked on an image, and I got a trojan from a picture... :(

Re: Restaurant: Ninja Akasaka

Fredy — Mon, 30 Jul 2007 19:09:58 -0000

Did you loose the card? Or did you still have sovenier (sp?) safe somewhere? Haha. I would have probably lost the card, it would be somewhere safe, but I wouldn't know where. Haha. That seems really cool! I wanna go! The last trick was really wierd.

Re: Studying Japanese with a Nintendo DS

Fredy — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 18:57:59 -0000

Eeehhhhh PSP>DS.... Haha. Well... um. Back when I bought it I just found it more useful, I sitll find it more useful, but I do understand that the touch screen freature is good and it's variaty of games. These games are cool too. I think I've seen some games like this for PSP. I never tried typing in Japanese on the PSP, I should try one day. I'm debating on getting a cheap used DS.

Re: Hello Kitty: Emasculating Thai Police Since 1974*

Fredy — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 22:43:12 -0000

They should make them wear it outside. They should. HAHA.

Re: Hello Kitty: Emasculating Thai Police Since 1974*

Fredy — Thu, 09 Aug 2007 01:56:16 -0000

sa wat dee.

@Erin
Yeah, that is reasonable. Go rationalizing!

@Viet
Depends on the machoness I suppose. But if they were really macho, wouldn't their machoness just distract everyone from the armband?

Also, unless there is a lowered percentage in crime or whatever and an increase in police effectiveness, I kind of see this thing as useless. But if I worked for Hello Kitty, I'd be very happy, assuming they somehow make a profit from this, if not some type of advertising.

I should ask my FES friends who went back to Thailand if they've seen this. haha.

Re: Storytime: Mori Building, Tipping, and Coldstone Japan

Fredy — Sun, 12 Aug 2007 21:23:03 -0000

Only Disney songs?! "Zip-a-Dee-Doo-Dah" and "Heigh-Ho"… great… XD Do they take specific requests? If they only know Disney songs I would request "Colors of the Wind", "Reflection", "Part of Your World", and "Whole New World" based if they could sing really well. For fun songs I’d ask for "Hawaiin Roller Coaster Ride" and "Hakuna Matata". But I doubt they know any Hawaiian. Haha. I know all these Disney songs because my friends were in summer band and we got bored and disucssed Disney songs. We noticed that they don’t sing anymore. If I ever go to Japan I gotta make sure I go to Coldstone. Heck, I've never even gone here in the US.

Also that job would be awesome. Helping people and making them feel bad to make them buy some icecream.

Re: Are you a J-Doramaholic?

Fredy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 12:22:21 -0000

Haven't watched a j-drama in like a month or more.

Re: Japanese Youtubers Part I: Moonkey4U

Fredy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 01:13:44 -0000

haha. Death Note... NEVER finished it... :\
For some reason, I never saw these updates till today... maybe cause I restarted my comp and updated IE or something with cookies or something. :( But yeah, I clicked on home after being in the "extras" page and then I saw these two updates. Damn, I feel like a dork for not knowing...
I like the first video! I thought it was funny, but not really sure what it was about. Then the second one was a quick video response to something. Haha.
Cool youtuber though.

Re: Fuji inspired X-Seed 4000 to house 1 million people. Pyramids not impressed

Fredy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 10:22:52 -0000

Eh... I don't really like it...It would be wierd... VERY wierd... haha. That reminds of that movie with Jim Carrey, "The Truman Show"? I think. I remmeber they had an artificial sun and stuff. Do they ever open the windows in this place? Haha. People will be very disconnected from the outside world. I mean sure, they can get all the information through media, but still, it's like they're closed off... haha. Just wierd.

Also, if you think about it, that park is really small. Look at the size of the tenis court compared to the rest of it.

Re: Charity Never Felt So Good

Fredy — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 22:03:53 -0000

Interesting? Incredible... as in unbelievable... it does seem like prostitution a bit, and yeah, this wouldn't go down in the states. Watch us all hear something like this soon... haha! It is something very open, though. Yeah, and some of that stuff is just plain wierd and things I don't understand and not sure I want to understand. Eh, to each his or her own fetish? So has Tofugu gotten a lot of hits because of the keywords like the tags? Haha. I can see Tofugu being on the top of the search list.

Re: Beginning Japanese III: Taking Steps

Fredy — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 22:11:43 -0000

Haha. Well, I studied Japanese durign the summer, learning hiragana and some kanji and a bit of katakana. I also learned some phrases and structure of the sentences and things like that. Basic things. I kind of thought I was going to be screwed and really behind in Japanese 2, since that's what I had signed up for, hoping I'd learned enough. So I did feel like I wasn't getting anywhere for a bit when school came. Today I get to Japanese 2 and was amazed I actually understood the teacher and the students. I acutally knew some things some of the students didn't know. Then again, some of those kids in my Japanese class seem really bad and they don't care. It's likely they were placed in Japanese since they ran out of room in the other classes like Spanish. My teacher said there's going to be basic review the first two weeks and thinks I'll be fine. So I suppose this is a good level up. Still, I can't stop laughing at how the class is. One half is full of the kids that love anime, I saw about three reading manga, and they care about learning. The other half is full of some kids who were making fun of the language and said they didn't care. I was in the middle. Haha. I'm off to do the Japanese homework.

PS: I like the graphic, but it's kind of said that the "me" character is dead with a broken neck, arm, and legs.

Re: Super Short Style Guidance Post

Fredy — Fri, 31 Aug 2007 21:55:25 -0000

I saw this book called "fruits" that my friend had and showed all these crazy fashion styles in the late 90's. It was... interesting... Haha. I see it's toned down a bit in what I think was crazy looking. The colors were so bright and now they seemd town downed a bit. I like these new styles but it's kind of sad that the wackyness isn't found that much. Well, maybe not. Haha. But yeah, this is cool.

@ Erin: I showed a lot of my friends that "Bikini Jeans (Hoe Pants)" Article and they thought it was hilarious. I also showed a couple friends the Tofugu website in Japanese class and they liked it as well!

Re: Putting the “hu” in Tofugu

Fredy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:16:30 -0000

I always wondered about this. Haha. Never asked. :D That line with the "classic American literature" got me. Haha. I was like... "Huck... HUCK!!!" Haha. It was alright...

Re: Putting the “hu” in Tofugu

Fredy — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 01:16:58 -0000

The book I mean.

Re: Introducing New Site & New Writer

Fredy — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 22:21:52 -0000

Boxed tofu is good! Just saying y’all are doing a good job and keep up the good work!

By the way... anybody watch Heroes? It's awesome! :D Haha. So much Japanese in it! haha. It's premiering in Japan! haha. (I'm trying to tie into Japanese and tofugu!) Also, MAN there's Spanish now! Haha. Once again, keep up the good work!

Re: How to not talk like a Japanese Transvestite (or a boy/girl)

Fredy — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 00:08:18 -0000

Interesting vid Koichi. Interesting, I'll leave it at that. Haha. This is interesting though, I've never thought about it. Usually when you hear about masculanity or femininity in a language it is categorized on the objects being spoken about, but never the form of the person using it. Well, I guess that's true for European languages and Romance ones. I remember my Thai friend taught me this phrase in a Thai restaurant and the waitress looked at me funny. Haha. My other friend (who was a girl) told me why. Haha. That was a fun day. This is good to know and will keep in mind if I ever learn that much Japanese.

Re: Pivo 2 Unveiled: Generation of Lazy Drivers in the Making

Fredy — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 23:16:37 -0000

Lol. Yeah. The hover car. I thought since they were in DBZ, that Japan had them already. :\ This does seem pretty cool though. I think it would go faster though right...

Re: My Pokemanz, Let Me Show You Them

Fredy — Mon, 22 Oct 2007 00:32:19 -0000

They could have just placed a big pokeball infront of him/she/it and then had the opening there... it would at least be less crude looking. Still this is hilarious.

Re: Customizable Cup Noodles

Fredy — Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:03:54 -0000

Haha. Awesome. Custom noodles! I wonder who's gonna start collecting the custom cups... Haha. For some reason, I like the shirt with the chick. Haha. Kind of random, but I do. I actually had my first cup of ramen in El Salvador. Also kind of random.

Re: Customizable Cup Noodles

Fredy — Mon, 05 Nov 2007 01:47:00 -0000

Erin:
Shrimp and corn all the way! Peronsally, I add lime. I want some now... I have some! But no, maybe later. Haha, maybe this summer, hopefully, but I can't even get things straight for a trip to Chicago. Haha, so I don't know how Japan will be done.

Online custom ramen would be amazing, but how would they mail them? Crunched noodle cups.

Re: Bag Lady Chic

Fredy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 00:29:22 -0000

Haha. Watch me find people dressed this way tomorrow... I'm gonna be like "Hey... that was on tofugu.com!"

Re: How to Win at UFO Catchers

Fredy — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 20:08:10 -0000

I like how the third picture still has the censor on it! HAHA. Nice... I now know how to win one and will hopefully be able to use this knowledge next summer! This was a good, fun article. Good job Viet! And good job with the vid Koichi, hope you feel better. Erin, good job with the other articles! Whatever happened to Lee?

Re: Half of Japanese Authors have Meaty thumbs

Fredy — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 22:43:51 -0000

Nice article. Yeah, Japanese phones are advanced and USA's companies need to step up. That's kinda crazy about the novels. When are full feature films gonna be made on the phones? haha. Iphone3.0 "edit your videos and background music". That will be pretty intense right there.

Also, what happened to the layout?

Re: “Mama Sucked out my Nose Mucus;” Child Protection Agency Works Overtime

Fredy — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 22:51:55 -0000

This is kinda nasty but, meh. I just played on a claw machine and failed miserably. :( Any japanese holiday posts coming up?

Re: The Secret to Learning Japanese! Amazing!

Fredy — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 20:45:25 -0000

I was expecting "Eh?" at the end considering it was Canada Dry or whatever that's called. haha. I need to practice more... I haven't seriously since summer. Time to crack open those Japanese textbooks that I never gave back to my school during the break.

Re: Is Tofugu the Best Humorous Blog on Japanese Culture?

Fredy — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 18:18:35 -0000

Wow congrats on all the votes. It did just change a lot overnight. You guys have the most votes overall. Nice! As for the blog design, did you change the top again? I'm getting confused, haha. Cause I wasn't paying too much attention as it changed. I think I like it before, the font style or something. Maybe I'm just making up things. Ha. I like how it transitions from light blue to dark blue. I need to learn how to do all this stuff. haha.

Re: The Secret to Learning Japanese! Amazing!

Fredy — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 00:49:20 -0000

like the new layout!

Re: We Wish You a Merii Kurisumasu

Fredy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 01:54:18 -0000

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!
Well... 2nd day of Christmas?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Fe11OlMiz8 <-- Awesome!
I had wondered about Christmas in Japan. Apperantly another Kentakkii association I read somewhere was from "the chef". He looks like a skinnier Santa Claus. Also, the whole "smiling Santa on the cross" is crazy! Haha. I want to see images of that!
Christmas is just celebrated so differently everywhere, even in the US there are just different methods to celebrate it.
HAPPY NEW YEAR as well.

Re: We Wish You a Merii Kurisumasu

Fredy — Wed, 26 Dec 2007 02:01:59 -0000

Also... "Tofugu Store"? I'm picturing a tofugu shirt. haha.

Re: 2007: Our past, present, and future

Fredy — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:08:41 -0000

WOW! It's been sixth months... I remember when I first caught this website after watching the "Learn Japanese from watching anime 5 minutes a day" video. Haha. Then coincidently my friend passed me Gokusen during the summer and then that post came up of being a "J-dramaholic" and soon came GTO then thanks to Erin FLCL. But I haven't watched anything sense then. Haha. Either way its been cool seeing this blog change over time and I think it's been getting better. Like I said before, I think this site is cool because its informative and amusing. I wish you guys the best of luck with all the future plans! As for suggestions, I'm not really sure, I'll keep it in mind, haha. Still say Tofugu shirt? haha.

Re: Tofugu’s Japan Week in Review 1: Fukuda, Elevators, & Mochi Death

Fredy — Sat, 05 Jan 2008 15:23:18 -0000

Viet: Haha. I laughed when I read that! I was like "I didn't know guns were traditional Native American weapons." I mean... you could go with another loophole and be like "the white man brought us these weapons long ago".

I don't have a problem with whaling, unless it is on species that are dwindling and in danger. I'm also mad that they lied about it by claiming it to be research.

Whatever happened to dolphins? I used to hear a lot about dolphin controversy. I read somewhere that Heroes' Hayden Pannettiere is wanted in Japan for stoping an annual dolphin hunt. Interesting. haha.

The video was a lot clearer after reading the article. I think one of the biggest difficulties in making these type of blogs is choosing what is important to talk about and how to write about each thing. There's just so much info and things going on that it would be hard to choose. Good luck!

Re: Use Mixi.jp to improve your Japanese (and make some friends, too!)

Fredy — Wed, 09 Jan 2008 20:41:46 -0000

Mixi! I remember seeing MySpace in Japanese and then stickam. Seems like this article took a long time. Nice! Thanks as well. Not sure if I could use mixi. It's not likely. Would be cool though. I saw that dictionary and was surprised that I saw it before! Well, hope it helps a bunch of people!

Re: Japanese Online Translators: They Laugh at You

Fredy — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:31:06 -0000

¡Reiría cuando la gente utilizaría los traductores en línea en clase española! ¡Nunca vendrían fuera de la derecha! Haha. This is from, "I would laugh when people would use online translators in Spanish class! They'd never come out right!" It took "on the line" instead of "online" and then it says "They would never come out of the right!" Yeah, it doesn't work for Spanish and it definately doesn't work for Japanese!

Erin: ¡Me gusto tu articulo! ¡Lo hiciste muy bien! ¡Es posiblemente uno de tus mejores!
Excuse my lack of accents casue I'm lazy and forget the key codes.

Re: Try our (Free) Tofugu Kanji Memorization Worksheet

Fredy — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 20:44:31 -0000

Fujiwar?
As for the worksheet, I'm probably being ignorant, but what exactly do you write on the boxes? If you don't mind? Mind showing a filled one? XD

Re: Try our (Free) Tofugu Kanji Memorization Worksheet

Fredy — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 20:56:30 -0000

Thanks. also, for some reason I cannot login to this thing... :\ oh well.

Re: Happy Birthday, Erin!

Fredy — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:21:02 -0000

Happy Birthday!
I'm not the partying type either. Oh well. :D
I still have fun.

Re: Nara Actually gets a new Mascot, maybe

Fredy — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 13:10:44 -0000

Haha. I thought the exact thing about #7! haha. I was like "HEY! That looks like..."
3, 7, 8, and 23 are cool in my book.
Japan... tomorrow!!!

Re: Dry Natto (乾燥なっとう) | Tofugu.com

Fredy — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:35:17 -0000

So I woke up early and am going through random tofugu posts cause I can't go back to sleep...
I tried it! I tried the natto at my host family's house. My host mother hates it, but she told me to try it. She took a picture. haha. The brother and sister love it. I thought it wasn't too bad. It was an intense taste. I could eat it though... I didn't finish it, it was too much, haha. That is definitely an acquired taste. Needs like... a ton of salt or sugar? I told her that if I was starving, I'd eat it.

Re: コウイチ弁 - KOICHIBEN » Maintenance Mode

Fredy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 23:39:52 -0000

That map kinda hurts, but its seemy true. In seriousness, generalizations suck. :D I like how North Korea is bigger than Japan. At least the map was almost right with Hawaii's location.

Re: コウイチ弁 - KOICHIBEN » Maintenance Mode

Fredy — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 23:39:23 -0000

Go Giants! :D Good game! Links to all the commercials: http://sports.aol.com/nfl/superbowlads

Re: コウイチ弁 - KOICHIBEN » Maintenance Mode

Fredy — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:10:29 -0000

Congrats Koichi!
Omedetou gozaimasu.
[insert more cool Japanese phrases here]
Take care man! I wish you the best.
I also showed Koichiben to my host family. Well, mainly my host student. haha. They thought your stereotypes video was hilarious. If I really could I'd like recommend koichiben to everyone.

Re: コウイチ弁 - KOICHIBEN » Maintenance Mode

Fredy — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 22:03:57 -0000

What it do? (Paul Wall Texas accent) I like that one.
Good luck on getting more subscriptions to koichiben! I've been subscribed to it. Both the blog and youtube. I try and make out what I can. Good luck.