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Lydia Leftcoast

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1. "Learned Japanese after a single viewing of the Shôgun miniseries?"
Sat Jan 28, 2012, 09:32 PM
Jan 2012

Yeah, right.

There isn't a whole lot of Japanese in Shôgun, and much of what is in there is overly simplified and even downright wrong.

Reminds me of the guy in my apartment building in Portland who claimed to speak twenty languages, including Japanese and nine dialects (some days it was six dialects) of Chinese.

His Japanese consisted of a bunch of words strung together, completely meaningless. It probably fooled people who didn't speak Japanese, but it sure didn't fool me.

Personally, I never got much out of flashcards. My best study techniques aside from textbooks have been copying out passages in the language and watching movies or TV in the target language.

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