Comments on: The Gaijin TV Exclusion Paradox

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By: Nikolai

Nikolai — Wed, 19 Sep 2012 04:44:51 +0000

Haha, great point: “they’ll sit there telling you about how hard Japanese supposedly is, how hard not knowing Japanese (while living in Japan) is, and how they would “give anything” to know it.”
I hear this all the time. I learned Hiragana and Katakana on my own in about two months. Then got better just by reading everything around me, all the time! People put language learning on an impossible pedistal it seems.
Also, while I was reading this article, right now, a coworker walked into my office, and said, “Why aren’t you guys watching ESPN? What’s with this Japanese crap?”. LOL!

By: Jack Cotton-Brown

Jack Cotton-Brown — Mon, 17 Sep 2012 10:40:21 +0000

It’s not just that, I’m an exchange student in Japan right now and a lot of other exchange students have been saying that the Japanese TV is incredibly boring/shit. I find it to be the complete opposite. I find it hilarious and on average, fairly interesting. Probably much more so if I could understand more of it. The students saying this are the ones who can’t understand much Japanese at all. Just putting it out there, but this thing is definitely a psychological thing, perhaps an aversion to the language. It’s almost like a defensive barrier, where the mind does not like being reminded that it cannot function in Japanese. Better stick to English.

By: Ian Worthington

Ian Worthington — Sun, 16 Sep 2012 06:33:58 +0000

*read this whilst sat in osaka apartment. With TV on.*

By: フレヂィー

フレヂィー — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 23:10:45 +0000

So, I never doubted that I could learn from watching TV, I am from another country after all and english is not my first language, but when I was a kid it was natural it just happened. I’ve been tuning into MacKeyholeTV for quite some time now and I must say, at first it was so annoying so infuriating to not know or understand. But now, the weirdest thing happens, sure, I still don’t know or grasp what the folk on TV are saying because of their fast-native speech pattern, but, it’s so natural to my ears now, listening to them speak just sounds like an everyday thing, and here and there there are glimpses of me laughing, but not laughing and saying “haha, wow, I understood that” but laughing at the actual joke or topic being talked about because I can understand more and more as time goes by. So damn cool.

~ fv

By: Thinker

Thinker — Fri, 14 Sep 2012 21:51:57 +0000

I read the numbered list at the bottom as the #1 footnote.

“…insists on defecating on them. Turn on the TV at 9am next Monday morning.”

I was frightened.