|
Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*ck Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang) | 
 enlarge | Author: Matt Fargo
Publisher: Ulysses Press
Category: Book
List Price: $10.00
Buy New: $5.22
You Save: $4.78 (48%)
Rating:  23 reviews
Sales Rank: 29983
Media: Paperback
Pages: 128
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.2 x 0.5
ISBN: 1569755655
Dewey Decimal Number: 495.67
EAN: 9781569755655
ASIN: 1569755655
Publication Date: April 26, 2007
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Shipping: International shipping available
Condition: GREAT BUY!Brand New From US Distributor! WE ARE A 5 STAR SELLER with OVER 3,500,000 BOOKS SOLD!!! OVER ~ 675,000 FEEDBACKS ~ POSTED!!!
| |
| Similar Items:
|
| Editorial Reviews:
Product Description
Invaluable for those traveling to Japan, this guide features useful sidebars featuring English expressions commonly used in Japan. Pronunciation guides, a reference dictionary, sample dialogues, and an offensiveness-rating system from "use at will" to "use at your own risk" also help readers learn to communicate effectively.
|
| Customer Reviews: Read 18 more reviews...
 I thought this book was worth the money. December 27, 2008
am03ba (blah, USA)
I disagree with the Japanese reviewers who didn't like this book. Their reviews are really suspect, because I have found the Japanese people that I know/have met to be very secretive and misleading. For instance, if you ask a Japanese person a question/request, and they say "maybe", it really means "no!" or "definitely not" or "not at all"... I had a girlfriend who saw me reading a index card with the word "sawaru", which means "touch", written on it, and she scolded me for reading "something like that" in public (a restaurant), even trying to cover the card with her hands.
I found the book to be informative... You can't use any of these words in public without being laughed at, its true... but that's because of young Japanese culture using American words for all of their slang, in my opinion. This book is great to learn what is being said about you. I was with the same girlfriend with a group of others at a resturant, paying the check for a meal, and another girl in the group, yelled out "kono binbou aitsu!!!". Which basically means "this broke mother____!!!" None of the five Japanese people (in the group) batted an eye, but I of course started laughing like crazy -- because I knew she had just called the cheap guy (Taiwanese-American) that. She got scared/shamed and said nothing else for the rest of the night.
Every Japanese slang book that I have bought, has been correct... and they all make Japanese people laugh (or mad) when Westerners use the words -- that they have learned from them. The only knock I have on this book is that the art is pure awful, and the title "Dirty Japanese" is stupid. What if some Japanese person (with little knowledge of English) sees at us reading it - and thinks this book is talking about Pearl Harbor, World War II atrocities, Yasukuni Shrine, etc i.e. "The Japanese are Dirty"?
Well, I sincerely hope my review helped someone here. Thanks for reading.
 Wonderfully Dirty December 8, 2008
Just Stopping By (With Carmen San Diego)
Bought this for my brother who was recently stationed in Japan. He got a kick out of it and thought it was a lot of fun. I told him he should have no problems picking up a hooker now.
 Huge disappointment. November 28, 2008
D. D. Cannon (Indianoplace :-))
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I wanted to learn some Japanese slang. I have about ten different Japanese phrasebooks and dictionaries that I use very often. [ By that, I mean daily. ] This book is NOT one of them! The author seemed like just some guy who thought he'd try to brag about going to Japan.. So that was distracting enough. But I bought this before I really knew the difference between female and male sentence-ending particles. He never explained which gender said what. Now that I know, I'm even more angry that most of it that wasn't gross was meant for men only. So, if you're just some chick who loves the Japanese language, like me, do not get this book. The only phrases for women make us all look bad!
awesome!!!! clurtural relation October 30, 2008
Yolanda Coleman (alabama , usa)
This is great for one on one conversations...makes us less like a tourist. The exchanges students here thought we were cool...my cousins shared this
 Be careful!!!! October 28, 2008
coco (NY)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
By just looking few pages...
Becareful that many words are dead words and very funny.
It is very funny book to read, but I dont recomend to learn from it (if you dont want to be funny person)
However, if you are planning to go to Japan, it will be a great attention getter book (^-^)
|
|
|
Powered by Associate-O-Matic
| |
