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Post by Mellow Yellow on Feb 16, 2008 0:00:00 GMT -5
youtube.com/watch?v=OuEFwOq9hM0youtube.com/watch?v=At 48 seconds... Is he joking or being serious? I've been taking it for a year now... Just how much DID he learn in that Japanese jail? Maybe I should go get locked up ;D Anyways the guy, Masayoshi, does a pretty good version of All My Loving and certainly plays it better than Paul.
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Post by ramone on Feb 16, 2008 0:10:09 GMT -5
arigato
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Post by CoconutFudge on Feb 16, 2008 0:13:39 GMT -5
I don't know, he seems to understand pretty well!
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Post by Mellow Yellow on Feb 16, 2008 0:24:26 GMT -5
Well, not necessarily, because in the guy's Japanese he clearly says "Paul" and "Tokyo Dome" so he could have inferred.
Plus the guy actually says "10 years ago I saw you [Paul-san] at the Tokyo Dome" (and some stuff about him being foreign) but Paul doesn't seem to catch the 10 years part.
Also if he understands Japanese why doesn't he speak it? He could have used simple phrases like "hajimemashite" or "arigato gozaimasu" (Sir. Paul does say "doumo arigato" but... he probably learned that from the song or something, arigato gozaimasu would have been better)
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Post by CoconutFudge on Feb 16, 2008 0:33:31 GMT -5
I know nothing about Japanese, so I don't know what's is proper or common and what is not, that's for sure! Perhaps he has a small grasp of it from his travels? Enough to understand bits and pieces anyway and thus enough to get the gist of sentences? I know that, when I went to France after having a somewhat small knowledge of French (I took Spanish and know a little Italian and can kind of go by root words that are similar sometimes to get some French stuff), I knew what people were saying more by the end of the trip than I did at the beginning of the week. I think you naturally pick up at least a little in passing even if you know a very little amount of the language upon your arrival.
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Post by B on Feb 17, 2008 2:39:35 GMT -5
He's been watching the Applemilk videos on YouTube.
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