Found a good book called "making out in japanese" by Todd Geers

[casiocasio10]

Found a good book called "making out in japanese" by Todd Geers

The books in the Making Out series are fun and accessible guides to languages as they're spoken on the street. These classic phrase books have been updated and expanded for use in informal situations such as bars, parties, or anywhere else one needs to know slang to survive! The books also now feature phrases written in their native script as well as in English, so the book can be shown to the person you are trying to communicate with. With transcriptions revised for easier pronunciation and numerous notes on points of language use and culture., these helpful books will have you making out in no time!

Its a very good book to read.
Try looking for a PDF of it to download it















私はあなたの髪を感じることができますか？

 

[Mike Cash]

私はあなたの髪を感じることができますか？

Is that a sample of what's in it? It is laughably wrong.

The book....without intending to be....is a joke.

 

[casiocasio10]

Is that a sample of what's in it? It is laughably wrong.

The book....without intending to be....is a joke.

Its said it is saying "Can i feel your hair" but my guess is that it is wrong?

 

[Mike Cash]

It is a direct translation by somebody with an inadequate understanding of what he was saying.

That "feel" isn't used in the sense of "touch"; the verb is wrong.

 

[casiocasio10]

It is a direct translation by somebody with an inadequate understanding of what he was saying.

That "feel" isn't used in the sense of "touch"; the verb is wrong.

Oh... Crap book.

私はあなたの髪に触れることができますか？

Is that right then?

someone must have copied the book wrong

 

[Glenski]

Just be yourself. Stop using terrible self-help books to get through life.

Do you tell girls/women in your country that you want to touch/feel their hair? Sounds creepy to me.

 

[Mike Cash]

No better.

Phrase books are a poor substitute for learning the language. That one especially so.

 

[casiocasio10]

Do you tell girls/women in your country that you want to touch/feel their hair?

はい。


But i am just letting people know about the book.

 

[Mike Cash]

When did that hunk of junk come out? Something like twenty years ago?

 

[casiocasio10]

When did that hunk of junk come out? Something like twenty years ago?

1978 i think

 

[Mike Cash]

It has been a notorious groan getter forever. You'd think they would have corrected it by now. Is it still in print?

 

[casiocasio10]

It has been a notorious groan getter forever. You'd think they would have corrected it by now. Is it still in print?

I do not think so

 

[Mike Cash]

Still available new on Amazon, along with a second volume.

 

[ArmandV]

It is only good for yucks. Bill Murray had a copy with him in Japan while making Lost In Translation. It is in one of the DVD extras (not in the actual movie itself).

 

[casiocasio10]

It is only good for yucks. Bill Murray had a copy with him in Japan while making Lost In Translation. It is in one of the DVD extras (not in the actual movie itself).

Oh? I Have that movie on my computer... Just the movie.. not the extras... That's real funny

 

[nice gaijin]

I've seen that book pop up over the years. Good for a laugh and nothing more. Anyone who'd actually use those lines in earnest are douchebags.