Erin go 日本語！

[sara_tanaquil]

I feel kind of dumb that I didn't know this existed, but I was wandering around the koohii forums (I think I was looking to see if anyone had done a Kanzen Master grammar deck for the higher levels) and stumbled across a reference to this site(I switched into Japanese for good discipline, but you can actually get most of the menus and instructions

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[kellyj0]

Looks interesting - thanks for the link! :)

[mangaroo]

And from the first video, I have learned Japanese high schools are horribly threatening places.

I'm loading all subtitles except for the kana. This is going to be great for practice, thanks.

[wednesday_10_00]

And from the first video, I have learned Japanese high schools are horribly threatening places.

You didn't know that from manga?

The whispering and staring would have made more sense to me if Erin didn't LOOK Japanese. Interesting casting choice. (The people she interacts with in later skits must think she's an idiot. "Why can't this girl find a freaking pencil???")

[sara_tanaquil]

That is an interesting casting choice. I was just assuming she was an expat (most foreign kids wouldn't be joining a Japanese high school class in progress for six months unless they'd had some sort of special education background, right?). But now that you ask, I wonder if they did it because an actual foreigner might have seemed too threatening (?), or maybe if it allows for learners from any cultural background to identify themselves as the person who is trying to blend in.

[wednesday_10_00]

I was just assuming she was an expat (most foreign kids wouldn't be joining a Japanese high school class in progress for six months unless they'd had some sort of special education background, right?).

Didn't they say she was an exchange student from England?

I wonder if the choice was a conscious one, or if they just couldn't find a foreign-looking teenager who could speak good enough Japanese for the role.