Tuesday, December 27, 2005

Kansha vs. Gansha

Dear tireless students tethered to the face of that sheer mountain cliff that is Japanese,

Let's not confuse kansha suru and gansha suru, for while the former means "to thank/appreciate," the latter is, "to cum on someone's face." Luckily this was discovered without alarming some poor unsuspecting Japanese ears. I'm telling the world now! One always hears of mishaps of this ilk, but rarely do they happen to oneself... Bwah!

5 comments:

BadMonkey said...

Now THAT could be embarrasing. Glad you're here to stop us telling hot Japanese girls how much we want to thank them...

BadMonkey said...

I was the only person who thought that was funny then?
I'll get my coat...

Gledwood said...

Hi can you recommend any good books/courses that teach written and spoken Japanese simultaneously from scratch?

I'm basically an absolute beginner although I've been tinkering away on and off for years....

I've learned quite a lot of hiragana but the "Teach Yourself Beginners' Japanese Script" I got was useless - it gave kanji + their meaning in English but NO ACCOMPANYING JAPANESE WORD! What on EARTH is the point of that? Teaching you to see kanji and read them into English... I wanted to punch the author!

Anyway if you know of any good coursebooks/etc I'd be ever so grateful if you could leave me a message on my blog

http://gledwood2.blogspot.com

thanks!

Anonymous said...

Haha .. splooge.

Anonymous said...

Very impressive outlook