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The white teams + the Japanese Language
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managerr |
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Posts: 13194 (01/06/08 8:30 PM) Registered user |
You can actually tell Christina actually isn't that adept either. Japanese is a hard language.
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Posts: 568 (01/06/08 9:19 PM) Registered user |
You would think with all the English speaking tourists, the signs would be multilingual. The post office clearly said Post Office in English, why not the road
signs?
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Posts: 6583 (01/06/08 9:21 PM) TAR Moderator |
White teams? How about Ron yelling Portuguese "obligado" at his cabbie.
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Posts: 57 (01/06/08 9:26 PM) Registered user |
What baffled me ever more was Christina's statement of how she visits Japan for half a year to study the language.
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Posts: 18322 (01/06/08 9:27 PM) Admin/Play-By-Play Guru
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I think arigato is the equivalent of "thank you" in Japanese. (Apparently borrowed from the Portuguese root
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ETA: Wiki says "Arigato" means "thank you", but is NOT borrowed from "Obrigado" and that anyone who knows anything about Japanese would not make the mistake I just made!
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01/06/08 9:31 PM.
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Posts: 6586 (01/06/08 9:33 PM) TAR Moderator |
Well I spelled the Portuguese word wrong. But if it wasn't obrigado then it sounded like that to me. And I swear he or someone else was saying it in
Africa. I am so confused. Why can't we just go back to the endless rapidos. I miss the endless rapidos.
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SurvivorLDog93 |
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Posts: 18324 (01/06/08 9:48 PM) Admin/Play-By-Play Guru
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I prefer Mirnish.
"Pleeeze Meester ... I just need to make one leeeetle phone call weeeth my feeengers, like theeeese!" |
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pussycow |
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Posts: 1380 (01/06/08 10:15 PM) |
Mr Roboto would not be pleased
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Texas Stranger |
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Posts: 487 (01/06/08 11:24 PM) Registered User |
"Domo Arigato, Mr. Roboto" would have fit in better with the Detour that Don and Nick did.
But as long as we work it in somewhere. |
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kitty white |
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Posts: 6617 (01/06/08 11:58 PM) Registered User |
BentBentley wrote:it's because she went to one of those high falutin' colleges |
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Juggler 8o8 |
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Posts: 106 (01/07/08 7:37 AM) |
Christina is pretty good with languages. She is obviously fluent in Chinese (Mandarin or Cantonese) since she spoke to her Dad before in that. She is always
thanking the natives in their language too. It seems she prepares and studies the key words of whatever location they're going to. She is really smart
and that's why I like her. We need more competitive and nice chicks like her!
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April R |
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Posts: 3533 (01/07/08 8:56 AM) Registered user |
Rejected Reality wrote: I was wondering the same thing.. all the japanese everywhere then suddenly post office in english? I was surprised to see no english on the signs at all-
strange.
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Pacifidlog |
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Posts: 131 (01/07/08 11:13 AM) Registered user |
April R wrote: All Japanese people have become robots since 2005. They got that GPS installed into their heads.
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Gregoire |
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Posts: 27214 (01/07/08 11:43 AM) Registered user |
If you knew you were going to be on the Amazing Race, why wouldn't you learn about 25-30 key words in several different languages? Just attempting to speak
in a country's native language might endear you enough to the natives for them to help you out.
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Posts: 1099 (01/07/08 12:43 PM) Registered user |
You would think the Japanese would know some English as it is the number one destination for ESL teachers. I tried twice to go to Japan with two different organizations in order to teach English and these organizations send dozens of ESL teachers to places like Japan and Taiwan every year. |
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pinkdolphin |
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Posts: 6672 (01/07/08 2:36 PM) Registered User |
Gregoire wrote: Either that or buy a language book at each airport. It would help. |
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lawnmunchkin |
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Posts: 103 (01/07/08 2:49 PM) Registered user |
I've been to Japan and a lot of the road signs are both in Japanese and English, but only on main roads. Many of the buildings may have the words on the
building in English (such as the post office) but not all of them do. A lot of the places that do have English signs are not always the most helpful. (See
below!) I was surprised that they didn't encounter more English speaking natives as there are actually quite a few in Osaka.
 <--- clothing store!
 <--- a little pastry shop trying to
describe their products.
 <-- should you be trying to find the
washroom, it might prove to be difficult!
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Posts: 75 (01/07/08 3:39 PM) |
Just thought I'd mention: Here in San Francisco a high proportion -- perhaps the highest -- of our international tourists are from Japan, yet our street
signs are not in Japanese.
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zoeyxo |
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Posts: 596 (01/07/08 6:54 PM) Registered User |
She is awesome, and it's great to see someone like her doing so well on this show, because she shows that education and intelligence do get you far. It
seemed like she spoke it pretty well.
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takoyucky |
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Posts: 4 (01/08/08 12:00 AM) |
burnettfollower wrote: I've spoken with my relatives and others in Korea, and some of them say that when they're suddenly approached by Westerners speaking in English, they kind of get dumbfounded or intimidated and forget what to say. Basically, they know some English, but just can't apply it practically. Maybe it's the same way in Japan. |
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