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canuck
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 Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:03 am Post subject: Yan and the Japanese People |
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Yan and the Japanese People:
Japanese Basic I and Japanese Basic II
Have any of you seen these videos? They are from the 80's, useful for beginners and low intermediate Japanese language learners.
More on the videos:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let's_Learn_Japanese
You can find them for download on various sites, or you can buy them at some book stores.
Anyways, a friend of mine sent me an email with this link.
http://www.japanesejapanese.com/index.php/2006/08/04/friday-fun-i-love-the-80s/
Nick Muhrin actually posts. Pretty funny. He's a musician for the band Kalifonico.
http://www2.gol.com/users/akevermilion/liveinfo.2.html
Looks his band is playing Sunday, February 25, 2007 at BarBarBar in Kannai, Yokohama. I can't make it to Yokohama at that time, but I thought maybe some people near Yokohama on this board might want to check it out. If you do, please post in this thread, especially if you get a chance to talk to Nick about his Yan days. |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Tue Mar 06, 2007 5:19 am Post subject: |
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| I was forced to sit through many Yan san videos for what passed as conversation classes in the Japanese course at my university in NZ in the mid-90s. I can't say I really learned anything from them, but others may find them useful. |
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canuck
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Edit: Thanks markle. Looks like the youtube links were killed.
Update: Someone uploaded the .avi files. Enjoy.
http://www.animeupload.com/learn/
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markle
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 6:27 am Post subject: |
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| links are down canuck - violation of terms of use. sorry. |
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bshabu
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 11:55 am Post subject: |
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| I sat through them too at Uni in America. They were good for a laugh or two. thanks canuck for the scroll down memory lane. |
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Gamushara84
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| Posted: Mon Mar 12, 2007 5:20 pm Post subject: |
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Yan-san has a cult following at my University. Halfway through the first session, we started placing bets on where he was from. (Tied between Persia and Egypt).
Very useful stuff! |
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wintersweet
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Yan-san! We also used the very first bits of Yan-san video.
The 1970s videos from "Japanese for Busy People" (I think) are pretty funny too, starring a hapless white guy who kind of looks like my dad, in hugely oversized, thick-rimmed glasses. |
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canuck
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 12:01 am Post subject: |
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| Gamushara84 wrote: |
| Yan-san has a cult following at my University. Halfway through the first session, we started placing bets on where he was from. (Tied between Persia and Egypt). |
On the first show in season 1, his plane arrived in Japan from Vancouver. In the last episode, one of his friends told him to take care when he goes back to Canada. It's safe to assume, for the purposes of the show, that he was Canadian. But, on the website linked above, if that was indeed Nick, he's American and grew up in Japan. He didn't state his ethnic background of his parents. |
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shuize
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:40 am Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| On the first show in season 1, his plane arrived in Japan from Vancouver. In the last episode, one of his friends told him to take care when he goes back to Canada. It's safe to assume, for the purposes of the show, that he was Canadian. But, on the website linked above, if that was indeed Nick, he's American and grew up in Japan. He didn't state his ethnic background of his parents. |
I remember Yan from years ago. He was the source of amusement in a number of otherwise dreary classes. Among other things, I got a laugh out of how the producers quashed his love interest and made sure to send him home at the end:
"Welcome to Japan, Yan. Thanks for studying Japanese. No, you may not marry a Japanese girl. Now go home." |
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canuck
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 8:41 am Post subject: |
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| shuize wrote: |
I remember Yan from years ago. He was the source of amusement in a number of otherwise dreary classes. Among other things, I got a laugh out of how the producers quashed his love interest and made sure to send him home at the end:
"Welcome to Japan, Yan. Thanks for studying Japanese. No, you may not marry a Japanese girl. Now go home." |
LOL!
Well...not totally correct. He never said anything to her, kept her picture like it was his greatest memory. Who knows what he did under the kotatsu. She visited and broke the news that she was going home (didn't say why). Time passed and when he met up with his former co-workers, the news slipped that she was getting married. He got depressed, violent and more depressed, jumped on a train and headed north. He got over his angst on the journey home.
He never had the courage to actually ask Okada-san out. Even though it was a big part of the story, the love story didn't play itself out very well.
Maybe they left room for Japanese Basic III one day. Part I was in 1985 and part II was in 1995. Maybe they will bring the series back, part III with Okada-san enjoying being single after a violent divorce and Yan coming back to Japan 30 kg heavier.
I was funny how his neighbour was such a badass, and then turned good to help him when he got sick.
My favourite part was that the neighbour's little boy, even though it was near Tokyo, was wearing a Hanshin Tigers' baseball cap!
Also, Mine-san was much better than Kodama-san! |
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Apsara
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 1:07 pm Post subject: |
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You know your Yan-san well Canuck!  I never got to see series 2 because I had finished university by the time it came out. There is a Hanshin Tigers supporters bar near my house in Tokyo, so the kid's cap isn't too much of an anomaly. |
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Gamushara84
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| Posted: Wed Mar 14, 2007 7:48 pm Post subject: |
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| canuck wrote: |
| Gamushara84 wrote: |
| Yan-san has a cult following at my University. Halfway through the first session, we started placing bets on where he was from. (Tied between Persia and Egypt). |
On the first show in season 1, his plane arrived in Japan from Vancouver. In the last episode, one of his friends told him to take care when he goes back to Canada. It's safe to assume, for the purposes of the show, that he was Canadian. But, on the website linked above, if that was indeed Nick, he's American and grew up in Japan. He didn't state his ethnic background of his parents. |
I guess I should have said "ethnicity" but even then I'm not quite sure wha tthat means.
Canadian, huh? Figures... |
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