TEACHING SWEAR WORDS IS IMPORTANT

you know until yesterday I never believed in divine intervention even if there is a God I don't see why he would have the free time to be able to help me out especially on a Tuesday yesterday I hadn't been in a good mood all day for reasons I'll surely explain but I decided to go for a stroll to try and clear my thoughts and as I turn the corner of the street I witnessed a man casually just taking a picture of his youth orakau perched alongside Ronald McDonald which is of course the one thing you should definitely do if you ever possess an owl but if I were to make a list of things most likely to cheer me up witnessing that moment with would certainly be something at the top of the list it was such a random magical moment I'm certain only God could have conceived it to try and cheer me up and yet apparently that wasn't enough because as I continued my stroll down the street just moments later I came across arguably the best name pharmacy I've ever seen and that is a pharmacy called drugged penguin drugged penguin for the nice tomorrow clearly a lot of a lot of thought had gone into that name I still can't work out if it was a cute clever shop name or potentially dangerous Act but witnessing both of these things came to define my day and really helped to clear my mood so I'm certain it was divine intervention either that or just your casual everyday evening stroll through a Japanese city anyway down to business so yesterday I received a comment on one of my videos that finally burst the floodgates of my patience it was on a video where I'm showing my friend ASCII a British Street toilet of which he was really surprised to see here's the scene in question and be advised there is a swear word yep turn it on yeah I feel free stop [ __ ] music leads to it and then viewer collie candle writes some down for swearing why the effing it's not funny it's not clever it's downright disrespectful to the Japanese first off fine swearing is neither funny nor clever although it definitely is but this line it's downright disrespectful to the Japanese what the [ __ ] are you talking about I'm pretty certain most of my Japanese friends would be vastly more offended by this patronizing perspective than by my use of the term [ __ ] musical instrument Japanese people on children though they're not all cute cuddly anime characters who need their big naughty English words filtered for them through a gumdrop [ __ ] rainbow for 18 months now I feel like I've been continuously prodded with a stick by various people ever since the release of a video called teaching swear words to Japanese people a video in which I bought a book called policy [ __ ] Ahmad skycutter which means the correct way to use [ __ ] and went off to teach some Japanese friends some popular English phrases by finest [ __ ] awkward the video went down quite well and incredibly now has almost a million views but it also brought me into contact with the anti swear words brigade so I received comments from various annoying people talking about how evil and awful I am to do such a thing one viewer referred to the video as despicable garbage Dyce pickable garbage strong words there but when you can only correctly spell 50% but mere two words used in your bold statement it kind of does rob you of almost any credibility actually my personal favorite comment has always been this one don't spoil the mouths of foreign people with your disrespectful dishonorable caucasian profanity disrespectful dishonorable kick asian profanity all the irony is strong with this one yeah as long as you don't swear it's alright to be a racist then there was this comment more recently on the swear words video funny and one thing but learning bad word to japanese people to use bad word it is deceptive separate deceptive to set to separate yes to separate for example in restaurants I talk Javanese and one of the waiter would say [ __ ] you yeah that's exactly what would happen yes sir what can I get you to eat yes I'll have the salmon [ __ ] you but is it not the case that by teaching Japanese people how swear words are used we can avoid these kind of bizarre situations anyway after all many people already know lots of swear words they just don't know what they mean or the ramifications of using them in everyday language or on marketing materials this is the reason we get treated to company mascots called [ __ ] up the hip hop groups called brown [ __ ] and of course the infamous Christmas [ __ ] sale and as far as I know the four friends I taught these phrases to in the video haven't gone on to use them in their everyday language phrases like I'm trusting you with the drugs don't [ __ ] me over or dumb be informal and just shut the [ __ ] up for [ __ ] pops sake lucky them perhaps with the notable exception of my friend Natsuki who did embrace swear words to an almost worrying degree yeah I do feel like I've Unleashed something terrible they're very important before death oh [ __ ] but I don't condone swearing it's true I was referred to as a swear word missionary in the London metro which I am delighted about but I genuinely don't parade through the streets of Tokyo advocating the use of bad language and I'll admit over the years I've cut down my use of swearing in these videos just so I can appeal to a wider demographic even though by not swearing I'm no longer as cool or as clever as I used to be and perhaps I've lent far too much credibility to some of the people whose comments I mentioned earlier on in this video comments from an idiot a racist and someone who's clearly never been to a Japanese restaurant now I'll admit as an English teacher for three years I never taught my students what all those naughty words meant in every song movie or tea vishay fine hindsight I wish I wish I had to deprive students of learning the meanings of words that are used so prominently in Western culture to me that that seems like the real crime how will they ever be able to fully appreciate the Sopranos nearly every film made by Martin Scorsese and that song my sealeo green that everyone couldn't stop playing a few years ago to avoid teaching swear words is to neglect and shortchange Japanese learners of essential knowledge that they'll need in their pursuit of mastering English and native speaker level and to deprive them of all those things for the sake of a few whinging idiots to me that that is truly despicable thanks for watching guys please don't forget to hit the like button if you want more videos I'll see you next time I'm off now to drugged penguins I mean a drugged penguin yeah so I've collected a list of about 20 pickup lines chat hotlines half of them are in English half them in Japanese I figured if you can rate them on a scale of one to ten and try and build a picture of what Japanese girls like what might work you a microwave because he just melted my heart too

Channel: Abroad in Japan

Views: 757,385

Rating: 4.9702888 out of 5

Keywords: japan, japanese, swearing, language, teaching, ญี่ปุ่น, ภาษาอังกฤษ, คำหยาบคาย, คำสบถ, ภาษาญี่ปุ่น

Id: 94VUgByjo7c

Length: 7min 10sec (430 seconds)

Published: Thu Jan 21 2016