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Hello all!
Really excited about embarking upon this course, as it has received many positive reviews online. I’m hoping to learn enough Japanese to get by for when I visit next year. I’ve been fascinated with the Japanese culture and spiritualism for a long time, so I’m looking forward to experiencing the country first hand.
I’m using the actress Julie Dreyfus as my inspiration/motivation throughout this course (a.k.a. ’Sofie Fatale’ in Kill Bill). She is French but speaks fluent Japanese and sounds just like a native. I would love to reach her high standard of pronunciation and quickness some day!
Hello! Another English here; Stroud Gloucestershire to be precise. Wow someone else is posting at 3:00 am XD (I work nights, and am nocturnal by default).
What facets of Japanese spiritualism are you interested in? I’m a huge fan of eastern mythology, and the modern works of fiction that continue it. Just bought 『狐笛のかなた』(Koteki no Kanata) and『きつねのはなし』(Kitsune no Hanashi) along with some other books.
Good luck, and have fun!
Hey. I used to work nights but I’m just nocturnal by default regardless! LOL. (I think it’s the gaming genes in me, which I can’t seem to get out of my system.)
I’m still learning and researching the spiritualism but I’m really loving the way that Buddhism complements Shintoism. I was always a fan of Greek mythology with Egyptian mythology being a close second as it is similar, and I’d assumed that Eastern beliefs would be too complicated for me to understand, but they’re actually quite enlightening and it’s nice to see them still very much embedded within a modern culture. Can’t wait to pay my respects at a shrine. :)P.S. Still waiting for my avatar from Gravatar to link up with my TextFugu account. Strange. Is it normal to have such a long delay? I set it up a few days ago now. :-/
I can see an avatar – it’s got two women on it, holding a… lightsaber? I’ve got no idea. Is that not what you were expecting?
LOL! Thanks, Joel. I managed to figure it out and get it visible only about an hour ago (my TextFugu account had a different email assigned to it so it wasn’t linking in with Gravatar).
You’re right, it’s two women… but it’s a cropped image so the ‘lightsaber’ you see is actually a cropped tanto and a katana. :)
Joel… you… haven’t seen Kill Bill? Really?
Nope. Been meaning to, though.
I did think it was supposed to be some sort of sword cropped in half…
If you watch it, Joel, try to get the Japanese cut of Vol.1. It’s got some nice extra scenes and the OTT violence in the House of Blue Leaves is not censored in black and white like the Western cut was (which happens to be the best boss fight, IMHO). You also get to find out just how mutilated poor Sofie gets. :(
The only issue is that you’ll have to manually turn on English subtitles whenever anyone speaks the dialogue in Japanese. But if you watch the Western cut beforehand, you will pretty much know what they are saying in those parts anyway. :)
I recommend watching both cuts of Vol.1.
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