Comments by "Jordan, inside-outsider in Japan" (@Jordan-inJapan) on "The REASON Google Translate FAILS at Japanese" video.

  1. Exactly! This has been the bane of my existence for the 20 years I’ve lived in Japan. Luckily for me I work in schools here...so everyone is just, “SENSEI”.
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  2. Aeneas Yeah, I tried to remember students’ names for the first couple of years...and then realized the futility of that and just basically gave up. Where were you teaching, btw?
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  3. MacArena 1. Take a step towards the student in question while gesturing and maintaining eye contact. 2. If that still doesn’t work, I ask, “what’s you’re name?” Because hey, it’s an English class...maybe I’m just quizzing them. ;-)(this is my strategy for Middleschool kids, anyway.)
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  4. Sour Puss 北斗の拳, is that you!??
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  5.  @AeneasMTG  Haha I can relate. I know the good kids AND the really bad ones.
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  6. Markius Fox yes, IF you’re just meeting someone for the first time. But it could also, be “I’m really relying on you” or even just a very strong, “PLEASE!”, etc., depending on the situation. It’s a very useful little phrase, once you get used to it! :-)
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  7. Ah, was it, アース, like “earth”? (Side story: I remember an English worksheet in a junior high school where I worked that had the example sentence, “It’s important for me to love the EARTH.” Only that’s not how the homeroom teacher pronounced it...)
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  8. Dave Evad Ah, yes. Come to think of it, that’s exactly what I do! ;-)
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  9. You had me at, “Narnia”. lol
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  10. Anton Grigoriev Interesting idea...you could be right!
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  11. Kyla Well then. Lol
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