[MENTION=3144]Dogg Thang[/MENTION] Japanese For Busy People is a good book too.
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Schmooze away! Hope you can make it!
DT: Like saif, I also thought you were talking about an actual app(especially the foot/shoe struggle) and had to read a few more times before I got it
No textbook recommendations(I’ve used both Minna and JBP, and listened to some Japanesepod101) but I think you might have more luck just learning some choice phrases and spending your free time on side jobs to pay for the ticket.
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Originally posted by randombs View PostSchmooze away! Hope you can make it!
DT: Like saif, I also thought you were talking about an actual app(especially the foot/shoe struggle) and had to read a few more times before I got it
No textbook recommendations(I’ve used both Minna and JBP, and listened to some Japanesepod101) but I think you might have more luck just learning some choice phrases and spending your free time on side jobs to pay for the ticket.
Randombs, you’re right that I’d probably be better spending that time making money! It makes no real sense to spend a lot of time learning a language for a single short trip. This isn’t something I’d normally do and I’m not even sure why. I think part of it is a challenge for the year. It’s an idea that took hold at the end of last year and then didn’t go away. Part of it might be that I have had a bunch of new twitter art followers from Japan too and other pixel artists and, if I did go, wouldn’t it be cool to be able to communicate at least on some very basic level. But yeah, it’s probably not the best course of action!
Kryss, thanks for that recommendationa and I appreciate all the advice guys!
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I’m just being facetious
But I'm also not being facetious. If you're learning it just because, then by all means go for it. I'm sure it'll be fun and you'll be much more independent if/when you visit. But I didn't want for you to put a lot of effort in for this event in particular and then get disheartened when these guys inevitably just start speaking English with you. Mind you, whatever you learn can be used to spruce up your own pixel art!
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Okay, a whole other Japan question. Or more of an open topic. Talk to me about Shibuya. Even having never been there, I know the obvious vibe and the crossing scramble but, for people who have been there and know it a bit better, what else is there? Anyone been to Nabeshima Shoto Park?
Here's why I'm asking - there is a Shibuya Pixel Art contest and I'm thinking of doing an entry for it (it's international). The themes aside from Shibuya itself are: age, human, monster or festival. I have no firm idea what I want to do yet but I wanted to look beyond the obvious image that we all have of Shibuya to see if there is something else. I was half thinking of doing something like an image of that Shoto Park (age...?) looking really peaceful to contrast with the glowing cityscape (human...?) above it... even though in reality I reckon you wouldn't see the cityscape.
Any suggestions of anything you've seen that people who have been there will know but maybe aren't so obvious?
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How about nonbei yokocho? It’s not like typical Shibuya.
Narrow, tiny bars, lanterns, stuff like that. I’m getting a bit giddy imagining you GIFing up scenes like these(ideally in your underwear):
There’s a lot of ojisans so that covers both human and oldLast edited by randombs; 01-02-2019, 14:56.
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Originally posted by Dogg Thang View PostOh yeah, that's pretty nice! Are there any cultural considerations with that? Like should it be off-limits as a subject for a foreigner given that it's a shrine?
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Originally posted by randombs View PostConsidering my recipe for success in Japan so far has been adopting a devil-may-cry attotude to everything, I’m probably not be best person to answer that.
randombs:
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