Way to represent! Thanks for posting this, very cool!

Hey thanks to all the comments and compliments guys...but there some bad news..i uploaded the video on utube and it got deleted because of some NHK copyright restrictions...

Great video saizen so lucky to get on TV and your Japanese is great in comparison to mine

bookmarked the video so i can do some sentence mining

tibul Wrote:Great video saizen so lucky to get on TV and your Japanese is great in comparison to mine

bookmarked the video so i can do some sentence mining

haha dont sentence mine my sentences or else you will sound funny haha..
People (japanese) tell me i still talk like a girl :/

Too much sentence mining from a j-girlfriend kashira?

Spoonsman of unicycling fame:

http://forum.koohii.com/showthread.php?p...9#pid43759

Oh hey, thanks for the plug Mr. kame.

I haven't responded here yet simply because I only remember about this video when I'm on a computer at work, so I haven't watched the show yet. In that vein, nothing I say will relate to the video at all.

However I CAN respond to a comment back on page 1 about writing left-handed-- as soon as I was allowed to use pens in school (late middle school) I stopped using pencils to write, and I've since never gone back. As was stated previously, when writing in pencil the lead tends to accumulate on the side of your hand. That's really the main problem with English and writing Japanese horizontally.

The huge problem with Japanese comes into play when you want to do calligraphy. To do the strokes correctly (left to right) you have to rotate your hand in an unnatural way. While it is possible to do calligraphy left-handed, it can get quite annoying.

On a slightly related note, the other week I went to a restaurant that I frequent, and the server absentmindedly gave me a specifically-made right-handed spoon, which I didn't even realize exists. I notified the server of this, and he was just as surprised as he switched it out for a normal spoon.

A specially (ficalisious) made right-handed spoon? How is that possible?

The spoon was designed so that the 'bowl' of the spoon was angled to the left. When used by a righty, it made it so that you could slurp/eat off of the end of the spoon without having to bend your hand inward as much as usual.

It was the first and only time I've seen such a spoon.

just for you spoonsman:
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/84_b.gif

By the way, you wouldn't happen to know Javier Ruiz of Puerto Rico? He's big in the unicycle community down there, and has been to Japan more than once. An acquaintance of mine...

yukkuri_kame Wrote:http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/84_b.gif

Some things should not be allowed to exist in this world.... @_@

yukkuri_kame Wrote:just for you spoonsman:
http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk/acatalog/84_b.gif

By the way, you wouldn't happen to know Javier Ruiz of Puerto Rico? He's big in the unicycle community down there, and has been to Japan more than once. An acquaintance of mine...

Aww, now I can finally live up to my namesake.


And I pretty much fell away from the unicycling community when I left the US, so nope, I don't know him.

Alright, I finally got to watch the video and wow, it was a lot longer than I expected it to be.

Even though I work in schools and not a company per se, I can agree with pretty much everything that was said.

Just watched the video, what a great little experience. Well done! I loved the part when they showed Anki on the screen, kind of weird to actually visually see someone else using what has been part of my daily life for almost two years now.

I thought your Japanese was good, especially considering you've only been there 18 months. Just imagine how good you'll be in another year or so.

I'm curious to know how you got working for a Japanese organisation like that in Tokyo.

Great stuff saizen.

And major kudos for sharing.

Big thumbs up from me.

Whoah!! Cool!! I actually watched it on TV! And here I thought. Ah, he's using Anki, too!

O snap still getting props! haha thanks guys! ...I'm actually using anki right this moment lol. I had to represent my kanji koohii brethren...i was this close to giving a shout out to ファブリス　but i figured they would cut it out anyways

Nice job!
That was the most interesting ワイドショー I've watched in a long time.

sweet. haha anki reps.
Nice opportunity

Squintox Wrote:Wth, veoh is blocked in my country O_O

@ squintox [looks at Squintox's signature location] Are you in Canada? I am, and can see it fine.

@ saizen That was awesome. You represented English-speakers in Japan in a positive light--hardworking, studious, trying to fit in, friendly, etc...all the attributes that are prized in Japan. You will go far. (Being telegenic doesn't hurt, either!) Kudos.

awesome! that's so cool. my name is eric too and i've been studying about 8 months or so. i wanna be on tv. it made me happy to see another eric already on tv in japan studying with anki and heisig


you're my role model

Awesome thread!

Great interview eric-san, I'm also an eric. Good to see a fellow namesake living the dream. Your studies and speaking really are showing how hard you've worked, ganbatte.

LaLoche Wrote:

Squintox Wrote:Wth, veoh is blocked in my country O_O

@ squintox [looks at Squintox's signature location] Are you in Canada? I am, and can see it fine.

I was in Kuwait back then, it works fine now. ^^

Ahhh,

I had hoped someone revived this thread with news of another television appearance that didn't involve the possibility of jail time. Sadly, we didn't get even that.