Yo, I'm interesting in trying my Japanese ability by solving riddles, understanding puns and wordplay. Do you know resources for doing that? Maybe a collection of clever jokes in Japanese would help.
masaman
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From: Colorado
Registered: 2009-03-06
Posts: 486
Hey hey hey,
Yea, 落語 is kind of old and I don't usually watch it, but for the sake of this thread, I checked this one out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xfSRfI_7iOg
The wordings seems to be, to my surprise, pretty modern, and the jokes are
logical so it can be explained. One of my American friends used to like 笑点 a lot,
I thought that's old but now I understand why.
But then, I'm not exactly today's youth 
I took a Japanese test this last friday.
The test had 20 questions, 1 text for each question. Each test was an editorial or an article from the news or magazine (2 were from yomiuri). And had to be finished in 1h.
It got me worried because I did not so well as I think I would. At the ~7th text my head had already started to spin and from that it was downhill.
I'm already used to reading and listening Japanese to some degree. I even was growing overconfident. But these texts showed me I still have a lot to learn to get past the never-ending intermediate level.
That's why I want toughter material. To be prepared for toughter situations. So the next time I take this test, I'll ace it.
These rakugo stories really are what I was looking for. Something hard to understand but still interesting content. Great study material.
Last edited by mentat_kgs (2009 June 08, 8:27 am)