Producer: Hisao Hashimoto
Navigator: Eri Ito
Members: Lu Thatcher, James Macrae, Adam Ramli
Interpreter: Togo Sasaki, Ito Shunsuke
Visitors: Mariko Itabashi, Hisako Yamaguchi
Tonight show, we had the new guest, Lu-san, from Iwaizumi.
*Welcome Lu-san*
She introduced not only about her country, but also her various experiences in Iwaizumi.
She sounded like she was having a good time there with her students. I was kind of relieved when I heard that from her since Iwaizumi is very countryside and can be very lonely sometimes.
Not only Lu-san, but also Adam-san and James-san sounded they were enjoying their lives in Japan too. It was really fun to hear about onsen, where you get butt naked to bath yourself in the public bath. The topic got shifted from onsen to ganban-yoku, and there is good ganbai-yoku in Otsuchi according to Adam-san. I think I have never been to ganban-yoku. Yes, you know, sometime, they know more about Japan than me.
I should not forget what amazed me the most tonight was how much Togo-san improved his skill of the translation. I asked him what kind of English study he did because he was almost like another person. It was that much dramatically change. He told me he was very relaxed tonight compared to the previous time, so that was how.
So, because I had no idea that Togo-san would do so much good work as the interpreter tonight, I prepared something. Before the show started, I handed him 2 cards, the yellow and red card, from UNO.
I told him the yellow card means “Yo-Ito-I-Need-Your-Help-for-the-Translation-So-Get-in-Now-and-Take-Care-of-All-Sh*t-Card,” and red one means “Hey-Ito-It’s-Getting-Too-Much-I-Am-Outa-Here-Card.”
I told him to show me those cards whenever he need some help for the translation or he wants to get out doing the translation. That actually did work out pretty well.
Comparing to Togo-san’s good work, I did OK tonight. I mistranslated again as usual.
The first one the translation of what if they have any favorite Japanese idol, but I lost the word “Japanese” in somewhere, so as the result, James-san answered he likes “Jeniffer Lutz” (I think that’s who he said.) It came out pretty funny, but yes that was my bad. I was sorry Jamaes.
Second one is what I have been doing every time. I always ask them “how was today?” in the very end of the show, and that’s how navigator asked in Japanese. But what I tried to ask the members is “how did you like the tonight’s show?” Adam-san knows it, so he answers to the question of “how did you like the tonight’s show?” But I confused James-san again. He started answering how his whole day was.. I am so sorry, James-san again. (x_x)
Well, but still I guess those can be the fun part of the culture exchanging.
Thank you very much for tonight, everybody!!
I hope you guys enjoyed it too!!
I told him the yellow card means “Yo-Ito-I-Need-Your-Help-for-the-Translation-So-Get-in-Now-and-Take-Care-of-All-Sh*t-Card,” and red one means “Hey-Ito-It’s-Getting-Too-Much-I-Am-Outa-Here-Card.”
I told him to show me those cards whenever he need some help for the translation or he wants to get out doing the translation. That actually did work out pretty well.
Comparing to Togo-san’s good work, I did OK tonight. I mistranslated again as usual.
The first one the translation of what if they have any favorite Japanese idol, but I lost the word “Japanese” in somewhere, so as the result, James-san answered he likes “Jeniffer Lutz” (I think that’s who he said.) It came out pretty funny, but yes that was my bad. I was sorry Jamaes.
Second one is what I have been doing every time. I always ask them “how was today?” in the very end of the show, and that’s how navigator asked in Japanese. But what I tried to ask the members is “how did you like the tonight’s show?” Adam-san knows it, so he answers to the question of “how did you like the tonight’s show?” But I confused James-san again. He started answering how his whole day was.. I am so sorry, James-san again. (x_x)
Well, but still I guess those can be the fun part of the culture exchanging.
Thank you very much for tonight, everybody!!
I hope you guys enjoyed it too!!