The reason for japanese speaking weird/rude english is found!
When i was on the hunt for new pictures to add to this blog i came across this one:
I didnt thought too much about it, added it to the blog along with some other pics but still it bugged me somehow… So when i was bored i begun to ask a bit around and got a hold of more pictures:
When i saw the last picture it even raised more my interest in it as it looked it is some book. So i begun to ask around and got some response in the internal channels of my groups. This books are english instruction books for japanese people with a manga style. But their image of words one should learn to speak proper english with other peoples seems to be rather weird. Sure this ones target at young people but still… especially these should learn it proper. On the other hand this stuff gave me lots of laughs. The figure we see (the red haired one) is Maritan. There are also 3 other girls, and its all styled to imitate some military akademy or similar. Maritan is the sea drill instructor (what ever this have relation to learn a language). As for the other i found this picture here but still figured out their names:
It seems that Maritan is even so popular that its not limited to english instruction books anymore but also get used to advertise other products:
Well, i hope they have also some real english instruction books there… anyway, i will definitly get me Maritan books and will have some fun with them. If u also have deeper interest in them:
Maritan to hanasou
ISBN 978-4-89425-534-0
2100 JPY
Das ist Maritan
ISBN 4-89425-440-9
1524 JPY
and there is more to be found in the internet or on yesasia.com if you prefer originals like me. Enjoy the fun,
-Death
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