{"id":436,"date":"2004-08-05T09:08:02","date_gmt":"2004-08-05T14:08:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/05\/interview-with-a-gaijin\/"},"modified":"2004-08-05T09:08:02","modified_gmt":"2004-08-05T14:08:02","slug":"interview-with-a-gaijin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/2004\/08\/05\/interview-with-a-gaijin\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with a Gaijin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a398'><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mammo.tv\/interview\/012_PatrickH\/pic_top.jpg\"><br \/>\n <br \/>\n On Japanese TV there are a few foreign faces that show up quite often.<br \/>\n From what I&#8217;ve seen they are pretty much fluent in Japanese (ah a great<br \/>\n goal to move towards).  One such personality an American by the name of<br \/>\n Patrick Harlan.   It seems he was raised in Colorado and went to the<br \/>\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mammo.tv\/interview\/012_PatrickH\/pic_top.jpg\">Harvard<br \/>\n Divinity School<\/a> before setting sails towards Japan.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Right now he shows up on one of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nhk.or.jp\">NHK<\/a>&#8216;s<br \/>\n English shows and also does stand<br \/>\n up comedy (I believe it&#8217;s called manzai if I&#8217;m not mistaken) with a Japanese<br \/>\n comedian.   A lot of this manzai comedy relies on wordplay and puns.<br \/>\n I&#8217;m still not that strong on my vocabulary in Japanese so most<br \/>\n of the wordplay puns are lost on me unfortunately.  But it&#8217;s something<br \/>\n to work towards.  I know most foreigners learning Japanese strug off Japanese<br \/>\n humor as boring but for me it&#8217;s something to strive towards.   Understanding<br \/>\n what a culture considers funny is one of those humps any advanced foreign<br \/>\n language learner should try to achieve.  Even if you don&#8217;t find it funny<br \/>\n at least you can appreciate what the joke is based on.\n <\/p>\n<p>\n Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mammo.tv\/interview\/012_PatrickH\/\">interview<\/a><br \/>\n (warning it&#8217;s in Japanese)\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Japanese TV there are a few foreign faces that show up quite often. From what I&#8217;ve seen they are pretty much fluent in Japanese (ah a great goal to move towards). One such personality an American by the name of Patrick Harlan. It seems he was raised in Colorado and went to the Harvard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":704,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tagme"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/704"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/hoanga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}