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Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!" (Dirty Everyday Slang) ~ Matt Fargo
Invaluable for those traveling to Japan, this guide features useful sidebars featuring English expressions commonly used in Japan. Pronunciation guides, a reference dictionary, sample dialogues, and an offensiveness-rating system from "use at will" to "use at your own risk" also help readers learn to communicate effectively.
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Japanese Slang: Uncensored ~ Peter Constantine
This book reveals in vivid detail the richness of Japanese slang in all its amusing, bizarre, and shocking forms. Thoroughly researched and comprehensive in its coverage, JAPANESE SLANG traces the origins of these expressions and explains the ingo, or hidden words, used by thieves, prostitutes, Buddhist monks, pickpockets, sushi chefs, and other colourful characters.
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Japanese Street Slang ~ Peter Constantine
Japanese Street Slang is the first and only exposé of the rough and ready, raw and down-dirty street language as it is used in Japan today. Here's how they really speak: The hustlers and high rollers, the teens and Tokyo yuppies, the gangsters and their ladies of the night. Witty mini-essays trace the fascinating origins of many expressions and the rollicking example sentences reveal just how and where they may be heard. WARNING: Many of the expressions featured in this book are extremely potent. Beware of using them inadvertently—mass panic might ensue.
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Making Out in Japanese Phrase Book, Revised Edition ~ Todd Geers
The books in the Making out series are fun and accessible guides to languages as they're spoken on the street. These classic phrase books have been updated and expanded for use in informal situations such as bars, parties, or anywhere else one needs to know slang to survive! The books also now feature phrases written in their native script as well as in English, so the book can be shown to the person you are trying to communicate with.
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More Making Out in Japanese, Revised Edition ~ Todd Geers
More Making Out in Japanese has been thoroughly updated and expanded to be even more helpful as a guide to modern colloquial Japanese for use in everyday informal interactions giving access to the sort of catchy expressions that arent covered in traditional language materials. As well as the romanised forms, each expression is now given in authentic Japanese script so that in the case of difficulties the book can be shown to the person the user is trying to communicate with.
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Outrageous Japanese: Slang, Curses and Epithets (Tuttle Language Library) ~ Jack Seward
The Japanese are extraordinarily polite and soft-spoken people who are always indirect and evasive in their dealings with each other. Right? Well, not really. They can be just as explicit, vicious, vile and downright vulgar as anyone else when they want to be. This little gem of a book teaches you hundreds and hundreds of Japanese taunts, threats, curses and expletives that you'll never find in any dictionary-showing you how the Japanese really talk to one another when they are angry or emotional. It leaves no taboo untouched and sets the record completely straight.
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Beyond Polite Japanese: A Dictionary of Japanese Slang and Colloquialisms (Power Japanese Series) (Kodansha's Children's Classics) ~ Akihiko Yonekawa
For people wanting to take a step beyond the textbooks; for anyone wishing to speak like a native without spending two or three decades in the country learning how to do it--for such people as this, Beyond Polite Japanese has collected some 500 words and phrases of prodigious interest. Among the entries are very common, unexceptionable words that Japanese take absolutely for granted, but which you, the student of the language, must struggle mightily to make your own. Other entries cover traditional slang-slang which has been slang for ages, and will likely stay that way for ages more. Other entries take up more contemporary usage, but not so contemporary as to fall from fashion the day after tomorrow. Slang-forming prefixes and suffixes are also given a place, as well as slurred phrases so elusive to the alien ear. Literal meanings, notes on usage, and a bit of etymology are included for greater understanding.
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