Re: Nerd Boy, episodes 72-78

On Tue, 23 Oct 2001 07:57:09 +0200, Philip Newton
<pne...@newton.digitalspace.net> tried to confuse everyone with this
message:

>On Sun, 21 Oct 2001 20:03:46 +0200, "Joaquim Almgren Gandara"
><cla...@lords.com> wrote:
>
>> Gambarimasu! (= "Good luck/Do your best")
>
>If I remember my Japanese, that's what the person who is taking on a job
>says. The person who is asking someone else to do a job or who is
>encouraging them says "Ganbatte!" or "Ganbatte kudasai", which is the
>"request" form of the same verb. Sort of like "Please do your best", to
>which the other person might answer "I will do my best".
>

That's scary! Why do you all know Japanese??? Is it just consequence of that
widespreading anime movies??? Or you can study Japanese somewhere outside Japan?

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