日本GO!

Today in class we were going over what to call the different people in a family.  The textbook had four columns for familial titles: talking to other people about their family members, talking to other people about one’s own family members in both a formal and an informal context, and finally addressing the members of one’s own family directly.

I started taking my Japanese class this summer and the book we have is great, it’s got a central cast of characters in it.  There’s Mary-san, the main character who is an exchange student from America, the dialogues follow here and her adventures studying as “Sakura University.”  Takeshi-san is a student at the university and becomes fast friends with Mary-san, he being in many of the dialogues as well.  The story arc of the textbook following their budding love story.  There are a couple others, but the next most notable Robert-san, an exchange student from England.  He’s basically the butt-monkey of the group, he’s not a very good student and he’s totally crushing on Mary-san, but the voice actor they got for the CDs has the best “I’m trying my hardest but it’s just not good enough for this world” kind of voice.