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Hello and welcome to the brawn Japan podcast.

Probably the best way of learning about life in Japan

without actually being in Japan.

I'm your host Chris Broder, but join us always by England's top Japan enthusiast, Mr Pete Donaldson himself.

Pete, how the devil are you doing?

What's going on?

I'm good. I have obviously, last week, spent a week just rolling around Cornwall, like I'm the king of bloody Cornwall, eating cream teas and Mr. Hollerdon, Mr. Hollerdon himself.

I found my old Kindle which had like, a couple of old Japanese vocab books and stuff.

One of them was like a book that I don't think I ever read in the end because I just thought I had to look at it when it came to me.

And it said learn Japanese in like 30 days, you know, learn everything you can in 30 days.

Easy peasy, piece of piece.

And like the first few pages were just learning Hiragana Katakana.

And then the rest of the book was just in all the words were like Hiragana or Katakana.

And you're like, why do they bother doing this?

You're trying to learn like as much of a coverage possible and you're learning it like learn, I understand it a little bit.

But like, you're just making this harder than it needs to be.

Would that be fair to say?

I know it makes like the whole kind of like reading easy and it makes like, but a lot of the things will just be in kanji anyway when you're out and about.

And I almost sort of think what's the fucking point?

I don't have dipped back into the books a little bit.

And it's like some of them are just taking the fucking piss.

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