Hello world, let's swear a lot

[flonnebonne]

So just now I taught my adult students the word sketchy when they asked me how to say すけべい in English, andafter that I kind of taught them the meanings of crap/crappy and shit/shitty and plain old poo. I refrained from teaching them any other bad words until one of them mentioned that when she was in Guam a lot of the drivers kept giving her husband the thumb's down sign (for driving on the left side of the road), and that that apparently means go to hell or something (?). Well, I had to tell her that we don't give the thumb's down sign to bad drivers where I come from, we give them the finger, and of course I had to demonstrate the finger and explain what words are actually being expressed when one gives the finger to another human being. So yeah, I'm a terrible human being, though I did make sure to tell my students to not say these words in polite company. My students loved learning this stuff of course--they said they forget most of the English they learn, but today's lesson was one they were unlikely to forget. Hurrahz for corrupting the Japanese!

My first year junior high students also asked me to teach them a bunch of mildly unpleasant words today, like stinky and gross, but eh. I'm more worried about the kids who were saying "five hundred まんこ!" really loudly during class. I'm getting flashbacks to my beastly little third years from last year.

Comments

[ontogenesis.livejournal.com]

I haven't been teaching my children naughty words, but today in class, I laughed during a student's speech. Very loudly. <.< But he was reading it SO badly (and it is the first time I've laughed like that.)

BTW, ai says: I like the term "giant wanker" very much. Tell her it discharges her from her debt over "Long Live The Honinbou". ^_^

There you go. For your good beta work. XD

[flonnebonne]

I've certainly laughed at my students' speeches and skits before, but usually they're trying to make me laugh. :)

Today one of my JTEs told me not to teach my kids any more "bad" words (like "gross" and "stinky") so there's no way I'm going to teach anyone "giant wanker." I would have to explain (or demonstrate) what wanking means. Nuh uh. Try again!