Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang from What's Up? to F*%# Off! [Paperback]

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Next time youre traveling or just chattin in Japanese with your friends, drop the textbook formality and bust out with expressions they never teach you in school, including:

•Cool slang
•Funny insults
•Explicit sex terms
•Raw swear words

Dirty Japaneseteaches the casual expressions heard every day on the streets of Japan:

What's up?
Ossu?

How's it hanging?
Choshi doyo?

I'm smashed.
Beron beron ni nattekita.

I love ginormous tits.
Kyo'nyu daiskui.

Wanna try a threesome?
Yatte miyo ka sanpi?

I gotta take a leak.
Shonben shite.

He's such an asshole.
Aitsu wa kanji warui kara.

No body speaks in strictly formal address anymore. Not even in traditionally minded Japan, where slang from its edgy pop culture constantly enter into common usage. This all-new, totally-up-to-date book fills in the gap between how people really talk in Japan and what Japanese language students are taught.

Matt Fargohas worked in Japan as a writer, translator, and musician, subsequently earning his Master's degree in Japanese Literature at UC Berkeley. He lives in Berkeley, CA.

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Written by a great author team including a young and hip Japanese translator and the proven author of a top selling Japanese English dictionary

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