Japanese Traditions on New Year's Day
The international lounge in my ward (where I take my group Japanese lessons) recently had a big New Years cultural event. These people are all volunteers, old people giving back to the community and trying to help foreigners not just with Japanese, but also help us assimilate culturally.
Halfway through the introductions I thought "You know what? This event is a nice slice of life and less than 10 foreigners will ever see it. I want other people to be able to experience the hard work these volunteers put in."
So here it is. It's a humble, lighthearted look at various New Years things like Fukuwarai, otoshidama, etc. It was originally just a few clips, but I ended up spending a lot more time on it- doing lots of research on various terms, origination of games, etc. So I hope you guys are able to learn a few new things from it.
If you guys have any feedback, I'd love to hear it. It's my first attempt at this sort of thing but it was a lot of fun to make, and making it helped ingrain a lot of the terms I researched. But mainly, I just want to call attention to this amazing group of people that work so hard and ask for nothing in return.
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As a person that's discovered the Japan country as well as the language all the way back in September 2005, and thanks to Gaijin Goomba for the introduction to its culture in the early 2010s, Japan is just one of those countries that has a huge history of fun things they have over there, that America is sorely lacking. America used to have a lot of fun things when my parents in the 1970s and my siblings from the 1990s and 2000s all grew up in. But by the time I got to high school, pretty much everything that used to be fun got thrown out the window in favor of smartphones and social media. I personally did too with my laptop, but that's because the people I used to talk to in high school, have simply graduated and haven't seen them again (and even my own class of 2015 have barely talked to me at all, and don't come to me to tell me what I'm doing wrong. So I have to tell people that you have to do it up in front of my face to do it. And no, I'm not going to get angry about it, but rather I wish I knew better of why I do this. Otherwise it'll get to the point where I'm lazy as heck, thus I'll never know until I either look it up or be told what I'm doing wrong....So it feels like as if I'm back in middle school/high school despite being a late young adult in my time). But with this video, man, didn't realize there was a competition to shove cards away from the user first before doing so. It's basically the Mario Party 3 mini-game Hands Down, or the actual game we used to play in the 2000s that was pretty much the same thing in America, but isn't played very often so there's that to consider.
Did the Japanese lady really say lmao? 😆
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Haha, no. That was a bit of editorializing on my part. She was basically just explaining the rules of the game lol