日本人の知らない日本語 2

日本人の知らない日本語 #2

by Nagiko Umino, 海野 凪子, Hebizo

お待たせしました!!大ベストセラー『日本人の知らない日本語』第二弾が登場です。ファンも多かったルイ君(オタクのフランス人)、ジャックさん(日本語堪能)をはじめ、新キャラクターが大活躍。学生さんたちもパワーアップして、凪子先生も大忙し・・・。今日も日本語に関する珍問奇問に答えます!!思わず爆笑、そしてためになる日本語コミックエッセイです。

Genres: Japanese Literature, Manga, Japan, Nonfiction, Comics, Language

159 pages, Paperback

First published February 19, 2010

Reviews

[Anton Hammarstedt · Rating 3 out of 5]

(This review concerns 日本人の知らない日本語２, by 海野凪子＆蛇蔵, in case Goodreads does this stupid thing where it collapses multiple entries into some type of anthology edition)

General impressions
NB: This book is part of a series. I may or may not have focused my efforts in reviewing the last part of the series.
Rating (Intuitive*): 3
Rating (Weighted**): 3.41
RMSE***(Intuitive,Weighted): 0.443
Mean error***(Intuitive,Weighted): -0.072
Format: Paperback
Language: Japanese

Presentation
Clarity & disposition: 4/5 [w:2.5]
Art: 3/5 [w:1.5]
Prose: 3/5 [w:1.5]
Design, layout and gimmicks: 4/5 [w:1.5]

I usually give clarity and disposition scores only to non-fiction, and I guess this is non-fiction to some extent, but the author does a very good job of explaining some grammatical concepts. I mean, it isn't a study guide or coursebook by any stretch of the imagination, but it does a good job of mixing 4-panel style slice of life comedy comic portions with essays about grammatical/cultural topics and short quizzes (!), which makes for kind of a fun read. What annoyed me to no end, though, was the insistence on partly censoring all references to other media (there's a part where a guy wants to cosplay as a chocobo, spelled チョ○ボ, or a bit about the Chiaki Ishikawa song Uninstall, spelled アンイン○トール)

Additional modifiers
Page turner factor: 3/5 [w:3.5]
Mind blown factor: 4/5 [w:2.5]
Mood (Humor if comedy, scaryness if horror, etc): 3/5 [w:3]

*The rating I felt this deserved before thinking about it too much.
**Weights displayed next to each applicable scoring criterion. (Weights version 3.1)
***Root mean squared error and mean error calculated for all reviews using this format for books read from 2020-07-12 up until this book (40 reviews).

[Travis · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is (obviously) the sequel to the hilarious and informative Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo, an essay manga by a Japanese teacher who teaches Japanese to foreigners in Japan. It's pretty much just more of the same: annecdotes about her students and about differences between Japan and other countries, as well as explaining linguistic origins and neat stuff like that.

There is currently a drama "based" on this manga, but the drama is pretty much not at all like the manga in any way.

[Ellen Fraser · Rating 5 out of 5]

日本語を勉強している人として、軽く馬鹿にされるのは面白かった。今日本語の先生の気持ちがわかります！

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[Ariane Dokusho · Rating 4 out of 5]

Was looking forward to reading this as soon as I finished the first book. There's more to learn about Japanese language and I especially enjoyed the backgrounds of some kanji.

While with the first book, I mostly enjoyed the manga parts and skipped through the essays, I found myself really enjoying the essays with this book!

[Hippo · Rating 3 out of 5]

It was a fun read that made me think more about polite speech. (I've never studied it systematically, so my polite speech is a hodgepodge.)

There is also a lot of trivia about the origins of words, which is always fun (for me anyways).

[Joy · Rating 5 out of 5]

Every bit as good as the first one.

[Katy · Rating 4 out of 5]

I thought this was funnier than the first volume :)