Back in the day when I was studying Japanese with an alarming intensity, my daily diet would be something like breakfast with the morning wides such as Fresh Wide or Zoom In which included Wikki-san and his one point eikaiwa lesson outside a random station with unsuspecting bleary eyed salarymen, settle down to lunch with WARATTE II TOMO (ALTA studio days) followed by the afternoon wide shows, featuring the usual suspects such as MINO MONTA and ピーコ on 3JI AIMASHO giving his rasping fashion commentaries of unsuspecting victims in a fashionable part of Tokyo... during my year on study abroad in Osaka, I was able to power up my Kansai-ben through shows such as Shoot in Saturday and DoyoDaisuki830 .. Evenings got a lot better when Kume Hiroshi pitched up in the evening with News Station which was a much higher level take (?) on the news, which would be mauled the next day in the 'wides'. .. I won't go on to 11pm, as you say probably better not to go there, although I do have a great memory of my homestay dad sliding drunk under the table during one show..
As a student going back and forwards between here and the UK it was like jumping in the proverbial shower and soaking in the endless stream of 'information' played over and over again with a slightly different take depending on the show.
Although a lot of it was trashy and spun out, it certainly provided an incredible amount of material for learning Japanese (see Krashen's input theory) It is definitely one way I learnt how to read newspapers after watching the pics on TV. Of course, we now have intravenous news feeds in multimedia, but somehow it was (don't look) .. different somehow.. いいとも！
Thanks for expanding Richard! Definitely a brilliant way to turbocharge input, especially if you had the same news stories from different ends of the...shall we say "sensitivity scale"?
I confess I don't own a TV -- which would be one way to increase input -- although I'm in the very elementary stages of learning Russian right now, and my input tends to be children's stories!
(I've also only lived in Kansai, so to me Kansai-ben = Japanese) :)
Thanks Richard! There is a cheeky nostalgia growing for the times where nudity and gruesome crime scene photos were all over TV...don't think we should go back there though!
A great read, thank you!
Thanks for your comment Julian!
Daniel .. thanks for the comment.
Back in the day when I was studying Japanese with an alarming intensity, my daily diet would be something like breakfast with the morning wides such as Fresh Wide or Zoom In which included Wikki-san and his one point eikaiwa lesson outside a random station with unsuspecting bleary eyed salarymen, settle down to lunch with WARATTE II TOMO (ALTA studio days) followed by the afternoon wide shows, featuring the usual suspects such as MINO MONTA and ピーコ on 3JI AIMASHO giving his rasping fashion commentaries of unsuspecting victims in a fashionable part of Tokyo... during my year on study abroad in Osaka, I was able to power up my Kansai-ben through shows such as Shoot in Saturday and DoyoDaisuki830 .. Evenings got a lot better when Kume Hiroshi pitched up in the evening with News Station which was a much higher level take (?) on the news, which would be mauled the next day in the 'wides'. .. I won't go on to 11pm, as you say probably better not to go there, although I do have a great memory of my homestay dad sliding drunk under the table during one show..
As a student going back and forwards between here and the UK it was like jumping in the proverbial shower and soaking in the endless stream of 'information' played over and over again with a slightly different take depending on the show.
Although a lot of it was trashy and spun out, it certainly provided an incredible amount of material for learning Japanese (see Krashen's input theory) It is definitely one way I learnt how to read newspapers after watching the pics on TV. Of course, we now have intravenous news feeds in multimedia, but somehow it was (don't look) .. different somehow.. いいとも！
Thanks for expanding Richard! Definitely a brilliant way to turbocharge input, especially if you had the same news stories from different ends of the...shall we say "sensitivity scale"?
I confess I don't own a TV -- which would be one way to increase input -- although I'm in the very elementary stages of learning Russian right now, and my input tends to be children's stories!
(I've also only lived in Kansai, so to me Kansai-ben = Japanese) :)
Terrific read which took me back to my early days here. Wide shows really were WIDE back then!
Thanks Richard! There is a cheeky nostalgia growing for the times where nudity and gruesome crime scene photos were all over TV...don't think we should go back there though!
Any particularly outré wide shows you remember?