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Authors: Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang From "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

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popular with the opposite sex
mote mote
like a model
moderu mitai
nerdy
otakkī
CHAPTER 8
SPORTY JAPANESE
SUPŌTĪNA NIHONGO
Sports
supōtsu
Fuck love—sports is the real universal language. Catholics, Muslims, Jews, and Buddhists will never love each other, but they all certainly enjoy a good game of futtobōru. In Japan, the most popular dialects of this universal language are baseball, soccer, kickboxing, golf, and sumo. Most other sports are also played and appreciated somewhere—even women’s ice hockey!
Do you play…
. . . yatteiru
…
I want to play…
. . . yaritai
…
Let’s watch the … game.
. . .no shiai miyō ze
…
soccer
sakkā
baseball
yakyū
kickboxing
kē wan
K１
golf
gorufu
basketball
basuke
rugby
ragubī
tennis
tenisu
American football
amefuto
sumo
sumō
If you’re in Japan, be sure to take the opportunity to watch a sumo match. It’s incredible live, but even on TV it never fails to entertain.
Explain the rules of sumo to me.
sumō no rūru o setsumei shite kudasai
Americans would be great sumo wrestlers, they’re all so fat.
amejin wa minna debu de sumō ni muiteiru kamo
What… do you like?
sukina … wa

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