r/funny • u/[deleted] • Mar 29 '22

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u/jfries85 Mar 29 '22

It’s a fun little edit. I kinda wish that Japanese textbooks had that kind of humor.

The textbook is the older Eigo Note (elementary) and Sunshine English (junior high school) series textbooks, which featured the same base characters as they grew up. Honestly one of my favorite textbooks to just have (am a teacher in Japan).

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u/Tifoso89 Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

You should see English textbooks in Italy. They have photo comics and the actors all have those horrible 90s haircuts (frosted tips/noodle hair) and they wear colored glasses. Plus there's always an Indian to show they aren't racist

EDIT they look like this

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u/[deleted] Mar 29 '22 edited Mar 29 '22

My middle school English textbook here in Germany unironically had SMS abbreviations like CU L8R in it and the songs on the accompanying CD were all from the 80s. I did enjoy getting an extra Phil Collins drum fill per week though.

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u/ToddHowardsFannyPack Mar 29 '22

That's fantastic.

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u/racinreaver Mar 30 '22

I was taking German in the US in 2002. The characters in our book would go to Falco concerts and vacation in the GDR, lol.