The Cutest Thing Ever - Pitton Hebe Hebe
Update: I fixed the video. I successfully transcoded it to mp4 (using the VLC Player) and uploaded it to Picasa. I recommend clicking the arrow in the lower right hand corner of the Picasa player and selecting “original size” so it won’t be too blurry. Unfortunately however, Picasa is rendering the audio and the video slightly out of sync, which is really annoying.
Click the image to see a great song that was performed on the Japanese kids show Nihongo de Asobo (Let’s Have Fun with Japanese). I have to admit I actually looked forward to this show coming on when the boys would watch TV in the morning while Kai got ready for school. I couldn’t understand most of it, but that didn’t stop me from enjoying its great mix of Japanese kids’ songs, poetry, and theater. It actually provides a nice introduction to some aspects of Japanese culture (but this song is just for fun - as far as I can tell, anyway). Here’s a nice summary of the show:
The goal of the program is to get children to rediscover and enjoy the rich world of Japanese. Interesting words and phrases that people would want to read out loud are taken from things like Japanese classical performing arts, poems, novels, and historical phrases and introduced to kids through drama, cartoon, and song.
