Karaoke: The treasure of Japan - Nihon no Madoguchi #47

Hello and welcome back to yet another episode of our Nihon no Madoguchi Podcast! With today's episode we continue the diptych that will mark a pause in our English recordings, as we will probably concentrate only in producing Japanese episodes for a short while. As such we decided to leave you with a topic dear to our hearts, Japanese music. By now you may have understood Domo and Marty's love for Karaoke, so much so that one of the many names Domo goes by is "Karaoke King". It was in a very natural way that to mark our pause from English videos we decided to share with you the extent of our love for Karaoke. Of course these will not be simply 40 minutes of shenanigans about Karaoke, but there will also be some deep thoughts on how Karaoke can be used as an active tool to learn Japanese. Stay tuned till the end to hear out what is Marty's and Domo's 18-Ban... What is a 18-ban, well there's only one way to know! Links to music and songs discussed: 00:15 Domo's different setting 01:20 Previously on "Nihon no Madoguchi Podcast"! 02:20 Learning Japanese at Karaoke 03:50 The embarassment of singing Ani-songs 15:05 Expanding one's music horizons 17:16 Connecting music and Japanese studies 20:15 Expanding one's music horizons (again) 26:09 Getting better at speaking through Karaoke 28:25 Using music as a learning tool 33:30 What is your 18-ban?