Awkward Interviews in English: Tomochin from AKB48

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cEY0s5RWdbM&feature=player_embedded#at=83

Citizens of the Internet who aren’t into female musical groups that could double as sexy junior high classrooms: meet Tomochin AKA Itano Tomomi, Japanese pop star and member of 48-member (!) Japanese Pop Group AKB48. As a bonus on one of her DVDs, she recorded an obviously-staged interview in English to amaze her Japanese fans at how awesome and popular abroad she is.

What she didn’t expect was all us dirty gaijin to watch the interview as well, like Moye and I in this last minute IM chat transcript:

[both watch video]
Ernie: annnnnd i’m dying inside.
Moye: It’s for an English language thing, I guess.
Moye: but the white lady is talking to her like she’s “special.”
Moye: and the girl isn’t helping.
Ernie: this girl sounds like a dolphin.
Ernie: actually, it’s easier to pretend that the Japanese girl is a dolphin.
Moye: hahahaha
Moye: OMG the students i went to elementary school with in japan had better English than this.
Moye: “oooh dats rwight”
Ernie: [throws a fish]

Japanese Pop-Idol, you can clearly take some lessons from BoA or Ayumi Hamasaki. Patronizing American Interviewer, you don’t help matters with the “DEFINITELY! WOW! ABSOLUTELY!” remarks either.