I’m British and my wife is Japanese. Our daughter is referred to as a “haafu” in Japanese. No offense is intended in the term, and none, as of yet, has been taken.
After all, half a loaf is better than none. In our household, both Japanese and English are spoken, usually both together since it is easier to say what you think in your own language and less excruciating to hear what somebody else has to say if she says it in her language and does not screw it up in yours, er mine. So, the question is, what rules do we lay down for our daughter as she learns two languages?
Er… rules? The fewer the better. The only rule I have is that the first DVD my daughter watches in my company must be in English. That’s it! She can mix up her languages as much as she likes and be as playful with them as she wishes.We try out a new DVD every so often, and last week I found Chitty Chitty Bang Bang on the shelves of our local DVD rental shop, and for the last few days that has been our chief form of English entertainment.
I never knew that Chitty Chitty Bang Bang was based on a children’s novel by Ian Fleming – I never knew Ian Fleming wrote a children’s novel. As one of my English mates said to me over mahjong last Friday, it is a pretty good legacy really, James Bond and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang!
Here in Japan, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is called “Chiki Chiki Ban Ban” which sounds quite cute, or kawaii don’t you think?
Anyway, the point of all this, if there is one, is that one of the songs in the film struck me as being ideal for motivating struggling Internet marketers whose websites have just blown up, or who have just wasted a lot of mula and months of effort on promoting a product that turns out to be a stinker.
So without further ado, here are the lyrics, kindly supplied by http://www.lyricsandsongs.com/song/499705.html:
Every bursted bubble has a glory!
Each abysmal failure makes a point!
Every glowing path that goes astray,
Shows you how to find a better way.
So every time you stumble never grumble.
Next time you’ll bumble even less!
For up from the ashes, up from the ashes, grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Oh yes!
Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!
(spoken)Yes I know but he wants it to float. It will!
For every big mistake you make be grateful!
Here, here!
That mistake you’ll never make again!
No sir!
Every shiny dream that fades and dies,
Generates the steam for two more tries!
(Oh) There’s magic in the wake of a fiasco!
Correct!
It gives you that chance to second guess!
Oh yes!
Then up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Grow the roses!
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster grow the roses of success!
Disaster didn’t stymie Louis Pasteur!
No sir!
Edison took years to see the light!
Right!
Alexander Graham knew failure well; he took a lot of knocks to ring that
bell!
So when it gets distressing it’s a blessing!
Onward and upward you must press!
Yes, Yes!
Till up from the ashes, up from the ashes grow the roses of success.
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Grow the roses of success!
Grow the ro
Grow the ro
Grow the roses!
Those rosy ro
Those rosy ro
Those rosy roses!
From the ashes of disaster, grow the roses of success!
Start the engines!
Success!
Batten the hatches!
Success!
Man the shrouds!
Lift the anchor!
Success!
Here’s to you Internet business success!
David Hurley
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