My life hack when I was in Japan and trying to speak to someone that didn't understand my shoddy Japanese was to just legitimately say the English word but in the thickest Japanese accent I could pull off. Worked like 80% of the time.
you might atleast seen some rendition of this meme called capirinya capirinya (might be the wrong spelling, its been a long time) The anime/manga is very famous for the various memes that it has given to the internet
The show is so unhinged, and just like other insane similar inspired anime, you can tell the voice actors are having an absolute blast with how insane everything is.
Asobi Asobase is my personal favorite for extremely unhinged goofy SoL comedy featuring female characters. Speaking of English/Japanese language shenanigans, it also includes a girl who is clearly European, and pretends to be a worldly English speaker, but clearly cannot. And there is another girl who isn't a main character, but looks like she jumped right out of an ancient Japanese painting. Of course she speaks great English but everyone keeps asking her to help her with their classical Japanese literature etc.
Olivia's (the non-English speaking westerner) brother is even better, and basically a Redditor level western anime nerd who looks like a Otaku and speaks like a Japanese Samurai.
I used to teach some kids that didn't speak much English and I partnered them with a kid that just would not stop talking but spoke no Spanish. Learned from that experience that they do actually understand English better if it's said in a Hispanic/chicano accent. Which makes sense because that's how they hear it when they're practicing English
Ok but that feels very uncomfortable to do.. and I'd imagine it'd also be hard for Japanese to speak Japanese with a thick foreigner accent like "soomeemahsen"
No it's true.. idk if you speak Japanese, but if you ask them, "motto gaijin no namari de hanasemasuka?" most would find it uncomfortable to do. It's the same reason why most would find it uncomfortable to, "speeku in a japaneezu akusento raiku disu", it just feels kinda racist.
Guarantee that most people here wouldn’t care if you put on the accent to try and communicate; especially in places where the English language isn’t exactly commonplace
That's not what I'm saying though. I'm saying that THEY would feel uncomfortable to speak Japanese in an foreign accent. Right, they wouldn't feel uncomfortable if we spoke in a Japanese accent, it'd be all in our heads. But even being aware of that fact doesn't just suddenly make someone comfortable with putting on a Japanese accent.
Regardless, I don't think I could bring myself to speak in a thick Japanese accent. I mean c'mon... would you really go up to a Japanese person and say "do yu nō we-ah izu za neeresuto torein sutēshon?" I think I'd rather just use a translation app or try to speak is slow English with gestures.
Yeah i mean, they learn english in school but its often times (especially for older generations) from japanese teachers with accents, with books that have katakana transliterations in them, so the way they learn english is often like that.
This was me living in Brazil. Sometimes some kids would come up to me and start saying English swear words, but I couldn't understand them and just thought they were using words I hadn't learned yet
I saw a meme about this years ago where the person said they couldn't understand her accent, so she just said the same English words but with a Japanese accent and they finally understood her. I can't find the meme to see what item it was, but like chocolate milk -> chocorratte milku
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u/Reddity65 5h ago
My life hack when I was in Japan and trying to speak to someone that didn't understand my shoddy Japanese was to just legitimately say the English word but in the thickest Japanese accent I could pull off. Worked like 80% of the time.