r/NonPoliticalTwitter 6h ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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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.

u/Fluffyy-Crave 5h ago

Honestly that’s encouraging, sometimes confidence and a brave accent carry more than perfect grammar

u/MrSquiddy74 4h ago

it does help that japanese has a ton of english loanwords

u/ButtholeConnoisseur7 2h ago

It's kind of endearing that a lot of them like pieces if our culture as much as we like theirs

u/malfurionpre 1h ago

Which is even funnier because like, 80% of English is words taken from other languages as well (mostly French if you ignore Latin, the cherry on top)