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Funny Learning Japanese

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u/Oniichan38 5h ago

Another streamer told of his Japan trip and how he tried to order sprite at a restaurant, sadly the waiter didn't understand so he had to hit him with "sprite-ru" just for the waiter to reply in the same way "aahhh, sprite-ru"

u/justagenericname213 5h ago

Ive seen alot of Americans who moved to Japan for various reasons say that if you want to fit in at all you have to get really comfortable sounding borderline racist.

u/Zzamumo 5h ago

Same with chinese. If you don't sound like a racist caricature you won't get your tones right

u/yourstruly912 2h ago edited 1h ago

But that's for speaking in chinese. The thing here is that if you want to be understood in english by the japanese you basically have to mimick a heavy japanese accent for it.