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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
do you speak japanese fluently, neko-chan chérie ? are you japanese (if that's not too indsicreet) ?
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Not fluently, no. And I'm not Japanese. I was a linguistics major and I had three semesters in college (a
long time ago) and I watch a lot of anime in Japanese (generally with subtitles). I used to be able to handle ordering food in a Japanese restaurant (and once really startled a waiter whose attention I had been unsuccessfully trying to get by singing out "sumimasen!" [excuse me] in apparently a perfect accent-- he was obviously looking around for a Japanese girl), but most of my Japanese skill has been swamped by trying to learn Chinese from our daughters. I've been trying to build it up again, though, as I'm working on a manga story set in Japan and I'd like to get the culture right.