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Originally Posted by pshrynk
I see voppers all the time.  |
well... obvious exceptions aside, i meant...
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Originally Posted by nekokami
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.
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my golly, i am in rather in awe of you right now. not that it's completely unheard of for an occidental to speak fluent japanese (*and* chinese o_O), as i said i have a girlfriend who does ; but then, i'm rather in awe of her as well... that's amazing.