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05-24-2008, 11:04 PM

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Originally Posted by Tsuyako View Post
A few months ago, I had a friend who said she'd teach me Japanese...I asked her where she'd learned it and she said she'd taught herself through anime...a while later when I started proper lessons, I discovered half the stuff she'd taught me was wrong >.<

You should have never trusted someone who 'learned' another language by ear alone. As a native speaker of Japanese, I can guarantee you this with confidence:

We don't speak the way most anime characters do, especially the main characters! But, alas, those are who too many Japanese-learners on JF try to sound like!!
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