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06-22-2009, 06:54 AM

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Originally Posted by KyleGoetz View Post
Yes, he. It was common at my American university to have, for the first two semesters, classmates who would randomly quote anime to show off their skillz-with-a-z. Any anime, regardless of rationality.

Those people tended to fail out or switch to Spanish by the time third semester rolled around.

And Nago, re: that Chad Mullane guy, man his Osakaben is pretty good. He makes for an entertaining ボケ! Where did he get that fluency?
Living in Kansai it is hard not to pick it up, in some ways, because even if you speak normal Japanese to Kansai people, in informal situations they will always answer you in Kansai-ben. For better or worse that is the accent I picked up after living there for three years (accent, not necessarily dialect) but do use Kansai-ben with close friends from Kansai. I have met people that think it is weird for a gaijin to use Kansai-ben, and I can understand that, which is why I try not to in mixed company, though sometimes after some social lubrication it rears its head.
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