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01-25-2010, 10:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Sashimister View Post
I just had my son and three of his friends (all native Tokyoites and HS seniors) listen to your video with the subs hidden. On the average, they understood about 30% of what was said.

I myself got around 60% but that might be because I was looking at the subs, too. Another reason would be that I'm more used to communicating with non-Japanese people than those high schoolers.

Good luck with your studies.

(Wonder where you learned to say わたし with such a big accent on the た syllable? That's how a Japanese comedian says it when playing the part of a foreign person.)
Were "watashi" (again, for some reason, my hiragana IME doesn't work...) an English word, the stress would be on the "ta." This is most likely why she does that.
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