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04-14-2010, 03:20 PM

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Originally Posted by Sashimister View Post
Weird. Having lived in Japan for half a century since birth, I have never, ever heard the terms "い-adjective" and "な-adjective" except on the internet. Never even heard anything even close to those to tell the truth.
Yeah, you learn different things when you learn the language non-natively. For example, there is a difference between the usage and meaning of "that" and "which" that I didn't learn until law school!

Yeah, you learn different things when you learn the language non-natively. For example, there is a difference between the usage and meaning of "that" and "which," which I didn't learn until law school!

(the second carries the additional implication that there is only one difference, and that single difference was not learned by me until law school)

My fiancée, on the other hand, learned it when she was growing up learning English as a second language.
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