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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
Hi, Columbine.
Thank you!
“Nuance” is difficult to study because English textbooks scarcely explain about it.
Your explanation is very helpful.
I see. I didn’t know you say “you” many times.
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Glad I could help.
Yeah, we use 'you' much more than we use people's names.
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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
Even in small Japan land, even in Japanese language, I sometimes feel difficulties to talk with people who come from south and north parts of Japan.
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I'm not surprised. Japan's really quite big; if you put it in Europe it would be the biggest country there, so it makes sense that there's a lot of dialects.
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Originally Posted by YuriTokoro
If you spoke in this way, I would not understand what you said at all.  |
*W* If it's any consolation, I struggle with it sometimes as well, even though I've lived in my town for a long time. Though it's getting rarer to hear an accent as thick as I've described.