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07-11-2011, 04:23 PM

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Originally Posted by RealJames View Post
Maybe your friend thinks "上手" (Jouzu) means "shut up"...
When I was first learning, and totally sucked at Japanese, I still got heaps of comforting and nice remarks about it.

Or maybe she overheard some Japanese people discussing among themselves the fact that English accents sound SO BAD in Japanese!! hahaha
Possibility on the second part. I tried to speak with her to practice and...well...yeah...it did not sound good. (It does not help that she still pronounces the "Ah" sound as "Ay/Eh" sound...)


But yeah. One person also told me later on that they think she is jealous because she sees me using it a lot with other Japanese friends, but I do not think it makes sense...


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