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JBaymore (Offline)
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07-12-2011, 01:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Realism View Post
Or the worst...you speak Japanese to a native....and they respond in English...yeah...they usually means they don't think your Japanese is good enough to converse.
Sometimes with some friends we do this deliberately. I get to use my Japanese....... and they get to use their English. If we don't understand something, we can each correct it. "Best of both worlds", so to speak.

A long time ago I was in an international artist's program in Japan and met a Korean Buddhist monk who was there to give a presentation. He spoke no English. I spoke no Korean. But both of us spoke a little bit of Japanese. So that is how we (barely) conversed. A rather fun experience.

best,

..................john
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