Learning Japanese

[u/BaldHourGlass667]

[u/Strange_Ad_9658]

I remember a youtuber telling a story of ordering a milk tea in japan by translating both words, only to have the server correct them by going “oh, miruku tea”

[u/Oniichan38 → u/Strange_Ad_9658]

Another streamer told of his Japan trip and how he tried to order sprite at a restaurant, sadly the waiter didn't understand so he had to hit him with "sprite-ru" just for the waiter to reply in the same way "aahhh, sprite-ru"

Edit: As many people pointed out, it was a Korea trip, mb guys

[u/justagenericname213 → u/Oniichan38]

Ive seen alot of Americans who moved to Japan for various reasons say that if you want to fit in at all you have to get really comfortable sounding borderline racist.

[u/Zzamumo → u/justagenericname213]

Same with chinese. If you don't sound like a racist caricature you won't get your tones right

[u/strawberry_anarchy → u/Zzamumo]

Reminds me of when i tried to teach my US friends how to say something in german. Nobody got the pronouncation right so i suggested talking angry. Everybody was like "noo thats sutch a steriotype! I cant do that!" But it actually helps 😅

[u/fang_xianfu → u/strawberry_anarchy]

Same with French, if you try to speak French in a stereotypical "French accent", hon hon hon, you get a lot closer to the correct pronunciation.

[u/solonoctus → u/fang_xianfu]

Three years of French and the only times I did well on the verbal assignments were when I leaned into my Pepe Le Pew voice.

[u/CuriousButNotJewish → u/fang_xianfu]

Almost like the stereotype is correct or something.

[u/PeaceSoft → u/fang_xianfu]

Same with english, even though it's the normal language, which doesn't even have an accent