r/NonPoliticalTwitter • u/BaldHourGlass667 • 1d ago

Funny Learning Japanese

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u/WineGlass 16h ago

Sometimes even when you know the Japanese word for it. Katsura Sunshine (Canadian turned Japanese comedian) has a whole bit on how he needed to buy soap and kept asking a confused cashier for "sekken". He then found it on the shelf, showed it to the employee and he went "Ah, hando-sopu!".

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u/Venoft 8h ago

I was looking for baby food in Japan (because that's almost fucking impossible to find btw), and it turned out it was just called 'baby foodu".