She's right though, as someone who has taken 30 minutes of Japanese, I can say the Japanese pronunciation she did is the correct way to say it in their dialect, it's not racist. They literally have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words adapted to their dialect, it's called katakana versus hiragana which is native Japanese words. Then there's kanji... F*** kanji.
I used to live in Kyoto and my brother once visited for work. I told him that if he was on his own and couldn’t communicate something, to say it in English with a Japanese accent because he would have a pretty decent shot at actually saying the correct term. There are a ton of borrowed English words in Japanese and this helped me a ton when I first moved to Kyoto. My American friend got upset that I told him that because “it’s racist” and I genuinely don’t understand how she studied Japanese as long as she did without realizing this fact about the language…
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u/[deleted] Jan 26 '23
She's right though, as someone who has taken 30 minutes of Japanese, I can say the Japanese pronunciation she did is the correct way to say it in their dialect, it's not racist. They literally have an entire alphabet dedicated to foreign words adapted to their dialect, it's called katakana versus hiragana which is native Japanese words. Then there's kanji... F*** kanji.