Questions about appropriateness of greetings and expressions in practical settings
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アニメと漫画で日本語を勉強することについて (On learning Japanese from anime/manga)
最近、漫画好きな外国人が増えたので、日本のアニメや漫画で日本語を勉強する外国人も多くなっています。アニメの日本語が日常の会話であまり使わないので、アニメで日本語を勉強することで日本語をちゃんと学べると思いますか。
(Many foreigners have been learning Japanese through manga and anime due to its popularity ...
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How do you ask for “the bill” at a restaurant?
This is probably a bit of a silly question, but what do you say in Japanese when you're asking for the bill in a restaurant? Or is it unusual to say anything at all?
When I was in Japan I could never ...
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In actual Japanese society, how often are second-person pronouns used?
My Japanese professor (I'm in first-year Japanese) advised us to primarily avoid the use of second-person pronouns like あなた or 君 or おまえ throughout the year, and essentially treated their utterance as ...
