How do people understand each other?

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• ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pro-tip for tourists: if you speak English LOUDER AND SLOOOWEEEER, you'll bypass any language barrier.

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  • punkwalrus@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    My wife stayed in a rural town near Shichigahama for a week. Nobody spoke English except a few students. But the citizens did speak Japanese louder and slower, showing that’s a universal trait. It actually helped, as my wife knew SOME Japanese.

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  • tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Hilariously enough, in Japan it kinda sorta works not really but ish… They have so many loan words from English that if you just say an English word in a Japanese accent it might be the right one. Like the word for print is purinto, hotel is hotelu (hoteru), and camera is kamera.

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    • gamermanh@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      They also get taught English in school for multiple years, and English is on almost every sign in major metro areas

      Travelling to Japan while only knowing a couple of phrases went perfectly fine due to most people being able to understand what I needed them to, even when my wife and I got lost and had a group of 6 or so people at a local hospital frantically trying to help us find our hotel

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    • pHr34kY@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      If you learn the katakana alphabet, most signs and menus in Japan are like this. They’re just English words approximated to sounds in Japanese speech.

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    • Turun@feddit.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Is the u pronounced? I recently learned katakana and it seems like the u variant is used to just get the consonant, i.e. if you pronounce words by leaving out the u they often match more closely to the English word than if you do pronounce the u (or to (ト), because tu doesn’t exist, it’s tsu). The two examples you gave match that thesis.

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    • ivanafterall@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      It is kinda funny that you could be a racist asshole and actually be understood.

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  • Case@lemmynsfw.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    The same technique works back home in the US too.

    Foreign immigrant, but they’re not brown enough to shoot on sight? Louder and slower while you assess the foreign devil… Just because they’re white doesnt mean they can’t be a commie.

    This was meant as a joke, but living in the south this has certainly happened recently somewhere nearby.

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    • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ayo nice username

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  • Kase@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    ✍️ noted, any more tips?

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    • GladiusB@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Take of your underwear if that doesn’t work

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• balderdash9@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • Viking_Hippie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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    • bdonvr@thelemmy.club ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• samus12345@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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  • TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

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• Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  As someone who went to the greater Tokyo area about a month ago. I can unironically confirm that pretty much everything does have subtitles. (in the form of text translation and most workers speak some sort of english/have someone available that speaks english)

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  • Snowcano@startrek.website ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    As someone who lives in Japan, that is true as long as you stay inside the tourist bubble. Once you start venturing into places not meant for visitors, the difficulty goes from 0 to 100 real quick. That said, sometimes those experiences of struggling communication can be among the best you’ll have here.

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    • Got_Bent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I lived in Busan Korea back in the nineties before it was developed and before it was exporting its pop culture. I remember struggling to even get a Coke out of a vending machine. It was really difficult, but since I was young and adventurous, it was also super fun.

      By the time I went to Fukuoka a couple times for visa runs, I had that expat sixth sense that allowed me to navigate around with next to no knowledge of the language. I was able to get cabs, take the subway, find my hotel, get food (though I didn’t always know what I was ordering) etc.

      I still laugh to this day at my attempts to play pachinko when I stumbled upon such establishment. The people inside were particularly entertained with my nonsense.

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    • Riven@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Ye, I did go out a little bit of the Tokyo tourist area and it was a bit confusing with restaurants but not bad either. Tech really helps with all of that nowadays. DeepL did some heavy lifting there.

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• pedz@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  [Foreign language]

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• FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You gotta turn it on in the menu.

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  • wreckedcarzz@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Instructions unclear, penis inside tentacle

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    • LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.one ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Getting that fully immersive exposure to Japanese culture

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    • FartsWithAnAccent@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Eh, close enough.

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• dutchkimble@lemy.lol ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  More importantly, at the urinals how do they properly aim their piss what with all those huge pixels

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  • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    they obviously have upscalers in their brains

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• ininewcrow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  When you arrive in Japan … you automatically become an NPC

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• lugal@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  POV: Your babble fish ate your universal translater

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• AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s as if you are in an isekai

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  • tweeks@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    An underpowered one; In Another World With My Smartphone, trying to make a hotel understand that my wallet was stolen, using Google Translate, while they increasingly seem to question my sanity.

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    • pancakes@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      The name isn’t long enough

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    • AlmightySnoo@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      You just need more EXP to unlock the Appraisal skill

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• emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The funny thing is that Japanese kanji sometimes do have subtitles, and these may even be in the Latin script.

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• Blackout@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I prefer dubbed Japan anyways

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• Fontasia@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  You made the mistake of going to “Japan *~RaWs~*™”

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• Spesknight@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Didn’t bring the remote to turn them on?

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