How true is this on the first trip visiting Japan?

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• red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨55⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

  Ah, the non-slop version of this meme. Nice work, thank you for your service.

  I visited Japan in 2008, before Google Lens was a thing. My Japanese was rudimentary, like A-level. But I got by. I had a problem with my Suica card and the people in the subway station didn’t speak any English and my Japanese certainly wasn’t enough for the situation, but together we fixed it. And another time I wanted to ask something in a store and the woman had to fetch her coworker who spoke English, so that was fine as well. I would guess that today English is more wide-spread, particularly in Tokyo. So I wouldn’t be worried to visit today, when my Japanese is even worse than it was back then. I must say that trying to communicate with a language barrier, while frustrating, is also what brings us together as humans. Most people around the world are decent people and are willing to help somebody in need. That makes for nice vacation memories.

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  • Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago

    Unless you are in the US. “speak ‘murican!!”

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• Siegfried@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Ganbate, OP-san

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• Hirohito@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Are you really asking if they use Japanese in Japan?

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  • TactMerc@retrofed.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

    The joke is more on if foreigners assume that there’s subtitles in real life when they hear spoken Japanese. Basically, the meme is on the language barrier (for those who know zero Japanese).

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• PP_BOY_@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨hour⁩ ago

  Google Lens is basically irl subtitles

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