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Originally Posted by jesselt
Yep, and you're still basing your entire perception off of the first two units. And yes, there's absolutely no reason why you should ever learn how to say I and You which is why there are no words for them in Japanese. Oh wait.
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In dougbrowne's defence, the way pronouns are used in Japanese is totally different from most other languages. They are avoided if possible (other wise you sound very rude and egoistic) during everyday speech but with English, it would be grammatically incorrect to avoid them.
What a JP learner should be taught is not to use pronouns when it is obvious and to learn I わたしfor starters. That's it. If they want to say YOU, they should use the person's name 〇〇さん and if they want to use he/she, they should use その人・方、あの人・方. They shouldn't even need to know 2nd and 3rd person pronouns at the start because all that does is offend people.