Yes, he. It was common at my American university to have, for the first two semesters, classmates who would randomly quote anime to show off their skillz-with-a-z. Any anime, regardless of rationality.
Those people tended to fail out or switch to Spanish by the time third semester rolled around. And Nago, re: that Chad Mullane guy, man his Osakaben is pretty good. He makes for an entertaining ボケ! Where did he get that fluency? |
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I was just about to write that I have never heard a foreigner speak Japanese without an accent that (even I) can pick up on, but then I watched that Scottish comedian's video. He was amazing.
I don't hear myself speaking with an accent, and when I listen to other foreigners speak Japanese I cringe at their poor pronounciation. I do however, realise that I also have a terrible accent. Only the Japanese people close to you will keep it real with you. I'm told by all my students that my Japanese is really good, and that I barely have an accent, but they are just being polite. When I ask my girlfriend, she tells it straight. 'You're pretty bad' is what I get. |
So I guess my point is, don't tell people you speak without an accent, because no one likes a boaster.
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@andylaurel
You've brought up a good point. Japan is a country where a foreigner gets a rockstar treatment even for knowing 3 words of its language. We would rarely tell foreigners that they have a bad accent, except maybe as a joke at a drinking party. The U.S. isn't like that (if that's where you're from). I write essays, poems, research papers in English. I've delivered speeches impromptu at social gatherings in America. But I've never received a rockstar treatment for doing those things over there. ;) |
The difference being that people in the US expect everyone to speak flawless English before coming here to even visit =/
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