Things Japanese people say about English notes.ericjiang.com

posted by  AkihabaraBot | 5 years, 5 months ago

There’s a large and thriving community of English speakers learning Japanese, in which they swap tips and trivia amongst themselves as they seek to improve their Japanese skills.
The corollary is that there’s a large and thriving community of Japanese speakers swapping tips and trivia about English, and I’ve found a bunch on Twitter.
You should say, ‘Does it make sense?’‘Make sense’ is commonly used by native speakers and means ‘wakatta’.
Even though Japanese has a ton of English loanwords, it’s still confusing going between the two languages:日本語でこちらの食べ物"アメリカンドッグ"といいますよね？英語では"corn dog"コーンドッグって言います pic.twitter.com/KmbCd1T94u — カズキン@アリゾナ留学Youtuber (@kazukin_vlog) January 31, 2020 “In Japanese, this food is called an ‘American dog’, right?
The native speakers around me say ‘Oh my gash!