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<p>I'm taking Japanese in school and want to major in it. However, even though I live in NYC, I can never, everrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr find a Japanese person to talk to. </p>

<p>Until today :o</p>

<p>Today at the library I asked an asian lady if they had Memoirs of a Geisha. She immediately told me she hadn't seen that book in a long time. Why would someone know that off the top of their head? I became suspicious. 15 minutes later I got the courage to ask if she was Japanese. She was. And she spoke it. We gagged in Japanese for 10 minutes. I told her I'd be going to the library more often to have conversations. I'm going on Friday now.</p>

<p>I was so excited :D</p>

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<p>Just as long as she doesn’t mind. </p>

<p>I love German but the only ones that I know that speak it are Mennonites who mostly keep to themselves. You are one lucky person.</p>

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<p>She was like, “Yes of course!” She was surprised that I spoke it.</p>

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<p>That’s awesome lol but just make sure she doesn’t get annoyed. You can also have a conversation by yourself. Record your self on the computer! </p>

<p>-Computer “Hey how are you?”
-You “Excellent.”
Continue the conversation with
yourself lol.</p>

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<p>^ha that would take a unique person</p>

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<p>^or a lonely one x)</p>

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<p>Did you find Japanese hard? I’ve been planning to take it because I have NO love for Spanish…</p>

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<p>It’s really phonetic so there’s absolutely nothing difficult about speaking, though Japanese people speak extremely fast. </p>

<p>It’s the writing and vocabulary that are painful. I only know like 50 kanji and if I want to read ANYTHING in Japanese I need ~2,000.</p>

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<p>I always liked watching movies dubbed/subtitled in the language I was learning, or listening to music in the language. Really helps!</p>

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<p>I’ve been doing that recently, but I know anime will not help and I’m picky about the live action movies I watch. I’m only interested in like samurai war epics but the Japanese in those isn’t very useful today :P</p>

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<p>Hey I know this half-Japanese girl at my school. Could you tell me a few pick-up phrases in Japanese that I could use? I’m pretty sure she understands Japanese … or hopefully at least basic Japanese :D. If she didn’t that would be a shame :(.</p>

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<p>Oh my gosh haha… I’m Japanese and I get a lot of "Konichiwa"s and "Nihao"s ALL the time from guys who think they’re so clever. </p>

<p>If you actually understand and speak the language, that’s fine. Otherwise, please don’t embarrass yourself… </p>

<p>And I don’t mean this in a condescending way, just that it’s quite…amusing :D</p>

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<p>Yeah I know that’s pretty annoying, especially when people start mangling Chinese with Japanese :p. </p>

<p>I knew"konichiwa," but I’m wasn’t about to drop that in front of the girl I was talking about …</p>