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I know some anime meme phrases and various Street Fighter special moves, so I'm nearly there.
I got to quite a decent level until advanced Japanese grammar floored me. Plus it's boring that you have to add 'masu' to practically everything and then remember not the pronouce the 'u'. They also often don't pronounce the 'u' in the middle of words. Suzuki is actually pronoucned 'Suz-ki'.
I did learn that subtitles to Japanese movies quite often do not reflect accurately what the characters are saying.
It's also quite a sexist language. Men get three ways to say 'I' (watashi, boku, ore) depending on how masculine they want to sound. The ladies only get to say watashi.
I did like their adoption and adapation of non-Japanese words though. Supermarket is 'supaamaaketto' 🙂
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