[Weekend meme] To speak Japanese

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1. ХАХААХХАХАХАХА, жиза

2. Opposite here. I tend not to use pronouns more and more in English because of my Japanese lol.

3. Japanese learned in class with textbook: Use watashi ha every sentence
   After coming to Japan and actually speaking Japanese: I don’t think I’ve said watashi in the last 3 years

4. Stand next to someone and use わたしたちは.

   Ezpz.

5. It was the opposite for me when learning English. In my native language it’s also weird saying I/you/etc unless you have to focus on that so it was one of the easiest things to get used to in japanese.

6. What is 私(わたし)? I only use 僕(ぼく)!

   Jokes appart, I sincerely don’t remember having this problem, but I saw some people I met IRL who were also studying Japanese and had this problem of saying 私は in every sentence! I saw that most Japanese learning textbooks have a lot of sentences like that and that may be the source of the problem. But as I said, since I started using 僕, I don’t even use 私 and I don’t say 僕は all the time

7. Watashi wa suta suta suta Kira Kira Kira watashi wa suta

8. Show style by saying わたくし！

9. I’m new to Japanese, can someone explain this to me

10. If you speak English it goes about the same. “Hey dude, what’s your name?”

    “Jeff. And you?”

    “Peter.”

    Omitting extra is just the norm.

11. So you can begin starting your sentences with an ungodly amount of あのs, なんかs or まあs

12. The pain is real

13. I only use “ore-sama” or “wagahai”… /s

14. Almost every sentence that begins with 私は could be made better without it lol