I met my Japanese friend’s daughter for the first time, she was about 4 years old and didn’t know any English. I’d been studying Japanese for about 8 months at that point so I know some basic phrases but I explain to her that 日本語下手です after we’d been speaking for a few minutes. She replied that I was 少し上手something something 外人. Definitely the most sincere compliment I’ve ever received about anything and I smile every time I think about.
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Frankly, i dont know why people get so butt sore over this? Maybe it could be a backhanded compliment but would you rather have someone say to you face “your japanese is shit” ? Compliment is a compliment and people should really stop overthinking this..it’s really bound to happen to ANYONE who is not japanese who speaks japanese. unlike countries like US, japan is still a largely homogeneous society so they’re just fascinated that someone not japanese can speak japanse.
Anyways op, celebrate the little wins!
Really, it usually is sincere!
Kids are the most honest people. That’s good man, keep going till she says just 上手
Just to be sure, are those pronounced “したて” and “うえて”？