I got roasted for my shitty Japanese lol

Not sure if this falls under practice, but I went into this interaction with the intention to practice.

To provide some context before this story kicks off. When I leave my work laptop I usually put on some random livestream that views a Japanese city or place or what have you, like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3B8fp-Henc. My work laptops locks itself after 5 minutes of inactivity and that’s fucking annoying so I usually put this on to trick the laptop in thinking I’m active.

So I put it on because I was going to be gone for a bit and I thought: fuck it, I have nothing to do for 30 minutes. I’m going to interact with the chatters in Japanese. So I have a Japanese back and forth with 2 chatters about the weather, where I come from and where I’m going in Japan next month. And suddenly the main guy sends this: この書き方は and I’m like, that says something like: “This way of writing” so I copy paste it into Google Translate to confirm my suspicions and sure enough it means “This way of writing”. So I sit there for a good 30 seconds thinking: how the fuck should I interpret this. Shortly after I see him delete that message and the other chatter sends a high level kanji: 無礼, I can’t read this. I barely know the meaning of these 2 kanji and they don’t directly line up in my head but Google translates it to impolite. So I’m pretty sure I got called out for my shitty Japanese.

I have a long way to go. 日本語下手

I exported my chat messages for everyone to see and roast me as well 🙂

*My first message*

皆さん、こんばんわ！私はオランダ人で、来月日本を訪れます。私は日本語を2年間勉強してきたので、日本にいるときに恥ずかしくないことを願っています:)

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*I got asked about if I knew kanji*

少し漢字をわかる. 去年の12月 に日本語能力試験を合格した

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*Added my level because I realized I forgot to add it above*

レベルN5

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*Said which cities I’ll be visiting during my time in Japan*

京都と広島と東京に行きます. 3週ぐらい

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*Explained why I’m studying Japanese*

目的は。。。日本人と話します。日本全体を見たいです。

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*Tell them where I live in my country*

南西

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*They wanted to know how my city was called in English*

[Redacted place]と呼ばれる

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*They were asking how long the flight would be*

日本まで？飛行機で１５時間ぐらい。

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*They were wondering about the temperature*

寒いです。日本で同じぐらいと思います。７度℃

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*Someone was commenting about it being long. I wasn’t completely sure what he meant. Distance I would have expected a different kanji but I just went with it! After this I got the infamous この書き方は*

長いです！でも、たのしみで。初めてです。

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*Before this message they went on a tangent I couldnt follow anymore so I decided to get back to work haha*

オランダには日本語学校ありませんよ。

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