I’m a Japanese girl learning English

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1. Hi, nice to meet you I’m learning Japanese

2. Hello! I’ve always wondered, is reddit popular in Japan?

3. I am from England. We really like Japanese culture and how clean your country is.

   Also, you have some amazing nature.

   🙂

4. Hi, you are setting yourself up by inviting unnecessary attention from creepy males

5. Japan is in the year 2000 since the eighties (cit.)

6. Hi from Australia, good luck learning English.

7. When I was a teenager, I used to have a Japanese pen pal. I loved it, and I think it also helped me learn English .Now I’m a middle aged man, I’m in Japan for two months, and I’m loving it. Sadly, I’ve lost contact with my former pen pal ages ago.

8. Hi! From Texas Here. Loved visiting Japan Last year, and look forward to it again next year. What I loved about your country is that locals helped me out a lot in situations where I didn’t know what I was doing.

9. A lot of my Japanese friends use the app, “CAMBLY”, to speak with native English speakers. On the app, you can select the type of English tutor you wish to speak with, such as American, English, Australian, Kiwi, etc.

10. don’t bother here for your own good

11. Really admire a lot of the urban spaces and public transit in Japan’s largest cities. Also love the rail system  

12. I have lived in Japan for 20 years. I think that the Japan we foreigners live in is very different from Japan for Japanese people. Japanese society doesn’t really know what to do with us, so essentially we live on the outside of it. This can be a good and a bad thing. It’s frustrating to live here for a long time and yet never truly feel like you’ll be accepted by society. But also I feel that Japan can be very harsh for Japanese people sometimes, so it’s nice to be free of those social expectations.

13. Hi Crazy Ken. 

14. Be cautious アイボウ You’re baiting creepy dudes on this media.

    My personal advice.
    Read more English articles and watch YouTube videos with subtitles will help.

    I don’t recommend chatting with foreigners or reading comments on Reddit or TikTok or whatever social media that quick, since they’re using too many slangs you’re unfamiliar, and it’ll cause bad influence to new learners.

15. On the plus side, they’re really detail-oriented, take pride in what they do, and are generally polite. That said, conversations can sometimes feel a bit surface-level, and it can take a while to get to the main point. They’re modern in a lot of ways, but still surprisingly traditional in some areas.

16. What’s your reason for learning English? I used to do language exchanges in the past so this brought me back.

17. RIP your DMs

18. Hi! I’m an English speaking girl who is learning Japanese!! (I have a whole English grammar degree and teaching experience and can really help if you want to do an exchange, just message me any time!)

19. Here come the weird DMs

20. One word Gambare,I tried to learn Japanese too after watching so many anime or tv series lol, writing is very hard but pretty to look at.you can try duolingo app its good.

21. The following is quite abstract, so it may be difficult to follow, I apologize.

    I was in Japan about a year ago and Japan was a very nice place to visit. People were very friendly and patient with my poor Japanese :).

    However, compared to Canadian or American cities, there was an even more profound sense of isolation I felt in the large cities. However, the further south I went (such as kagoshima and yakushima), people began to feel more present in the same space as I am.

    I also find idol culture quite concerning and worry about the well-being of the young women who enter into it.

22. Mods have weird double standards, they really are the way the media portrays them

23. My high school daughter and I have both been to Tokyo (I’ve been a few times). She’s trying to teach herself Japanese, and I learned a little tiny bit several years ago. Let me know if we can help.

24. hello! i am learning japanese in america! i will be exchanging at Chukyo next summer. are you teaching yourself english?

25. Nee-chan. Be careful

26. Hello, please be careful about posting something like this: it invites creeps and other kinds of unsafe people.

27. Went to Japan for 6 nights, stayed in Ota City, Tokyo. The culture from where i’m from ( US ) and the culture represented in Japan is VASTLY different. In the most respectful way of course. I enjoyed the hospitality, the nice food , good prices and rich history and beauty your country has.

28. Visited the country for a few weeks, loved the connectivity in the cities and the beautiful old architecture.

    Theres a lot more to explore still

29. Hi I’m from north England I’m also trying to learn English

30. There are services dedicated for this kind of thing, so you can practise without having to navigate annoying people with dubious intentions.

31. RIP your DMs

32. People like Japanese people

33. Hi OP!

    I’ve been to Japan twice and both me and my husband would love to visit again. We brought our children again this year and had a wonderful time.

    My husband is a very tall and tattoo’d man, so the previous visit, all Japanese people avoided him so he was expecting the same. No one would sit near him on the train, people would take a wide path around him on the sidewalk, and no one would sit in the same pool at the onsens with him.

    But this time, he would be holding our son, and lots of Japanese people would approach him to talk and tell him how cute our son is, which was a pleasant surprise. Old ladies would ask him about our children, other men would ask him about his job or about how he found Japan.

    From someone who has spent a fair bit of time learning about the country, Japan is a dichotomy. It is very very advanced in some ways and very backwards and repressive in others.

    For example, we would love to live there due to the cost of living and the lifestyle (we know we would never be accepted as Japanese, so that’s not a detractor). But both me and my husband have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and need medication (vyvanse), which is banned in Japan for adults, so there’s no way we could comfortably live there. (for the record, you can be perscribed Vyvanse if you were diagnosed as a child, but neither of us were).

    Our favourite place on the trip was Awaji Island. We stayed four days and it was gorgeous.

34. Been to Tokyo twice and I like it. The biggest difference between Japan big city and other asian big city is that in Japan it’s a lot quieter. I really like that you guys still have cd shops. The people were nice and it’s totally different than in the Netherlands.
    I would like to go to Japan again but next time would be outside of Tokyo.

    Good on you to learn English. Why did you want to learn English the first place?

35. as a 17yo I see it as a nerd’s dream come true. I’m a huge nintendo fan and I adore your culture. I would really like to live there in the future but I’m kind of worried about the extreme working hours. Other than that, I really like Japan and Japanese people!

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37. people love anime. it’s the only thing they know about japan.

38. Hello! I trust you’re navigating the knotty nuances of English, where the bass you catch might not rhyme with the bass you play, and present tense presents itself with past puzzles.