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 Posted: Thu May 14, 2009 6:58 pm
when in french or humanities you pronounce foreign words with a japanese accent when its obviously spanish or greek
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Posted: Sat May 16, 2009 4:21 pm
-When your roommate starts learning Japanese from you...by osmosis.
-When you switch your computer/mp3 player/TV/etc into Japanese...for fun.
-When you forget to pluralize things. Constantly.
-When, although you are 100% gaijin and look it, people start being shocked that you are.
Okay, so I was wearing a formal kimono and had just finished playing the koto in concert at the local 桜祭り (sakura matsuri - Cherry Blossom Festival), followed by a chit-chat with two of my teachers in Japanese...but still. I'm a Jew Rican, I do NOT look Japanese.
(By the way, I'm new. Hi!)
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Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 10:20 pm
You try to start pronoucing English words into Japanese. (This has happened to me once.)
When you go 'sore ha' instead of 'sore wa' when doing roomaji. I've done this many times because I'm just used to saying "Sore wa." And I almost did it typing that.
Everything you watch is pretty much Japanese.
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Posted: Thu Jun 04, 2009 5:11 pm
XxJeikabu-chanxX when in french or humanities you pronounce foreign words with a japanese accent when its obviously spanish or greek
*When your 2 year old son THINKS he knows Japanese and ends his sentences with "ne".
Yeah, my son does that. He is currently bilingual (Spanish and English) but maybe I can teach him Japanese so he can teach me *lol*
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Posted: Wed Jul 08, 2009 10:52 am
When you try to say "I'm sorry" in Spanish (the language you've been studying for about 5 years) and all that pops into your head is gomennasai.
This just happened to me. >.<
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 8:31 pm
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Posted: Tue Sep 22, 2009 9:24 pm
When you make your way through six pages of this stuff saying
"I did that.. and that... AND that..."
When you get looks from your teachers for saying they're boring
But don't get kicked out because they don't speak Japanese
When you're alone with the person you like, and still cant help but think
"s**t! What did that word mean again?!"
And actually use their laptop to look it up.
Yep.
I did that.
When you become almost tri-lingual and make it known to the world... by accident.
"C'etais une ben drole d'affaire, daga quandmeme,
I couldnt help but notice ano ko had a point."
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:21 am
Contagious Idiocy "C'etais une ben drole d'affaire, daga quandmeme, I couldnt help but notice ano ko had a point." That's called code switching and it's a well-known and commonly-observed linguistic phenomenon among multilingual people, especially in areas where bilinugualism (or more) is the norm. To monolingual people, it's particularly amazing. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Code_switching
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:35 am
When you speak Japanese more than you do english in a week. It makes it hard to remember how english word order works sometimes.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:31 pm
When you confuse your l's and r's when your native language is English or any other language where it's not that hard to pronounce the l's and r's.
You have a Japanese accent, when you don't have one in the first place
These happened to me couple times already >.<
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Posted: Thu Sep 24, 2009 10:07 am
Contagious Idiocy When you make your way through six pages of this stuff saying
"I did that.. and that... AND that..."
When you get looks from your teachers for saying they're boring
But don't get kicked out because they don't speak Japanese
When you're alone with the person you like, and still cant help but think
"s**t! What did that word mean again?!"
And actually use their laptop to look it up.
Yep.
I did that.
When you become almost tri-lingual and make it known to the world... by accident.
"C'etais une ben drole d'affaire, daga quandmeme,
I couldnt help but notice ano ko had a point." *Nods* You know you've also been studying too long when you go through this list and can still add a little bit more. For instance when you listen to songs in English and instantly begin translating in Japanese. Also when many of your friends have simply gotten used to translating your Japanese because you use it more often than your native language. Another example of over study is your inability to say the english alphabet proplerly anymore or spell things out loud in English. For example, "Hey, Raka, how do you spell shelf?" and I say,"Shi-i...er... eh, I mean... eye,"then they give up trying to make your brain work and look it up/or ask someone else. ^_^; I do that one ALOT.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 3:26 pm
When reviewing words for fruit in Italian, all you can think of for apple is, "ringo, ringo!" And barely catch yourself.
When you attempt to type something for English class and are confused as to why your romaji isn't automaticaly turning into kana.
When you are in math class and, instead of doing the work, you attempt to write the kanji for every number on the board.
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Posted: Mon Sep 28, 2009 4:45 pm
When you start a sentance in French and end it in Japanese.
When your taking a french test and all you can think of is what the word is in japanese/you answer it in Japanese. crying
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 8:46 pm
- when the only books you want to read are Japanese learning books
- when you have a whole bunch of Japanese learning books on your bookshelf, computer programs on your computer, and applications on your iPhone
- when you change your iPod settings to Japanese
- when a native speaker compliments you
- when people start to think you're Japanese
- when you can understand/recognize a lot of words and phrases when watching anime or listening to Japanese music
- when you doodle kana and kanji during your freetime
- when you get 100% score on the Japanese Flip iPhone application
- when you start singing in Japanese
- when you know the meanings of the names of Japanese cities
- when you spend a lot of time on Amazon looking for tools to help you with your studies of the language
- when you don't have to think when you speak Japanese. in your mind, it's not like "this particle goes here... this verb there goes at the end and its conjugated as..." ... you could just speak it naturally without thinking.
- when you start recognizing grammatical errors and wrong uses of particles
- when you get slightly/kind of annoyed when someone says something in Japanese with the pronunciation all wrong
- when you're finally fluent
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Posted: Thu Oct 08, 2009 5:44 pm
-when you can cuss at people and thay have no idea what you were saying
-when people ask you and your friend (kohai) to sing a japanese song again (this happens ALL THE FRIGGIN TIME)
-you understand your japanese music and you can sing along
-you answer to japanese calls (and names)
-you and your friend (kohai) like to scream japanese at each other and watch people stare
-you sign in japanese or a japanese name instead of your real name...and not notice
-you call people -kohai, -san, -chan or -baka
-when you contribute to a board like this XD
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