movies blog

  • Subscribe to our RSS feed.
  • Twitter
  • StumbleUpon
  • Reddit
  • Facebook
  • Digg

vendredi 20 novembre 2009

Won't Miss #78 - having my Japanese mocked

Posted on 00:01 by Unknown
The other day, I said "konnichiwa" (good day) to some people in the neighborhood as I was walking to a local shop and they said it back, but then just after my back was to them, they very loudly made fun of the way I said it. The care which they took to make sure they mocked me within earshot made it clear they wanted me to be embarrassed. Between the foreigners who correct my Japanese and the
Envoyer par e-mailBlogThis!Partager sur XPartager sur Facebook
Posted in language, neighborhood, personal life, won't miss | No comments
Article plus récent Article plus ancien Accueil

0 commentaires:

Enregistrer un commentaire

Inscription à : Publier les commentaires (Atom)

Popular Posts

  • Will Miss #94 - amado
    Most Tokyo apartments have metal shutters on either side of the large glass sliding doors that lead onto their balconies or verandas. They f...
  • Won't Miss #110 - hello, goodbye, gaijin friends
    One unavoidable aspect of being a foreigner who stays in Japan for a long time is that other foreigners are almost certainly not going to be...
  • Will Miss #30 - saying anything in public
    After you spend awhile in a country where the vast majority of people don't understand what you're saying, you start to lose the pub...
  • Japan Times profile of this blog
    This comes under the heading of "shameless self-promotion". The Japan Times interviewed me and has published a profile of me and b...
  • Won't Miss #111 - my tiny apartment (the not so good)
    (click this small image to see one which is a more legible size)While everything I say in the previous post about loving my apartment is tru...
  • Won't Miss #84 - futon
    A lot of people swear by the comfort of a futon, but I'm the sort who is more likely to swear at a futon. During my first visit to Japan...
  • Won't Miss #3 - rude older men
    Some older men in Tokyo navigate the crowded city as if everyone except other older men must yield to them in a variety of ways. Some of the...
  • Will Miss #136 - New Year's Ema
    Several years ago, my husband and I started visiting the local shrine on the morning of New Year's day. There are always prayer boards o...
  • Will Miss #18 - weird station art
    For some reason, there is a lot of strange artwork in train and subway stations in Tokyo. Some of it is tacky. Some is strange. Some is even...
  • Will Miss #35 - being a "millionaire"
    There's something really cool about saying you made "millions" last year. In America, chances are I'll never be able to ta...

Categories

  • about me
  • adulthood day
  • Akiyoshi
  • alcohol
  • alien registration
  • amado
  • ambulances
  • America
  • an
  • animals
  • anime
  • anpan man
  • apartment
  • apologies
  • apologists
  • appearance
  • assimilation
  • attitudes
  • Avic
  • bagels
  • baseball
  • bath
  • bathroom
  • bean cakes
  • beetles
  • beverages
  • bicycles
  • blog-related
  • body language
  • bootlegs
  • bowing
  • bread
  • Buddism
  • buildings
  • bureaucracy
  • buses
  • business
  • butter
  • Calpis
  • candy
  • cards
  • cars
  • cart food
  • cats
  • celebrities
  • cell phones
  • characters
  • charisma men
  • cheap
  • cheese
  • chikan
  • children
  • Choco Cro
  • chocolate
  • chopsticks
  • Christmas
  • city
  • cleanliness
  • clothes
  • clothing
  • coffee shops
  • cola
  • cold
  • color
  • coming of age day
  • comments
  • communication
  • condoms
  • construction
  • contract renewal fees
  • convenience
  • convenience stores
  • cooking
  • copyright
  • costumes
  • courier
  • crime
  • crows
  • Crunky
  • cultural differences
  • cultural diversity
  • Dars
  • decorations
  • disasters
  • Disney
  • dollars
  • domestic tasks
  • driving
  • drugs
  • dust
  • DVDs
  • earthquakes
  • efficiency
  • electronics
  • ema
  • employment
  • Engrish
  • entertainment
  • environmental concerns
  • ethnocentrism
  • events
  • exchange rate
  • exercise
  • expensive
  • family
  • Family Mart
  • fast food places
  • festivals
  • fire trucks
  • fish
  • food
  • foreigners
  • free
  • friends
  • fruit
  • fukubako
  • fukubukuro
  • futon
  • gaijin card
  • gifts
  • governmnet
  • grab bags
  • gropers
  • guns
  • gym
  • hair
  • hanko
  • happy bags
  • health
  • health insurance
  • heat
  • hello kitty
  • holiday
  • home life
  • homeless
  • houses
  • humidity
  • hygiene
  • hypocrisy
  • idols
  • imports
  • Indian
  • Indian food
  • initials
  • insects
  • insecurity
  • internet
  • Japan Tobacco
  • Japanese culture
  • Japanese education system
  • Japanese KitKats
  • Japanese language
  • Japanese men
  • Japanese people
  • Japanese women
  • jobs
  • kaboucha
  • karaoke
  • key money
  • kid seats
  • kids
  • kimono
  • kinako
  • kitkats
  • landmarks
  • language
  • laundry
  • law
  • light pollution
  • lighting
  • Lipton
  • littering
  • lucky bags
  • mail
  • makeup
  • manners
  • mascot
  • meat
  • Mexican
  • milk
  • minimalism
  • mochi
  • money
  • Morinaga
  • movies
  • music
  • names
  • naming
  • neglect
  • neighborhood
  • Nejinu
  • night
  • noise
  • nuisance
  • obligation
  • off-topic
  • pachinko
  • packaging
  • pajamas
  • paper doors
  • parasols
  • parenting
  • parking
  • passive coercion
  • pay phones
  • PDA
  • peanut butter cookies
  • people
  • Pepsi
  • persimmons
  • personal life
  • perverts
  • pets
  • pictures
  • pizza
  • places
  • plaques
  • police
  • politics
  • pop culture
  • popcorn
  • pornography
  • posters
  • potatoes
  • prayer board
  • prejudice
  • prices
  • productivity
  • psychology
  • public life
  • pumpkin
  • punctuality
  • real estate
  • recycling
  • red
  • religion
  • rent
  • responsibility
  • restaurants
  • rice
  • rikshaw
  • rudeness
  • sausages
  • school
  • seasons
  • security
  • seijin no hi
  • service
  • sex
  • Shinjuku
  • Shintoism
  • shoes
  • shopping
  • shower
  • shrines
  • shutters
  • signs
  • sizes
  • sky
  • sleep
  • small spaces
  • smells
  • smoking
  • sodai gomi
  • soft drinks
  • Sony
  • sounds
  • souvenirs
  • Spam
  • spices
  • spirituality
  • spitting
  • sports
  • squatters
  • stars
  • statues
  • stereotypes
  • Suginomori
  • summer
  • sumo
  • supermarkets
  • superstitions
  • surgical masks
  • sushi
  • swastikas
  • sweet potato
  • sweets
  • symbols
  • tacky
  • takkyubin
  • tatami
  • taxes
  • tea
  • technology
  • television
  • temperature
  • temples
  • the elderly
  • The Simpsons
  • things people say
  • tofu cart lady
  • toilet
  • toilet paper
  • Tokyo
  • tourism
  • trains
  • transportation
  • trash
  • turtles
  • uchimizu
  • unicycles
  • uniforms
  • Valentine's Day
  • wagashi
  • waste
  • water
  • weather
  • weddings
  • wieners
  • will miss
  • won't miss
  • work life
  • WWII
  • yaki imo
  • yakitori
  • yen
  • young people
  • yukata
  • Yutakaraya

Blog Archive

  • ►  2010 (109)
    • ►  avril (14)
    • ►  mars (32)
    • ►  février (29)
    • ►  janvier (34)
  • ▼  2009 (206)
    • ►  décembre (34)
    • ▼  novembre (32)
      • Will Miss #83 - gift giving customs
      • Won't Miss #83 - squealing bicycle brakes
      • Will Miss #82 - being able to hang out laundry
      • Won't Miss #82 - needing to hang out laundry
      • Will Miss #81 - Japanese punctuality
      • Won't Miss #81 - cluelessness about reducing coin ...
      • Will Miss #80 - a lack of religious judgment
      • Won't Miss #80 - being offered green cards
      • Will Miss #79 - legal bootlegging
      • Won't Miss #79 - Japanese don't jaywalk myth
      • Will Miss #78 - pop cross-cultural promotions
      • Won't Miss #78 - having my Japanese mocked
      • Will Miss #77 - senior driver warnings
      • Won't Miss #77 - ridiculous butter prices
      • Will Miss #76 - custom "cards"
      • Won't Miss #76 - earthquakes
      • Will Miss #75 - parasol use
      • Won't Miss #75 - apologists
      • Will Miss #74 - being a working housewife
      • Won't Miss #74 - butts in bushes
      • Will Miss #73 - being seen as "special" for no goo...
      • Won't Miss #73 - the gaijin salary myth
      • Will Miss #72 - kinako
      • Won't Miss #72 - tatami
      • Will Miss #71 - dressed up statues
      • Won't Miss #71 - socialized medicine (the abuse)
      • Will Miss #70 - socialized medicine (on the whole)
      • Won't Miss #70 - popcorn prices and availability
      • Will Miss #69 - Japanese blonds
      • Won't Miss #69 - New Year's Waste
      • Will Miss #68 - crosswalk competition
      • Won't Miss #68 - uchimizu
    • ►  octobre (32)
    • ►  septembre (32)
    • ►  août (34)
    • ►  juillet (35)
    • ►  juin (7)
Fourni par Blogger.

Qui êtes-vous ?

Unknown
Afficher mon profil complet