One of the things I've started doing with my new tablet is jumping into a language app (Pimsleur) to learn Japanese and a problem I'm running into, trying to say words out loud, is I keep wanting to drag out my consonants, both due to southern drawl an...
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Audiobook: You think you see someone you recognize, and you want to get her attention. How do you do it?
Me [All memory fled suddenly except anime]: Oiiii
Audiobook [sample voice]: Sumimasen
[ACHIEVEMENT UNLOCKED: UGLY AMERICAN]
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Update: Oh no oh no "so des ne" idiomatically is understood to mean diametrically opposite things ("yes, that's true!" "hm, I'm not sure") depending on whether you say it quickly and confidently or slowly and uncertainly however because I don't speak Japanese I say everything slowly and uncertainty
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Update: It finally got to numbers, and it taught us… 2, 1, 9, and 8… in that order… and no other numbers?? This is so specific I feel like it must be intentional but why? Pimsleur-sensei what are you doing
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Is this a Clue to a Puzzle. At some point in the next 24 hours am I going to encounter a keypad to which the combination is 2198
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We definitely have similarities things in English, where intonation reverses the sense of something.
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Okay did the next lesson today and this time they taught us 3, 5, and 4, only those three and in that order. They must be doing this on purpose?? Maybe they think if they teach them in order we'll be bad at random recall because we'll be counting to 8 in our heads every time we need to say eight?
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But it means this is literally me irl rn https://youtu.be/u8ccGjar4Es?si=8EE-m12fr5dLWZXM
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*throws open the door to the Internet* I CAN COUNT TO TEN!!!
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…is what I was GOING to say after tonight's lesson, however also this evening I watched an anime about a vampire who becomes a YouTuber, and I noticed a pattern, which means I can now count to *hovering in air glowing* 99
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Note: I am assuming the Japanese language doesn't have some kind of French-style prank where the number "seventy" and nothing else follows a different rule from every number before it
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The language learning app already explained to me the pranks on "3,000" and "7,000", you don't need to explain that to me
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OKAY after getting some help from my wife I can now count to 109,999 but not a single unit higher
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At some point I'm going to learn the Japanese name for Knuth's up-arrow notation and then y'all're fucked
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*poking at Google Translate* "Knuthu-sensei no Yajirushi"? If I said that to a Japanese mathematician would it mean something?
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@mcc waiting for the dub