What's the biggest cultural shock when you were studying you're target language?

• YM

  ymbelxdrol

  2026-05-10

  My sarcasm is easily lost in translation so I've accidentally come off a bit rude or stupid at times... oops

• AD

  addyfs

  2026-05-09

  > you're target language > you're Realising native speakers can't tell your and you're apart was indeed quite a shock. <:carmine_laugh:1077140746743840828> Jokes aside. For Japanese it was that cutting in while other people talk is not only accepted but even expected. 相槌 is a bit weird since that sort of thing is usually a sign of bad manners.

• AD

  addyfs

  2025-01-01

  > studying you're target language studying your* target language <:crow:1170560348479311964>

• IT

  itsnera

  2024-12-31

  Honne/tatemae

• AR

  armstrongg

  2024-12-31

  Homophones?

• ZE

  zeromadhero

  2023-11-24

  Katakana is sometimes more difficult than Kanji 😂

• UM

  umeshuwithsoda

  2023-11-24

  the sense of humor kinda

• SN

  snuupii

  2023-11-24

  英語のスペルが長すぎて諦めかけましたね

• MA

  maribu0223

  2023-11-24

  I was trying to remember but i probably forgor the biggest one

• JA

  jad_99

  2023-11-23

  Japanese words can be written in 100 different ways but be read pretty much the same except for the pitch

• JV

  jvillanueva1506

  2023-11-23

  words have different meanings depending on where you use it

• SH

  shika_c

  2023-11-23

  everyone is smart

• MI

  min_eb

  2023-09-08

  When to say 'yes' or 'no'. In Japanese and Korean, an affirmative response like「はい」means that what I was questioned is 'true', while 'yes' in English means that I 'do', response is unchanged and independent by the way it was questioned.

• NA

  Nacricissa

  2023-05-25

  Topictionary using the wrong your 😡 /s

• JA

  Jad

  2023-05-25

  How context sensitive Japanese is. A word can have a different meaning depending on where you use it. It’s kinda cool

• MO

  Mortibi

  2023-05-25

  imagine using pronouns

• NA

  Natta999

  2023-05-25

  Knowing so much about the target language culture than mine. But I don't even know if those knowledges are well known by The Japanese or not

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