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Originally Posted by O MARINA
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Where did you learn Japanese Pornwolf?
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Heh, funny story. In 1999 I was doing business with a few Japanese companies. We were always having conference calls where we would discuss something and at times they would go into a Japanese huddle on the other side of the call. All I could hear was what sounded like "
eskjaiua asfiuaosfbab aoifaobf ab aifaosbfoabofa afobahfoab aihfaohfoa afhaofabvoga aoklsdkldfbbd so so desu."
I got tired of that shit. Not being in the loop was pissing me off. Japanese businessmen are the types who outwardly avoid confrontation, so you don't really know when there is a problem. If American businessmen have issues we usually bring it up face to face. They don't, they will say everything is fine but will slit your throat from behind. Different cultures yunno.
So, I grabbed a Living Language learn Japanese book with accompanying CD and made it my mission to learn as fast as possible. It only took me about 4 months to get a working understanding. That's with studying and also having Japanese friends to help. I never learned to read Kana or anything. That is a bit too hard.
I kept learning and got fairly fluent a year later. I lost touch with my Japanese friends and finished the deal around 2001 so without practice I'm nowhere near where I was back then when it comes to my fluency.