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Are Japanese really that bad at the English language?


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In the beginning of the film, there are spelling errors (eg. 'sky' is misspelled as 'ski') in the English language newspapers used in Japan. The English grammar used also seems unusual.



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Yes. Yes, they are.

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All your base are belong to us
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Omae wa mo shinderu

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What you say!?

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They're no worse than Americans are at Japanese.

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There is also a map where the island Lagos is shown and called 'Ragos'. :D

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Japanese and English aren't like Spanish and English where you just replace the English word with its Spanish counterpart. There are completely different grammatical rules, which is why it's hard to learn one if you're used to the other

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Jokes aside, they are far better than us when it comes to speaking languages. At least they can speak/ understand some or a bit of English whereas most English-speakers do not know a word of Japanese. I'm not going to nit-pick here btw, just being general and I know currently that English is the international language.

Still, I'm learning Japanese currently because I find it sounds beautiful to me; it's hard though because, one of the reasons is, they have three Alphabetical systems. 2 I can already read quite well, it's the Kanji that is going to be a HUGE challenge.

It's Ragos and not Lagos for the Japanese because they do not have 'L' in their Alphabet, so that's the closest sounding letter they got.

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