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Why I'm glad I left Japan (Listening in Japanese video with English/Japanese subtitle) (Original Post) yuiyoshida Jan 2020 OP
Arigatou gozaimasu Tiggeroshii Jan 2020 #1
One correction... subterranean Jan 2020 #2
Thank you :) Tiggeroshii Jan 2020 #4
sou sou.. yuiyoshida Jan 2020 #5
Kicked and recommended. Uncle Joe Jan 2020 #3
That was much appreciated. Nt lostnfound Jan 2020 #6
Yusaka Maezawa sums up the awful state Japan has gotten itself into paulkienitz Jan 2020 #7
Typical Stuff Said by Japanese Women Who Hve Left Japan panfluteman Jan 2020 #8

subterranean

(3,427 posts)
2. One correction...
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 05:02 PM
Jan 2020

It should be totemo muzukashii (very difficult).

Yoku is used to modify a verb, totemo to modify an adjective.

Otherwise, your sentence was perfect. Gambatte kudasai!

paulkienitz

(1,296 posts)
7. Yusaka Maezawa sums up the awful state Japan has gotten itself into
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 08:07 PM
Jan 2020

...he has billions of dollars and is buying his own moon rocket, and still looks pathetic trying to get a girl to go to the moon with him. That's how sad interpersonal relations in Japan have gotten. Fifteen years ago they were found to be the country where people are the least happy with their love and sex lives, with the birth rate falling well below replacement, and things have only decayed further since then, with hikikomori now becoming a household word. If I was from there I'd be darn glad to get out too. (But of course there'd also be tons of stuff to go back and enjoy, too.)

I still kind of want to learn to speak Japanese...

panfluteman

(2,065 posts)
8. Typical Stuff Said by Japanese Women Who Hve Left Japan
Mon Jan 13, 2020, 08:23 PM
Jan 2020

I was talking with some Japanese tourists in Japanese recently about a problem that really concerns me,, however - about how, ever since the Fukushima muclear accident, which they have never really cleaned up, Japanese society and government seems to be getting more and more fascist and militaristic - I call it "nucleo-fascism". Maybe that's why Japanese PM Kenzo Abe is so "naka-yoku", or "buddy-buddy" with Trump - fascists of a feather flock together.

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