Software engineer and farmer living in rural Japan
I don’t know why you got downvoted. My name is completely unpronouncable in Japanese (I’m from the US and have been in Japan over a decade), so it depends upon whom I’m talking to and their language ability. Most of the time, it’s the close-enough Japanese approximation of my name.
I’m pretty sure Chinese (at least HongKongers, but I think all) have an “English name” for going the other direction.
Yeah, Japanese subtitles can have issues. Various broadcasters have been caught saying something else, though usually only when they overdub so one can barely hear the actual person.
I don’t think I’ve ever seen パイセン written at all, come to think of it. It is slang, that much is true.
先輩 and 輩先 both mean a senior (as in rank relative to you) in Japanese. It was the only example of that which my tired brain could muster at the moment.
It seems like they mean ‘ancestor’ and ‘senior’ in Chinese per Google Translate.
I got an amazon gift card sent to my work email. I spent about an hour trying to create an account and failing captures. The thing is, they had some weird one I never had seen before and I somehow misunderstood what I was meant to do so it apparently thought I was a bot. I tried and passed several rounds of the audio ones and just gave up. It’s bonkers (and of course I can’t use the card on my actual amazon account).
Note to any learners: not all words do this in Chinese/Japanese; plenty are the same in both borrowed from the other country. (not that OP suggested it was, but I could see it being read that way)
I can’t think of any real examples. For letters, abbreviations can end up like that as others point out. I think that’s about the extent of anything meaningful. Adjective order differs, but that feels like cheating. There may be some compound words out there that fit this. In Japanese, a conveyor belt is called a belt conveyor (ベルトコンベヤー), but that also feels a bit like cheating.
If I had the power to change:
I listen to bands I trust and older music mostly
You probably want to name a country or even region within it. Depending on where in the world you are, things may change automatically or might require getting a reappraisal.
Not exclusive to the US. Here in Japan (and I’m sure plenty of places) as well.
As someone who had to take tomorrow off to visit the vehicle inspection place, I’m getting a kick…
Their apparent bait-and-switch on fallout 76 goods, constantly releasing incomplete products, greed, and a host of other issues made me stop giving them money. I was a paying ESO member when the fallout 76 stuff was happening and that was the last straw for me; no more money for them until they have a proven track record.
Neat! I have a video on the topic in my to-watch list, but hadn’t looked into the details yet so far.
Korean due to it being an alphabe
Technically, it’s not; it’s a syllabary like Japanese katakana and hiragana.
Is it actually that hard while Japanese phonology is considered “easier” to pick up.
Japanese is dead easy for an English speaker so long as they remember that vowel length matters, and the R is not a standard General American R.
Korean has a couple of sounds/features (tense consonants) not in use in General American, but nothing insurmountable. I’d call it more difficult but only very slightly so.
Tone
Korean is actually considered to be undergoing tonogenesis, so that’s kinda neat.
Tone isn’t a huge deal; even if you get it wrong, there’s usually only one thing that makes sense in the context of the sentence. Not a worry in Korean at the moment. Japanese has pitch accent which can cause the same issue (If I’m running through the field plucking はな (hana), you’re not going to think it means ‘nose’ here if I get the pitch accent wrong).
One can pick up reading Korean more quickly than Japanese (if no Kanji/Hanzi/Hanja experience otherwise), though I found bacchim to be annoying. In exchange, Korean tends to have some grammatical features lacking in Japanese, but I never got far enough to learn what those were (outside of some more forms of address/honorific).
Absolutely not. I remember themes and notes buti do not store exactly the dialogue or anything.
Millers and Müllers are also not made of mills which I find to be rampant false advertising.
Names is just names. Not every smith actually engages in smithing. Do what you want; people in history did. As a bonus, your family tree can be more fun for anyone in the future.
I used to as my company was fine with me being at lunch from 5-6. Some governments don’t allow that (it’s technically not legal in Japan), but some also look the other way (not my current company, sadly)
I pronounce it ‘neesh’ as well, but we’re going to get into trouble if we pronounce everything with French/Norman/Latin routes the way it is (or was).
I stand corrected. Thanks for this!