How to speak Japanese properly

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This is a Canadian YouTuber who enjoy learning Japanese. Although this video only 2 minutes long, it shows proper language usage in Japan and see the cultural difference. This video can help people to understand the asian culture, especially how Asian show their etiquette in a formal way. Specifically, in the use of language, the video shows a very complicated sentence to express gratitude, but the expression in English is very simple, just simply say thank you.

Posted by Zhiyang Chen on June 29, 2018

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English;
Japanese;
Indexicality;
Multilingualism

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