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MajideSaiaku

tsuyaku o tsukete kudasai

19 Jan 2005

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• 17 Aug 2005

• #1

What do i do if someone starts rattling on in japanese at me?.

This is because sometime this year i will be visitting japan and, as it stands, my girlfriend sometimes talks to me in japanese, and being to dumb gaijin i am, she speaks too fast even if i could understand most of it.

I ussually have to rely on words i Already know and guage what she wants to say from that.

 

Kinsao

Horizon Rider

8 May 2005

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• 17 Aug 2005

• #2

If I was in your place, I would just say in Japanese "excuse me, but can you speak more slowly, I didn't hear you" or something like that.

Or is that some kind of horrible social gaffe I don't know about?

 

Mike Cash

骨も命も皆此の土地に埋めよう

Twenty-year veteran

15 Mar 2002

16,758

2,298

• 18 Aug 2005

• #3

Is there a possibility that she is gauging her speaking output/speed/level based on past cues from you, such as nodding or otherwise giving the appearance of understanding her beyond what you actually do?

 

Grandpa Frank

Sempai

Admin

Twenty-year veteran

21 May 2003

14,310

4,404

• 18 Aug 2005

• #4

Now What You Need To Do......

is have some business cards printed up in Japanese that say you are deaf and to please use sign language or write on a pad of paper in English to communicate with you. Chances are they won't know sign language.

Frank

 

lexico

後輩

22 Dec 2004

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• 18 Aug 2005

• #5

How aobut using a visual while showing a friendly smile ?

Speed Limit 5
Speed Limit 20
Speed Limit 25

Speed Traps Ahead
Speed Humps Ahead
Hump
note: I probably should have gotten these in Japanese.