Mamoru-kun
Wanderer
- 25 Aug 2005
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Hi everybody!
long time not posting, so glad to be around again ;-)
I some times go to a Japanese shop next to my working place, to buy some foods for my wife. Each time I have to speak with the shop workers (who speak an almost good French), I am speaking my mother tongue with them. I indeed -would- like to speak Japanese with them, but now, after time, there are three problems:
1) after some years, I feel as if it would be strange to suddenly "speak Japanese like that";
2) and for a foreigner, in is "own" country, I feel as if speaking Japanese would "give me a big nose" (sorry, I don't know the English expression);
3) and finally, a perhaps more personnal problem of "shameness", where there is nothing specific to do I think.
Did you ever met that situation?
long time not posting, so glad to be around again ;-)
I some times go to a Japanese shop next to my working place, to buy some foods for my wife. Each time I have to speak with the shop workers (who speak an almost good French), I am speaking my mother tongue with them. I indeed -would- like to speak Japanese with them, but now, after time, there are three problems:
1) after some years, I feel as if it would be strange to suddenly "speak Japanese like that";
2) and for a foreigner, in is "own" country, I feel as if speaking Japanese would "give me a big nose" (sorry, I don't know the English expression);
3) and finally, a perhaps more personnal problem of "shameness", where there is nothing specific to do I think.
Did you ever met that situation?