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Me.

You know what I mean by Daiji, right? I cleared that up?
 
I'll take your word for it , LOL. I guess what shocked me was in the 52 years since I left Japan , I had never heard that term before. I guess you can teach an old dog a new trick , LOL.
 
Sounds like a good deal. Years ago my night school here in Maine held a class on Japanese. The instructor was a beautiful young Japanese woman which made the class more interesting. I went into the class thinking there would be nothing new I could learn , but it would be good practice. She soon smartened me up on how poor my Japanese was . Although I had a college class set of books and tapes , I learned most of my Japanese in the bar where I worked in Japan. Most of my Japanese friends were school dropouts and they never corrected me on my Japanese. That class taught me more about my "know it all" attitude than it did Japanese , LOL. I hope you follow up on your desire to learn Japanese and get to visit Japan in the future. At 74 years old , I still think my 2 years in Japan were the best of my life. My love of Japan and it's people have kept me here on JREF for over 20 years.
 
Living in japan and touring it and South Korea are at the top of my bucket list, so I have to learn Japanese and Korean LOL
 
Derek,

Now is the time. Watch the first video in this thread. Tell me what you think.

 
One thing I feel that I need to clear up is that my name is NOT Derek. It's cool if you guys call me that, but I want to let you know that is a nickname and not my real name. I don't want people thinking my name is Derek, bc it's not. With time, maybe I'll tell you guys my real name. That time is not now.

Have a nice day!
 
Whatever you say Derek.
 
Alrighr
 
What would you like us to call you?
 
Oh I don't mind if you call me Derek, but you could even call me yaptimus prime. I just didn't want people getting confused and thinking my name was derek
 
With all the spammers and hackers on today's internet , better not to use real info or personal pictures. With AI and PhotoShop , they can use people's pics & videos for nefarious purposes.
 
With all the spammers and hackers on today's internet , better not to use real info or personal pictures. With AI and PhotoShop , they can use people's pics & videos for nefarious purposes.
Oop- already made that mistake-
 
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