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submitted 5 months ago by hatchet to c/[email protected]

I met two Russian people who were running a booth at a festival. One greeted me and tried to converse with me in English, but it soon became apparent that that wouldn't get us very far. So, we switched to Japanese, and made small talk for a few minutes before I made my purchase.

Not a huge deal overall, but I thought it was super cool to be able to make use of Japanese in a novel context. It was also interesting to meet someone where the best language for communication for both of us was an L2. As a native English speaker, that doesn't happen very often.

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[-] [email protected] 15 points 5 months ago

That's awesome! I once had a conversation with a Japanese woman in Mexico. She was speaking to me in Japanese and I was speaking to her in English while a couple of Spanish speakers looked on. It was a bit surreal but also pretty cool.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

Oh, that's neat!! I'm happy for you.

[-] hatchet 2 points 5 months ago

Thank you! It was a really fun experience.

this post was submitted on 06 Feb 2024
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