Amusing!
I just can't help but smile when me and my co workers converse on work related issues. We all speak Japanese in varying degrees. I've been in Japan for over 20 yrs yet my conversational Japanese is like 60%. The teener is the newest being here for less than a year so I'm told. In our area, nobody is Japanese. We're all a mixed lot. The Peruvian staff speaks fluent Japanese and of course Spanish. Iam trying to remember the little Spanish I've learned during college some 40 yrs ago.
Our leader is a Peruvian who speaks Japanese and when he ran out of words he would rant in Spanish and I can't help but smile because I just couldn't understand. There are Brazilians, Filipinos, Vietnamese and of course Peruvians. I still have to adjust to morning rush to the train station but Iam beginning to like the place. In all my yrs of working here, I've never worked in a company hoisting the Japanese flag correctly. Iam quite nationalist and a sentimental one at that. Not sure why but whenever I see a flag waving above me, I feel that sense of peace and freedom. Iam not undermining my previous workplaces who could be bigger if not as big having branch out in other countries. Nor branding the people behind those companies as not nationalistic. We all know how nationalistic the Japanese people are! I do find something special in each of my work adventures. Wish I'd last this time around!
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Have a great weekend ahead, tatami
I would love to beable to speak Japanese.
Im sure you will last and you do speak better Japanese than the rest.
Is it true that Japanese babies are so clever? I believe they can speak good Japanese by the time they start school.
Enjoy your days off!