Life in Japan, two weeks late
Okay I feel like posting this story because it was really funny and because reading Amber's awesomely funny posts about Japan I want to get some of my Japan down here before I forget it all.
So anyway, my favorite misunderstanding in Japan:
I was shopping in Nagoya's Osu Kannon shopping arcade with my Nunim (respectful older sister), Hye Seon, and my friend Yea Seul (who I had a giant crush on during my volunteering time xD). Both of them are Korean, btw, if you couldn't tell by their names (which made this funny enough already, that I, an American, was hanging out in Nagoya with two Koreans and we were all speaking only Japanese xD, which we all realized was not at all what any of us could have ever imagined we would be doing in Japan).
Also two notes for context- 1st, everyone always said that Yea Seul looks Japanese, I had a theory it was because she has that perfectly attractive Asian face so Japanese people would just assume she was Japanese in a nationalistic sort of way. 2nd, Yea Seul basically never spoke English to me, we speak ONLY Japanese.
But anyway, Yea Seul and I were searching amazing Japanese clothing store #3642, and I guess the store dude decided we were some sort of couple. So he asks Yea Seul, in Japanese of course, "You speak English to him?", directed at me. And she of course is totally offput by this (because she's not Japanese and we don't speak English together) and doesn't say anything for a second, so I just am like, "[I/we] speak Japanese y'know". And he's all ":O" or something and then I'm all "Shes from Korea y'know" and then I don't think he said much of anything after that other than like "OO?SDKHHSDKFHSD", and just went back into storekeeper robot mode.
I didn't buy anything there btw (okay I didn't buy anything anywhere in that arcade actually :P, although I did find an AWESOME women's sweatshirt (mostly genderless design) but I didn't want to try it on while with my friends and then I realized later that OH DAMN Japanese MEN's sweatshirts are too short... let alone women's)
Yay okay that's my favorite misunderstanding, bye :D .
So anyway, my favorite misunderstanding in Japan:
I was shopping in Nagoya's Osu Kannon shopping arcade with my Nunim (respectful older sister), Hye Seon, and my friend Yea Seul (who I had a giant crush on during my volunteering time xD). Both of them are Korean, btw, if you couldn't tell by their names (which made this funny enough already, that I, an American, was hanging out in Nagoya with two Koreans and we were all speaking only Japanese xD, which we all realized was not at all what any of us could have ever imagined we would be doing in Japan).
Also two notes for context- 1st, everyone always said that Yea Seul looks Japanese, I had a theory it was because she has that perfectly attractive Asian face so Japanese people would just assume she was Japanese in a nationalistic sort of way. 2nd, Yea Seul basically never spoke English to me, we speak ONLY Japanese.
But anyway, Yea Seul and I were searching amazing Japanese clothing store #3642, and I guess the store dude decided we were some sort of couple. So he asks Yea Seul, in Japanese of course, "You speak English to him?", directed at me. And she of course is totally offput by this (because she's not Japanese and we don't speak English together) and doesn't say anything for a second, so I just am like, "[I/we] speak Japanese y'know". And he's all ":O" or something and then I'm all "Shes from Korea y'know" and then I don't think he said much of anything after that other than like "OO?SDKHHSDKFHSD", and just went back into storekeeper robot mode.
I didn't buy anything there btw (okay I didn't buy anything anywhere in that arcade actually :P, although I did find an AWESOME women's sweatshirt (mostly genderless design) but I didn't want to try it on while with my friends and then I realized later that OH DAMN Japanese MEN's sweatshirts are too short... let alone women's)
Yay okay that's my favorite misunderstanding, bye :D .