491 6 characteristics of how Japanese people speak! #JapanesePodcast

Hi everyone, I'm Lera from Bite Size Japanese. How are you? In today's podcast, I'd like to talk about Japanese way of speaking. I've come up with 6 characteristics of Japanese people's way of speaking. My boyfriend is British, so we often compare English and Japanese way of speaking. Sometimes I think that Japanese people don't speak like this. I've come up with 6 characteristics of Japanese people's way of speaking, so I'd like to share them with you. Let's get started. First, Japanese way of speaking. You don't interrupt the conversation in the middle. Saegiru means, for example, when someone is still talking, but someone else starts talking. This is not common in Japan. Saegiru means, in English, to interrupt. When someone is doing something, you stop them or interrupt them. This is called saegiru or saegirimasu. So Japanese people try not to interrupt the conversation. Even when someone is talking, when you want to say your opinion, you don't start talking when someone else is talking. You often start talking after the other person finishes talking. When I watch my boyfriend talking to his family, even though my mom is still talking, everyone starts talking about what they think. Sometimes I can't hear what everyone is saying at all. This is not common in Japan. This is the first thing I noticed. Second, Japanese people use a lot of aizuchi when talking. When someone is talking, Like this. We use aizuchi a lot. When someone is talking, we don't interrupt the conversation. But when someone is talking, we use aizuchi a lot. A lot of people use it. Actually, I don't really like aizuchi. Because when I'm talking, if the other person keeps saying, I get irritated. I can't concentrate on the conversation. That's what I think. I don't really like aizuchi. But a lot of people use aizuchi. A lot of people use aizuchi. This is very Japanese-like. This is the second thing. The third thing I noticed about Japanese people's way of speaking. The third thing is they don't exaggerate. Exaggeration is a way of speaking that looks bigger than the truth. For example, when it comes to time. For example, I'm waiting in line at the register at the supermarket. There were a lot of customers waiting in line. It took a lot of time to pay for the register. If you're Japanese, you'd say it took a long time. My boyfriend It's English, but It took ages. Age is a long period of time. I was actually waiting for about 10 minutes. I waited 10 years. I was in line at the register for two days. It's an exaggerated expression of a lie. I'm not used to it. It's actually only 10 minutes, right? But why do you say, I've been waiting for two days. I've been waiting for years. I don't know if I'm lying. So, Japanese people don't exaggerate. I don't think they talk like they're exaggerating the truth. So sometimes, when my boyfriend exaggerates the time, I say, That's a lie, isn't it? There's no way that's true. I get irritated sometimes. I think this is a cultural difference. The fourth way Japanese people talk. I'm sure you all know this, polite language, respectful language, polite language, and tongue twisters. We use them separately. You can change the words depending on the situation. For example, when you're talking at work or in a professional setting, you use polite language or respectful language. But when you're talking to your friends, you use tongue twisters. The casual way of talking is called tongue twisters. We use tongue twisters. And the funny thing is, when we use respectful language, our accents, our dialects, are gone. Really, standard language, we use standard language. When we use respectful language, our accents are also standard language. So, when we use respectful language, we don't know where that person comes from. Their dialects are gone. But, when we use tongue twisters, our dialects come out, our accents come out, so we know that person is from Kansai, or that person is from Kyushu. I think this is interesting. So, the fifth one. 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