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Genre: Education
Date of upload: Premiered Dec 18, 2021 ^^
Rating : 4.944 (13,968/983,576 LTDR)
RYD date created : 2022-04-09T21:45:33.52852Z
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I'm an Italian who lived in Korea for a few months. The locals talked about me A LOT, but they were always complimenting me behind my back. My self-esteem had a boost... It was so funny that at times I stopped in my tracks and started chatting with them, using by broken (but kind of understandable) Korean. They were so nice!
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My sister-in-law's father was in the US military and stationed in Japan during most of her school years, and she went to Japaenese schools, not the base's English-language one. Thus she is very fluent. She is also of Irish descent, red-headed and very pretty.
Years later in the States, she had a managerial position with a famous international hotel chain. She was assigned one day to meet and settle in a large group of visiting Japanese businessmen, but before she could greet them in Japanese, some began exchanging with each other some crude suggestions of what they would love to do with her. Not wanting to cause them to lose face in public, she put up with it for quite a while, but when she finally had the chance to speak alone with the head of the delegation, she told him in Japanese what she thought of the experience. The next day the worse of the guys were absent. They had been put on a flight home.
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There's SO much I've missed out on in my life by not learning to speak other languages fluently. However, before I spent a month in Japan, I studied speaking Japanese for 6 months. What I learned helped to elevate my experience while I was there. But oh how I wish I would have been able to speak fluently to share more of a connection. I was taught by the locals how to say "never give up" on many occasions during my stay.
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I'm Japanese American and lived in Japan a few years ago. American tourists would assume that I'm Japanese and talk about me. It was funny to see their reaction when I spoke to them in English. One time I ran into an older couple that was lost. The wife, exasperated, exclaimed, "I wish somebody around here spoke English!" When I answered, "how can I be of assistance?", she jumped back like she saw a ghost. Good times. :D
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I have actually caught a group of teenage kids trash talk about me and my friends only because we weren't talking the local language. Which just happened to be my native language. And, no, I don't live there and we were near the boat terminal so it's understandable for them to think we're just tourists. After a while I turned around and told them to be careful with what they say, and not to assume anything. They basically shit their pants and hopefully learned their lesson and won't trash talk anymore.
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I was in France studying french, and I had been going to the same grocery store for a few months, and one of the female clerks loved to make fun of me to her coworkers constantly. She called me all sorts of mean names while I just pretended I didn't have a clue. This went on for a few months until one day one of my classmates came in while this clerk was ringing me up, and we had a conversation in french right in front of her. She just went stark white. Right before I walked out I just gave her a knowing smile. She never said anything about me again. It's one of my favorite memories.
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You are a great ambassador of an intelligent, kind, and talented human being who connects people and cultures. It’s uplifting and positive and so inspiring. I am Korean American and also a polyglot - learning Korean, Japanese, and Chinese, and Italian. Almost fluent in French. I will try pimsleur. Love your videos! Thank you!
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@OrientalPearl
2 years ago
If you want to understand more of what people are saying around you in foreign languages, I highly recommend the app Pimsleur. I used it for Japanese in the beginning and I’m using it to learn Korean right now. I hope to do a few videos in Korean soon and show you the learning process. Try a 7-Day Trial here: imp.i271380.net/c/2397166/1117678/11472
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