Never knew learning Japanese could be so fun

Feb 11, 2025 9:28 PM

Now do the peach tongue twister

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The introduction pose it's so extra 🤣🤣🤣... Love it

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Guess it depends on the provence. My teacher was from a small fishing village and taught 7 as "shichi". Never heard any other numbers 1-10 be different though.

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I expected nana nana nana nana batman

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I was thinking "S&M" by Rihanna

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Sieben
Siebenundsiebzig
Siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig
Siebentausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig
Siebenundsiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig Siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigtausendsiebenhundertsiebenundsiebzig

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gesundheit

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danke

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I love how her notes is just one big 7

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I kinda expected batman at some point

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Sept.
soixante dix sept.
.... shit...

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Sauce:
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This is the third time i have seen this bit done by different asians. They sure are milking it.

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That's how social media goes. Tiktok, facebook, whatever. Someone does something funny and there are dozens/hundreds of people with the exact same thing, often same audio, doing it.

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I bet they need a very LOOOOOONG check to write all nanaokunanasennanahyaku nanazhunanaman nanasennananahyakunanazhunana

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七億七千七百七万七千七百七十七

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Or you could do a crazy tongue twister and switch it all to shichi.

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Heheheh

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Try that in fucking French

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Never knew this

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I thought he pulled it from the Manu Dibango song Soul Makossa. Supposedly he said as much and there was a lawsuit about it

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That makes way more sense

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This sounds like revisionist bullshit, but maybe I'm wrong.

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It's cut off. The comedian is making it up to make fun of gullible people.

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ugh, the text is obviously false, I just wanted a short clip with the relevant music, which the 77777 song above vaguely reminded me of

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And in Finnish:
7: Seitsemän
77: Seitsemänkymmentäseitsemän
777: Seitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän
7777: Seitsemäntuhattaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän

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77777: Seitsemänkymmentäseitsemäntuhattaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän
777777: Seitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemäntuhattaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän
7777777: Seitsemänmiljoonaaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemäntuhattaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän

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go home finland, you are drunk

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Not drunk enough to say seitsemänkymmentäseitsemänmiljoonaaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemäntuhattaseitsemänsataaseitsemänkymmentäseitsemän?

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Now do 88 in Dutch! As immigrant kids learning Dutch at school we used to love the phrase Achtentachtig Allemachtig prachtig [Akht-en-takhtikh All-e-makhtikh prakh-tikh] (88 Almighty wonderful).

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Sju let the dogs out? (Sju...Sju...Sju...)

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I was waiting for this

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lost me at 7

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Fun try-at-home experiment: translate "777 seasick shits" with Google translate, and have it read out the Swedish translation. Whoever said it isn't a real language is absolutely right.

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Now write that last one on a check.

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I'm sorry but no one can convince me Swedish is a real language.

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Für für für? Nä, für für lamm

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Buffalo buffalo buffalo, though.

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In German: siebenhundertsiebenundsiebzigtausendsiebenhundertundsiebenundsiebzig

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Translated: seven hundred seventy seven thousand seven hundred seventy seven.
It works in every language like that!!!

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Not French. I'd like four twenty seven croissants.

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It's just Japan's version of the German "bitte" then?

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Gesundheit

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believe it or not. sumimasen

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Or urasai depending on who you are with

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Aragato.

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If you think about all these uses as how you’re inconveniencing other people for existing, it makes a lot more sense. Sorry for bothering you! Sorry! Sorry for making you go through the effort for me! Sorry…? Japanese politeness is kind of making yourself the smaller person, in a way.

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A quarter of the Japanese language is honorific talking way up. a quarter is talking up. A quarter is talking equal. A quarter is talking down. And society has many many rules on how you use it most of the time you speak higher

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Sauce?

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https://youtube.com/shorts/9UCsqQOBp6Q found this from Gemini image search

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I've seen the all-purpose apology 仕方がない as a tattoo, which I thought was beautifully redundant

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Shikataganai or shōganai I wouldn't classify these as an apology. It's more of a I can't help it or I don't have a choice.

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That's almost as bad as French

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That will be four twenty fifteen dollars and four twenty nineteen cents.

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Pardon pardon merci pardon. Checks out.

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The swiss are even worse. Trying to get past someone in a narrow shop be like "Merci...Danke"

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