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Japan: A Case Study in MMT with Bill Mitchell

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Learning Japanese Is Hard by Life

Japanese society has a number of hierarchies that say in America you wouldn't recognise. In English there's only one personal pronoun I did this I did that. In Japan there's 15 or so personal pronouns. And the one that you use depends upon the context who you're talking to what situation you're in. So there's all these hierarchies and makes learning Japanese hard by life because you don't want to appear rude.

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