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First-Person Pronouns: Using Your Own Name

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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Does Anyone Say Like I Wa Ike in Japanese?

In real life, it's common for childrn to refer to themselves by their names. I can't say me yamia, like yenote. What iswel o sim powers like mini me and oh be me? In japanese, well, we intr duced in our article about whispers and pronouns. We talked about watashi boko. Do we talk about ory? Yes. That's and then a bunch more inside the article. And then now we're talking about just switching those out with your name. So i'm just to give people a rundown.

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