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彼・彼女: The Japanese Words for "He" and "She" That We Don't Really Use

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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Introduction

This episode is about kare and kanedo, the japanese third person pronouns. Don't really use these words as third person prononce in japanese. We kind attend to us people's names or famiry rolls, social roles like mam or sense. So what water like your experience? Carean canojo? I rarely use careand canojo unless i want to talk to some one in the room about them and i don't know their names. And so maybe this is similar to how some speakers might mix up he and she in english,. Because those are pretty similar, just one letter away e, i do not ow the time.

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