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First-Person Pronouns: 私 (わたし/わたくし/あたし)

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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I've Never Heard Anyone Use a Cushe in a Movie

Sheis koneda is the brand of a formality in japanese language. Some people are like, i want to be a little bit less formal some and i drop this. So have you seen or heard anyone using what a cushe as ther default? Nice person for an hour? I don't know. Not that i can think of off the top of my head, but i guess i've never heard it in real life. It's actually so fers person pronouns people only use common ones in the real life. A, um, that's a good way to build personalities and characters.

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