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What Should I Call "You"? Part 1: Zero Pronouns

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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The Third Person Pronouns in Japanese Conversation

This episode is specifically about one of the common options for not calling others by thes like person pronounsm, which is not calling them anything smple. This actually happens when you refer to yourself with firstperson pronouns. So that's what we kind of demonstrated with ret self intro, zero for down self intry. Yes, that which could be kind of natural in many times. Yow. When a japanese pronoun is used as the subject, it gets omitted forty % of the time in written communication, an 70 % of time in spoken communication. That's a lowt 70% is lades yam tired than i thought this inc is first person pronounced.

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