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Second-Person Pronouns: あなた

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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You Can't Use Anata in Japanese

In a lot of languages, the way to show closeness with other people is to start mimicking how they speak. But in japanese, it would have been inappropriate for me to start calling him all my rygshes,. That's a, that's kind of tricky, i guess. For another, when we talked about some examples, like when it's neutral, those textbooks, or as you know now, you're safe to use anata for tha, example.

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