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Senpai: The Japanese Word You Look up To

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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How to Sing Like a Creelon Like Late Conna?

In elementary school, you must use cong or chan as name manders instead of like sempi. To refer to your older mun mates, or older schoolmates, you would say coon or chan but not the way, ah colnel chan, but not te nos sempia. My sister is two years old older than me, so her friends are like noninani can or non nani con a for example. Even sock color was part of the school uniform. You can generally wear what you wer. Sock wase only a part of that freedom, i guess. Yai didn't realize that even in high school,. i tii try not

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