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だ and です: Part I

The Tofugu Podcast: Japan and Japanese Language

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I'll Read Em for You. O, We Cannot Read This.

When you talk to kids, between kids and a caregiver, it is yo. How rude would it be to use da instead of des when around a new acquaintance? Lander relates back too what we were talking about earlier with is dot ar dot and des just a casual and polite version of the same word,. So i think it's ok if you kind of use both. Just not movment like dat to or tors. Somebody te jos exmien or surprise or something, it's ok to mix in your polite form of speech. It almost sounds like maybe some one mistook some one else for cana.

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