brit-gob 9 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Anyone else? Long time in Japan, friends for the most part Japanese..... my English is definitey suffering! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Mines has never been good!! Link to post Share on other sites
grungy-gonads 54 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 It's a good job companies are so picky employing their foreign English teachers! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 A very good job Link to post Share on other sites
Chriselle 158 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Ya...I'm stuck in some weird "no mans land"... English is $hit.....Japanese is $hit... Link to post Share on other sites
onehunga 26 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 My English is getting worse too. The only people I actually speak to are the kids and my wife, so even though I can't speak Japanese, my english is getting more and more like Japlish every day. Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I was always rubbish! Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 One of the prices of living here long time Link to post Share on other sites
Thundercat 60 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 Mine too. For obvious reasons my co-workers often come to ask me the best way to say something in English. Half the time I don't know anymore. When I go back to Canada my friends and family make fun of the way I speak now! Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 My English is deteriorating now that I'm back in Australia. It was much better in Japan! Link to post Share on other sites
NoFakie 45 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I doubt I know the the normal conversational way to say loads of everyday stuff in English anymore. I also don't know stuff I would have learned but haven't because I'm here, like how to describe what my kids are like or what they get up to at school. I might know a newspaper way of saying stuff, but I don't know the normal person way. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I find many if not most of the cultural references bewildering when I visit North America Link to post Share on other sites
Metabo Oyaji 71 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 My English is still fabulously groovy and hip, same as it ever was. Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 9, 2014 Share Posted June 9, 2014 I'm going to study how the locals of Mold react to my racy mix of Lancashire Japlish. Unless, they are of course use to it a bit due to Dom & Phil. Link to post Share on other sites
JellyBelly 1 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I'm really aware of how bad my English has become when I'm back home. Come out with some really strange things. Brother looks at me like... wtf?! Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Some of the new slang back home I have no idea about.....Japanerisms are now entrenched....the uh-uh-uh's and bowing to everyone....in my local bar the barman gives me right funny looks Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 I think my family and friends back in England have a good laugh at my attempts at English sometimes. Link to post Share on other sites
Go Native 70 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Some of the new slang back home I have no idea about.....Japanerisms are now entrenched....the uh-uh-uh's and bowing to everyone....in my local bar the barman gives me right funny looks When I came back to Australia there was talk of Hipsters. I had no idea what people were talking about. Still don't really. Link to post Share on other sites
surfarthur 22 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Hipster is a term popularly used to denote an international subculture primarily consisting of white[dubious – discuss] Millennials living in urban areas.[1][2] The subculture has been described as a "mutating, trans-Atlantic melting pot of styles, tastes and behavior"[3]and is broadly associated with indie and alternative music, a varied non-mainstream fashion sensibility (including vintage and thrift store-bought clothes), progressive, independent or far-left political views, organic and artisanal foods, and alternative lifestyles.[4][5][6]Hipsters are typically described as affluent or middle class young Bohemians who reside in gentrifying neighborhoods.[7][8] Link to post Share on other sites
Tubby Beaver 209 Posted June 10, 2014 Share Posted June 10, 2014 Some of the new slang back home I have no idea about.....Japanerisms are now entrenched....the uh-uh-uh's and bowing to everyone....in my local bar the barman gives me right funny looks When I came back to Australia there was talk of Hipsters. I had no idea what people were talking about. Still don't really. I knew a few of them in Tokyo.....regular people call them "wanks" or "arseholes". Basically geeks who somehow think they are cool cos they wear skinny jeans, flannel lumberjack-esque shirts, grew a beard 15 years after puberty and like shite music Link to post Share on other sites
pie-eater 207 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 One problem I have back in England is being too polite all the time. Just don't have any level of swagger at all, which is of course socially rubbish. Link to post Share on other sites
Slippery Jim 65 Posted June 11, 2014 Share Posted June 11, 2014 artisanal foods :rollabout: Link to post Share on other sites
BagOfCrisps 24 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 You what?! Link to post Share on other sites
634-maru 4 Posted June 12, 2014 Share Posted June 12, 2014 dou shiyou? Link to post Share on other sites
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