Tip: NEVER use google translate for Japanese! (Even for travel) It's so bad!

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[–] 26 points 5 days ago (4 children)

I visited Japan for the first time recently.

It is not the first time I visited a country that spoke another language, but it was the first time I went somewhere that didn't use the same alphabet I'm used to.

I must say, suddenly beign functionally analphabet is a very strange feeling!

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  • [–] 10 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

    I'm from Bulgaria, but left as a child, when I came back I couldn't speak the language, only understand a little bit. The crylic alphabet everywhere was really strange for me too. Ultimately, my step mom would walk the city with me and teach me the letters as we saw them on car licence plates. It was like a whole new world opened up when I could read them.

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