"Random" Japanese.

The only time I've ever had someone insert random Japanese into English conversation was with my Japanese professor, who is a native Japanese speaker, and also in a position of trying to encouraging me and others of her students to make Japanese a part of their natural thought process, which ultimately takes grueling repetition. In this case, inserting Japanese into conversation is perfectly legitimate since it encourages learning and, more importantly, is actually done correctly so that the correct things are being learned as a native Japanese speaker would naturally speak.

In situations outside of this, I generally agree with Kolba, although I do of course sometimes try so speak Japanese with other English speakers also learning the language (and of course, when granted the opportunity, with actual native Japanese speakers). But randomly saying sugoi, kakkoii, kawaii, and other such phrases that anyone who's watched a couple fandubs should know is just annoying.

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Originally Posted by Sword Familiar

日本語を正しく使えなければ、使わないでください。恥ずかしく, 気持ち悪いと思います。えひひ。＞＿＜

If you can read and understand that, you're ok, I guess. The rest of you; JUST FU***NG STOP! YOU'RE EMBARRASSING YOURSELVES AND THIS COMMUNITY!

その文が分かるに字典を使えば、まだいい?

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Unfortunately, I've forgotten things like Kanji (most of it) and some Katakana. I'm really out of practice, and the opportunities outside of a classroom setting to write in Japanese are virtually non-existant.

Yeah, I find that occasionally going on Wikipedia and trying to read bits and pieces of the Japanese articles, as well as just reading other Japanese stuff online can help to an extent, but you're definitely right. Retaining kanji can be really difficult (even for the Japanese).

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Originally Posted by Sword Familiar

Babel fish Japanese? It looks weird, please stop ^___^. But seriously, I don't really care. I just like to bitch since I've studied Japanese for a long time, but it doesn't make me an expert and certainly not any authority on the subject. ^__^

No, not Babelfish, just my limited knowledge of grammar and vocabulary making itself known to all.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

For the record, although I knew you were joking from the smilies, having my attempt at using Japanese to reply to your comment in Japanese, after having previously stated that I'm an actual student of it (granted, only 1 year in at this point) referred to as "Babel fish Japanese" was a bit insulting.

On the other hand, I really don't see a reason to make such a big deal about this, arguing over who's more mature, who's been here longer, and so on, certainly not on account of my attempting to practice Japanese in this thread (granted, a definite mistake on my part in retrospect).

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I like how the real point of this thread is less about disdain for people misusing Japanese and more about people using it, period.

I was speaking idiomatically.