日本文化の文脈の中では当然と思われる微笑みも、外国人の間では、不気味な笑いとして多くの混乱を生み、また悪評が高い。の英語

Our smile, which is understandable in the context of Japanese culture, sometimes causes a lot of confusion and is notorious among foreign people as a mysterious smile.

Another tendency of many Japanese that bothers foreigners is to make statements that are too general and too broad by using or implying words like "all" and "every".

In the same way, a Russian might fail to see anything amusing in a joke which would make an Englishman laugh to tears.

Although most of the content and thought has not been dependent on any language, when focusing on Japanese, differences in syntactic structures or the fact that individual words are not written separately and distinctly then requires several points of consideration.

Yet Japan is still not sufficiently understood by other countries, and the Japanese, likewise, find foreigners difficult to understand.

There is a tendency for Japanese to want to know a certain amount of personal information about someone such as age, position and whether they are married or not, before they feel comfortable talking with a stranger.

My English teacher in junior high school once said, "People outside Japan think that Japanese people have a poor sense of humor."

Foreigners in general don't need as many compliments as Japanese are required to give each other, and it is good to keep this in mind.

Japanese speakers of English often have difficulty in dealing with informal conversation, such as at parties or in small informal groups.

Of course it's a good thing when someone learning a foreign language tries to use it without fear of making mistakes, but I don't think much of people without sufficient ability producing language learning material of poor quality.

Though Japanese has borrowed heavily [a great deal] from Chinese and English, only a few Japanese words have entered other languages.

South Korean movies and TV dramas are now very popular in many Asian countries including Japan, and many tourists are visiting South Korea these days.

The difficulties of the Japanese language prevent all but a handful of foreigners from approaching the literature in the original.

It is often pointed out that a vague smile is typical of the Japanese.

Japanese culture is very diverse and each person has his own opinion or feeling about it.

I am a native Japanese-speaking woman. But even though this is the case, I sometimes still make small mistakes when I am writing or speaking.

It's very easy to sound natural in your own native language, and very easy to sound unnatural in your non-native language.

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

There I realized that what Japanese think is natural is not always regarded as natural by people in other countries.

It was about the year 2000 when I remember doing my first trip to Korea. Using my limited Korean, I had lots of trouble asking for basic things like where the train or bus were, and even what the way was to places. I remember lots of people responding to me in English, and while I was pretty relieved at that, I’ve gotta say: people in the country right next to us, speaking a language from peoples on the other side of the world! It’s only when you look at it in that objective state of mind that you realize how strange that is.

And even outside these nations, English is perhaps more widely used as a medium of international communication than any other language.

Learning from your own traditions, not just from foreign cultures and modern technologies, will give you a broader view and a more flexible way of thinking.

The Japanese watch Japan too much and don't know the situation overseas. Koreans watch Japan only and don't know the situation of their own country.

However, when listening to an unknown foreign language, our ability to discern different words is lost, and we recognize speech as being a stream of sounds without many pauses.

“I think language is a reflection of culture."“Good point. I would say, beyond that, it's a reflection of our minds."

My Latin teacher used to look down sternly on me over the rim of her glasses, but now I know it only had to do with the fact that she was wearing reading glasses and that she will have found it a nuisance taking them off all the time, so what looked like contempt towards us students might well and truly have been kindness.

People in such countries, especially the ASEAN countries, believe that the secret of Japan's remarkable economic growth is education.

I worry that, because the Japanese lines in this site are written with furigana, they take up a lot of space, and the people who don't even care about them in the first place might find them annoying.

No nation can exist completely isolated from others.

Fundamentally, you're not practicing anything by translating, so even if you say that you can't do it, once you've set your sights on a similar sentence you've seen before that is more natural yet does not quite convey the original sentence's nuances, translation proves to be an act that is quite addicting.