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<blockquote data-quote="Pbartender" data-source="post: 1763727" data-attributes="member: 7533"><p>Similar to how most Americans, when speaking German, can't seem to replace 'sh' or 'ck' for back-of-the-throat-hawking-a-loogie-noise your average German uses to pronounce 'ch'.</p><p></p><p>So, "Ich möchte einen Kuchen kochen," ends up as...</p><p>"Ish mushte einen Kooshen koshen," or...</p><p>"Ick moockte einen Koocken kocken," or some combination of the two.</p><p></p><p>And I know for a fact that we get made fun of it just as much as Engrish.com makes fun of the stereo typical Japanese accent.</p><p></p><p>Now, that said...</p><p></p><p>In college, I had a Japanese roommate one year. Great guy. Exceedingly polite. Always brought back yummy-tasties from Japan, and always had Playstation and N64 games six months before they were released in the US (even though the format wouldn't work on anyone else's console, and noone else in the dorm could understand what was going on anyway).</p><p></p><p>The thing that always surprised me most about him was the fact that he had the most stereotypical Japanese accent I have ever heard... To the point that he wrote that way. He would always give me his lab reports and essays so that I could proof read them. He was quite appreciative of it, and the biggest compliment he ever gave me was that he enjoyed speaking with me, because I was easy for him to understand, because I spoke clearly and not to quickly. I like to think that, because of me, he was just a bit more fluent in English by the time we stopped rooming together.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pbartender, post: 1763727, member: 7533"] Similar to how most Americans, when speaking German, can't seem to replace 'sh' or 'ck' for back-of-the-throat-hawking-a-loogie-noise your average German uses to pronounce 'ch'. So, "Ich möchte einen Kuchen kochen," ends up as... "Ish mushte einen Kooshen koshen," or... "Ick moockte einen Koocken kocken," or some combination of the two. And I know for a fact that we get made fun of it just as much as Engrish.com makes fun of the stereo typical Japanese accent. Now, that said... In college, I had a Japanese roommate one year. Great guy. Exceedingly polite. Always brought back yummy-tasties from Japan, and always had Playstation and N64 games six months before they were released in the US (even though the format wouldn't work on anyone else's console, and noone else in the dorm could understand what was going on anyway). The thing that always surprised me most about him was the fact that he had the most stereotypical Japanese accent I have ever heard... To the point that he wrote that way. He would always give me his lab reports and essays so that I could proof read them. He was quite appreciative of it, and the biggest compliment he ever gave me was that he enjoyed speaking with me, because I was easy for him to understand, because I spoke clearly and not to quickly. I like to think that, because of me, he was just a bit more fluent in English by the time we stopped rooming together. [/QUOTE]
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