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[โ€“] tigeruppercut@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: the word "yo" (used as an intensifier) has overlapping uses in English and Japanese. For example, the sentence "Let's go, yo!" would be "Ikou, yo!"

[โ€“] ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

Japanese also has quite a few borrow-words/loan-words from English too.

You can have some really English-sounding Japanese: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW4AiEqKGto lol