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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!"
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