When speaking Japanese I'm constantly worried about whether I'm being too polite or too casual, or whether someone is older or younger. Even now as I write this blog, I worry that I might be too casual.
Yep. Same here. I worry less about this when I'm speaking to people, but when I'm writing on the blog post I really worry about it. So much so that last week for my higanbana post I wrote it in Japanese, but then started to worry about my politeness level and ended up deleting all the Japanese. Le sigh...
Fantastic delegation! You rock, my man.
I worry less and less and it doesn’t seem to affect me much. The people who would judge or awkward around me are already like that, there are many more laid back Japanese people but they tend to only show it when you are more laid back with them. There’s still some distance though, like it’s always awkward asking for someone’s line or instagram.
I’m also not into how much alcohol is a prerequisite for most socializing and how much of an extra effort I need to make to start a conversation when people aren’t drunk 😆
Lol I just try not to complain because at least here I don’t need to debate politics for breakfast lunch and dinner 🤣
Truth is I have 2-3 spots that work well for me and everything else is pretty meh 🤣 those 3 spots are pretty awesome though