Over the winter break, I made some great new friends from Japan. Two spoke English fluently, the other barely spoke English. As a result, she would teach me Japanese and I would teach her English.
My friend has learned a lot of English since then and we have been writing to ech other back and forth. I love having a pen pal!
In my limited understand of the Japanese language and its sentence structure, I read this sentence with a lot of confusion and laughter:
"I live in aso of kumamoto."
This is what when through my head:
"You live in the what of Kumamoto?! I guess she really doesn't like it there."
It is not my friend's fault I read her sentence incorrectly. It is 100% mine. I even went and looked-up "aso" online to see what she meant. "Aso" is the name of the city in which my friend lives in Kumamoto. Duh, Flora!
Learning Japanese is going to be a long, interesting journey.
I lived in Kumamoto when I was student of Kumamoto university. Kumamoto is wonderful city!
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