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[ Feeling: | embarrassed ]
I'm learning Japanese and for practice I go to a language exchange meeting every Thursday night. Lately I've been learning keigo, which when you meet people for the first time is used a lot. It's very very polite and if you can use it correctly it seems like you have a lot of education.
Unfortunately, I can't =p
At this club there's this guy I really really like too, he's cute, he's funny, just generally awesome and although his English isn't very good we usually talk in Japanese. So he introduced me to some new people telling them how good my japanese is. They were some of his friends and he asks me to use keigo while talking to them. So I start to panic. Keigo is very difficult but I'm doing it and I'm sounding educated. Horar!
Welll until I decide to ask when they came to England. The thing about Japanese is a lot of words are very similar and if you get just one character wrong the meaning completely changes.
Instead of saying "Itsu koRAremashita ka"
I asked "Itsu koWAremashita ka" Which translates as when did you break! :<
My crush and everyone in the general area laughed at me for a long long time, which to be fair I would have too =p
But hey, at least I asked her politely right?