Difficult to pronounce

June 23rd, 2006

For most of Japanese people actually it's difficult to pronounce many of English words correctly. Let me introduce some funny stories. :)

One day a former who grows lots of potatoes found out that a foreigner was in his farm and fingered his potatoes. He got angry and shouted out "掘ったイモ、いじるな！(hotta imo ijiruna!)" to the foreigner. The foreigner replied to him, "It's 3 o'clock." Apparently, the pronunciation of his word sounded like "What time is it now?" to the foreigner....

A women got on a train when it wasn't so crowded, so she can sit on any seat easily. She decided to sit on the next to a foreigner, then she asked him if it's OK to sit there. But her English pronunciation was too bad like me. She said to him, "Can I shit here?" He was extremely surprised to hear that, of course. :)

Let me introduce another funny real story which one of my English teacher experienced in a train.
The situation was very similar to the above story. He is good at speaking Japanese, but sometimes makes a few small mistakes. He asked a woman in a train if it's OK to sit there in Japanese. The correct Japanese is "座ってもいいですか？(suwattemo iidesuka?)"; however, he said to her, "触ってもいいですか？(sawattemo iidesuka?)". The word means "Can I touch you?" maybe. She got upset and evacuated from him immediately.
ぎゃははははははは ＿(＿ ＿)ノ彡☆ばんばん!

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