日本語 Japanese Ask Questions Thread 6

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>>490
He did say べた here but it doesn't come from べたべた. べた has a normal meaning of something solid or plain, but it has the slang meaning of trite, overdone, or cliched. "Lame" is a pretty liberal translation.

The friend issue: normal Nanzan students who aren't interested in English or foreign stuff stay FAR away from exchange students; they have no real reason to talk to you, even if you speak Japanese. It's a superficial, slightly racist thing, but its the reality. Japan is all about in-groups and getting with people who are similar in someway; foreigners don't fit in. Anyone who comes up to you and wants to "exchange" with you is either trying to use you to practice English, wants to date you, or some other superficial reason (any case is not a good one - run). '

The people in the dorms go through scans and interviews, so they're usually well-rounded people who just want to experience an "international" scene and not all of them are studying English. Your roommate will probably be a cool guy to hang out with. There's also an area known as Japan Plaza where Japanese students go to practice speaking foreign languages with each other in the R building of campus. If you apply early in the semester, you can get in but you're not allowed to speak Japanese (because you would be making it easy on them). CJS does do things to promote mingling, like coffee hours and stuff. But the only people who attend them are again people who are only interest in frivolous talk with white people. If you're fine with that (I wasn't) and just want to practice Japanese (which you can realistically do anywhere), you might want to check those events out.

Circles are probably to best way to interact with real Nanzan students. Clubs that are open to foreigners are limited but they have real Japanese people who don't know English and don't give a fuck in them. Next to getting a boyfriend/girlfriend, its the most surefire way to have meaningful exchange in the language.