BerryzGiraffe3705 wrote:That's good to know.Thing is, for the concert in October, I wanna know whether I should speak to them in Japanese or English. Because I know that if I speak in Japanese they'd be able to communicate back, but if I speak in english, they might enjoy the fact that I used english more than the fact that they'd be able to understand what I said.
So you don't speak to them, since you are shy?
BerryzGiraffe3705 wrote:So, obviously they will understand a few things in english:
Also, I understand that they may enjoy the challenge of English more, and may be relieved to hear Japanese, but... Which one do you think they prefer? The world will never know.
omg. we should find a messenger wota to go to a handshake event one time and ask each girl the question and report back to us.... He'd (or she'd) be... our Messengerota!!!
I speak to them in that I say "Arigatou Gozaimasu" and then I got out a sentence to Sayu barely before being moved. It's less the girls and more of the other wota staring at me more as I am the only foreigner in attendance at most of these events here plus being a girl, I attract attention
. But from the back or side people quickly forget unless I shoot out some natural sounding English which would cause many to turn their heads. It's just a personal things. And I've also been conditioned to not speak English first as it can send people into a panic because they are afraid you don't speak Japanese and they can't remember any of their own English schooling and what not. This is just me and my own personally issues I think I'd say something in English to Maachan at least if I wasn't anxious, but anyway THAT ASIDEI don't think it matters what language. Use both
Don't worry so much. I know it's hard to actually put the don't worry thing into practice. I was so nervous before my first handshake and was like OH GOD WHAT DO I SAY HOW DO I SAY IT, but honestly I didn't have time to say anything! If the staff treat this the same as a handshake event in Japan you will not have time to say more than a few syllables anyway (and sometimes the girls will want to say something to you instead which is so much cooler than saying something to them, but pretty much makes it impossible to say something) so I would just pick one of the girls to focus on and whether or not you do it in English in Japanese may come down to how much confidence you have over not tripping over the Japanese. I think for "Thanks yous" English would be best as they obviously understand it and I expect it'd feel good hearing a foreigner say that to them as it would really cement the fact that they had done a concert overseas in their brains.Either way I'm sure they'll get a mix of both and that's what would make them the happiest. So they'd be happy either way. No need to let it keep you up at night
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