{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "So I learned Japanese through a curriculum designed to train spies and diplomats and the way it worked was every night we'd...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/156788061953/", "html": "So I learned Japanese through a curriculum designed to train spies and diplomats and the way it worked was every night we&rsquo;d spend 2 hours in a tape lab listening to Japanese and playing along or responding\n<p>\nAnd then every day we&rsquo;d break up into sections of like 7 and spend an hour talking about this assignment in Japanese with a super-sweet, grandmotherly woman who would look <em>really</em> disappointed in you if you fucked something up\n</p><p>\n(there were also MWF lectures, the two years of college this lasted felt like side projects I was doing while learning Japanese)\n</p><p>\nAnyway the result is I literally have a neurotic block on pronouncing Japanese in a non-Japanese way, if you ever see me doing that please know I&rsquo;m not being a ponce.\n</p><p>\n(the exception is words I pronounced before this - I say &ldquo;anime&rdquo; the normal way, so you don&rsquo;t have to punch me) </p>"}