{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "I\u2019ve used Japanese exactly three times since college.\n Time the first, we were on the rooftop at The Standard, one of my friends...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/16509841186/", "html": "<p>I\u2019ve used Japanese exactly three times since college.</p>\n<p>Time the first, we were on the rooftop at The Standard, one of my friends was coked up and trying to talk to some Japanese dudes in town for a hairstyling convention, and she was like \u201chay kontextmaschine, do you speak Japanese?\u201d, guessing in the dark, and I was all</p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201c\u2026</p>\n<p>\u2026</p>\n<p>\u2026</p>\n<p><em>yes</em>.\u201d</p>\n</blockquote>\n<p>Time the second I was talking the <a href=\"http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Language_Proficiency_Test\" target=\"_blank\">JPLT</a> (lv. 3) down at USC and was amused to find that my room\u2019s proctor was a girl I recognized from the executive board of my college anime club.</p>\n<p>Time the third I was waiting for my apartment renovations to finish, staying at a hotel, got drunk and lost the card to open the garage gate, and the office was closed, so I went to the Japanese expat/piano/after-hours bar next door to ask for the hotel\u2019s phone number, and after two rounds of \u201cwhat?\u201d I was like \u201c\u2026fine. <em>tonari no hoteru no denwabango, wakarimasu ka?</em>\u201d, which worked but meant I had to deal with drunk Japanese guys trying to talk to my drunk American ass in drunk Japanese until the bartender found it.</p>\n<p>I\u2019ve probably used it more in dreams, honestly.</p>\n<img src=\"/media/tumblr_lw1zbdlMnb1r5yvvbo1_400_d573f629af54.jpg\" />", "thumbnail_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/media/tumblr_lw1zbdlMnb1r5yvvbo1_400_d573f629af54.jpg", "thumbnail_width": 400, "thumbnail_height": 405}