@ScriptingJapan I have the same issues when attempting to read any menu which has been artfully designed.

@ScriptingJapan Also me with Chinese. I know this feeling well!

@ScriptingJapan That's why I tune into vtuber streams to stay updated on colloquial language. Yep, that's why I tune in.

@ScriptingJapan It feels like if I asked my mom to read my Twitter feed in English, even if it's the only language she knows she couldn't explain most of it to me

@ScriptingJapan That’s how I felt when trying to have a conversation with an old drunk man at an izakaya

@ScriptingJapan The case of formal vs colloquial/slangy/modern language will always baffle not only language learners, but also people who are fluent in it.

@ScriptingJapan Yup, that's me in Japanese. And the reverse in Cantonese.

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@ScriptingJapan Oh good it's not just me But yeah this is BICS vs CALP all day

@ScriptingJapan I know exact what you mean! Understanding daily conversations in Japanese is actually harder because the Japanese culture is isolated and it develops very differently from Anglophone cultural contexts. I'm kinda like you when it comes to Japanese. 😉

@ScriptingJapan I feel the same when reading twitter posts in English

@ScriptingJapan Japanese Twitter is fine for me lol, it's when I read anything that's a page I get flustered haha.

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@ScriptingJapan I have that problem with English Twitter. I still don’t understand what Uncle Roger did to Bean Dad.

@ScriptingJapan 日本語が母語ですが、若い人がゲーム🎮やマンガについて書いているTweetはさっぱりわかりません😂

@ScriptingJapan I'm the same with Italian and Portuguese. Watching the News or intellectual debates on TV in those languages, I can follow almost everything. If the next program that comes on is a soap opera - I can barely understand anything. 🙄