I was recently reading a book on Japanese socio-linguistics and I found it interesting that the reason a lot of the younger generation of Japanese lack a more mature vocabulary or should I say lack a more enriched vocabulary is because of the influence of TV and comic books have on society. I am not saying that TV and comic books are no good for society but rather the way in which information is portrayed. They try to portray information in a way that is so simplistic and uses such simple vocabulary. Simple vocabulary is of course not always a bad thing it is just that it often gets overused and the consumers of the TV and comic books get habitually used to it and eventually never get a chance to enrich their vocabularies.

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I’m a thoughtful sort of person. I like to think things over before coming to a conclusion. I am not loud or persuasive.

But China changed me.

I had been living in China for three years and felt comfortable in the language and culture. I have also lived in Japan, France and Canada for a long time and I realized how I somehow change personalities when I switch speaking languages. I notice when I speak English I may sound like any other English Canadian but I know deep down that I am not English nor Canadian, English is just a neutral language of business with lack of stimulus, culture or emotion. French spoken in France I find is very “clean” unlike Quebecois, which has more tone, more activity to it accesses a more passionate side, similar to other Japanese dialects and Chinese languages. A summer in Quebec, even when I speak the southern Japanese dialect I feel livelier than when I speak the regular Tokyo Japanese.

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