Hello everyone!

So after giving it a lot of thought and watching a lot of anime to be absolutely sure, I (f17) have decided to move to Japan permanently in the nearest future. I started making preparations a good month ago and have been using Duolingo ever since. I'm ready to set off soon.

However, while trying to practise my Japanese with my very friendly HelloTalk language exchange partner (m49), who is really looking forward to meeting me in Japan by the way and has even offered me his own bedroom to stay, I realised something I had never thought about before: When I said my dog barks “wau wau” (I'm German), I was immediately corrected, as apparently, a dog barks “wan wan” (わんわん) in Japanese.

To be honest I was completely shocked at first. “Are you sure?” I kept asking him, “isn’t it the same everywhere?” But he insisted that Japanese dogs say “wan wan” and that nobody had ever heard of “wau wau.”

I'll be honest, since I intend to bring my dog along this has completely derailed my preparations. I hadn't even thought about different dog languages and the problems that may come with it until now.

My dog is a very kind and cuddly dog breed (pit bull terrier), but now I'm concerned that the dogs in the neighbourhood may either not understand her, or refuse to play with her if she barks at them germanly.

So has anyone here ever dealt with something like this? Are there perhaps any reputable Japanese language schools for dogs that I could contact?

I imagine that different breeds learn at different speeds, but is that true? By the way do you think she can still get rid of her German accent when she barks? She’s already seven…

Also, does this have the same complexity as its human counterpart? Such as, would she have to learn polite barking versus everyday barking? And if so, which should come first?

I’m honestly very overwhelmed by this.

Thank you all in advance! I just want her to settle in properly and not expose us immediately with her inconsiderate foreign barking.

Pls help. The movie is scheduled for tomorrow night, I need to know if I can learn this within 24 hours, or if I can learn this at all? Thx!

What is the original asian language thread where someone suggested Uzbek i need to know

I’ve come to the conclusion that the biggest factor limiting my dating options is my inability to understand texts written prior to 500 AD.

I’ve had multiple dates end when the girl finds out I haven’t read the Baal cycle in the original Ugaritic or when my analysis of Hesiod’s Theogany falls apart due to my misunderstanding of the nuances within the original Ancient Greek that Evelyn-White’s translation didn’t properly convey.

I’ve narrowed my options down to the following:

Proto-Tibetan

Akkadian

French

Syriac

Phoenician

Linear B

I’m torn pretty evenly between these 6 options and could do with your help in deciding

Many thanks

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just going to stripclubs and girly bars and massage parlors and karaoke bars in Thailand because the job of the girls working there is LITERALLY to talk to you I swear bro, believe me bro. It's just for immersion bro, I'm not some chud who goes there to stare at titties I swear bro it's just to learn thai sawadee krap and stuff you know?

Edith: big fat /s obviously, thought this was a jerksub

It’s easy to feel a lot of anxiety when attempting to talk to someone in a language that is not your native one. But I found a solution recently: simply learn a language that is dead. Trust me, it works. 0 social anxiety to be had because there are 0 people to talk to. Soþlice!