Re:AI translates Hokkien, an unwritten language, for the fir...
by tokinonagare on Sunday October 23, 2022 @10:43PM
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> Even Japanese, a language used by 125 million, has similar issues, my Japanese coworkers frequently switch to English during technical discussions.
Are you Japanese yourself? If not I don't think it's strange that they would adapt their way of speaking with a foreigner, especially since most technical words in IT are coming from English anyway. For other fields, health for instance, it's totally possible to never heard English in months/years. Japanese is well alive, and English is more a social marker than anything else. Most Japanese have very bad command of English if at all and can live their whole life never using it.
Are you Japanese yourself? If not I don't think it's strange that they would adapt their way of speaking with a foreigner, especially since most technical words in IT are coming from English anyway. For other fields, health for instance, it's totally possible to never heard English in months/years. Japanese is well alive, and English is more a social marker than anything else. Most Japanese have very bad command of English if at all and can live their whole life never using it.