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EastMeetsWest

(191 posts)
30. It's been a while since I've been to Kyoto
Mon Jan 17, 2022, 03:17 PM
Jan 2022

I wonder if that okonomiyaki is 大阪風 (Osaka style), or if Kyoto has its own style.

Good Luck to you, my dear TDale313! CaliforniaPeggy Nov 2021 #1
Thank you 😊 n/t TDale313 Nov 2021 #2
Very best of luck!!! GeoWilliam750 Nov 2021 #3
I first studied Japanese some 40 years ago and found it not at all difficult.. HUAJIAO Nov 2021 #4
Japanese romanized vowels are exactly like Spanish vowels EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #15
yes, agreed. HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #18
Japanese is fortunately not tonal EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #20
I never learned more than maybe 300 - 400 kanji HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #21
I actually was quite versed in the Kyoto dialect 京都弁 at one time EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #22
I learned Japanese in the 1980s and although I have been back several times in the last few years, HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #23
Well, that happens to all of us EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #24
Some more Kansaiben EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #25
I'm really interesed in hearing more from you EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #26
Well, I know some dynamite restaurants in Kyoto that are NOT on the tourist lists, HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #29
It's been a while since I've been to Kyoto EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #30
I have never had okonomiyaki in Osaka so I couldn't say. HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #33
These days, it seems like there are basically two okonomiyaki "styles", EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #37
The only one I remember right now is Ookini. HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #28
That's a good word to know in Kyoto! EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #31
This message was self-deleted by its author HUAJIAO Jan 2022 #19
Any facility you have/had with the Romance languages will be of no... 3catwoman3 Nov 2021 #5
Arubaito (アルバイト) means "part-time/temporary job" EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #16
There are actually a lot of English loan words in Japanese EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #32
I remember one of the teachers in the 3 classes... 3catwoman3 Jan 2022 #34
Japanese has changed a lot EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #35
Domo arigato multigraincracker Nov 2021 #6
🙂 TDale313 Nov 2021 #7
Was that Styx song, EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #27
It's too bad our savantic ability to naturally acquire languages pretty much dries up at puberty. PSPS Nov 2021 #8
Truth. TDale313 Nov 2021 #10
I started studying Japanese at 22 EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #36
Sugoi! Kablooie Nov 2021 #9
I never learned it despite working at some Japanese... Buckeye_Democrat Nov 2021 #11
My college roommate mastered it. He somehow got a job Tomconroy Nov 2021 #12
I've got a friend from a tiny Midwest town who became a Japanese interpreter. Midnight Writer Nov 2021 #13
I'd like to retire, EastMeetsWest Jan 2022 #17
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