{"id":8417,"date":"2014-06-11T11:00:31","date_gmt":"2014-06-11T15:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/?p=8417"},"modified":"2016-03-28T23:09:33","modified_gmt":"2016-03-29T03:09:33","slug":"english-japanese-chinese-how-i-communicate-with-jeff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/2014\/06\/11\/english-japanese-chinese-how-i-communicate-with-jeff\/","title":{"rendered":"English? Japanese? Chinese? How I Communicate with Jeff."},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GAtOsi1DQe8\/U5cDygu5utI\/AAAAAAAABko\/NhB58qVPkVU\/s1600\/photo+1+(9).JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-GAtOsi1DQe8\/U5cDygu5utI\/AAAAAAAABko\/NhB58qVPkVU\/s1600\/photo+1+(9).JPG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\">\u00a0<\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jeff and I have been dating for 7 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> It has been 3 years since Jeff moved to Japan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> His Japanese has got really good now. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">90% of our daily verbal conversations are in Japanese.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Jeff was unable to speak Japanese at all and I was unable to speak English when we first met in the States.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> No matter what Jeff said to me in English I always replied to him in Japanese. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It turns out his Japanese has got really good after 7 years. Haha.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">We speak in Japanese but we text each other in English. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I am still able to type in English! LOL.<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-F-Yk3B-8ItA\/U5cDxmGuSrI\/AAAAAAAABkk\/OJzXp6JTIK4\/s1600\/photo+2+(1).PNG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/-F-Yk3B-8ItA\/U5cDxmGuSrI\/AAAAAAAABkk\/OJzXp6JTIK4\/s1600\/photo+2+(1).PNG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OtDwLiKLI5U\/U5cDy89RZiI\/AAAAAAAABks\/r_i7haoBHuw\/s1600\/photo+3.PNG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-OtDwLiKLI5U\/U5cDy89RZiI\/AAAAAAAABks\/r_i7haoBHuw\/s1600\/photo+3.PNG\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both;\">\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Typing in English is just much faster than typing in Japanese. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">It is also easier for us to share our thought in written English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> I wish we can speak in English but I just got too shy when talking to Jeff in English.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I have started learning Chinese every now and then in the past 3 years. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">I started from learning Chinese vocabularies and phrases that are commonly used in daily life and they come to handy in daily life conversations.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\"> Although, I am still a beginner in Chinese and make mistakes while using Chinese, Jeff is very happy and impressed when I speak in Chinese. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">After all, Chinese is his mother tongue. I want to study more!<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jeff and I have been dating for 7 years. It has been 3 years since Jeff moved to Japan. His Japanese has got really good now. 90% of our daily verbal conversations are in Japanese.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[138],"tags":[87],"class_list":["post-8417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-our-love-story","tag-international-relationship"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8420,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8417\/revisions\/8420"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonrider7.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}