Hey guys and girls this is CathyCat on Ask Japanese this time i'm gonna tell you 50
signs that will tell you that you've been in Japan for so long that you started turning a
little bit Japanese and forgot that you may be a foreigner
It feels more natural to you to pay
by cash and not by credit card
It's not weird for you to see coffee cold and in jelly form
you don't get that surprised anymore when you find a pair of panties on the street
when you hear the word Japanese sour plum "ume" your mouth immediately starts to water
the convenient store near your house is super convenient but you always spend too much time and money there
you know that when you go to the hundred yen store you don't get what you need
you go to the 100 yen store and the 100 yen store tells you what you need.
you feel like taking a bath without having had a shower beforehand is a sin
when you get a gift from a friend you immediately start thinking about what kind of gift you have to give back now
you say karaoke instead of karaoke
when you meet someone for the very first time it's natural to you to bow and not to shake hands
You wave your hand when you want to say no no no no no no
you feel like Baumkuchen is a Japanese food
you got used to having sweet corn and mayo on your pizza and you start to think it's great
you never close the taxi door neither open it
there might be days when you don't say anything at all
if you meet another foreigner living on the countryside of Japan
you feel some sort of sympathy (she meant camaraderie) wow
if you see obnoxious tourists in Tokyo you feel some sort of apathy
you realize you're bowing to western foreigners too
you don't talk on the elevator
you don't talk on the train
you don't talk on the bus
you say "Otsukaresama deshita" every day
while the first few years you are fine during hay fever season
the next few years you're suffering through it just like everyone else
you frown when you accidentally drink sweetened green tea
you realize you're nodding a lot even on the phone
you go wow and are super surprised when you see a big dog but you never do that for small dogs
cute
you realize you say "sorry" more than "excuse me"
you don't get nervous anymore when you put a 10 000 yen bill into a vending machine
that's like 100 dollars!
you started calling your stapler a hotchkiss
none of your friends thinks it's weird that you ate an American dog last night
instead of asking for a power outlet you're asking for consent
consent?
you get more hot canned coffee out of the vending machines than going to starbucks
you think the opposite of red is white
you answer the phone with moshimoshi instead of hello
you know that tonkatsu's best friend is cabbage
you buy a strawberry shortcake on christmas
you buy a strawberry shortcake on your birthday
you buy a shorsh... you buy a strawberry shortcake on any other celebration
you never bump into anyone when you're crossing shibuya crossing
on a tight month you hope that your senpai pays your lunch bill
you think that salt and rice is the best onigiri there is
you're searching for a button in a restaurant
you know that a drink bar does not contain any alcohol
even though you get asked to check your change you never do
when a Japanese person says "raito" you know whether they meant right or light
you're learning more about the difference between chinese usage kanji and Japanese usage kanji
you know more fish and flower names in Japanese than you know in English
you stopped thinking that a magnitude 4 earthquake is scary
but you know that in magnitude 5 would be very scary
you have a hundred receipts in your wallet
you have dozens of point cards in your wallet
when a Japanese person tells you "Oh you can use chopsticks so very well" you smile but internally you think "of course"
someone compliments you and tells you your Japanese is very good and you internally wish you'd said more better now wait a second
Like... "hey I didn't even speak something yet!" but then Dogen said something similar...
when someone compliments you how great your Japanese is
you instead of accepting it turn it down with the words of "no no not at all" even though you ....
even though you speak it fluently
for you the week starts on a Sunday
so these are a couple of things you realize you've been doing if you've been living in
Japan for a long time is there anything I missed let us know in the comments down below looking
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