Originally Posted by
jamienbaker
I spoke a few words of Japanese to break the ice, and from there we proceeded to have fabulous service.
Kids were addressed directly by name, they struggled with their "diet-o coku onegai shimasu" and "domo arigatoos" but maybe that made some difference.
Not that it should matter in terms of the service offered, but these couple little things I'd guess made all the difference.
I am only at a level 4 fluency, but being able to exchange these basic phrases certainly broke the ice as you said, and made the FA's much more comfortable I suspect.