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Old Oct 16, 2005 | 9:03 am
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Nv2U
 
Join Date: Oct 2005
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Originally Posted by Pickles
Hold it right there. I would not speak to the immigration and customs people in Japanese, unprompted, unless they ask you if you speak it. Then you can say "a little", or whatever in a sheepish, aw-shucks kind of way, and right away tell them why you speak it.
I wasn't going to speak it unless they asked - I'm really not confident enough yet, since I haven't ever talked to more than a few Japanese people before.

I just figured that, if they asked, it would help to substantiate my reason for coming.
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