Join Date: Jul 2001
Location: Boston, Jo'burg, HK
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Like my Brazilian colleague who would ride the elevator and the recorded voice would say ikkai-ni-mairimasu, or whatever floor, he would repeat it as best as he could. He spent a month in Japan, and he repeated it every time he got on on the elevator, and in the entire month I don't think he even came close to pronouncing it correctly.