Originally Posted by
LapLap
You might like to re-read your own post:
"how Japanese people react to foreigners and foreigners' inability to understand keigo: hardly a surprise"
The way I read it is:
how Japanese people react to foreigners and how Japanese people react to foreigners' inability to understand keigo is 'hardly a surprise'.
You don't seem to understand the implications of your own written eigo.
And 99.9999% of all statistics are pulled out of thin air. Any source for your assertion? It's almost as if you are suggesting that out of the 2 million non-Japanese residing in Japan only about 200 or so can speak Japanese fluently. Yet another assumption.
No, that is why I explained it again for you in any case. And you seem to not be able to grasp what role that colon played in the sentence and the parallel I was trying to make between my reaction to
jib71's post and the fact that foreigners can't understand Japanese. And, you seem to think that your interpretation is more important than my interpretation of my own post??
Not one foreigner passed the entire Japanese bar exam ever in its previous iteration, and very few even passed the second stage. Foreigners include the whole world, as well. How many people have tried to learn Japanese and how many people suck at it? Yes, foreigners suck at Japanese.