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@1192ibelin said: Congrats! I wish you all the best
Thank you!!
@cannot-kill-the-sun said: Congratulations!! And also that paper sounds super interesting (I was studying child language acquisition last year) I hope it goes well!!
Thank you! I’m taking Child Language Acquisition right now myself, but SLS is my one true love. So hopefully it all works out!
@logicalgarlicpowder said: That’s awesome and I hope everything! I’ve studied Japanese for several years and am currently studying aboard in Japan. I don’t know much about linguistics but we do talk about gendered words in class! Even as a non-linguistics it sounds so interesting
logicalgarlicpowder said: Sorry. I meant: I hope everything works out well and as a non- linguist it’s seems cool. 😣
No worries, it’s all good! Is your trip going well? I loved my time in Japan - I spent some time completing an internship teaching English and then I went back again for language study. I was in Shiga, so my Japanese developed a hint of Kansai-ben, lol. It drives my friend from Yokohama nuts. Gendered language is super cool and important in Japanese - not many languages have such a clear distinction between masculine and feminine speech as Japanese. However, take what your teachers say with a grain of salt; a lot of people who are college aged aren’t a fan of using that kind of speech anymore. Men are slowly using feminine speech and women are using masculine speech; if you’re ever worried, you can just stick to neutral and you’ll be fine. As for the linguistic aspect of my paper, I’m mostly concerned with 1. are learners of Japanese (L2 learners) picking up the same perception of what is masculine/feminine/neutral as native speakers and 2. who is better with their perception, men or women? In case you were wondering :)
@thriceandonce said: Aaaaaaah omg that’s so exciting! Congratulations! \o/
Thank you so much!!!