English has a huge diversification of cultural influences from all over the world. A native English speaker probably wouldn’t even notice how many different foreign words they use. We use a lot of French food words, and latin scientific words, yiddish slang, etc etc. Perhaps you could explore more of these. Also in modern day the language is greatly changing due to texting, and slang sayings become very popular from music and movies.

That is something that is unique about Japan, the cultural influence on the language comes *mostly* from Japan! Assimilating foreign words from the west is a relatively new thing to the language. Perhaps this really is the source of why English speakers will use more descriptive sentences and try not to leave anything unspoken to be misunderstood, due to the melting pot effect. The Japanese say less, with the unspoken part understood clearly, due to the ‘Island Nation’ effect. (And not only an Island Nation, but one that intentionally isolated itself from the rest of the world for an extended period of time). I am curious how much the Japanese language is changing due to the modern texting culture?

I would say these are the biggest cultural influences on the English language compared to the Japanese language.

わたしたち　の　じてんしゃ　じゃありませんでした

say that 10 times fast without messing up the ‘j’, ‘s’ and ‘sh’ sounds!

Thank you Joel :)

Okay, I have a ‘how do you say’ question. In season two the task is to put the job titles of people you know into Japanese. So my husband (しゅじん）？ Is the manager of an off-road autoshop. He said in Japan they call it くるまかいそ　(truck modification). The word for manager is てんちょう　and the word for garage/autoshop is せいびこうじょう。 Since I still don’t have a good grasp on sentence structure, I want to know how to put those all together! Would it be: １）てんちょうくるまかえそせいびこうじょう　　２）くるまかいそせいびこじょうてんちょう　３）てんちょうせいびこうじょうくるまかいそ

Maybe it would be explanatory enough to say てんちょうくるまかいそ