# 外国語
**Source:** https://taksanart.com/en/category/外国語
**Language:** English

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![su](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/ス.jpg "英語発音の解決策は「スィ」？")

## Is the solution to English pronunciation "syi"?

Japanese sa shi su se so. Katakana sa shi su se so.

Katakana itself is a Japanese-unique script, so it's good to learn. However, I sometimes think that the 'restriction' of always using katakana for foreign words might not be that necessary anymore.

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![Img 5297 2 967x1024](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/img_5297-2-967x1024.jpg "筆記体の話（英国若者との会話）")

## A conversation about cursive writing (with young British people)

I can't read old formats like Waka, so I can't say anything... That's the premise. lol

One day, I was talking with two young people (21 years old) from the UK. One was British of Chinese descent, and the other was British of Irish descent.

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![2 895x1024](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/2-895x1024.jpg "ボストン空港からシャルルドゴール空港へ")

## From Boston Airport to Charles de Gaulle Airport

From the West Coast to the East Coast of America, I would take Japanese clients, and finally to Europe. My mission was to visit European and American users who had implemented new systems, with Japanese clients in tow, for corporate projects.

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![Img 9278 2](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/img_9278-2.jpg "敬語の可能性（伊語）")

## Possibility of Keigo (Italian)

(The photo is of the center of CATANIA, Sicily. When you are with a baby, uncles and aunts dote on you immensely, without asking, lol. They touch the baby's face without hesitation. This wasn't the case in America. They are very kind people.)

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![Img 61b428312735 1](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/img_61b428312735-1.jpeg "Lakotaの人が教えてくれた「アメリカ人っていったいどんな人？」")

## What a Lakota person taught me about 'What on earth are Americans like?'

When you ask what Americans are like, they are truly diverse, and generalization is impossible. Just like in any country, there are amazingly good people and bad people. However, looking at them through my hazy eyes as a foreigner, I certainly see a 'certain color' there.

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![Img 82436d243748 1 1](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_82436d243748-1-1.jpeg "思い出し笑い（伊ヤクザの話）")

## Laughing in retrospect (Story about Italian Yakuza)

This morning, I laughed in retrospect.

A while ago in Italy, a friend asked me: "In Japan, the 893 (Yakuza) in manga usually have scars on their cheeks or missing fingers, but what are they like in Italy?"

My friend replied, "Hmm, let me see... they usually limp."

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![Forbidden fruit](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/img_4572-2.jpg "金以外、「自由」を創る要素")

## Elements that create "freedom" other than money

Some people say you can buy freedom with money. Some people enjoy making money. I think that's fine. But the idea that you can't be free without money feels strange.

What are you going to do with money?

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![Img 3180 768x1024](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/img_3180-768x1024.jpg "俺のかつての140yen")

## My former 140 yen

At 27, I quit my job with almost zero savings and decided to move to the US! I started working part-time in 1997. In the end, I saved over 3 million yen in less than a year working the night shift at Sagawa Express...

Around 1998, the yen suddenly plunged to 140 yen.

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![Img 2776 1](https://taksanart.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/img_2776-1.jpg "新手のカミングアウト")

## New type of coming out

Ah, I remembered something. I should write it down.

America is a country with all sorts of people. There are many extreme people.

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