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• 倍金萬
• 2018/09/03 (Mon) 13:07
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I started to write this in the "Japanese nationality..." topic, but it started to feel out of place, so I moved it here.

I heard that "the reverse is also true"; when a foreign national becomes naturalized as a Japanese, he/she has to give up his/her previous foreign nationality. I found a Wiki page of an old guitarist, Claude ・ Ciari, who is the same age as me, but he became a naturalized Japanese citizen. I don't know how he is treated in his home country, France, but as soon as he is naturalized, he can no longer use his French passport in Japan.

On a side note, Claude ・ Ciari's daughter and TV personality Christelle ・ Ciari does English train ・ announcements for trains in quite a few areas of Japan. I dislike the way she says station names in English or Japanese. She says the station names exactly the same way Japanese people pronounce them. In other words, she doesn't accentuate the station names at all. Even if you only speak English or understand some Japanese, it must be difficult to hear it pronounced that way. Foreign visitors should read the romaji written on maps and pamphlets such as station names first, so they inevitably put accents on them when they speak.

For example, we pronounce "Yokohama" as "Yokohama" without any change, but foreign travelers put the accent on the "c" and remember it that way. Therefore, when I hear Christel ・ Ciari's announcement in the train, I don't think I would immediately notice if he said Yokohama or not. I may be thinking too much.

In this respect, the English announcement of Keikyu Electric Railway, which serves Haneda Airport other than monorail, is made by a different woman and the pronunciation of station names is close to that of the people here, so I can hear it without any resistance as I have been here for a long time.

• 倍金萬
• 2018/09/03 (Mon) 13:25
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Na ～ nah, Keikyu's girlfriend is now pronounced the same as Christel ・ Ciali. Bummer. But her speech other than station names is still easier to hear than Christel ・ Ciari's. Oh, she accents Sotetsu with "Sote' Tsu". I'm totally smug that it has to be this way.

https://youtu.be/_6RDSMZP-IM

• ashitano
• 2018/09/06 (Thu) 08:28
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Double Kin Man

When I was in junior high school, I learned that the accent should be placed on the second to last letter of the Japanese last name. When I came to the U.S. a long time ago, no Americans knew my name, so they naturally called me with the accent. But nowadays, there are many Americans who are used to Japanese surnames, and some of them can understand me even if I say my name in Japanese, or even spell it. It is true that station announcements in Japan used to be in English, but nowadays it is not so difficult to hear them in Japanese. There are also many foreign words from Japanese, and I think that Japanese people have become accustomed to foreigners in Japan and have gained confidence in themselves, which has led them to naturally say their native Japanese names.

• ashitano
• 2018/09/08 (Sat) 08:06
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With Singapore Airlines, it is now $575 to Japan. To Singapore is $650. A round trip between Tokyo and Singapore for only $75 extra is a real hail mary. I can't make plans for such a thing because it comes so suddenly.

• 倍金萬
• 2018/09/08 (Sat) 09:39
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ashitano,

I don't know if I should go there right now. If you are a flight （ hiko ）, you can just go to Singapore and come back immediately, but if you go to Singapore, you have to stay at a reasonable place, and you have to spend a lot of money if you want to see the town and have a good meal because you are there. If you go over there, you will have to stay at a reasonable place.

On the other hand, it takes a lot of courage to make an instantaneous decision.

But Kyobi's fares are very attractive. It made me want to go to Tokyo for a week or so.