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こんにちは
俺はアメリカ人と日本語は吸う。
My Japanese sucks and I'm American. Please tell me if I just accidentally said Japanese sucks...
Mar 3, 2015 9:40 PM
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こんにちは
俺はアメリカ人と日本語は吸う。
My Japanese sucks and I'm American. Please tell me if I just accidentally said Japanese sucks...
I do not really grasp what you are trying to say.
The expression "sucks" as in, "you are bad at something" do not exsist in Japanese, but nice try though :D
If you want to say that your Japanese is bad, you say 日本語がへた
So
こんにちは
俺はアメリカ人で、日本語がへた(and usually, you write へた in kanji, so you write 下手)。
Hello! I am American and my Japanese sucks.
You do not use "と" as "and" in this context, but "で" which is a way to continue a sentence after a noun.
And I would recommend you to use politer Japanese, even if the sentence above is grammatically correct.
March 3, 2015
If you wanna use an informal word, くそ works fine to be a counterpart of sucks. くそ is a noun 'shit', and also an adjective. When you say 俺の日本語はくそ, it means 'my japanese is shitty'. It's all up to you what style you choose to get. In fact, personally I feel aloof when I hear strictly correct Japanese off an non-native, but also hearing too informal Japanese makes me annoyed lol
March 4, 2015
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Blaine
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