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Wasei Eigo - English Words That Don't Make Sense in Japanese!

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If you've ever studied Japanese, you've probably come across certain words that are written in Katakana and thought "What...?" There are actually lots of words used by Japanese people which can sound quite confusing to native speakers of the language the words have been taken from. In this article, we're going to go over a few of them! This is a special article looking at the origins of words and how their meaning differs in Japanese!

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