> learning a third language as an adult for a while, and it helps to make use of a native speaker who is around you all the time in Japan, men and women speak

> learning a third language as an adult for a while, and it helps to make use of a native speaker who is around you all the time in Japan, men and women speak slightly differently, apparently, the women speaking in a higher register for example. There was a funny article I saw in a major publication about an American in Japan who learned Japanese primarily through his Japanese girlfriend, but she broke up with him because he ended up talking "like a girl"