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In general, if somebody tells you're good at Japanese, it means they either a) think your Japanese is awful, but are complimenting you for making the effort, or
by jpatokal 12y ago
In general, if somebody tells you're good at Japanese, it means they either a) think your Japanese is awful, but are complimenting you for making the effort, or b) you just made some sort of horribly ungrammatical blooper that reminded them that you're not, in fact, native, and thus need the compliment.
- jrockway 12y agoNot always the case, sometimes the compliment is legitimate. One should probably not take it to mean "you're done studying forever" though.