Thank you for all your responses. When my girlfriend and I were out in the area a few minths ago, looking for an apartment we did some grocery shopping to help save $$ during out stay. That's kind of how wee found this place. The clerks who worked in a few of the stores and eateries there were all mostly speaking japanese so i assume they speak it pretty much all the time. I just didnt want to make any cultural mistakes next time shopped there.
Also i wanted to avoid the "look the dog can talk" effect.. That's when you get startled looks when you speak someone's language and they dont expect you to be able to understand them. My prebious girlfriend was Puerto Rican and I took spanish in school for like 14 years. When i met her grandfather and he started telling her in spanish that i was a nice boy, and i replied "thank you, i think you are nice as well" you could have heard a pin drop in that household. Gor the rest of the day I was asked by various relatives " how did you learn to speak spanish?" It got kind of annoying...
Cynthetiq.. Growing up my best frined was 1/2 filipino and my last roommate was too. I learned a lot of tagalog.. unfortunately none of it is anything i can say in public
