Authors: Dirty Japanese: Everyday Slang From "What's Up?" to "F*%# Off!"

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She’s really a sweet girl.
kanojo wa hontō ni ī ko de ne

Friend
tomodachi

Seriously, man, you are such a good friend.
omae wa hontō ni ī tomodachi da

Text friend (literally: “thumb-buddy”)
oyatomo

I’ve got more text friends than real friends.
jissai no tomodachi yori oyatomo no hō ga ōi

Text friend (another word for…)
merutomo

Best friend
shin’yū

My best friend is Japanese.
shin’yū wa nihonjin da

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Meeting new people is fun, but let’s be honest: you don’t want to know about their master’s thesis and they don’t want to know about your bottle cap collection. So let’s do our best to keep conversation to insincere compliments with the following phrases:

That’s a cute skirt you’re wearing.
sono sukāto kawaī ne.