Roy Fuentes
Roy Fuentes é o autor de “Fresh Leaves, Pale Fruit”, um blog que ensina a língua e a cultura do Japão (Koiyuki em fulipefu.blogspot.com ). Ele gosta de escrever, desenhar, explorar e iniciar seu Dance Dance Revolution. Você pode segui-lo no Twitter @Koiyuki.
Atualizado em outubro de 2011
Stories from This Author
Lingua Franca: The Bonds Created by a Shared Language
20 de Outubro de 2011 • Roy Fuentes
Imagine this scenario: an English speaker and a Japanese speaker are barely able to say things like “Yo, how’s it hanging?” “Man, I feeling real salty right now” and “How can this be smoky and gamey?” to each other, yet they’ve been life long friends and have been chatting it up for years and years. For many, the immediate thought may be “How the heck does that work?” One idea among those out there is through a common language developed …
