Comments by "sirBrouwer" (@sirBrouwer) on "What a Japanese Neighbourhood Bar is Like" video.

  1. On the other hand. This are the best places to learn Japanese. If you know enough to get by. just being there will help you learn by just listening. If you would go with someone else do agree with each other to only speak Japanese where you can. the people there will often enjoy helping you to become better. If you become a regular guest you would become from just a guyjin to there guyjin. besides alcohol will make it much easier for all, For one Japanese people will loosen there ways a bit. They show more there true selves in a pub then anywhere.
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  2. This place as it is shown in the video. Is more resembling as if this place is the livingroom of the fixed clients. To the extent that going to the other bars in the street is more like visiting your neighbours. You might see this in some very local Dutch bars in a village that might have two in total on the same square. This is a great example of a third place. [first place will be your home second place is where you work]
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