kengenerals wrote...
Cinia Pacifica wrote...
kengenerals wrote...
ecchigaijin wrote...
I don't know. I had never seen a nosebleed in my home country - that was not caused by being hit in the nose or something obvious like that - but in Japan, it's pretty common. I've had students who just weren't used to foreigners get a full-on nosebleed, so it's just excitement in any form can do it, I think. I've never seen the anime-style "got turned on so my nose became a water fountain" BS.
That really happens?
Here we just joke around and say nosebleed whenever a foreigner uses heavy and good English. But it's not like we can't understand it though.
It usually doesn't happen unless your nose is fucked by heat, apparently.
By temperature, yeah I'v heard that happened. But because of speaking/not understanding words? Really?
This goes well beyond "speaking/not understanding words". Many Japanese students that I meet, it's one of their first prolonged experiences with someone who is not Japanese. It can be hard for students who are shy to begin with. My sister-in-law is happy, for example, that her kids know me, and so are used to foreigners. If they go to really rural schools, it's possible for someone to go until high school without spending time near one other than passing by them in a mall.