-chan ?
RE: -chan ?
~chan can be used for little children, or younger siblings. They use thier first name with ~chan (like I would call my baby sister Katy-chan).
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I think you call very young boys -chan too, but i am not sure.
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Well its just that i was reading manga and a 16 year old girl called a 16 year old boy -chan... ??? I donno maybe the girl was kidding or maybe the translation is wrong. ? Can you call your good friends -chan?
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Well its just that i was reading manga and a 16 year old girl called a 16 year old boy -chan... ??? I donno maybe the girl was kidding or maybe the translation is wrong. ? Can you call your good friends -chan?
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RE: -chan ?
-chan I believe is like a diminuitive. Sorta like calling a girl Katie instead of Kathryn, or Andy isntead of Andrew.
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RE: -chan ?
If the boy and girl in your manga book were good friends it may be that she doesn't want to change the relationship with him through making it more formal and using -san. -chan is usually used for younger girls and boy, but I've seen it been used by male high school students when adressing a cute chick they see in the school
So it has a very "cute" mening (if you think young children are cute
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RE: -chan ?
I am dating a japanese girl, and was told that you call someone you care about name-chan as well.. its kind of a loving form.
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Is it me or do all the Japanese seem to move to Texas? So many people I have met over the internet with a Japanese wife/gf come from Texas...it's eery.
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How ironic, I live in TX. 

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haha.. what part of texas.. im in houston
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well, i live in Texas, there are quite a bit of Japanese people over here...
i live in Dallas County...
i live in Dallas County...
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I live about an hour outside of houston in El Campo, a semi-backwater town.
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I actually live in Irving/Las Colinas but it is about 30 min. from Dallas
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