Ok, so I mentioned this in an earlier post. Last weekend, when I was first talking about my family with my host family, I accidentally described my brother as my sister for a good five minutes of conversation before I realized what I’d done.
You may be wondering how this happened. Alright, so the formal words for older brother and sister are:
Oniisan – brother
Oneesan – sister
These are used when referring to someone else’s siblings. So my host family would use these to refer to my older siblings, but I would use:
Ani - brother
Ane – sister
You see how close those last two are? Those would be the two I screwed up.
Sorry, Tim. I’m still your favorite sister, right?*
*I’m his only sister, so this is actually the default state. He really has no choice in the matter.
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