えええええええええ。。。！！！！！！

[foxyshez]

I'm not sure if you have all experienced this-but i just wondered what people think about the Japanese "eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!" when expressing surprise (or as a reaction to just about anything)
Personally i think it sounds terrible haha (sorry Japanese people reading this. ) my boyfriend does it too especially when in a group of people drives me nuts!

[jp101crew]

haha! it's interesting to hear about that
I think 99% of Japanese people instinctively say ええええっ！？ when they are surprised , but I also think when people really really got surprising, then they couldn't say anything...

Yuki

[Psy]

I have two suggestions to help alleviate the irritation you're experiencing:

1) Start saying it yourself and you might start to have fun with it, or

2) Study Thai for a month or so and suddenly realize how much nicer えええええっ sounds.

Sorry in advance to all Thai people out there.

[Javizy]

I think it's pretty cool; it's one of the cases where Japanese shows a lot more enthusiasm and emotion than English generally does, it's one of the things I like about the language. You'd never hear something like えええええぇっ、すっごいね! if you told somebody you just got a new job, it'd just be like 'nice one', 'cool', etc.

おっと is one interjection that gets on my nerves a bit though, I just don't like the sound of it.

[Elfunko]

Ya, I like the way Japanese encourage people through language just by nature really (to be polite). I get encouragement and I give it. And you know what, Japanese are really good at taking someone who has no experience at all in something, a complete waste of air, and turn them into a proficient person on whatever. Little by little, with constant encouragement, little by little. It's quite amazing actually and I learned a lot from their teaching techniques. This is all in regards to my experience with Kyudo as well as snowboarding, and I'm sure more things to come.

[maxiewawa]

EEEeeeeeee is my secret weapon; whenever people are having a conversation and they say something that I feel I should have understood but didn't, I let fly with the loudest "eeeeeeee" that I feel I can get away with. If they've asked me a question I'm in trouble though.

[Mike_in_Nano]

My wife being new to Japan, now laughs when I use eeeeeeee! with her. She is still working on hers though. Her hai! is now pretty good.

What I find amusing (since I am a guy) is when a quiet, reserved and attractive Japanese women belts out a hearty eeeeeeeee!

btw. Maximara- as I am catching up on JPod from the beginning, I saw in one of the Survival Phrase Series you wished to go to Italy to see Dan Brown and the site of the DaVinci Code. Dan lives in the same small town in New Hampshire as where my wife and I have a home.

Mike in Ebisu

[sinbadx81]

ええええっ doesn't bother me as much as the old ladies that say ね (a new Monty Python sketch?) after every single sentence. Well, everyone use ね now and again, which I don't mind, but some people just seem to use it after every single sentence. It drives me nuts! Each one is like a nail being driven into my head. Little kids sometimes do it too.

[foxyshez]

My wife being new to Japan, now laughs when I use eeeeeeee! with her. She is still working on hers though. Her hai! is now pretty good.

What I find amusing (since I am a guy) is when a quiet, reserved and attractive Japanese women belts out a hearty eeeeeeeee!

btw. Maximara- as I am catching up on JPod from the beginning, I saw in one of the Survival Phrase Series you wished to go to Italy to see Dan Brown and the site of the DaVinci Code. Dan lives in the same small town in New Hampshire as where my wife and I have a home.

Mike in Ebisu

yeah i think it really blows thier cover! haha

yes sometimes i say it as a joke and to make fun of my bf haha.
As a typical reserved English girl i basically don't react to anything much. I find that difficult in Japanese as i fear my Japanese will sound flat if i don't make use of the up and down expressive suGOI or the strong SO! etc But at the same time i feel really uncomfortable being so expressive. Any advice?
ps-i also feel uncomfortable when people say EEEEEEEEE! as a response to me telling them something-that personally i don't feel deserves an EEEEEEEEE! still havent worked out how to respond to this...

[josiah]

オレと彼女電話中
オレ:　さ、何時帰れさせての？
彼女:　しどん。
オレ:　ええええ！！なでやねん！！
彼女：　あかん!　☆ひ☆み☆つ☆
オレ:　もうぅだめて！教えろ！
彼女：あっとね、１１時半ぐらいね

i often say ええええ alot, probably been influenced alot, even just now when my computer almost froze i did it, more like ええええ！もういやだ！

what i don't like is this, my friend Rie always adds the particle よ on to every single sentence, even onto english. at first you think its cute, but after a while its just annoying. i don't speak english よ！

[foxyshez]

haha in English it woulld sound a bit hip hop....i don't speak english YO! a bit eminem, or like him off prison break, the young one who was good at stealing things...no? ah never mind...lol