On the bayfm radio show “Tonight, Under Sakura’s Tree” (every Wednesday from 24:00 to 24:30) broadcast on Wednesday, December 9, 2020.
Miyawaki Sakura: “It seems like guys are easy to get, so why don’t you try using Sakura as your first-person pronoun, Saku-chan?”
(In response to a listener’s episode about how cute Nako is when she refers to herself in the first person as “Nako is…”)
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I can’t stand Sakura. I can’t stand it.
But when I speak Korean, I say “Kura-nung.”
Korean people say things like “Na-nung” or “Cho-nung” (meaning “I” in Korean), not “Eunbi-nung” or “Minju-nung.”
So it seems like that’s only Japanese people, and that’s cute to Koreans.
In Korean I can say “Kura is…”, but saying “Sakura is…” in Japanese is really a bit difficult.
It’s really difficult. Probably impossible.
I don’t think I’ve said “Sakura is” since I was a child.
Because I always said “I am”. It’s impossible… (laughs)