USE OF GAIRAIGO AND WASEI EIGO FOR INDONESIAN STUDENTS IN JAPAN

Abstract

Gairaigo is a foreign language, mainly from the West, that is  absorbed into Japanese and changes pronunciation. At the same time, Wasei  Eigo is an English that is absorbed into Japanese and changes to Japanese made forms. This study aims to analyze the use of Gairaigo, and Wasei Eigo absorbed vocabulary with the original Japanese vocabulary for Indonesian  students in Japan. The subject of this research uses a descriptive qualitative  method by distributing questionnaires for Indonesian students who are  studying in Japan and then analyzing more deeply related for the use of Wasei  Eigo and Gairaigo with sociolinguistic studies. According to the results of  the questionnaire that has been distributed from each of the ten comparisons  of Gairaigo and Wasei Eigo vocabulary with native Japanese vocabulary, it  can be concluded that the majority of Indonesian students in Japan in  communicating Japanese use more Gairaigo and Wasei Eigo vocabulary  pronunciation than the use of native Japanese vocabulary. A  total of 15 out of 16 respondents prefer to use the vocabulary 'tabehoudai' [食 ã¹æ”¾é¡Œ] because this vocabulary is more common for find and use in daily  life.