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Say what? Miki Ishikawa, 14, promises she won't be lost in translation as Naoko in the feature film Your's Mine and Ours, hitting theaters Nov. 23.


I was performing live in Japan-I'm a singer and dancer. I can speak the language conversationally, but I can't exactly speak it all the way. I was singing in Japanese Japanese (jăp'ənēz`), language of uncertain origin that is spoken by more than 125 million people, most of whom live in Japan. There are also many speakers of Japanese in the Ryukyu Islands, Korea, Taiwan, parts of the United States, and  but, toward the end, I totally forgot the words so I made up some lyrics lyrics npl [of song] → paroles fpl

lyrics lyric npl [of song] → Text m 
. The entire audience was Japanese, but I had to keep singing. After the show, the producers were like, "You kind of messed up messed up
adj. Slang
1. Beaten up.

2. Drunk or intoxicated.
 on the words."
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Title Annotation:Celeb Moment
Publication:Girls' Life
Article Type:Brief Article
Geographic Code:9JAPA
Date:Dec 1, 2005
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