Let's learn Japanimationese!

[Winged Dancer]

Actually, what Kraco explaines is all pretty correct except for "shi", and mostly because "shi" isn't very used... it's somewhat archaic.

Shi - 師

Literally means "Master", not as a social rank but as someone who has mastered a certain skill. It could be translated (liberally) as a PhD, but "shi" doesn't imply the college years that a PhD does.
It's sometimes used (as far as I know) for high-ranking martial artists and people who dedicate to traditional arts such as the Tea Ceremony, but even those might be perfectly happy being called "Sensei" or "Oo-sensei" - literally "The Great Teacher"; the highest ranked amongst the profesors.

Regarding English.... I don't know. I know they take English lessons most of their life, but they still suck at it. Only College students are decent, and even then it depends on what they're studying.

In defense of them, I took English during all of grade school and highschool, and didn't learn a thing. Nobody learns anything at highschool

(How did I learn English then, you ask? Reading. With a dictionary.)

[Animeniax]

Actually, what Kraco explaines is all pretty correct except for "shi", and mostly because "shi" isn't very used... it's somewhat archaic.

In defense of them, I took English during all of grade school and highschool, and didn't learn a thing. Nobody learns anything at highschool

(How did I learn English then, you ask? Reading. With a dictionary.)

It was Deadfire that provided the lesson about honorifics, but no big deal.

Your English is great, so you must have learned something in your years of study. I still think it's a lack of confidence in using the language that keeps most Japanese from trying to speak English. Are you one of the many Japanese whose families emigrated to South America in the 1940s?

Let's get back on topic:

Lesson 3 : Curse Words

There's not many of them in the Japanese language, so you'll hear the same ones often:

baka, bakayarou: stupid, idiot
aho: Okinawan version of baka
urusai, urusai na: shut up, be quiet, you're too noisy (so shut up), you're too fussy (so shut up)

You'll see the term "bastard" in subtitles a lot, and the Japanese word sounds like "tim-may". I thought maybe they were saying "kimi" drawn out, like "Yooouuu {bastard}," but I'm not so sure. Can anyone answer this?