i meow to my friends and family and they understand what i mean, so i don't really think it's too important for me, though i do like to learn new things and languages, i'm ultimately going to mimic the speech style of the nearest person so, nothing i can really do in that department.

japanese though, when i started learning it i only knew about textbook phrases and whatnot, but then i started diving deeper and started noticing how anime characters aren't really speaking a whole different beast from textbook formality, so i saw myself learning the quirks unconsciously, and it's kinda annoying how fun it is to see different dialects or more-than-formal japanese be used, i'm not at all fluent but i think JP is one of the most expressive languages i know (even though you obviously don't get to use much of those styles when actually learning the language.)