What do you say when asked to say something in Japanese?

At break with coworkers today, I mentioned learning Japanese since a bit over a year now. I was then asked to say something in Japanese, but I couldn’t really think of anything good.

On my way home, I formulated a little something that I could say the next time I get asked:

「今月に桜が綺麗です。」

Do any of you have such default sentences, and if so, what are they?

Edit: Wikipedia has the following as an example:

「太陽が東の空に昇る。」

Wilzax ,

わかりません、私は日本語が話せないので、このコメントを書くのにグーグル翻訳を使いました。

butsbutts ,

hai douzo

hakase ,

I always just say 「何か」. They never seem to find it as funny as I do.

mvirts ,

いい天気だね。

僕の日本語は下手です

e_t_ Admin ,

すみません、日本語は話しません

sukhmel , (edited )

私はほとんど日本語を話せません

Probably the only phrase I can speak coherently

Edit: spelling mistakes

Erika2rsis ,
@Erika2rsis@lemmy.blahaj.zone avatar

I’m assuming you meant 「私は」 and 「話せません」

sukhmel ,

Yeah, I used translate as a keyboard and failed to do that properly

Arthur ,

何か云って。

Klanky ,
@Klanky@sopuli.xyz avatar

Not Japanese, but I know some Russian and my go to sentence was always ‘what do you want me to say?’

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