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The original was posted on /r/learnjapanese by /u/TrainToSomewhere on 2025-12-25 20:28:11+00:00.

I’m trying to help my friend in Japan but he comes from a culture where interjecting when someone is talking considered very rude.

He’s starting to get the hang of it but I was wondering if there was a word for people who don’t actively engage or is it just ok when I tell people he doesn’t do aizuchi but he is listening.

I’m asking fellow learners cause my one friend said oh bukiyou and another said angoroohobia neither of which describes being quiet when someone else is talking.

Should I just keep to ‘my friend is quiet but he is listening’ or is there a word for that. In English I’d probably call him stoic