Since I can't edit I'll have to multiple post.
Also since you're in Kansai try picking up the local dialect and incorporating parts of it in your speech. Generally replace desu/da with ya, ne with na, words like omoshiroi with omoroi, baka with aho, etc, etc and calibrate as needed.
Japanese people like Kansai-ben in general even when spoken by their own people. Their best comedians speak Kansai and you as a gaijin barely speaking their language talking a mix of Kansai usually sends the girls laughing instantly and disarms them. Ask whatever girl you're dating to teach you some Kansai if she's from the area and just have fun with it. Many westerners I've met in Japan that learned Japanese were quite stupefied that people don't actually talk like that in Japan.
Also 90% of gaijins are there to either teach english or learn japanese of both. If you're doing something else you're already exotic. If it's some technical thing at a reputed university they'll start calling you genius. It might help to play on that.
Also since you're in Kansai try picking up the local dialect and incorporating parts of it in your speech. Generally replace desu/da with ya, ne with na, words like omoshiroi with omoroi, baka with aho, etc, etc and calibrate as needed.
Japanese people like Kansai-ben in general even when spoken by their own people. Their best comedians speak Kansai and you as a gaijin barely speaking their language talking a mix of Kansai usually sends the girls laughing instantly and disarms them. Ask whatever girl you're dating to teach you some Kansai if she's from the area and just have fun with it. Many westerners I've met in Japan that learned Japanese were quite stupefied that people don't actually talk like that in Japan.
Also 90% of gaijins are there to either teach english or learn japanese of both. If you're doing something else you're already exotic. If it's some technical thing at a reputed university they'll start calling you genius. It might help to play on that.