Do you speak Japlish?

Dublin firm World Cup Wanderers offered a crash course in ‘Japlish’ - a poor form of Japanese - which some Irish fans took up before flying out to the World Cup finals.

‘‘It’s a hybrid between Japanese and English explained Martin O’Regan, a spokesman for the company.

O’Regan claims adding vowels to English words gives people ‘‘a higher chance of being understood’’. Thus supermarket becomes ‘supermarketo‘ and receipt becomes ‘receipto.’

Participants were warned to look out for the local mafia - the Yakuza.

‘‘When they’ve had 15 pints and decide to go to the toilet against the back wheel of a car we told them not to pick the big American car,’’ added O’Regan.