In Japanese, "Where are you from?" is 出身地はどこですか？ (shusshinchi wa doko desu ka ？). It is a phrase.
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出身地はどこですか？ is written in kanji and hiragana. Romanised as shusshinchi wa doko desu ka ？, it sounds roughly like "shoo-sshee-n-chee wah doh-koh deh-soo kah ？" to an English ear.
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Buy on Steam出身地はどこですか？ is romanised as shusshinchi wa doko desu ka ？. Say it roughly like "shoo-sshee-n-chee wah doh-koh deh-soo kah ？" in English. Each Japanese syllable has even weight, so keep the rhythm steady.
出身地はどこですか？ is a neutral, everyday word that works in both casual and polite speech. The level of formality comes from the sentence structure around it, not from the word itself.
出身地はどこですか？ is written using kanji and hiragana. Kanji characters carry the core meaning; any hiragana or katakana that follow show grammatical endings.
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