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Q: What is the difference between I shall see you soon I hope :) and I will see you soon I hope :) ?
A: It's a small nuance between these two sentences. Realistically, they mean the same thing.
"Shall" implies the person will try their hardest to see you.
"Will" implies that they will see you, no matter what happens.

But then with the "I hope", it makes both sentences mean that they wish that they will see you. It's not guaranteed. They just want it to happen. This removes a bit of the difference in implication.

Overall, they have the same meaning, just expressed differently.

Shall is often used as a polite way of protecting the speaker's promise. Such as "I shall see you tomorrow". But then the speaker has a bad accident and has to go to hospital, so the speaker can't fulfil the promise.
Obviously, the listener wouldn't care about you breaking the promise of seeing them because more important things happened like being injured!

It's common in Britain to be like this. Often, somebody would say "Yes, I think I can do that" instead of "Yes, I can do that." because they are protecting themselves in case they cannot do it. If they couldn't do it, it's not as embarrassing or disappointing because they only said they thought they could do it. Realistically, the person can definitely do it, but they put doubt or a 'maybe' into the sentence just in case, for some reason, they can't.
This is the same with "shall" here. They will meet you, but in case something drastic happens, they might not!
Ultimately then; because you are a human and even though they used "will", you wouldn't care if more important things happened to them so they couldn't see you; these sentences mean the same thing.

Sorry for my big answer! 頑張ってね!

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