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I'm an English teacher in a small town and my friend is Filipino and I constantly get this routine where storekeepers will try to direct all conversation through her because they think she's Japanese.
Same thing goes when JakeNBakeLIVE(white american) and Jenny Bawnsai(chinese canadian streamer) walking around Tokyo alleyways, people keeps looking at and talking to Bawnsai in Japanese, even after Jake explained to them in Japanese that bawnsai doesn't speak Japanese.
Bruh same, hahaha i am Filipino-Spanish but i always(and i mean always) get mistaken to be Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. Especially at the airport. Theres even this Chinese stranger that directly asked me if i could speak Mandarin lol 😂
σ(￣、￣〃)Ngl teachers are either hit or miss I'm glad there are ppl that are willing to teach children (°◡°♡) BUT BUT the teachers that dose the extra step and make it fun or easy FUCKIN GOATED OMG
how is that even remotely considered interesting, if you just look like a certain type of Asian in an Asian country, most of the time they'll assume you speak their language
Same thing happened to me when I was in Shanghai. A few girls came up to me and all I could do was point at myself and say Korean. They then proceeded to call me oppa…
It’s ok to not know how to say it in Japanese tbh.. if you say you don’t know Japanese in Japanese they might think you speak Japanese cause that’s happened to me 😭😭😭 they give you this “you just spoke my language tho?” Look
this was me when i went to korea, we never went to any restaurants because we werrent confident enough in speaking esp when its a smaller place and you have to call the lady over. i could barely go anywhere on my own in fear ppl would come up to talking in korean and no english
I went to Japan a bunch of times, and a lot of older local Japanese I found were very patriotic. Some older generation could not understand how Japanese-looking people do not speak Japanese, or how they could have a different culture in general. I think it’s the way they grow up that makes them unable to comprehend globalization. Again, this was just my experience across a decade of traveling to Japan. The Japan as of 3 years ago was much more open to foreigners I’d say.
@@spit0flip wouldn't that just mean they only speak Japanese? It might still result in you not being able to eat there, but it's slightly different than not serving foreigners no?
I heard of something like that happening before. I know it's not like all or even most restaurants are gonna be like this, but it's still unfortunate that even just one restaurant did it in the first place, esp if they're still doing it.
The most important thing about being in a foreign place is just learning how to communicate effectively. You don't need them to speak English, and they don't need you to speak Japanese, you just need to find some common ground, like you said towards the end. Just point at what you need, say thank you, and you're fine. I feel like people always appreciate when someone works really hard to communicate effectively. For simplicity: Nihongo hanasemasen = I don't speak Japanese.
Went to Japan and totally did the caveman point to order, its not that bad! You can always use google translate to ask questions too and theyre very helpful in responding
@@gasp1gasp1 She never implied that plus people get other people race wrong anyways. Bruh it doesn't matter anymore anyways. Bruh even toast has video of guessing people race and gets some wrong it's just for jokes.
When I went to Japan with my friends back in early 2020, store clerks/cashiers and airport staffs would speak Japanese to me but not to my friends. Funny thing is we're all Malays and my skin is even a bit darker compared to my friends. I'm guessing they mistook me for darker skinned Japanese.
I'm asking this out of pure curiousity, please don't take offense. If you are a muslim, what do you do for meals in Japan? I've never seen a single halal sign in Japan and I imagine it's going to be very very difficult to find a restaurant that doesn't process some kind of pork item.
@@mr.foxxie Well it's true that with the exception of obvious places like the airports where they would accommodate Muslim visitors, there aren't a lot of Halal restaurants in the big cities like Tokyo or Osaka and they're usually located rather far from each other so it usually requires quite a lot of walking(like 1-2km) from the nearest station to reach them. Back then we used an app called Halal Navi to help us find Halal or Muslim-friendly restaurants. Of course there is also the option of eating vegetarian or vegan meals which are usually Muslim-friendly. To make things easier, we usually would plan beforehand where we would like to eat before visiting places. As for convenience store meals, we usually would buy bread with jam or eggs for breakfast. A few 7-11 might have Halal packaged meals sold there but they're kinda expensive. With the Corona outbreak since 2020 though, like other businesses, some of the halal restaurants had to close down due to lack of customers so it might be a lot harder to find Halal restaurants now.
@@proger1960 Yeah. Hopefully with the border slowly being reopened for tourism, that would encourage the restaurants to reopen their business in the future.
Lmaoooo I totally thought Toast was a local in one if Syd’s vlog 🤣 The one where they tasted a wasabi ice cream. Lol I was confused why is Sydney pointing the camera to a local (Toast) 🤣 He was wearing a raincoat + mask and that lokey trip me out.
Just gotta be like "iie, nihongo ga wakarimasen" (No, I don't speak Japanese" or "Summimasen, eigo shika hanasemasen" (I'm sorry, I only speak English)
Hey I'm new to learning Japanese but I'm confused on the second line when you mentioned "sumimasen eigo shika hanasemasen" Why isn't it "sumimasen eigo shika hanasemasu" Sorry about asking but generally curious.
@@phyl2379 I think you would be correct, Hanasemasen would mean "Don't speak" since masen is the negative form, so you would use hanaseru or hanasemasu I believe, ty for bringing this up
Was similar for me when I visited Poland. To be fair, I'm a pasty white dude, I fit right in. I know a little bit of Polish, but it's not nearly enough to actually communicate.
I don't think he should be ashamed of "only knowing one phrase" if it's about courtesy, which Japanese are known for. This goes for all of them, in that they could easily go on google and try to memorize a couple of phrases to explain to the locals that they don't speak Nihongo. Kinda grinds my gears a little bit since they make it seem like they have such a hard time when solutions are available.
totally understand ur pov! like using gtranslate is far much more easier now also, but then again they are streamers and couple of them doesnt go out of town/abroad so prolly its a bit much sudden for them i guess? idk :) just wanna share my thoughts haha cmiiw
I had this when i went to spain (I'm english but have some Armenian heritage) people kept speaking to me in Spanish... unfortunately we only really learn French in school so I did not understand anything
I'm pretty sure British can tell ourselves apart from other Europeans, I'd have thought Japanese people would be able to do the same for themselves, especially since they're also an island nation isolated from their continent.
It's not that most Asians can't tell each other apart, but rather that even if you are a different kind of Asian in any particular country, it's expected you speak the common tongue of that country. It's like if any European came to Britain, even if you could tell them apart you'd still expect them to speak English
@@stevenmark4407 no lol. he looks chinese, not japanese. if you cant spot the difference, then thats on you. the mask has nothing to do with it. its about head shape, bone structure, nose, and eyes. they were probably just being polite, or thought that he is a worker from overseas, and didnt want to offend him.
Asia: includes India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Rusia, Phillipines, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, etc. These people are not the same at all. But east asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese) do look similar the same way Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish people look similar. And Toast is taiwanese (east asian) so he can be mistaken as a japanese (east asian).
I'm an English teacher in a small town and my friend is Filipino and I constantly get this routine where storekeepers will try to direct all conversation through her because they think she's Japanese.
I believe the Philippines got colonized by Japan for a while in WW2 so there's a possibility she's a descendant of a colonizer from that era
Same thing goes when JakeNBakeLIVE(white american) and Jenny Bawnsai(chinese canadian streamer) walking around Tokyo alleyways, people keeps looking at and talking to Bawnsai in Japanese, even after Jake explained to them in Japanese that bawnsai doesn't speak Japanese.
Bruh same, hahaha i am Filipino-Spanish but i always(and i mean always) get mistaken to be Japanese, Korean, or Chinese. Especially at the airport. Theres even this Chinese stranger that directly asked me if i could speak Mandarin lol 😂
σ(￣、￣〃)Ngl teachers are either hit or miss I'm glad there are ppl that are willing to teach children
(°◡°♡)
BUT BUT the teachers that dose the extra step and make it fun or easy FUCKIN GOATED OMG
Toast always has interesting moments to talk about
agreed
how is that even remotely considered interesting, if you just look like a certain type of Asian in an Asian country, most of the time they'll assume you speak their language
@@DenLim123 k
@@DenLim123 if you don't find it interesting then just scroll away?
Same thing happened to me when I was in Shanghai. A few girls came up to me and all I could do was point at myself and say Korean. They then proceeded to call me oppa…
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I cringed at the thought of this
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oppa
Welp now american can use this as an excuse now cause sometimes asians are offended that some say they all look alike yet asians make mistake too.
It’s ok to not know how to say it in Japanese tbh.. if you say you don’t know Japanese in Japanese they might think you speak Japanese cause that’s happened to me 😭😭😭 they give you this “you just spoke my language tho?” Look
Toast never fails to make me laugh
just say yamate~~ oni-chan, then english after, Toast.
I love how you talk these things out toast. Hope you guys are having a good time in Japan!
this was me when i went to korea, we never went to any restaurants because we werrent confident enough in speaking esp when its a smaller place and you have to call the lady over. i could barely go anywhere on my own in fear ppl would come up to talking in korean and no english
Totally understand his feelings, I went to a very well known udon restaurant, I got kicked out cause they don’t serve foreigners…
How do you know that was the reason?
@@josephjohnson8142 cause there was a sign "Japnese only", and he pointed at it
I went to Japan a bunch of times, and a lot of older local Japanese I found were very patriotic. Some older generation could not understand how Japanese-looking people do not speak Japanese, or how they could have a different culture in general. I think it’s the way they grow up that makes them unable to comprehend globalization. Again, this was just my experience across a decade of traveling to Japan. The Japan as of 3 years ago was much more open to foreigners I’d say.
@@spit0flip wouldn't that just mean they only speak Japanese? It might still result in you not being able to eat there, but it's slightly different than not serving foreigners no?
I heard of something like that happening before. I know it's not like all or even most restaurants are gonna be like this, but it's still unfortunate that even just one restaurant did it in the first place, esp if they're still doing it.
The most important thing about being in a foreign place is just learning how to communicate effectively. You don't need them to speak English, and they don't need you to speak Japanese, you just need to find some common ground, like you said towards the end. Just point at what you need, say thank you, and you're fine. I feel like people always appreciate when someone works really hard to communicate effectively.
For simplicity: Nihongo hanasemasen = I don't speak Japanese.
"Nihongo ga hanasemasen." is I can't speak Japanese.
I totally understand Toast Lmao🤣 Even foreigner part-time employee of the convenience store speak Japanese to me
No hablo Japanese
Went to Japan and totally did the caveman point to order, its not that bad! You can always use google translate to ask questions too and theyre very helpful in responding
as a korean this entire time i thought toast was also korean bruh FGASKJER;GHAIHRFGH
oh he's 5.7% korean HAHAHAHA
So you saying all asians look alike??
@@gasp1gasp1 She never implied that plus people get other people race wrong anyways. Bruh it doesn't matter anymore anyways. Bruh even toast has video of guessing people race and gets some wrong it's just for jokes.
@@gasp1gasp1 Yes. That's the truth, speaking as an asian
@@gasp1gasp1 East asians do look similar.
It’s like saying finnish, swedish and norwegian people look similar. They’re all nordic.
When I went to Japan with my friends back in early 2020, store clerks/cashiers and airport staffs would speak Japanese to me but not to my friends. Funny thing is we're all Malays and my skin is even a bit darker compared to my friends. I'm guessing they mistook me for darker skinned Japanese.
I'm asking this out of pure curiousity, please don't take offense.
If you are a muslim, what do you do for meals in Japan? I've never seen a single halal sign in Japan and I imagine it's going to be very very difficult to find a restaurant that doesn't process some kind of pork item.
@@mr.foxxie Well it's true that with the exception of obvious places like the airports where they would accommodate Muslim visitors, there aren't a lot of Halal restaurants in the big cities like Tokyo or Osaka and they're usually located rather far from each other so it usually requires quite a lot of walking(like 1-2km) from the nearest station to reach them. Back then we used an app called Halal Navi to help us find Halal or Muslim-friendly restaurants. Of course there is also the option of eating vegetarian or vegan meals which are usually Muslim-friendly. To make things easier, we usually would plan beforehand where we would like to eat before visiting places. As for convenience store meals, we usually would buy bread with jam or eggs for breakfast. A few 7-11 might have Halal packaged meals sold there but they're kinda expensive. With the Corona outbreak since 2020 though, like other businesses, some of the halal restaurants had to close down due to lack of customers so it might be a lot harder to find Halal restaurants now.
@@Cryozen95
Oh man , it would be cool to see more Halal restaurants in Japan
@@proger1960 Yeah. Hopefully with the border slowly being reopened for tourism, that would encourage the restaurants to reopen their business in the future.
@@Cryozen95 dyou think it would be very challenging to be a Muslim student in Japan? Foodwise and alo? Because I've considered going there
Lmaoooo I totally thought Toast was a local in one if Syd’s vlog 🤣 The one where they tasted a wasabi ice cream. Lol I was confused why is Sydney pointing the camera to a local (Toast) 🤣 He was wearing a raincoat + mask and that lokey trip me out.
arigato gozai thank you
Lowkey with the melting pot culture, Chinese Japanese food and Japanese Chinese food do have different vibes
Just gotta be like "iie, nihongo ga wakarimasen" (No, I don't speak Japanese" or "Summimasen, eigo shika hanasemasen" (I'm sorry, I only speak English)
Hey I'm new to learning Japanese but I'm confused on the second line when you mentioned "sumimasen eigo shika hanasemasen"
Why isn't it
"sumimasen eigo shika hanasemasu"
Sorry about asking but generally curious.
@@phyl2379 I think you would be correct, Hanasemasen would mean "Don't speak" since masen is the negative form, so you would use hanaseru or hanasemasu I believe, ty for bringing this up
@@RokuNyx Oh no thanks for clarifying
Ego is English so ye
In Japanese lol
Was similar for me when I visited Poland. To be fair, I'm a pasty white dude, I fit right in. I know a little bit of Polish, but it's not nearly enough to actually communicate.
Just learn how to speak Japanese. Problem solved xD
woooo
because its just that asian people = that language
our SEA people face features almost the same.. black hair, peachy and smooth skin 😆
I would've tried chinese food there in japan, kinda curious cause I see chinese resto videos I thought japanese would make amazing chinese food
in 7/11 japan they usually ask if you want a plastic bag. say "fukuro daijoubu desu" for no plastic bag.
i had an old lady try to speak japanese to me when i was in japan 😭😭
Where did you get the thumbnail pic?
They took a photo with a fan, the fan posted it to Twitter. They just cropped out the person so Toast and Rae are in it.
They should have sashes you can wear in Japan that say "I don't speak Japanese" in Japanese.
"Not sure if people will watch your clips? Just clickbait Valkyrae!" 😂
sykkuno works better
@@Regent192 whatever helps you sleep
@@purplegi0n I'm sure you bringing up valkyrae for absolutely no reason helps you sleep too 😁
@@purplegi0n Oh, and this channel's toast and sykkuno clip has more views than any of its Rae clips
so nice try 🤣🤣
@@Regent192 go cry
nihongo jozu
Hanasemasen
This is just what going to foreign countries is like
Just point till you make it
Toaster
I don't think he should be ashamed of "only knowing one phrase" if it's about courtesy, which Japanese are known for. This goes for all of them, in that they could easily go on google and try to memorize a couple of phrases to explain to the locals that they don't speak Nihongo. Kinda grinds my gears a little bit since they make it seem like they have such a hard time when solutions are available.
totally understand ur pov! like using gtranslate is far much more easier now also, but then again they are streamers and couple of them doesnt go out of town/abroad so prolly its a bit much sudden for them i guess? idk :) just wanna share my thoughts haha cmiiw
Relatable 💯😂
English 😁
I had this when i went to spain (I'm english but have some Armenian heritage) people kept speaking to me in Spanish... unfortunately we only really learn French in school so I did not understand anything
i'm sure in china they just call it "food"
Kaikoku Kara kimashta
“I’m from foreign”
I'm pretty sure British can tell ourselves apart from other Europeans, I'd have thought Japanese people would be able to do the same for themselves, especially since they're also an island nation isolated from their continent.
It's not that most Asians can't tell each other apart, but rather that even if you are a different kind of Asian in any particular country, it's expected you speak the common tongue of that country. It's like if any European came to Britain, even if you could tell them apart you'd still expect them to speak English
Just say
engRish ownRi
he doesnt look japanese at all wtf?
Yes he does when he wore his mask he looked like everyone else in Japan around him.
@@stevenmark4407 no lol. he looks chinese, not japanese. if you cant spot the difference, then thats on you. the mask has nothing to do with it. its about head shape, bone structure, nose, and eyes. they were probably just being polite, or thought that he is a worker from overseas, and didnt want to offend him.
So you’re saying all Asians look the same?
Are you saying Asia only consist of Japan and China ? Eh? 😉
that's clearly a stretch.
Asia: includes India, Kazakhstan, Mongolia, Rusia, Phillipines, Japan, Singapore, Sri Lanka, etc.
These people are not the same at all.
But east asians (Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Taiwanese) do look similar the same way Finnish, Norwegian and Swedish people look similar.
And Toast is taiwanese (east asian) so he can be mistaken as a japanese (east asian).
it's the eyes they think your japense