American Speaks PERFECT Japanese (and rare dialect)??? REALLY!?
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- Опубліковано 3 бер 2020
- Hey everyone. So... a few things, I have written some super popular Japanese textbooks and have a much bigger UA-cam channel that is dedicated to teaching Japanese. Check them out here:
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FYI at the end my editor messed up the Chinese and Korean order. SHEESH.
I was like "pengyou? Isn't that the chinese for friend"
I noticed. I was like "Is that one of those rare Korean hanja words they still got left in Korea?" 😅
Spelled 친구 wrong too. Haha oh well.
나쁜 남자 Korean 어머! Damn that was my fault! I sent him the text for it all. What is my problem!????
Hi George, just wanted to tell you that when you search for this video on youtube as "American Speaks PERFECT Japanese", it doesn't come up in the results, which is weird.
Here I am being good daughter supporting dad. Love youuu
Your dad high key inspiring me to learn the language 😂
@@SpekiFolf I-
@Черный ангел привет
Hi dad
Love you mom
White man utterly obliterates Japanese local's entire concept of reality with his immaculate Japanese!
Laoshu?
Ok laoshu
in retrospect
Now we need the bonus level up
老鼠 ... Mouse ;)
Me as Japanese: Let's see if he speaks perfect Japanese
Seeing he buying lots of food: How much does he eat?????
Sameeeeee
それなw
👏🏾😧
I thought he said this was a compilation.
Is it good japanese pronunciation?
Japanese vendors are so polite and socially interactive.
Haha ikr they seem so nice :))
Lol prolly bc a camera is facing them, but generally yes they are kind
@som Slovaak The word nice does not exist, everybody has more negatives than positives.
som Slovaak , I have, I am Japanese I go quite often actually its just nice to see people posting about it too.
som Slovaak , I can only read hiragana and a bit of katakana but I do understand the spoken language well because I speak more then I read when I visit obviously.
Your logic in this situation is quite flawed.
4:36 White guy accidentally speaks PERFECT Korean to a Japanese person then speaks PERFECT Japanese.
I need to reconsider my titling efforts.
His Korean isn't that great.
@@deathbycake7637 - Sheesh... way to punch me in the gut.
@@deathbycake7637 - Is your part time job saying my Korean isn't that great? I almost demand a video of you speaking Korean, UNLESS you are Korean.
@@AdventuresinAsiaI'm definitely Korean since birth.
He knows so much Japanese he forgot english
It be like that. Especially when you try to spell words
L’assu vaigassu
Occurate, I’m losing my French while learning for Chinese
I’m losing my French while not being at school
It really be like that haha, you can start forgetting your own language but if you keep up with them then you’ll be good
I’m confused. This doesn’t look anything like anime
you're living in the city too much lel
What do you mean, the subtitles are right there
1000 π English dub people can’t relate
Inflake Imagine watching dub xdxdxd jk watch what u likeee
Where the Catgirls at?!
"I'm speaking a rare dialect of Chinese called Japanese."
Well he's not wrong.
Historically speaking yes
Well not really. Chinese characters came from China but the grammar and construction is completely different. Japanese and Korean however are so close there is no way they don’t share the same origin.
They are from the same origin, but that doesn't mean they are used the same way. Chinese is its own language and Japanese is another.
Oh wait the experts from youtube comments have arrived
@@0x1337feed uP
I love that you did it in a natural way rather than faking a situation.
I think it seems more natural because he can't start in English unlike the other he starts in English and switches to Chinese. no one would understand him if he started in English lol.
@@alessandraratto7194 Nah, it's just that the others are cringy after a while with their fake start in english to suddenly switch to chinese or whatever
The shade lol. But anyway this guy is in Japan. When Xiaoma (who everyone is probably talking about) is in New York; which last time I checked is in America where the language is English. So it makes sense that he starts in English then transitions to Chinese...
@@adrian102 Don't try this BS. He goes to chinatown, has like half the convo in english then switches to chinese to "baffle them" and make cringe titles and videos. You damn know it ain't natural
@@sdsd33 wrong. They're not faked. He starts in English since they're literally in America then he switches to Chinese. The reason they are so surprised is because that's just how most foreigners act when they meet an American who speaks their language
"American Shouts PERFECT Japanese"
WHAT????!!!!! I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE FESTIVAL DRUMS!
@@AdventuresinAsia I CANT HEAR YOU OVER EVERYONE ELSE SCREECHING ON THE TOP OF THEIR LUNGS
I CAN'T HEAR YOU OVER THE DEBATES ABOUT A SILLY COMMENT ON JAPANESE BEING A RARE DIALECT OF CHINESE!!!
WHAT?!?! I JUST CAN'T HEAR VERY WELL...
@@jayem7208 WHAT THE FUCK DID YOU SAY ABOUT MY MOM?
*Says Las Vegas in an accent* "how is your Japanese so good?!"
@Gail Breslin as a Japanese language student, I can confirm this is right
For words that Japanese language itself does not have the Japanese words for, or names in different language, they use katakana letters to make up the words that sound the closest to the original word in its language. In this example, Las Vegas. In Japanese they don't have 'L' n 'V' letters but the closest they have are 'R' n 'B'. So Las Vegas is written and pronounced as ラスベガス (rasu begasu) in Japanese.
@Gail Breslin 初めまして。名前はエリク(Eric)です。
@Gail Breslin nan desu ka* 何ですか (I dont remember why but when asking something you omit the i from nani)
@@dettolsanitizer7839 Another Japanese language student here, from Turkey lol. 但し、まだ一年生ですね。
I’m a Japanese but his communication skills are above mine
I respect people who can speak multiple languages
Me too bruh
I speak two languages right now which is Filipino and English but sooner or later I'd be speaking Japanese, so let's keep this up guys!
I always ask this but, does it count as two languages if you are counting your native language as well? I barely say I speak two languages, because sometimes people say that doesnt count, if it does then I speak English and Spanish (native). I have been debating whether to learn Portugese (I have a friend there so I can visit whenever we have time), Japanese (was in a course for 3 months but it was closed, about 10 years ago and then had no time and forgot about it completely) or Chinese (my mom keeps pressuring me to choose it because 'economical and business purposes') although it would be cool but I find Chinese to be the most difficult one of the three. Also had German as an extra option. But I dont fucking know!
*_I'm Filipino and I speak Filipino, English and Japanese._*
Almost anyone does other than americans
「すみません大きいのしかなくて（I'm sorry for using such big bills）」
I think that there are quite a few Japanese people who can not say this way at a stall.
I was impressed with his wonderful Japanese pronunciation but more impressed with his gentle heart.
優しい言葉をありがとうございました！
I often use that phrase when I have only 10000yen bill.
日本女ならだれでもいい中出し
Stfu
@@user-pk4uj8gc3b lol
Foreigner: *breathing in Japanese*
Japanese person: Oh your Japanese is so great!! O_O
His Japanese truly was that great though. I was amazed.
Nobody gonna talk about how kind and humble Japanese people are?
Random Videos right? Man they’re all very kind
The old lady was really nice but he didnt bought anything from her, it was sad to see:(
This is just the light side nobody wants to show the *real* shit
They're right in front of a camera
If you speak their language if not don’t expect them to open up to you. And also not very friendly when there’s a group of foreigners because they think that they are very rude and noisy example Logan Paul when he was in japan lol
He's nihon go jouzu'ed by the japanese.
"Nihongo jouzu desu ne"
Basically translates into
"Mada mada"
Yeah, but in this case, that was the Japanese guy's quick polite reaction. This guy really is nihongo jouzu.
this made me laugh so hard
Jouzu'ed lmao
I wanna laugh too. What does jouzu mean?
Dude, your Japanese is definitely the best of any foreigner I've heard! I've been in Japan over 10 years, nobody comes close to you.
How to get praise by Japanese in Japan. "Watashi wa ___ desu"
Japanese people
"Nihongo jozu"
regardless of it being good or not ppl in Japan do this to be polite to another person
Yeah!!! This is why i love their culture of polite.
You know you’ve gotten good at speaking Japanese when they start critiquing your skills instead of praising you
It can be really wonderful when a stranger shows you kindness
No joke I once just texted "konbanwa" which means "good evening" in Japanese and she sent me a 1 minute voice message praising my Japanese skills. "Waaaaaau, yoa japaneees is rearry rearry guddo!" and so on.
However, I think talking to Japanese is WAY more fun than writing with them.
Xiaomanyc also randomly popped up in my recommendations. I ended up subbing. What he does is like talking in English first "pretending" he doesn't know chinese, and then suddenly starts speaking chinese. It's funny but I think your personality is funnier lol
It'd be hard for him to be understood in Japan when he speaks english. It'd be much more applicable to speak to a Japanese person in a foreign country
I found it rude, but I guess is doing it in NY.. I absolutely hate it when foreigners do it in that persons country.
Seeing the people say “be carful” is so heartwarming 🥺
"Is this one apple?"
"It's apple."
"It's small."
"It's small."
"It's cute."
"Yeah."
That was the worst vendor. He just assumed my Japanese couldn't handle more.
@@GeorgeTrombley dude seemed like he was thinking "oh look, tryhard white guy flexing his Japanese skills. Whatever."
Fuggit, dude's a hater.
Racism
1:42
This guy is so kind
George only got dem big billlls
Matt Ice - Gotta Flex!
I'm korean, your korean pronouncaction is almost native.
i mean he did write a book about korean soo...
Uh, well, that’s a big lie
지랄하네 ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ
@@hannahwalmer1124 yeah lol usually people complement means you're crap at it
3:26
I'm from Aomori. I've never seen any foreigner having a perfect accent in Tsugaru dialect like you!
Originally my Japanese had a heavy Tohoku accent. Now it doesn't, but I can still pretend to have one. コロナが終わったらまた青森にいきたいなぁ。
@@AdventuresinAsia Haha same here😂 my Japanese is now 標準語 since I started living in Tokyo, but it comes back when I talk to Aomori people😎✨ また青森行く機会あったら動画アップしてください!＼(^o^)／
He can watch anime without subs😢😢
The real reason for learning Japanese.
@@zachary7897 exactly
The true winner of the dubbed-subbed war
Living the dream.
😳😳😳😳😳😳
This video is awesome because it's such a natural way to order things and I feel like I am always too text booky when I do it.
IKR! But I'm getting there... Only been learning just over one year. Thing is I still have to think about what I'm saying so I probably sound like a child with a weird accent.
Dude 3:30 just brought a smile to my face. I think it's amazing when you can communicate so well that the other person just warms up to you and god I just think you're so damn cool! I've been studying japanese for almost 2 years now and sometimes I get a bit disheartened when I can't understand some things or when I can't convey my thoughts properly. I'll save this video for the times when I feel hopeless.
Do not give up. I have been learning casually for over 20 years and still not super fluent in it. I have the right accents however still not fluent. I do visit japan at times over the years and i do get these kind of reactions when i speak to them in Japanese. I kinda feel sad that i couldnt have full conversations with them as my knowledge is still low. Will definately pick up the learning soon.
Its a bit tough when u have 4 languages in your head. I am a native English/Malay speaker, and able to speak mandarin/hokkien and Japanese. The perks of being in a multi cultural country like Singapore.
whoisgad 20 years?!?! Wow...I don’t know if I’ll be able to hold on for that long..(btw I’ve been studying hiragana and katakana)
@@shahmd4334 Ganbatte ne. As for me, priorities change when u start a family. Now i have 3 young boys running around in the house. So of course Japanese aint my priority now.
1:17 hes my production manager and hes in charge of sound, lighting an- *looks behind him* where tf you going?
At the end when you mixed up the “French word” you said friend correctly in korean, you just placed the Hangul when you spoke Chinese! Insanely great content btw!
I'm part Japanese and I don't even know how to speak Tsugaru-ben and I was shocked hearing him say it LOL
Eh, don't expect I get to see you here mikuri
You have a weeb ass pic idk why every one is so crazy about that little weeb ass islands
@@voltgaming2213 seethe
Neko Mikuri 寝込みくり what do ya mean
@@voltgaming2213 nani the fuck
this got recommended to me so i guess you're on the way to the millions. congratulations.
i’m actually proud that i understand most of the conversation without looking at the subtitles. considering that i have learned japanese for 2 years
literally just stumbled upon these from xiaoma and realized I'm using your textbooks to re-study the 4 years of japanese I've forgotten. this is amazing.
this WHITE man right here really speaks some good, or should i say, PERFECT japanese RARE dialect! the locals' faces as they heard him were PRICELESS
Me: Don't know Japanese.
Scrolling thru the comments to see how good his Japanese is. LoL
Carlson Ho it’s pretty good, he uses a lot of simple grammar to explain things. It sounds pretty obvious that he doesn’t live in Japan. That being said, it’s really fluid and seems easy for him.
@@Bounce1O1 It's more than "pretty good". He grew up in Japan and became bilingual. Difficult to show off your abilities in short conversations with street vendors, though.
He’s good but didn’t do anything they struck me as amazing or “native.” Definitely comfortable with daily conversation.
I wouldn't call it perfect.
@i kanzaki Well, nobody is perfect in this world, e.g. even native speakers of Japanese make mistakes as usual as everybody else‘s too.
I've lived in Japan for a while and learning Japanese is something I feel is necessary to have a good life here, alot of my foreign friends know a good level of Japanese to survive! I love this video as there is no better feeling when you can have a fun, natural conversation with natives.
George: 'The guy behind me is my production manager, eh, he's in charge of sound, lighting...'
The guy behind him: *leaves*
George: 'Where the fuck you going??'
I wasn't expecting that at all xD
Neither was I! We were in the middle of shooting and he rode off with my cue cards!
I would actually love more videos like this
Dude! I love how I started learning Japanese last week and some of the Pimsleur conversations I remember are in this video! Like "Nihonggo jouzu desu ne! (Your Japanese is good) ". Feelsgoodman.
Keep at it! Pimsleur is fantastic at spoken Japanese, especially versions 4 and 5 which deal with non formal speaking.
When you finish Pimsleur 1 through 5, do some LingoDeer which is great at vocab and reading.
If you have a lot of time... Genki I and II.
Mad props man. I gotta get back to learning Japanese. Its been too long. This is super cool and wholesome. Thanks for the amazing video!
This man can speak perfect Japanese and I can't even say a full sentence in English without stuttering.
I'm Japanese and I would say that he is better than Japanese at speaking. Like when he said "chotto shita okonimiyaki" that was a very impressive!
Wow! I’m Japanese. Your Japanese really sounds like a Japanese native speaker!
This video deserves more views😭 you're so humble and nice
Besides his accent his Japanese really is impressive! I used to live in Kansai too I enjoyed listening to the brief 関西弁 haha
You deserve millions of views man loved it more of this please
I love to see the Japanese I learn being used in real life. Thank you for being an amazing person George! Btw what accent/dialect does the guy with the blue t-shirt at 03:50 have? I love it
I feel touched seeing how humble and polite the vendors are, and those smiles are very heart-warming to watch 😆
The first guy look really impressed of your Japanese, he seem very happy speaking his native language with somebody !
I love those little lessons there 別々. .. we'd love it if you include more of those but in this real context
you have like 100 times the personality of that guy in NYC, just sayin....peace.
Right?!
You mean the guy who speaks mandarin?
@@furkanaydin8046 yes.
@@biglance His name is Ari, by the way
This was actually really cool and I am glad you uploaded content like this.
Dude this was fun to watch and this is literally your most watched video! Make more please and maybe you can chat them locals up even more.
Japanese people just seems so friendly, I love itttt
Tsugaru-ben 🤣 My grandparents lived in Tohoku and they had extremely strong accents. I was so scared to talk to them on the phone because I didn’t understand what they were speaking lol (I only speak standard Japanese)
Sadly this hasn't accrued millions yet, but this dude is hilarious. Lots of potential here, definitely a channel to watch out for.
Definitely love his energy, the best part in the video are the last 2 seconds.
0:24
you’re the author of “Japanese From Zero!” ??
i have that book! i’m glad i found your channel :D
I like your casual way of talking. I'm more of a shy worry wart even though my Japanese is pretty good. I don't go beyond ordering, I should ask more questions.
I'm so glad that your video just went viral.
I don't even care about the reactions... The food looks so good.
Ayeee! I live in Misawa! Aomori love! You’re awesome this was awesome.
Very fluent speaker of Japanese. Very good control of intonation and pronunciation! 👍
Man, really love your sense of humour. Keep on! Will continue following your stuff with enthusiasm
I don't know why japanese act so kindly man, it makes me want to visit japan
damn ur japanese is so good, not to mention u know 3 other languages.
am still a student and my accent is so clearly "american"
Respect to you. You arrived to Japan and learn japanese. You respect their culture
The first vendor was really kind and cheerful
Wow, japanese food stall so friendly, seller dont even speak in my country 😂
Just realized he's the author of the book I use to learn Korean! I love his book!
We just fixed a ton of stuff on koreanfromzero.com Go check it out!
Wait... so he speaks Korean too?
The teach making people's days in English and Japanese everywhere he goes...love to see it!!
please make more of these I have a new found love for language because of these videos.. keep it going dude
This why i love japan.
Wow that was impressive! Your Japanese sounds like a native speaker and the way you talk made me feel like ur a generous person! 凄いです！Keep up the good work!!
I grew up in Japan so I can speak Japanese but man you’re Japanese sounds pretty damn good I’m impressed
Jojiiiiii these are so good can't wait for more. It's fun to see you interact.
すげぇ・・・。津軽弁も話せるんですね。
"Millions of views"
* Looks at view count *
"oow, poor soul"
12 is a number, if that's what you're asking about.
itll need a little more time. ull eat your comment sooner.
@@joelmiller6439 there is so much of those videos, that this will be one of many. Chinese videos gets more views because not so many foreigners are desperate for learning Chinese cause China doesn't have anime and weird porn. So this video will never get millions of views. *_NEVER_*
Hmmmmm. This video has exploded in the last few days. I hope you are wrong.
Haha you right China doesn't have anime or wierd porn they just eat bats and other exotic creatures.totally fine in comparison
This guy is making me smile so much...
I love it
the positive energy is real with this vid
George certainly deserves those millions of views!!!! 😊
1:37 Japanese Eric Andre
Great to see you chat among the locals
Thank you for the subtitles
The algorithm in action. A like, comment and sub from a recommendation.
This White Man’s Japanese is truly PERFECT!!! 😮😮😮
Entertaining! Looking forward to other videos like this. You should show clips of you guys eating the food, and review it!
Duuuuuude Japanese is my favorite language and so is the country. I visit Japan every December and wish for nothing more than to learn to speak like you! Also, a high quality microphone will lead you to UA-cam fame in no time. You got everything else covered down to the personality. Keep up the incredible work. Subbed!
But the trick is that you're supposed to speak in English first (pretend like you don't speak Japanese), and then all of a sudden speak in Japanese. That's you surprise them and that's how Xiaoma does his videos.
I like this video better though. Why would you have to surprise us first?
I don't quite get it. It sounds a bit self-indulgent. Even if it's just a harmless joke, poking fun at people like that is not funny.
On the other hand the guy in this video looks like he's genuinely happy meeting and talking to people. That's the way it should be. I'm gonna hit "like" now!
@@lurkmerchant If you watch @Xiaomanyc 's videos of him surprising Chinese people in Chinatown by speaking Chinese, you would understand why.
It's kinda weird that japanese are not that surprised/amused when foreigner speak their language as much as chinese in xiaoma's video.
I notice that too. This prove that chinese is more polite?
I'm jk.
I think all those stall workers are working long hours and don't have time to be surprise.
It helps that he approached the conversations in a natural way. I like xiaoma's videos, but he is incredibly guilty of clickbaiting even doing basically the IRL equivalent. Every time he'll start interactions by playing dumb and half way into the conversation he switches to fluent. It's a good way to get good thumbnail shots, but very unfair to the people he talks to.
I guess more western people learn japanese instead of chinese because of anime :D
Actually Japanese kind of expect you to speak Japanese in much of Japan. It's weird but yeah
IMO it's even better bc they didn't show they assumed you didn't speak the language. I think being treated as a common customer is better than pleasing your ego by seeing surprised faces, again IMO.
You're so charismatic, and energetic.
You got yourself a new subscriber
I like your attitude about creating a popular channel. I did subscribe. Keep it coming!
I’ll change the title : “American speaks PERFECT (no) Japanese!”
You will?
@@AdventuresinAsia ha ha
Adventures in Asia! “I would” sorry, my English isn’t perfect either !
Intro is too long...
Actual content is nice though. I like how you taught little bits of it to the camera as you went along too :)
*laughs in 10 minute dubstep intro that includes bits of the content in the video, where the intro of the intro is dubstep and the youtuber's username, while the conclusion of the intro is a simple screen that is pleasurable to the eyes, and the body of the intro is the bits of video content as said before.*
@@iiopas9739 absolutely
(banging album btw)
Wow that Kansai dialect shocked me lol. I worked for years in Kobe and had friends from there and that dialect is very distinct and tough to understand especially when spoken quickly. I got to say I’m impressed your Beijing dialect of Japanese was magnificent lol
I thought this guys name was familiar, then I realised I was literally reading one of his Japanese from Zero books about 2 minutes earlier. I like this dude, I'm glad I bought his books.
as a weeb i feel jealous
Ngl but true
I've been learning Japanese for a week now and it's paying off. Start learning now guys