I used to take Japanese classes in 8th grade because I was really interested in the culture, it's so different than America, and it's just a pretty language. I walked in, and about 7 crusty weebs looked at me. One glanced at me, her cat ears twitching. It was, and is, still terrifying.
I double majored international business and japanese. Ended up having a mental breakdown half way through the first semester after not leaving my dorm room for a month due to severe anxiety (I should have definitely been getting treated all through highschool but my parent's didn't think I needed it). I was one of the two people in the class that actually tried and didn't weeb all over our professor. He was a cool dude and I feel super bad for inconveniencing him, he almost single-handedly built the Japanese programs at every college in my state. He even asked around about me when I started missing classes and was working with me to still pass with the required grade after I missed my midterm. It really sucks that I completely melted down a month later and had to leave. If I could meet him again I'd probably apologize too much to him about me leaving his program. Still do some self study but I don't learn very well without classes and someone quizzing me.
john smith I have a friend who taught design... freaking design (who taught English in Japan for a year later on) in a university who expected to make at least one student cry every semester of her was doing his job properly.
I am also a day walker weeb, and God did this ep remind me of my friend's friend's in high school. this was also back before 'cringe' was a term people used so I didn't have a word for why I couldn't stand the girl who 'was going to move to Japan and have her first boy friend be hot Japanese guy.' Rachel from California just in case you're some how reading this I always hated you.
Makes sense considering how dominant English is as a secondary functionary language for them. They actually have a lot more English signs and options than America ever would for Japanese lol
holy fuck. thanks for convincing me not to take a Japanese class. I've been going to japan like every two years as a holiday and thought. "ya know i should really do one of these classes so i can actually understand people when they speak instead of using translators on my phone" but, i think I'll stick with the translators on my phone now. B.t.w Your like the only channel on youtube that I actually wait for a new video for and drop everything im doing to listing to you guys. fucking great podcast as usual. keep up the hilarious stories
You probably were never fit for the langauge since thats what makes you not want to learn. Its kinda like the weebs who try to learn japanese for anime but quit in a week lol
Logan Simeon If you truly spend holydays over in Japan I don't see why you don't just go to language centers (forgot the name of the facility but locals do volunteer to teach Japanese to foreigners/tourists there)
Similar thing happened when I was in high school. There was an adult night school Japanese class I attended with the intention of learning and having a chance to practice speaking with people who actually wanted to learn the language to travel or work and not "I WANT TO WATCH ANIME WITHOUT SUBS". It was multiple times a week, every week, and cost a significant amount of money. While most people in the class were well intended, there was one trademark weeb that must have begged his mom to pay for him to take the class. First class he was so excited, but after he realized that it would require work and we wouldn't learn by watching Naruto and analyzing tentacle porn, he lost ALL interest and wouldn't bother doing the homework or paying attention in class. The teacher, who was Japanese and therefore too polite to tell him to GTFO, would actually put up with him holding up the class for 5 minutes (actual) to figure out where we were, then to give a wrong answer. One class, he brought in a rubber glove he would inflate and deflate and play with. The entire fucking class. Obviously, he was too embarrassed to admit to mommy that she wasted her time and money on him because turns out, he'd rather watch Hetalia with subs. More than anything, I feel bad for the other adults who were taking the class. This one kid wasted their fucking time and money. No doubt I'm a weeb (I like traveling to the land of the rising Nip and studying its history/demographics/politics/etc), but holy fuck I'm not obnoxious about it and won't waste people's time over it.
I wanna become a Japanese professor, specifically so I can break weabs over my knee, like how Bane broke Batman. Particularly the ones that assume everyone in the class only took it because of anime.
This is reminding me of being one of the only few girls in like CS classes, or engineering classes. It was a terrible time, but still fun to mess with people.
i had a similar exprience with my media course. I do like anime but not hardcore, you couldnt tell by aperance. anyway my media class was full of obvious weebs and nerds. Im talking shirts, badges, one girl wearing cat ears, ect. I felt so awakward being in that class for that year being the only normal looking person and am not even the most normal looking guy out there
Holy shit i had to take art while doing my btec level 2 in engineering & manufacturing, 2 girls had matching Japanese style school bags complete with matching zipper accessorys , like you can see there a massive weeb from mile off
I'm in the middle of my Animation degree and I don't know how i forgot that weebs existed until starting here. There's groups of different fans of animation but the weebs are the strongest, followed by the steven universe :'(
I know this comment is a year old but god, this is a sentiment. The worst is professional speech classes and communication, because then you've got Confident weebs, who will flock to anyone that looks vaguely nerdy and won't shut up the whole two and a half hours.
Normal fans are fine the type of people who blow their time away watching anime and thinking they can ace speech classes because they spend their time literally watching anime and nothing else is what annoys me. Id learn the language for recreation not because of the wrong mindset.
Fun fact, in Japanese pronunciation isn't as important as it is in Chinese, where if you use a single wrong sound, it's a completely different word. My girlfriend used to take Japanese and English in high school and college, and she's told me about all the horrible stories of this shit, and more. Hell, I took Japanese in college for my language requirement, and god, there were so many weebs, I just couldn't handle it. I prolly got such bad grades because of being distracted by all the cringe. Also, I had the exact opposite experience in American college. I even had a professor who openly told us that we wouldn't need to every use any of the shit he was teaching us, so he didn't care if we failed or not. He also got arrested the following year for saving recordings of women who had to use a webcam to show they weren't cheating while taking take-home tests, but that doesn't have to deal with this, I don't think.
I would have stuck with it....they'd end up leaving unless they are the persistent nerd as once they find out how specific the language is versus just listening to it most of them give up. Not saying the language is hard but people from who I've talked to have an annoying generalization of it.
In my school, it's the weebs vs the emo kids. I and my normal friends get some popcorn and watch them fight from a distance. It's fun. One time I successfully threw a piece of popcorn at a weeb, and a unpopped popcorn piece at a emo girl.
Yeah actual nazis and fascists are quite good at the entire conflict thing, but neo-nazis? I would actually put my money on the far left in this scenario because actual neo-nazis (not people taking up the title for trolling purposes) are possibly the only people who are more retarded than them, at least in my experience with them.
Perhaps, I guess that it is a local thing that the blue-haired bitches are militant and brave, guess they are bolstered by the fact that everyone here is very left-leaning.
+CarsThatDrive cept they wanna wipe that other 20% off? can't we agree both groups are cancer reguardless the amount? must we be identify-centric like the trash?
If you want to learn it because it seems interesting, and not so you can translate what Hikari-nyan is saying while getting railed by 5 dudes at once in your porn comics, go for it my dude.
First thing's first. Japan is very xenophobic. They don't like idiots, they don't like weeaboos. So much they don't allow any form of immigration to their country. Whatsoever. No way you are going to become a citizen. Because they fucking hate foreigners as much as China hates Japanese.
My German class was super normal. I think everyone just liked the language and only a couple people really fit the stereotype of bearded Nordic looking dude with tattoos. tbh would recommend
Although I haven't really experienced something as severe as a random weeb talking to me like i'm their lifelong friend on the bus, I think I might have experienced a weird attempt at it by one of them. I have a Death Note key chain and a few pins of different characters on my bag and one day while riding the bus this guy in front of me was listening to music on his phone (it was anime openings with the lyrics/random pictures of the show on the background sort of video). He noticed my bag and started to deliberately show me his phone's screen in a obvious/non-obvious matter, you know like, holding it to his ear while the screen was facing me (even though he had headphones on) which he was not doing until after he noticed my bag. I was tired so I pretended I was falling asleep but i would sometimes open my eyes like as if I was fighting the "sleepiness" and the guy would put the phone to his other ear, which was closer to me, with the screen facing me (same video on replay mind you) and, he would oddly try to do some eye contact but would just drop his stare to the pins and key chain once I returned the eye contact. It's like he wanted to say something or more likely he wanted me to start a conversation by commenting on the video he was constantly playing on the phone and oddly holding at my direction. It went on for the remaining 15 minutes of the bus ride...
When I first watched this video I wasn't in college. When I rewatched it I was a year out of college with Japanese as my foreign language. How time changes perspective. Luckily my classmates and I were better students than the people they talk about.
Latin is similar in the aspect of masculine and feminine distinctions, but luckily I don't have to deal with anyone whining about it being sexist in my classes. Thanks to this podcast, I have learned more about Japanese than I ever will in my life. (Side note: you guys study at OSU? My Latin teacher studied there)
I would recommend people to self learn the language. A tad bit harder, but if you are motivated you can do it and not only will you learn it better but you will also learn how to self teach properly. That skill is invaluable in College and University.
As somebody who legitimately plans to learn Japanese and visit Japan because I’m actually interested in Japanese culture. This serves as a “What Not To Do” for any Japanese classes I take in the future......then again the first thing I was planning to do in Japan was visit a cat girl cafe (if it exists).....regardless this is a great podcast episode. Keep up the good work :)
i have the perfect way to decide if you should learn a language: its called "ptip" Purpose That Isn't (entirely) Porn the porn can maybe come later, but dont learn languages for porn
I took Japanese to learn about another culture while also learning how to interact and speak to its people. Same reason I took German. I was embarrassed to sit in a class with all these weebs who assumed everyone watched anime.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT FRENCH CLASS I'm a Spanish major (I love learning languages and about other cultures) and I'm in my senior year. Since I needed to fill more credits I decided to take intro to French because someday I want to get my PhD in romance languages (it's a thing). I go into class and it seems everyone is there because they think French is a cool language or they have French/Canadian/Swiss/etc heritage and want to connect with it more or they just want to learn a foreign language. Seems good, right? THIS ONE GUY He acts like he's French (he's not), he acts like he knows everything about French (he doesn't, I'm ahead of him actually), and he refuses to admit when he's wrong (he even throws a fit every time the prof corrects him). He acts like he's the only one who knows history or anything about learning a foreign language (even though another guy in my class already speaks 3 languages and I'm already fluent in Spanish AND I'm a history minor). He acts like he knows everything about French culture and even goes as far as trying to correct our prof on cultural stuff about France. And guess what, our prof IS FROM FRANCE. It was annoying as hell and he reminds so God damn much of the weebs in these stories
Yo I fucking hate it when someone starts talking to me on public transit. Pro tip for planes - stare forward, pop in some ear buds, and just smile (smile must show teeth)... no one will try to talk to you
Rewatching this as my little sister is taking Japanese for some ungodly reason. She is not a weeb and I don't think the girl has ever seen an anime in her life but I think her friend is who is taking the class with her. I am going to beg her to tell me the storys and see if this shit is universal
Man, stuff like this really gives a perspective of sorts. I was looking into TESL/TEFL/TESOL(aka teaching English, I have an interest in it) and I was looking at Japan as a possible location. Some research I had to do(long story) involved looking at the best areas to do it. I figured learning the language of the country I'd decide on trying to go to would be a good idea, but there was this subtle thought in my head about the stigmas and what-not. Although, that being said, I'm probably never going to be able to go to university for linguistics or anything else that will involve me going to a foreign country for any sensible reason, so it's kind of just not an option. Still, this was interesting to listen to.
There is a thing about speaking Japanese for weaboos. They are there to learn to read and stuff. After that getting pronunciation wrong and stuff is not that important. At least thats me with English. I can read really good, write okay-ish, and speak kinda badly. Since all I do is read English. That said I did not learn any English past Junior high school, since I don't really plan to go to England or wherever.
You know, as per my dads suggestion, I had wanted to try to save up money and take a tourist trip to Japan. Its been a childhood dream of mine as I was so into asian cultures, Japan included. Course, these days I've come to realize that, much like our own country, these places see foreigners just as well as we do(Which is not at all). And now, seeing this and the rise of nationalism on the global stage and the experience of many others who have taken a trip to these places themselves, I realize that, you know, maybe its best to let that dream die as well.
Honestly, the sort of differentiation between levels of respect in japanese, like the difference in words with giving things depending on power, in a way it makes more sense than english, at least if we had words like that I could feel better about receiving them.
Lol all this is like, believable 100%. Lol we had super weebs that bled into all our illustration and animation classes. I can't wait to attempt a language class. I mean I suck at languages but I gotta try
I've recently started (at OSU as well) and I'm doing a Russian and Math double major because I don't care about my well-being and Russia doesn't have as big a fanbase as does Japan luckily
i do like anime, i cant stand Otaku and Weeaboo's. I was born in the 90's so liking anime was a secret society thing and i miss that it wasn't mainstream like it is now due to the internet. I went to a Anime-con and omg....I hated it because there it was just too much. For example, fullmetal alchemist the voice actor of edward was premiering a live action video of the shot that u can't find online and when the movie was playing everyone was cheering over the video to the point you couldn't even hear what's going on. Then when caramelldansen dance comes out of the blue On "Que" Everyone starts dancing blocking exits and shit. After that I never went back. lol
Toshimurra i could just imagine the panic in your eyes, trying to escape this room of sweaty greasy people dancing like idiots but you can't, theyve blocked your path.
I like four manga and four anime, one of each being an overlap, so basically I like seven things from that media pool. I went to cons... "cons" as in plural. I tried so hard because it was something to do in Minnesota. On my fourth year or something of Anime Detour, I just ditched and went home on Saturday evening when activity was peaking. It was that bad. The most sane demographic at those cons are the hardcore Resident Evil fans who wear full SWAT hazmat Umbrella gear with the expensive airsoft guns. I feel like the most sane fandoms of Japanese franchises are followers of the stuff that just doesn't seem very Japanese at all, like RE, Gunslinger Girl and Hellsing.
What's with this perception that anime is mainstream? Sure the online groups are noticeably large but that's because they'd be inherently drawn to mostly digital interaction. At my school you have the anime group but aside from that it's far and few between
Nobody will answer this, but I gotta wonder. What if one did take a Japanese class just for weeb shit, but they nonetheless actually took it completely seriously and weren't a complete goddamn tool about it. Would that cross the line twice and return to acceptable, or not quite?
> Text translation is dying They've been saying that for 50 years already, and it'll take it 50 more to start dying for real. You are completely right about the process turning out to be much harder than an average person thinks and the fact that you'll never make a living unless you do technical translation, though.
It saddened me when I learned that more people know about my state because of Gary than because of the Indy 500 or something else. I can at least take pride if people know about us because of something requiring skill or because of landmarks but I think people get the wrong idea of this state because Gary is so bad and the south of my state is a giant dump.
NeflewitzInc I know the feel, all anyone knows about Michigan is Flint and Detroit (which TBH aren't all that bad yeah they have their rough spots but it's not like you'll get instantly murdered. When I went to D.C. I felt more unsafe.) And I guess those kids who killed that guy by throwing rocks off a bridge. Actually I live in the next town over from them.
I had to do some weird impromptu ASMR roleplay to record in some crazy conditions because michael was a fuckman and kept clicking his fucking mouse among other reasons.
It's always stomach churning when you realise there's no such thing as "what does this word mean in X?" Like each language has its own original words. You can replace them but you probably won't have an exact match.
Right. But there is a dividing line between the full on weebs, and the sensible anime fans. A lot of the time you'll hear weebs talk about how much they like the Japanese language and want to learn about it, however they either have never tried or say they want to try and then just piss around with their anime obsession getting in the way of any meaningful learning. This isn't an attack on you by the way, because from what you said, you seem like a normal anime fan, aka non-weeb. I am a VERY casual anime fan (excited for code geass R3 but the last anime I watched was probably like 6 months ago) but that doesn't really even come up in the realm of discussion when I study Japanese. The main difference between when an anime fan's obsession becomes a problem is when it gets in the way of them learning the language. If you're going to try hard to understand the grammar in a lesson or by self-teaching then you're absolutely not a weeb, but weebs are the ones who have an idea of learning Japanese as just learning basic phrases they hear in anime and somehow that means they can watch anime unsubbed or something. Good luck if you decide or have decided since your posting of your comment to learn Japanese! I began self-studying almost 3 years ago and while I don't keep at it as often as I used to back then, it is an ongoing challenging journey but is very fun and is great when you actually start to understand pieces of native media (e.g. anime, but in my case it's music).
"Imagine weebs and neo nazis interacting." You mean 4chan, right?
PerformanceShoeCare
/pol/ in a fuckin' nutshell
Fucking nailed it
Am Polack, can confirm
PerformanceShoeCare Nah, 4chan is the Neo Nazi, Reddit is the weeb
"I've never been on 4chan"
- Vegerot SSR
I used to take Japanese classes in 8th grade because I was really interested in the culture, it's so different than America, and it's just a pretty language. I walked in, and about 7 crusty weebs looked at me. One glanced at me, her cat ears twitching. It was, and is, still terrifying.
uguu neko and the 7 crusty weebs
*"HOW CAN YOU SOUND GAY IN SIGN LANGUAGE?"*
I fucking died
"How can you be gay in sign language?" Best quote
To be fair, I remember taking a gay sign language course at a youth center in high school.
Agree
"The pizza is aggressive" is probably the best phrase possible that you could have chosen to translate into Japanese.
It would have been funny because if I remember pizza is just piza and one of the ways you can say aggressive is in engrish.
I double majored international business and japanese. Ended up having a mental breakdown half way through the first semester after not leaving my dorm room for a month due to severe anxiety (I should have definitely been getting treated all through highschool but my parent's didn't think I needed it). I was one of the two people in the class that actually tried and didn't weeb all over our professor. He was a cool dude and I feel super bad for inconveniencing him, he almost single-handedly built the Japanese programs at every college in my state. He even asked around about me when I started missing classes and was working with me to still pass with the required grade after I missed my midterm. It really sucks that I completely melted down a month later and had to leave. If I could meet him again I'd probably apologize too much to him about me leaving his program.
Still do some self study but I don't learn very well without classes and someone quizzing me.
"I am going to correct you and not let is slide" sounds like amazingly dedicated teaching. I wish my teachers were like that.
john smith I have a friend who taught design... freaking design (who taught English in Japan for a year later on) in a university who expected to make at least one student cry every semester of her was doing his job properly.
I am also a day walker weeb, and God did this ep remind me of my friend's friend's in high school. this was also back before 'cringe' was a term people used so I didn't have a word for why I couldn't stand the girl who 'was going to move to Japan and have her first boy friend be hot Japanese guy.' Rachel from California just in case you're some how reading this I always hated you.
Fuck Rachael
I knew a "Rachel". She was the worst and she was half half Japanese.
The rachel i knew was alrigh, huge fucking bitch though, rachel, if you're reading this, fuck you, bitch-liam.
Not gonna lie you're probably one of the funniest, realest channels on youtube. Fuckin' love you guys.
except for the one fucker that wont stop talking about how much he lifts
There are more kanji than there are stars in the universe.
you *can't* learn Japanese
No lies here lol
As someone learning Chinese, I can relate to this. (lots of characters)
According to people in Japan there's a ton of people who learn English to watch cartoons and movies
Just a bunch of people in English class asking the teacher if they saw the new Spongebob.
In this case it makes sense since pretty much the majority of the best media is made in english
@@classicpinball9873 I'm going to pretend i didn't read that - weeb
Makes sense considering how dominant English is as a secondary functionary language for them. They actually have a lot more English signs and options than America ever would for Japanese lol
A biohazard of weeaboos? A depression of weeaboos? Yes, a depression of weeaboos.
On the floor laughing from that statement. XD
holy fuck. thanks for convincing me not to take a Japanese class. I've been going to japan like every two years as a holiday and thought. "ya know i should really do one of these classes so i can actually understand people when they speak instead of using translators on my phone" but, i think I'll stick with the translators on my phone now.
B.t.w Your like the only channel on youtube that I actually wait for a new video for and drop everything im doing to listing to you guys. fucking great podcast as usual. keep up the hilarious stories
Logan Simeon ayyyyy. happy to hear it!
You probably were never fit for the langauge since thats what makes you not want to learn. Its kinda like the weebs who try to learn japanese for anime but quit in a week lol
Logan Simeon If you truly spend holydays over in Japan I don't see why you don't just go to language centers (forgot the name of the facility but locals do volunteer to teach Japanese to foreigners/tourists there)
Similar thing happened when I was in high school. There was an adult night school Japanese class I attended with the intention of learning and having a chance to practice speaking with people who actually wanted to learn the language to travel or work and not "I WANT TO WATCH ANIME WITHOUT SUBS". It was multiple times a week, every week, and cost a significant amount of money. While most people in the class were well intended, there was one trademark weeb that must have begged his mom to pay for him to take the class. First class he was so excited, but after he realized that it would require work and we wouldn't learn by watching Naruto and analyzing tentacle porn, he lost ALL interest and wouldn't bother doing the homework or paying attention in class. The teacher, who was Japanese and therefore too polite to tell him to GTFO, would actually put up with him holding up the class for 5 minutes (actual) to figure out where we were, then to give a wrong answer. One class, he brought in a rubber glove he would inflate and deflate and play with. The entire fucking class. Obviously, he was too embarrassed to admit to mommy that she wasted her time and money on him because turns out, he'd rather watch Hetalia with subs.
More than anything, I feel bad for the other adults who were taking the class. This one kid wasted their fucking time and money. No doubt I'm a weeb (I like traveling to the land of the rising Nip and studying its history/demographics/politics/etc), but holy fuck I'm not obnoxious about it and won't waste people's time over it.
I wanna become a Japanese professor, specifically so I can break weabs over my knee, like how Bane broke Batman. Particularly the ones that assume everyone in the class only took it because of anime.
Being the one who knows Chinese in a company is actually horrible
You don't wanna deal with Chinese people.
CIA 4U LOL
@Woll Waide I need to re-read that text again
@Shape Shifting
I wish I remembered that greentext before enrolling into mandarin classes this year fuck
This is reminding me of being one of the only few girls in like CS classes, or engineering classes. It was a terrible time, but still fun to mess with people.
yo send me an @ if you have any particularly cringey stories because that sounds like a GOLDMINE
Let Me Tell You About sent :^)
I had a weab girl in my chem class who would constantly try to speak japanese to me(japanese dude). pls, I got a couple stories.
"I wanted a Prius...but my dad wouldn't let me!"
I fucking died.
That Inuyasha kid killed me.
wasn't a girl?
Kids can be girls, too.
That anecdote about the fat girl talking about that anime to the professor gave me 3rd hand embarrassment.
I fucking choked at that pronunciation of "syllable". Good grief, this episode was good.
A sephiroth of weeaboo's.
DragonMagi aaaaaah! perfect!
Y’all’s best episode imo
i had a similar exprience with my media course. I do like anime but not hardcore, you couldnt tell by aperance.
anyway my media class was full of obvious weebs and nerds. Im talking shirts, badges, one girl wearing cat ears, ect. I felt so awakward being in that class for that year being the only normal looking person and am not even the most normal looking guy out there
i heard art students can be really out there with what they wear
Holy shit i had to take art while doing my btec level 2 in engineering & manufacturing, 2 girls had matching Japanese style school bags complete with matching zipper accessorys , like you can see there a massive weeb from mile off
I can easily tell by your yt profile tho
The JET program pretty much sounds like an easy way for Japanese teachers to get teaching assistants for basically nothing.
This was uploaded an hour and 30 minutes before I need to go to work, thanks
Casey L this was uploaded 10 minutes after I should have left to go to work
I really hope that my school has such a class. I need to see this phenomenon for myself. I need to capture and tag one of these weeaboos.
I'm in the middle of my Animation degree and I don't know how i forgot that weebs existed until starting here. There's groups of different fans of animation but the weebs are the strongest, followed by the steven universe :'(
SU? You have my sympathy.
I'm so sorry
I know this comment is a year old but god, this is a sentiment. The worst is professional speech classes and communication, because then you've got Confident weebs, who will flock to anyone that looks vaguely nerdy and won't shut up the whole two and a half hours.
Normal fans are fine the type of people who blow their time away watching anime and thinking they can ace speech classes because they spend their time literally watching anime and nothing else is what annoys me. Id learn the language for recreation not because of the wrong mindset.
Fun fact, in Japanese pronunciation isn't as important as it is in Chinese, where if you use a single wrong sound, it's a completely different word. My girlfriend used to take Japanese and English in high school and college, and she's told me about all the horrible stories of this shit, and more. Hell, I took Japanese in college for my language requirement, and god, there were so many weebs, I just couldn't handle it. I prolly got such bad grades because of being distracted by all the cringe.
Also, I had the exact opposite experience in American college. I even had a professor who openly told us that we wouldn't need to every use any of the shit he was teaching us, so he didn't care if we failed or not. He also got arrested the following year for saving recordings of women who had to use a webcam to show they weren't cheating while taking take-home tests, but that doesn't have to deal with this, I don't think.
Well most of the time at least. You can end up in weird situations from using bad stress.
Wait. Hold up.
What the _FUCK_ was that last part?????
I would have stuck with it....they'd end up leaving unless they are the persistent nerd as once they find out how specific the language is versus just listening to it most of them give up. Not saying the language is hard but people from who I've talked to have an annoying generalization of it.
The Neo Nazis resonate with me since my school's torn between them and actual transgender feminist kids who actually get into gang fights
In my school, it's the weebs vs the emo kids. I and my normal friends get some popcorn and watch them fight from a distance. It's fun. One time I successfully threw a piece of popcorn at a weeb, and a unpopped popcorn piece at a emo girl.
Yeah actual nazis and fascists are quite good at the entire conflict thing, but neo-nazis? I would actually put my money on the far left in this scenario because actual neo-nazis (not people taking up the title for trolling purposes) are possibly the only people who are more retarded than them, at least in my experience with them.
Perhaps, I guess that it is a local thing that the blue-haired bitches are militant and brave, guess they are bolstered by the fact that everyone here is very left-leaning.
Please tell us about it
+CarsThatDrive cept they wanna wipe that other 20% off? can't we agree both groups are cancer reguardless the amount? must we be identify-centric like the trash?
I'm taking Japanese next year please help me.
Only Kami can help you now.
TL Note: Kami means "konnichiwa"
Michael Poltfan What
Be prepared to work harder than a salary man who needs to pay his rent next month while running trough a anime convention full of shutins.
Shit, I actually want to learn Japanese though. is it really a bad idea?
If you want to learn it because it seems interesting, and not so you can translate what Hikari-nyan is saying while getting railed by 5 dudes at once in your porn comics, go for it my dude.
Conversational japanese is very doable. Reading and writing is the hardest part.
I see what you mean, I'll probably still do it anyway because I want to, but at the same time I doubt I'll ever be proficient at it.
First thing's first. Japan is very xenophobic. They don't like idiots, they don't like weeaboos. So much they don't allow any form of immigration to their country. Whatsoever. No way you are going to become a citizen. Because they fucking hate foreigners as much as China hates Japanese.
Winston Bush ??
Yeah where to begin...
Don't mind this this guy....
Revisiting this episode because I'm taking Russian 101 next year. Stay tuned for horror stories of Communist LARPers and future CIA agents.
Your class will be full of talkies, I’m sure.
I will take wizard 101 for some variety.
My German class was super normal. I think everyone just liked the language and only a couple people really fit the stereotype of bearded Nordic looking dude with tattoos. tbh would recommend
Although I haven't really experienced something as severe as a random weeb talking to me like i'm their lifelong friend on the bus, I think I might have experienced a weird attempt at it by one of them. I have a Death Note key chain and a few pins of different characters on my bag and one day while riding the bus this guy in front of me was listening to music on his phone (it was anime openings with the lyrics/random pictures of the show on the background sort of video). He noticed my bag and started to deliberately show me his phone's screen in a obvious/non-obvious matter, you know like, holding it to his ear while the screen was facing me (even though he had headphones on) which he was not doing until after he noticed my bag.
I was tired so I pretended I was falling asleep but i would sometimes open my eyes like as if I was fighting the "sleepiness" and the guy would put the phone to his other ear, which was closer to me, with the screen facing me (same video on replay mind you) and, he would oddly try to do some eye contact but would just drop his stare to the pins and key chain once I returned the eye contact. It's like he wanted to say something or more likely he wanted me to start a conversation by commenting on the video he was constantly playing on the phone and oddly holding at my direction.
It went on for the remaining 15 minutes of the bus ride...
Jeezs :'D sounds hilarious
It's trying to communicate
The best phrase: "the weaboos continued" I laughed so much
"you see that ludicrous display last night"
nice I.T crowd refference
i imagine sounding gay in sign language is from the limp-wrist stereotype
When I first watched this video I wasn't in college. When I rewatched it I was a year out of college with Japanese as my foreign language. How time changes perspective. Luckily my classmates and I were better students than the people they talk about.
Latin is similar in the aspect of masculine and feminine distinctions, but luckily I don't have to deal with anyone whining about it being sexist in my classes. Thanks to this podcast, I have learned more about Japanese than I ever will in my life.
(Side note: you guys study at OSU? My Latin teacher studied there)
I would recommend people to self learn the language. A tad bit harder, but if you are motivated you can do it and not only will you learn it better but you will also learn how to self teach properly. That skill is invaluable in College and University.
As somebody who legitimately plans to learn Japanese and visit Japan because I’m actually interested in Japanese culture. This serves as a “What Not To Do” for any Japanese classes I take in the future......then again the first thing I was planning to do in Japan was visit a cat girl cafe (if it exists).....regardless this is a great podcast episode. Keep up the good work :)
i have the perfect way to decide if you should learn a language: its called "ptip"
Purpose
That
Isn't (entirely)
Porn
the porn can maybe come later, but dont learn languages for porn
But porn dialogue is so easy!
おおおおおおおおおおちんちんだよねおおおおおほおおよおおおほほおほおおお ちんちんが大好き おおおおおおおおおおおおおお
I took Japanese to learn about another culture while also learning how to interact and speak to its people. Same reason I took German. I was embarrassed to sit in a class with all these weebs who assumed everyone watched anime.
LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING ABOUT FRENCH CLASS
I'm a Spanish major (I love learning languages and about other cultures) and I'm in my senior year. Since I needed to fill more credits I decided to take intro to French because someday I want to get my PhD in romance languages (it's a thing). I go into class and it seems everyone is there because they think French is a cool language or they have French/Canadian/Swiss/etc heritage and want to connect with it more or they just want to learn a foreign language. Seems good, right?
THIS ONE GUY
He acts like he's French (he's not), he acts like he knows everything about French (he doesn't, I'm ahead of him actually), and he refuses to admit when he's wrong (he even throws a fit every time the prof corrects him). He acts like he's the only one who knows history or anything about learning a foreign language (even though another guy in my class already speaks 3 languages and I'm already fluent in Spanish AND I'm a history minor). He acts like he knows everything about French culture and even goes as far as trying to correct our prof on cultural stuff about France. And guess what, our prof IS FROM FRANCE.
It was annoying as hell and he reminds so God damn much of the weebs in these stories
Yo I fucking hate it when someone starts talking to me on public transit.
Pro tip for planes - stare forward, pop in some ear buds, and just smile (smile must show teeth)... no one will try to talk to you
I still watch this video like once a year LOL
Rewatching this as my little sister is taking Japanese for some ungodly reason. She is not a weeb and I don't think the girl has ever seen an anime in her life but I think her friend is who is taking the class with her. I am going to beg her to tell me the storys and see if this shit is universal
Man, stuff like this really gives a perspective of sorts. I was looking into TESL/TEFL/TESOL(aka teaching English, I have an interest in it) and I was looking at Japan as a possible location. Some research I had to do(long story) involved looking at the best areas to do it. I figured learning the language of the country I'd decide on trying to go to would be a good idea, but there was this subtle thought in my head about the stigmas and what-not.
Although, that being said, I'm probably never going to be able to go to university for linguistics or anything else that will involve me going to a foreign country for any sensible reason, so it's kind of just not an option. Still, this was interesting to listen to.
kOnNiChIwA,,, kYoWa,, Yi, tE-tE-tEnKi dEs' neEeEeE????????
Imaging a Japanese man showing up to English class like, "YASS BETCH!"
this is why I took french
1:11:14 nearly spit out my tea, that was a good one
will you guys ever do a lmtya about Davido-kun? I looked at the UA-cam thumbnails and I'm too scared to watch for myself
I thought they were gonna talk about Filthy Frank's Japanese 101 series
Me too.
There is a thing about speaking Japanese for weaboos. They are there to learn to read and stuff. After that getting pronunciation wrong and stuff is not that important.
At least thats me with English. I can read really good, write okay-ish, and speak kinda badly. Since all I do is read English.
That said I did not learn any English past Junior high school, since I don't really plan to go to England or wherever.
Thank you now I know how not to be a degenerate
imagine how the gay man who learns Japanese from his boy friend feels
i kinda wanna learn japanese só i can understand the lyrics for some japanese music from the 70's that i listen to. The melodies are cool.
Eyy can you name some? :>
1:13:02 Click on auto-text.
"..Even translating things I enjoy like I translate Nazism.."
From the town next to Gary, not nice. The police tell you not to stop at red lights to avoid getting robbed.
i saw a guy with a zaruba ring in a black trech coat and i was so close to asking him about garo
You know, as per my dads suggestion, I had wanted to try to save up money and take a tourist trip to Japan. Its been a childhood dream of mine as I was so into asian cultures, Japan included.
Course, these days I've come to realize that, much like our own country, these places see foreigners just as well as we do(Which is not at all). And now, seeing this and the rise of nationalism on the global stage and the experience of many others who have taken a trip to these places themselves, I realize that, you know, maybe its best to let that dream die as well.
If I have to learn a language, I'll do Japanese, because I really need that laugh after the terrible 12 years of school I've had
for the love of god please do more of this
That chinese goomba luigi sounded like egoraptor.
What kind of monster orders salami pizza just to take the salami off?
This is the best japanese class I've ever had
im glad i found this
Honestly, the sort of differentiation between levels of respect in japanese, like the difference in words with giving things depending on power, in a way it makes more sense than english, at least if we had words like that I could feel better about receiving them.
Does anyone know what Dan says at around 47:00?? He's talking about what the professor wrote in the notebook, but I can't quite make it out..
49:08
Ah. I see you are ALSO of culture. Good to know.
Lol all this is like, believable 100%. Lol we had super weebs that bled into all our illustration and animation classes.
I can't wait to attempt a language class. I mean I suck at languages but I gotta try
I thought the goomba in the thumbnail was killercroc
I thought being polish and gay was impossible ?
well i think he is not polish
he is probably an american who thinks he is special for having some famliy not from the united states
"You can be gay or drive a Prius, not both." Hilarious.
I've recently started (at OSU as well) and I'm doing a Russian and Math double major because I don't care about my well-being and Russia doesn't have as big a fanbase as does Japan luckily
RedLuigi235 I do notice a rise of people called "slavaboos"
32:34 what was the anime you guys listed?
i do like anime, i cant stand Otaku and Weeaboo's. I was born in the 90's so liking anime was a secret society thing and i miss that it wasn't mainstream like it is now due to the internet. I went to a Anime-con and omg....I hated it because there it was just too much. For example, fullmetal alchemist the voice actor of edward was premiering a live action video of the shot that u can't find online and when the movie was playing everyone was cheering over the video to the point you couldn't even hear what's going on. Then when caramelldansen dance comes out of the blue On "Que" Everyone starts dancing blocking exits and shit. After that I never went back. lol
Toshimurra i could just imagine the panic in your eyes, trying to escape this room of sweaty greasy people dancing like idiots but you can't, theyve blocked your path.
Its quite Worst actually when you have an Anxiety about crowds. lol
I like four manga and four anime, one of each being an overlap, so basically I like seven things from that media pool. I went to cons... "cons" as in plural. I tried so hard because it was something to do in Minnesota. On my fourth year or something of Anime Detour, I just ditched and went home on Saturday evening when activity was peaking. It was that bad.
The most sane demographic at those cons are the hardcore Resident Evil fans who wear full SWAT hazmat Umbrella gear with the expensive airsoft guns. I feel like the most sane fandoms of Japanese franchises are followers of the stuff that just doesn't seem very Japanese at all, like RE, Gunslinger Girl and Hellsing.
What's with this perception that anime is mainstream? Sure the online groups are noticeably large but that's because they'd be inherently drawn to mostly digital interaction. At my school you have the anime group but aside from that it's far and few between
these are great
subbed
Nobody will answer this, but I gotta wonder. What if one did take a Japanese class just for weeb shit, but they nonetheless actually took it completely seriously and weren't a complete goddamn tool about it.
Would that cross the line twice and return to acceptable, or not quite?
I mean thats what Dan and Michael did
Oh my god thank you for the laughs my god this is all hilarious
> Text translation is dying
They've been saying that for 50 years already, and it'll take it 50 more to start dying for real.
You are completely right about the process turning out to be much harder than an average person thinks and the fact that you'll never make a living unless you do technical translation, though.
このビデオを見たらお前ら結構自信を持ってるじゃん。専門が日本語なんだから気になってマイケルたちの上手さを味わってみたいぜ。ご返事を待ってます。
@1:19:00 are you guys from Indiana?
General midwest area yeah. Gary Indiana is the worst place in america
It saddened me when I learned that more people know about my state because of Gary than because of the Indy 500 or something else. I can at least take pride if people know about us because of something requiring skill or because of landmarks but I think people get the wrong idea of this state because Gary is so bad and the south of my state is a giant dump.
NeflewitzInc Hey dude, don't be sad. All Illinois has is Chicago and corrupt politics.
NeflewitzInc I know the feel, all anyone knows about Michigan is Flint and Detroit (which TBH aren't all that bad yeah they have their rough spots but it's not like you'll get instantly murdered. When I went to D.C. I felt more unsafe.) And I guess those kids who killed that guy by throwing rocks off a bridge. Actually I live in the next town over from them.
at least she could have spoke about a better anime to a professor
this is my worst nightmare
Your new videos aren't showing up in my subscription feed. WTF youtube get your shit together.
you should write a strongly worded letter
gary Indiana? do my hero's live near me?
kobakechoo
Kabukichou
That Japanese was so fluid man
fr he talked the talk
God, now I'm dreading what the Arabic classes must be like.
What's up with the echo in this episode?
I had to do some weird impromptu ASMR roleplay to record in some crazy conditions because michael was a fuckman and kept clicking his fucking mouse among other reasons.
**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**click**
nice vid
It's always stomach churning when you realise there's no such thing as "what does this word mean in X?" Like each language has its own original words. You can replace them but you probably won't have an exact match.
Wait, OSU? Like, Oregon State? Or...???
flyde Ohio State. In the pizza episode Dan talks about how he delivered pizzas around Columbus.
Actually got to interact with some young weebs in the wild today, and those little shits looked at me like I was crazy! So much for memory lane.
woot woot early train fo the bad boyz
There's nothing wrong being a casual anime fan and having an interest in the Japanese language, right?
Daniel Han no, just don't take Japanese and be a weeb about it
Right. But there is a dividing line between the full on weebs, and the sensible anime fans. A lot of the time you'll hear weebs talk about how much they like the Japanese language and want to learn about it, however they either have never tried or say they want to try and then just piss around with their anime obsession getting in the way of any meaningful learning.
This isn't an attack on you by the way, because from what you said, you seem like a normal anime fan, aka non-weeb. I am a VERY casual anime fan (excited for code geass R3 but the last anime I watched was probably like 6 months ago) but that doesn't really even come up in the realm of discussion when I study Japanese. The main difference between when an anime fan's obsession becomes a problem is when it gets in the way of them learning the language. If you're going to try hard to understand the grammar in a lesson or by self-teaching then you're absolutely not a weeb, but weebs are the ones who have an idea of learning Japanese as just learning basic phrases they hear in anime and somehow that means they can watch anime unsubbed or something.
Good luck if you decide or have decided since your posting of your comment to learn Japanese! I began self-studying almost 3 years ago and while I don't keep at it as often as I used to back then, it is an ongoing challenging journey but is very fun and is great when you actually start to understand pieces of native media (e.g. anime, but in my case it's music).
Oh, I have soooooooo many stories.