Uki Uki Chat! - Nonverbal Communication
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Welcome to Uki Uki Chat!
This is a casual round-table discussion on various topics related to Japan.
The topic of this week's video is nonverbal communication.
In Japan, there is a very strong emphasis on communicating through non-verbal methods (facial expressions, body language, gestures, etc.) rather than explaining things in words.
Do you have any topic you would like us to discuss? Please let us know in the comment section.
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uk uki chat is very interesting! culture lessons is so usefull! domo arigato gozaimashita maaku
Hope you enjoyed this video. You can find ALL of our Uki Uki episodes here! (^^)
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They're just sensitive and considerate. Nobody likes being told "no" and being rejected for anything, but we're hypocrites and we do it to each other all the time, like we're striving for dominance and authority, instead of caring about how the other person feels about the way we come across.
+Jack Laurence We may not always succeed, but we try. :) Thank you for the kind comment.
This confused me when you started talking about ちょうと because this was supposed to be about non-verbal or paralinguistic features.
Exactly! I felt the same way.
Sensei ARIGATOU GOZAIMASU!, this chats so interesting a funny, i would learned and follow learned with your... is good what there are sensei same your. Thanks...
i use the word "chotto" for say "chotto mate kudasai" and now learned new use..
Mata ne!
+Ana MaríaNieves Ramírez Torres Yes, "chotto" is such a useful and versatile word!
Very informative! Some of the things discussed really happened to me.
Hope you can also discuss how if there is misunderstanding between a foreigner and a Japanese. How to handle this one? And how to manage their anger? 😊 thanks!
Very interesting video. Irish people seem similar to the Japanese in not wanting to offend anyone and maybe not directly telling people 'no'. We're generally not confrontational or very forward with people.
IanMVB Souns like an interesting similarity, indeed! I hope I'll get a chance to visit Ireland one day or meet Irish people and experience it firsthand. :)
おもしろいですよ！ビデオをありがとうございます。(I really hope I wrote that sentence correctly! ^_^ )
amdw コメントをありがとうございます！Yes, you wrote it perfectly :D
This new series is excellent! These sociolinguistic perspectives are so useful! Arigatou gozaimasu!
Unidentified User Thank you so much for the feedback! Very much appreciated.
great teacher, great chat, great topics
Uki sensei, sumimasen. Is there another polite way to express/show respect other than the bow? What can one who is unable to bow do to show equal respect? Arigatou gozaimasu.
Hey guys! Uki Uki Chat seems very promising! Maybe next episode you could talk about meeting and talking to strangers, and maybe courtship... What are the common rules and no-nos?
Uatarreu That's certainly an interesting topic. Thank you for the suggestion!
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コメントをありがとうございます！これからもよろしくお願いします。(^^)
This is NOT about nonverbal communication at all. Disappointing.
Very interesting lectures and very easy to understand.please give a short lecture on some business words,styles expressions in japanese.
This was so very helpful! I can't wait for more cultural lessons like this! Could you talk about common etiquette more? You touched on bowing when saying greetings, so more along those lines would be very helpful! Maybe even some etiquette when eating?
xxHIMfanxoxo That's right, social etiquettes are super important in Japan. I'm so glad you found this discussion helpful! We hope to continue talking about this topic some more.
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Hello and thanks a lot for all your videos.
Could you talk about what makes japanese people laugh ? Is manzai still a big thing ? What about rakugo or gaki no tsukai ?
Have a nice day ^^
King Angus Humor is certainly a great topic! Thank you for your suggestion. :)
Thanks to watching Japanese cartoons as a kid, I picked up on bowing when saying "thank you" and "I'm sorry" in English. My family used to laugh at me for it though, so I had to American it up a bit. I only actually BOW when I'm really thankful or really sorry. A light "I'm sorry" is now the shoulder-shrug and "thank you" gets a small half-nod-half-bow where I never break eye contact.
But I do use the bow for non-verbal communication. Like with the crossing-the-street thing you were talking about. I do a small bow before crossing. The drivers usually bow back (or at least nod their heads since bowing in a car is a little tricky). Sometimes I wave and they'll wave back. I think people naturally just respond reciprocally.
CrazedsHideout Wow, I'm impressed to hear that you've picked up on bowing from anime! That's pretty cool. :)
Kurahara Sensei Hehe, thank you! It also impressed a lot of Japanese people when I went to Japan last month. Also that I can eat with chopsticks. Basically, it impressed them that I didn't live under a rock. ^_^;
CrazedsHideout i'm eating with chopsticks everything (even soups), my relatives got used to it, however other people think i'm weirdo, insane, or something like that. I'm starting to think that a freedom of habits is not as free as other people think. every time I pick chopsticks over a fork people demand the explanation why i'm doing it. or starting to say that i'll fail to use it properly and it will be ashaming for them. Do you have similar issues, or it's just me unlucky?
(Sorry it's long)
a Person I just kinda go with whatever's the easiest to eat with. Chopsticks are far and away easier to clean than forks, so they became my staple utensil in college. Plus, I bought a set of 5 chopsticks but I only had 3 forks. So I had some college roommates that were confused at first, but most of them just played it off as my love of Japanese and Korean things rather than me hating to do dishes. That's also how the played off the fact that I bow sometimes. XD
But when I went back home for summer, forks are the most widely available, so I switched to them. Though I did use chopsticks for ramen or if we were running low on forks.
But yeah, I never really felt the social pressure. If I'm given chopsticks, I know how to use them properly. If I'm given a fork, I'll use that too. I think the active seeking out of chopsticks is what would throw people off. I live in China right now (I'm an English teacher), so it's pretty common place for me to use chopsticks every day. Some restaurants will give me forks instead of chopsticks because I'm a 174cm, blonde haired, light-eyed, white girl and obviously not Chinese, but a lot of places don't carry forks, so they're always delighted and amazed by the fact that I can use them properly. However, at the school I teach at, we're given 3 meals a day. And for each of the 3 meals, the only utensil we're given is a spoon. One of the other English teachers didn't know how to use chopsticks, so she started bringing chopsticks to lunch and dinner to practice. The Chinese teachers thought it was really weird and funny, but they got used to it when she explained why she was doing it.
Soooo, I guess the point I'm trying to get at is to just do your own thing. I'm a kind of weird person to begin with, so my friend and family kind of brush off anything I do as being... well... me. If they ask why, just tell them that you're more comfortable with chopsticks if that's the truth. The less you care, the less others care.
CrazedsHideout
thank you for the explanation :)
Wow I was just talking about that, how they bow over the phone when Im watching Korean dramas xD
Kawaii Anime Bunnies Yes, the same goes for Japanese dramas. (^^)
This was an excellent video.looking forward for more productive videos like this .uki uki des ne.doumo arigato sensei.
Supriya Gaikar コメントをありがとうございます！
やった！ i love the format of this video! & such enlightening content, I'm glad that i saw this.
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Uki Uki chat is great! Just a little more Japanese words is would be better.
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First I want to say that "Thank you about this conversation" because I agree with you copletely, body language is more important than speaking language .
Abdulkadir Mersinli Absolutely. There's so much that you can express through body language, e.g. facial expressions, gestures, etc.
Of course Kurahara Sensei , people in Turkey use specific facial expressions, gestures, signals for non-verbal communication. I would like to admit that Turkish and Japanese languages come from the same family and I also found out that our body languages have a lot of in common. You can find many similar gestures in the languages all over the world, but they actually have different meanings .Thanks for reply.
very informative and interesting video, keep it up :) will wait for new episodes. btw, if it fits the format, can you please explain sometime why Japanese people hag their loved ones from the back? is it suitable to hug someone right on the street, or it would be considered rude/vulgar?
a Person I would say hugging someone from behind is one of those things that you see more often in dramas and movies. In real life, Japanese people are (generally speaking) not too big on showing affection publicly.
Kurahara Sensei
thank you for the clarification. it's something different from our European style of communication.
all the ろまじ...
ありがとうございました〜
Kendra Carlson こちらこそ、ありがとうございました (^^)