そんな風に言ってもらえて、嬉しいです！😊ありがとう😆💕✨

Thank you for your comment and insight!! We are taught to work together in our early education:) We clean our class room together, serve lunch to other kids with group of people, and teachers tell us to be considerate of others and the group constantly. So I think when it comes to working on something together, Japanese people are accustomed to coming to a solution in a peaceful way :) But in my opinion we might lack critical thinking because we aren't used to debate or battling in the discussion:):) I think if we mix those it will be amazing haha

@@mikurealjapanese Yes, and you try to read the atmosphere of the room, and are very careful how you phrase things so as not to offend. A lot of "so so", never "bad"/

@@mikurealjapanese I didn't see the last part you wrote. Yes, both ways, have their positives and negatives. It is true that there is a downside. Sometimes independent thinking and individuality can be lost.

Interesting. If only those quick decisions in US classes happened in business or other settings in Japan. I wish I could experience such amazement after 23 years in country. Solving something so everyone is happy or at least agrees takes an enormous amount of time when something serious is on the line.

Hi Milton... I have a funny story about this. My mother taught elementary school in a poor area in Washington State. She used to be a japanese Highschool teacher, so the principal asked her to start a Japanese immersion program. She hired 4 Japanese young women to work at the school who needed work VISA in America. They began educating the children, and after a year or two, the children were extremely orderly and all lined up very neatly and cooperated (compared to the other classes who were not taking Japanese). One of the techniques of the Japanese teachers (which they did naturally without thinking about it) was to ignore negative behavior rather than focus on it, and the children also learned to ignore other kids who were doing negative things. These are the types of cultural queues we can only notice if we spend a lot of time around a culture. most Japanese people aren't aware of these differences!

The word order is Subject-Object-Verb, same as my native language (Turkish) so that part makes sense to me =)

Hi!! Thank you for your comment:) There is no good or bad :):) Each country has different communication style :) But when in Rome.... right ? :) When I was living in Europe I had to adjust myself too haha I hope these videos can help people understand the cultural differences:):)

You could buy books for language learners, like "Japanese Stories for language learners": there are 5 short stories in Japanese, with a lot of vocabulary's and grammar's explanations (and of course a translation in English - this book is also translated in other languages, like French very recently). The 5 short stories are: - 浦島太郎 (Urashima Tarô) - 雪女 (Yuki-onna) - 蜘蛛の糸 ("Spider Thread"), a classical and very famous story from 芥川龍之介 (Akutagawa Ryûnosuke) - 溺れかけた兄弟 (The Siblings who almost drawn), from 有島武郎 (Arishima Takeo) - セロ弾きのゴーシュ (Gauche the Cellist), another great and famous novel from 宮沢賢治 (Miyazawa Kenji), from which Isao Takahata has produced an anime in the 80's. Those stories have been written in modern kana spelling and modern kanji (新字体), instead of 歴史的仮名遣い (historal kana's spelling) and 旧字体 (or should I say 舊字體), so it is (somewhat) 分かりやすい. If you are unable to purchase those books or have already read those, there is an excellent website called 青空文庫 (Aozora Bunko). In this site, you can read classical Japanese stories, essentially those that were written before WW2 (they are old enough to be read freely and legally). There, you can read other excellent (but more difficult) Akutagawa's novels like 藪の中 and 羅生門 (both novels inspired Kurosawa's movie called "Rashômon"), or other Miyazawa's novels like 注文の多い料理店 (it seems many Japanese children have read this short story, so it is quite "easy" to understand) or the famous (but much longer) 銀河鉄道の夜 (Night on the Galactic Railroad), and I also like よだかの星 a lot (not too hard to read). I could also recommend ごん狐 from 新美 南吉 (Nankichi Niimi): this story reminds me Naruto a little. There are also famous novels from 夏目漱石 (Natsume Souseki, which is supposed to be the most famous Japanese writer of his era). Some mystery and thriller stories seem very interesting too, like those from 江戸川乱歩 (Edogawa Ranpo, whose name inspired hero's nickname of Detective Conan manga/anime). Just be aware that in Aozora Bunko, some novels are in different versions, e.g. 新字新仮名 (new kanji, modern kana's spelling) or 新字旧仮名 (new kanji, old kana's spelling), and sometimes there is just one version in 旧字旧仮名 (old kanji, old kana's spelling). In my case, I get used to 旧字旧仮名 much more faster than I thought (there are just some rules to know in historical kana's spelling, and old kanji or "Kyûjitai" are not a big issue to me).

全部わからなくても、いいですよ😊少しでも、聞き取れて、新しい単語が学べたら、大丈夫😊

今は、忙しくて、新しい生徒を受け付けてないんです😭すみません😥

はい わかりました ありがとう がざいます。

ありがとう😆💕✨やくにたったら、うれしいです♥️