hi

Puppy ramen? I’m in!

Hi Chris!

hi

Hi

😂😂😂

Ahh I was waiting for this comment! 🤣

I was genuinely confused by this haha

😂

Nobody's perfect

Exactly! This has been the bane of my existence for the 20 years I’ve lived in Japan. Luckily for me I work in schools here...so everyone is just, “SENSEI”.

Yes yes yes! At my school it was so hard to remember 500 names to use instead of pronouns ahhhhh impossible. :'(

Aeneas Yeah, I tried to remember students’ names for the first couple of years...and then realized the futility of that and just basically gave up. Where were you teaching, btw?

With all the Kanji and having to remember people's names, Japanese has proven to be an excelent exercise for memory.

You've just got to use their name until you remember it.

Probably because the kanji for food used in the sentence above "飯" is also the kanji used for rice "ご飯".

@@user-qx1om2wj1h Well, yes, but if anything, it should be "rice of United States" (or even of America), not "United States of rice"... That's a country, like the United Kingdom of Fish and Chips.

@@alloymetal7861 either way it would sound strange and I don't get why they change America to the united states when it wasn't necessary. maybe Google is just trolling?😆

Could be worse... Imagine what it would do with 米国のご飯.

This almost made me spit out my water LOL

ur here??? wtf

Woah, almost like a crossover episode!

I don't understand what I'm saying!

Yes, puppy Ramen on pork week unpleasant very much yes.

Great chemical video with great chemical content. Two stars

Legit thought he/they yelled back to the elderly.

hahahahha

Big mood 😂😂

Well angry is a mood, so it's literally a mood lol

tbh, that could easily be an untranslated 1-star review by a native english speaker.

My Japanese students used to use it to cheat on their English homework. The results were horrendous.

@@AbroadinJapan Any chance on making a video reacting to those results?

@@AbroadinJapan PLEASE make a video about that! 😂

Abroad in Japan I teach ESL to Spanish speaking students. Since I run essays and projects through a program to detect plagiarism, one of my students got creative and plagiarized a Spanish document by running it through Google translate. First of all, I know my students and it just sounded “too good.” Second, even though Google translate is great for Spanish/English, it is not perfect. The mistakes made me suspicious that it was a literal translation. So I reversed the translation back to Spanish thanks to Google and a brief search brought up the original article. I was so upset, not only because of the attempt to plagiarize, but because it was one more thing I had to worry about when grading papers.

@@favforsue geez that sounds awful!!!

hahahah definately Ill say it with an excited voice like an anime character too cant wait to see people's reactions

Now that i think about it is kinda cute tough lol

Hey if Full Stomach is not an achivement then i don't know what it would be.

Digestor at Maximum Capacity.

When you described it, the first thing that came to my mind was a Pug. Maybe Google likes dogs so it chose puppy.

Because who can tolerate ramen without small noses in it?

does anyone want Flat face with a small nose ramen?

Natural. Google Translate works on analysing languages like ciphers, and has no understanding. Thus, it can only look at large datasets and get out an answer. If a word is used in a common meaning, and the second meaning is very rarely used. it is very normal for this to happen

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@@AbroadinJapan 😄😄😄😄

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Lol

Yes David was a strange one wasn’t he

lmaooo

lmaoo

Wow, you might owned mount Everest if you go there XD

For when you are REALLY hungry... ... MOUNTAIN DISH! Has a lot of minerals too! xDDD

@@Angel-wo8gv And for only $5.99

Some people who speak only broken english can only understand like english talked like their native language. "Our car" can be "we car" etc.. But yeah if you speak a language well your brain kinda switches.

As a native Polish & English speaker and intermediate Japanese learner - it's so much easier learning Japanese via Polish. Polish is really flexible with SVO/SOV you can even do VSO with correct word aspects etc. It might sound bit odd, but you can make it grammatically correct. Plus, Polish let's you imply the subject by modifying words, which something Japanese does a lot, it's not that there's no subject in Japanese. A lot of languages do that actually, English is probably unusual in being rather strict. I just learned to try to force the English parts of my brain off and things go so much more smoothly. I think English's grammatical simplicity makes it a lot easier to pick up - at the cost of making it rather inflexible.

Aah... amateur.

That's kinda creepy saying that sentence is acting like machine not like human being

Prypiat 0 Not creepy. It’s super Krispy and Cool.

Sounds like a finishing move once you're done eating.

Seems like a pretty sticky thing to do.

That bothered me too

Literally just about to comment this lol.

I think the door slamming shut was supposed to indicate that they were walking into the store afterwards. But I dunno why the sign would be on the outside...

@@evanever I think the footage was of a shopkeeper coming inside and opening his shop for the day

How else do you expect a charming British guy to receive hate mail. He leaves his closed imaginary restaurant open for criticism.

Breaking teeth on gummy candy will never make perfect sense.

Yes

Thhhpinal

I first thought it is a re zero reference

Legitimate question ive learning hiragana and katakana but to understand the kanji how since there are so many symbols that stand for objects it would take forever to learn. Ive seen then use in phrases or sentence in conjunction two and I slow am able to translate it(still new I translate writeing thing down in my japanese notebook) but the kanji I can't figure out any tips or tricks going forward I would be in Japan learning but the gap year where I would learn the lauguage and the culture got stopped by corona sooo..... That isn't happening

I've known Ryotaro 5 years and there's barely been a day he hasn't whipped out his beloved drawer metaphor mid conversation.

@@AbroadinJapan So you're right on point with his obsession with drawers

@@AbroadinJapan It seems like trilingual people talk about how theyre trilingual more than the other languages they speak cause I have a friend who does the same thing

@@AbroadinJapan 5 years of this wisdom and you told us just now?

GroundHawg465 I think mentioning that I’m trilingual to people in English is more effective than writing a comment in a language the majority of the channel’s viewers don’t understand. But yeah, we do mention it when it’s relevant.

I though I was the only person this happened to! I try to remember some basic Spanish words I learned back in middle school, but my brain wants to say it in Japanese.

i suck at many languages, but i like etymology. i like to try and understand abit of the thoughtprocesses and associations of the foreign mind behind the language. now, that is facinating to me . .. however, i tend to not care that much about grammar and being specific. i talk like caveman. person primitive utterance it is!

@@scintillam_dei En efecto, la fonética es casi idéntica, se pueden decir palabras de un idioma al otro y entenderlas debido a la alta similitud en fonética. A diferencia de algunos angloparlantes que meten fonética angloparlante al idioma japonés entonces escucharíamos algunos horrores... Por ejemplo "Miyamoto" les sonaría algo asi como "Meejamoutou".

@@scintillam_dei it blew my mind when I found out anata means anta in Arabic, my only problem is that masu sounds a lot like the word for sucking in Arabic, but I'm also over that

The drawer metaphor is excellent. I learned English without using translation at any point, and I effectively have two separate departments - one for English, another for my native language. I'm terrible at translation, if one drawer is open I have no idea what the word in the closed drawer would be. I have to kind of pull back until I only see the full image/context/situation, and then use the other language to describe it. It's very hard to translate on a word-by-word level. I couldn't do it at all, until I had to start helping my wife learning my language, so I'm slightly better at translation now, but only a bit. The mixed-up drawers for languages you aren't fully confident in is also spot on. It happens to me with Japanese and another language.. both ways. When I want one, the other pops up at the same time.

Smile and wave boys

Lolz, well at least there wasn't any negativity involved....

Reminds me of 'fairy' in Japanese (妖精) literally meaning "demon spirit" in Chinese (妖精). Think examples of these feed into opinions/arguments etc that I've heard of others calling Japanese a 'b*****disation' of Chinese

@@lzh4950 Don’t you mean a Let’sStanddisation if Chinese?

Im proud to be a normal bastard.

At least bing was honest...

I gonna laugh to death on this one 😂🤣🤣

_DECEARING EGG_

It's not just Japanese, basically most languages have the same issue with Google translate. I use it a lot to translate Arabic and it's miserable; especially, when it comes to sentences.

its because google is bad at english too.

Fun fact: Japanese egg cakes ( _tamago_ 玉子) literally means 'corn' in Chinese ('玉'; '子' in Chinese is meaningless when used immediately after '玉', but on it's own can mean 'son')

these days it translates to "thank you" on google translate

どうぞよろしく！

Said the actress to the bishop

I want that on my TShirt

I may have spat a bit at my screen laughing at this.

please tell me you eventually asked them

@@adam_kano and we never heard of him again.. hope the family tossing ended well.

Abroad in England you say

Last time i was this quick was with my girlfriend... Probably why she left me

I was expecting Chad from Seattle, but I guess Dave would do

@@truepotential206 i8í

Holy cow dude Dave in Japan just liked your comment!

How badly did they want to create puppy ramen? Guess we will never know

Ikr they are disliking their translation

Extra Japanese lessons yes

No. The dislikes are from SJW's, as Chris just advised people to avoid using pronouns.

😂

That's how it's done in Japan

Because it's open

Plot twist, the footage was reversed

Ok ? Lol really weirdly non important bill to die on.

Hill*

Honestly in the restaurant business we take most online reviews as absolute jokes. Unfortunately some people still hold overall ratings in high regards though.

Right? Someone had a good meal. 3 stars...what? Were they expecting a stage performance and a wire act to push that up to 4-5 stars or something? You're buying a meal not doing a film review.

Mad Hatters in jeans My personal favorite review I ever got was a one star review that said “best Mac n cheese I ever had.” So I joked that while it was the best they ever had, they happen to really hate Mac n cheese lol

​@@Madhattersinjeans I think it's better off this way. While we are willing to give 5 stars if nothing "bad" happens, they give 3 stars on average. And if their experience is beyond their expectations, they give more. I mean giving 5 stars should be a big deal, right? It's the maximum appreciation you can give to a restaurant. So it's acceptable for someone that just had a good meal to give 3 stars if that's what they expected, nothing more, nothing less. Also you should take into account that there are plenty of additional factors other than the quality of food affecting their opinions.

If you leave a 5 star review, they'll probably print it out & hang it on the wall.

*Risottaro

So much for "favour going forward." 🤣

He should host an American talk show, he's a natural.

そうですか？この和文を分かれて書けますか？ 笑み

Same

Ey saaaame

I took sticky notes, placed them around the house on items like the bookshelf (hondana), lamp (ranpu), etc. w their phonetic spelling and Kanji. If I'm ever lost in Japan I can now ask for water(Mizu). 😁

Yes please!

Surely not as genius as prerecorded Ryotato appearing in the corner of the screen and saying "amateur".

I mean.... Japanese sounds easier than the absolute garbage on fire which is the English language. I am from asia so Japanese has lots of similarities in word placement compared to my first language. But english, ohh man.

To add to my reply, english moves around the words so much. I know everyone that only knows english thinks that word placement in a sentence is normal but why have “I went to the toilet because I needed to pee” instead of “needed pee so went toilet”?

@@sungibatman1996 Different languages have different word order, wtf is even that complaint lol. But wonder how'd you like learning russian, which doesn't have any word order and you're allowed to do whatever you want. Also, it's "dumpster fire" :)

@@sungibatman1996 yeah if you already know an Asian language Japanese will obviously be easier since its significantly more similar to your own language than English, which isn't an asian language

Exactly 🎰

I immediately thought it must be a massage parlor clerk cross-training.

Or arrogant

Pretentious, Uppity, Primadonna.

This makes sense

Gay

😂

Brilliant

Best comment

Wait until you learn the word 気... THEY USE IT FOR EVERYTHING I HATE IT!

@@hanyuu8672 気になった。

@@hanyuu8672 what does that word mean?

@@aditichawla8606 energy/spirit/vigor/atmosphere

@@aditichawla8606 energy/spirit/vigor/atmosphere

It's more that the type of people who bother to leave to reviews are almost universally hyper critical and Karens in training.

@@aartadventure Exactly this. I'm sure it's mostly universal, few people leave a positive review unless their experience was really exceptional, but, people will leave a negative review if even the smallest thing was wrong. This can really make a mess of review systems, rather recently the Steam Store tried to combat this by displaying a 'Would you recommend this game? [Yes] [No]' box whenever you go to start the game, forcing more users to leave a simple review and correct the skewed reviews for sometimes very good products. :)

It's true. I work in Japan and get this shit all the time. I had to profusely apologize for another companies "mistake." In the end our reputation was damaged because earlier that week in a different city, a different company pissed the customer off. Somehow that was our fault and we get a bad review and our reputation is permanently damaged.

"some crazy obaasan yelled at me" Well, sure. She was offended because you didn't call her "obasan". tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ObaSan

@@mikeshoults4155 oh wow that sucks....

I was also thinking of peacocking or poser. Cringey or extra could also work. There's more you could use depending on what type was actually implied 🤔 I think he's been in Japan for so long he's now out of the loop of things 😂

Isn't "flexing" colloquial for "showing off"?

@@ThePandafriend "showing off" is essentially "trying to make oneself look cool" but using less words

Primping, preening, posing, boasting

Or just tryhard

🤣🤣

Ahhh YES!!! that's a Tenth Doctor reference?! Ahhh I love Doctor Who!!

@@piotrbojkoff I honestly never gave it much thought until now. I struggle to think of another example where "it" is so vague other than weather, but I'm sure there are many. In this case, I would suggest that "it" is the sky or climate. I like the idea of "state of being" defined as its own category. Another way to look at it (at least in English) is that "it" is a shorthand for "the thing that I am describing exists in the manner that I have described it". "It is a nice car.' "The car is nice." In practice, these mean exactly the same thing. If there is any slight difference, it might be this: It is a nice car. This thing that we are talking about is an object called "a nice car". The car is nice. This car that we are talking about is modified to include the property of being "nice". Confusingly, we have yet another way to say it: What's nice, is that car. Among the collection of all things that can be described as "nice", I bring your attention to that car in particular. I suppose that I could go on and on, but I'll share you further agony. Ultimately, I suppose the main difference between these is which part of the statement gets the emphasis or direction. Consider the difference between: "Что видит Мария?" and "Что Мария видит?" They seem to say the same thing, but how would you describe the difference, other than one might just sound better?

@@piotrbojkoff Your point is valid, though I would hastily add that if you change the context, you change the meaning. By adding the sentence about the donkey, you change the meaning of the "it" that follows; it's now a regular pronoun. You can do this with any sentence that uses pronouns or other indefinite or ambiguous construction. There isn't anything special about the "it" pertaining to rain. If I said "This is my shoe, it is raining", I have just claimed that my shoe is raining. Like you correctly said, factually incorrect but otherwise a valid sentence. "Look at this donkey. This car is nice." If the sentence about the car requires prior mention, shouldn't the donkey also? I am open to the idea that the weather and environment might be a default assumption made when there is no other clear candidate. The sentence "It's hot" means different things of I'm standing next to a picture of a beautiful woman, a pot of boiling water, or a trending Reddit post. But without any of that context, I'm probably talking about the air temperature in the room, or about the air temperature outside. If I think it's ambiguous, I might specify "in here" or "out there". I think you're on the right path with known vs. unknown information. I would stretch that a bit more to speak of what may be assumed or inferred. If I am wearing beach attire and drinking an iced beverage, it would be strange to assume that I am talking about the temperature in the core of the Sun when I mention how hot it is. Language is, ultimately, a social exercise. It therefore relies, to some degree, on having a common basis of understanding. This is why it is often difficult to accurately translate ancient documents. In America, there are numerous legal battles about the meaning of statutes written just a few decades earlier, and even of our Constitution itself. Evidence of this is in the dictionary and thesaurus: why is it that so many words have two or more definitions, and so many ideas can be represented by several different words or phrases? This is also why I think many misunderstandings happen between people who may share a language but who have very different ideas about the underlying social and cultural underpinnings of it. Getting back to the question at hand, perhaps "it" is the nearest "thing" to the speaker. As people generally don't refer to themselves as "it", the next most immediate thing is the speaker's environment. And if there is some additional context to the conversation, that becomes more immediate. Of course, the ambiguities in language can also make it fun and give it some spice. This conversation has caused the sentence, "This is a nice car and it is raining" to be ambiguous because it isn't always clear whether it is joining two predicates with the same subject or joining two independent clauses. :)

@@piotrbojkoff Oh, I forgot to add... I'm not sure that I support the idea of an act with no actor. While it may be possible to engineer such a sentence, they simply don't occur in normal speech or writing. When the object is a noun, it can be reflexive and self-referential.

I must say that the objects being dropped from the phrases happens in Portuguese too (you know, one of the four main latin languages, the sister of spanish that everyone forgets that exists, despite being the 3° most talked western language just behind english and spanish? Not that i'm being salty or anything, hahaha). It has its own classification on grammar, with the objectless phrases (for example, "choveu". It would be something like "rained", the past form of the verb rain. It's objectless because, who rained? The cloud? No, it just happened without anyone doing anything) and the invisible object phrases (for example, "comi", meaning "i ate". The verb conjugates with the object and the time, so it's implied that the verb is in the past and in 1° person without adding anything. I'm no expert in languages whatsoever, but i think that the "it" situation in english (that i used multiple times in my comment, hahaha) come from the implicit rule that every phrase needs an obejct, even if it doesn't necesserily sense. I don't know if that rule emerged naturally or some white dudes in the 19 century thought that they were being smarter than everyone else (for what i know, it happened a lot with english, people meddling with the language desregarding the structures of the language in favor of their own ego and will, i'd say to watch the Storied youtube channel video "Why the english spelling is so weird?" or something like that, it's easy to find and pretty informative.

I’m an American and I’ve heard of the term but don’t use it, also in my area we pronounce it “droars” as in the American pronunciation of oars

Can't stand it when people give 5 stars to restaurants that provided decent service lol. To me, 3/5 = decent, 4/5 = amazing, 5/5 = unmatched

Weird, I default to five stars and take away points as needed. 5/5 Great! No complaints. 4/5 Pretty good. I’ll come back. 3/5 Fine. I was fed. 2/5 Unpleasant. Bad times. 1/5 Fucking garbage. 0/5 Call the authorities immediately.

Nancy Sheep Love that last one 🤣

@@cin3859 I have the same mentality, but it's just a matter of perspective, expectations, optimism/ pessimism. Some people go in delighted already and something bad has to happen to make their experience worse. Others go in to be made happy and with high expectations and a miracle has to happen, to lighten up their perception. I don't wanna talk down the latter option (I even have a very close friend who's pretty much like this), but I think the optimistic way is definetly more fun :D Have a nice day everyone :)

@@assassinaria i just give 1 regardless of how good it was

Or opening drawers 😄

It's an old joke that has been recycled to death....just fucking let it die already. You're not being cleaver by using it, social lemming.

underrated comment ^

I always felt like he was trying to say “just is delicious.” If I remember, he was asked to describe the food in one word, and “delicious” seemed to me like the word he was working towards. 🤷🏻‍♂️

Google translate: *dies* translating it into Japanese

You have to consider though the fact that the most common reviewing platform for restaurants, in Japan, is Tabelog: there, the highest scores are reserved for the finest dining experiences. For a casual lunch, three and a half stars is absolutely not that bad.

Ikr like they make no sense still lol The ones less than 3 barely described exactly why it was bad they just said it was bad Like the “terrible, staff tried to be cool” like what??

@@V.U.4six Yeah, I didn't understand that one either. Does it mean that the employees were snobby?

@@ontheroadtechno I still think even if the number of stars makes sense, you should still say something about the restaurant and not a probably unrelated incident.

@@hexyko4850 Once when I was a teenager I went to Pizza Hut with some friends, and some waiter was trying to act cool by making sex jokes with us like we were friends. I'm very reserved so that was definitely an unpleasant experience. Maybe it was something similar?

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Mhm

More like the reason behind why there are so many strange English sentences on Japanese merch.

Kevin was a gem

this but unironically

Japanese works very differently. I'd say you actually have more words in a Japanese sentence than in an English one, but many of the are completely untranslatable. They are meant to show what the subject and them object of the sentence are. So if you would say: "dogs like bones", it would be :"Inu wa hone ga suki desu" "Wa" says that "Inu/dog" is the subject "Ga" means that "hone/bones" is the object These words often make other words redundant. If you say "like apples" it makes no sense, but if you say in Japanese "apples GA like" it means that the apples are liked by someone, probably the speaker.

@@cassif19 bro... It's a joke from the office...

to be honest kanji is like a huge compilation of symbols, just like emojis in your phone

Pranav Kameshwar probably used google translation 😂

@@2fat2furiouz Ha! 😄

perks of being British

Who is also reasonably priced.

Omg that ckacked me! :DDDD :D :D :D

It’s almost like we could have taken the whole day off!

reverse psychology

Remember, when he is being evil he is using his alter ego, Risotaro.

Observe. He didn't blink even once during the time he was smiling. Clearly a serial killer. Jk.

Oh god these drawers. Help mee

Good catch "What a shame it become non-smoking. Somehow I'm no longer hungry!"

Call Reed, he might accompany Parker.

the long-term existence of engrish.com is a testament to that!

Short answer is, in polite conversation with strangers, don't ever use pronouns. Names only.

@@AkiAmeko If they're a stranger, how would you know their name?

@@IanCunningham92 you get their attention by apologizing and asking if you may ask them something

@@IanCunningham92 In a brief conversation I assume you can communicate without pronouns entirely because you can drop that from Japanese sentences entirely and both parties know the context most of the time. When introducing yourself to someone for the first time, like a business meeting or a new friend at the bar, it's customary to ask their name asap. (Although anyone who knows Japanese better than I is free to correct me.)

I may not be correct, but what I heard was: Omae = comes of as rude, maybe if you want to be threatening or start a fight. Anata = A close person? Or just the most common? I heard that using it too much can sound robotic, however.

Yes comrade! I salute you! I as well..am comrade.

is you glad?

So.. Natsuki then.

You mean, sticky clerk?

if you want to use "to be" in English, the adjective form of チャラつく is チャラい charai

R Lee Oh cool, thanks! I’m only just starting to learn the adjective forms so all i know so far are the -い and -くない forms

@@JohnPorsbjerg チャラい is the adjective but チャラ付き would be the noun I believe

@Tartarus china have a dog eating festival

At least it's not bat ramen. lol

taste good actually I recommend you try it

@@masterbitter7688 My countrywomen was like: _Hindus don't tell us not to eat beef so how can we tell China not to eat dogs?_

@@lzh4950 i tell you dog meat really tastes good as other meat, the only difference is texture more like a skinny pig. the only problem is dog are really adorable and they wiggle they're tail when they see you and they're very happy. it feels cannibalism

judging by your username, "Archaeologize", I fully believe you are Japanese and shall myself in your hands' translation entrust in capable, Ramen

@@jacobpeters5458 My name refers to my profession as an archivist and archaeologist, and I speak, read, and write Japanese as I lived there for over ten years. Is there a reason you need to feel so bristly and make snide comments, or does that just make you feel better, dear?

@@ArchaeologyMonster you sound gay

@@jacobpeters5458 You sound like a douche.

@@jacobpeters5458 Ouch, ooo, my feelings! What an insult! XD

You used a pronoun though 😏

Slim shady was trying to teach Japanese all this time.

Actually laughed out loud thank you

I just came from Eminem singing anime intros dude

@@chetansingh3219 You wot, link?

😂

I just think of Ryotaro Dojima, forget which game he’s from, think about the Dojima Family from Yakuza, then realize he’s from Persona 4. I have a horrible memory. 😅

Just curious, I've seen him used both Ryotaro and Rissotoro - what's the difference? I know there has to be a joke behind the 2 versions I just can't figure it out even though I've watched so many of his videos

@@rp-lopez his name is Ryoataro, but there was a joke in one video where a comment referred to him as Risottoro, as in the dish Risotto. So that became a joke

@@Wepeell thank you!