Noooooooooo. I am the first one 😭😭😭

#5 was you wasn't it?

Well congrats on being a foreign brother just like the rest of us plebs, Yuta! LOL And apparantly you're an analphabet as well!

If I do, won't I have trouble reading? :-p

Given how much time & effort it takes say to listen to that entire paragraph 4/5 times and listen to a lot of the other stuff plus think about it carefully and answer, do you pay these participants for their time or is it on a volunteer basis? Thinking about doing something similar in my country, so asking.

Well, actually, Yuta wasn't an interviewer. So he wasn't standing there.

@@completebilingual i think he was recording the interview instead

@@asakuranno Oh. Never thought of that.

@@completebilingual still a quality comment nonetheless

Or his ability to read lol

Hahah everybody in this video said that, while he is trying to sell his japanese lessons 😂😂 it is pretty ironic

Yeah, as soon as I heard #5 say Konnichiwa, I knew it was Yuta.

I'm pretty sure he was trying to troll them.

@@dragontoothless4351 Same. Watching his videos i get the feeling, that he likes to put on a show and speak in a theatrical way like an actor (or someone with chuunibyou) would. And i think hes overdone it a bit there. Hearing the one woman say that he might have trouble reading definitely cracked me up.

@@dragontoothless4351 Yup lol

Haha Yeah, maybe he needs to subscribe to his own mailing list to learn how to sound more native from himself! xD

We can sound like Yuta too! :D

poor man lol

I'm sure he did that on purpose to throw them off lol

that's what he's referring to, "even i don't sound like native speaker eventhough i'm a supposed native speaker"

Now we know he's a foreigner. ;-)

I got it since his "Konnichiwa". His voice is very distinct :)

TRUE!! I was like wait a minute isn't that Yuta?

And you can tell he was purposely slipping on his words to make himself sound suspect. What a trickster lol

I could instantly tell from the "konnichiwa" lol

That happens with bilingual people

エケ데스

I bet he intentionally did that to make a trick

That tricky man yuta. Im pretty sure he did this sound to troll and trick them lol

Or maybe hes gotten too used to speaking English lol

LMAO true

That's cool.

Small victories! It means you worked hard and it paid off. 😄👍🏻

He's joking, normally people wouldn't ask that abruptedly if the guy looks like he's clearly from Osaka, but if you see a funny foreigner that speaks in a regional accent its a good conversation starter

Nihonggo Jozū-d

It's strange, I have convinced people before that I was from Argentina when I spoke Spanish, but I probably don't have the best accent. I honestly think native speakers don't listen very carefully to people when they speak their language as they just don't care. So I hate to say this, but just because a native thinks you are a native speaker as well really doesn't mean a lot.

You tricked me until you started to have trouble with ッ as other 99% foreigners do as well.

You did great!!

@@Kyoukichi I don't understand why people seem to be struggling with っ tbh. Do you know why, and if so could you explain?

commenting to follow this thread. I didn't hear the basketball tell that they were talking about

@@Demozo_ Of course. As you might already be aware, small tsu (っ、ッ) is a pause signifier in pronunciation. Loan words like バスケット (basuketto=basketball), チャック (chakku=zipper), native Japanese words like 逼迫 (hippaku=urgency, pressing) or 脱臼 (dakkyuu=dislocation of the bone) are not hard to pronounce by themselves in an isolated case. If I were to ask you to pronounce them by themselves, you'd probably sound exactly the same as a native speaker, utilizing the pause exactly where it needs to be. However, when you try talking in full sentences, (let's say, this is your 10th sentence in your speech), your ability to pronounce it correctly will possibly significantly drop. Native speakers can pause it naturally, exactly at the point where it needs to be, it feels correct to pause it at the same exact spot. Foreigners will usually shorten it in pronunciation and it will come out a bit wonky. バスケット will become バスケト, チャック will become チャク etc., omitting the pause. I would argue that not pausing enough or at the right point doesn't really kill the flow or the idea of the thought you were trying to convey with the sentence, it will be understood well. The only difference is that it will sound a bit unnatural to a person with trained ears. That's not to say that all Japanese people utilize the pause correctly. I've heard pretty horrible pronunciation from natives as well. This is probably due to the fact that not many languages utilize pauses in pronunciation as often and as explicit as Japanese language does. As a foreigner, you need to pay extra attention just to be able to pause it at the right point (unless your native language also utilizes pauses a lot). That is the gist of it.

lmao

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PFFFF

@@syfx1485 LMAO

Lmao

Thank you for helping me! I simply chose recordings that sounded good to me and didn't pay attention to the nationalities at all.

@@ThatJapaneseManYuta Cool. My pleasure!

Dein Japanisch klingt echt gut 😊 Und jeder hasst es, seine eigene Stimme zu hören lol

“ive been told i have great pronunciation” literally every japanese ever.....never heard of tatemae huh

I think your pronunciation is very good. Keep at it, you will be great! I noticed mostly your intonation. Standard pitch accent andメリハリ cannot be learned by magic osmosis. For the past year I have been "shadowing" audiobooks read by professional narrators. That is how I previously learned a number of European languages. I have now repeated aloud a dozen books at 0.5 to 0.7 speed. If I go faster, I cannot imitate every nuance, and I revert to sounding American. But I am getting faster, and often speak simultaneously when I can I guess ahead. So this is not just active listening, but real speaking practice. The voice talents model accurate standard pitch accent, and their intonation is far more systematic and clear than conversational speech or dialogue--which makes the patterns actually learnable by foreigners. Having internalized pitch accent as motor memory, now when I listen to Dogen or Ms. Soma, I don’t think “These patterns are too hard to remember,’” but rather, “Yeah, that sounds about right to my ear.” And when I listen to even the very best foreign speakers of Japanese, I can hear them go "in and out of character." They mostly sing with Japanese pitch accent, but also tend to "speak" some words like a Westerner. And like a singer who doesn't stay in key, they don't "harmonize" one phrase to the next as Japanese do automatically.

Makes sense, I take it it is indicative of paying attention to what's being said. "Oh" might not be a word, but it can conveys as much meaning as "I see"

@מחמד חנזיר .Just to fill you in, it's called Aiduchi (あいづち). They are interjections to show that they're paying attention.

@@Vii_DT *aizuchi

@@mikael9325 *aidzuchi

@@HitodamaKyrie dud i know its spelled exactly like that but it is also called aizuchi

4 is someone who learned it from parents, someone who is not educated in Japanese and don't use it actively in her daily life; so it still falls under "foreigner option" in my opinion.

@@iwannasleepplz >dont use it actively in daily life< this depends on how often she was home and if they spoke japanese a lot in that time. if someone uses japanese 16 out of 24 hours a day, it can be different than if they only used japanese to teach a few hours out of some days. i think that it should still be considered foreign but it's a pretty wide gray area.

@@hamluk_ I also think #4 should be considered as foreign. She would probably get more practice than the average foreigner learning Japanese if her parents were actively practicing with her since childhood, but learning by speaking in the environment also plays a huge role.

@@ojon12389 yeah i agree basically, i just didnt like the assertion that someone in a bilingual household 'doesnt use their language actively on the daily' when that's not true for some people. i know someone whose father doesnt speak much english at all and so he uses mandarin pretty much all day everyday, despite living in english speaking country, for example. it's pretty based on individual scenario. we dont really know the woman's full story and shouldn't make assertions is all.

@@hamluk_ I interpreted "actively in the daily" as learning in the environment as I mentioned. Meaning going to school, talking to friends, random conversations with random people, etc. And just by the people's judgement in the video, #4 did pretty well considering she did not live in Japan.

That's sad. Now I'm scared to live in another country I don't want my native tongue to disappear. I think it's best to write on your journal or just a reminder in your native language. Think also in your native language or watch a show there you'll still preserve it while in another country. I hope this helps

@@shanasakai2238 I don't really mind it, I think it's interesting. I haven't forgotten the language or anything, it just feels a bit unnatural when speaking because I'm no longer used to using it every day. But if I went back to live there, I'll probably get used to it again within a couple of days and it'll feel natural again. I think it's just about habits and also muscle memory. I was a bit worried about forgetting it when I moved at first, but even after so many years of not using it much, I can still completely switch to it when I'm actually there. It only takes a couple of hours to switch my entire thought process to my native language even if I pronounce some things a bit weird at first or sometimes can't remember a word instantly. Don't worry though, I don't think most people could ever actually forget their native language even if they live in another country for many many years. I've seen people who moved to the US when they were in their early twenties and came back to my native country 30 years later and they spoke with a bit of an accent on some words but otherwise perfectly fine.

Yeah that must be why a lot of people are more comfortable speaking the language they became more fluent in sometimes when they return, especially from like a mission or something

@@ko-chanTHEBULLY Yeah, I'm like that with English. Even though it's not my native language and it's not the language of the country I live in, it's still the one I'm most comfortable with because it's the one I use most. Even before I moved away from my home country, I was already thinking in English most of the time because I spend a lot of time online using it lol

Really interesting! I'm a Canadian French native who speaks Japanese and English daily and I sometimes get asked where I'm from...while in my own country 😅 Muscle memory is definitely a thing. Thanks for sharing!

He just deserves it. And also he's able of reinventing himself he's G R E A T yo.

Yeah! It's about time Yuta made it to 1 million subs! 👏👏👏

Don't tell me #1 is from singer Kotoringo...... (Of course not, she's from Osaka as well)

Just by the "Konnichiwa" you can tell that 2,3 and 4 don't even tried to pronounce the "N' alone between KO and NI. That sounds strange, but maybe some japanese don't really pronounce the "N" specifically when speaking that word fast.

@@MegaMund1 I pronounce the N when I speak Japanese. I think, 逆に、 that makes it obvious I'm foreigner 🤣🤣🤣

@@vampyrelycan99 #1 is not from Osaka even though it's also in Kansai region, but she's from Mie Prefecture (where Matsusaka beef came from).

@@MegaMund1 , there isn't it really time 😉. The N may also be very subtle. Maybe a slow speed playback would reveal this.

same !!

@@drowsyValkyrie uP

#MeToo

Totally sounded like Yuta.

I'm fairly sure #5 was him. Not from the first sample, but latter. And the last sample I'm sure he was just playing a trick... Or, has trouble reading. ;-)

That my friend is being “jozued” hearing it is pretty painful for a person learning Japanese.

What does it mean?

@@superman2957 it means your "Japanese is good".. usually said by Japanese people when they see a foreigner try to speak Japanese. Doesn't matter how bad you are, they will often tell you "nihongo jozu"

@@itsKaio oh thanks

I think people definitely mean it. It just means "hey, you're pretty good for someone who is complete shit, keep trying buddy, the large amount of effort you're clearly making is paying off, probably"

It really works like that if the person has empathy and social skills. Very independent people (sounds good but in this case means in an insensitive way) don’t change due to the presence of others

It's probably true.. my franch teacher speaks with that accent even in our native language 💀

It's totally possible. As an English teacher in Aomori my English has changed a bit listening to everyone else try to speak it and sometimes I have to work to sound "normal" again lol

Maybe it was smudged. 😉

do we even know his surname to begin with? XD

@@Victorsandergamer Uh oh...

@@Victorsandergamer Yuta *Aoki*

I tried to discover the gaijin too, and like the third girl I thought everyone was a foreigner except for one xD 2 and 3 were so evident, especially number 3 didn't have the slightest japanese intonation ^^ 4 and 5 (I didn't understand 5 was Yuta xD) were very difficult, beacause they had a good accent, but there were some parts that made me think they were foreigners, for Yuta especially the accent of the last totemo in speech 3 was sooooo strange (and infact the first two guys burst out laughing) ^^ However also 4 and 5 really had some foreign elements in their speech, 4 because she grew in US and so she puts a bit of american pronunciation into japanese, 5 because.. Yuta is a mystery xD He did it on purpose to deceive them, or learning so well english pronunciation made him have something in his japanese

fax

Her voice was actually just so soothing it felt like. Need her to make some audio books lol

So true, she's so cute and gentle, i'd like so much to talk to her!

Same. I could barely focus on the subtitles.

Yuta often seems to find super beautiful people to interview. Idk how he manages it, probably waits a long time until someone attractive walks by.

@@alrightalright4585..... Care to explain the context of your username?

Draws viewership.

The masks help a lot...

TOYU!

or maybe it's just his accent

@@Victorsandergamer He doesn’t normally talk like that when he speaks Japanese tho

Maybe Yuta had been communicating with many foreigners and he got mannerisms of unusual talking way ( for being easier to understand foreigners)

Congratulations! ✨💪

uP

Native English speakers, however, seem to have the hardest time getting the Japanese "r" correct though :) Or accent overall.

And the grammar is easy af

@@TheMartinSan the R problem stems from how modern english has developed the soft r that was once considered a speech impediment, which is also why we struggle with rolling. Interesting stuff

@@TheMartinSan not only english speakers. I am German and here people can not speak the „r“ at all. Its the same for most countries. Its a mix of a „l“ and a „r“.

I had the same reactions, especially re number 4.

Same! But I have the feeling that Japanese people do not distinguish accents (or sounds for that matter) the way westerners do. I think they judged based on other criteria somehow, so especially in this instance we have an advantage at recognizing westerner's accents

I don't trust you

@@oittlaz ok.

I don’t trust either, I can’t help but feel like you’re lying

You probably read the comments or watched further into the video than you said you did

@@gachi1297 ok

おぉ！こんにちはだけで3,4当てたわ。2は次で分かった。やったー