I’m super curious. Would you be able to make a video asking foreigners who speak Japanese, if they can also read it ?

@@MR.DUCCCC yuta has done that a lot and even recently actually...?

@@nicbentulan oh fr ? Can you link one for me plz ???

@@MR.DUCCCC there was a video posted on 2023Jan20

@@MR.DUCCCC there was a video posted on 2023Jan20 video ID: mCWO2WrKbys

I died at that part 🤣

and iif you want to communicate with japanese i will teach the kind of japanese people use!

"He's so cool"." *cut*

savage move 🤣

Hahaha true, savage Yuta

I wonder if his wife is OK with that. lol

The ineterviewer seemed pretty surprised to find out he's in a hotel. I mean, not all japanese people live in Tokyo lol

An absolute mad lad

@@man2762 he was probably surprised that he was staying at Hilton lol

@@tykep1009 Lets say he might stay in the hotels to get away from the wife LOL

there's either "paying for sex" or Yakuza/RGG sightseeing

true, kind scary in a way 🤣

what are you doing in shinjuku, raphael? if i catch you in shinjuku again i will revoke your cosplay privileges 😠

Oh i felt that hahaha

Ikr, if someone came up to me like that I would feel like I have to apologise even though I haven't done anything wrong ww

i think japanese people are very humble when they say theyre not good at english lol

Well they're not good at English but they studied English for 6 years at school so they can read and listein at least but their speaking skills are weak but I like the fact that they're still willing to help despite the fact that they don't speak English

I think because Tokyo became an international hub for tourists so this is why you see them understand but difficult to speak

日本人はインプットは得意だけど、アウトプットが苦手

Consider the footage they didn't use...

so true when you put it that way. they simply find it extremely difficult to speak a second language so they’re impressed when others can

I'm glad they stopped saying that to me and they started to take my japanese more seriously I guess

Exactly haha I wonder if they even think "ah, so cute" lol because in my mind I kept thinking it! The effort to try, even if it's basic English, it makes me happy 😁

What?! Are you 気狂い？

And put her on the spot😂

"Español is habla dekinai."

That was a hot take but I can't say I disagree with her.

What is an ALT? Not everyone knows these abbreviations!

@@Nightbird.ALT stands for Assistant Language Teacher. It's what foreign English teachers are called in Japan.

Why'd you quit if I may ask?

@@Dionaea_floridensis No matter what ALT company you work for, the job isn't designed to be a long-term career path. After your first year the cost of living gets tight, and after the second year you're basically living paycheck to paycheck without any chance of a raise. Companies exploit legal loopholes to avoid paying into teachers' pension and health insurance, so I had to pay it all out of pocket. While I enjoyed the actual teaching part of the job, it was just time to move on. Many ALTs quit after just 1, maybe 2 years.

@@Crimson_Dragon01 As an ALT who just recontracted for a second year, I completely agree. I am grateful for the opportunity I've had, but I don't intend to do it a third year.

Ese muchacho Japonés Yuta

They learn in in schools in Japan it’s quite unfortunate we don’t learn Japanese in western countries

@@DestinyLateshaJones There's courses at some universities and very rarely actual classes if a qualified teacher works in a western school. So it does happen, just so rarely you can barely count it.

​@@DestinyLateshaJones Japanese isn't really spoken outside of Japan, so Western countries don't really have a need, while English is the most spoken language around the world and very beneficial for Japanese to learn. In the US they usually learn more important languages that they will use more often, like Spanish. Or in the Netherlands: German/French I agree that it's unfortunate that there aren't really any ways to learn Japanese in the west besides by ourselves in our rooms, but it's understandable why it isn't as common as English classes are in Japan

@@DestinyLateshaJones Unpopular but still very important opinion, one COULD learn Japanese through self-study using language books/online. It's not exactly the best since the big downside would be not being able to practice your speech/communication skills, but if someone is really committed, they could theoretically learn the language. It's not like a person learning Russian which is much more difficult with their speech pronounciation.

@@Unovey mandarin is the most spoken language in the world

I literally came to this video from exactly that video he previously made. The problem was that the foreigners he interviews in shinjuku are only there briefly so the results are quite skewed

It would definitely be interesting to see how native English speakers would fair with Japanese if we started learning it from elementary school.

The thing is they don't study Japanese at all so most of them won't have any clue about the language and Japanese people study English for 6 years at school so they have this advantage over English natives

Japanese isn’t a lingua Franca

@@kobainage i wish it was..

ある言語をちゃんと勉強することには、その文化への興味が必要だと思います。私はもうカナダに6年住んでいますが、英語には興味があんまりないので今でもうまく話せません。それに比べて、たった一年間独学で日本語を学んで、今は基本的な会話ができると思います。

English (along with other languages similar to it) is one of the hardest languages for Japanese people to learn as it is COMPLETELY different than Japanese: different alphabet, grammar rules, sentence structure, stress accent, etc. It's just as hard for them to learn English as it is for us to learn Japanese or Korean. In fact, only about 2-8% of Japanese are fluent in English, and only ~2 people were close to fluent in this video (they probably also spent a lot of time getting there) -also fun fact: Japanese only has 114 clear vowel sounds and consonants, while English has about 2100 different pronunciation mechanisms (we also have WAY too many words that don't follow our stupid spelling rules) I still give my hats off to the people that tried or knew a little English, just pointing out English is nowhere near as easy as it looks... unless you already speak a language that is similar, like Spanish.

Well, let's look at proununciation (can't even spell that word correctly most of the time ...): Japanese has a fairly simple syllable structure: A syllable can begin with a consonant, but doesn't have to. The only consonant that can be at the end of a syllable is "n". Also, there can be no consonant clusters (colloquially, some sounds get dropped but in standard Japanese, these rules usually always apply except for common suffixes for example, like -masu which gets pronounced as -mas). This makes the language have very easy syllables (the only language I can think of with even easier rules is Hawaiian). Now, let's look at English's syllables. The word 'English' alone has a consonant cluster in the middle of the word, gl, which could never happen in Japanese. Amittedly, ending a word with 'sh' without adding any vowel is not too uncommon, take よし (yoshi) for example, it's usually pronounced yosh. But let's look at a word like strength. This isn't even an uncommon word and has a consonant cluster of three at the beginning. This word would be very hard for a Japanese to pronounce, if they've only spoken Japanese their whole life. While I do think that proununciation is definitely a strong point on why it's so hard to learn English for Japanese, it's not the only one. Let's look at grammar, for example. In Japanese, pronouns get dropped a lot. They're not by any means uncommon, but unlike English, where they get used almost every sentence, should we be talking about people, in Japanese, not so much. There, they're generally only used for emphasis or for clarification (should there be ambiguity). So, a Japanese speaking English is likely to drop pronouns, more often than grammatically correct. We see a drop of pronouns in colloquial speech, too, for example: Can't bother to xyz; went to the store; have seen a lot of xyz today. But in Japanese, pronouns get dropped in formal speech too, and in English, doing so would be highly grammatically incorrect. There are a lot of other aspects too, but I don't want to write a whole book about it, so here you go.

english is not easy at all lol

English is easy to learn (the basics) but hard to master. People only "speak it" due to the popularity of the 5 Eyes Countries. It's projected that 40% of the world's population speak English from a few words/phrases to fluently. Which means, most people still don't speak any English at all.

Their ability to speak/understand basic English isn't because it's an "easy" language, but because it's EVERYWHERE, including in Japanese schools.

I think that if you're visiting any country it is only polite and respectful to make an honest effort to communicate in their language.

Living in Sweden and Clean Swedish is almost not a thing amongst the norm anymore, I practically Grew up talking Swenglish and still do, totally failed the Swedish Languege lol.

It still makes sense to learn english it is the world language and allows you to speak with almost anyone and also opens the door to a lot of content in english.

The pandemic gave 'em free taimu.

Forcing people to speak English isn’t a nice way to make someone learn the language 😂. They need proper motivation and they have to be willing to learn it

@@prestonak clarification of what I meant by "forced". It does not mean somebody forcing you to speak that local language, but you purposely put yourself in an environment that the only choice of communication is that said language. That is how I learned English, by usage. Books, audio tapes (back then), video cassettes (back then) was good to get me started, but only to the point of passive understanding. Intentionally or unintentionally, I have put myself in an environment where nobody will understand me if I don't use English. Nobody speaks my language. So I was "forced" to use it. I was "forced" to be fluent. People corrected my English in English, not in my native language. Again, being "forced" to understand. May need to look it up or have the person explain to me in more layman's term. But, I didn't have the luxury of somebody translating to me what it meant. I try to mimic their English and their accents, this is why now I have an American accent though my initial resources were all British (one of them is BBC's Follow Me). The best language acquisition is when you are "forced" to use it to live your life, or at least as part of your life.

@@prestonak Oh, I see. So countries that were colonized by the British have better English.

He must be henpecked.

lol

That would be *reading* comprehension, not so much listening comprehension, so no, not so useful.

@@MisterHowzat thats not what i meant, i specifically meant SPEAKING comprehension

@@AddBox So, you meant that speaking comprehension is taught more than speaking? And what is "speaking comprehension", anyway?

@@MisterHowzat im not your school teacher, it wasn't a statement of fact and this is not a debate. Have a good day.

Also, so funny that Yuta and co just randomly ran into some idols. XD

She didn’t translate

Have you tried Animelon? And Netflix, particularly if you have a VPN that you set to Japan.

Im that guy. Thanks for your input. Yuta is japanese, so they feel more comfortable talking to him. I'm actually much better at approaching people for my own purpose, not for interviewing them.

​@@Moiez101 I'm really impressed by your cultural knowledge.

Pretty much every decently developed country teaches English in their primary schools. At the very least, most of the young people there would somewhat understand English depending on how hard they studied.

Hehehe, pretty sure that's just 2/3 of his hobby. "What are you doing in Shibuya?" 😉

​@@Rakuten.2Ban 中国人の方がどのようなイメージでしょうか？😂