Welcome to another episode of "i can't believe she's not japanese"

What's more impressive is anya is self taught.unlike others she was not born half Japanese and learned it from her family.she was just a regular otaku with a jp friend that loved reading together

My friend was a Big Black Man (I said Black because he's not African, he's Indonesian, born in Papua) who is fluent in Mandarin and Cantonese. And I look like your Super Stereotypical Asian guy, short, slanted eyes, glasses but I can't speak Mandarin cuz I'm Indonesian. One time we were hanging out in a convenient store and a group of Chinese tourists came and apparently they are lost and really afraid to ask around and just talking within their group, my friend pick up on their conversation and he just butt in and said something to get their attention (I don't know what he said), all of them turned towards us, looked at me and said some Chinese gibberish which I don't understand to me. My friend then just talk and helped them. Their face though when they find out that I am not the one who can speak Mandarin. They seemed both conflicted and disappointed at me 😅

Nihongo jouzu = 🖐️ Nihongo pera pera = 👍

That's what my teacher said to me when teaching Japanese in the class. When Japanese say "Nihongo Jouzu ne~" To you, that's mean theyamaze you can speak Japanese, but just that. After that, they will use formal one to you as you just a "Gaijin". But when you speak very fluently, usually they will say "Wait, how many years you stay at Japan?" or "Are you half?". That's mean, even they suprise how they fuk your are fluent in Japanese. Moreover, if you're to fluent both Japanese and Kanji, they will say "Why are you more fluent than me????". Basically, the more fluent you are, the more suprise Japanese at you.

Anya actually well known even outside hololive for her high japanese skill. some japanese admitted that she even better than average japanese and considered her as sensei. that what I heard from JP community.

the sensei part highly come from Sora the troll(Japan KZfaqr who speak english) tier list. he's making a tier list for foreigner who can talk japanese language. the stream not long ago/pretty recently . for stories circulating on the JP community...since long ago,they complimenting how "native" Anya intonation is, really knowledgeable with japanese slangs, knows japanese meme.

@@FreyjaWion wait, he did? Anya still pretty unknown to the audience. I'm still waiting for her come into the stage to sing. she got signature voice colour. it's good that she gain more exposure since her time in Rust.

@@ranapriliaful when making tier list,one of his audience submitted Anya clips for review,and only in few minutes he put Anya on"sensei"level japanese. if Anya manage to get the perfect type of song for her voice on her original songs... like her covers(I love her phony the most), she'll definitely will give an impactful blows to the audience,like Gen 1 who stole the spotlight on holofest back then

Anya is a secret JP member. FIGHT ME

....wut!?

eyoo~ im dead laughing 🤣

Bruhh

More like HoloJP Indonesian branch

Ayo man, you killin me here

She is Confident interacting with JP Members, she's just not confident interacting with EN Members. Because her Japanese is far better than her English.

the confident that I mean here is more to confident stepping out her comfort zone. from her stream last year when she call the "overseas"Holo member she never talk to. after the stream she really try putting an effort on it. collab with Roboco Choco, collab with the council girls, collab with Ina and Watame, collab one on one with Lamy and Sora. but after that the cycle keep repeating with the same girls over and over(this also means she's becoming more comfortable interacting with them which is good in it's own way). in this Rust episode,we see her interact with more girls,outside the circle she's used to. like Pekora, Subaru, Miko, Ame, Matsuri, and more interaction with Koyori,Fubuki and Polka

She does this to her viewer on daily basis tho. 🤣

@@noustrant verbally and physically roasted by a weapon, den people are the real deal huh

Den people and melfriends : "first time?"

Indeed. Learning a few phrases isn't that hard, but actual conversation is another step, it means really understanding the language, not just the words. And that goes for every language.

Especially in a group setting where everyone is talking all at once

It's Sora The Troll, for anyone wondering.

Yep. Definitely Sora. Put Irys and Anya at god-tier as well as Mikochi 🤣

@@DefinitelyPotato nah, iirc she put anya at Japanese teacher, A tier. Irys and also axel is at s tier, god tier.

Afaik S tier reserved only for japanese/hāfu/live in japan, so since she didn't fulfill the condition he put anya on A tier.

@@ridwana4037 i love sora the troll

Tanto with curves same as a flamberge greatsword.

She likes sleeping too much for that xd

I do like her, but it seems her persona is just not that compatible with most Indonesian entertainment formula.

Say it with me, Anya is JP.

true, pertama kali ngira dia dari EN, ternyata dari ID

When i first found out about her i thought she's a jp member that i somehow missed out even after some time in the rabbit hole

i dont see any id personality in her lol

I remember early on when Irys debut, a few of JP weren't sure if they should default to speaking to her in English or Japanese even though she is Japanese herself lol. I'm not sure why it's different with Anya and her seamless integration

@@rdxzero wait irys is japanese?

@@Xuch She's Japanese American, from Hawaii

@@rdxzero oh thats cool, makes me think what the others are

Jp fans have commented that anya's japanese is the same as how japanese otakus talk

Futile for you. She's pure Indonesian. She literally said many times she learnt Japanese from a Japanese friend.

hafu, kana?

@@reihanboo could be

And she sounds like a native when she speak in english

i guess not, her bahasa is very local too

r/whoosh?

@@litfill54 why not?

An ID ID

@@twistandice7895 It's indonesian. Bahasa literally means "language" in indonesian, idk it just sounds weird when ppl say bahasa to refer to indonesian, it's like bahasa what?

Irys is still better. She has japanese blood afterall.

Anya switched between 3 languages naturally, it's almost confusing, but somehow it's not. Because most of the time when she did something, she'll explain it in 3 different languages so that everyone is in the same page.

@@chargemankent I think the interresting thing about anya's code switching is that she didn't repeat a sentence in 3 languages. Instead she continues her talk/sentence in different language but the context from last sentence in different language is not lost. So it feels more natural.

Anya is more fluent in English than IRyS.

@@HaesslichG IRyS is an American native.

KONSPIRASI be like kwkwkw

Anjay, org jepang masuk Holo id, biar ada tantangannya

Teori konstipasi

kyknya yg bukan org jepang/tinggal di luar jepang gk bisa daftar audisi hololive jp deh, setau gue yg bukan orang Jepang di hololive jp itu cuman coco tapi dia sebelum nya tinggal di jepang.

Itu mah kasusnya Hana Macchia

Neither. You just don't watch her much. She's always this good in Japanese

@@SoraRaida ^

@@SoraRaida will need to check her out more I guess

When Anya played Raft with Botan her Japanese was so good Botan was questioning whether she was really Japanese.

inb4 she's not actually a Kris but a "Wakizashi" (Samurai Short Sword)

link video ?

@@BambangEko hopefully KZfaq doesn't delete this, but I found a clip for you: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/jKqcdNxn2drUcYk.html He reacts to a few other members as well, in case you want to check those out

The only girls that did worst than Elite are oversea members...

Any jp is understandable than elite wym 🥴

Well miko from holoEn is still learning japanese though...

Not nihongo jouzu, but Nihongo Pera Pera

Masuk hololive jalur orang dalem wkwkwk

Lol

@Average Clipper enjoyer the OP is joking, Anya is pure blooded Indonesia(I think). Who have a JP Friend since childhood also the commitment to learn Japanese bc she's annoyed that her Manga is not getting Translated or slow to Translate

@@tigerblank7446 I get her. I totally get her.

@@tigerblank7446 whoa, I respect that determination 👍

@Average Clipper enjoyer no, she has never even visited japan before (she will when her 3d finished)

N2 aja udah pasti lewat apalagi N5

Dia setara N1

She is not. lol

Most of JP know extremely basic English words. Also keep in mind a lot of Japanese just uses English in its lexicon anyway, it's easy to forget that the word "anime" is technically a word of English origin, for example. Also, Subaru is in this group, who has some of the best understanding of English in JP. I think most of them really only know a very small amount of English. The ones who know a notable amount more than the rest are Subaru, A-chan, and Lui

well, being able to understand english and speaking english are 2 completely different things. + anya did speak with very basic english words so ig thats why the jp members were able to understand her.

Polka was there, just not in their team, this was towards the beginning when everyone was doing their greetings. Polka was there to size them up. 🎪

@@Ohmu Ah I see