Flare now knows that she needs to learn more English considering the constant gaming with Irys and her Ina obsessiveness.

She really hit us with the "source: trust me bro"

I knew they were friends, but I didn't realize they were actually besties. That's so cute

FlarYs was a surprising but amazing combo, much like Lui/Ayame and Subaru/Towa. Them being really good friends and not just co-workers really puts that extra magic into hololive.

-Flare: I wish I had spent more time studying English, you never know if your best friend ends up being an English speaker. -The friend :🤓But I can talk perfect japane-.. -Flare: like I said, let's study hard guys, let's make an effort to learn more English!

You really don't appreciate how valuable it is to be able to communicate with people in different languages until you get older and it's much harder to learn them

She calls Irys 大親友 that’s so cute.

flare calling irys her bestfriend makes me tear up

that’s cute that Flare and IRyS are best buds now, i guess video games really can bring people together! i often watch their Splatoon collabs even though i don’t understand much both because i don’t know Japanese and i’ve never played Splatoon.

I never thought i'd need English in school, but now 90% of media i consume is either in English or with English subtitles.

She's so precious.

flare is such a sweetheart

Even if you never leave your home town your entire life, the internet makes us all practically digital neighbors, more connected than ever. I wish I had the foresight to learn at least one other language when I was younger.

Flare's oshi: Ina Flare's best friend: Irys Hmmm yes, pointy ears attract fellow pointy ears

I adore Flare in more ways than one. She's a pure soul, always has been. And she's so honest with her chat. Like Polka, she's quite enamored with EN, and it's so cute to watch.

You know its real when they dont bother being lovey dovey yuri bait about it. Flare and Irys are really true bros.

Flare and Irys just got really close fairly recently right? I'm jealous of them. Finding a best friend as an adult is almost unheard of.

“I never thought a woman who spoke English would be my best friend.” 😭😭😭😭

English is such a massive language and theres so much english content on internet it must be like a whole new world for people that learns english for the first time.

Even as a continental European I _could_ technically get by without knowing any English - but learning it early opened up so many possibilities I would have otherwise missed out on. These days I use it more than my native language. Japan keeps more to itself, but even there you'll benefit a lot from it. Opens up so much more entertainment content, sources of information, communities, business opportunities, etc... Even just being able to put it on your resume will help you a lot.

Shinyuu is already pretty big, she then hit her with the DAI

Someone sign up this half-elf for one of Calli's English lessons, stat!

its such a wonderful twists of events that lead to her meeting and befriending IRyS

I remember when I was playing and old mmo, the need to speak to my guildmates was hard at first, and the best motivation for it is that you will be able to communicate with them. I start with simple greetings, them with short questions and then putting sentences together. If I didn't learn back then, today I could not enjoy many of the clips and streams of Hololive, speak to so many people aboard, understand my favorite games that were not translated, learning other languages open a new wolrd for anyone and is simply beautiful. Sigo con algunos errores al escribir, pero aun asi pude comunicarme como siempre desee.

me with spanish. I learned a bit but never took it too seriously and now I'm the only person who doesn't speak spanish at my office.

The power of gaming brings people together.

English is my first language, but I feel the same way about Japanese. I went to Japan all the time when younger, and my mom speaks it fluently, but I never bothered to learn it until recently even though I love Japan and Japanese media. It's a big regretty spaghetti that I didn't bother trying to pick it up earlier (as well as a few other languages I could converse in at a basic level when younger and just never used and forgot as I got older).

As somebody who isn't an English native speaker, but speaks English on basically a native level, I can say: I'd be missing out on so much content if I hadn't learned it. That alone should be enough motivation for anyone. Hell, I wish I had picked up a third language earlier, cause it gets harder to pick up new languages as you get older. Like, I've been learning Japanese on the side for a few years now, but I'm still nowhere near the level I want to be at.

language is one of the best skills one can learn

english speakers in japan x10 after this clip

This is why the bilingual holomembers are so valuable tho. Kiara speaks 9 languages... and has been a bridge for her gen mates on outings and such. Calli as well. Having that skill set is incredibly useful.

wholesome

its good when you have passion to do something good

Dont worry flare-chan you can always rely on your elite senpai

Thank you for translating. This was very interesting.

Hearing Flare refer to IRyS as her best friend warms my heart so much I think it's about to explode

Lucky her, IRyS is JP 🤷‍♀️

This is my first clip ever of Flare and even though I’m on the EN(us) side, instant subscribe. She’s like a chillax gal type of character you can always get along with

What a heartwarming clip. Good friends can come from unexpected places. I'm glad she found IRyS!

best friends, so cute

The trouble is, even if students double their efforts, Japanese high schools teach English poorly. It's like training hard to become a professional fighter, but you learned your techniques from a WWE pro wrestler.

Flare: Listen, I'm not saying you are going to become a vtuber, but you are probably going to become a vtuber and you are going to need to know English. Like, 80 percent chance.

So, two things for everyone who is just shocked here: Flare as well as a lot of JP Holomem come from a different demographic from most kaigai niki, nationality aside. If you listen to their stories, a lot of them just didn't like studying or school in general, and turned to gaming, streaming, and hanging out on the internet as an escape. Meanwhile, a lot of us kaigai niki are nerdy as well as geeky, and are relatively outward looking, even in the fact that we're open to the idea of vtubers. Next, Flare is talking about at least 10-15 years ago when she was still in school, and Japan was coming out of a long period where most people in Japan really could pretty have everything you want just in Japanese, thanks to translation efforts that started in the Meiji era. Later on, Japan was the 2nd largest economy during most of the era of globalization, which is also when most of the world began to feel the pressure/importance of English communication in a global economy. Ken Mogi (neuroscientist/physicist/author/popular commentator) had a good summary of that history here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kNKGhJuT0qyzoGg.htmlsi=pc4EgxJUOttxdcGC I don't think young people in Japan with regular career ambitions need to be told twice to learn English nowadays. I live in the US but meet online with some university science students in Yamaguchi prefecture so they have a native English speaker to practice English conversation with. I only meet with them once a week (because I need to wake up at 4:30AM my time to do that) but most of them do English conversation practice five days a week in groups, on top of their lab experiments, practical training, coursework, and even one on one language exchange. I'm really proud of them!

That's wholesome

I've had people hold up translation tools when I work customer service sometimes. It doesn't bother me at all. I'm probably gonna need to use one too, someday, if I finally get to travel.

I know flares feelings well, I wish I would've studied jp during school would've been way easier than trying to while working, still its gonna be worth it even now :D

That's Very cute of her, and she's right. Learning English has most definetly changed my life growing up, so many Doors have opened for me that i imagine It would be the same for any student on this current online world

Flare - if you go abroad at least have someone with you Me who goes japan alone despite little knowledge of japanese 😂😂😂

"I had no idea that my best friend was in EN." My heart. Listeners, what friendship opportunities do we deny ourselves?

As someone who lives in tiny EU country Denmark, globalization makes it nearly impossible to not need english, even if you just stay in your own country and never travel "abroad". Just being on the internet, watching movies/shows, or playing games, I probably "use", as in read/listen to/write, English more than my native language every day. I would feel crippled if I didn't understand English.

Man, living the last 221 years all in Japan would be wild. From the Edo period, with samurai in power under the Tokugawa shogunate, to Commodore Perry arriving with his fleet, the Meiji Restoration, Imperial Japan, a lot of wars, then modernization and the economic bubble, until now. It’s been a couple crazy centuries there, way more wild than the last 200 years here in the US. I can’t imagine never leaving my own country, especially if it was as small as Japan. I leave the US every year at this point.

I have to agree there, learning English is super important, not just for fun like speaking with international friends, but most technical stuff or programming is done in English, not to mention how important it can be to look at international news to have an outside look at whatever is happening in your country, in broadens your horizons tenfold and stops you from being blind in a bubble of your own native language. English is also a pretty simple language to learn, it has a pretty simple ruleset and not too many words or exceptions, which makes it a very good lingua franca.

To all the high school students who say math is useless, study well - it's really useful for a lot of things. The same goes to every other branches of studies; social studies, natural sciences, and arts.. I regret not taking my arts classes seriously.

People : math unnecessary Taxes and loans : bonjour

not learning english nowadays is like wanting to live under a rock… I guess there's auto translation now, but it's still different when you understand it natively

I learned english because it was so cool to me and also because of the influence on western movies.

Any language really. Learning language is never a wasted effort. Back in High school I slacked off my Chinese class, focusing more on Korean and Japanese. High school me didn't know in 6 years he'll be living on Taiwan, having to relearn Chinese from 0 since he slacked off. At least the Japanese is used since I work at Japanese company. The korean is unused though, but who knows what the future might hold.

Aww best friend rys

cuuuuuuute

also, if they play online games, they might have to interact with English or even on social media, comment sections are often mixed with many languages and commonly English.

What I want parent's to tell their children, is "learn English, it makes using the internet easier" because it does. internet is mostly in English, and almost everyone knows some English.

One of the major problems is also that parents, teachers, and other authority figures don't encourage them to learn a second language, saying things like "Oh, you will never go abroad," etc. It's really a sad state of affairs and how much your world expands when you learn a second language, and it even doesn't have to be English. Japan has a huge Brazilian population, so Portuguese would also work.

ngl back in school I also don't think i will be using english since there's no foreigner in my neighbourhood and I don't think i will go abroad. and then internet happen.

There's one reason for Flare to learn some English *To be able to reach out to the overseas Elfriends*

Flare is right though. I wish my high school invested more in their foreign language classes. I took Japanese, but there was also Russian, German, Spanish, and English as a Second Language. Even just cursory knowledge of basic words and reading comprehension can open up a little more of the world to you :D

Thank god the only kind of advice I got about learning Mandarin was, "What if you have to go to China for work?"

thank you for the translation

Flare is so sweet!

Now I feel like I should learn some Japanese so I can understand their vods. I hadn't really kept up with Irys or Flare but "Best Friend" is a really high honor they must be amazing together.

I wish I can say the same for me tho. I don't think if I study Japanese I will find myself needing it (currently live in the US). I would honestly have to pursue Japanese people (which don't really live here) to practice and make friends with.

This is specially sweet if you consider that IRyS can speak japanese with no problem, but Flare still feels like she has to put the effort to communicate better with her friend FlarYs teetee

As a spanish speaker from south america, English is by far the most useful subject you can learn at school, not even close.

I felt Dejavu like Flare talk about this before

Good stuff Flare encouraging her viewers to learn English. The "You Never Know" situation comes up like new friends, traveling or career opportunities abroad will be beneficial.

221 years?? she's just a baby!

i bet having "speaks english" in your resume as a japanese person will get you priority in interviews lol

She must learn English for her kami Oshi Ina

Learning French was mandatory at my school. I was taught it for 6 years and was still terrible at it. Guess I got no aptitude for languages. It was also a subject I hated but I kind of regret not being able learn it better.

If nothing else, just imagine how cool it would be to speak a foreign language.

Without english, i cant find any doujinship in internet 😂

I feel her cause there's a urgent matter to learn spanish for is Americans.

meanwhile there is me trying to juggle 7 different languages daily (3 or 4 of them due to differect state/district have their own dialect) because living in multicultural country. sadly i cant read chinese eventho i can speak them

I love she said IRys is best friend

you never know your oshi gonna be japanese so start learn japanese now!

As someone that has been all over the world including some small 3rd world countrys I know English is all you need. helps if you know a small amount of spanish but basicly everywhere in the world knows a basic amount of english so its easy to get by.

This means I can start watching more Live Flare instead of having to wait for translated clips?!?! 🥳

I share her regret but for Japanese

It's really easy to forget how privileged you are if you grew up speaking English. Tons of tourism spots around the world cater towards the massive English speaking demographic as we're one of, if not the largest population that vacations all over the world. It's much harder if you come from a place like Japan where it's hard to even get around in a foreign country, much less communicate with the locals.

Oh my god she is too sweet

I had no idea that my waifu was in JP

If you're good at natural sciences, learn english. If you're good at social sciences, learn math.

I am glad that I studied Japanese when I was younger. I am able to communicate with Japanese online in the game. We added each other as friends.

America is a little strange in that there is no actual official language. In theory for most official proceedings the government is required to make some accomodation for whatever language a person speaks. I'm 95% certain that if you're arriving at the Honolulu or San Francisco international airports (which are the most likely ones for a Japanese person visiting the US to use) there is *someone* on staff who speaks Japanese and if the immigration people really can't understand you they will call them over before doing anything extreme like barring you from entry. In the same way as I found people in Japan to be very accomodating of my not speaking Japanese, most people in the US are going to be accomodating of you not speaking English. Given how well known things like google translate are, I also don't expect much trouble from using something like PokeTalk. I think most people would understand it pretty quickly after they saw it used once.

She’s right

I'm so glad Flare has found a great friend in Irys

Best friend. What a development!

I live in a 3rd world. English is mandatory because my 1st language is only a cultural necessity, but an econonic deadweight. I can erase my 1st language completely from my brain and suffer no consequences. It still amazes me that 1st world countries like Japan are insular enough that they can afford to ignore learning what is one of the most globally spoken language on this earth and just care about their own native tongue amd be fine.

I'm ESL too, my parents barely know any english and I noticed with the internet and all how much of the world opens up to you if you can understand, write and speak english. Also I would propably not have been able to watch any Hololive without knowing english, so it would have gone past me (like a lot of other things too). Also there are lots of jobs that require you to travel to clients/customers in other countries, and most countries in the world teach english as second language. It has really become a universal language, and even if you aren't fluent, it's better than not being able to communicate at all.

If only most Americans had that same mindset

I wouldn't even go by the angle of going abroad, though obviously Fu-tan is citing that case from personal experience. It's always a good idea to study the _lingua franca_ of the day. It was true with Latin, it was true with Portuguese, with Dutch, with Spanish, now with English, and in the future probably Mandarin. Even if you live in a distant isolated backwater like I do, knowing the most commonly used language between people of different countries massively expands your horizons and opportunities. In the vtuber world, there is no better example of payoff from learning English than Pikamee. (Coco doesn't count, she's American.) She became a global sensation, beloved in essentially every continent, _because_ she was a competent ESL.