1:03 As someone who has taught English in an informal context, can confirm: the word "THE" is the mortal enemy of Japanese people trying to learn English

Duolingo can be a prick sometimes, especially when it wants spoken answers. We're fortunate that Ojou doesn't let that slow her down 😇

I loved her *_"Yes yes yes yes!"_* when she answered a problem correctly (0:49). That whole stream was adorable.

2:42 cutest thing ever

That stream is a massive source of Nakirium, too much for the regular human being.

When she said "soccer is my favorite sport" I couldn't decide whether to praise her pronunciation or die from diabetes.

It's cute how Ojou was also confused when putting the Japanese answers. Really shows that Duolingo use stiff written language

You can feel her fear to fail, the green owl does not admit any failure

Seeing her have trouble with "the" or "a" is so relatable. I'm on unit 19 and still have troubles with ni, ga & de. Dewa is always a shock.

1:00 Help. Call an ambulance.

She's confused, but she's got the spirit

I'm already dead of her cuteness not even in 1 min marks

The app is just a simp and can't accept that Ayame is super familiar with Tom.

my soul is healed

Bruh that owl had it out for her, she did quite well and her pronunciation is ok

Best comp of her Dulingo stream I've seen, thank you for making it more than just 30-60 seconds of random bits like so many other channels do!

Her accent is surprisingly good.

Ayame got robbed on that Soccer one

Listening to this also seems like a great way to study Japanese

"in new york please take a train of your brother"

ahh nakirium after work is the best XD

2:35 I'm dying. Too much nakirium!

It was a joy watching Ojou study English, not to mention the Nakirium and cuteness we got from that stream. Ojou's English had put sugar in my ears.

YESSS, more Hololive duolingo at last. It is truly shocking to me that even after everything so far, the vast majority of the girls still don't understand that them + english = Extreme cute

sleepy ojou is a gift to humankind.

great clip. Ayame shouldn't doubt herself so much.

Anthony Hopkins in Mask of Zorro: "This is going to take some time..."

"Please take a train of your brother." This is getting out of hand. Now there are at least 7 of him!

Dancing ! 😂

Cute Oninglish 😅

1:39 I hate it when Duo does stuff like that. I don't know if it's still there, but there used to be a button saying "my answer should have been accepted".

Oh my gosh what a massive dose of Nakirium!!!

Literally anything Ayame does is too freaking adorable and cute

I had the similar problem with articles! I am Russian who have been studied Japanese, but there was only English version. And I failed Japanese course only because I forgot to put English article

Her english is quite good, she must learn a lot. At least she is able to communicate.

Football = アメフト = ame futo = american football Yup. Lmao

Counting points off for not putting honorifics just seems like a cheap trick.

I’m calling it Ayame is one of the cutest in hololive

0.5 seconds in and sleepy oni voice is giving me diabeetus.🤗

Ayame: I have to put -San in? -That moment when you realize you've been dealing with the kaigai nikis too long XD.

I can't help but notice this stream was not too long after she tweeted about watching Fauna's stream. I wonder if she's been watching EN members and felt motivated or if this was something she had been planning to work on.

don't be so hard on yourself when you make mistakes, Ayame-san. Mistakes are how you learn. あやめ、失敗しても自分を責めないで。間違いはあなたが学ぶ方法です。

How can this creature exist in this world?

tbh, I'm yet to see any HoloMem to finish a DuoLingo course...

When a Japanese thinks "san" is unnecessary...

Her pronunciation is actually pretty good.

Ganbatte Ojousama! 🥰

Cutie.

1:54 AHHHHH!!

Baskebowl

Ojou cheated! 😂

She kinda sounds like Debiru here

1:03 I'm learning Japanese, I can say the same thing about all these particles they use in their sentences, lmao.😅

1:37 Ojou is right...duolingo is wrong

too cute....

a, an, the, is one of the most annoying things in my English learning

Love how she starts hyperventilating when she gets it wrong sometimes

Duolingo tries to enjoy her voice

1:00 1:38 1:58 2:26 3:31

ayame is too precious, hahaha, the honorifics thing is kinda silly, duolingo should accept it without them, people don't use honorifics 24/7 in JP anyway.

So the characters move their lips when teaching English but not when teaching Japanese?

she doing much much better than me trying to learn Japanese

kawaii

I'm pretty sure she wasn't dinged for the lack of -san, but for a different (and slightly better) pedantic reason. The question asked if Tom wanted to play *tennis or basketball,* and she translated it as *basketball or tennis.* Where two languages have a similar construct, Duolingo wants the translation to be as literal as possible, and since か works like "or" in this context, it wants the order of the items preserved. I think it walks a tricky line. As a translation, it doesn't matter, but in terms of going slightly deeper and teaching how a language functions, this sort of pedantry makes a degree of sense.

She pretends not to know what an "empire" is, but we've all seen her an Pekora at the Tokyo Trials.

Ayame cute

I would be mad, too. You can't translate honorifics from a language that doesn't have them.

Nakirium for today

She didn't set up her microphone as sound imput for Duolingo, that's why it didn't recognize what she said. You can see the waves are actually her desktop audio rather than her mic.

I need more healing

idk it was so cute i actually feel nauseous, all the evil is leaving me and i've gotta throw up now

Hey Holo Master, "you" is written twice in the thumbnail ^^

Откуда эта янйух у меня в рекомендациях?

How do you spell "Nakirium" in English??

Why is it that Japanese people struggle so much to pronounce English words? I mean, I get that it's similar to us trying to roll our Rs, but still. They struggle a lot more.

unbearable to watch...dying on diabetes

Forgetting honorifics in your own language but also having trouble with english articles. Yeah, that sounds like typical bilingual problems.

1:46 duolingo is really stupid sometimes. There was no intended formality necessary in the english phrase, there’s no need for san

Please take a “train” of your brother. So… if Ayame has a brother who owns a train, she’ll take it away from him. 😂 “Bill” as in “Biru”. Ayame thought it’s Japanese. The answer should be in English. 😂 The part about Tom… Obviously, the English part omits Mr./Ms./Mrs. unless it’s someone like a butler talking. In Japanese, “-san” is always included at all times unless they are close with each other. Even then, they will still use “-san” at times like how Okayu would say “Koro-san” though it’s usually accompanied by comedic moments in her case.

Duolingo is pretty BS like that. I stopped using it. That and the ads.

Oh, god, Duolingo is such crap. Absolutely zero theoretical basis behind any of the tasks.

I don't use duolingo for japanese since it is riddled with mistakes, don't use it :D

Why do I see every single Japanese vtuber messing up the "The" in these lmao

i feel bad watching the jp girls trying to learn english on duolingo, it's such an awful platform

Lmao... Questions about proper pronounciation seems like a very dumb and mean excersize. I mean... Accents and dialects will always exist, so there's very little "proper pronounciation" in lingustics.

It's a shame Duolingo etc tries to make people speak with an American accent.

Ayame asking what "Empire" is after what she wants to do to Korea.