I’ve lived in Japan for a years and I am a translator and I am sooo impress with how good Ansel’s Japanese is in such a short time. I would say he is about the same level to Ken’s English but in a much shorter span of time. I have never met anyone that can speak this well in such a short time. Hats off

Ansel’s Japanese is so good in this show! Liked their relationship in the show. I hope there’s a season 2! Can’t leave us hanging!

Ken Watanabe is so beautiful. A legend in the industry 💙 So glad to find another project in which to see him. 👏🏾

Elgort has a good teacher. I’ve been living in Japan for 25 years and his Japanese ability sounds equal to or better than my own.

This kid is amazing. He and Samatha sound extremely credible and fluent.

Been here in Japan for 21 years and have mastered the language to a pretty high level (4 years of 4 hours a day including 10 hours a week of private tuition). I have to say, I was blown away by his level of proficiency in the show. Well done Ansel, he was totally believable as a foreigner who'd mastered the language. I also felt the show did a really good job of capturing some of the minutia of what it's like to live here long term: from the milliard of microaggressions like speaking fluent Japanese to someone and having them reply in pigeon English, and the countless unwanted assumptions made on your behalf (he can't possibly read this so let's not send it to him) to the more brazen, in your face discrimination - I too have been told I can't rent an apartment because the landlord doesn't want a foreigner (a friend of mine in 2019 was told by every estate agent in the town there was nothing for him). Jake Adelstein's Japanese is of course off the scale and the fact he even had the balls to take that test to enter the company is ridiculous - total respect to him and what he does/did. A lot of people say if you don't like it go home. I say If you don't like something, try to change it and that is exactly what Jake Adelstein did/does.

This show will blow up in the next 3 years trust me on that! So many series get popular when it's already several seasons in and the same will happen to this gem. I love it!

Can't get enough of this show. Wish there would be a Season 3.

I absolutely loved this show!! So happy someone special recommended it to me. Crazy to learn such a tough language and then memorize lines and act it all out. Re-energized my love 😍 for Japanese language/culture. Hope Season 2 becomes a reality- too many cliffhangers!Thanks for this interview- means a lot!

Excellence all around, from opening credits on. Great graphics, art direction, lighting, photography, casting, script... Just splendid work.

Great cast! Great show! One of the best show in 2022

Great show!

Waiting for season 2! ❤️

I'm so impressed by how much his Japanese has progressed! Rinko was the same way when she came to NYC to study English -- it was slow at first but she studied hard daily and was very immersed in it and within months she became very proficient.

Season 2 PLEASEEE. Arigato Gozaimasu!

EXCELLENT SHOW & EXCELLENT CAST!!!

Holy smokes! I had no clue this was based on a true story

It’s really impressive, man big props to him for learning

Loved answl in Tokyo vise , he is awesome 🌺

Great Show !!

We need season 2 !

i really need that season 2 baby, tokyo vice is killer

Ilove thisshow soo darn good and his japenese ..cant wait for 3

Good show! A bit formulaic at times but had good pacing and was entertaining at the end of the day

I want to thank the author of the channel for making this beautiful and useful video for us! Many people are embarrassed to speak a foreign language if they have no speaking skills. People are afraid to hear criticism from others in their address. It all comes from having a psychological complex - to make a mistake. But, after all, he who does nothing is not wrong! In Yuriy Ivantsiv's workshop "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign language" states that we need to talk as much as possible: with yourself, with the mirror, with inanimate objects, with children and with pets. Find an interlocutor in real life or online. Talk without shyness. People won't care how you speak. They understand that you are a foreigner, as long as they understand you. They may even acknowledge your progress in their language and compliment you. However, always be prepared for criticism of your speaking skills. If you have the will to speak, you will gain an interesting interlocutor to consolidate your knowledge. Everyone is strewn with mistakes - don't be afraid to learn from them. As the Latin wisdom says, "walk and thou shalt not go astray". In the book "Polyglot Notes" by YuriyIvantsiv an entire chapter is devoted to the development of spoken language. Here you will find many useful tips and each student can choose a technique that suits him or her best! I wish you all the best of luck in your language learning!

He is just superb…. Loved him in Tokyo vise and baby driver ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

fuck it, im learning japanese

Ahhhhhh, this reminds me of my first time learning japanese, only N5 level and I can barely handle it...I WILL NOT GIVE UP!!!

Best series... live his voice

Why did it end like that??? My man sato didn’t deserve that

Season 3 please... please ... please

I always wonder how ansel speak japanese so good ... is not easy but with 9 hour pratice everyday, he can do it omg thumbs up 👍🏻

Is Watanabe really wearing nike tech fleece hoodie lol dope actor

One my favorite tv show

A new episode of the show is being shot in my neighborhood this week. Rural Nagano, at a cabin out in snow country.

as an artist in the '80s I worked for his father mopping up the the photographers studio floor. I don't even think he was born then

apparently (i have heard) if you get arrested for any sort of crime in japan you're expected to confess, even if you are totally innocent, if you don't confess you just just dicked around for days on end until you do, that it's easier to confess, pay a small fine or spend a short time in jail, than to try to defend yourself, which is expensive and you can't expect bail while any sort of hearing or trial is arranged. this is why arrest and successful prosecution rates are so high in japan, and probably why crime figures are low. while i was there one day out sightseeing i noticed a camera had been left on a wall, when i pointed it out to me (now ex) wife she said to just leave it, the owner would probably remember it and come back, and if not it was quite safe there until someone reported it to the police.

I literally assumed he knew Japanese before the show

I've seen his Japanese interview. Very surprised how decent his Japanese is.. I know people who lived in japan for years and speak worse japanese.. Well done

I do get to practice my Japanese in Melbourne, Aus. There’s a fair few Japanese here fortunately.

I feel they should bring Sato back because we don’t know if he died or and girl came back down the street and found him I loved his character he was very handsome cool but like a young man struggling I don’t feel he evil just put into bad situations love the show and jake & sato made great friendship

I love Ken Watanabe and am impressed by Ansel's passion to learn Japanese, @2:44 I was bit confused and thought maybe Ken misunderstood the question? lol

He’s so cute 🥰

🙏🙏🙏🧡

I also went to a japanese restaurant in USA and nobody there was japanese. Not surprised but still disappointed.

Hes japanese is so good, kudos to him!

i'm surprised ken watanbees english isn't as good as i imagined, he carries it off in the show so i expected fluency. having said that i was married to a japanese for 20 years and my japanese is terrible, enough to be polite, not enough to hold a conversation. my japanese inlaws were very accommodating though, my ex wife's mother was an excellent cook, my father-in-law loved that i could out drink him (any excuse for the japanese to get out the whiskey bottle) and i have fond memories of my visits to japan - i say it's like space travel, i look up at the sky and expect to see rings like saturn, extraordinary country, really terrific people, and a sensible religion!

Wow, his Japanese pronunciation is perfect!

“In the beginning I didn’t trust him” I thought he was answering about real life hahaha

This is a genius actor.

Love these guys, but honestly, Japanese is DEFINITELY not the hardest language in the world. I don't speak it, but several of my relatives got scholarships to study in Tokyo after taking six months of language classes. Despite being Lingua Franca, English is a much harder language to learn. You can learn and speak it for years, but you'll still get some grammar errors and so forth. Chinese is another hard language to learn.

Yo where did Ansel get that hoodie? it is the epitome of drip! 🥶

9 hours a day??? You shouldn’t overwork yourself, Ansel ☺️

Did I take crazy pills or did Ken go AWOL on the interviewer @ 2:57 😅

Love you ansal ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

ansel elgort? in 2022? 🍅🍅🍅🍅🍅

:-) Calkiem spoko jest posługiwać się jednym z najtrudniejszych jezyków świata kiedy nawet nie pamięta się dobrze jego nauki.

He looks so different with the mustache

Thought dude was a decent actor before the show… anyone who can learn a new language just for a role is no joke lol homie can flat out act

He reminds.me.of.Charlie Puth here.

Why did Ansel ruin this great of a show maybe they can recast him and just continue with the show

I struggle to watch this guy navigate Japanese society. He is supposed to be this immersed learned genius who LIVES the culture, but he continually behaves as an entitled ignorant foreigner would. Which is it? Is he learned, or ignorant?

Hollywood welcoming this guy back with open arms and rewarding him with a season two to his show after being accused of sexual assault and talking to underage girls makes me wanna throw up.

Wasn't Ansel Elgort exposed for snapchatting with a bunch of teenage girls?

Sorry pbd and the crew is backwards. What does having billionaires gotta do with the progress of this country when most of the country lives paycheck to paycheck now ?

This interviewer was terrible

He's such a bad actor.... completely contrived, doesn't understand emotions so his outbursts feel so fake and plastic and throws off the entire story. surely they had thousands of far better actors to chose from.

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