Japanese People Guess English Words (American Accent)

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When we filmed the video where we asked English speakers to guess English words in a Japanese accent ( • English Words in Japan... ), we also asked Japanese people to guess the same words in an American accent.
Many Japanese people cannot understand basic English words in an American accent despite the face they already know those words. It is because in English classes in Japan, they don't teach English pronunciation properly. (Foreign language education in Japan is often suboptimal.)

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@ThatJapaneseManYuta 4 жыл бұрын

This was a really fun video and I thoroughly enjoyed making this. One of the reasons why Japanese people have so much trouble understanding English words is Japanese phonetically very different from English: Japanese sounds are much more simple. This means that it's very hard for Japanese speakers to speak English, but it's relatively easy for English speakers to speak Japanese. Good news, right? In fact, you can start learning how to speak Japanese today because I have some free Japanese lessons for you. Click here and subscribe bit.ly/3i4ZNJp

@reaper3.097 4 жыл бұрын

@simonw3858 4 жыл бұрын

I love how Japanese people always seem super happy and excited especially the ladies.

@simonw3858 4 жыл бұрын

I noticed the women always cover their mouths while laughing why do they do that?

@edwardvictorau 4 жыл бұрын

@@simonw3858 To avoid showing their teeth, which is considered rude if u lol with ur mouth wide open.

@TooManyChoices1 4 жыл бұрын

That Japanese Man Yuta These videos are so helpful for trying to train my ears 👂 (耳) hearing native speakers！Only been at it two weeks so it’s too fast (はやい) for me, but that’s what .5 speed is for lol! Thank you!

@sune6708 6 жыл бұрын

"Theres an English word for bucket??" lmaooo

@hannah60000 5 жыл бұрын

@濱崎順平 Don't see how that addresses his comment...

@alexosorio286 5 жыл бұрын

baguette

@creative-name5279 5 жыл бұрын

So Japanese don't have a word for bucket, then?

@AmadanMath 5 жыл бұрын

hannah60000 Because “baketsu” phonetically looks like a Japanese word (i.e. both “ba” and “ketsu” look like something that could be written in kanji), unlike e.g. “paasonaru konpyuutaa” which can’t be a more obvious borrowing. It’s like you can detect that “smorgasbord” is a borrowing from Norwegian, but probably can’t tell that “sky” was taken from Old Norse, as it mimics an English word so very well (English used “heofon” before, which is now mostly relegated to the religious meaning...) Speaking of, “very” is also an infiltrator (from French)...

@creative-name5279 5 жыл бұрын

@@AmadanMath I didn't know that. Very neat. So does very mean the same thing in French? What did english speakers use before that?

@vezzie9638 4 жыл бұрын

Kid: *says a word in an american accent* People: *confused* *thinking* ... :says the same word in a japanese accent :Ahhhhhhh!!!

@stiimuli 4 жыл бұрын

That is the strangest thing I'm noticing in this whole process.

@satannn 4 жыл бұрын

stiimuli there are a lot of words in japanese that are similar if not almost identical to english. same with korean. steak in english is said like sutakeu in korean.

@NYCRose84 4 жыл бұрын

This technique works for French too 😂

@generichuman2044 4 жыл бұрын

I think it's because Japan uses some "borrowed English". The older generation normally know the Japanese way of saying it but younger people just use a slightly altered English word

@xiaobai7060 4 жыл бұрын

"i can't pfffttt understand pffttttttt your accent.. pfffffftttttt." lol It would be the same reversed, if you tried to understand their English words in a Japanese accent. lol Accents are weird.

@cn8299 4 жыл бұрын

The whole "tour" thing is exactly why spelling bees have a "can you use it in a sentence" option.

@hakanstorsater5090 3 жыл бұрын

The roadie tore down the stage during the band's tour.

@ryandesign5641 2 жыл бұрын

As I toured the world, I tore several pairs of pants. One of the worst tears was during my first tour, where I tore the butt of my jeans!

@vp7877 2 жыл бұрын

I thought it was tor. bruh

@prihaps 2 жыл бұрын

My pants tore when touring the dark web using tor.

@KOKOBC 2 жыл бұрын

Tour isn’t that hard, heard it instantly. Like I can just hear a difference between tore and tour, like idk how I can tell but I just can

@kruGrockz 3 жыл бұрын

Kid: World Japanese girl: Warudo Yuta: Sekai This is what happens when all the planets align.

@shinjitsu4476 2 жыл бұрын

正解≠世界

@zhongxina7834 2 жыл бұрын

Seikei

@BagEnd0 2 жыл бұрын

Yare yare daze

@rachel00091 9 ай бұрын

@@zhongxina7834 seikai

@tisjustangie 4 жыл бұрын

"its twitter" "I thought it was 'toilet'" Whats the difference?

@ursamjr4406 4 жыл бұрын

(with the strongest texen accent) Me: WHAT DID YOU SAY ABOUT TWITTER?!

@allroundlad 4 жыл бұрын

Shitter

@kn00tcn 4 жыл бұрын

it's actually pretty big with japanese that's not like western trash threads

@tisjustangie 4 жыл бұрын

@@kn00tcn well i aint sayin it isnt :v

@invaliduserist 4 жыл бұрын

In some parts of the USA, "toilet" is pronounced "ter-let"

@dar_san 4 жыл бұрын

"Buckets" "Bucketsu?" "Correct" Nice

@chunky_kebab4219 4 жыл бұрын

Poky Wym

@benjamin7808 3 жыл бұрын

She even said there's an English word for that

@PehruChan 3 жыл бұрын

@@benjamin7808 "ee bucketsu te ego aru?" hahahah xd

@dennraeh 3 жыл бұрын

@Kristofer J yeah

@user-bc8qe5hx7t 2 жыл бұрын

ばけつ* (baketsu)

@adwoypurkayastha9641 3 жыл бұрын

Really like how Japanese people laugh so much. Seems they're fun loving.

@nessking583 3 жыл бұрын

They tend to get nervous often and laughing is a symptom of that

@fugostrawberries 3 жыл бұрын

I mean they are on camera they're probably just nervous lol

@sunshineskystar 3 жыл бұрын

lol no, this is only on camera or public places since laughing is a coping for nervousness. japanese are actually very uptight people that doesnt show emotion as easy as let say, an american or canadian does.

@jeromecamillus2308 3 жыл бұрын

isn't that a little bit of an exaggeration?

@boogie6101 3 жыл бұрын

Yes, they are in fact human beings

@soopperson5953 3 жыл бұрын

4:13 I love this woman’s confidence

@maxthexpfarmer3957 2 жыл бұрын

My aunt is just like that (minus the flirtiness of course).

@thegoodgeneral Жыл бұрын

She was definitely flirting with Jack’s dad.

@dmar3651 5 жыл бұрын

I've learnt English all my life...and that "tour" went way over my head. I honestly thought he said Thor or tore.

@simonw3858 4 жыл бұрын

yea I think he was saying it un naturally. I thought he was saying TOR as in "the onion router".

@lunacysstraightjacket2121 4 жыл бұрын

@@simonw3858 he said the words like google translation or some shit it threw me off too

@SaithMasu12 4 жыл бұрын

Same. I thought he talks about Thor the Northern God or something.

@Alison0305 4 жыл бұрын

This is similar to how I say it or would expect it to be said. I’ve lived mostly in New England and out in Texas and Oklahoma.

@TooManyChoices1 4 жыл бұрын

Alison Champa Definitely not how it’s said in Texas lol.

@systemcm6978 5 жыл бұрын

The girl with the pikachu and her friend got so excited at getting the correct answer, it's adorable!

@americangirlforever6195 5 жыл бұрын

SystemCM Ikr!

@Buffypoodle 4 жыл бұрын

Griffith did nothing wrong

@rm9308 4 жыл бұрын

Too bad their teachers couldn't get those reactions in class.

@user-bd9ux9xv7l 4 жыл бұрын

That was japanese people

@realcartoongirl 4 жыл бұрын

@@user-bd9ux9xv7l i like Your PFP

@Milkthief 4 жыл бұрын

When I was in Japan for the first time in 2005 I was talking to some Japanese girls about music I liked, there's a Japanese band with an album called "Vulgar" and when I pronounced it to them, they mocked me and told me it was BARUGA and that I was wrong. It still stings to this day, being told you are saying a word from your own language wrong and made fun of for it. lol.

@hazh9936 3 жыл бұрын

It happens in the US too. Los Angeles, Texas, Sacramento, San Francisco, California, etc. basically most cities from the south and the state names all should be pronounced in Spanish.

@jekblom123 3 жыл бұрын

I would have busted out a pen and paper right there and give them an English lecture.

@umhi5743 2 жыл бұрын

@@jekblom123 😂

@dezywezy13 2 жыл бұрын

@@jekblom123 yes

@rztrzt 2 жыл бұрын

The pronunciation of english by japanese people follows their own rules, 'chocolate' for example is chokorēto (チョコレート), 'drive my car' becomes doraibu mai kā (ドライブ・マイ・カー), 'volunteer' is borantia (ボランティア). If you google 'vulgarity' you will find バルガリティー pronounced ~'barugarity, if you shorten it to vulgar you get バルガ which is pronounced as 'baruga' so I'm gonna say the Japanese girls were not wrong.

@cowboyboopdoop 3 жыл бұрын

I feel that his American accent makes it harder. I have noticed that japanese people find the british accents easier beacause the r is more subtle.

@cowboyboopdoop 3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherrosales4351 there are a lot of American English teachers in japan. I remember when I was little I watched a show and an American man would come and teach us english

@ifeeltiredsleepy 3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherrosales4351 I was an ESL teacher in asia for a while the Japanese prefer to teach standard American English. China can go either way, and South East Asia has a strong bias towards British English. Philipino English teachers have done a lot to spread American English throughout Asia as well.

@ifeeltiredsleepy 3 жыл бұрын

@@christopherrosales4351 Could just be classic racism since South Americans tend to be darker. I was a head teacher at a language school in Asia and whenever I forwarded teacher applications from African Americans who were very qualified they never got hired. Language schools are very image conscious more than they care about the quality of the teachers.

@Zerbey 3 жыл бұрын

In my experience it depends where you're from, I suspect more people are exposed to American accents than British, however. I was born in England and live in the US and people have a hard time understanding me here sometimes so I've Americanised my accent somewhat.

@solarguy1702 2 жыл бұрын

When I was teaching English in Nagoya, the serious students requested me, ( American) because the the folks from England and Ireland were too fast and too hard to understand. Especially Tim from Manchester. lol

@Nick-kb2jc 6 жыл бұрын

"Charisma" "Christmas Party" 😂😂

@repulsethemonkey1396 6 жыл бұрын

"Quiz man"

@theramendutchman 5 жыл бұрын

I mean, quiz hosts are often very charismatic so yeah

@MohamedMohamed-qd2hc 5 жыл бұрын

Nick Yo I died when she said that 💀

@Jehuty999 5 жыл бұрын

Everytime those girls gave their response, i almost died.

@MyLifeJapanTV 6 жыл бұрын

I love how much FUN everyone is having!

@nacnate 6 жыл бұрын

lowkey might have found a new game show idea

@cuntohaire 6 жыл бұрын

Agreed. Their having fun made the video fun.

@brandongladefield1012 6 жыл бұрын

Jack needs a little bit more energy for a kid, tbh....

@nacnate 6 жыл бұрын

Brandon Lee i mean he didnt say much i feel like he was ok

@brookewiththehair4884 6 жыл бұрын

the ladies in this video are adorable they get so excited when they get it right

@anthonyj9299 3 жыл бұрын

"it's too fast my brain can't process" well, well how the turntables

@56mice 3 жыл бұрын

7:10 "Where have you been to?" " California" "Sounds gay"

@bennymario5876 3 жыл бұрын

oh my god I can't even

@hahadayo1374 3 жыл бұрын

Now I can't unhear itttttt

@IIIIIIIIIIIIIIlIIIIIIIIIIII 3 жыл бұрын

Thank you.

@tvirusnoodle8608 3 жыл бұрын

Lol 😆

@user-fq3co9wh9d 3 жыл бұрын

He’s not wrong

@johndioe2744 4 жыл бұрын

Boy: Charisma Girl 1: Quiz man Girl 2: Christmas party 😂 😂 😂

@FractalPrism. 4 жыл бұрын

as a native english speaker in the USA, instead of "Tour" it sounded like the boy said "Tore".

@RonaldMcPaul 4 жыл бұрын

Californian checking into agree.

@Littlevampiregirl100 4 жыл бұрын

there are just different pronounciations for many words. i hear "toor" and "tore" both as tour, im from denmark "sure" is said in different ways too some say it like "sher" (american), some like "shour" (british), a few rare cases you also hear "shore". (shore alone might be pronounced different) but you can hear it all as sure, most are used to that word being different because its used often unlike tour. some may say "ter"ism, others may say "toor"ism, and others say "tore"ism. i hear the latter most where i come from, but theres a slight sound of u in there that makes a difference. when i would say the actual word tore i draw longer on it, tour i pronounce more brief, that is another way to pick them apart too

@char5285 3 жыл бұрын

They’re usually pronounced The same

@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 3 жыл бұрын

As someone who has been able to speak enlish since he was 6 I have always said Tour and Tore exactly the same exactly as he did.

@BreakingMyBack 3 жыл бұрын

@@baltulielkungsgunarsmiezis9714 then you've been saying it wrong since you were six lmaaoo

@Just-Nikki 3 жыл бұрын

I love it when they ask him to repeat it after they know what it means. They genuinely seem interested in retaining the information. I love how light hearted they seemed to be. This warmed my heart and I wasn’t expecting that 💙

@radfoo72 Жыл бұрын

As a Westerner, Japanese people laughing is one of my favorite things! So joyful! Thanks for all of the smiles!😁

@Chamchamcham10 6 жыл бұрын

... so are you going to tell us what she said about her Pikachu???

@unou588 5 жыл бұрын

i was gonna upvote but my ocd stopped me

@unou588 5 жыл бұрын

@@lilshrimpvevo i downvoted you for that

@phazerxp339 5 жыл бұрын

@@unou588 disliking comments on YT is pointless anyway. 😏

@ThornHailsnap 5 жыл бұрын

@Phazer XP Yeah, it’s just a remnant of an age gone by. An age where if a comment was disliked enough, it would be automatically removed (though you could still see it by clicking “See comment”).

@unou588 5 жыл бұрын

@@phazerxp339 yet I do it anyways, and will let someone know to shame them

@Kiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiim 6 жыл бұрын

boy: world me, an intellectual: *ZA WARUDO*

@liviakoppa2569 6 жыл бұрын

Paraplegic JoJo yaas

@redashura9255 6 жыл бұрын

TOKU WO TOMARE :v

@-yuiasuka-6080 5 жыл бұрын

TOKI WA UGOKIDASU

@GomuGear4 5 жыл бұрын

*BWOMM tic toc tic..toc...tic.....toc....*

@mfznal-hafidz8592 5 жыл бұрын

Kono DIO DA!

@nafslee 3 жыл бұрын

"Can you tell me about your pikachu?" Was Yuta trying to pick up women lol

@JesseColton 3 жыл бұрын

"There's an English word for bucket??" I love that 😂

@nafslee 3 жыл бұрын

I like how her friend is like "obviously" bakaaaa

@brokoblin6284 2 жыл бұрын

While using a word for bucket borrowed from english

@martinclark7935 Жыл бұрын

The word came from the Old French word 'buquet', so English has also borrowed the word. I like how the Japanese word for 'bread' パン (pan) sounds much the same as the French word for bread.

@lightningmonky7674 Жыл бұрын

@@martinclark7935 PAIN. My favorite French word since bread is quite the opposite of pain

@lightningmonky7674 Жыл бұрын

Nah we call it it "a container with an open top and handle for carrying liquids" lmfao

@hioeo 4 жыл бұрын

When Japanese people go "Eh?" in confusion my heart warms just a little. It's friggin adorable.

@Minotaur-ey2lg 3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, not to be condescending, but they are kinda adorable.

@Steve-zc9ht 3 жыл бұрын

Asians in general are my preference

@justleo2956 3 жыл бұрын

@@Steve-zc9ht thanks

@Luna-ry8lv 3 жыл бұрын

@@Steve-zc9ht yikes bro

@danielalmeida7382 3 жыл бұрын

Is that a Dave FUCKING Mustaine profile pic?????

@user-jm5yx3gl4l 6 жыл бұрын

I'm from career

@robinisnotkawaii3341 5 жыл бұрын

Seriously laughed my fuckin ass off at that part

@robinisnotkawaii3341 5 жыл бұрын

I also just noticed that Blackpink is playing in the background at 4.23 and 7.02 "좋아, 이 분위기가 좋아" lol

@jeto9625 4 жыл бұрын

Does your country have a word for " Bucketsu "? lmao:)).

@user-np9zo5tr4q 4 жыл бұрын

l'm from carrer too

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

Career-uh

@mdarshadibrahim8699 3 жыл бұрын

Are we not going to talk about how Yuta was more interested in the Pikachu though??

@BlackFeather1214. 2 жыл бұрын

Otaku da

@simeonellinger2064 2 жыл бұрын

I'm still waiting to hear about her pikachu

@Arcsin27 2 жыл бұрын

I’m in a linguistics class and it’s so interesting seeing what we talk about in real-time For example, if two sounds can replace each other in a language, then you end up unable to hear the difference between them, like the ch in Bach sounds like a k to English speakers, or like in this video when they struggled to hear a difference between L and R Only one class isn’t a lot of linguistics knowledge but it’s still just very fascinating lol

@stealthis 2 жыл бұрын

The neuroplasticity pruning of language acquisition theory says that the brain's ability to detect and categorize individual sounds stops/reduces after the brain has pruned itself during young development. Children have more brain space to allow and detect nuance PHYSICALLY, but it's eventually lost as it's too taxing in the long run to maintain. You need to learn these fine differences while your brain is primed for it, with a language that has a lot of consonant and vowel variants. The Taa and Ubykh for example are extreme examples of it, they have so many constant sounds that they are likely to be able to sus out differences of languages they don't know because their brains have already classified all these sounds before the pruning took place.

@EvilStreaks 6 жыл бұрын

"There's an English word for bucketsu!?"

@znerolz 5 жыл бұрын

XD that one got me; funny how some languages are so integrated into another that some people forget that the word is from another originally.

@lalboimanlun1230 5 жыл бұрын

Bucketto

@honeybugart 4 жыл бұрын

*baketsu

@devonoknabo2582 4 жыл бұрын

Well dur

@hulkinglasses7174 4 жыл бұрын

It’s like saying “there’s a Greek word for homophone?” Or “a French world for buffet” it just words just evolve into society’s language and they forget the roots of them

@Diandredofus 4 жыл бұрын

Kid: says English word Japanese person: repeats the same word in a Japanese accent Yuta : **SEIKAI DESU INTENSIFIES**

@tgmtf5963 4 жыл бұрын

Seiki

@Diandredofus 4 жыл бұрын

@@tgmtf5963 It's Seikai

@moritamikamikara3879 3 жыл бұрын

SEKAI ICHI!!!!

@snowpools8498 2 жыл бұрын

@@tgmtf5963 seiki is something COMPLETELY different... lmao

@WesM369 Жыл бұрын

@@snowpools8498 'seiki' IS something different, but based on ur reaction i think ur thinking of 'seieki' lol

@Me-th3gj 2 жыл бұрын

So wholesome. I love it. My nephew has been trying to learn how to speak Japanese. Loves the culture and I can relate.

@anunknowndude 3 жыл бұрын

This video was really funny! I was cracking up! It opens Japanese people up, while it does the same with the boy, when Jack smiled and laughed at the situations, those were the funniest ones!

@iGaara19 6 жыл бұрын

4:12 The Japanese girl had a thug life face. "See I got this" then when the kid ask if she spoke English *shakes her head* "no" 🤣😂

@Crashandburn999 6 жыл бұрын

That made me laugh lol.

@oopscreation3539 6 жыл бұрын

Embarrassing moment for her

@2013hondafit 6 жыл бұрын

goodar goodar it's not embarrassing, she was clearly just being silly

@KikonSketches 5 жыл бұрын

I like her character very expressive and open

@randomvids8124 5 жыл бұрын

@goodar goodar: The only one having an embarrassing moment is you.

@Swiatlocien 6 жыл бұрын

"Can you tell me about your Pikachu by the way?" He has the game.

@lolzlolz5185 4 жыл бұрын

Lol

@smshh33 Жыл бұрын

I wanted to hear about the pikachu 😕

@thegoodgeneral Жыл бұрын

He wants to know about her sparky squeak.

@andresrg12 3 жыл бұрын

Love this content man 👍

@marywenzel3199 10 ай бұрын

Yuta-San, this is such a fun series…arigato! As a former AET in Japan I understand the struggle. All your interview subjects were very good sports. When I lived in Japan and didn’t know the Japanese word, I would try saying the English Japanese style and it often worked. 😊

@o.o4566 6 жыл бұрын

I'm from the US state of Florida and I couldn't understand when he said "tour". I thought he was saying "tore". In my part of the country we say it more like 'too-or'. Maybe it's because we are from totally different sides of the country. It was funny when some of the Japanese people said 'series' it sounded like plural of a curse word. "Shitties"

@Youngindy21 6 жыл бұрын

Naw, most Americans couldn't understand what he was saying. I thought he said tore too.

@Barcia14 6 жыл бұрын

Same, it was totally "tore" to me

@fishytails6639 6 жыл бұрын

I am German and i guessed tour at the first time they said it

@ridwanzulkarnaen3639 6 жыл бұрын

i thought he said thor the son of odin :D

@natfailsyoutube8163 6 жыл бұрын

Sounded like "Tor", the protocol used on the "dark" web to me

@keviouk 6 жыл бұрын

"There's an English word for 'bucket' ?" hahaha that one was priceless!

@CW257866 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, that was interesting. Do the Japanese not have a word for buckets?

@ElectricPyroclast 6 жыл бұрын

CW AtWork It's pronounced "ba-ke-tsu", so yes, they do lol

@repulsethemonkey1396 6 жыл бұрын

ElectricPyroclast wait so they use an english loan word for "bucket" but in its plural form, "buckets"?

@ElectricPyroclast 6 жыл бұрын

There is no singular or plural in Japanese or Chinese (don't know about Korean). You just take it out of context. Plus, "buckets" is much easier to pronounce in Japanese than "bucket".

@wrongcontainer 5 жыл бұрын

@@repulsethemonkey1396 the basic japanese -kana alphabets are arranged in "mora" - syllables and not into individual letters. So where we have t&a / t&e / t&o etc... They have a "physical" ta, te, to... The "T" row is a bit weird in not having ti or tu but instead chi and tsu. So bucket would be pronounced "bucketsu". Tha may make it sound plural to english speakers. But as mentioned above, they don't have singular or plural in japanese so it could mean both. hope i made some sense.

@larrygraham3377 2 жыл бұрын

Really enjoyed your video. I'm African american from Virginia. Our pronunciation of English words are quite different from Americans living in California. So yes, I can understand how a Japanese speaking person could have problems learning or speaking English. Especially when it comes to utilizing synonyms. THANKS FOR WONDERFUL VIDEO.

@bowlerballer6852 4 жыл бұрын

As an American trying to learn Japanese I find this hilarious. Love your videos!

@Gateau 6 жыл бұрын

I thought the kid was saying TORE like "I tore my hamstring". I imagine more of "TWO-UR" .

@tyriquerange9390 4 жыл бұрын

Belfry dats why English is one of the most difficult language to learn a lot of words sound the same but spelled different

@StrategicGamesEtc 4 жыл бұрын

I thought of the word 'tor' first, and then 'tore'. But not 'tour' until they said it.

@artsysub-zero1082 4 жыл бұрын

Same I couldn’t stop thinking about that deep web browser shit

@kopxpert 6 жыл бұрын

I thought he said TORE or THOR or something like that lol. I say "tour" is like "to-weur"

@TheDropdeadZed 6 жыл бұрын

The way he says it is surprisingly the same way we would say it in the UK, of course without the 'r' being pronounced at the end. Exactly like the word 'door' but a 't' at the start.

@jesuschrist6579 6 жыл бұрын

Isn’t “tour” and “tore” pronounced the same

@TwinTailTerror 6 жыл бұрын

i thought he said tor (as in the computer program) he actually said it wrong its two-are "tour" not TOR or TORE and im from California we don't say it that way here

@TwinTailTerror 6 жыл бұрын

i talk to a few Japanese ppl Russians, Italian, and ehh misc ppl when i play my video game lots of BR and i know engrish is hard >..< so i never make fun of ppl for giving the effort cuz Lord knows im to stupid to learn another language.

@PongoXBongo 6 жыл бұрын

where are you going? to Ur. ;)

@dracohatesu9894 2 жыл бұрын

when the two girls got so excited when they got it right made me so happy! it was so adorable when they'd clap and jump up and down😭💖💖

@mysryuza 3 жыл бұрын

When you realize you say "Tour" differently from the kid, and yet understood what he meant.

@Arundodonax 4 жыл бұрын

Technically in an American accent, "Twitter" is pronounced "twidder."

@AAArnold 4 жыл бұрын

He sometimes jumped between pronouncing t as and pronouncing it as d in the same clip.

@zlcoolboy 4 жыл бұрын

Probably used t to avoid unnecessary confusion.

@isaacevilman7586 4 жыл бұрын

I mean, he went from just pronouncing the words in an American accent to annunciating and back...

@69SalterStreet 4 жыл бұрын

Who else said it out loud?

@whatsinadeadname 4 жыл бұрын

Technically, the 't's are more of a voiced apical alveolar tap (like a cross between an L and an R).

@robertoorrego4374 4 жыл бұрын

4:38 It's all fun and and games until *QUIZ MAN* rolls up on ur *Christmas party*

@adde9506 4 жыл бұрын

That was flippin' adorable.

@basedondennis 2 жыл бұрын

sounds like a megaman boss

@IKari_Shinji 3 жыл бұрын

“Do you speak English?” “No” ????

@startedtech 3 жыл бұрын

Understandable to me. I know *some* Spanish from taking it in school, so like if someone asked me if I spoke Spanish I'd know what they're saying, but I don't really speak Spanish at all.

@imdva 3 жыл бұрын

being able to say no doesn’t mean you can carry a conversation..

@kappakim1980 3 жыл бұрын

の　lol

@raymondwhatley9954 3 жыл бұрын

I'm sure you know the phrase for "Do you speak ____" and "yes" and "no" in a lot of languages that you don't speak. For example, I only speak English and German but if someone said to me "Palais vous Frances?" I could reply "non" or "hablas Espanol?" and I could say, well "no" because it's the same. lol.

@brokenwingbird2552 3 жыл бұрын

@@raymondwhatley9954 it was a joke its okay friend

@kttstrwbry Жыл бұрын

This is very interesting! Linguistics are one of my favorite things to learn about

@icymcspicy6684 6 жыл бұрын

In America we would be more likely to pronounce Twitter as Twidder

@blackamericangurlkim610 6 жыл бұрын

IcyMcSpicy Same with Water. Most say Wah der and NOT Wah ter.

@Syiepherze 6 жыл бұрын

I guess he was trying to enunciate some of the words by stressing certain consonants. I often switch to a different accent with this when speaking in English to someone whose mother tongue isn't that (e.g. my parents)

@metzli_moon 5 жыл бұрын

Shak Pherze Same here, I try to pronounce my words with the more phonetic, used versions with foreigners.

@MissNebulosity 5 жыл бұрын

+IcyMcSpicy Same

@SeekingHisWill78 5 жыл бұрын

He over-emphasized the "t" sound, in my opinion, on the last syllables of "Twitter" and "karate". But overall he did a great job for his age!

@RebelCityEejit 6 жыл бұрын

Are all Osakans that charismatic? Haha the way they bounced around the place was so entertaining 😁

@ElectricPyroclast 6 жыл бұрын

Richard Ford They are an interesting subculture for sure. And that part of Japan is famous for fried octopus balls (takoyaki)

@codeninja100 6 жыл бұрын

Osaka is way more expressive and loud than what people typically think of Japan (Tokyo)

@MikeNewton 6 жыл бұрын

Osakans aren't charismatic, they're Christmas party.

@Lilliathi 6 жыл бұрын

+nocholas cato Never knew that.. anyone have an idea on why? Or rather.. why only them?

@codeninja100 6 жыл бұрын

Lilliath Its the same everywhere I guess. It's like comparing Portland to DC. Cities have different vibes

@Saoirse3797 10 ай бұрын

Omgosh i love this! Adorable!

@monochromacolor8542 3 жыл бұрын

ahhhh i had such a big smile watching this! Something that always gets me when learning Japanese vocab is "Text," one syllable tuning into three, haha

@0DarkWolfSVK 6 жыл бұрын

6:53 She actually has good pronunciation.

@levant5378 6 жыл бұрын

I know right, wtf! she must watch a lot of TV.

@LoveMuffinMedia 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah. It didn't sound like a Japanese accent. It sounded more European.

@richardsun6435 6 жыл бұрын

the most distinctive feature of NA english is its r. kinda like how a pirate goes "ARRRRRRRR" but held in place, most languages either have a trilling or glottal r or some of the sort. even most UK dialects do not have that distinctive r

@earthwolf82 6 жыл бұрын

Guy straight after was good too

@alondor8157 6 жыл бұрын

yeah. she was excellent.

@windyming5091 6 жыл бұрын

1:56 with captions "bucket" "fuck it" "fuck it"

@Crashandburn999 6 жыл бұрын

One of the best auto translations yet :D

@moritamikamikara3879 3 жыл бұрын

I love this, it's so adorable.

@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 2 жыл бұрын

One of the really interesting things about this is that in English, we tend to put the vocal stress on the even syllables of a word, while in Japanese you put the vocal stress on the odd syllables. So even if you use the exact same syllables (no adding/changing vowels/consonants to make it easier to pronounce), it will still sound different between the two languages.

@kelseybarton3406 2 жыл бұрын

oh my god im in japanese 4 and never realized that. that is so crazy.

@TheBold1994 2 жыл бұрын

What is this referred to as? I’ve noticed that between Italian and Spanish

@susanma4899 2 жыл бұрын

Though a Japanese person would claim that each syllable receives equal stress, which we know isn't strictly true. I personally think the stress pattern of some loanwords is to differentiate that word from a similar Japanese word. Because you know in Japanese that A LOT of words sound the same.

@Munchkin.Of.Pern09 2 жыл бұрын

@@TheBold1994 I don’t actually know what that vocal pattern is called, it’s just something I noticed over time while watching a lot of anime lol.

@yuki._loves Жыл бұрын

Waaaw thank you

@samuelatienzo4627 4 жыл бұрын

2:47 - “world” *ROPE.* 😂😂

@user-gt7op7we8e 4 жыл бұрын

*Ropeuu

@ichsanms2606 2 жыл бұрын

Very entertaining & educating 👏👏👏

@truthseeker1995 3 жыл бұрын

6:05 "Twitter." "Twitter!" "I thought of toilet." She's not wrong.

@fredrictigga3260 3 жыл бұрын

😂😂😂😂

@Galiaverse 5 жыл бұрын

"Twitter" "Toilet" Same difference.

@duckcluck123 5 жыл бұрын

Im from wisconsin and I didnt understand his pronunciation of 'tour' at all I say it like 'toor'

@goodname4514 4 жыл бұрын

I'm from Rockford we say it like tor

@torichappy170 4 жыл бұрын

He sounds like he is from western pa

@oliviawilhelm 4 жыл бұрын

i’m from there too and i say it like two-wer

@MADCougar04 4 жыл бұрын

In Texas we say toar

@ahmed38247 4 жыл бұрын

@@MADCougar04 bruh what? 😅

@Ineedagoodscreenname 3 жыл бұрын

They gave a valiant effort. I would get a confused look when asking for ketchup at a fast food restaurant in Japan. Adding the sound PU at the end solved the issue. Japanese is also hard to comprehend for me. I have a problem hearing everything in phrases like 十時に寝ます unless it's said extremely slowly.

@tennysonfordblackbird2087 2 жыл бұрын

Nice young people and taking it with a nice spirit.

@HuyLy94 6 жыл бұрын

Was over in Japan with my mate and he needed a serviette/napkin from the convenience store. They couldn't understand 'serviette', 'napkin' or even 'tissue' so I told him to try 'napukin' (I did Japanese in high school so I thought that would be the closest katakana equivalent) and it worked first time, the clerk apparently even praised him on his Japanese.

@user-te4hh4iw6u 2 жыл бұрын

サービエット＝？？聞いた事が無い（100％通じない）ティッシュ＝所謂、ボックスティッシュ（クリネックス等）ナプキン＝生理用ナプキン（100％の確率で生理用ナプキンを案内される）質問する場がレストランで有れば「ナプキン」は口を拭う紙か布と判断される質問する場が商店だと、「ナプキン」は生理用ナプキンとしか解釈されないですね。現代の日本では「ナプキン＝生理用ナプキン」と解釈されやすいです。

@santiagoarce5672 4 жыл бұрын

"Sekai wa sekai" lol that's what I was thinking

@belugawhale6539 4 жыл бұрын

Santiago Arce I was shocked how much the women laughed at such a dad joke though lol

@reigenlucilfer6154 4 жыл бұрын

sekai is world, seikai means correct.

@moritamikamikara3879 3 жыл бұрын

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooohhhh, So that's why they were saying "Is that a pun?" ohhh my god...

@santiagoarce5672 3 жыл бұрын

@@reigenlucilfer6154 Yeah my listening wasn't good enough to notice the difference back then lol

@dananghyougoken 3 жыл бұрын

seikai ha sekai... seikai is correct.. sekai is world..

@jeffyoung4122 4 жыл бұрын

this reminds me when my American friend said my mom was pretty and she couldn't understand it then I said it with and accent and she was like "oooooh thank you thank you *giggles*"

@BlackSmokeDMax 2 жыл бұрын

Like how you threw "karate" in there at the end. Nice twist with an American mis-pronunciation/loan word from Japan.

@hentaiglasses6841 6 жыл бұрын

2:46 ZA WARUDO

@abdoo7599 6 жыл бұрын

you beat me to it

@sabahbubbler 6 жыл бұрын

MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA MUDA

@heyalfikr 6 жыл бұрын

Yuta is Jojo fans. I guess.

@abdoo7599 6 жыл бұрын

FUJIMI FUROFUSHI STANDO POWAH

@Daelaron 6 жыл бұрын

ORAORAORAORAORAORA!

@KuroiHato69 6 жыл бұрын

American accents are very diverse. The way I was taught to pronounce things in the Northeast of the USA is very different from people in the South, Midwest and the West. And even then there are regional differences. I would love for you to try this with a standard English speaker from the United Kingdom. I think that would be interesting.

@srkn5721 6 жыл бұрын

Not really. Anywhere you go you will just hear general American accents.

@MassuXShoon 6 жыл бұрын

Actually, I've found that Japanese people in general find British English easier to understand and pronounce.

@christopherredden 6 жыл бұрын

> I would love for you to try this with a standard English speaker from the United Kingdom Oh boy, I hate to tell you, but the UK has even more diverse accents than the US.

@1Diddums 6 жыл бұрын

I definitely understand where main post is coming from, but thinking of all the varied UK accents, fancy getting a Scouser to do this.

@Kougeru 6 жыл бұрын

There's a difference between accents and pronouncing words incorrectly. "Tour" is only correctly pronounced as "two-or".

@jojos-here 3 жыл бұрын

I wanna go to Japan so badly man, I don’t know Japanese so much but everybody’s personality there is so positive 😭💕

@mopeadaz 3 жыл бұрын

i love their reactions when they got them right!

@Walter-Montalvo 4 жыл бұрын

It seems that the word "tour" has different pronunciations depending on the region in the US. It would be quite interesting to do a video asking Americans from different states to pronounce "tour". I am from CA and pronounce it "two-er".

@susanma4899 2 жыл бұрын

I'm from Tennessee and I also say "too-ur."

@willmcpherson2 Жыл бұрын

This reminds me of "cran" vs "cray-on"

@ramenramen8072 Жыл бұрын

I’m also from California, but I pronounce it “tore”

@city_of_coompton6832 Жыл бұрын

I'm Canadian I say it like "ter" lol

@lightningmonky7674 Жыл бұрын

The south would say it like "ture" lmfao

@SUrealismMusic 5 жыл бұрын

It is a bit hard to understand when he said "tour" without context. I thought he was saying "tore" as in "tore apart"

@roodlyfbuts8006 5 жыл бұрын

They still didn't guess tore

@epg581 4 жыл бұрын

Yeah I think he kinda pronounced it wrong

@Mrbluefire95 4 жыл бұрын

I don’t think there’s a katakana word for tore. All of the words used in this video are cognates.

@Eric-qh7is 4 жыл бұрын

Tore and tour are supposed to be pronounced the same. He didn’t spell it out

@shreksthongg 4 жыл бұрын

@@Eric-qh7is Where are you from? In the US we definitely pronounce it as "too-er"

@colinp2238 3 жыл бұрын

I love the way that they get excited when they get it right. The girl with the straw hat and her friend were prime examples of that. The guy in the black and white shirt, it was obvious that he had been to an English speaking country because he was right there all the time so must have had experience at hearing English au naturele.

@putaidanganimal1 2 жыл бұрын

4:11 I like this girl. The time she did the pointing and her meme-able face here hahahahah 😂😂🤣🤣👌👌❤️

@skrillz_14th 4 жыл бұрын

Japanese people say English is difficult Me: but... but... Kanji tho?!?!?

@m.p.9509 4 жыл бұрын

With technology the way it is now you can squeak by without knowing how exactly to write the kanji (which is the hardest part imo) as long as you can read it you're gucci

@RcXOG 4 жыл бұрын

If you want to learn I suggest a book called remembering the kanji, you can find the entire pdf or ebub if you Google it

@whilan5830 4 жыл бұрын

He has another video where he asks several Japanese people to write Kanji, they have varied success at it. They can generally get it but they have to do some digging into their memory. They understand Kanji is hard but that's like a second language to them, whereas English is equal to a third language. Also Kanji tends to use the same dialectic that Japanese does when spoken, where as English uses a different dialectic.

@getsome_milk 4 жыл бұрын

it's like Chinese

@ninjabieber7695 4 жыл бұрын

akariisfat it is but not in the same time

@tientv275 6 жыл бұрын

As a Vietnamese I'm used to pronouncing 'karate', 'karaoke' and brand names like 'Toyota' or 'Honda' the same way as Japanese people do. I find the American pronunciations of those words funny and unreasonable in some cases (karaoke = keriohkee??) But when they come in an English sentence I find it weird to pronounce the Japanese way...it just doesn't fit the intonation of the whole sentence.

@EIDiabeetus 6 жыл бұрын

Tien Tran I'm American and I pronounce those brands, etc. properly even if I get strange looks from people.

@gmv12345 6 жыл бұрын

I agree with you.

@anny7000 6 жыл бұрын

I speak Portugue and it is the same for us. The Japanese pronunciation of those words are almost the same for us

@gmv12345 6 жыл бұрын

I speak Spanish and for us Spanish speakers is easier to phonetically learn Japanese.

@EIDiabeetus 6 жыл бұрын

gmv12345 Japanese pronunciation/phonetics are easy. Don't know how most English speakers manage to fuck it up that badly.

@CrusadingJello 3 жыл бұрын

English: SVO. Japanese: SOV. - S: Subject. - V: Verb - O: Object. Once you get that down, you can slowly... Begin connecting words and start making rough sentences. But eventually when you increase your Japanese vocabulary, you can make somewhat proper sentences.

@davyd8999 3 жыл бұрын

The guy with the square button-up has to be one of my favorite people, they were all so nice!

@guitarbattleslive1274 6 жыл бұрын

7:32 roasted

@OscarTheSage 6 жыл бұрын

Japanese women are top tier roasters in this world

@CanalEvandro 6 жыл бұрын

savage!

@odaoh 6 жыл бұрын

lmaooo

@AstralBeing 6 жыл бұрын

That was uncalled for.

@cross4326 5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@wheeler1 6 жыл бұрын

LOL yes, lady! we have buckets too!

@wheeler1 6 жыл бұрын

funny that they couldn;t understand the Japanese word! lol (of course, we don't pronounce it correctly, so...)

@demef758 5 жыл бұрын

I couldn't understand your couldn;t!

@mculbert1467 Жыл бұрын

Tor for tour a very regional choice! My pronunciation matches Yuta's translated version exactly!

@jackpatterson7110 3 жыл бұрын

Aw I love these people, they're so fun and great with the kid (Jack right?)! We would live them to visit Canada :)

@inmyshoes372 6 жыл бұрын

They are really good at guessing!

@pedrodossantos5890 5 жыл бұрын

5:43 "Twitter" "guitar"

@pinkblooky7797 2 жыл бұрын

2:34 i DIED laughing, i love her laugh so much!

@ivangambino4135 Жыл бұрын

I love this video

@David-oh8dl 5 жыл бұрын

1:52 anyone else only hear F**k it....?

4 жыл бұрын

hahaha exactly

@Sesshomaru474 4 жыл бұрын

I heard buckets

@topdanielunlimited5342 6 жыл бұрын

All the people I see in this interviews looks so happy and fun. Sure, Yuta may choose the ones that will make the interview fun, but still. They seem like a pretty nice bunch! I'd sure love to go to Japan one day!

@boldcautionproductions9203 Жыл бұрын

Excellent videos - a good time to be alive, using the internet for great purposes. I loved my times in Japan.

@Tea-oc3gh Жыл бұрын

I love how enthusiastic the Japanese are about learning new things like the use of words in a context for a certain language. They always seem to be very kind and accommodating people.

@neffyg35 6 жыл бұрын

The thing is America has so many different accents. I feel for anyone learning American English in one part of the country only to travel and not understand what someone is saying in another part

@CoconutJewce 6 жыл бұрын

I don't think it's any different from other countries with dialects. Even Japan, for example, has dialects that are super different. Kyushu-ben is way different than Kansai-ben, which is way different than Tohoku-ben.

@Krieghandt 6 жыл бұрын

A friend of mine from India knew British English, and moved to Texas. She had to relearn 50% of the language, and the new rhythm as well.

@Mharriscreations 6 жыл бұрын

I live in China and the difference in accents can be really daunting. Especially when you get the ___puhua (local dialect mixed with standard Mandarin.)

@aimeecortez5899 6 жыл бұрын

No that's hardly a problem, most other languages are much worse haha

@Slayer_Jesse 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Texas has a pretty thick accent.

@seikatsu4101 6 жыл бұрын

6:08 I thought of "toilet" haha 😂 awesome I love Japan 😍😍😍

@HANAFUDAxCLUB 2 жыл бұрын

jack: “world” dio brando: enters chat

@skeltek7487 2 жыл бұрын

Got a C2 english evaluation result in my Oxford english evaluation test at university. Been speaking english and listening to dozens of different dialects (US/GB/RUS/GER/EST/...) and considered myself pretty adequate ad distinguishing sounds and vowels. But what the boy said was something like coarear/coreer/cowreer or something in between.

@stielimusterman3066 4 жыл бұрын

"Series" is really hard though, since there are so many other words that you pronounce similarly. for example: cereals theories serious

@LeeorVardi 4 жыл бұрын

Series -> shiriizu Cereals -> shirearezu Theories -> Shiorizu Serious -> shiriosu All of these can be romanized to accentuate the differences.

@adde9506 4 жыл бұрын

Depends on where you are from. The sub-dialect where I'm from has many fewer homonyms than the rest of the US. For me those words are all significantly different.

@catalincatalin7644 4 жыл бұрын

Series? Better to say episode or season... better than series because of accent and you will understand serious...

@PongoXBongo 3 жыл бұрын

The only one of those that seems similar is "serious". These are more about proper annunciation rather than dialect. Don't go all French on us and make have the letters silent, lol.

@fantasytadoku9917 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Yuta, thanks for the video. Just wanted to mention that Jack pronounces TOUR exactly like me. I'm from east coast US (Massachusetts) By the way, I've been following your videos for a while, and your English pronunciation has gotten clearer.

@JackgarPrime 6 жыл бұрын

Yeah, as someone else from Mass, I was surprised to see people who are native english speakers not be able to understand what he said. Just goes to show how different accents are even within the same language.

@pooman4727 6 жыл бұрын

I'm also from Mass, and I just thought everyone said tour like "tore". Idk anyone who actually says too-er.

@MajorAddiction 6 жыл бұрын

I've heard it pronounced both ways, but more often like too-er (California btw haHAA)

@DeathBringer769 6 жыл бұрын

I live in the North East and most people I know say tour like tore, but I've seen enough movies/TV that came out of California to have heard the "too-er" two syllable version of that word as well, lol.

@selfactualizer2099 3 жыл бұрын

tour is more recognizeable with context, even with a direct specific language like this we still need context for some words since so many are pronounced the same

@sarathhettiarachchi282 3 жыл бұрын

Its very interesting .I am really very much fond of Japanese Language as well as Our beloved Japanese People too . Frankly , there's a big issue with that Boy's Pronouncing . And Its not easy to pick the words by many due to that , Thanks a lot for bringing such a interesting videos to us.