this is actually a thing among learners and natives when speaking in English in a Japanese context, since English doesnt have as flexible an equivalent

@@Skuu wouldn't the equivalent be "right"? I am by no means learning Japanese and i really am uneducated in the language. I didn't google anything, just 'felt' like this would be the right english equivalent. It's probably not. 😂

I think they meant "innit" like isn't it?

Lol I thought he said innit HAHA

@@Skuu I think "eh" is a valid substitute (Canadian here, admittedly)

Lmao

He sounds a lot better than the average Japanese man tho.

Must be from Liverpool.

I suppose it makes sense they have American accents in the dub?!

They only made him English in the American dub

Her "th" sound is fantastic.

For a while there, I thought it read “controversial” 🤣🤣😭

Mina: Taurus/Libra Ami: Gemini Rei: Aries/Scorpio Mako: Sagittarius

@@starrisesky yup yup

I forgot Minako lived in London for a while, so she probably has the best English skills of the group.

That is not allowed, please leave my home party.

[upgrade] welcome to my party, homies

@@flaetsbnort husbant, you buy too much home partys, now we are homeress

I am HooWHAT?

And we often say " Oh you don't a know how to speaka Engurish neh?"

お英語が上手ですね

You mean perfect engrishu

I think the English bits in jojo are legitimately more clear Even if it’s just “oh mya gawwwwd” Or “you-re turn, mista jo-star” It’s so hilarious and out of place

Its no better in US shows- Gus Fring speaks spanish like hes reading it for the first time out of index cards, pausing to stop every 6 syallables. Im like, have you ever HEARD spanish being spoken? Its supposed to be like 80mph. Not to mention the atrocious asian or arabic languages. Samurai cop

@@onlydaprecum "wow perfect Spanish"

I'm always saying this

Probably meant to say "house party"

@@crosseightyeight No.

Especially when you say it with what sounds like a Transylvanian accent.

@@crosseightyeight But an English speaker would probably not say welcome to my house party. They would say welcome to my party or welcome to my home.

🤣🤣🤣

Ami’s “I’m glad to see you” was inappropriate here. You’re seeing this guy for the first time, Ami! Why are you ‘glad’ to see an old stranger?

Minako’s English was perfect since she spent time in London.

@@anujkalra6145 It can grammaticality work. She can be glad to meet him for the first time if she's been anticipating it

@@anujkalra6145 ami's english here is a blind idiot translation. Extremely accurate grammatically but makes little sense when spoken outloud.

just as all these anime weren't enough for me to learn Japanese 😔

moon drinking. ..escalation!

British guy: good morning! Usagi: Moon Healing Escalation! British guy: Refresh!

anime logic guys don´t take it seriously :D

Attacks phases are written in katakana already, different from actually English

She said I'm glad to see you

@@ihavenoideawhatimdoing4 I know what was said, thank you. Lol

@@ZeoViolet 😒

did she say "SHIT YOU"?

@@deleted_handle usagi is saying about “stew” in Japanese.

I literally squealed at that

I realize now that, growing up, Arigato was thrown around a bit as a stereotypical Japanese word. Glad to know that the concept is mutual.

@@systemverilog4727 RIGHT!? I didnt even think about that.

@@systemverilog4727 stereotypical also means generic... so it's a given that "arigato" is a general japanese word, like "hello" is a general english word. you could say arigato was thrown around so people could sound more worldly, unless it's used in a demeaning manner like "haha hes asian arigato roboto haha" but thats like... infant brain humor.

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What does conversant japanese mean?

@@hawkfeather6802 another way of saying conversational japanese

Gf

Hddola

I have it on DVD. One of my favorites. Lol

What did they do in the English version I wonder.... Maybe French?? That would also be hilarious xD

@@eternalconfusion6226 she says a lot of strange sentences in the English version..as a failed attempt

Thank you 😆

"A victim of Japanese education system" either you hear English to learn it (the pronunciation), or you don't. So unless you're using audio/video, which I would assume was much rarer in the 80's/90's, you need actual foreigners teaching English on Japan. Not quite the "education system failure" you say

@@raven-a This! & also that people are allowed to have accents (If you know what I mean, everyone obviously has an accent haha). “Victim of Japanese education.” I mean sure but if you learn an additional language you won’t sound 100% like them magically

@@it8ntme823 bruh of course “people are allowed to have accents” OP never said that she was shit so at speaking English why are y'all taking so much offense? 💀

@@raven-a what are you even talking about? I'm pretty sure that “back in the 80/90s” they wouldn't have had teachers giving the right English pronunciations and that was genuinely an actual thing that happened. (this is hearsay, I didnt look it up so I might be wrong) you seriously think all classes have access to native English speakers or actual recordings to teach students with? given that context, all OP inferred was that Japan may not have taught English pronounciation properly. and that's not a big deal. so it's just weird to see y'all jump up to take OP's comment personally 💀

She was in England, when she was sailor v...so I'm assuming that's how. This is referenced in the anime, not the manga.

And we assune Amy should be the most fluent of them.

She used to live in London as Sailor V, so that would make perfect sense.

@@alicesacco9329 minako is clearly the most fluent, actually using a foreign language in another country on a daily basis is much better practice than any textbook.

Reis character actress tomizawa michie is actually fluent in english

The way someone explained it to me was that in Japanese, 'R' and 'L' as separate sounds just don't exist. To them, it's exactly the same thing, with the way they roll the 'R's like many languages do. That's where we get things like "young-u rady".

@@Randoman590 Thanks, I know. I studied linguistics, and [l] and [r] sounds are pretty much the same phoneme /r/ in Japanese, which means they're an interchangeable sound without the meaning of a word in Japanese chaning. One can say they are different allophones (or variations) of the same phoneme. Meanwhile in a language like English (or my mother tongue, Finnish), /l/ and /r/ are different phonemes, hence words that would otherwise sound similar like "lady" or "ready" have a different meaning (even though, to be exact, the vowels in these words do sound a bit different). In Finnish, the words "rakki" and "lakki" are a so-called minimal pair. The only sound that is different is the first one, /l/ - /r/. "Rakki" means a "pooch" or a "mutt" while "lakki" means a "cap". A Japanese person might hear both words as the same.

@@donnaquixote7538 pretty much, /r/ and /l/ in english are both approximants with the only difference being place of articulation, it makes sense that under some circumstances they become the same or a similar sound.

@@Randoman590 I have 0 experience with japanese phonetics, but from a Spanish speaker point of view it's the fact that their R roll is weak that makes it sound like L. Their R sounds like a very untensed plosive in the alveolar/palato alveolar region.

I noticed he ends his questions with "ne" too.

Mine too

This needs to be on a t-shirt XD

See you again, nani mo agen!

That preserved the original awkwardness of the characters in the scene. I don’t think the Viz dub did it nearly as well.

Was it Quebecois french? Please tell me it was 😂

@@andynonymous6769 I wish! That would've been really funny!

I hope the actors also had no idea how to pronounce French and it sounded as funny as engrish does.

oh i thought i was the only one who saw that lmao it was good tho

This is the episode that I think DiC did better then Viz. DiC did a genius maneuver of switching the languages and keeping the story about the language barriers, viz just changed the plot entirely on what was going on :p

@@CenKyne no way. They ruined it. Do t watch it dubbed. Turn off translation for this one

​@@CenKyne You could also make the Englishmen speak a different language other than English, like German or something

cream stew. god, the Tomodachi Life flashbacks.

@@pathogenofdecay omg noooo-

Post this on r/engrish LEL 😂

sounds like a rap

But not as good as Linda Balantyne 😵

I may watch the English version but we should all cherish the original uwu

After watching all of sailor moon with its original japanese voices, i have to say the japanese voice acting suits all the character much better than the english dubbed ver i grew up with. I prefer it.

As a Japanese, I felt very uncomfortable with the voice of the English voice actor. The Japanese version of the voice actor has a very cute voice. It is good that the softness of Japanese is well expressed.However, I also thought that the English version of the voice actor was good. From this comment, I learned that the way we look at things varies from country to country. I'm not good at English, so my true intentions may not be well communicated. Please forgive me.

Wait what??? There's people who DON'T love the japanese voices?? Sailor Moon's original dub is one of my favorites ever. They fit the characters so well!

She said sankyu tho

groomer pfp

​@@dukkemonterier3429 what? please don't devalue that word.

@@dukkemonterier3429 or... you know... 14 year old?

@@FritzMonorail he's being homophobic, it's hot with morons to go around calling LGBT people groomers atm. As though the vast, vast majority of grooming isn't done by straight people.

@@dukkemonterier3429 D

Rei actually said "hello" in German. "Hallo!"

I'm pretty sure all of them know english

@Raven Link I'm sorry, I didn't exactly watch the full show, I just watch clips of the show on here (although I get the full premise).

@@Jay0916 Well...I learned after 30+ years but drat still speak with super heavy accent

@@usagitsukino608 How ironic

It was the 90's.

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Minako and Ami are the ones who speak better English since Minako lived in London and Ami has perfect grades at school

This is such a cute little comment that it makes me feel nostalgic- though my friends and are are still teenagers 😅 thanks for sharing 💖

@@ecksdee8129 Your comment made me smile! Always love to meet a fellow magical girl 😊💖 Edit: Magical girls stay magic for life!

American cartoons and animated shows do the same thing when they speak a different language, usually it's the same voice actors who work there who do the voices, many times I've heard them speak Spanish and it sounds funny, of course because they're not natives, I guess it's more complicated to bring people from the outside, unless it's a big or main role they're playing.

@@andylatino I get what your saying, and agree. The thing with anime (not sure how familiar you are with anime in general, so no offense) is that any anime set in modern (or even Edo Period) Japan always has at least one episode with "Americans" visiting, usually as exchange students or soldiers, much like in real life Japan. Its predictable as clockwork. Often times, the Main Character VAs have better English than the VAs voicing the visiting "Americans." The real kicker is that some anime have (allegedly) bilingual characters. For example, Revy from Black Lagoon. Totally different genre than Sailor Moon, but Revy's whole backstory is that she is Chinese-American, and grew up in the United States. She usually has a line or two in English per episode, and it ramps up for about three episodes in the second season where every other line is English. The story was written before the anime was cast, so you have to wonder why they didn't go with a Japanese VA who had better English. The Engrish is so bad that it is laughable...much like watching some of the FUNimation VAs take their shot at trying to speak Japanese in a dubbed anime. I know I am making a mountain out of a mole hill, but it is just funny to think about...especially as anime has moved beyond Japanese-only audiences and is being simulcast around the world. I guess it will just stay a cute quirk of anime.

@@samuelzuleger5134 yeah I get what you mean, but probably it's because even though anime has gone beyond Japan, for them it's still aimed at them when it comes to the Japanese voices, maybe they think since they make different dubs in other languages that can be changed in each one.

@@samuelzuleger5134 they exist, there just aren’t that many of them, and studios are super particular and picky about the VAs they use. I think it’s a partly a union issue.

@@troyschulz2318 "partly a racism issue" Fixed that for you.

***** True and the faces are really the only thing I'd complain about with them? That said they've kind of grown on me and I don't mind the triangle eyes, plus he's a legend int he industry now and I love how he was responsible for animating some of the best episodes of the entire series. Especially this one. Also all the crazy facial expressions and gags he gave to us, couldn't be Sailor Moon without them.

***** Oh my God yes.

***** Haven't seen it yet. That was his last one?

TRUE

Ando’s style >>> sloppy Crystal style of season 1&2

Cause dubs have bad acting. Good English but bad acting. As bad as crappy English is it’s always gonna be better than horrible acting and 12 year old dudes sounding 87.

@@13_cmi this just isn't true though and is a massive generalisation

Pepsi Man I thought the same thing.

It’s JoJ, it’s SuS.

George?

@@MrSoopSA It's HoH SiS

And the "ah!" right after XD

This is your brain on toxic feminism.

This is hilariously underrated 😂😂

Hahaha, legendary crossover!! Makes me want to draw the Sailor Moon characters Jojo style

@@konpeitosart Right?!?

@@konpeitosart Also, I love your name!

@@elusivemayfly7534 Awww thank you 💜

Michie Tomizawa (Rei Hino) is fluent in english. But for the others, that idea is absolutely hilarious and I love it.

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how would being scatterbrained serve anyone in learning a new language?

@@punkbjork it requires associative thinking.

@@artemsmirnov1134 you're right, but i guess i just didn't think of "scatterbrained" as "making connections". seems like they are two different angles to take or ways of looking at the same thing. one has a positive connotation, the other a negative one, but despite the lens, the reality of the object being perceived remains consistent.

@@artemsmirnov1134 i think intuition is more about associative thinking though, to me "scatterbrained" implies messy, disorganized, incoherent cognitive processes etc

Love the Lunar references; both your screen name and your avatar!

I'm not sure if it's better than Joseph Joestar in part 1 and 2 of Jojo, but damn is it up there lol

Why what do they say

I am (eng) eigo (jap) no no ( eng) cannot (eng) nee (jap) lol

Actually Japanese is harder... English is only hard in pronunciation. Pretty much every other language is harder. Like French counting system, or Chinese in which there is pretty much no rules or Hebrew and Arabic in which there are too many rules. English is simply the easiest that's why it's famous, those people who say English are hard must be Americans lol..

Do you have proof all of them are were Americans. Michael H We don't need to see generalizing here.

I have studied a lot languages so I agree with Michael. English is one of the easiest language, if not the easiest.

+Paulo Barbosa thats odd, I always heard english was super hard because a ton of words that sound the same and words that look similar sound different.

Yeah I've also heard it's harder to learn English.

Yeah, you were so dedicated that you even went by Serena for a while.

@@killerb2099 Yep. I still get called that a lot actually. But its ok. I like that name as well hehe

@@usagitsukino608 What’s the better sounding language, English or Japanese?

@@nelzelpher7158 mmmm well for me I think japanese is more better sounding but when I learned English after some hardwork I realized it is somewhat not bad either.

It’s actually a put-on that Japanese VAs do. It’s not usually how they actually speak.

She sounds like Pikachu

Just wait until you hear what Goku sounds like.

She sounds like Ebichu! 😂

​@@simeonellinger2064 😂 true