The Truth About Becoming a Salaryman in Tokyo (As a Foreigner)

Рет қаралды 5,987

Күн бұрын

Check out our other videos!
► Interview with Dogen: bit.ly/3eUAKLJ
► Speedrunning Duolingo Japanese: bit.ly/3B2xd5C
► Korea 48 Hour Speedrun: bit.ly/3RUXAkO
This week we talked to Jason (aka supersonic540), who works at a Japanese Video Game Company (Koei Tecmo). He was previously featured on Dogen's channel and in the episode we talk about his experience moving to Japan, learning Japanese, and working in Japan.
Outline:
00:00 Introduction to Jason (supersonic540)
02:25 How Good is Jason’s Japanese?
04:40 Nihongo Jozu stories
07:15 Experience Shocking Japanese people
08:30 Story of going off at someone in Japanese
11:30 Disadvantages in the Japanese workplace
14:50 Jason’s FAVORITE word in Japanese (and English)
19:55 Jason's KoreKara Message
#Japanese

Пікірлер: 37

@KoreKaraPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

Subscribe to pass the JLPT N1 without studying

@Supersonic 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks again for the interview! it was really fun! I have decided that i will do 1 push-up for every time i say "like". so time to get GIGA-SWOLE! and for every time i say like, you guys should "Like" the video ^o^

@KoreKaraPodcast 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for coming on the show Jason! Can’t wait to see you back on as a GIGA-SWOLE CHAD

@ClowdyHowdy 2 жыл бұрын

Killer episode! You guys might need a korekara message hall of fame for the best of the ending messages

@autentyk5735 2 жыл бұрын

This was a pleasure to sit through. It is truly rare to come across people as eloquent as him. Even though it's all about Japan and Japanese, not many in the community have mastered their own language to this extent. Major Matt vibes. Hope it's ok to point this out. I am not a native English speaker myself, so I relish that. I love you guys, my Japanese years will come. I am a philologist living in Barcelona, currently working on reaching a native level in Catalan. AJATT has been an enormous inspiration.

@whannabi Жыл бұрын

ACATT

@jayy8379 2 жыл бұрын

Nah, this was one of the best episodes of the podcast for sure, hope we can see more of Jason in the future🤌

@BijuuMike 2 жыл бұрын

that Phantasy Star poster tho 👌 Awesome episode!

@abikyoukan2 2 жыл бұрын

love the editing in this, keep it up guys. have been watching jason streams for a while and he's really inspiring

@Learninglotsoflanguages 2 жыл бұрын

I think I could listen to Jason talk all day. Great message!

@bono300vox 2 жыл бұрын

damn one of the best episodes already that end message was pretty wholesome

@sacrinarose 2 жыл бұрын

This guy has so much to share that can't be contained within a short podcast. He was on a live stream the other week and he was great. An inspiration to anyone hoping to live or work in Japan.

@chsinskyy 2 жыл бұрын

i see y'all with the upgraded editing 😎 also this was a great interview !!

@AffyisAffy Жыл бұрын

That ending was deep. I think we can become paralyzed by the fear of many things but the ultimate truth is we are all human. Obsessing on the good or bad of a particular culture is not in alignment with reality.

@SmartJapanHacks 2 жыл бұрын

I can so relate to the story about the salaryman insinuating that they were "urusai". That stuff makes my blood boil 😠 Interesting that there's no word for procrastination in Japanese. Maybe Japanese people just don't procrastinate enough for them to need a word for it 🙂 It's also interesting that the stem for サボる is written in katakana. One word I haven't found a good translation for is self-discipline. You have 自粛 or 自己鍛錬, but I don't think neither of those convey the same meaning as in English. 窓外放出 is too funny! 🤣🤣🤣 I'll make sure to remember that one.

@daik901 2 жыл бұрын

As a Japanese, I think it is appropriate to translate it as 自制心.

@SmartJapanHacks 2 жыл бұрын

@@daik901 Thank you! 🙂 I'll use that going forward.

@shimewaza 2 жыл бұрын

Probably more commonly translated as "to put off" but I usually use 先延ばしにする when I want to say procrastinate in Japanese.

@Some_Guy_87 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks to this, I will now stop punching people in the stomach, thank you. The episode felt really short, he's such an amazing speaker! Also, new Dynasty Warriors game when?

@cito2820 2 жыл бұрын

God I love this podcast. I’m going to France this summer for immersion but Ik I’ll be keeping Korekara as my daily English ration 🤞😎

@hulamei3117 10 ай бұрын

I like you three together! Great talk guys! This grandmother learned much from this video!❤ Btw what are your ages? 20's?

@sae2705 Жыл бұрын

The point regarding translating is an interesting one. I think peopple forgot what speaking fluently in another language is. You're thinking in your new language and not in English, so your logic and how you interpret things and interact with things is in that target language. But the logic, the way of thinking and approaching things maybe be very different to English. So to translate you're going "how do I communicate these ideas into English" rather than a direct translation because it would in many cases be nonsense. I am still a learner, but I got the first real experience of this trying to translate song lyrics from Vietnamese into English and some of the phrasing just made absolutely no sense in English and it was not phrasing I had yet learned, so it was a game of "how do I extract meaning from this" followed by "how would I reconstruct it into English?" And one of my goals and the things I am working on is purging some of my English way of thinking to adopt a Vietnamese way of thinking and not translating in my head. I am getting progress.