sorry for the awesome Jojo voice I'm sick

Learning Japanese to speak to Japanese people: ❌ Learning Japanese to watch anime without subtitles: ❌ Learning Japanese to better understand to nuance of Dogen's jokes: ✔

Person: ''weeb shit'' Dogen: ''...and I took that personally.''

1:09 that "weebu shito" lmao

Your pronunciation is so good, to the point that my brain is telling me "this guy is a pretty Western looking Japanese dude".

Me who's soon moving to Japan to study: **Seriously Watching The Video** Dogen: Weeb Sh*t

"Though I still don't understand は and が" - The motto of everyone I've ever known to go to Japan, ever. N1 should just be an essay that if you get it right, you're fluent enough.

You've gotta understand both English and Japanese to fully appreciate Dogen's humor. "Trust me" vs "経験で分かる" absolutely killed me

A commenter once asked youtuber Nobita: "are you doing this video just to dunk on weaboos". The answer was: "Weaboos are the future of Japan". Nobita never was one to shy from controversy, you see.

"I've been jouzu since day one" i felt that

I am pretty sure there isn't any person in this world whose 日本語 isn't 上手

The fact that weeb sh*t and regular conversations with natives can get you pretty far in life gives me so much hope ngl.

this is just a gateway video for him to do anime impressions. i said it.

英語話者らしい英語のツイートが完全に日本人の言いそうな日本語に変換されていて感動…

3年後のDogen「今からリヴァイ兵長の話し方のレッスンを行います。」

"I still don't understand は and が" "At the end of the day, it all comes down to weeb sh!t" - Dogen

hahaha, this video reminds me how I learned English^^ Thank you Dogen-san!!!!

Motivation advice: Attack on Titan op

日本に売っている、包み紙も食べていい飴といえば、たぶんボンタン飴のことかと思います。大正時代からある日本の飴です。

"I'll have to consult Jiraiya-sensei" One of the things that I most appreciate about the videos are the subtitles

Duude that Levi impression was on point

Before I watched the video, I read the title and was literally thinking, “is it hakkai or hachikai?” Glad to know I’m not alone LOL

"Come to English to teach Japan" is still the best advice he has ever given

文法が苦手 →他は何にせよ、文法は少なくとも苦手 文法は苦手 →他はなんとかなるが、文法だけ苦手

"I still don't understand は and が " I still remember asking my professor, who is a japanese native that was a translator, what the difference was. I got the most confusing and straight forward answer: "One is the subject marker, the other is a topic marker."

The ending, I can't believed Dogen just _jouzu'd_ himself xD All I learned from this was to embrace your weeb shit, help!

5:10 oh, this hits a bit close to home

BOTH!! Genki for grammar and vocabulary Anime for listening practice and ｃｕｌｔｕｒｅ

It's so great that we live in a world where everyone can be 上手.

This video is influenced so hard by that one person saying weeb shit 😂

まじで英語ツイートの日本語訳うますぎる😂仕事で英→日翻訳をする機会がよくあるので参考にしてます！！！！

配偶者ビザしかない。。。Nailed it! リアルすぎてワロタ❗️

“You have to marry a japanese person” 😂

We hear weebu shitu, aight sounds normal in the sentence. But the “patreon series” at 3:35 threw my sleep deprived brain for a loop

3:34 The way you said "Patreon series" in English after doing everything in Japanese scared me.... lol

真顔で笑いが取れるのすごい。

ドーゲンさんの発音の勉強はもはや言語学者レベルで凄い

「はっかい」でも「はちかい」でも正しいと思います。公的な場では「はちかい」のほうがいいと思います。 猪八戒（なんかはずかしくなった）

＿人人人人人人人＿ ＞　配偶者ビザ　＜ ￣Y^Y^Y^Y^Y^Y￣

逆にこの人の日本語聞きながら字幕を訳して速読力を鍛えるやつ

I've been watching Dogen for years but since my Japanese is only at a 上手 level I'm pretty sure 99% of his jokes have gone over my head

"I've been 上手 from day one" *I felt that* ✋😭

I think this is like a serious business man just answering twitter questions seriously but with just the right amount of sarcasm

すごいアドバイス、ドーゲンさんが上手ですね

つまり、Weebさえなったら日本語がnative level ようになるということだね。了解しました。

Holy crap why do you sound so ASMR-like, and why do I love it so much?

4:01 he just became Gordon Ramsay with that answer

日本人を20年以上やってますがいまだに「は」と「が」の違いは（が）よくわかりません

I'm in love with the way you say モティベーション and then say "motivation" but in Japanese but not like a native would

3:17 Not to sabotage your sales Dogen but from my experience (11 years speaker, 1 year abroad, tons of senpai) there is a delicate balance to strike here. You see, Japanese people are kinda like Scandinavians in that they know their language is a bit out there, difficult to learn, and might not be worth it for everybody. Unlike scandinavians however, they don't take that as a reason to immediately learn english instead. Anyways. The point is, Japanese will NEVER under ANY circumstance critique you for your pronounciation in any way, it's even hard to get feedback if you specifically ask for it. The only situation this might happen is if there has been a misunderstanding due to it, which thanks to magical context is quite rare. Even then, they'll try to understand you - explain it in another way with other words and they'll see what happened and "ah, naruhodo!" on you, without you even noticing it was due to shitty accent. And then there's expectations. You are a gaijin coming to Japan. Thanks for bringing your money here. What, you also speak Japanese? Welcome to the country, let me show you around, want a sweet? Japanese people expect a certain degree of unsecurity in gaijin speak. It's cute to them, they see your effort and usually see how one could make mistakes or little imperfections in your situation and don't mention it. Some might even remember how bad their english would be, or rather, most of them are happy enough they don't have to speak it right now. Basically you are taking the burden of meiwaku into your responsibility from them, and they're thankful for it. Now what if you come to Japan with perfect pitch and vocabulary? One of my senpai, a German dude, had lived with a japanese Family most of his life because his best friend was Japanese and so were his parents. So he basically grew up with it. Then later he proceeded to work in japanese Politics and consulting firms. Other friends of his told me the japanese actually told them that my senpai was very scary because he spoke Japanese perfect to a degree most Japanese themselves struggle with nowadays, with perfect Keigo as well. They were intimidated, humiliated, didn't know how to react or in any way be welcoming anymore. The Gaijin-Bonus was completely gone. In conclusio, it's nice and a good thing to have an interest in good pitch. But as Dogen said, there is probably no need to overdo it. Being a gaijin and speaking with a little accent or quirk is charming, this is valid for most countries and language pairs. No country on this earth has people loathing you for imperfections in their language (France maybe but they're weird anyways), on the flipside, most highly appreciate the immense effort you made learning the language in the first place to a point of being highly welcoming and warm. More so than to their own people.

Am I just too 下手/上手 at Japanese still, or are your subtitles sometimes more-than-subtly different than what you say?

自分の通訳に対してその自信のなさとしっくりこない感に痛いくらい共感できるこの頃 🙃

This video unironically gave me hope that I might one day learn Japanese the same way I learnt English

And once everyone’s 上手, no one will be...

ドーゲンさんの動画、英語字幕と日本語音声両方同時に視聴すると、まるで2つの動画を見てる感じになって。意味は一緒だったが、言葉遣いは全く違うになってて、まさに他には見れない面白さです。これからも応援します。

初日からJOUZUだからね。。 We all relate to that, i think all of us is jouzu from beginning, according to the japanese people proof : NiHonGo JouZu

声低くなってより日本人が話してるっぽくなった気がする！

I've been watching your old videos all week, and I don't know how intentional it actually is, but your 発音 seems much better in these current videos. It was always much, much better than any foreigner I've heared, but as of now, I wouldn't be able to tell that you're a foreigner at all if I wouldn't be looking at you.

今回も面白すぎます😂 Dogenさん含めて，この動画を見ている方，世界一難しいと言われている日本語を勉強してくれてありがとうございます😊 そして、日本語の発音が違ってても伝わりますよ。むしろ大半の人は頑張って喋ってくれてうれしいと感じます。「こんにちは」と言えるだけで褒められます笑笑 そして文法もバラバラでも大体伝わります。 頑張ってください！Dogenさんのビデオは最高ですよ！応援しています🙂

今から日本語のレッスンをおこないます。

It's nice to imagine dogen eating onigiri with the plastic still on.

1:41 Oh my god. I just realized why I write the way I do. I was raised in Japan so they taught me to write with the fingers in that position. So when I came back to the US and a lot of people writing with a different form I was confused. IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW

道玄さん、喉を痛めてますね。ご静養なさって下さい。

I really like how you sound so much more casual here. Also, I hope you feel better soon!

3:34 That was a smooth AF way to advertise your patreon 😂

I am so glad I follow this channel. Every video is a treasure and you're HILARIOUS. Had to put my Japanese studies on hold for other things but the second I'm back I'm going to sub to the Patreon. :D

開始１０秒で笑わせてくれるからdogenの動画好きだわｗ

quality advice when it makes you both crack up and listen intently. Literally amazing

I learned Japanese at work. I worked in a sushi restaurant for 3 years when I was pretty young and was in pretty much a completely Japanese environment for 12 hours a day for a couple hours a week. I feel like this is maybe even better to going to the country because there are ways around using the language in a country, but at work it's really beneficial to be able to communicate with your coworkers. I think people should find something similar to this for their language input when learning a language. Better than cartoons, imo. Anime doesn't sound like spoken Japanese, although I think it's easier to understand

"I've been jōzu from day one, after all" Legit cracked me up

It's the biggest delight of my life to see you translating it like that, simultaneously. I even think it's good for learning

God you can't hate this guy. Originally stopped to watch his videos because I thought his seemingly incredible Japanese would demotivate me but as it turns out, this is so much of a motivation.

Dogen went from jouzu japanese nerd to Nihongo Chad in this video and I cant exactly point out why

主語を表す「は」と「が」は、文脈によってどちらが正しいのか日本人にもわからないことがあります(^^;)

Hands down the best Japanese related KZfaq channel. ドゲン先生ありがとうございました。いつも楽しかった。お疲れさまでした。

アドバイスをしてくれてありがとうございます🙏🏻

Dogen’s out here with the 300 IQ plays. He stayed in Japan by getting married. Then had the big brain play by having kids, and making the Japanese government pay him to have them. (Still can’t get over that one)

Question: What can I do to become good at josho? Answer I expected: "You can't." Answer I got: "You can't" with extra steps

This has to be my favorite video so far. Laughed the whole time, thank you. 私はウィーブシット大好きです。

Your voice sounds great in this video. No nasality, although you‘ve been having and less of that over the years anyway. But in this particular video you sound SO natural.

I wasn't expecting this amount of Shingeki no kyojin references BUT I AGREE IN THE OP THING

As for @_Waterhead's question about improving your grammar, I've found gathering more example sentences has really helped me. It needs to soak in to be more natural/intuitive. And reading it aloud or shadowing is good too. Also there's a kind of 'developmental order' to the way we learn grammar, so don't stress about getting the more complicated forms 'right' all the time before you're really comfortable with more simple/basic stuff.

I mean, pitch-accent pronunciation is cool and all, but I would pay big money for a creative scriptwriting course, deadass: narration is on point and literary devices, even in 3-second quips, are simply superior.

I was watching some of your old videos the other day, your pronunciation is much more jōzu now.

喉大丈夫ですか？ お大事にー！

Now I miss japan because you mentioned to eat ramen until no regrets

Thanks dogen! Take care!

字がバチコリ上手く書ける外国人ニキネキおったら惚れてまうやろ……

As they say, from ashes to ashes, ウイーブシットから来た者はウイーブシットに。

KZfaq is quick with these recommendations

Love the confident from beginning to the end 😎

ドーゲンさん、面白い❗ 楽しい動画ありがとう❤

先輩アドバイスあざすっ！！

5:28 "At the end of the day, it really does come down to weeb sh!t." 😂😂 FACTS!

That last joke got me good. Thanks for that! :)

where has this guy been all my life!! he's hilarious!

Is this a video without a script? I feel like I can almost see Dogun translating the tweets on the fly. I think I like this style of video more because I can identify with it

漢字は書き順を守れば比較的綺麗にかけます

めっちゃ面白いです

めっちゃ上手い！