99Vocaloid I really would like too know what Haha Natsuki did that made him begin Filming, maybe he was allready following him and hidding in some Bushes to Spectate the rare foreigner xD
Imagine if one of them had not gone out that night, or if one of them had gone 5 min earlier or 5 min later, they literally would never have met. Kinda crazy to think about.
@@AbroadinJapan Yeah i can imagine!. I guess in a way, it's good that we dont really know about all the stuff we miss out on, that would drive me nuts.
I always think about things like this, soo much depends on the little things you do. They walked there at the right time to become friends, and it changed their life a lot. Even if nothing else, that's beautiful in life that such a thing can happen.
Having watched the Abroad channel for a couple years and knowing how much Natsuki means to Chris, it’s weirdly emotional and touching to see that he has video of their first meeting in a 5-6 year old video.
Damn the meeting with Natsuki is such a strange, magical moment. It was like fate had used its hands and created this miracle of you two meeting. Now Natsuki is more famous than you.
Walking down the street: Me: "You foreign?" foreign person: "Yea" Me: "You wanna go drink?" Foreign person"Let's do it!" And that's how I've met most of my pen pals.
This guy is comedy gold, I've found my new favourite TH-cam channel. I love Japanese culture and it's so awesome seeing someone from my homeland go through this awesome Japanese experience lmfao.
ASHERUISE A friendship camp? Well no wonder then. Friendship camps are some of the worst possible places to make friends because everything is forced and controlled and nobody ever really gets to build rapport. Instead, you're often paired up with someone random, and if you don't like him, too bad, gotta try to make friends anyway.
+James Garcia I worked for 4 years in a Japanese company ( Makita ). Very nice people. But hard to fathom. It's not because they talk to you that they like you. Nice line btw. Grtz
Love your video as always! Personally I found that twitter was a really good way of making Japanese friends. You can type in casual/speaking japanese and it's pretty easy to find people who share the same interest as you. Of course you have to be a bit more careful about meeting up with people, but I've made some of my best friends here in Japan by just chatting with them on twitter.
Understanding Tatemae and Honne is probably #1 priority. A person talking to you in Tatemae feels like your talking to a wall, We would think that it's a Japanese thing but I can see it being relevant to western countries as well. Uchi and Soto is helpful too.
I was in Japan for two weeks last April and became friends with my host in Kyoto. He's not from there, but I found that Kyoto has the nicest people and atmosphere out of all the cities I visited. I was surprised with the amount of people that are genuinely curious and open to talk, share and help others from different cultures.
hellotalk is a must have! i have people i actually call friends i met on the app, and we talk to each other everyday and practice our launguage skills.
I've been using hellotalk the app you spoke about for maybe three days and I'd like to thank you! I've met someone who lives in Tokyo and she helps practice my Japanese while I help them her English. It's great, and im learning a lot of Japanese that isn't taught in textbooks. Thank you for mentioning this app and making me a friend!
Your first encounter with Natsuki looked legit and was a complete resemblance on how I met my Japanese mate. "Wanna go have a drink?" "Uhh yeah alright (Fuck it yolo swag) Point 3 onwards was gold. I couldn't stop laughing!
Even though I've never seen any of your videos, or even knew you existed, I found one of your videos on my recommended page of TH-cam. Liked the video and decided to see what more have you got up here. Gotta say, I absolutely and completely don't regret this decision, as I finally found help as to how to meet Japanese people and learn the language easier, thanks a lot!
I have to say I was a little hesitant trying out the HelloTalk app, I wasn't sure how much it would really help develop my Japanese being essentially a messenger app. But after using it for about a week I have to say I'm addicted. I've met a handful of very helpful native Japanese speakers and they're more than willing to help me with phrases and correct my sentences. It's also rewarding helping them with English in return, I have a few partners that are really motivated to learn a difficult new language. The built in translate and sentence correcting are super useful, and overall the app is really well designed. Thanks for the tip Chris!
lol. Anything's possible. My neighbour in England was a (retired) member of the Tenerife mafia. Let's just say he was quite the salesman. I became his friend whether I wanted to or not. XD To be honest people like that in reality can be quite different to how you might expect. Don't get me wrong I saw his violent side once or twice, and you do realise that even though he's officially done with that kind of stuff, if you mess with him in the wrong kind of way you'll pay for it somehow. But otherwise a kind, generous, mischievous kind of guy. XD ... Who... Definitely never takes no for an answer. (I can't say I'd ever even considered going into a strip club before I met him... But there I was, sitting in the VIP area with him... Why? I have no idea. Just not the kind of guy you argue with usually. You'll lose. XD I mean, sitting next to a stripper telling me I should consider working there was... Something of a surreal experience... XD)
When my brother and I were deciding on a great destination for an exciting trip, we thought about Japan. As millennials do, we went on TH-cam and your channel popped up! I ended up subscribing because I absolutely enjoyed your content useful, entertaining and funny. Great job, keep it up! We're finally going to Japan on a 10 day trip, so we're looking forward to experiencing the local culture, food and sights... using some of your tips! Cheers and thanks, keep up the great work!
Agreed on the point about drinking! I've just got back to the UK after a few weeks in Japan and I made so many random friends by just going to bars. I was initially terrified as I was traveling alone and can only speak very basic Japanese. After a few drinks though everyone was up for a chat and miraculously gained the ability to speak fluent English.
Thanks to Hello talk i met my dearest Japanese friends and also i met my wife! I can't be more thankful to an app ahahah To pay my debt with them i subscribed a lifetime membership even if don't use it anymore lol
How to run from the smile police in 3 easy steps: 1) Throw a donut 2) Hide 3) Eat fried chicken and hope they don't hear the wonderful sound of the crunch
Chris's sense of humor makes my day lol. I must say that Japanese friends are the most polite and their personaility is the most humble I have ever seen.
Natsuki seems like the kind of friend your family always welcomes over and the one friend that you are cool with being college roomates with. Good energy to him
AH! HelloTalk! hahha can't believe end up actually seeing that app name and being in Chris's channel haha but side note,its a realy great app to meet japanese people and to learn stuffs.
so glad im going over your old videos i haven't seen yet. I've been learning Japanese from a book called Japanese From Zero, and I have an online friend native to Japan that helps me. I just discovered Hello Talk through this video. I've been on it ALL day. Everyone is so helpful on it I ended up getting the year subscription! ありがとうございます！
Great video! I downloaded hellotalk like you suggested, and so far I've met some great people :) I just wish so many guys weren't such creeps. Had to keep narrowing down who was able to find me.
I found a good test of friendship in Japan is when you as a foreigner get proficient in Japanese. To the point where your Japanese is better than you Japanese friends' English. At this point you can get insight into who's hanging around with you primarily because you are a foreigner, a good person to maintain your English language ability and kind of use you as a prop to show other Japanese people how international they are. Your true Japanese friends will still stick around, speak Japanese to you and hang around. The ones who are using you for the reasons listed above will disappear.
I made 2 female friends in Japan by literally walking home from school. They followed me and when I tried speaking Japanese they told me I was cute and they wanted to learn English. So we went to lunch. Literally when I met up with my classmates I said "they followed me home, can we keep them??" lol
I feel you. I moved to UK (Aberdeen) to study. Had a decent grasp of English. Did not make even one English-speaking friend during 4 years of being there. 100% my fault. :)
I know this is an old video, but here’s my possibly rare experience: I’ve lived up to 1.5 year periods in a few countries and Japan was hands down the place where I met the friendliest people. I’m an extremely introverted person who pretty much never takes the initiative to talk to anyone, and I only knew beginner level Japanese, but I was randomly befriended by locals I met in restaurants, markets, even once while right in the middle of a tour in Hiroshima. No alcohol involved in any scenarios. I was basically adopted by two old Japanese ladies as their Swedish grandchild and went on trips with them. It’s been five years since I left Japan and I’m sadly not in touch with any of these people anymore, but it still stuns me to think back on the friendliness and genuine curiosity about other cultures that I experienced there.
Can't believe I didn't come check out your channel before now! It's brilliant. The copyright infringement reference in this video is now even funnier in light of recent events! Keep up the amazing vids. You have a new subscriber :)
Very very difficult to make good, close friends here in japan. You can become friendly with Japanese people but don’t think you’ll become close the way you can with the friends you did in high school or university etc. Chris, I’m sure, I’d friendly with the people he describes but I highly doubt he can confide in them and have them become close. In fact I would call the Japanese word for friend “tomodachi/ともだち/友達) closer in nuance to somewhere between “acquaintance” and “friend. The Japanese word “心友”/shinyu “ which would be translated as “close friend” , would be closer to the English “friend”. You’ll find foreigners here of all kinds and it can be hard to get close because of differences in background and personality and also distance. I’ve become friends with many people here but we can’t get close for those reasons. Japan can be a very lonely place to be a foreigner
No diggity no doubt, two Abroadin Japan videos in a week is like a magic! Infuckingcredible. Oh, excuse my disrespectful dishonorable caucasian profanity. Must be because ♩I was a pencil.♩
Two videos within a week? A NEW RECORD! Although I'm beginning to suspect at this point that that whole video with Natsuki in London was just a hoax. I'm hoping you can still prove me wrong on that. :P
It's very easy to make friends in Japan, in my experience. I agree Japanese people can be afraid to use what English they know, for fear of messing up. Most know more than they say. But, be willing to communicate with them, even through Google Translate and a Japanese keyboard app (have had many long conversations through it, passing phone between ppl), hand motions and theatrics, and what little Japanese you know. Be kind, show interest in their lives, ask them questions. I find people genuinely are curious about foreigners and truly want to communicate with you but are usually too shy to approach you first. The Japanese are a very kind and hospitable people. I only spent 4 months with them this past trip, but I'm looking forward to moving there permanently. Greatest people in the world, imo. I miss them so much.
Bruh, making friends in Japan is not just about language barrier. People with fluent Japanese also have trouble making friends because Japanese society is xenophobic af.
Seriously man, thank you. Finally, a solid place to start my journey into the Japanese language and culture. I just watched your vid, Japanese Fluency in 6 Months. Your brilliance is based in common sense and kick ass sense of humour. I had a Japanese lesson one on one last week for 90 minutes. The teacher sold me two books and then told me to open them and read hiragana and katakana. WTF? This took place in a giant coffee shop with curious people listening to me hem and haw and generally look foolish. I have lived in Okinawa for a few months and I am ready to rock and roll, man. Thanks.
Thank you for your wonderful videos! I enjoyed them so much, I spent a month in Japan traveling across the country. I met so many great people on my travels, thank you again. Keep up the great videos!!
Hi! I got the app you mentioned. It's the best app I have ever seen! After just few messeges we managed to communicate in my native language,english and japanese with ease! I didn't believe it might be so ease to speak with (for example) Japanese person who speak English just like me Japanese - lv 1\20 :p Thanks again!
I'm using HelloTalk for German, though I admit, I've pulled away for the time being due to my low confidence and also the time zones. It's a seven-hour difference between CST in America and the timezone in Germany. But next time I chat, I'm going to try to ask a few things. One of my biggest hangups was the formal and informal speech in German. I'm going to ask everyone I chat with what they prefer since we don't have that distinction in English. I'm also going to ask them to correct me if I'm saying/writing something wrong. Learning a language is where you need to become a "grammar Nazi" (yes, I chuckled that I used that phrase and I'm learning German), so always spell everything out and ensure your sentence structure is correct. You can't help someone learn a language using internet speak. And last...I want to gain the confidence to ask more questions in general. I ask meaningless questions, like the favorites game, (what's your favorite this or that) but those aren't good conversations. I want to be able to not feel so tense when chatting with someone. I love typing at the very least; I should let that show more by being more outgoing with the people I speak with.
I'm probably not gonna be able to make it to Japan in many years, however, just listening to your voice is mesmerizing. So.. That's that.. Anyways, I'll keep 'em advices in my mind for when it's time. Great stuff, lad.
If you are visiting the A-bomb museum, could you tell me what hit you personally the hardest? For me it was the folded cranes. That was the thing that personalised it for me. Not the death toll, not the mangled/melted toys and other stuff, not the drawings of people on fire, it was the cranes.
hey man Michael ney from puerto rico, thanks for all your videos, i enjoy them veary much, i started using hellotalk thanks to you and ive been talking to many people over ther in japan, thanks again and have great week
Your videos are fun mate, even if I have no plans on living in Japan in the near future (very intrigued by the country though). Your Japanese sidekick is a blast as well.
Im using HelloTalk and I added one person and messaged that person and they replied really quickly and we had a interesting conversation about Games such as fallout 4 and Metal Gear solid and My new arranged bed time because of my previous attempt to stay up till 2 am.
Any advice on making japanese friends? I really don't want to get stuck in the "westerner bubble"; i am taking japanese language classes before I move out there as an English teacher!
Friendship goals: Chris and Natsuki
This!
@Tristan And he changed username
@@PerKorn lmao
@@ArsensMusic AssMusic Atlassta
@@ArsensMusic why you change your username you fucking pussy?
The real question is, how do we get a friend like Natsuki?
walk on the streets at night xD
how to get mugged and raped 101, written by Cotton Fluff
XD
lol so true
Get drunk and walk down dark streets.
You don't
Haha Natsuki just randomly walking up to a foreigner in the middle of the night!XD
99Vocaloid such luck
99Vocaloid I really would like too know what Haha Natsuki did that made him begin Filming, maybe he was allready following him and hidding in some Bushes to Spectate the rare foreigner xD
99Vocaloid And from there, The whole Marmite adventure was starting hahaha
*****
No shit.
99Vocaloid Classic Natsuki
To think Natsuki meeting a random foreigner would lead him to meet Hyde, his idol.
It was all fate
Butterfly effect
And his trip to Europe, and much more things they do together honestly, if he didn't greet Chris in the first place everything wouldn't even happen
Imagine if one of them had not gone out that night, or if one of them had gone 5 min earlier or 5 min later, they literally would never have met. Kinda crazy to think about.
I often think about this!
@@AbroadinJapan Yeah i can imagine!. I guess in a way, it's good that we dont really know about all the stuff we miss out on, that would drive me nuts.
I always think about things like this, soo much depends on the little things you do. They walked there at the right time to become friends, and it changed their life a lot. Even if nothing else, that's beautiful in life that such a thing can happen.
you are the luckiest man alive to have just so happened to have bumped into Natsuki and made friends with him through that
Bro you got 463 likes without a single reply it’s 4 years late but damn
@@ななみちあき-z9f Damn +1
@@SuperAnir123 Damn +2
@@ななみちあき-z9f Damn + 4
@@flazag9179 Damn +5
Having watched the Abroad channel for a couple years and knowing how much Natsuki means to Chris, it’s weirdly emotional and touching to see that he has video of their first meeting in a 5-6 year old video.
@@LK-rt9cb It was.
@@Teddingtin no, it's not. lmao! why would they reenact this?
@@xLyn_247 can you prove that it wasn’t?
@@Teddingtin can you prove that it was?
I honestly find your lack of smiling to be one of your best qualities as a vlogger, people who smile all the time creep me out.
He's Brit-funny all the time, so who cares?
justTJRoots
Me too :)
Also you can feel the sarcasm, you can almost see it 😂😂
where can i get a natsuki?
At Subaru
Crimson Izanagi Yes, at barusu
inside Emilia-tan
The mall! The bargain!
walking down the street
fuckin love Natsuki, what a positive dude
Damn the meeting with Natsuki is such a strange, magical moment. It was like fate had used its hands and created this miracle of you two meeting. Now Natsuki is more famous than you.
Meeting your best friend via waving them down in the middle of the road at night out of nowhere is the most Natsuki thing i've witnessed.
Natsuki is a fukin legend
natsuki's origin story!
Walking down the street: Me: "You foreign?"
foreign person: "Yea"
Me: "You wanna go drink?"
Foreign person"Let's do it!"
And that's how I've met most of my pen pals.
Natsuki was so bold to approach you like that xD real cute encounter i'd say!!
tamazous or creepy 😂
@@Adiktjoh Nah he was just a friendly guy and he took interest in the foreigner. Nothing creepy.
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he was drunk lol
Sounds like something Natsuki would do
1:15 Aw Natsuki seems so lovely, happily trying to befriend a foreigner in a language he doesn't speak very well, what a nice guy
So cool that you met Natsuki randomly while walking in the middle of the night. Love chance connections like that!
This guy is comedy gold, I've found my new favourite TH-cam channel. I love Japanese culture and it's so awesome seeing someone from my homeland go through this awesome Japanese experience lmfao.
I know, right? This channel is ace.
I wish he uploaded more often
totally agree, favourite youtuber
Making friends is nearly impossible everywhere I probably couldn't even make friends in friendship camp.
ASHERUISE A friendship camp? Well no wonder then. Friendship camps are some of the worst possible places to make friends because everything is forced and controlled and nobody ever really gets to build rapport. Instead, you're often paired up with someone random, and if you don't like him, too bad, gotta try to make friends anyway.
ASHERUISE WTF??! what in the world is that? sounds like a Barney's summer forced work camp
Well I thought I was making the friendship camp thing up, but apparently they might be a thing.
ASHERUISE They are. Avoid them. Please, dear god, don't ever sign up for one. It hurts. It hurts.
Lord Acclaim Noted!
2 videos in less than a week what an excitement here!!! haha
jensssen Like a magic!
I'm in a place where adult atmosphere is tossed!!
jensssen Maybe he'll upload the London video next.. (he probably won't)
Maybe he has more time on his hands now since he stopped teaching.
Look out for video number 3 promised to arrive this week!
1:10 Natsuki: origins - the prequel that everyone was waiting for :)
Japanese people are the nicest people I have ever met. If you cannot make a friend in Japan, you are probably dead.
+James Garcia That's an amazing line - I may have to steal it ;-)
+James Garcia dude, dead people are people too... obviously.... wait what.....
+James Garcia I worked for 4 years in a Japanese company ( Makita ). Very nice people. But hard to fathom. It's not because they talk to you that they like you.
Nice line btw.
Grtz
But am I probably もう死んでいる?
+Tenshi and what if they are fake? just enjoy the travel to Japan or anywhere =)
You could say that the Japanese get more 'honne-st' after a few drinks amiright?
I'm sorry.
I got a kick out of that comment.
Wessel Stienstra your profile picture is oddly fitting
I see what you did there. I like
Wessel Stienstra Great mnemonic for remembering a new word! ^_^
Wessel Stienstra Yeah that makes it easier to remember.
Seeing you meet Natsuki for the first time is one of the best things I've seen on your channel!
Love your video as always! Personally I found that twitter was a really good way of making Japanese friends. You can type in casual/speaking japanese and it's pretty easy to find people who share the same interest as you. Of course you have to be a bit more careful about meeting up with people, but I've made some of my best friends here in Japan by just chatting with them on twitter.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING HERE NERD
kyaami A wild kyaami appeared o.o
Do they responded to you? Cuz most of times I tried to befriend with them, they usually just ignored me :')
Understanding Tatemae and Honne is probably #1 priority. A person talking to you in Tatemae feels like your talking to a wall, We would think that it's a Japanese thing but I can see it being relevant to western countries as well.
Uchi and Soto is helpful too.
I was in Japan for two weeks last April and became friends with my host in Kyoto. He's not from there, but I found that Kyoto has the nicest people and atmosphere out of all the cities I visited. I was surprised with the amount of people that are genuinely curious and open to talk, share and help others from different cultures.
hellotalk is a must have! i have people i actually call friends i met on the app, and we talk to each other everyday and practice our launguage skills.
I'm so stoked you're uploading videos again.
I laughed, I nodded, I took notes, I vowed to start drinking.
I've been using hellotalk the app you spoke about for maybe three days and I'd like to thank you! I've met someone who lives in Tokyo and she helps practice my Japanese while I help them her English. It's great, and im learning a lot of Japanese that isn't taught in textbooks. Thank you for mentioning this app and making me a friend!
Loved seeing your first meeting with Natsuki. Instantly friendly and funny.
Imagine where we’d be if Natsuki didn’t approach a stranger in the middle of the night
Your first encounter with Natsuki looked legit and was a complete resemblance on how I met my Japanese mate. "Wanna go have a drink?" "Uhh yeah alright (Fuck it yolo swag)
Point 3 onwards was gold. I couldn't stop laughing!
You're one of the only youtubers where I can watch the entire video. Your video editing skills are on point !
Very agreed!!
4 years later, in 2019 Natsuki gets to meet Hyde thanks to this random encounter
Even though I've never seen any of your videos, or even knew you existed, I found one of your videos on my recommended page of TH-cam. Liked the video and decided to see what more have you got up here. Gotta say, I absolutely and completely don't regret this decision, as I finally found help as to how to meet Japanese people and learn the language easier, thanks a lot!
Wow that cartoon character is a clear rip off of my own original character Mackey Mouse.
Hamish Mitty that is literally on the comment below you 😂 try harder next time
And it looks suspiciously similar to my Rickey Rat.
@@whenyourpulloutgameisweak4913 I know it's been 4 years but your fathers pull out game was weak
I have to say I was a little hesitant trying out the HelloTalk app, I wasn't sure how much it would really help develop my Japanese being essentially a messenger app. But after using it for about a week I have to say I'm addicted. I've met a handful of very helpful native Japanese speakers and they're more than willing to help me with phrases and correct my sentences. It's also rewarding helping them with English in return, I have a few partners that are really motivated to learn a difficult new language. The built in translate and sentence correcting are super useful, and overall the app is really well designed. Thanks for the tip Chris!
Do these tips apply when trying to make friends with the Yakuza?
Just get a full body tattoo
Grimbanks Just wander into Kabukicho and see what you can get
Mourning Ireland What the hell are you talking about?
Yakuza won't trust foreigners, likely if you make a mistake or act awkward they'll either shun you or shoot you.
lol. Anything's possible. My neighbour in England was a (retired) member of the Tenerife mafia.
Let's just say he was quite the salesman.
I became his friend whether I wanted to or not. XD
To be honest people like that in reality can be quite different to how you might expect.
Don't get me wrong I saw his violent side once or twice, and you do realise that even though he's officially done with that kind of stuff, if you mess with him in the wrong kind of way you'll pay for it somehow.
But otherwise a kind, generous, mischievous kind of guy. XD
... Who... Definitely never takes no for an answer.
(I can't say I'd ever even considered going into a strip club before I met him... But there I was, sitting in the VIP area with him... Why? I have no idea. Just not the kind of guy you argue with usually. You'll lose. XD
I mean, sitting next to a stripper telling me I should consider working there was... Something of a surreal experience... XD)
When my brother and I were deciding on a great destination for an exciting trip, we thought about Japan. As millennials do, we went on TH-cam and your channel popped up! I ended up subscribing because I absolutely enjoyed your content useful, entertaining and funny. Great job, keep it up! We're finally going to Japan on a 10 day trip, so we're looking forward to experiencing the local culture, food and sights... using some of your tips! Cheers and thanks, keep up the great work!
Agreed on the point about drinking! I've just got back to the UK after a few weeks in Japan and I made so many random friends by just going to bars. I was initially terrified as I was traveling alone and can only speak very basic Japanese. After a few drinks though everyone was up for a chat and miraculously gained the ability to speak fluent English.
Thanks to Hello talk i met my dearest Japanese friends and also i met my wife! I can't be more thankful to an app ahahah
To pay my debt with them i subscribed a lifetime membership even if don't use it anymore lol
How to run from the smile police in 3 easy steps:
1) Throw a donut
2) Hide
3) Eat fried chicken and hope they don't hear the wonderful sound of the crunch
Chris's sense of humor makes my day lol. I must say that Japanese friends are the most polite and their personaility is the most humble I have ever seen.
0:15 When you use that grungy voice it reminds me of Waldo on "Black Mirror".
+renragged haha cheers - funnily enough I watched it yesterday
Natsuki seems like the kind of friend your family always welcomes over and the one friend that you are cool with being college roomates with. Good energy to him
AH! HelloTalk! hahha can't believe end up actually seeing that app name and being in Chris's channel haha
but side note,its a realy great app to meet japanese people and to learn stuffs.
so glad im going over your old videos i haven't seen yet. I've been learning Japanese from a book called Japanese From Zero, and I have an online friend native to Japan that helps me. I just discovered Hello Talk through this video. I've been on it ALL day. Everyone is so helpful on it I ended up getting the year subscription! ありがとうございます！
Great video! I downloaded hellotalk like you suggested, and so far I've met some great people :)
I just wish so many guys weren't such creeps. Had to keep narrowing down who was able to find me.
Chelsea Domescik Wow that sucks :( damn creepers
Watching your videos proves Natsuki is an awesome & true friend a man can have....
I found a good test of friendship in Japan is when you as a foreigner get proficient in Japanese. To the point where your Japanese is better than you Japanese friends' English. At this point you can get insight into who's hanging around with you primarily because you are a foreigner, a good person to maintain your English language ability and kind of use you as a prop to show other Japanese people how international they are. Your true Japanese friends will still stick around, speak Japanese to you and hang around. The ones who are using you for the reasons listed above will disappear.
Surprised me this morning with a second video in the same week ! Thank you so much keep it up bro
I made 2 female friends in Japan by literally walking home from school. They followed me and when I tried speaking Japanese they told me I was cute and they wanted to learn English. So we went to lunch. Literally when I met up with my classmates I said "they followed me home, can we keep them??" lol
Bruh, they just wanted a free English language lesson, it doesn’t mean that they wanted to be your friends.
I'm really loving the rapid pace of uploads! Hopefully you keep this up! Thanks for yet another awesome video!
So in conclusion: An introvert who doesn't drink alcohol at all and hates big social gatherings will never find friends in Japan. FML.
I came to the same conclusion ._.
You'll find friends, they're all Hikkomori though.
I feel you. I moved to UK (Aberdeen) to study. Had a decent grasp of English. Did not make even one English-speaking friend during 4 years of being there. 100% my fault. :)
Chris man... I gotta say: I like the way you work it. No diggity. Seriously, zero diggity.
Good call on HelloTalk as well. Thanks!
I know this is an old video, but here’s my possibly rare experience: I’ve lived up to 1.5 year periods in a few countries and Japan was hands down the place where I met the friendliest people. I’m an extremely introverted person who pretty much never takes the initiative to talk to anyone, and I only knew beginner level Japanese, but I was randomly befriended by locals I met in restaurants, markets, even once while right in the middle of a tour in Hiroshima. No alcohol involved in any scenarios. I was basically adopted by two old Japanese ladies as their Swedish grandchild and went on trips with them. It’s been five years since I left Japan and I’m sadly not in touch with any of these people anymore, but it still stuns me to think back on the friendliness and genuine curiosity about other cultures that I experienced there.
Can't believe I didn't come check out your channel before now! It's brilliant. The copyright infringement reference in this video is now even funnier in light of recent events! Keep up the amazing vids. You have a new subscriber :)
Teaching them "key" words in English in-fucking-credible! XD I died
Woaaaaaah 2 vids in less then a week?!?!??!? Def a awesome surprise. Early Christmas present from here, yay 😁
Very very difficult to make good, close friends here in japan. You can become friendly with Japanese people but don’t think you’ll become close the way you can with the friends you did in high school or university etc. Chris, I’m sure, I’d friendly with the people he describes but I highly doubt he can confide in them and have them become close.
In fact I would call the Japanese word for friend “tomodachi/ともだち/友達) closer in nuance to somewhere between “acquaintance” and “friend.
The Japanese word “心友”/shinyu “ which would be translated as “close friend” , would be closer to the English “friend”.
You’ll find foreigners here of all kinds and it can be hard to get close because of differences in background and personality and also distance. I’ve become friends with many people here but we can’t get close for those reasons.
Japan can be a very lonely place to be a foreigner
That hello talk is actually an amazing app and it’s helped me make loads of friends in Japan and because of translations we can understand each other
No diggity no doubt, two Abroadin Japan videos in a week is like a magic! Infuckingcredible. Oh, excuse my disrespectful dishonorable caucasian profanity. Must be because ♩I was a pencil.♩
No diggity no doubt this is the best comment.
HelloTalk is really great! The community is huge!
Two videos within a week? A NEW RECORD!
Although I'm beginning to suspect at this point that that whole video with Natsuki in London was just a hoax. I'm hoping you can still prove me wrong on that. :P
Excellent video. Also love the dead pan humor.
It's very easy to make friends in Japan, in my experience. I agree Japanese people can be afraid to use what English they know, for fear of messing up. Most know more than they say. But, be willing to communicate with them, even through Google Translate and a Japanese keyboard app (have had many long conversations through it, passing phone between ppl), hand motions and theatrics, and what little Japanese you know. Be kind, show interest in their lives, ask them questions. I find people genuinely are curious about foreigners and truly want to communicate with you but are usually too shy to approach you first. The Japanese are a very kind and hospitable people. I only spent 4 months with them this past trip, but I'm looking forward to moving there permanently. Greatest people in the world, imo. I miss them so much.
Bruh, making friends in Japan is not just about language barrier. People with fluent Japanese also have trouble making friends because Japanese society is xenophobic af.
I love the story about how you met Natsuki, very genuine.
Sorry about the price of Kellogg's
Seriously man, thank you. Finally, a solid place to start my journey into the Japanese language and culture. I just watched your vid, Japanese Fluency in 6 Months. Your brilliance is based in common sense and kick ass sense of humour. I had a Japanese lesson one on one last week for 90 minutes. The teacher sold me two books and then told me to open them and read hiragana and katakana. WTF? This took place in a giant coffee shop with curious people listening to me hem and haw and generally look foolish. I have lived in Okinawa for a few months and I am ready to rock and roll, man. Thanks.
how to make friends everywhere: drink. alcohol specifically. tea works too sometimes.
Thank you for your wonderful videos! I enjoyed them so much, I spent a month in Japan traveling across the country. I met so many great people on my travels, thank you again. Keep up the great videos!!
His fateful meeting with Natsuki is the most rpg thing ever happened in real life
Hi! I got the app you mentioned. It's the best app I have ever seen! After just few messeges we managed to communicate in my native language,english and japanese with ease! I didn't believe it might be so ease to speak with (for example) Japanese person who speak English just like me Japanese - lv 1\20 :p
Thanks again!
So basically you started interacting with Japanese people more after meeting the Japanese equivalent of Good-Guy Greg. XD
Natsuki is awesome and that's awesome how you two met and hit it off as friends
I'm using HelloTalk for German, though I admit, I've pulled away for the time being due to my low confidence and also the time zones. It's a seven-hour difference between CST in America and the timezone in Germany. But next time I chat, I'm going to try to ask a few things. One of my biggest hangups was the formal and informal speech in German. I'm going to ask everyone I chat with what they prefer since we don't have that distinction in English. I'm also going to ask them to correct me if I'm saying/writing something wrong. Learning a language is where you need to become a "grammar Nazi" (yes, I chuckled that I used that phrase and I'm learning German), so always spell everything out and ensure your sentence structure is correct. You can't help someone learn a language using internet speak.
And last...I want to gain the confidence to ask more questions in general. I ask meaningless questions, like the favorites game, (what's your favorite this or that) but those aren't good conversations. I want to be able to not feel so tense when chatting with someone. I love typing at the very least; I should let that show more by being more outgoing with the people I speak with.
You made it man!. First TH-camr who convinced me of downloading an app
"why do you never smile?"
he is brittish, what did you expect
Ahh yes the bad teeth joke
Lmao the bad teeth. I can relate
It's good to have you back :) I missed your videos!
You need to have a tv travel show, you are that good! 💟
You are so wonderfully sarcastic; love it!
Wow my comment is early !!!!! Before thousands !!!!!
Hey Chris !!!
Best beer review vid if u can one day ?
astroboy3507 Good idea - although the winner is Sapporo! haha
One day Chris !!! Yo from Sydney lol !!!!
Abroad in Japan ....wrong. Asahi is better and crisper and stronger.
I'm probably not gonna be able to make it to Japan in many years, however, just listening to your voice is mesmerizing. So.. That's that.. Anyways, I'll keep 'em advices in my mind for when it's time. Great stuff, lad.
If you are visiting the A-bomb museum, could you tell me what hit you personally the hardest?
For me it was the folded cranes. That was the thing that personalised it for me. Not the death toll, not the mangled/melted toys and other stuff, not the drawings of people on fire, it was the cranes.
Thanks for mentioning hello talk! I really want to learn Japanese and this is the first time I've been able to talk with people who speak the language
What a romantic meeting between you and Natsuki, not drunk (haha) and on a Friday night.
1:27 Nice shirt Natsuki!
Little did he know he'd be enjoying a Natsuki song.
TOO MUCH VOLCANO
hey man Michael ney from puerto rico, thanks for all your videos, i enjoy them veary much, i started using hellotalk thanks to you and ive been talking to many people over ther in japan, thanks again and have great week
"2 videos in 1 week?!"
"It simply can't be done."
Roldan dela Guardia it's like a magic!
Yeah, and its 4 years ago! Lmaooo
I'm late to come to this chanel :(
I love how you met your best friend and caught it on video!
I hope Chris will make a whole video the night how he met Natsuki.
Your videos are fun mate, even if I have no plans on living in Japan in the near future (very intrigued by the country though). Your Japanese sidekick is a blast as well.
Im using HelloTalk and I added one person and messaged that person and they replied really quickly and we had a interesting conversation about Games such as fallout 4 and Metal Gear solid and My new arranged bed time because of my previous attempt to stay up till 2 am.
Cool story bro
you're way funnier than I thought you would be when I first clicked on the video, I subscribed halfway through :)
Any advice on making japanese friends? I really don't want to get stuck in the "westerner bubble"; i am taking japanese language classes before I move out there as an English teacher!
Looking forward to making friends to help make the move to Japan that much easier, thank you for suggesting the app 🤝.
This is what I fuckin love about Japan: "Where you from?" "Come with me, we're friends now". Amazing!