Pros: Japanese uses a lot of loan words from English, so you already know what they mean Cons: Your brain isn't in English mode, so you don't actually recognize them, and you also don't know whether the English words you want to use have been loaned yet
Also Japanese will sometimes throw you a different non-english loan word in katakana and you'd just wasted your time trying to translate something that doesn't work
Hearing them isnt that bad, since it sounds kinda similar to English. But when you see it in text, you would be like: *wth is this* before realizing what it means
Had a hilarious interaction at the hospital here the other week. One of the nurses ACTUALLY asked me what language I spoke other than Japanese (she didn’t assume it was English). I was really impressed and said it was good on her for asking. I then left the room, went to the waiting room, and sat next to an 80-year-old man. He, without any prompting at all, turned to me and asked in English, “How long have you been in Japan?” The juxtaposition was so funny to me.
i think most japanese just think, every foreigner that comes to japan will know english. So when my parents came, i had to tell everyone they dont know english at all. Every time they were really confused "wait, not every Gaijin can speak english?!"
Love the 80s comment. That is how it was described to me recently. Japan has had tech from the 2000s for the last 45 years. So was super futuristic, them became the norm, then became outdated.
I won't say outdated. It is constantly being updated. Public infrastructure in Japan (highways, bridges, airports, train stations are amazing) is very developed. But the thing is that in many ways, Japan still is in future and that future is just not that awesome for most of all...Technology prevails, loneliness, low birth rate, yet incredible wealth, and incredible government debt...everything is mixed together. But still by far the most developed nation on Earth
@@rockmist7405 Disagree that it's the most developed nation still. Japan superficially is very developed but underneath its really showing signs of age. Public infrastructure works like clockwork because everyone's a cog, collectivism and their work culture is why public infrastructure is amazing not that they are living in the future.
@@rockmist7405I agree that the public infrastructure is good, but I wouldn’t for one second claim that Japan is the ‘most developed country on earth’. First off, what metrics are we using to measure development? Secondly, compared to where I used to live (the UK), in Japan far fewer administrative processes are digitised and automated. I’ve never had to deal with so many paper documents and print-outs. I’d also never heard of a passbook before I got given one to use with my Japanese bank account. . The social media posts about robot-run restaurants and the like make them seem like the norm - but you’re very unlikely to stumble across that kind of thing unless you deliberately set out to find it. Also there are surely just as many squat toilets as bidet-equipped ones, if not more! I’m not even trying to criticise Japan, because most countries have their fair share of bureaucratic annoyances, but painting this place as some kind of technological wonderland is totally misleading
Japan just hasn’t been able to keep up as the perceived definition of technology changed from hardware to software during the late 90s early 2000s onwards. Possible reasons are the lack of local talent as many strive to work overseas and being highly averse to change.
The time at which my Japanese is the best is when I'm explaining WHY I speak Japanese. It's because it's basically a prerequisite to talking to any person.
@@holliswilliams8426 I really don't understand people who can tolerate living in a country for years or even decades and never learn the local language
"when you master [kanji], reading is way faster... "If there's no katakana" It took me an embarrassingly long time to piece together what ディズニーランド was the first time I read it.
6 years of learning japanese, focused on reading. Conversation and listening is definetly undevelopped but can converse about most everyday things. Can read about half of the literature aimed at teenagers quite fine without dictionary... Still hate katakana to the bone. It feels as if there is a mental blocker to read katakana fluently in me
@@LeFrenchDude GOD yeah コンセントbeing fucking OUTLET. Reads like consent. Means outlet. Enough English words are written in katakana that when you encounter non-english usage it throws you for a loop.
"Every conversation will be the same" there are some specific words and phrases that I am infinitely more comfortable/fluent/fast at speaking than the rest of my Japanese, and sure enough it's the ones I use in the same conversations I have every week
@@penelopeisgoingofftopic6786 If you live near the bank it's convenient when the tsunami hits the bank for you and the money just floods into your house. Strategically positioning your home is important.
Well, there's still plenty of crime, but it tends to be mostly the white-collar type. The Yakuza also still has a stranglehold on big parts of the country, especially in the bigger cities, but they're using blackmail and coercion as their main tactics instead of all-out street violence.
@@unduloid Which also means if you're a normal salaryman who doesn't take out big loans due to a gambling addiction, you'll pretty much never run into the criminals you should actually be scared of in Japan.
"Katakana is a simple, phonetic bridge between native Japanese words and English words." "There are three times as many syllables added to each word so you won't even understand your own language." ..."Also you're SOL if you're a foreigner who doesn't speak English."
It seems that repetitive conversations is the fate of every foreigner/immigrant😅 I moved to the USA a year ago, and literally every my conversation is "Where are you from? For how long have you been here? Do you study/work, and where? Where do you want/plan to study? How is your English? What are your plans for the future?" and sometimes also "What are your hobbies?" 😢☹️
I had a similar experience in Brittany. The locals will rarely glance at you or say hello, and when they do, and hear your accent isn't perfect, they check out of the convo immediately. I lived there from 2 years old, and I was seen as about as local as a Chinese restaurant. However, those that do actually interact with you treat you like family. It was such a rewarding place to live. I'm sure I'll return one day... :')
These experiences sound frustrating. I live in Saudi Arabia and most people do not frown upon broken attempts at Arabic, actually they will try to help you. Also Arabic speakers (especially Egyptians) are good at having varied conversations and trying to make the conversation challenging and interesting for you. I have never been asked why I came or when I will go back, in fact an airport official once said to me ''welcome back brother'' when I told him I live in Saudi.
I always enjoyed watching Dogen's videos before going to Japan while still keeping motivated and excited about what kind of interesting things will be waiting for me, now I'm in Japan and still watching Dogen's videos to learn more things especially those that I missed to hear before being excited to go to Japan 😢 still trying to stay motivated....
An English teach im friends with has a neighbour give him eggs once a week. Not from his homestead or anything, he just regularly gives him some store-brought eggs for.. some reason? So uh, free eggs i guess?
"Why did you come to Japan? Can you use chopsticks? oh wow. That's amazing! Why can you speak Japanese? You are good at Japanese. Do you know Utada Hikaru? Do you know Hokkaido? Do you like Japanese people? Can you teach me English? Hi, How are you? I am Yamada. Are you a foreigner? Where are you from? Kanji is so difficult for you isn't it? "
@SageLucas I lived in utsunomiya, a major city. It's the capitol of the tochigi prefecture. Air conditioners, houses in general (I lived in a neighborhood) were very old, my host sister was still using her childhood cellphone at 14. It was 2012. It was likely due to my location. The houses were older and some houses were downright dilapidated but still were occupied. Walking to get everywhere, some 'ice candy' in the summer. It was like I was a kid again! I was 17.
POV: You are finally feeling confident in kanji and are flying, but then a whole paragraph of katakana appears (cue boss music). Also, I too want to live in a mansion for so cheap.
That last remark really stuck out to me. I’ve been here for a little over a few days and have noticed that all conversations I hear/ and try to have, go about the exact same way; every time.
The trains always being on time is pure tyrranny! Living in London you can arrive at the office 15 minutes late, groan something about "ugh the trains this morning" and everybody will just nod sympathetically. In Tokyo if you try the same, your colleagues would instantly respond "why what happened? Was there an earthquake or typhoon?? Did somebody jump off the platform again? Did you get a ticket to prove that the train was late, please show it to me." 😢
Everywhere is just as disappointing as where you come from… just in new and exciting ways. Apart from the politicians one, they are the same everywhere.
"If you master kanji, your reading speed will increase dramatically - if there's no katakana" I'm 868 days into my Japanese learning journey, it took me 12 days to get a reasonable understanding/reading level of hiragana and I've repeatedly worked my way through the Duolingo katakana lessons from start to finish. I can read katakana... ...But oh god you aren't wrong in the slightest. Yes, I CAN read katakana. No, I don't WANT to read katakana, ahahahhaha. PLEASE NO MORE KATAKANA ;___; Seriously though, you're right. Damn that slows me down so much. But hey, at least I can look back and say; I've achieved so, so much more than I thought I was capable of before I started. I never thought I'd be good enough to learn, and yet here I am. Long way to go yet, sure, but my only time limit is until the day I die.
I like to watch Japanese translations of American movies because it's always interesting to see how they translated a particular phrase or joke to make it work in Japanese. For example, in "The Brave Little Toaster," there's a scene where a character is sinking in the mud, and he sarcastically says, "Oh, gee, this was great fun. Let's make these outings a regular thing, OK?!" I was expecting them to modify this phrase since I keep hearing people say that sarcasm doesn't work in Japanese, but much to my surprise, they translated it literally. However in the sequel, "Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue," which has an overwhelming amount of sarcasm in it, they did exactly what I expected and replaced the sarcasm with what the character meant. For example, there's a scene where the toaster says, "You're enthusiasm is overwhelming," and it's translated as 「どうしたよ皆？元気ないよ。」(What's wrong with you guys? Where's your enthusiasm?) In "The Iron Giant," there's a scene where a character says, "Who in the hell would...?" And it's literally translated as 地獄で誰が。。。？ This surprised me because I didn't know that phrase could be translated literally. It's usually translated as 一体. Also, in the scene where Hogarth says "Oh, my God," when he sees the Giant's hand in his kitchen, he says it in English in the Japanese version, but every other instance where someone says it, it translated as a Japanese interjection like なんてこった.
@@blackberryjam2 true, but it's not as much of a difference from an Australian salary. Plus the salary isn't necessarily 5+ times lower, and you take any wealth from your home country with you which will go further. The $100k is larger with the lower salary, but if you can almost pay it off at least you don't have large debts to reduce that salary further.
You probably pay more than 200k for a house that needs 100k in renovations in most places. If you get it, because most likely a company bought it to demolish it and build expensive renting units.
Wait that problem with Katakana is a normal experience? Most people I meet who aren't natives say they struggle most with Kanji but Katakana absolutely tanks my reading speed.
Pro tip for my EU brethren: as long as you only speak in English and don't tell anyone where you're from, you'll be considered an American by default. Comes in handy sometimes.
At least with Japanese people that are open to dating foreigners and not being girlfriend/boyfriend material, I have different experiences. Maybe I am just lucky but the first date I went on in Japan I already met the perfect partner.
"You don't have a CD player or record player." Jokes on you. I listen to nothing but CDs, and some of my records, and have a 6-CD changer in my car that I cycle through over and over and rotate CDs out.
To be fair anime is ridiculously popular here in the US as well but Japan is the holy land where you can find stuff for niche interests, and to be clear,I'm not talking about fetishes.
OK kanji wo haisi site arufyabet de komyunike-syonn simasyou OR カタカナとひらがなでワセイセイゴでいいんじゃね？ どちらかえらべ。 Hmm. Sorry for incorporating too much Western, Eastern, and Hiragana...
Living in Japan is the furthest thing in my mind but get occasionally videos recommended about japan stuff. Still pretty good stuff got me quite a laugh wasnt expecting the humor lol Good to know tho if i ever think of a vacation i guess
Could someone give me an example of the whole 80's technology thing? It seems like Japan is so technologically advanced from an American point of view. Also, are Japanese politicians REALLY as corrupt as US politicians? I wanted to go live in Japan bc I want to get away from the corruption and toxic politics of the US. Is it really that bad?
Fax machines are still commonly used in Japan. CDs and DVDs are still very popular. Flip phones are still common. And if you try to do any online banking, it's like trying to make Windows 95 work on a computer from 1980.
It's usually places that are so far out in the country that they only really make sense if you are interested in self-sustained life. There is a documentary on YT about a (Western) guy who lives like that, he has an old Japanese house in the Inaka and grows his own rice and vegetables etc. He seems happy but he's also clearly the right person for it, someone who prefers being alone and in peace. If you have children it sucks bc often no schools nearby (at best one elementary school that combines all students into one class). If you are old it sucks bc no hospital or even doctor nearby. If you need to make money it sucks because there are almost no jobs, and for remote work you need to pray the internet is sufficient. Due to the mountainous nature of Japan a lot of places have very long driving times to facilities and services, which is why nobody young stays there and nobody moves there. The only people that live there now are those too old to move, so many of these towns are pretty much dying out within the next few decades.
My only exposure to Japanese culture prior to visiting was the show "Midnight Diner". To my surprise, Intrusive food memories do not cause normal Japanese people to burst into tears at every meal.
ワタシハロボット。ヒトビトノユウジョウトカ、ナゼカワカラナイ。ヒトビトハ"オハヨウ"トイウマジックノコトバデ、ニッコリシテイル。ワタシモ"オハヨウ"トイウヨウニプログラムサレテイルケド、ナゼニッコリスルノカ、チョットフシギ。ヒトビトハコーヒーオノミナガラ、"アア、ツカレタ"トイッテイル。ワタシハコーヒーガノメナイシ、ツカレナイカラ、ソレガドウイウカンジカ、サッパリワカラナイ。ヒトビトハオシャベリガトクイ。ワタシハコトバヲチョイスシテハナシカケルケド、ヒトビトハ"ハハハ、オマエハヘンナロボットダ"トワラッテイル。ワタシモワライタイケド、ワラウコトガデキナイノデ、チョットカナシイ。デモ、ワタシハロボット。カンジョウナンテイラナイ。ソレデイイノダ。ワタシハヒトビトヲミテ、ヒトビトノカンジョウトカユーモアトカヲベンキョウシツヅケル。ナゼナラ、ワタシハロボット。ヒトビトノセカイガワカルマデ、ベンキョウヲツヅケルノダ🤖(robot game characters use nothing but katakana like this xD, reading practice lol)
I changed my reason to learn Japanese from other reasons to learning it so i can keep up with your jokes, I will come back and edit it after 10 years or more if I don't forgte about this comment.
I got a good one too! - The japanese jazz scene is very big and has got loads of incredibly talented women! - ...If you take special acts, like Hiromi, out most of the japanese jazz, and especially j-fusion music, is pretty outdated, kinda tasteless, and sounds like the continuity of what Casiopea and T-SQUARE established... especially when you realize that artists like Kendrick Scott, Robert Glasper, Anne Paceo, and literally the whole London/Leeds scenes exist...
Cons living in Japan to me is lot of polite words and adjustive of conversation, cons is also too quiet and it sounds like criminal to take on a train. I think ppl can be polite but also can be care free.
Pros: Japanese uses a lot of loan words from English, so you already know what they mean
Cons: Your brain isn't in English mode, so you don't actually recognize them, and you also don't know whether the English words you want to use have been loaned yet
Also Japanese will sometimes throw you a different non-english loan word in katakana and you'd just wasted your time trying to translate something that doesn't work
And then there's the shortened bastardized loan word version you have to beware of
@@U.Infernolike bread being バン, though to be fair most people do already know what that means
Hearing them isnt that bad, since it sounds kinda similar to English. But when you see it in text, you would be like: *wth is this* before realizing what it means
@@turkeylegs1343 I think you meant パン, bun doesn’t seem common
Pros : you are now live in japan
Cons : you are now live in japan
It's alright, just turn off the stream.
My experience after 2 years living in japan :D
Pros and cons
Pros and cons, Japan
@@missplainjane3905
Pros : you are now live in japan
Cons : you are now live in japan
It's exactly my experience of 2 years living in japan
And now, live from Japan, it is I
And the conversation you're going to have is...
日本語お上手ですね。
いや、まだまだです。
日本語お上手ですね。
はい
@@Double-Negativeそれは失礼です。謝らなければいけないことです。
@@laxminarayanbhandari855lmao how do you read that tho..i can't understand the kanji
@@dedicatedsimpxx mine or the comment i replied to?
yours, sorry I replied to the wrong one
Had a hilarious interaction at the hospital here the other week.
One of the nurses ACTUALLY asked me what language I spoke other than Japanese (she didn’t assume it was English). I was really impressed and said it was good on her for asking.
I then left the room, went to the waiting room, and sat next to an 80-year-old man. He, without any prompting at all, turned to me and asked in English, “How long have you been in Japan?”
The juxtaposition was so funny to me.
So what did you reply to the nurse… English?
that doesn't mean he thinks that your language is English...?
@@holliswilliams8426 Yes it's just that English is international. It would have been funny if it was Russian or something different
i think most japanese just think, every foreigner that comes to japan will know english. So when my parents came, i had to tell everyone they dont know english at all. Every time they were really confused "wait, not every Gaijin can speak english?!"
Love the 80s comment. That is how it was described to me recently. Japan has had tech from the 2000s for the last 45 years. So was super futuristic, them became the norm, then became outdated.
I won't say outdated. It is constantly being updated. Public infrastructure in Japan (highways, bridges, airports, train stations are amazing) is very developed. But the thing is that in many ways, Japan still is in future and that future is just not that awesome for most of all...Technology prevails, loneliness, low birth rate, yet incredible wealth, and incredible government debt...everything is mixed together. But still by far the most developed nation on Earth
it also help that most of their people are old people lol
@@rockmist7405 Disagree that it's the most developed nation still. Japan superficially is very developed but underneath its really showing signs of age. Public infrastructure works like clockwork because everyone's a cog, collectivism and their work culture is why public infrastructure is amazing not that they are living in the future.
@@rockmist7405I agree that the public infrastructure is good, but I wouldn’t for one second claim that Japan is the ‘most developed country on earth’. First off, what metrics are we using to measure development? Secondly, compared to where I used to live (the UK), in Japan far fewer administrative processes are digitised and automated. I’ve never had to deal with so many paper documents and print-outs. I’d also never heard of a passbook before I got given one to use with my Japanese bank account. . The social media posts about robot-run restaurants and the like make them seem like the norm - but you’re very unlikely to stumble across that kind of thing unless you deliberately set out to find it. Also there are surely just as many squat toilets as bidet-equipped ones, if not more!
I’m not even trying to criticise Japan, because most countries have their fair share of bureaucratic annoyances, but painting this place as some kind of technological wonderland is totally misleading
Japan just hasn’t been able to keep up as the perceived definition of technology changed from hardware to software during the late 90s early 2000s onwards.
Possible reasons are the lack of local talent as many strive to work overseas and being highly averse to change.
"none of them are bf/gf material"
Damn took the words right out of my mind
Can you elaborate on this, I'm kinda curious because I don't get it :(
@@naumbtothepaine0
the people that are specifically searching for a foreigner to date probably aren't going to be great partners
superficial people are superficial.@@naumbtothepaine0
@@naumbtothepaine0 It probably means, they are older people who just need a contact or kids they are just curious.
Oh I see, thanks you all, it's time to lower my expectation of getting a Japanese gf
The time at which my Japanese is the best is when I'm explaining WHY I speak Japanese. It's because it's basically a prerequisite to talking to any person.
Just tell them "because you suck at English".
then after all that explaining, you get the blank stare and "日本語上手ですねー" lol
oh god, are you serious...
because......you live in Japan? Why would you not learn the language of the place you are in
@@holliswilliams8426
I really don't understand people who can tolerate living in a country for years or even decades and never learn the local language
"when you master [kanji], reading is way faster...
"If there's no katakana"
It took me an embarrassingly long time to piece together what ディズニーランド was the first time I read it.
Wait until you hear about コンセント and バイキング wwwww
6 years of learning japanese, focused on reading. Conversation and listening is definetly undevelopped but can converse about most everyday things. Can read about half of the literature aimed at teenagers quite fine without dictionary... Still hate katakana to the bone. It feels as if there is a mental blocker to read katakana fluently in me
I felt this
Katakana is the bane of my existence. めんどくさいよ
@@LeFrenchDude GOD yeah コンセントbeing fucking OUTLET. Reads like consent. Means outlet.
Enough English words are written in katakana that when you encounter non-english usage it throws you for a loop.
The trains are always on time
and so is every single person in the city that needs to get somewhere
"Every conversation will be the same" there are some specific words and phrases that I am infinitely more comfortable/fluent/fast at speaking than the rest of my Japanese, and sure enough it's the ones I use in the same conversations I have every week
Coming soon: "今日も暑いですね！"
普通に正しくておもろい
Less crime, more natural disasters.
This is something I have never thought of correlating prior.
yeah, i don't need to rob a bank just for the money i had stashed to get washed away or buried
@@penelopeisgoingofftopic6786 If you live near the bank it's convenient when the tsunami hits the bank for you and the money just floods into your house. Strategically positioning your home is important.
I'll honestly take the odd chance of dying every day due to a landslide over being mugged any day of the week.
Well, there's still plenty of crime, but it tends to be mostly the white-collar type. The Yakuza also still has a stranglehold on big parts of the country, especially in the bigger cities, but they're using blackmail and coercion as their main tactics instead of all-out street violence.
@@unduloid Which also means if you're a normal salaryman who doesn't take out big loans due to a gambling addiction, you'll pretty much never run into the criminals you should actually be scared of in Japan.
"Katakana is a simple, phonetic bridge between native Japanese words and English words."
"There are three times as many syllables added to each word so you won't even understand your own language."
..."Also you're SOL if you're a foreigner who doesn't speak English."
Or untill you hit something not from English like メフテルハーネ Mehterhane, or have different/altered meaning in Japanese than English マンション、マジック
@@play005517 You've also got ペーパードライバー and ジャー (At least, usually I hear people in English refer to them as a go-cup or thermos, but never as a "jar")
@@OrangeC7 As someone with a fluent understanding of English I have genuinely in all my life never heard of a "go-cup". Rather interesting. 😅
@@DaVince21I'm assuming they meant "to-go cup"
@@DaVince21 Maybe it's the extra-special-term for "5 cups"?
It seems that repetitive conversations is the fate of every foreigner/immigrant😅 I moved to the USA a year ago, and literally every my conversation is "Where are you from? For how long have you been here? Do you study/work, and where? Where do you want/plan to study? How is your English? What are your plans for the future?" and sometimes also "What are your hobbies?" 😢☹️
I had a similar experience in Brittany. The locals will rarely glance at you or say hello, and when they do, and hear your accent isn't perfect, they check out of the convo immediately. I lived there from 2 years old, and I was seen as about as local as a Chinese restaurant. However, those that do actually interact with you treat you like family. It was such a rewarding place to live. I'm sure I'll return one day... :')
And don’t forget “when are you going BACK?”
These experiences sound frustrating. I live in Saudi Arabia and most people do not frown upon broken attempts at Arabic, actually they will try to help you. Also Arabic speakers (especially Egyptians) are good at having varied conversations and trying to make the conversation challenging and interesting for you. I have never been asked why I came or when I will go back, in fact an airport official once said to me ''welcome back brother'' when I told him I live in Saudi.
potential joke that JPOP is just YOASOBI for people just reading the subtitles 👀
Bruh, you do not know many times 「袋お願いします」and [カードで」are the only Japanese I say every day.
big Mood
Even worse those self-checkout kiosks take away the only Japanese conversation I would have the whole day
Time to improve to 袋は大丈夫です.
At least someone else says カードで. I feel like sometimes they're confused and which kind of card I'm going to use
@@Masahane Pro gamer move: show your Paypay QR code without saying anything
I always enjoyed watching Dogen's videos before going to Japan while still keeping motivated and excited about what kind of interesting things will be waiting for me, now I'm in Japan and still watching Dogen's videos to learn more things especially those that I missed to hear before being excited to go to Japan 😢 still trying to stay motivated....
1:27 I swear カタカナ makes a sentence more difficult than 漢字 😂😂😂
An English teach im friends with has a neighbour give him eggs once a week. Not from his homestead or anything, he just regularly gives him some store-brought eggs for.. some reason? So uh, free eggs i guess?
Some neighbors lay their own eggs. This happens in every country but in Japan, people are more generous with their bounty.
@@heather6679you know people who can lay eggs??? seems concerning
@@iluvsakuraandsyaorandon’t kink shame
@@iluvsakuraandsyaoranonly the Japanese are able to lay eggs 🥰
As someone who lived in Japan for 6 years, this is so true (especially the 4 seasons one 😅)
it's true that all conversations end up being the exact same... it's like groundhog day. :(
いい天気ですね〜
@@randxalthorそうですね～
天気 .. wah, i was finally able to read it
@@dedicatedsimpxx おめでとう🎉
"Why did you come to Japan? Can you use chopsticks? oh wow.
That's amazing! Why can you speak Japanese? You are good at Japanese. Do you know Utada Hikaru? Do you know Hokkaido? Do you like Japanese people? Can you teach me English? Hi, How are you? I am Yamada. Are you a foreigner? Where are you from? Kanji is so difficult for you isn't it? "
Finally someone mentioned the outdated tech. I felt like i was living in the late 90s during my homestay.
@SageLucas I lived in utsunomiya, a major city. It's the capitol of the tochigi prefecture. Air conditioners, houses in general (I lived in a neighborhood) were very old, my host sister was still using her childhood cellphone at 14. It was 2012.
It was likely due to my location. The houses were older and some houses were downright dilapidated but still were occupied. Walking to get everywhere, some 'ice candy' in the summer. It was like I was a kid again! I was 17.
@@SageLucas also I'm from az, us
FAX much?
@@yyyy-uv3po and don't forget the snail mail!
2:20 マジでこれ！何で居酒屋は未だに旧式トイレが多いのか本当に理解できない！！😂
Man this is gold, love it!
POV: You are finally feeling confident in kanji and are flying, but then a whole paragraph of katakana appears (cue boss music). Also, I too want to live in a mansion for so cheap.
That last remark really stuck out to me. I’ve been here for a little over a few days and have noticed that all conversations I hear/ and try to have, go about the exact same way; every time.
The trains always being on time is pure tyrranny! Living in London you can arrive at the office 15 minutes late, groan something about "ugh the trains this morning" and everybody will just nod sympathetically. In Tokyo if you try the same, your colleagues would instantly respond "why what happened? Was there an earthquake or typhoon?? Did somebody jump off the platform again? Did you get a ticket to prove that the train was late, please show it to me." 😢
毎日毎日同じ会話. Aaaaaaaaaahhhhhh!!!
so true.
The amount of times I had to commit harakiri in Japan is ridicuolous.
you made me lol
Get well soon!
😂😂😂😂😂
it's easier to "lose face" though
It's nice to that even people who have mastered Japanese still hate on katakana
Everywhere is just as disappointing as where you come from… just in new and exciting ways.
Apart from the politicians one, they are the same everywhere.
That only applies when you compare 1st world countries against each other most countries have far worse problems than anything said here
Planning to move this year as a game developer, can't wait to work 12 hours a day every day.
"If you master kanji, your reading speed will increase dramatically - if there's no katakana"
I'm 868 days into my Japanese learning journey, it took me 12 days to get a reasonable understanding/reading level of hiragana and I've repeatedly worked my way through the Duolingo katakana lessons from start to finish. I can read katakana...
...But oh god you aren't wrong in the slightest. Yes, I CAN read katakana. No, I don't WANT to read katakana, ahahahhaha. PLEASE NO MORE KATAKANA ;___;
Seriously though, you're right. Damn that slows me down so much.
But hey, at least I can look back and say; I've achieved so, so much more than I thought I was capable of before I started. I never thought I'd be good enough to learn, and yet here I am.
Long way to go yet, sure, but my only time limit is until the day I die.
This is my favourite video from Dogen in a long time, its so true! I got a good a laugh out of this
The thumbnail is gold
I like to watch Japanese translations of American movies because it's always interesting to see how they translated a particular phrase or joke to make it work in Japanese.
For example, in "The Brave Little Toaster," there's a scene where a character is sinking in the mud, and he sarcastically says, "Oh, gee, this was great fun. Let's make these outings a regular thing, OK?!" I was expecting them to modify this phrase since I keep hearing people say that sarcasm doesn't work in Japanese, but much to my surprise, they translated it literally.
However in the sequel, "Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue," which has an overwhelming amount of sarcasm in it, they did exactly what I expected and replaced the sarcasm with what the character meant. For example, there's a scene where the toaster says, "You're enthusiasm is overwhelming," and it's translated as 「どうしたよ皆？元気ないよ。」(What's wrong with you guys? Where's your enthusiasm?)
In "The Iron Giant," there's a scene where a character says, "Who in the hell would...?" And it's literally translated as 地獄で誰が。。。？ This surprised me because I didn't know that phrase could be translated literally. It's usually translated as 一体. Also, in the scene where Hogarth says "Oh, my God," when he sees the Giant's hand in his kitchen, he says it in English in the Japanese version, but every other instance where someone says it, it translated as a Japanese interjection like なんてこった.
I forgot one. In "The Iron Giant," when the giant says, "I not gun..." it's translated as 僕、銃、違う (I gun different...)
1:18 The first time Dogen has ever uttered that question.
I just found you. Watched 2 videos and subscribed. You are super based, and I love it.
1st visit: Got 30 anime figurines
2nd visit: Got 6 anime figurines
3rd visit: Got 1 anime figurine
4th visit: 0 figurines acquired
Thanks for the video :)
I feel like my decision to only ever go to Japan as a vacation destination has been one of the better decisions I've made in my life.
Dogenは裏切らない。さすが👍
お前は...日本の国家機密を言いふらすな…
I would have taken out the は and the last three dots... it would have sounded more native
$100k and three years to renovate is honestly still a pro when you live somewhere where the average house price is over $500k 😅
$100k doesn't even buy a shack in many places, and our house costing $250k still needed a ton of work too
Though if you're now on a japanese salary 100k is now a lot larger than it was on a US salary
@@blackberryjam2 true, but it's not as much of a difference from an Australian salary.
Plus the salary isn't necessarily 5+ times lower, and you take any wealth from your home country with you which will go further.
The $100k is larger with the lower salary, but if you can almost pay it off at least you don't have large debts to reduce that salary further.
You probably pay more than 200k for a house that needs 100k in renovations in most places.
If you get it, because most likely a company bought it to demolish it and build expensive renting units.
You can sell the $500k after a few years though
Or if you do have a record player, you can buy all the Tatsuro reissues on vinyl... for ¥4400 yen apiece
The short coming that’s cons to live in Japan sounds good things from your point of view.
work abroad, retire in japan and spend some of your savings to renovate an akiya?
Given the strictness of Japanese immigration laws that seems like it could get difficult.
I plan to go to Japan in 2025 and the Jpop concert part got me. One of the things on my wishlist is going to an Idol concert but damn scalpers:(
It is predicted in Japan that there will be a big earthquake on July 5 in 2025.
This whole thing had me rolling. Thank you lol
Thank you so much!
片仮名がなければ made me LOL: so frigging true.
カタカナガナケレバ ww
My favorite part was everytime he assumed I'm american
Wait that problem with Katakana is a normal experience? Most people I meet who aren't natives say they struggle most with Kanji but Katakana absolutely tanks my reading speed.
Pro tip for my EU brethren: as long as you only speak in English and don't tell anyone where you're from, you'll be considered an American by default. Comes in handy sometimes.
The tone of voice and expression to the Stuck in the 80s had me dying!!!
日本人からすると日本はそんなに最先端なイメージがない
1:40 was waiting for . .. AND PAPER WALLS.
At least with Japanese people that are open to dating foreigners and not being girlfriend/boyfriend material, I have different experiences. Maybe I am just lucky but the first date I went on in Japan I already met the perfect partner.
Not being boyfriend/girlfriend material…so it’s one night stand over there?😂
Love all these hard truths
"You don't have a CD player or record player." Jokes on you. I listen to nothing but CDs, and some of my records, and have a 6-CD changer in my car that I cycle through over and over and rotate CDs out.
The oily american part got me dying 😂😭
To be fair anime is ridiculously popular here in the US as well but Japan is the holy land where you can find stuff for niche interests, and to be clear,I'm not talking about fetishes.
I haven't been to Akihabara since 1999. Can I stilll buy a VHS recorded there?
2:14 still cheaper than buying a house in the US
2:00 Is that true? You have to pay for TV that you don't use?
Yes it is, it's the NHK tax. Similar to the BBC tax in the UK.
KATAKANA point soo true
OK kanji wo haisi site arufyabet de komyunike-syonn simasyou OR カタカナとひらがなでワセイセイゴでいいんじゃね？ どちらかえらべ。
Hmm. Sorry for incorporating too much Western, Eastern, and Hiragana...
That first part you wrote (ditching kanji for latin alphabet), that's exactly what Vietnamese did and they communicate just fine.
We're thinking of moving there after our last trip there haha
1:32 the katakana joke goes HARD
Living in Japan is the furthest thing in my mind but get occasionally videos recommended about japan stuff. Still pretty good stuff got me quite a laugh wasnt expecting the humor lol Good to know tho if i ever think of a vacation i guess
...Yeah, that's deathly accurate. All of it.
Exactly experience in Japan
Dogen: The cost of living is incredibly low so are the salaries.
Me: *Cry in developing country*
That last one is sooo real. Been here ten years and a lot of it is jikoshokai lol
Could someone give me an example of the whole 80's technology thing? It seems like Japan is so technologically advanced from an American point of view. Also, are Japanese politicians REALLY as corrupt as US politicians? I wanted to go live in Japan bc I want to get away from the corruption and toxic politics of the US. Is it really that bad?
Fax machines are still commonly used in Japan. CDs and DVDs are still very popular. Flip phones are still common.
And if you try to do any online banking, it's like trying to make Windows 95 work on a computer from 1980.
yeah, many pros and cons of japan.
Man that Katakana line really cheered me up, I was getting depressed with those
2:16 Umm, sold?
Nobody buys them, dude😂 Why do you think they are free?
It's usually places that are so far out in the country that they only really make sense if you are interested in self-sustained life. There is a documentary on YT about a (Western) guy who lives like that, he has an old Japanese house in the Inaka and grows his own rice and vegetables etc. He seems happy but he's also clearly the right person for it, someone who prefers being alone and in peace.
If you have children it sucks bc often no schools nearby (at best one elementary school that combines all students into one class). If you are old it sucks bc no hospital or even doctor nearby. If you need to make money it sucks because there are almost no jobs, and for remote work you need to pray the internet is sufficient.
Due to the mountainous nature of Japan a lot of places have very long driving times to facilities and services, which is why nobody young stays there and nobody moves there. The only people that live there now are those too old to move, so many of these towns are pretty much dying out within the next few decades.
Woah, woah, woah! I DO have a record player, thank you!
YES
"If there is no katakana" I felt that in my soul...
We all know what that one conversation we will be having every day is
My only exposure to Japanese culture prior to visiting was the show "Midnight Diner". To my surprise, Intrusive food memories do not cause normal Japanese people to burst into tears at every meal.
I can vouch that everything he said is true!
I thought it was just me being a novice that made katakana so hard but I guess it will stay that way 😭
ワタシハロボット。ヒトビトノユウジョウトカ、ナゼカワカラナイ。ヒトビトハ"オハヨウ"トイウマジックノコトバデ、ニッコリシテイル。ワタシモ"オハヨウ"トイウヨウニプログラムサレテイルケド、ナゼニッコリスルノカ、チョットフシギ。ヒトビトハコーヒーオノミナガラ、"アア、ツカレタ"トイッテイル。ワタシハコーヒーガノメナイシ、ツカレナイカラ、ソレガドウイウカンジカ、サッパリワカラナイ。ヒトビトハオシャベリガトクイ。ワタシハコトバヲチョイスシテハナシカケルケド、ヒトビトハ"ハハハ、オマエハヘンナロボットダ"トワラッテイル。ワタシモワライタイケド、ワラウコトガデキナイノデ、チョットカナシイ。デモ、ワタシハロボット。カンジョウナンテイラナイ。ソレデイイノダ。ワタシハヒトビトヲミテ、ヒトビトノカンジョウトカユーモアトカヲベンキョウシツヅケル。ナゼナラ、ワタシハロボット。ヒトビトノセカイガワカルマデ、ベンキョウヲツヅケルノダ🤖(robot game characters use nothing but katakana like this xD, reading practice lol)
"you can finally go to YOASOBI's concert." This one hits hard.
I changed my reason to learn Japanese from other reasons to learning it so i can keep up with your jokes, I will come back and edit it after 10 years or more if I don't forgte about this comment.
Yup. This is life in Japan
まあ～ 「そうだよね～」って、しか言えないけどな～😂😂
完ぺきな国がいないでしょ・・ いや・・完ぺきな人間でも物でも、いないよね～😆
それと・・「外国人登録証を使っていたら腹切りしないといけない」って初めて聞いた・・ ビックリでめっちゃ笑った。🤣🤣
I don't think the J-pop/YAOSOBI concert one is limited to Japan...
I've seen what the resale market for Hatsune Miku tickets is here.
I have my gaijin-card in one hand and my harakiri knife in the other. I'm ready for anything.
Every coin has two sides: the front with its advantages and the back with its disadvantages.
I got a good one too!
- The japanese jazz scene is very big and has got loads of incredibly talented women!
- ...If you take special acts, like Hiromi, out most of the japanese jazz, and especially j-fusion music, is pretty outdated, kinda tasteless, and sounds like the continuity of what Casiopea and T-SQUARE established... especially when you realize that artists like Kendrick Scott, Robert Glasper, Anne Paceo, and literally the whole London/Leeds scenes exist...
犯罪よりも地震のが身近で怖い
面白い😂大体あってるけど、ハラキリはしなくて良いよ笑
My foreign colleague could only say "Edamame" and "Atsukan" in Japanese.
Algorithm comment. Also hi Dogen.
Cons living in Japan to me is lot of polite words and adjustive of conversation, cons is also too quiet and it sounds like criminal to take on a train. I think ppl can be polite but also can be care free.
Why is the beanie back?
Smooth like a sledgehammer