US and Canada they don’t have swimming pools in school because more schools they don’t have any cabins or any place for you to sleep in for you to hang out with you go to school and then just go home not like Japan and other countries in Asia it’s living in school that means you stay in for a month and don’t go home Japan has something like that same thing with my country to Thailand has it to
I can't wait until I arrive there this August... so excited to be teaching in that environment! I do wish I could have attended as a student, but alas, as a teacher will certainly suffice! Thanks for the tour!
Wonderful!!! You showed me the real word behind the school stories in manga and anime that I know very well. Now I also want to know about students hanging out on the roof. Thank you for the video!
The guy with the camera is mad awkward. At least try and communicate a little, even if you have no idea what they are saying. Just smile and wave, or tell them to give a shout out.
What a cool school and it's so huge.The tune of that school bell was beautiful. The bell at my high school was just a boring ding noise. Makes me wish I took Japanese instead of Spanish back in high school. At least I'm trying to teach myself Japanese now. I'm proud that I was able to read the text at the end perfectly :D
Thank you so much for posting these videos. You made a very thoroughly enjoyable tour. I find myself comparing your school to what I typically see in Anime. Your actual school is less tidy and has more personality. Acoustics are lousy, as can be expected for a building made almost entirely using slipform concrete. I really appreciate the tour.
forgot to mention awesome school bell, sliding doors, clubs (only like 3), and its outdoor (no covered hallways or even windows for that matter, just small, little squares of glass).
Wow everyone's so friendly. I also get that same warm feeling from your video that I also get from watching anime. Really nice video! You have a great sense of humour!
OMG i wish i were a student in japan, it looks much more better than in my school. All we have is classroomes and a basketball hall, whichmean no swiming pool or any other good stuff that i've seen there. Makes me sad I didn't have the the opportunity to feel what great school means :/. Also in my country there are no exchange programs or I never heard about them. Now all I can have is Erasmus program at my university which is student exchange in europe and not many students take it because our GDP isn't among the high ranking countries and that limits the chances to properly live in a foreign country as an exchange student. Meh, but im still looking forward to a better future^^ which gives me hope :). By the way thank you for sharing this tour of japan school!
what school in Okinawa is this???? I wanna go there for high school!!!!! and dude, your swimming pool there is like Olympic size! I can't pass that up!
I went to Japan on a airplane transfer and ended up staying there for a couple of days due to typhoons 5 years ago :D Wish I could remember it though :( The only part I remember was the bullet trains, they are so cool
Thanks for the upload! 14 years ago i was a YFU student myself. I have very similar highschool memories from the ones you showed in the vid, magic they are =D
Holy crap! You're in Okinawa during the summer? I visited this past August and went as far south as Hiroshima and was dying! I was there for a little over two weeks. My Japanese is horrible, but I got some really good practice plus learned a few more words. Had to rough it as I forgot my phrase book.
Wow, your Japanese accent and language is splendid! I'm also gonna study Japanese, I can speak a little already. I've been told my accent is really good too. I'm from Sweden so Japanese is pretty easy for me to speak. What amazes me is that you're from America and pronounces it so well, if I'm right, Americans find it hard to pronounce Japanese, so good job! ^_^ Oh, and for how long have you been studying Japanese and how long were you staying? Did you go with your school? Hope you'll answer! :3
hey, i accidentally found this vid(part 1 and 2) and wow i really enjoy the vid, very nice and no script and bec of this i remember my childhood dream(to learn japanese and go to japan) its almost a decade i forgot this dream. good thing is i just finish my college and dont know yet to continue or work and now just rest at hometown.so i just start to learn japanese and their culture anyway thanks alot to make me remember my childhood dream and good luck with your friend
I would have loved to be an exchange student in Japan, wish I knew about this when I was younger..and had the confidence and balls to go out there and do it. Very good Japanese accent by the way!
Transferring there is super difficult, the best approach I have found is to study a short English teaching course, if your from the UK, you can visit Cambridge for 2-/1 week and study a fully fledged teaching course at almost the level of university, obviously if you're dedicated and motivated enough to pursue this dream, native and/or very fluent at English, this would be a cake-walk. Then the chance of you cheating in a less populated area in Japan, is very high. Some cases differ.
very nice tour... I have a few Japanese friends, right now 2 of them are in Peru, and others are still in Japan. I never visited Japan, but I hope someday go there and maybe live for a couple of years. As for now... is time for me to practice my Japanese (speaking). I am a really rusty speaker right now plus I forgot many words lol. Good luck to you and your friends.
wooaaahhh you're sooo lucky!!! I want to go to school in Japan tooooo :D And btw, I have to agree with the students, you are AMAZING at speaking Japanese!!
Wow, that was amazing that you are learning this and being a transfer student I would love to go there one of these days maybe but this is an amazing video, did you move back over here to America? I would like to see this school one of these day's.
Foreign exchanges allow students to get some experience and exposure they couldn't otherwise get anywhere else. They get to actually live, not just visit, in another country and are able to act as a citizen. From some research I've done, you apparently don't have to be fluent in the language of your assigned nation, but the first thing you have to do is apply for exchange through an organization that makes it all happen.
Ah, this brings back memories! I was in Japan for a month on a scholarship-type thing and I got to visit a high school as well! I wasn't going as an exchange student (although I am in high school). The people are so friendly, although the school I visited was slightly different in structure, and it didn't have that kind of bell XD
Yes, Japanese and asian schools push their students a lot harder than American schools do. I have friends in Japan and China who stay up after midnight just to finish homework. The schools release late also, like at 6/7pm. My dad says the homework here is just a tiny fraction of what they get each day.
This is so cool. And I love how the cameraman doesn't understand a word that the Japanese people tell him, so he's just like "Okey, okey ,okey , oh okey..." Ahahaha :P
that's what the school bell sounds like? man I wish we had that in high school, our one was a literal metal bell that deafened anyone within a 10m radius
Awwsomeeee,Japanese school,Japanese students,your cameraman,you who can speak & study fluent Japanese...I appreciate everything cos Ive always wanted to know bout Japan not just by Mangas or wiki... As i was saying bout manga,do u think u can do a tour on any Otaku favourite places?? >XD
Wow, it's like a fantasy. No really, lol. The weather looks great, the baseball field and swimming pool look refreshing, the school and classrooms look awesome, the people are insanely friendly. So different from North America in some ways. I actually think it must be great to grow up in a place like that :P.
the school was big.. awesome! i want to experience it too! how months did you stay there??.. uhmm.. and how many hours is there break? is it okey for their school to change their uniforms? coz i've seen some of your classmates wearing only shirts..
My high school is less than a quarter of a quarter of this school and offers 1/100 of the activities/luxuries they do in this school... I'd enjoy school so much if I lived in Japan.
i've never been to a no uwabaki(slipper?) school before. they might as well make it one, but i guess it doesn't work when the buildings are apart from each other? Japanese people like to be clean, so I guess it's normal for them.
i....can't....breathe.... WHAT A HUGE SWIMMING POOL!!!!!!!!!!!! ur school bell is music?my is like the very very old original krrrriiiiiiinnnnggg! tht sort~ ur japanese is amazing....sugoi!
I'm learning Japanese and that will be my 3rd language i speak. I plan on going to Japan and live there. How long did it took you to learn Japanese and where did you learn it?
Everyone's so friendly! May I ask you where exactly in Japan you went on exchange? Because the students seem to have a slightly darker skin tone than the average Japanese people in Tokyo or Osaka. Maybe it's on one of the southern islands?
I am wondering what the mix percentage between standard Japanese and the local dialect was in your school and community, and did it make communication more difficult for you?
Lool I wouldnt want to go back either :) Japan must be great, and you are really good in japanese Im amazed really O.o how long were you learning it? P.S : Im so jealous :) wish I could be an exchange stundent
so awesome!!! and your even fluent in Japanese -u- you are so lucky!!! my tiny ass school offers foreign exchange programs in Germany but I have nowhere near enough money to pay for it one can dream tho ;)
It looked like a fun trip...i wish i could have gone to Japan when i was in high school -_-. oh well, i still plan to go there in a few years or so, but yeah
If you go to school you should know, that your first letter begin's with a capital and that a place/country should have a capital at the beginning of the name aswell. "Oh wow, I'm from America and I hate my school too. I think the culture, and school's in Japan are so interesting and fun."
Japan is so interesting!!! ^.^ I totally want to move there. And one more thing, the pool was amazing. we don't have pool in high schools haha
are you a filipino perhaps?
US and Canada they don’t have swimming pools in school because more schools they don’t have any cabins or any place for you to sleep in for you to hang out with you go to school and then just go home not like Japan and other countries in Asia it’s living in school that means you stay in for a month and don’t go home Japan has something like that same thing with my country to Thailand has it to
Are used to go to school like that but mine doesn’t have a swimming pool though
But the most living in schools are really big
That looks AMAZING, I am so incredibly jealous right now 0.0
So am i o.o
I can't wait until I arrive there this August... so excited to be teaching in that environment! I do wish I could have attended as a student, but alas, as a teacher will certainly suffice! Thanks for the tour!
Okinawa is a great land, like when I was there it started raining, but it remained warm even in the rain, which was super epic.
Jesus that school is massive!
Why did you want to inform Jesus about that? He should know better than anyone.
Wonderful!!! You showed me the real word behind the school stories in manga and anime that I know very well. Now I also want to know about students hanging out on the roof. Thank you for the video!
The guy with the camera is mad awkward. At least try and communicate a little, even if you have no idea what they are saying. Just smile and wave, or tell them to give a shout out.
chill3n456 lol the last two words in the video
It’s no big deal He can do whatever he wants
Japanese is one of those hardest language to be understanding if you translate it to English is backwards
Wow, that school is really good. Thanks for the nice tour!
What a cool school and it's so huge.The tune of that school bell was beautiful. The bell at my high school was just a boring ding noise. Makes me wish I took Japanese instead of Spanish back in high school. At least I'm trying to teach myself Japanese now. I'm proud that I was able to read the text at the end perfectly :D
Thank you so much for posting these videos. You made a very thoroughly enjoyable tour. I find myself comparing your school to what I typically see in Anime. Your actual school is less tidy and has more personality. Acoustics are lousy, as can be expected for a building made almost entirely using slipform concrete. I really appreciate the tour.
forgot to mention awesome school bell, sliding doors, clubs (only like 3), and its outdoor (no covered hallways or even windows for that matter, just small, little squares of glass).
What a fun looking School/Country...I would love to do High-School over again in Japan...
Wow everyone's so friendly. I also get that same warm feeling from your video that I also get from watching anime. Really nice video! You have a great sense of humour!
I really wish I was born and lived in Japan
me too but oh well i am from greece
same
That Wrong Japan Not really A Good COuntry To you live! America Always A Best Place!
Not To Me ^^! i already Live In BOth Country :) but To me ...... yeah Japan Is a beautiful place and girl But Life Is Not Really Good like America ^^!
I wish I was born there but I can't change the fact I was born in America
that's a pretty big school.
Yeah I find it was a college in the first place because high school in Canada and United States doesn’t look that big to me
My high schools only have 1500 students yours is almost like small size college
The school bell is amazing! I wish we had school bells like that in America! I'd be all happy and skipping around in the hallways. ^_^
omg japanese schools are amazing, i can go anywhere if i get bored or if i want somewhere peaceful.
Oh I'm so jealous :D I have been to the cold north in Akita-ken, where there is nothing other than trees, snow and cliffy coasts^^
OMG i wish i were a student in japan, it looks much more better than in my school. All we have is classroomes and a basketball hall, whichmean no swiming pool or any other good stuff that i've seen there. Makes me sad I didn't have the the opportunity to feel what great school means :/. Also in my country there are no exchange programs or I never heard about them. Now all I can have is Erasmus program at my university which is student exchange in europe and not many students take it because our GDP isn't among the high ranking countries and that limits the chances to properly live in a foreign country as an exchange student. Meh, but im still looking forward to a better future^^ which gives me hope :). By the way thank you for sharing this tour of japan school!
Mindaugas Inc dude we barely have toilets
I went to Okinawa and I loved it. Everywhere I went in japan i was treat with respect and friendship. The Japanese are lovely people!
A great video, loved having a look at what a school in Japan may look like. Also very random some of the subs you put in lol
what school in Okinawa is this???? I wanna go there for high school!!!!! and dude, your swimming pool there is like Olympic size! I can't pass that up!
Man watching this was almost hard, because of all the nostalgic feelings and memories. Have to go back, just have to.
I went to Japan on a airplane transfer and ended up staying there for a couple of days due to typhoons 5 years ago :D Wish I could remember it though :( The only part I remember was the bullet trains, they are so cool
I think it's amazing to see the differences between schools. My school is small, about 120 kids for each of the four grade levels in it.
Thanks for the upload! 14 years ago i was a YFU student myself. I have very similar highschool memories from the ones you showed in the vid, magic they are =D
Holy crap! You're in Okinawa during the summer? I visited this past August and went as far south as Hiroshima and was dying! I was there for a little over two weeks. My Japanese is horrible, but I got some really good practice plus learned a few more words. Had to rough it as I forgot my phrase book.
Wow, your Japanese accent and language is splendid! I'm also gonna study Japanese, I can speak a little already. I've been told my accent is really good too. I'm from Sweden so Japanese is pretty easy for me to speak. What amazes me is that you're from America and pronounces it so well, if I'm right, Americans find it hard to pronounce Japanese, so good job! ^_^ Oh, and for how long have you been studying Japanese and how long were you staying? Did you go with your school? Hope you'll answer! :3
That school bell was so cute! xD
hey, i accidentally found this vid(part 1 and 2) and wow
i really enjoy the vid, very nice and no script and bec of this i remember my childhood dream(to learn japanese and go to japan) its almost a decade i forgot this dream.
good thing is i just finish my college and dont know yet to continue or work and now just rest at hometown.so i just start to learn japanese and their culture
anyway thanks alot to make me remember my childhood dream
and good luck with your friend
You tell them! You guys look like you had an epic time and have inspired me to go and do the same!
I would have loved to be an exchange student in Japan, wish I knew about this when I was younger..and had the confidence and balls to go out there and do it. Very good Japanese accent by the way!
Transferring there is super difficult, the best approach I have found is to study a short English teaching course, if your from the UK, you can visit Cambridge for 2-/1 week and study a fully fledged teaching course at almost the level of university, obviously if you're dedicated and motivated enough to pursue this dream, native and/or very fluent at English, this would be a cake-walk. Then the chance of you cheating in a less populated area in Japan, is very high. Some cases differ.
very nice tour... I have a few Japanese friends, right now 2 of them are in Peru, and others are still in Japan. I never visited Japan, but I hope someday go there and maybe live for a couple of years. As for now... is time for me to practice my Japanese (speaking). I am a really rusty speaker right now plus I forgot many words lol. Good luck to you and your friends.
Every part I see here reminds me of anime.....
- What is wrong with my EYYYYYYYYEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSS!!?!?!?!?!?
oh gawsh.. I never thought it would be this amusing to be showed around a school digitally XD
4:32 Free ! Iwatobi Swim Club ! xD
yasssssssssssss
I would like to experience school in Japan! I love the uniform and the people there seem very friendly.
Are you serious? Your bell is a cute music box melody?
I am so jealous right now, why does japan get all the cool stuff?
The song played is "L'amour Est Bleu" by Vicky Leandro.
Look it up.
I went to Japan in June and I was always so confused when they did the hand motion for "come here" because I'm used to it meaning go away
wooaaahhh you're sooo lucky!!! I want to go to school in Japan tooooo :D
And btw, I have to agree with the students, you are AMAZING at speaking Japanese!!
Wow, that was amazing that you are learning this and being a transfer student I would love to go there one of these days maybe but this is an amazing video, did you move back over here to America? I would like to see this school one of these day's.
That school is very cool! Good to know you enjoyed your time.
Foreign exchanges allow students to get some experience and exposure they couldn't otherwise get anywhere else. They get to actually live, not just visit, in another country and are able to act as a citizen. From some research I've done, you apparently don't have to be fluent in the language of your assigned nation, but the first thing you have to do is apply for exchange through an organization that makes it all happen.
Ah, this brings back memories! I was in Japan for a month on a scholarship-type thing and I got to visit a high school as well! I wasn't going as an exchange student (although I am in high school). The people are so friendly, although the school I visited was slightly different in structure, and it didn't have that kind of bell XD
omg this is litterally the biggest school i've seen!!!! I LOVE IT!
Yes, Japanese and asian schools push their students a lot harder than American schools do. I have friends in Japan and China who stay up after midnight just to finish homework. The schools release late also, like at 6/7pm. My dad says the homework here is just a tiny fraction of what they get each day.
This is so cool. And I love how the cameraman doesn't understand a word that the Japanese people tell him, so he's just like "Okey, okey ,okey , oh okey..." Ahahaha :P
awee being a foreign exchange student looks like fun! i want to go to japan and korea! but anime really does look like real schools! omg so cool!!!
I love how you guys just laugh awkwardly and hope they aren't asking questions
that's what the school bell sounds like? man I wish we had that in high school, our one was a literal metal bell that deafened anyone within a 10m radius
How much Japanese did you know before you went to Japan to be an exchange student?
That really does look like an awesome school. Wish we could have places like that in America.
That bell was adorable~! Thanks soo much for sharing!
Awwsomeeee,Japanese school,Japanese students,your cameraman,you who can speak & study fluent Japanese...I appreciate everything cos Ive always wanted to know bout Japan not just by Mangas or wiki...
As i was saying bout manga,do u think u can do a tour on any Otaku favourite places?? >XD
it means "thank you very much" the gozaimasu added to it is the more polite way to say it
2:57 "sexual harassment!" lol XD
Made me even more excited of becoming an exchange student in Japan just 2 more years
Wow, it's like a fantasy. No really, lol. The weather looks great, the baseball field and swimming pool look refreshing, the school and classrooms look awesome, the people are insanely friendly. So different from North America in some ways. I actually think it must be great to grow up in a place like that :P.
the school was big.. awesome! i want to experience it too! how months did you stay there??.. uhmm.. and how many hours is there break? is it okey for their school to change their uniforms? coz i've seen some of your classmates wearing only shirts..
Actually, there are some in America that are very similar to the Japanese.
I went to a school in NYC that had a very similar bell.
everybody seems so friendly! im so jealous, its not like that at all in america...
Wow, that was really cool to see! Your Japanese is great too!
My high school is less than a quarter of a quarter of this school and offers 1/100 of the activities/luxuries they do in this school... I'd enjoy school so much if I lived in Japan.
Seeing all this makes want to go back to Japan...
thats sweet, that school looks so chill
Yeah, that's lovely.the Nato and the Nori take some getting used to.
i've never been to a no uwabaki(slipper?) school before. they might as well make it one, but i guess it doesn't work when the buildings are apart from each other?
Japanese people like to be clean, so I guess it's normal for them.
I'm jealous! this was a cool video! and you speak Japanese so well!! i wish i could):
at the very end? it says 'arigatou gozaimashita' which is like saying 'thank you very much' but past tense.
great video...are you going back or have any plans visit japan again?
i....can't....breathe....
WHAT A HUGE SWIMMING POOL!!!!!!!!!!!!
ur school bell is music?my is like the very very old original krrrriiiiiiinnnnggg! tht sort~
ur japanese is amazing....sugoi!
i so want to go back to school but in japan especially if the school has such a big swimming pool as this one :)
I'm learning Japanese and that will be my 3rd language i speak. I plan on going to Japan and live there. How long did it took you to learn Japanese and where did you learn it?
lovely school and lovely people. thank u!
This school-no, Japanese schools have a large place where students can practice his talents!!!!!! i want to go there!
what are all those red boxes on the walls? something to do if theres a fire perhaps?
Where did you learn Japanese? I'm learning in college right now. Can't wait until I'm as good as you are.
Aww I wish I had a chance to go to school in Japan, my life sucks :( I'm a lot older now but I want to learn Japanese, any tips?
Reminds me of the first Digimon for some reason haha. Looks awesome there.
Everyone's so friendly! May I ask you where exactly in Japan you went on exchange? Because the students seem to have a slightly darker skin tone than the average Japanese people in Tokyo or Osaka. Maybe it's on one of the southern islands?
I am wondering what the mix percentage between standard Japanese and the local dialect was in your school and community, and did it make communication more difficult for you?
Lool I wouldnt want to go back either :) Japan must be great, and you are really good in japanese Im amazed really O.o how long were you learning it?
P.S : Im so jealous :) wish I could be an exchange stundent
I love the school bell.....
so awesome!!! and your even fluent in Japanese -u-
you are so lucky!!! my tiny ass school offers foreign exchange programs in Germany but I have nowhere near enough money to pay for it
one can dream tho ;)
I don't know if I'll move there when I get out of high school
It looked like a fun trip...i wish i could have gone to Japan when i was in high school -_-. oh well, i still plan to go there in a few years or so, but yeah
How long did it take you to learn the Japanese sunnchu. You seem to be fluent!! I can barely speak my native language or English jejeje.
What kind of program did you use to go to Japan
please tell me I would LOVE to go to school there
ikr. My school is getting so bad that i'm almost so ashamed of going there. I would love to go to a Japanese school, they look like so much fun. :)
If you go to school you should know, that your first letter begin's with a capital and that a place/country should have a capital at the beginning of the name aswell.
"Oh wow, I'm from America and I hate my school too. I think the culture, and school's in Japan are so interesting and fun."
5:33 one piece kizaru impersonation so cute xDD. I wish I was a japanese exchange student but I'm too old hahaha. Your school is really big~
This is so awesome! How long did it take you to learn Japanese?
1 months and ur japanese are awesome!!
My middle school isn't that much different from that high school. The only thing we don't have is a swimming pool and foreign exchange students.
That's such a cute school bell! :D
that school looks huge compared to mine! how many students go to that school?
I actually want to go to japan but i need to learn the language before i do.. is it really nice there?
I was wondering why it was kinda rural looking. She's in Okinawa. Explained a few things.