**EDIT: 初対面 is pronounced しょたいめん, not はつたいめん, my bad **EDIT 2: I just spoke with a TH-cam Staff and we found out the TH-cam algorithm is LITERALLY AGAINST ME and is recommending this video to completely unrelated videos. This basically means the video is dead unless we give start TH-cam the right signals. If it's not too much to ask for, please share this video with other learners and let's try to beat the algorithm together! Thanks to your amazing feedback, I decided to go all out and create a whole 3D animated scene to showcase our adventure! This video took 25 continuous days of working 12+ hours and sleepless nights, so I really hope it can mirror the success the first episode had! 😭🙏 Please let me know what you thought of the video either by writing a comment or dropping a like! I'd really appreciate that and it'd be super helpful in deciding what to do for the next video! 😁😁
I swear to God, this guy having less than 10K subscribers should be no less than a war crime. His videos are miles better than most TH-camrs I see nowadays. Haven't had this much fun watching TH-cam in a while. Might be weird saying this, but if I were to give some feedback, the thumbnails might be the reason you're so underappreciated. They're really well made, but don't evoke much curiosity towards the video I feel. Then again, it might just be me speaking out of my ass, which is a common occurrence. 😅
Thank you very much! For sure the thumbnail and title definitely are weakpoints for me imo. I appreciate all the feedback, especially ones like these! Glad you enjoyed the video 😎
@@Djax111 I actually just changed it last night. The original one is here: imgur.com/a/5Pv07XG You can also see the other variants I made, it was pretty fun to put together tbh lol But yea @blanify384 's comment made me re-analyze my thumbnail to be what it is now. Objectively better IMO 😎😎
@JouzuJuls I agre! Definitely the best of the 3! Great work man, I hope you start blowing up soon because your advice and adventures are definitely worth tuning in for! Thanks for all the motivation 💪🏻
@@Djax111 If only TH-cam wasn't showing this video as recommended on completely unrelated videos so more people could actually see this thumbnail 😪 Thank you very much for the support! Glad my videos and advice are motivating for you! 😁
Damn dude, did you animate all that? Super impressive if so. A lot of talent and effort put into a video that could've just been a standard storytime vlog, which I wouldn't have even minded.
I wasn't gonna comment but after hearing about your trouble with the algorithm I just had to. As everybody has said, your videos are amazing and not only high quality - but always have an element that draws you in and keeps you till the end. Your videos on Japanese learning are also massively underrated and have also helped me on my journey too. I know it's a tricky situation with a lot of it being unfair for you, but believe me when I say your content is absolutely excellent and I think everybody here appreciates the stuff you put out!
Thank you very much! With your encouraging comments, I'm realizing that I should also consider the real people that are finding my videos entertaining rather than just focusing on the machine that's raw dogging me. Glad you enjoyed the video! ☺
You are EXTREMLY underrated. This was a very cool video to watch and kept my interest the while way through (I loved the animations). I'll leave this comment hoping it with boost the algorithm just a little bit so more people can watch this. I really hope this video gets all the attention it deserves.
Thank you very much! The animations took quite a long time but it was really fun to make. I'm sure the staff at the escape room couldn't have expected me to literally recreate their entire room in CG LMAO. Thanks for the comment, if this video kicks off, this comment would've definitely played a part in it!
The credits for that music choice goes to my girlfriend tbh. Once I put it in, I knew that that track would be THE one 😎 Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Stuff like this is actually genuinely motivating because what other reason do we learn languages than to make connections with people we never could have otherwise? If we all keep it up, there will be no barriers!
Thank you very much for the comment, I'm glad you found the video motivating! To be completely honest the only reason I started learning Japanese in the first place was strictly to watch anime and Vtubers without needing subtitles. But that goal was accomplished surprisingly quickly and so naturally the next goal was the be able to communicate back too. Can confirm that hard work, dedication, and preseverance are the key to long term success in language learning!
I really appreciate you being open about the "lower" moments like at the コンビニ in the beginning. 1. it was hilarious haha but 2. very relatable & helps set a more realistic expectation!
The whole point of this channel was to document myself learning and improving from zero, so documenting the wins is just as important as documenting the Ls!
I swear if you used all this amazing editing and animation skills towards more "clickbaitable" videos, such as recreating actual murder cases or making up your own, you could become world class. You're so talented, I'm extremely impressed!!!
Your videos are underratedddddddd. I am gonna "like", "comment" your video as many as I watch. Hopefully it helps. I am starting self studying Japanese recently... Rooting for you from Vietnam 🙌🙌🙌🙌
came back to this video after about an hour and man. 1.) you're editing and video style and speech is amazing. i'll be guy #2000 to tell you you are very underrated, but it'll all pay off 👍 2.) hearing the way you were able to make genuine and true friends has been hitting me for the past hour. i'm very happy to hear another bro winning and i'm glad to see that you're able to use your language talents the BEST way possible. with friends, with people you're now able to share that language with and build strong bonds with. absolutely very happy for you! i hope to be able to have something like this sometime too. until then, study time 📚
this is awesome!!! you single-handedly 3D animated a whole segment for this video? DUDE. you are CRAZY UNDERRATED. I live your humour, I love the sprites, I love the storytelling... just awesome. sorry to hear about the algorithm troubles. subscribed and liked :-)
I 100% relate to the difficulty of making friend in a foreign language. Have two Japanese friends that came to our school on an exchange. One of them knows a decent amount of English, and I know a decent amount of Japanese, so there's no language barrier between us. The other friend, though, is an entirely different story. I can text them just fine, but speaking to them in person is stupidly difficult, as I can never find the words for what I want to say, and it's always awkward. You're already doing way better than I am, especially having been learning for a shorter amount of time. Keep on keeping on, Juls!
Definitely this. A lot of advice I've seen about making foreign friends is just people saying "just go for it" without considering that having a decent language level is actually extremely important. At times I feel that I'm not quite there yet either, especially when we're in a group call talking about a lot of different things at once. I find that my brain lags and gets stuck deciphering what was said 30 seconds ago and give a really delayed reply. And of course, as a gaijin, my 相槌 is quite weak too! Definitely things to work on to get better in the future! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Making friends is hard enough, but making foreign friends is harder. Also I love your vids! I got into studying Japanese recently and found you a huge help. You have a funny way of explaining things, good editing, and a way of clearly explaining topics and examples, and I wish you the best of luck in Japan. damn im early.
Absolutely, making foriegn friends not only requires a decent language level, but you also need that confidence too! Thank you very much for watching and I'm glad you're finding my videos useful and entertaining! 😁😁
@@JouzuJuls No problem, keep up the good work. But I always wanted to talk to actual Japanese speakers to help, but I'm too scared to and also lazy, so instead I coded ai to have chats with and conversations. I'll try finding actual speakers by playing games like you did so I don't feel shameful with my only friends being Ai. 🗿🗿
@@thegamersoftilbilly Best advice I can give here to actually get over this hump is to simply book a teacher on iTalki. iTalki provides a safe 1 on 1 environment which allows you to experiment with your output with a native speaker and fail without embarrassment. It's an excellent way to practice speaking and build the confidence to actually use more Japanese in the wild! If you use my affiliate link, you'll get 3 trial lessons for free: www.italki.com/affshare?ref=af11990804
less than 30k subs? It doesn't make sense! Like this videos are top-tier! Thank you!! I found your channel recently and I'm starting my journey in Japanese! hope your videos help me. sure the Anki list is.
@@KimberlyJho-ann Thank you very much! To think that a few years ago I had comments saying stuff like "Only at 3K subs!? What's going on" and now seeing 30K show up- that's already such a huge jump and I really appreciate it ☺️😄
@@JouzuJuls You're doing a magnificent job! So I know you will grow more! 💕 Thanks for you work ! Literally TH-cam bless me with your videos in my grammar searching. Hope everything get better. Sending Good vibes from Panama.
I follow your channel for quite a while so I always sort of hoped for it to happen, but just as much as all the others here in the comments, I'm hoping the algorithm does it's job properly... The quality of your videos is always on a constant rise, and this one, while I haven't finished the video yet, is a delight to watch アルゴリズムさん、仕事をして！ edit: also thanks for a good game recommendation, never heard of Warlander before
Welcome back! I remember reading your comments before! As always, thank you for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed the video! PS. the algo in JP is just アルゴリズム 😉 PPS. Warlander is pretty hard if you're solo, the only reason I reached the top was cuz I had these guys guiding me 😂
At first i saw your character drawing like "Ooh this is interesting" and then you came up with the 3d scene and i was "Holy moly this is very well created"😳 Very great video man, keep it up
I really enjoyed the way you did story telling on this, with those drawings, and on this video you took it on a whole another level with 3D?! It felt like a whole movie on its own. I recently got into Mahjong Soul so I came from your Mahjong tutorials and it felt like digging for gold but finding diamonds, this is an underrated channel and I wish you all the best for your future as a content creator.
Commenting after hearing about the actual bs you’ve been dealing with. I’ve only just found your channel and I can’t believe the complete bs TH-cam is putting you through by basically killing your videos. You’ve inspired me to start my Japanese learning journey. I was searching for a video where someone learns Japanese and then just goes to Japan and speaks it, and your video came up. Didn’t expect to see such a high quality video. You’re amazing and this has been such a big motivator. Love your humour too 😂 I hope TH-cam stops being so obstructive and you can publish these videos without the fear of demonetisation(?) as I will be following you from now on. Immediate subscriber here 👍 Thank you for all your hard work in creating these videos for us to enjoy! It’s very much appreciated and I’m actually in disbelief as to how you don’t have more subscribers! These videos need to be seen!
I feel like the focus around the escape room kills how actually fun this video is Like, I clicked on this video because I watched your most recent video about how YT mishandled this video, but I think escape rooms are kind of lame. Surprisingly, however, this video was about you meeting up with your Japanese friends and going on an absolute banger of an adventure Since most of us dream about going to Japan, hanging out with Japanese people, and actually using the language, I think you could highly benefit on advertising that aspect of these videos. Especially since you're already including that content in them anyways. Or, maybe just make it clear it the title that this is a series (e.g., "Japan Pt 2" or something)
When this video first released it was actually more focused around my friends. But I found out that TH-cam decided to auto tag my video as "role-playing game" and "action-adventure game" so I had no choice but to lean full into the escape room.
Don't stress, you'll have 500k subs in a couple years and this video will have 250K-500K views. Just keep creating :D I'm "studying" 中文 so always nice to come across learner videos of any type of language.
I've been learning Japanese for 10 years and I've never had the chance to go, I was supposed to study abroad in 2020 with my gf, but covid had other plans for us... your channel has definitely been inspiring, I've definitely had trouble in the past using anki due to burnout (and undiagnosed adhd as I came to find out last year), I plan to rededicate myself to getting serious about learning japanese once more
Oh my god the video quality is incredible I can’t believe you have so few subscribers. This is so entertaining I’ll definitely be watching the rest of this series
Really enjoy your videos. Also you are quite prolific to be able to produce such high quality content while learning Japanese while dominating the player base of some video game while traveling. I can't imagine how you get it all done lol
Amazing video! Sorry to see that TH-cam messed up with how it's recommending it to others. Hope for the best. I went back and re-watched a bunch of your videos in a row to try to help, with a like on all of them.
Looks like the algorithm now works as I've discovered your channel out of nowhere (I'm mainly random checking japanese language short vids and ended up here). I hope that one day, I can speak as fluent as you!
Really good vid! Your videos have been helping me a lot, I'm applying for exchange next year and I'm hoping get japan! Thank you, and love the content!
I think you already got this mentioned by others here in the comments, but damn your videos are hella nice edited and overall just super fun to watch! Algorithmさん pls do your work and let others see this underrated channel.
just watched this and other videos from your channel and I just want to say. This is AMAZING. Please continue uploading, I've never enjoyed watching stuff like this before, but watching these videos has me glued. I'm enthralled watching, as I will be heading over to Japan this summer, and getting to see your experience only excites me more. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!! Edit: when i first found out how little subs you have I was shocked. Fr man you deserve any and all success you get.
Commenting to boost this vid. But seriously, it's pure bull shit that YT decided to fuck this video over. Bro I know words are cheap but, honestly from the heart, I truly appreciate the incomprehensible amount of love and care you put into making this vid. Your vids literally got me out of my rut for learning Japanese. You helped me get my plans and goals together, so i I can actually start, and continue to learn it as a part of my life. And your videos like this just ooze the care and craft you put into them. I don't want to see your hard work being treated like this either. I genuinely enjoyed this vid, and it was awesome to see you and your friends have fun and just enjoy yourselves. So honestly, thank you for your hard work. I hope you can continue what you love, no matter what bs comes up. Try to make sure not to push yourself too much, as your work ethic and quality are insane as I've seen so many times in your vids. And I hope you find it in you to prevent this from discouraging you. Especially from doing what you love or want to do. Take care of yourself well man, the best thing you can do for your work is to take care of you. We'll get past this, YT CAN'T and will not keep you down forever, I know it.
Thank you very much! It really means a lot to me to hear that I've helped motivate so people to get back into learning Japanese and get after their goals. Your encouraging words have really reached me and I sincerely thank you for this. Comments like these are how I'm able to keep my head up! ありがとうございます！
Thank you very much! 😭 The entire time making this I just felt so thankful that I'm able to make this videos and share my story, and also so thankful I was able to meet these friends and spend such a fun time with them. Just so many things to be thankful about and I'm so happy people are finding this motivating 😇
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment! I wonder if me using the Danganronpa music was the reason it reminded you of Zero Escape since they're both developed by Spike Chunsoft 😂😂
wait this was 2 days ago. thats so cool. i think youtube algorithim is working because ive been researching videos about japan and how to meet people and it showed me this in my recommended. Im going to japan in the future and I wanna have my own 2 friends to meet with 😢.
That's awesome to hear! This video got off to a really bad start and it's currently fighting for survival against the algorithm. Really happy to hear you enjoyed the video and thanks for writing a comment!
The fact that none of that was planned and that we randomly stumbled upon it really made it stick as one of the most memorable events of the entire trip. I'm so glad to have met these friends so that we could enjoy this together, there's literally no other way I would've stumbled upon this and made this memory otherwise 😇
This video was really enjoyable. As always, channel underrated as f... I mean extremely underrated. Can't wait for the 3rd part!! マジで楽しみ過ぎるｗｗ also tryna bump up the algorithm because of what happened, I really hope this gets fixed🙏🙏🙏
The most, or really, the ONLY truly tense escape room story I've ever heard. I totally thought that guy was a real guy sitting in the chair and was imagining how freaked out I would feel to be trapped alone in the room with that guy who only speaks a language I'm not native in. Glad he wasn't real. If I'd been in that escape room we'd have all died though.
Thank you very much!! 😭 I spent 25 days working more than 12 hours every day really trying to focus on trying to tell this story in the best way possible, really glad you enjoyed it!
Why was this video recommended for me after a Final Fantasy video? This is why you should turn of autoplay. But to comment on the video really nice editing. Just a shame that i am not the person for it.
THIS is exactly what I'm talking about 😭 I was wondering why this video was underperforming and called up TH-cam support. Turns out TH-cam is literally against me and is recommending this video to COMPLETELY UNRELATED other videos. (See here for proof: imgur.com/a/UjMqg6i) Thank you for leaving a comment here anyway, really appreciate it!
I didn't know about the "luck scale" thing from the Omikuji. I've had mine on the fridge for over a year and didn't bother checking what I got lol. Turns out it was 吉, not bad haha.
Not bad! Another interesting thing about Omikuji is that they used to only give bad luck in the past. This is because Omikuji were less like "here's your luck", but instead "here's the dangers you should avoid". Eventually the monks and priests figured out that people like playing this luck game more and added good luck to attract more visitors. Now everybody gets to have fun with it!
Nice video! Got it recommended by a friend, would not have noticed it if he did not since it was not shown to me by youtube even through i am subscribed and have the "bell" activated. Weird ...
I'm not learning Japanese, but I really enjoy your content maybe I can apply your experience on another language, and also keep going your content is amazing I know that you will blow up soon :)
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video even though you're not studying Japanese! For sure I'm hope this video was able to motivate you so you can experience the joy of making friends in the language you're studying too! 😁
It's quite a hard game if you're playing solo, so it's really a good idea to make some friends with the pros to get a good win rate. Tbh if your Japanese is good enough to have a normal conversation (and you have the confidence to try it), joining the Warlander Discord JP side and asking for a pro to team up with you and teach you could be possible. I'd just recommend getting to gold rank or something first so you at least know the basics 😂
@@caslloveer0 If you really want to become an anime protagonist with Japanese friends, the best advice I can give is to simply book a teacher on iTalki. iTalki provides a safe 1 on 1 environment which allows you to experiment with your output with a native speaker and fail without embarrassment. It's an excellent way to practice speaking and build the confidence to actually use more Japanese in the wild! If you use my affiliate link, you'll get 3 trial lessons for free: www.italki.com/affshare?ref=af11990804
This channel was created for the purpose of documenting myself learning from day 1, and you can see a recap of the whole first year here: th-cam.com/video/Jp92ZHyR_rw/w-d-xo.html . Just a FYI, spent 15 years growing up in Hong Kong and learning Chinese and still can't read Chinese at all. I literally failed to learn a language despite being taught it in school and living in the country for 15 years straight. . So if someone like me who has NEGATIVE TALENT in language learning can get to this level in Japanese in 3 years without having ever gone to Japan a single time until now, you definitely can too. Check out the other videos on my channel to find out how I did it!
So the funny thing is- I'd put it in the video if the Killer was actually like right outside our room when we left... But he wasn't. He wasn't even down the corridor?? And then we went back to the lobby and there WASNT EVEN A SINGLE STAFF IN SIGHT???? Maybe that staff that jumpscared me twice was getting changed LMAO We just left before he had the chance tho 😂😂
I think TH-cam algorithm's getting its sh*t together by recommending this vid to me. I've just found your channel, but I already learned more Japanese in one day than I ever did in the past. Sorry, I can't join your membership or subscribe to you on Patreon. Still, I'm looking forward to more of your content! I really love the way you edit your videos and they're really helpful.
**EDIT: 初対面 is pronounced しょたいめん, not はつたいめん, my bad
**EDIT 2: I just spoke with a TH-cam Staff and we found out the TH-cam algorithm is LITERALLY AGAINST ME and is recommending this video to completely unrelated videos. This basically means the video is dead unless we give start TH-cam the right signals. If it's not too much to ask for, please share this video with other learners and let's try to beat the algorithm together!
Thanks to your amazing feedback, I decided to go all out and create a whole 3D animated scene to showcase our adventure!
This video took 25 continuous days of working 12+ hours and sleepless nights, so I really hope it can mirror the success the first episode had! 😭🙏
Please let me know what you thought of the video either by writing a comment or dropping a like! I'd really appreciate that and it'd be super helpful in deciding what to do for the next video! 😁😁
The escape room section looked like some crazy effort. Great video man!
TH-cam is praying on your downfall for real. Love your content.
I swear to God, this guy having less than 10K subscribers should be no less than a war crime. His videos are miles better than most TH-camrs I see nowadays. Haven't had this much fun watching TH-cam in a while.
Might be weird saying this, but if I were to give some feedback, the thumbnails might be the reason you're so underappreciated. They're really well made, but don't evoke much curiosity towards the video I feel.
Then again, it might just be me speaking out of my ass, which is a common occurrence. 😅
Thank you very much! For sure the thumbnail and title definitely are weakpoints for me imo. I appreciate all the feedback, especially ones like these! Glad you enjoyed the video 😎
I think this thumbnail has been one of his best ironically. But I agree he's criminally underrated!
@@Djax111 I actually just changed it last night. The original one is here: imgur.com/a/5Pv07XG
You can also see the other variants I made, it was pretty fun to put together tbh lol
But yea @blanify384 's comment made me re-analyze my thumbnail to be what it is now. Objectively better IMO 😎😎
@JouzuJuls I agre! Definitely the best of the 3! Great work man, I hope you start blowing up soon because your advice and adventures are definitely worth tuning in for! Thanks for all the motivation 💪🏻
@@Djax111 If only TH-cam wasn't showing this video as recommended on completely unrelated videos so more people could actually see this thumbnail 😪
Thank you very much for the support! Glad my videos and advice are motivating for you! 😁
Damn dude, did you animate all that? Super impressive if so. A lot of talent and effort put into a video that could've just been a standard storytime vlog, which I wouldn't have even minded.
I did do all of this myself! 12+ hours of work for 25 days straight! Thank you for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed the video! 😁
I wasn't gonna comment but after hearing about your trouble with the algorithm I just had to.
As everybody has said, your videos are amazing and not only high quality - but always have an element that draws you in and keeps you till the end. Your videos on Japanese learning are also massively underrated and have also helped me on my journey too.
I know it's a tricky situation with a lot of it being unfair for you, but believe me when I say your content is absolutely excellent and I think everybody here appreciates the stuff you put out!
Thank you very much! With your encouraging comments, I'm realizing that I should also consider the real people that are finding my videos entertaining rather than just focusing on the machine that's raw dogging me.
Glad you enjoyed the video! ☺
You are EXTREMLY underrated. This was a very cool video to watch and kept my interest the while way through (I loved the animations). I'll leave this comment hoping it with boost the algorithm just a little bit so more people can watch this. I really hope this video gets all the attention it deserves.
Thank you very much! The animations took quite a long time but it was really fun to make. I'm sure the staff at the escape room couldn't have expected me to literally recreate their entire room in CG LMAO. Thanks for the comment, if this video kicks off, this comment would've definitely played a part in it!
Amazing! When I noticed the 3D renders I got really amazed. You are one talented fella, ngl. An inspiring and wholesome video, thank you for your work
Thank you very much! Glad to be able to make content that's unique in 2024! 😊😊
Using the Danganronpa music for the "final dead room" is a nice touch.
The credits for that music choice goes to my girlfriend tbh. Once I put it in, I knew that that track would be THE one 😎
Glad you enjoyed the video! Thanks for watching and commenting!
Stuff like this is actually genuinely motivating because what other reason do we learn languages than to make connections with people we never could have otherwise? If we all keep it up, there will be no barriers!
Thank you very much for the comment, I'm glad you found the video motivating! To be completely honest the only reason I started learning Japanese in the first place was strictly to watch anime and Vtubers without needing subtitles. But that goal was accomplished surprisingly quickly and so naturally the next goal was the be able to communicate back too.
Can confirm that hard work, dedication, and preseverance are the key to long term success in language learning!
I really appreciate you being open about the "lower" moments like at the コンビニ in the beginning. 1. it was hilarious haha but 2. very relatable & helps set a more realistic expectation!
The whole point of this channel was to document myself learning and improving from zero, so documenting the wins is just as important as documenting the Ls!
うん、それもあるね😃
Brooo that escape the room sequence was brilliant. Great storytelling! This whole video really made me realize that I need to become more social 😂
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed that sequence- as you can imagine, that sequence took up the bulk of the time this time around 😂
I swear if you used all this amazing editing and animation skills towards more "clickbaitable" videos, such as recreating actual murder cases or making up your own, you could become world class. You're so talented, I'm extremely impressed!!!
Your videos are underratedddddddd. I am gonna "like", "comment" your video as many as I watch. Hopefully it helps. I am starting self studying Japanese recently... Rooting for you from Vietnam 🙌🙌🙌🙌
That animation was amazing. I can't wait for more videos!!
Thank you very much!
Another excellent video! I can see the effort you put into editing this!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
came back to this video after about an hour and man. 1.) you're editing and video style and speech is amazing. i'll be guy #2000 to tell you you are very underrated, but it'll all pay off 👍 2.) hearing the way you were able to make genuine and true friends has been hitting me for the past hour. i'm very happy to hear another bro winning and i'm glad to see that you're able to use your language talents the BEST way possible. with friends, with people you're now able to share that language with and build strong bonds with. absolutely very happy for you! i hope to be able to have something like this sometime too. until then, study time 📚
Thank you very much! Glad this story was touching to you! For sure hope you'll be able to achieve this goal in the near future too! 😁
this is awesome!!! you single-handedly 3D animated a whole segment for this video? DUDE. you are CRAZY UNDERRATED. I live your humour, I love the sprites, I love the storytelling... just awesome. sorry to hear about the algorithm troubles. subscribed and liked :-)
I 100% relate to the difficulty of making friend in a foreign language. Have two Japanese friends that came to our school on an exchange. One of them knows a decent amount of English, and I know a decent amount of Japanese, so there's no language barrier between us. The other friend, though, is an entirely different story. I can text them just fine, but speaking to them in person is stupidly difficult, as I can never find the words for what I want to say, and it's always awkward. You're already doing way better than I am, especially having been learning for a shorter amount of time. Keep on keeping on, Juls!
Definitely this. A lot of advice I've seen about making foreign friends is just people saying "just go for it" without considering that having a decent language level is actually extremely important. At times I feel that I'm not quite there yet either, especially when we're in a group call talking about a lot of different things at once. I find that my brain lags and gets stuck deciphering what was said 30 seconds ago and give a really delayed reply. And of course, as a gaijin, my 相槌 is quite weak too! Definitely things to work on to get better in the future!
Thanks for watching and commenting!
Making friends is hard enough, but making foreign friends is harder. Also I love your vids! I got into studying Japanese recently and found you a huge help. You have a funny way of explaining things, good editing, and a way of clearly explaining topics and examples, and I wish you the best of luck in Japan.
damn im early.
Absolutely, making foriegn friends not only requires a decent language level, but you also need that confidence too! Thank you very much for watching and I'm glad you're finding my videos useful and entertaining! 😁😁
@@JouzuJuls No problem, keep up the good work. But I always wanted to talk to actual Japanese speakers to help, but I'm too scared to and also lazy, so instead I coded ai to have chats with and conversations. I'll try finding actual speakers by playing games like you did so I don't feel shameful with my only friends being Ai. 🗿🗿
@@thegamersoftilbilly Best advice I can give here to actually get over this hump is to simply book a teacher on iTalki.
iTalki provides a safe 1 on 1 environment which allows you to experiment with your output with a native speaker and fail without embarrassment.
It's an excellent way to practice speaking and build the confidence to actually use more Japanese in the wild!
If you use my affiliate link, you'll get 3 trial lessons for free: www.italki.com/affshare?ref=af11990804
@@JouzuJuls ありがとうございます, Jouzu. :)
すごい動画チーフさん！ほんとに好きでした！今、日本語を勉強して、チーフさんの動画を見てやる気が出て、上手くなるために全部見ます！お疲れ様でした！
less than 30k subs? It doesn't make sense! Like this videos are top-tier! Thank you!! I found your channel recently and I'm starting my journey in Japanese! hope your videos help me. sure the Anki list is.
@@KimberlyJho-ann Thank you very much! To think that a few years ago I had comments saying stuff like "Only at 3K subs!? What's going on" and now seeing 30K show up- that's already such a huge jump and I really appreciate it ☺️😄
@@JouzuJuls You're doing a magnificent job! So I know you will grow more! 💕 Thanks for you work ! Literally TH-cam bless me with your videos in my grammar searching. Hope everything get better. Sending Good vibes from Panama.
I follow your channel for quite a while so I always sort of hoped for it to happen, but just as much as all the others here in the comments, I'm hoping the algorithm does it's job properly... The quality of your videos is always on a constant rise, and this one, while I haven't finished the video yet, is a delight to watch
アルゴリズムさん、仕事をして！
edit: also thanks for a good game recommendation, never heard of Warlander before
Welcome back! I remember reading your comments before! As always, thank you for watching and commenting, glad you enjoyed the video!
PS. the algo in JP is just アルゴリズム 😉
PPS. Warlander is pretty hard if you're solo, the only reason I reached the top was cuz I had these guys guiding me 😂
@@JouzuJuls Thanks for the correction
Wow, really inspiring. Looking forward to seeing your next video!
Thank you very much! Glad you found the video inspiring!
At first i saw your character drawing like "Ooh this is interesting" and then you came up with the 3d scene and i was "Holy moly this is very well created"😳
Very great video man, keep it up
I really enjoyed the way you did story telling on this, with those drawings, and on this video you took it on a whole another level with 3D?! It felt like a whole movie on its own.
I recently got into Mahjong Soul so I came from your Mahjong tutorials and it felt like digging for gold but finding diamonds, this is an underrated channel and I wish you all the best for your future as a content creator.
Commenting after hearing about the actual bs you’ve been dealing with. I’ve only just found your channel and I can’t believe the complete bs TH-cam is putting you through by basically killing your videos. You’ve inspired me to start my Japanese learning journey.
I was searching for a video where someone learns Japanese and then just goes to Japan and speaks it, and your video came up. Didn’t expect to see such a high quality video. You’re amazing and this has been such a big motivator. Love your humour too 😂 I hope TH-cam stops being so obstructive and you can publish these videos without the fear of demonetisation(?) as I will be following you from now on. Immediate subscriber here 👍 Thank you for all your hard work in creating these videos for us to enjoy! It’s very much appreciated and I’m actually in disbelief as to how you don’t have more subscribers! These videos need to be seen!
Thank you for the high quality content, can't wait for the next episode!
Thank you very much for always being in the comments! Glad you enjoyed the video and glad to have your support 😎
I feel like the focus around the escape room kills how actually fun this video is
Like, I clicked on this video because I watched your most recent video about how YT mishandled this video, but I think escape rooms are kind of lame. Surprisingly, however, this video was about you meeting up with your Japanese friends and going on an absolute banger of an adventure
Since most of us dream about going to Japan, hanging out with Japanese people, and actually using the language, I think you could highly benefit on advertising that aspect of these videos. Especially since you're already including that content in them anyways. Or, maybe just make it clear it the title that this is a series (e.g., "Japan Pt 2" or something)
When this video first released it was actually more focused around my friends. But I found out that TH-cam decided to auto tag my video as "role-playing game" and "action-adventure game" so I had no choice but to lean full into the escape room.
That is some insane amount of work for just 20m of a video. As always well done!!!
Yea it was pretty intense, basically making 1 minute of progress a day. Thank you very much for the support!
Don't stress, you'll have 500k subs in a couple years and this video will have 250K-500K views. Just keep creating :D I'm "studying" 中文 so always nice to come across learner videos of any type of language.
I've been learning Japanese for 10 years and I've never had the chance to go, I was supposed to study abroad in 2020 with my gf, but covid had other plans for us... your channel has definitely been inspiring, I've definitely had trouble in the past using anki due to burnout (and undiagnosed adhd as I came to find out last year), I plan to rededicate myself to getting serious about learning japanese once more
This was an excellent video! I really enjoyed watching it. I'm really impressed with the quality of the editing! Keep up the great work!
面白すぎる！loved every bit of this, great production quality! will def be sharing this around
Oh my god the video quality is incredible I can’t believe you have so few subscribers. This is so entertaining I’ll definitely be watching the rest of this series
I love all the dedication and editing in your videos! I hope the right audience will find you because you deserve it so much!
Really enjoy your videos. Also you are quite prolific to be able to produce such high quality content while learning Japanese while dominating the player base of some video game while traveling. I can't imagine how you get it all done lol
Despite the small channel size, the video's are really entertaining and down to earth!
Amazing video! Sorry to see that TH-cam messed up with how it's recommending it to others. Hope for the best. I went back and re-watched a bunch of your videos in a row to try to help, with a like on all of them.
Looks like the algorithm now works as I've discovered your channel out of nowhere (I'm mainly random checking japanese language short vids and ended up here). I hope that one day, I can speak as fluent as you!
Amazing editing ! You must have put a lot of work on this one ... Thanks for your hard work !
Really good vid! Your videos have been helping me a lot, I'm applying for exchange next year and I'm hoping get japan! Thank you, and love the content!
Nice! Love this vlog series ❤️
Thank you very much! Glad you're enjoying the series 😊
I think you already got this mentioned by others here in the comments, but damn your videos are hella nice edited and overall just super fun to watch! Algorithmさん pls do your work and let others see this underrated channel.
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the video!
With the boost of your comment, let's hope Algorithmさん really does see this video!
just watched this and other videos from your channel and I just want to say. This is AMAZING. Please continue uploading, I've never enjoyed watching stuff like this before, but watching these videos has me glued. I'm enthralled watching, as I will be heading over to Japan this summer, and getting to see your experience only excites me more. Keep up the good work!!!!!!!! Edit: when i first found out how little subs you have I was shocked. Fr man you deserve any and all success you get.
Commenting to boost this vid. But seriously, it's pure bull shit that YT decided to fuck this video over. Bro I know words are cheap but, honestly from the heart, I truly appreciate the incomprehensible amount of love and care you put into making this vid. Your vids literally got me out of my rut for learning Japanese. You helped me get my plans and goals together, so i I can actually start, and continue to learn it as a part of my life. And your videos like this just ooze the care and craft you put into them. I don't want to see your hard work being treated like this either. I genuinely enjoyed this vid, and it was awesome to see you and your friends have fun and just enjoy yourselves. So honestly, thank you for your hard work. I hope you can continue what you love, no matter what bs comes up. Try to make sure not to push yourself too much, as your work ethic and quality are insane as I've seen so many times in your vids. And I hope you find it in you to prevent this from discouraging you. Especially from doing what you love or want to do. Take care of yourself well man, the best thing you can do for your work is to take care of you. We'll get past this, YT CAN'T and will not keep you down forever, I know it.
Thank you very much! It really means a lot to me to hear that I've helped motivate so people to get back into learning Japanese and get after their goals. Your encouraging words have really reached me and I sincerely thank you for this. Comments like these are how I'm able to keep my head up! ありがとうございます！
今回のエピソードも面白かったです、動画の編集もお疲れ様でした、次回もお楽しみにしておりますので、頑張って下さいね！
見てくれて、そして優しいコメントをしてくれてありがとうございます！
Yo bro I watched ur video immersion video from 3 years ago and watching this now THE DIFFERENCE IS CRAAZZY
Bro, just wanna let you know, I felt the passion put into this video.
Thank you very much! 😭
The entire time making this I just felt so thankful that I'm able to make this videos and share my story, and also so thankful I was able to meet these friends and spend such a fun time with them. Just so many things to be thankful about and I'm so happy people are finding this motivating 😇
This video is so well edited!!!
Keep it up 🔥
Awesome quality as always
Thanks for watching as always 😎
That was awesome. So wholesome :) The escape room sequence reminded me of the Zero Escape game
Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks for the comment! I wonder if me using the Danganronpa music was the reason it reminded you of Zero Escape since they're both developed by Spike Chunsoft 😂😂
This was such a sick video!!! Thank you, you really inspired me :)
wait this was 2 days ago. thats so cool. i think youtube algorithim is working because ive been researching videos about japan and how to meet people and it showed me this in my recommended. Im going to japan in the future and I wanna have my own 2 friends to meet with 😢.
That's awesome to hear! This video got off to a really bad start and it's currently fighting for survival against the algorithm. Really happy to hear you enjoyed the video and thanks for writing a comment!
Finally got around to watching this video, bro. Got me looking forward to my first trip to Japan someday.
The staff jumpscares were hilarious lmfao 😂
メチャ楽しかった
チェイフの動画がやっぱりいい空気じゃん🎵
That escape room part was super fun to watch
The fact that none of that was planned and that we randomly stumbled upon it really made it stick as one of the most memorable events of the entire trip. I'm so glad to have met these friends so that we could enjoy this together, there's literally no other way I would've stumbled upon this and made this memory otherwise 😇
Great stuff man, you inspire me to study more!
aaaa this is so good haha great video !!!
YES!!! I love your editing! (I still can't speak Japanese despite being 三世)
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the video! I can kinda relate since I'm Chinese, born and raised in Hong Kong- and can't read Chinese 😂
For good measure, I'm doubling down and saying this was a banger vid.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great video. Commenting for the algorithm
This video was really enjoyable. As always, channel underrated as f... I mean extremely underrated. Can't wait for the 3rd part!! マジで楽しみ過ぎるｗｗ
also tryna bump up the algorithm because of what happened, I really hope this gets fixed🙏🙏🙏
what an amazing episode
love your videos!!!!!!! OMGGGG SO GOOD
Thank you very much!! 😇
This video was amazing ✨✨
The most, or really, the ONLY truly tense escape room story I've ever heard. I totally thought that guy was a real guy sitting in the chair and was imagining how freaked out I would feel to be trapped alone in the room with that guy who only speaks a language I'm not native in. Glad he wasn't real. If I'd been in that escape room we'd have all died though.
What the hell is this god tier story telling holy shit
Thank you very much!! 😭
I spent 25 days working more than 12 hours every day really trying to focus on trying to tell this story in the best way possible, really glad you enjoyed it!
this vid is edited so well
Why was this video recommended for me after a Final Fantasy video? This is why you should turn of autoplay.
But to comment on the video really nice editing. Just a shame that i am not the person for it.
THIS is exactly what I'm talking about 😭
I was wondering why this video was underperforming and called up TH-cam support.
Turns out TH-cam is literally against me and is recommending this video to COMPLETELY UNRELATED other videos. (See here for proof: imgur.com/a/UjMqg6i)
Thank you for leaving a comment here anyway, really appreciate it!
Great video bro
Amazing vid 🔥
I didn't know about the "luck scale" thing from the Omikuji. I've had mine on the fridge for over a year and didn't bother checking what I got lol. Turns out it was 吉, not bad haha.
Not bad! Another interesting thing about Omikuji is that they used to only give bad luck in the past. This is because Omikuji were less like "here's your luck", but instead "here's the dangers you should avoid". Eventually the monks and priests figured out that people like playing this luck game more and added good luck to attract more visitors. Now everybody gets to have fun with it!
Nice video! Got it recommended by a friend, would not have noticed it if he did not since it was not shown to me by youtube even through i am subscribed and have the "bell" activated. Weird ...
Thank you very much! Seems TH-cam is seriously against this video for whatever reason...
This was truly inspiring, thank you for working so hard to share your experience🫶🏼
I'm not learning Japanese, but I really enjoy your content maybe I can apply your experience on another language, and also keep going your content is amazing I know that you will blow up soon :)
Thanks for watching and glad you enjoyed the video even though you're not studying Japanese! For sure I'm hope this video was able to motivate you so you can experience the joy of making friends in the language you're studying too! 😁
Danganronpa music!!!!!! You're just amazing!
Great video.
I never would have figured out "Onii-San" wasn't real if it was me there lmao
「挑戦する」は日本語では自動詞で、「〜を挑戦する」とは絶対になりません。
「〜に挑戦する」となります。
ところでコンビニで日本人の店員に容赦ないスピードで接客された件ですが、投稿者さんは確か香港の方で見かけも日本人に近いのでパッと見で外国人と思われずに日本人が日本人同士で話す日本語のスピードで話をされたと思われます。
これは一見大変ですが、投稿者さんくらいの日本語上級レベルの人にはいい感じの負荷になってかえってお得な境遇だと思います。
日本人は相手が外国人だとすぐ手加減して易しい日本語で話すので日本人同士で話すような手加減無しの日本語をなかなか外国人に浴びせません。日本人に見かけが近い外国人はその点(日本語の高みを目指すならば)有利だと思います。
2:15 Lets fkn download it hoping there is some japanese friendo
It's quite a hard game if you're playing solo, so it's really a good idea to make some friends with the pros to get a good win rate.
Tbh if your Japanese is good enough to have a normal conversation (and you have the confidence to try it), joining the Warlander Discord JP side and asking for a pro to team up with you and teach you could be possible.
I'd just recommend getting to gold rank or something first so you at least know the basics 😂
@@JouzuJuls i have social anxiety even online so i cant open the mic. but maybe when they are japanese i will feel like they are anime characters lolo
@@caslloveer0 If you really want to become an anime protagonist with Japanese friends, the best advice I can give is to simply book a teacher on iTalki.
iTalki provides a safe 1 on 1 environment which allows you to experiment with your output with a native speaker and fail without embarrassment.
It's an excellent way to practice speaking and build the confidence to actually use more Japanese in the wild!
If you use my affiliate link, you'll get 3 trial lessons for free: www.italki.com/affshare?ref=af11990804
@@JouzuJuls Tyyy Sensei😻
凄い凄い😮
見てくれてありがとうございます！
Bro can you make one more episode!!!
The stuff before the escape room was quite fun. Should change the title to include those.
I was in bed barely awake when I watched this; so for me it was just a horror movie 🙀
OHAYOGOZAIMASU I guess😂
Thanks for watching and commenting!
isnt 初対面 read as しょたいめん? or are both readings possible?
🤦♂how have i not known this until now
Nop, you're right. I'm just straight up wrong 😂😂
The danganronpa music just makes this way better😂
nice!!!
Underrated
saikyou video da , ichiban.................just some things i picked up
btw nihongo jouzo desu ne.😂
It really felt like i was in the escape room too xD
Glad my video gave you an immersive experience! Even I scared myself a few times while recreating that jumpscare- I think I have PTSD now LMAO
man i want to learn japanese but i feel like i have no chance and i wont be able to do it. Did you struggle when you started btw?
This channel was created for the purpose of documenting myself learning from day 1, and you can see a recap of the whole first year here: th-cam.com/video/Jp92ZHyR_rw/w-d-xo.html
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Just a FYI, spent 15 years growing up in Hong Kong and learning Chinese and still can't read Chinese at all. I literally failed to learn a language despite being taught it in school and living in the country for 15 years straight.
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So if someone like me who has NEGATIVE TALENT in language learning can get to this level in Japanese in 3 years without having ever gone to Japan a single time until now, you definitely can too. Check out the other videos on my channel to find out how I did it!
Thank god im not the only one who struggles with konbini
So what happened in the amusement park. Did the serial killer catch on you guys? It's so cliffhanger😭
So the funny thing is- I'd put it in the video if the Killer was actually like right outside our room when we left...
But he wasn't.
He wasn't even down the corridor??
And then we went back to the lobby and there WASNT EVEN A SINGLE STAFF IN SIGHT????
Maybe that staff that jumpscared me twice was getting changed LMAO
We just left before he had the chance tho 😂😂
Maybe they didn't give you any nihongo jouzu but i can give you a video editing jouzu
arigathanks
Did i miss the twitch link?
I think TH-cam algorithm's getting its sh*t together by recommending this vid to me. I've just found your channel, but I already learned more Japanese in one day than I ever did in the past. Sorry, I can't join your membership or subscribe to you on Patreon. Still, I'm looking forward to more of your content! I really love the way you edit your videos and they're really helpful.
"my japanese friends" imagine having friends in your native or second language TwT
俺もアメリカのコンビニで買い物したときに、
早口すぎて値段言われてもすぐわからなかったのを思い出したわｗ
白ブロッコリーの名付け親です、コメントのみんな見てる～？
それはさすがに準備できなかったねｗ っていうか、準備は多分簡単にできるけど、その必要性は全然感じてなかった😂
見て、コメントしてくれてありがとうございます ゆーのさん！
7:24 SEKIRO ？危
Sekikyou 凶 😭
I went to the first location too at the same time lol
…and got the same stick
Just commenting to help the algorithm (someone tell me if making it longer affects anything)