Given how much time & effort it takes say to listen to that entire paragraph 4/5 times and listen to a lot of the other stuff plus think about it carefully and answer, do you pay these participants for their time or is it on a volunteer basis? Thinking about doing something similar in my country, so asking.
@@dragontoothless4351 Same. Watching his videos i get the feeling, that he likes to put on a show and speak in a theatrical way like an actor (or someone with chuunibyou) would. And i think hes overdone it a bit there. Hearing the one woman say that he might have trouble reading definitely cracked me up.
Thanks for the feature Yuta! I'm #2 and it was really fun being a part of this experiment. I enjoyed hearing the feedback and definitely feel motivated to keep working on my Japanese. I'm also Asian American so the guy at the end was pretty spot on with his guess haha
@@Demozo_ Of course. As you might already be aware, small tsu (っ、ッ) is a pause signifier in pronunciation. Loan words like バスケット (basuketto=basketball), チャック (chakku=zipper), native Japanese words like 逼迫 (hippaku=urgency, pressing) or 脱臼 (dakkyuu=dislocation of the bone) are not hard to pronounce by themselves in an isolated case. If I were to ask you to pronounce them by themselves, you'd probably sound exactly the same as a native speaker, utilizing the pause exactly where it needs to be. However, when you try talking in full sentences, (let's say, this is your 10th sentence in your speech), your ability to pronounce it correctly will possibly significantly drop. Native speakers can pause it naturally, exactly at the point where it needs to be, it feels correct to pause it at the same exact spot. Foreigners will usually shorten it in pronunciation and it will come out a bit wonky. バスケット will become バスケト, チャック will become チャク etc., omitting the pause. I would argue that not pausing enough or at the right point doesn't really kill the flow or the idea of the thought you were trying to convey with the sentence, it will be understood well. The only difference is that it will sound a bit unnatural to a person with trained ears. That's not to say that all Japanese people utilize the pause correctly. I've heard pretty horrible pronunciation from natives as well. This is probably due to the fact that not many languages utilize pauses in pronunciation as often and as explicit as Japanese language does. As a foreigner, you need to pay extra attention just to be able to pause it at the right point (unless your native language also utilizes pauses a lot). That is the gist of it.
I spent a year living in Japan (near Kansai) and I got pretty good at sounding relatively "native". The proudest I ever was of my Japanese was when I took a trip to Tokyo and a waiter said to me, "Hey, your accent. Are you from..." and I expected him to say America, but he said "...Osaka???"
He's joking, normally people wouldn't ask that abruptedly if the guy looks like he's clearly from Osaka, but if you see a funny foreigner that speaks in a regional accent its a good conversation starter
It's strange, I have convinced people before that I was from Argentina when I spoke Spanish, but I probably don't have the best accent. I honestly think native speakers don't listen very carefully to people when they speak their language as they just don't care. So I hate to say this, but just because a native thinks you are a native speaker as well really doesn't mean a lot.
This was really interesting, thanks Yuta! I’m #3 and this was both very humbling and very embarrassing to watch, humbling because I’ve been told I have great pronunciation and embarrassing because I hate hearing my own voice (esp with my crappy mic) but I wanted to see them react to me... I did a lot of takes to even get to what I did 😂 Btw for the people complaining about there being too many Americans, I feel you, I also wish there had been more variety, but maybe it’s some consolation to know that I was raised bilingual in German and I’m a German citizen so uhh Germany represent I guess? 👀🇩🇪
I think your pronunciation is very good. Keep at it, you will be great! I noticed mostly your intonation. Standard pitch accent andメリハリ cannot be learned by magic osmosis. For the past year I have been "shadowing" audiobooks read by professional narrators. That is how I previously learned a number of European languages. I have now repeated aloud a dozen books at 0.5 to 0.7 speed. If I go faster, I cannot imitate every nuance, and I revert to sounding American. But I am getting faster, and often speak simultaneously when I can I guess ahead. So this is not just active listening, but real speaking practice. The voice talents model accurate standard pitch accent, and their intonation is far more systematic and clear than conversational speech or dialogue--which makes the patterns actually learnable by foreigners. Having internalized pitch accent as motor memory, now when I listen to Dogen or Ms. Soma, I don’t think “These patterns are too hard to remember,’” but rather, “Yeah, that sounds about right to my ear.” And when I listen to even the very best foreign speakers of Japanese, I can hear them go "in and out of character." They mostly sing with Japanese pitch accent, but also tend to "speak" some words like a Westerner. And like a singer who doesn't stay in key, they don't "harmonize" one phrase to the next as Japanese do automatically.
Makes sense, I take it it is indicative of paying attention to what's being said. "Oh" might not be a word, but it can conveys as much meaning as "I see"
Funny thing is that sometimes a native speaker of a language will start to pick up intonation and whatever small things from another language they're fluent in and use it when speaking their native language. Like if you move to another country, you start to sound like you're not native in your own language because you use the other language more often and your face and mouth muscles get more used to that. It's fascinating. I was born and raised in Bulgaria and moved to Denmark when I was 18 (I'm 26 now) but I speak English with my Danish partner (cause we met online and it feels more natural) and also with my friends. I use mostly English and Danish in my daily life. I only really use Bulgarian when I'm talking to my parents so it feels kinda unnatural to me at this point and I feel like I sound like I'm not native lol. Some of my pronunciations have definitely changed.
That's sad. Now I'm scared to live in another country I don't want my native tongue to disappear. I think it's best to write on your journal or just a reminder in your native language. Think also in your native language or watch a show there you'll still preserve it while in another country. I hope this helps
@@shanasakai2238 I don't really mind it, I think it's interesting. I haven't forgotten the language or anything, it just feels a bit unnatural when speaking because I'm no longer used to using it every day. But if I went back to live there, I'll probably get used to it again within a couple of days and it'll feel natural again. I think it's just about habits and also muscle memory. I was a bit worried about forgetting it when I moved at first, but even after so many years of not using it much, I can still completely switch to it when I'm actually there. It only takes a couple of hours to switch my entire thought process to my native language even if I pronounce some things a bit weird at first or sometimes can't remember a word instantly. Don't worry though, I don't think most people could ever actually forget their native language even if they live in another country for many many years. I've seen people who moved to the US when they were in their early twenties and came back to my native country 30 years later and they spoke with a bit of an accent on some words but otherwise perfectly fine.
Yeah that must be why a lot of people are more comfortable speaking the language they became more fluent in sometimes when they return, especially from like a mission or something
@@ko-chanTHEBULLY Yeah, I'm like that with English. Even though it's not my native language and it's not the language of the country I live in, it's still the one I'm most comfortable with because it's the one I use most. Even before I moved away from my home country, I was already thinking in English most of the time because I spend a lot of time online using it lol
Really interesting! I'm a Canadian French native who speaks Japanese and English daily and I sometimes get asked where I'm from...while in my own country 😅 Muscle memory is definitely a thing. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a Japanese. Honestly all but 1 sound as if spoken by a foreigner, but I wasn't surprised to hear 4 and 5 were also Japanese. As a woman in the video says, it's one thing to speak Japanese in conversation, but reading complete sentences out loud is another because they can have words or phrases you don't usually use so that it's hard to read smoothly even for Japanese native speakers.
4 is someone who learned it from parents, someone who is not educated in Japanese and don't use it actively in her daily life; so it still falls under "foreigner option" in my opinion.
@хамлук I also think #4 should be considered as foreign. She would probably get more practice than the average foreigner learning Japanese if her parents were actively practicing with her since childhood, but learning by speaking in the environment also plays a huge role.
@хамлук I interpreted "actively in the daily" as learning in the environment as I mentioned. Meaning going to school, talking to friends, random conversations with random people, etc. And just by the people's judgement in the video, #4 did pretty well considering she did not live in Japan.
Just by the "Konnichiwa" you can tell that 2,3 and 4 don't even tried to pronounce the "N' alone between KO and NI. That sounds strange, but maybe some japanese don't really pronounce the "N" specifically when speaking that word fast.
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I'm a foreigner so that's why, but I guessed 2 and was unsure about 3. The only reason I got 3 was because of the places he took a break and a few words, but to me his voice sounded pretty Japanese. 1 was obvious. I mean if they were foreign and people thought she was I would still want to speak Japanese like that cause it sounded beautiful. 4 was interesting.. to me it sounded Japanese, but there was something unique to it and I wouldn't want to change that. It's funny a lot of them couldn't tell with Yuta. That just shows Japanese people themselves can't always tell. Honestly all of them sounded pretty good and were easy to understand. My biggest takeaway from this is I need to learn to hear pitch accent better. I could only guess. On one hand this made me feel like it doesn't really matter to get it perfectly "native".. on the other hand it's still my long term goal to get there. Probably for once own self satisfaction I guess and to prove to myself that I can do it? This is really so interesting. You can speak beautiful Japanese and have a foreign accent too. Especially if you speak multiple languages some stuff slips in. My German probably had changed a lot too. I was even once told by a foreign friend who learned German and has a almost perfect pitch accent, my "komisch" (weird) sounds weird... anyways cool video! Thanks Yuta!
I tried to discover the gaijin too, and like the third girl I thought everyone was a foreigner except for one xD 2 and 3 were so evident, especially number 3 didn't have the slightest japanese intonation ^^ 4 and 5 (I didn't understand 5 was Yuta xD) were very difficult, beacause they had a good accent, but there were some parts that made me think they were foreigners, for Yuta especially the accent of the last totemo in speech 3 was sooooo strange (and infact the first two guys burst out laughing) ^^ However also 4 and 5 really had some foreign elements in their speech, 4 because she grew in US and so she puts a bit of american pronunciation into japanese, 5 because.. Yuta is a mystery xD He did it on purpose to deceive them, or learning so well english pronunciation made him have something in his japanese
I'm fairly sure #5 was him. Not from the first sample, but latter. And the last sample I'm sure he was just playing a trick... Or, has trouble reading. ;-)
Dang Hearing them say Yuta sounds like a foriegner knowing the fact this man been teaching us how to sound more native to his homeland for years is kinda funny lol
They were still able to pick correctly 4 out of the 5, it's interesting that they noticed the difference in the spacing between the words on top of pronunciation
I wonder if Yuta's Japanese accent has been slightly affected from working with so many non-native speakers? I had a French teacher from France tell us her accent and vocabulary were starting to pick up traces of our American French from hearing it all day, but she also could've been messing with us
It really works like that if the person has empathy and social skills. Very independent people (sounds good but in this case means in an insensitive way) don’t change due to the presence of others
It's totally possible. As an English teacher in Aomori my English has changed a bit listening to everyone else try to speak it and sometimes I have to work to sound "normal" again lol
I did this with my Japanese friend. Here are the results for each part: For part 1: 1. Japan (Kanto) 2. Japan 3. Japan 4. Foreigner 5. Japan (Kanto) For part 2: 1. Japan (Kansai) 2. Japan (Kanto) 3. Japan (said she sounds like a little student) 4. Foreigner (100%) 5. Foreigner (she said she's sure. she didn't even finish the recording. RIP Yuta) For part 3: 1. Japan (Kansai) 2. Japan 3. Foreigner 4. Foreigner (she said it sounds like what a little child would sound like...) 5. Foreigner Final decisions: 1. Japan (Kansai) 2. Japan 3. Foreigner 4. Foreigner 5. Foreigner
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アメリカ育ちのハーフですが、僕も定期的に「日本人っぽい日本語かな？」って思う時が良くあります。日本へ行く時は必ず英語で喋りかけられますが、「日本語で大丈夫です」って返事すると向こうがホッとするリアクションが良くあります。 As a half Japanese person raised in the US, I sometimes wonder if my Japanese sounds like a native Japanese speaker. Whenever I go to Japan I'm consistently being spoken to in English, but when I respond with "Japanese is fine" they often show a sense of relief.
In Portuguese it's pretty easy, just give them a text with lots os "ão" and "ões", even foreign speakers who speak perfect Portuguese will trip up with the "perfect native pronunciation" of at least a few of these, most likely all
After listening to the first set of long samples my guesses were: 1. Japanese 2. American 3. Foreigner, country unknown 4. Half american half japanese 5. Yuta I did pretty well, I await my prize.
@@superman2957 it means your "Japanese is good".. usually said by Japanese people when they see a foreigner try to speak Japanese. Doesn't matter how bad you are, they will often tell you "nihongo jozu"
I think people definitely mean it. It just means "hey, you're pretty good for someone who is complete shit, keep trying buddy, the large amount of effort you're clearly making is paying off, probably"
1 was never sus to me, easily the most natural. 2 started ok but became the most sus as the samples got longer. 3 was kinda sus to me but not as much as 2 and 4. 4 started out the most sus but actually got less sus with longer samples. I instantly recognized 5 as Yuta. In their position I would have said "definitely 2, probably 4, and maybe 3 are foreign". I'm not a native speaker I just thought it was fun to play along.
It sounded to me a bit like Yuta’s “unnatural” sound came from the fact that he was trying to read in a storyteller voice, like he does when he reenacts anime characters
Same! But I have the feeling that Japanese people do not distinguish accents (or sounds for that matter) the way westerners do. I think they judged based on other criteria somehow, so especially in this instance we have an advantage at recognizing westerner's accents
The mistake that many Japanese make when thinking about Japanese is that although Japanese is a difficult language to learn when it comes to writing and grammar, it's not a terribly difficult language to speak (for English speakers) due to a low phoneme count.
@@TheMartinSan the R problem stems from how modern english has developed the soft r that was once considered a speech impediment, which is also why we struggle with rolling. Interesting stuff
@@TheMartinSan not only english speakers. I am German and here people can not speak the „r“ at all. Its the same for most countries. Its a mix of a „l“ and a „r“.
wel the same thing happened to me, i am dutch and when i reached my 20's i started speaking a lot with people from all over the world. 5 years later i had a job interview and they refused to believe i was 100% dutch born and raised. now i have lived in denmark for the last almost 10 years and they don't think i am dutch at all anymore ;) :'(
@@nazzarynnavarronunez9471 y qué te hizo pensar eso? donde vivo, es algo típico hablar 3 lenguajes o más (el inglés, el lenguaje nacional, tu lengua materna/un lenguaje regional, +)
Apart from 5 being Yuta, 3 was the most obvious to me. That "konnichiwa" sounded like something I would hear during my Japanese class where people have strong foreign accent.
At first, i thought #1 and #5 were definitely Japanese. They pronounced japanese sounds in a way that is really noticeable for us. It is like when you are french and listen to samples of people saying "throughout" in english. Non natives are spotted immediately :o. Especially if he is french :D (this is a hellish word to pronounced for us. "Brewery" is another one). I had a doubt for #4. #2 and #3 were clearly American. Could have been Aussie or NZ too. It is not only about accent and pronounciation. It is about the vibes you give when you speak. And they really felt Americans to a french like me. Especially the number 2. The moment he spoke about playing in a park... spotted.
This is something I wanted to try with Mandarin speakers with clips of Xiaoma speaking thrown in, since I'm pretty sure I, a non-native speaker, could pick his speech out.
on Indonesia pll , the sound of vocal bahasa is very unique how ever u good at it it can be differentiated when a local ppl talk , is very different don't know why~
I’m a welsh person and I had to grow up learning welsh in school... which for anyone who knows welsh as a language knows how hellish the words are haha! That being said, due to the complicated way welsh words are pronounced, I find Japanese much easier to speak as opposed to the language I’ve been learning since I was a kid, haha!
@@Kain1805 Yeah! Though unfortunately not as many people speak it nowadays and the English love to try and snub out these languages declaring them “dead languages”.. which sucks so bad since welsh and other Celtic languages are genuinely beautiful
What a coinkydink, I was just thinking about this topic the other day , and here you make a vid. answering my question😁. So fantastic video with very interesting responses👏.
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Noooooooooo. I am the first one 😭😭😭
#5 was you wasn't it?
Well congrats on being a foreign brother just like the rest of us plebs, Yuta! LOL And apparantly you're an analphabet as well!
If I do, won't I have trouble reading? :-p
Given how much time & effort it takes say to listen to that entire paragraph 4/5 times and listen to a lot of the other stuff plus think about it carefully and answer, do you pay these participants for their time or is it on a volunteer basis? Thinking about doing something similar in my country, so asking.
Yuta standing there while they are roasting his japanese: 🗿
Well, actually, Yuta wasn't an interviewer. So he wasn't standing there.
@@completebilingual i think he was recording the interview instead
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Oh. Never thought of that.
@@completebilingual still a quality comment nonetheless
Or his ability to read lol
3:55 "#5 is starting to sound suspicious too"
**sad That JAPANESE MAN Yuta noises*
Hahah everybody in this video said that, while he is trying to sell his japanese lessons 😂😂 it is pretty ironic
Yeah, as soon as I heard #5 say Konnichiwa, I knew it was Yuta.
I'm pretty sure he was trying to troll them.
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Same.
Watching his videos i get the feeling, that he likes to put on a show and speak in a theatrical way like an actor (or someone with chuunibyou) would. And i think hes overdone it a bit there. Hearing the one woman say that he might have trouble reading definitely cracked me up.
@@dragontoothless4351 Yup lol
Lol. The moment the long sentence got introduced you could instantly tell that #5 was Yuta.
Now we know he's a foreigner. ;-)
I got it since his "Konnichiwa". His voice is very distinct :)
TRUE!! I was like wait a minute isn't that Yuta?
And you can tell he was purposely slipping on his words to make himself sound suspect. What a trickster lol
I could instantly tell from the "konnichiwa" lol
When Yuta's been so focused on understanding English sarcasm that his Japanese has turned foreign
That happens with bilingual people
Thanks for the feature Yuta! I'm #2 and it was really fun being a part of this experiment. I enjoyed hearing the feedback and definitely feel motivated to keep working on my Japanese. I'm also Asian American so the guy at the end was pretty spot on with his guess haha
You tricked me until you started to have trouble with ッ as other 99% foreigners do as well.
You did great!!
@@Kyoukichi I don't understand why people seem to be struggling with っ tbh. Do you know why, and if so could you explain?
commenting to follow this thread. I didn't hear the basketball tell that they were talking about
@@Demozo_ Of course. As you might already be aware, small tsu (っ、ッ) is a pause signifier in pronunciation. Loan words like バスケット (basuketto=basketball), チャック (chakku=zipper), native Japanese words like 逼迫 (hippaku=urgency, pressing) or 脱臼 (dakkyuu=dislocation of the bone) are not hard to pronounce by themselves in an isolated case. If I were to ask you to pronounce them by themselves, you'd probably sound exactly the same as a native speaker, utilizing the pause exactly where it needs to be.
However, when you try talking in full sentences, (let's say, this is your 10th sentence in your speech), your ability to pronounce it correctly will possibly significantly drop. Native speakers can pause it naturally, exactly at the point where it needs to be, it feels correct to pause it at the same exact spot. Foreigners will usually shorten it in pronunciation and it will come out a bit wonky. バスケット will become バスケト, チャック will become チャク etc., omitting the pause. I would argue that not pausing enough or at the right point doesn't really kill the flow or the idea of the thought you were trying to convey with the sentence, it will be understood well. The only difference is that it will sound a bit unnatural to a person with trained ears. That's not to say that all Japanese people utilize the pause correctly. I've heard pretty horrible pronunciation from natives as well.
This is probably due to the fact that not many languages utilize pauses in pronunciation as often and as explicit as Japanese language does. As a foreigner, you need to pay extra attention just to be able to pause it at the right point (unless your native language also utilizes pauses a lot).
That is the gist of it.
I spent a year living in Japan (near Kansai) and I got pretty good at sounding relatively "native". The proudest I ever was of my Japanese was when I took a trip to Tokyo and a waiter said to me, "Hey, your accent. Are you from..." and I expected him to say America, but he said "...Osaka???"
That's cool.
Small victories! It means you worked hard and it paid off. 😄👍🏻
He's joking, normally people wouldn't ask that abruptedly if the guy looks like he's clearly from Osaka, but if you see a funny foreigner that speaks in a regional accent its a good conversation starter
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It's strange, I have convinced people before that I was from Argentina when I spoke Spanish, but I probably don't have the best accent. I honestly think native speakers don't listen very carefully to people when they speak their language as they just don't care. So I hate to say this, but just because a native thinks you are a native speaker as well really doesn't mean a lot.
This was really interesting, thanks Yuta! I’m #3 and this was both very humbling and very embarrassing to watch, humbling because I’ve been told I have great pronunciation and embarrassing because I hate hearing my own voice (esp with my crappy mic) but I wanted to see them react to me... I did a lot of takes to even get to what I did 😂
Btw for the people complaining about there being too many Americans, I feel you, I also wish there had been more variety, but maybe it’s some consolation to know that I was raised bilingual in German and I’m a German citizen so uhh Germany represent I guess? 👀🇩🇪
Thank you for helping me!
I simply chose recordings that sounded good to me and didn't pay attention to the nationalities at all.
@@ThatJapaneseManYuta Cool. My pleasure!
Dein Japanisch klingt echt gut 😊 Und jeder hasst es, seine eigene Stimme zu hören lol
“ive been told i have great pronunciation”
literally every japanese ever.....never heard of tatemae huh
I think your pronunciation is very good. Keep at it, you will be great! I noticed mostly your intonation. Standard pitch accent andメリハリ cannot be learned by magic osmosis. For the past year I have been "shadowing" audiobooks read by professional narrators. That is how I previously learned a number of European languages. I have now repeated aloud a dozen books at 0.5 to 0.7 speed. If I go faster, I cannot imitate every nuance, and I revert to sounding American. But I am getting faster, and often speak simultaneously when I can I guess ahead. So this is not just active listening, but real speaking practice. The voice talents model accurate standard pitch accent, and their intonation is far more systematic and clear than conversational speech or dialogue--which makes the patterns actually learnable by foreigners.
Having internalized pitch accent as motor memory, now when I listen to Dogen or Ms. Soma, I don’t think “These patterns are too hard to remember,’” but rather, “Yeah, that sounds about right to my ear.” And when I listen to even the very best foreign speakers of Japanese, I can hear them go "in and out of character." They mostly sing with Japanese pitch accent, but also tend to "speak" some words like a Westerner. And like a singer who doesn't stay in key, they don't "harmonize" one phrase to the next as Japanese do automatically.
LMAO Yuta's Japanese sounds like a foreigner.
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I bet he intentionally did that to make a trick
That tricky man yuta. Im pretty sure he did this sound to troll and trick them lol
Or maybe hes gotten too used to speaking English lol
LMAO true
I love their reaction noises.
- The first person is .
- Eeeh.
- Eeeh + Ooh
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- Un un un.
- Ooh
Makes sense, I take it it is indicative of paying attention to what's being said. "Oh" might not be a word, but it can conveys as much meaning as "I see"
@מחמד חנזיר .Just to fill you in, it's called Aiduchi (あいづち). They are interjections to show that they're paying attention.
@@Vii_DT *aizuchi
@@mikael9325 *aidzuchi
@@HitodamaKyrie dud i know its spelled exactly like that but it is also called aizuchi
Hilarious that no one believed Yuta was Japanese/said he spoke like an announcer.
実際、外国人に日本語を教えている先生はゆっくり正確に発音することを意識している方が多いので、日常会話だと少し違和感を感じることはあります。動画内では、ゆうたさんも一般的な日本人よりもはっきりと発音しているので、日本語が流暢な外国の方が話しているように聞こえますね。日常では分からないですけど
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Funny thing is that sometimes a native speaker of a language will start to pick up intonation and whatever small things from another language they're fluent in and use it when speaking their native language. Like if you move to another country, you start to sound like you're not native in your own language because you use the other language more often and your face and mouth muscles get more used to that. It's fascinating.
I was born and raised in Bulgaria and moved to Denmark when I was 18 (I'm 26 now) but I speak English with my Danish partner (cause we met online and it feels more natural) and also with my friends. I use mostly English and Danish in my daily life. I only really use Bulgarian when I'm talking to my parents so it feels kinda unnatural to me at this point and I feel like I sound like I'm not native lol. Some of my pronunciations have definitely changed.
That's sad.
Now I'm scared to live in another country I don't want my native tongue to disappear. I think it's best to write on your journal or just a reminder in your native language. Think also in your native language or watch a show there you'll still preserve it while in another country.
I hope this helps
@@shanasakai2238 I don't really mind it, I think it's interesting. I haven't forgotten the language or anything, it just feels a bit unnatural when speaking because I'm no longer used to using it every day. But if I went back to live there, I'll probably get used to it again within a couple of days and it'll feel natural again. I think it's just about habits and also muscle memory.
I was a bit worried about forgetting it when I moved at first, but even after so many years of not using it much, I can still completely switch to it when I'm actually there. It only takes a couple of hours to switch my entire thought process to my native language even if I pronounce some things a bit weird at first or sometimes can't remember a word instantly.
Don't worry though, I don't think most people could ever actually forget their native language even if they live in another country for many many years. I've seen people who moved to the US when they were in their early twenties and came back to my native country 30 years later and they spoke with a bit of an accent on some words but otherwise perfectly fine.
Yeah that must be why a lot of people are more comfortable speaking the language they became more fluent in sometimes when they return, especially from like a mission or something
@@ko-chanTHEBULLY Yeah, I'm like that with English. Even though it's not my native language and it's not the language of the country I live in, it's still the one I'm most comfortable with because it's the one I use most. Even before I moved away from my home country, I was already thinking in English most of the time because I spend a lot of time online using it lol
Really interesting! I'm a Canadian French native who speaks Japanese and English daily and I sometimes get asked where I'm from...while in my own country 😅 Muscle memory is definitely a thing. Thanks for sharing!
I'm a Japanese. Honestly all but 1 sound as if spoken by a foreigner, but I wasn't surprised to hear 4 and 5 were also Japanese. As a woman in the video says, it's one thing to speak Japanese in conversation, but reading complete sentences out loud is another because they can have words or phrases you don't usually use so that it's hard to read smoothly even for Japanese native speakers.
4 is someone who learned it from parents, someone who is not educated in Japanese and don't use it actively in her daily life; so it still falls under "foreigner option" in my opinion.
@хамлук I also think #4 should be considered as foreign. She would probably get more practice than the average foreigner learning Japanese if her parents were actively practicing with her since childhood, but learning by speaking in the environment also plays a huge role.
@хамлук I interpreted "actively in the daily" as learning in the environment as I mentioned. Meaning going to school, talking to friends, random conversations with random people, etc. And just by the people's judgement in the video, #4 did pretty well considering she did not live in Japan.
#5 is Yuta trying to sound like a foreigner it seems
Congratulations on 1 Million 🎉🎉
He just deserves it. And also he's able of reinventing himself he's G R E A T yo.
Yeah! It's about time Yuta made it to 1 million subs! 👏👏👏
0:46 Thats our best boy Yuta right there
From the first exercise using "hello", who else discovered that #5 was Yuta's pronunciation?
It's about time Yuta hit 1mil!!!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊
こんにちは
#1 Japanese
#2 foreigner; sounds like a german
#3 I tend to foreigner but I'm not sure
#4 foreigner
#5 Sounds like Yuta
Don't tell me #1 is from singer Kotoringo...... (Of course not, she's from Osaka as well)
Just by the "Konnichiwa" you can tell that 2,3 and 4 don't even tried to pronounce the "N' alone between KO and NI. That sounds strange, but maybe some japanese don't really pronounce the "N" specifically when speaking that word fast.
@@MegaMund1 I pronounce the N when I speak Japanese. I think, 逆に、 that makes it obvious I'm foreigner 🤣🤣🤣
@@vampyrelycan99 #1 is not from Osaka even though it's also in Kansai region, but she's from Mie Prefecture (where Matsusaka beef came from).
@@MegaMund1 , there isn't it really time 😉. The N may also be very subtle. Maybe a slow speed playback would reveal this.
I can’t even begin to imagine how you come up with so many fascinating topics, and then execute beautifully on all of them. You’re an amazing young man.
I'm a foreigner so that's why, but I guessed 2 and was unsure about 3. The only reason I got 3 was because of the places he took a break and a few words, but to me his voice sounded pretty Japanese.
1 was obvious. I mean if they were foreign and people thought she was I would still want to speak Japanese like that cause it sounded beautiful. 4 was interesting.. to me it sounded Japanese, but there was something unique to it and I wouldn't want to change that. It's funny a lot of them couldn't tell with Yuta. That just shows Japanese people themselves can't always tell. Honestly all of them sounded pretty good and were easy to understand. My biggest takeaway from this is I need to learn to hear pitch accent better. I could only guess. On one hand this made me feel like it doesn't really matter to get it perfectly "native".. on the other hand it's still my long term goal to get there. Probably for once own self satisfaction I guess and to prove to myself that I can do it? This is really so interesting. You can speak beautiful Japanese and have a foreign accent too. Especially if you speak multiple languages some stuff slips in. My German probably had changed a lot too. I was even once told by a foreign friend who learned German and has a almost perfect pitch accent, my "komisch" (weird) sounds weird... anyways cool video! Thanks Yuta!
I tried to discover the gaijin too, and like the third girl I thought everyone was a foreigner except for one xD 2 and 3 were so evident, especially number 3 didn't have the slightest japanese intonation ^^ 4 and 5 (I didn't understand 5 was Yuta xD) were very difficult, beacause they had a good accent, but there were some parts that made me think they were foreigners, for Yuta especially the accent of the last totemo in speech 3 was sooooo strange (and infact the first two guys burst out laughing) ^^ However also 4 and 5 really had some foreign elements in their speech, 4 because she grew in US and so she puts a bit of american pronunciation into japanese, 5 because.. Yuta is a mystery xD He did it on purpose to deceive them, or learning so well english pronunciation made him have something in his japanese
I thought #5 こんにちは was Yuta himself. I'm commenting before I find out
same !!
@@drowsyValkyrie uP
#MeToo
Totally sounded like Yuta.
I'm fairly sure #5 was him. Not from the first sample, but latter. And the last sample I'm sure he was just playing a trick... Or, has trouble reading. ;-)
I just realized that you got to 1 mil subs, congrats my dude!!
Wow Yuta san ,1 million subscribers
Congrats!!!!💯✌
This was one of your best experiments, Yuta!
I love that you always find people who're willing to participate in your quizzes and games. Love this kinda content.
Congratulations to your 1M subs!
The moment I hear #5 "konichiwa", I instantly knew it's Yuta's voice.
You kept me captivated until the end!
I really enjoy your videos 💜Congratulations on 1 million!! 🎊
Dang
Hearing them say Yuta sounds like a foriegner knowing the fact this man been teaching us how to sound more native to his homeland for years is kinda funny lol
They were still able to pick correctly 4 out of the 5, it's interesting that they noticed the difference in the spacing between the words on top of pronunciation
I really like the voice of #1. I could listen to an audiobook or podcast with her on it.
I wonder if Yuta's Japanese accent has been slightly affected from working with so many non-native speakers? I had a French teacher from France tell us her accent and vocabulary were starting to pick up traces of our American French from hearing it all day, but she also could've been messing with us
It really works like that if the person has empathy and social skills. Very independent people (sounds good but in this case means in an insensitive way) don’t change due to the presence of others
It's probably true.. my franch teacher speaks with that accent even in our native language 💀
It's totally possible. As an English teacher in Aomori my English has changed a bit listening to everyone else try to speak it and sometimes I have to work to sound "normal" again lol
My man Yuta had trouble reading Kanji according to the woman. lol
Maybe it was smudged. 😉
I love these kind of videos! I can't help but find Japanese people very endearing. Keep it going!
Nicee... Finnaly a new video!
Would love to participate in this. Looks so fun!
I did this with my Japanese friend. Here are the results for each part:
For part 1:
1. Japan (Kanto)
2. Japan
3. Japan
4. Foreigner
5. Japan (Kanto)
For part 2:
1. Japan (Kansai)
2. Japan (Kanto)
3. Japan (said she sounds like a little student)
4. Foreigner (100%)
5. Foreigner (she said she's sure. she didn't even finish the recording. RIP Yuta)
For part 3:
1. Japan (Kansai)
2. Japan
3. Foreigner
4. Foreigner (she said it sounds like what a little child would sound like...)
5. Foreigner
Final decisions:
1. Japan (Kansai)
2. Japan
3. Foreigner
4. Foreigner
5. Foreigner
Congrats on 1 Million Subscribers, Yuta!!! May your channel grow even bigger! Really love all your videos and all the effort you put into each of them. I am also really happy to finally subscribe to your email to learn Japanese. ❤❤❤
I was able to understand one of the sentences without subtitles 😭 these are happy tears. I'm so happy
Congratulations! ✨💪
Congratulations to 1 million subs Yuta! 👏 🍾
Me: "#5 is DEFINITELY Japanese, there's no way he's not Japanese. Why do they think he's not?"
Me after reading comments: "Wait... that was Yuta?!"
I like that microphone!
Welp, guess you're one of us now, Yuta (first name basis because your native Japanese license has been revoked).
do we even know his surname to begin with? XD
@@Victorsandergamer Uh oh...
@@Victorsandergamer Yuta *Aoki*
アメリカ育ちのハーフですが、僕も定期的に「日本人っぽい日本語かな？」って思う時が良くあります。日本へ行く時は必ず英語で喋りかけられますが、「日本語で大丈夫です」って返事すると向こうがホッとするリアクションが良くあります。
As a half Japanese person raised in the US, I sometimes wonder if my Japanese sounds like a native Japanese speaker. Whenever I go to Japan I'm consistently being spoken to in English, but when I respond with "Japanese is fine" they often show a sense of relief.
It's high time you renamed your channel "That Not So Japanese Man (according to Japanese people) Yuta"! 🤣
In Portuguese it's pretty easy, just give them a text with lots os "ão" and "ões", even foreign speakers who speak perfect Portuguese will trip up with the "perfect native pronunciation" of at least a few of these, most likely all
#4's background explained it. Sounded a little off when reading but sounded fluent in speaking off the cuff.
The way the ECC teacher speaks is so cute
fax
Her voice was actually just so soothing it felt like. Need her to make some audio books lol
So true, she's so cute and gentle, i'd like so much to talk to her!
That ECC teacher from Kansai region is cute.
It'd be fun if #5 answer was something on the lines of "Japanese trying to sound like a foreigner"
TOYU!
Yuta: I will teach you the type of Japanese that real Japanese people use.
Japanese people: Yuta sounds like a foreigner.
XD
I'm trying to learn Japanese on my own for 5 - 6 years. 私はポーランド人です。日本語の大好きです！
After listening to the first set of long samples my guesses were:
1. Japanese
2. American
3. Foreigner, country unknown
4. Half american half japanese
5. Yuta
I did pretty well, I await my prize.
I don't trust you
@@oittlaz ok.
I don’t trust either, I can’t help but feel like you’re lying
You probably read the comments or watched further into the video than you said you did
@@gachi1297 ok
This video is a prime example that when Japanese people say "nihongo jozu" they don't mean it😂😂
That my friend is being “jozued” hearing it is pretty painful for a person learning Japanese.
What does it mean?
@@superman2957 it means your "Japanese is good".. usually said by Japanese people when they see a foreigner try to speak Japanese. Doesn't matter how bad you are, they will often tell you "nihongo jozu"
@@itsKaio oh thanks
I think people definitely mean it. It just means "hey, you're pretty good for someone who is complete shit, keep trying buddy, the large amount of effort you're clearly making is paying off, probably"
1 was never sus to me, easily the most natural. 2 started ok but became the most sus as the samples got longer. 3 was kinda sus to me but not as much as 2 and 4. 4 started out the most sus but actually got less sus with longer samples. I instantly recognized 5 as Yuta. In their position I would have said "definitely 2, probably 4, and maybe 3 are foreign". I'm not a native speaker I just thought it was fun to play along.
I had the same reactions, especially re number 4.
That video was so much fun to watch!!
It sounded to me a bit like Yuta’s “unnatural” sound came from the fact that he was trying to read in a storyteller voice, like he does when he reenacts anime characters
or maybe it's just his accent
@@Victorsandergamer
He doesn’t normally talk like that when he speaks Japanese tho
Maybe Yuta had been communicating with many foreigners and he got mannerisms of unusual talking way ( for being easier to understand foreigners)
Excellent experiment! It's was very interesting, thanks Yuta sensei 👍🏻
Me: Confident that speakers 2-4 are non-native speakers.
*Answer revealed*
Me: *evil smirk* "Those years of watching anime is finally paying off >:3"
Same!
But I have the feeling that Japanese people do not distinguish accents (or sounds for that matter) the way westerners do. I think they judged based on other criteria somehow, so especially in this instance we have an advantage at recognizing westerner's accents
Interesting video and congratulations on 1M subs!
I like Kansai dialect, the Osaka Takoyaki & that Kansai drifto in Initial D!
What an interesting experiment! ありがとうございました，ゆうたさん！👍🏻😊
The mistake that many Japanese make when thinking about Japanese is that although Japanese is a difficult language to learn when it comes to writing and grammar, it's not a terribly difficult language to speak (for English speakers) due to a low phoneme count.
uP
Native English speakers, however, seem to have the hardest time getting the Japanese "r" correct though :) Or accent overall.
And the grammar is easy af
@@TheMartinSan the R problem stems from how modern english has developed the soft r that was once considered a speech impediment, which is also why we struggle with rolling.
Interesting stuff
@@TheMartinSan not only english speakers. I am German and here people can not speak the „r“ at all. Its the same for most countries. Its a mix of a „l“ and a „r“.
Congrats on 1 million subs❤️❤️
I watched so many of Yuta's videos that i recognized his voice from a single word
This is an interesting video! thanks for the interview!
i was dying every time they criticised yuta's japanese ahaha. good vid tho
Congratulations on hitting 1M subs.
I don't actually watch for the info, im more intrigued by how almost everyone he interviewed was either really beautiful or just absolutely handsome
Same. I could barely focus on the subtitles.
Yuta often seems to find super beautiful people to interview. Idk how he manages it, probably waits a long time until someone attractive walks by.
@@alrightalright4585..... Care to explain the context of your username?
Draws viewership.
The masks help a lot...
Yuta, I just wanna tell you have a nice day and Congratulation for 1 mil subs😍🤩. Love your videos man, greetings from Indonesia keep up your hardwork.
文章を読ませたら、聴き分けるのは難しいと思う
普通の会話だったら、多分簡単
やっぱ単語のチョイスや「てにをは」の不自然さで見破れると思うし、日本語の難しさってこういうところを言うんだと思うわ
ここを極めた外国人は完全に日本人と言ってもいいぐらいｗ
What an interesting video.
Random thought but I find the male interviewer's voice so nice and soothing. It's deep just the way I like it-
I'm Japanese. Yuta sounds Japanese, but has a bit of English accents. That confused them
Yuta always got me with his transition to offering learning Japanese with him.
wel the same thing happened to me, i am dutch and when i reached my 20's i started speaking a lot with people from all over the world. 5 years later i had a job interview and they refused to believe i was 100% dutch born and raised. now i have lived in denmark for the last almost 10 years and they don't think i am dutch at all anymore ;) :'(
Congrats on hitting 1 million!!
Yuta san speaking English so often has 'dumbed down' his Japanese ! 🤣 😉
🤣
You must be monolingual I suppose?
@@sillscrimmager2533 You must be monolingual yourself? Why would you say that about DDB? xd
@@gachi1297 I take it you're monolingual.
@@nazzarynnavarronunez9471 y qué te hizo pensar eso? donde vivo, es algo típico hablar 3 lenguajes o más (el inglés, el lenguaje nacional, tu lengua materna/un lenguaje regional, +)
WELL DONE ON GETTING 1 MILLION!!
Apart from 5 being Yuta, 3 was the most obvious to me. That "konnichiwa" sounded like something I would hear during my Japanese class where people have strong foreign accent.
I thought so too
happy 1 million subs yuta
5 is Yuta
great video i loved it!
At first, i thought #1 and #5 were definitely Japanese. They pronounced japanese sounds in a way that is really noticeable for us. It is like when you are french and listen to samples of people saying "throughout" in english. Non natives are spotted immediately :o. Especially if he is french :D (this is a hellish word to pronounced for us. "Brewery" is another one). I had a doubt for #4. #2 and #3 were clearly American. Could have been Aussie or NZ too. It is not only about accent and pronounciation. It is about the vibes you give when you speak. And they really felt Americans to a french like me. Especially the number 2. The moment he spoke about playing in a park... spotted.
#2 is Matt from MattvsJapan
This is something I wanted to try with Mandarin speakers with clips of Xiaoma speaking thrown in, since I'm pretty sure I, a non-native speaker, could pick his speech out.
on Indonesia pll , the sound of vocal bahasa is very unique how ever u good at it it can be differentiated when a local ppl talk , is very different don't know why~
Yuta, please do part 2 with Japanese speaking English.
Congrats on 1 million!!!!
「こんにちは」だけで聞き分けるの難しいよー練習すれば何とかなるもん…3と4! 答えを見ずに答えておく。
おぉ！こんにちはだけで3,4当てたわ。2は次で分かった。やったー
This inspires to work harder on my pronunciation!
Maybe they think Yuta is a foreigner because his English fluency is changing his intonation and tone for Japanese
Those transitions are silky smooth
Yuta you've got to do this again with a clip from Dogen
12:20 that 難しいですね is so cute!!!!!
I’m a welsh person and I had to grow up learning welsh in school... which for anyone who knows welsh as a language knows how hellish the words are haha!
That being said, due to the complicated way welsh words are pronounced, I find Japanese much easier to speak as opposed to the language I’ve been learning since I was a kid, haha!
Lantisilliogogogerildwyi.... adinfinitum.
Soudesune. Go raimh maith agat.
...woah
Wait you guys have different languages in GB? I thought it's english only with different dialects
@@Kain1805 English, Welsh, Scottish gaelic and Irish gaelic which are really similar but separate enough to cause confusion.
@@Kain1805 Yeah! Though unfortunately not as many people speak it nowadays and the English love to try and snub out these languages declaring them “dead languages”.. which sucks so bad since welsh and other Celtic languages are genuinely beautiful
contrags on 1 million subs yuta !!
What a coinkydink, I was just thinking about this topic the other day , and here you make a vid. answering my question😁. So fantastic video with very interesting responses👏.