Hello! My name is Kaoru. I am an interviewer and a translator for Japanese media, based in Los Angeles, CA. I find joy in listening to people, so this channel is dedicated to interviews with people I personally find interesting. I interview experts in many areas including self help, diet & nutrition, fitness, beauty, culinary art, history, spiritual practices and much more! “Stop and listen. The story is everywhere.” ― Thomas Lloyd Qualls
Keep speaking in English toward a person who is trying to speak in Japanese is kind of rude😕. And “insane”, “crazy”? Extremely rude. He had mentioned her that his wife is Japanese already.
I didn’t even have to know the reporter was Asian to know he immiedtly started speaking Japanese based on what she looks like 💀 then it finally showed her and I was like “yep”
To learn to speak Japanese, learn hierarchy and referential position. 奥さん (okusan) is generally used for other people's wives, and 妻 (tsuma) for your own wife. It makes sense, never use さん (san) with "your group" but always seek to lower oneself (humbleness) and elevate (use honorifics) others. Never call yourself ...さん A Japanese male though, might use the phrase 家内 (kanai, or "inside the house") but Westerners will get crucified for such a misogynistic phrase. Can't expect him though to think thru all these ramifications during a live interview!
I guess this is like for me listening foreign people speaking Spanish. It's nice hearing your language when you are living abroad but inmediately I identify they aren't natives speaker because of their accent, mistakes in the pronounciation or too much space between words when they talk.
his Japanese basically was just at a beginning level, yea we can have fun and praise for his prono bla bla and leave it there, but when you label urself with "native level" "fluently" then we're gonna have a problem, because he clearly isn't.
