Checking Chris and Sharla’s Speaking Japanese 

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@@ShoJapan thank you for pinning her comment 🙏 it saved me a couple of taps on my way of subscribing to her channel ✨ cheers!

He LOVED your Japanese! Lol

She was also previously married to a korean man where both of their shared language was Japanese so they had to use it to communicate with each other.

@@darcyperkins7041 if you follow her then you would know that she started learning Japanese in high school,.from there ,.she got a chance to go to Japan and she did. Then she returned to Japan and have lived in Japan for a long time.

@@darcyperkins7041 Good luck on your studies!!!!!! I really want to learn Japanese

@@darcyperkins7041 The one place i really want to go to is Japan. Plus I have a friend there who is Japanese. I think what is putting me off in leaning Japanese is the Kanji

Unrelated. I know people who have been living here for 20+ years and barely know any Japanese. Depends on whether you can assimilate or not

Kitsune are known to be very fond of fried tofu.

it has been a year. his your japanese studies going?

I think it's because of his tone but I think he did it on purpose in a sarcastic way but idk

He speaks in a gruff accent like a working class person from the countryside, or a character in a samurai movie. When you have basic Japanese, and are self conscious about it, it is more comfortable to mimic ‘low’ Japanese than to speak more formally. Plus if you are a guy watching Japanese films well known in the west to learn Japanese, the cool characters speak like that.

I'm not a native speaker but I would probably say 少しコーヒーの風味があるよ sukoshi koohii no fuumi ga aru yo There is a small coffee flavor

@@MumeiGami Thank you! That makes sense with all that I (a beginner) know so far about japanese. It is devilishly hard to find phrases or figure of speeches for things like that.

@@ljooni I'm not native but I am n2 certified and can pass previous n1 tests so at the very least what I said does make sense and will get across the point of something tasting lightly of coffee. However if there is a way to directly say a "hint" of a taste I have yet to learn it. I wish you luck in your studies.

I feel like he doesn't claim to be fluent

Based on this video, he's fine for daily life. Language is about communication, not perfection. I don't think he ever bragged about his ability.

Chris Broad would be the first person to say his Japanese is not fluent. But its good enough to speak with friends and conduct work in Japan.

I would definitely consider him fluent

His accent is just too bad for someone that has lived that long in Japan (I'm not trying to be offensive, I think that's just how it is) I think his grammar and vocab is at quite high level but it all just gets overlooked due to the first thing you hear when someone speaks a foreign language is his accent, so that's why people may think he isn't good at Japanese

Im pretty sure chris doesn't even watch anime lmao

@@ahhhhyes he said that he did watch some in the past, but he's not an active watcher

He does tend to add texture and deepen his voice to add drama to whatever random thing he's saying. And that is showcased in both languages frequently. It's more of an artistic thing than a weeb thing.

He is bri ish, their humour is part of changing voice to be more dramatic and witty

@@JustMe-hg5bq I know, because he's Chris

Oh then forget about what I said haha

Tbh Chris speaking Japanese does sound cuter than English Chris. It is just that he does that old man yakuza thing when expected to speak a phrase or two of Japanese. See the episode of him cycling across Japan where he and Sharla get a challenge of speaking only Japanese for a day to see what I mean. He sounds mellower but also at times just... cute. I don't know how to explain it.

I think Chris kinda 'hams up' speaking Japanese to sound like overly dramatic speaking in movies (like samurai/etc. ones).

@@ljooni Uh, isn't that this video? lmao

@@xnonsuchx Exactly the way I see it too. Overemphasis and in a jokey way, in the same way with his English.

I agree! Japanese is a really fun language for word play! ❤

I believe he meant they are used to still mostly speaking English while living in Japan.

@@xnonsuchx would you ever forget your native language?

@@Vogalos maybe a little

@@Vogalos I've heard it can happen...if you get so immersed and fluent in another language and then don't use your native language for a while you start forgetting words...

​​​@@Vogalosactually, it happens a lot with the exception of English because English is a global language, English speaking people can keep in touch with the language, or even more so, keep on using in that country despite not being fluent enough for that country's language. If a non English speaking (for instance, Italian, French, Russian etc) language speaker goes to Japan or any Asian country without being bilingual in English, they are forced to learn that countries language and after 5 years or so, their mother tongue deteriorates and that country's language they are living gets better. I'm trilingual (about 3.5 languages) and seen so many foreigners on TV who lived long enough to have their language order changed. This does not happen to the foreigners who insist on using English despite the natives not being good at those. Personally, from the non English speaking countries, they will never try to live in other countries just relying on their mother tongue language, but would try to learn and adapt to that country's language.

That makes sense seeing as Sharla had spent about twice as long, 15-16 years,, in Japan as Chris.

Well Chris moved there and he was teacher, so I’m sure his Japanese is very fluent, you can’t get a job teaching a language you can’t speak lol but yes they’re both very good!

@@alejandrogerardo5725 uh, you know he wasn’t the actual teacher, right? He was the teacher’s assistant, and expected to mostly communicate to the students in English for them to practice. He wasn’t remotely fluent when he got there and learned most of his Japanese after he started at the school. He’s done videos and talked on his podcast about this.

Yeah, in Canada for a year!

But you don’t sound Canadian, ehh!

@@ShoJapan how long have you studied?

@@wallacegrommet9343 Why would he sound Canadian after only a year of living there? Silly comment.

@@wallacegrommet9343 I live in Edmonton. I dont notice much of a difference in accents. Just stereotypes.

He speaks in a gruff accent like a working class person from the countryside, or a character in a samurai movie. When you have basic Japanese, and are self conscious about it, it is more comfortable to mimic ‘low’ Japanese than to speak more formally. I am an older adult western guy and have pretty basic Japanese and pretty much the only people I talked with socially were older salarymen at bars. They sort of spoke down to me in super manly Japanese, so those are the sort of conversations I had. Chris started teaching English in the countryside too, so most people he would have conversed with outside of work were probably more straightforward talkers.

Thank you!!

Me, too 🙂

Lol I realized that

Fr, he tried to be strict but was friendly as hell

Kouyounomigoro 紅葉の見頃

@@ShoJapan does every season have an advanced way of saying it?

It's no so advanced, he is just saying something specific- the peak of the fall colors.

@@rsmith02 "advanced" doesn't mean secret word that you can only learn after climbing a mountain and finding an old man under a Sakura who will show you the Bushidou, it just means fluent or native speaker level, it's like that: Beginner-Intermediate-Advanced

Ya, but sharla is impressive in speaking Japanese. Here Japanese accent is pretty good.

I’d absolutely say they are both fluent. Fluency is not the same as native level.

@@LightningNavigator If you look up the pictures it doesn’t seem to suggest that this was the case, Chris has a weirdly massive amount of Japanese knowledge that he doesn’t use and likely is unconfident due to his lack of use. He does seem to know very specific words which usually wouldn’t be used such as when he’s talking about autumn leaves he uses a specific phrase that is something that even some Japanese people sometimes would forget to use or forget exists. There’s a few phrases like this such as tsuyu 梅雨 which means plum rain which is specifically referring to early summer rain, I guess it’s similar to complex vocabulary knowledge of English in a way. Either way I think he knows more than he puts on.

I would say Chris has like a good N4 level of Japanese and definitely knows a few more difficult vocabulary that he has picked up from living in Japan for a long time but he is basic conversation at best. Sharla has fantastic Japanese (although she doesn't say much in this video).

@@thatsubarulife9817 Depends, he actually stopped studying so much in the past but N3 is probably where he finished at. You'd be surprised because you don't hear or see him talking Japanese much but he was very proficient so "basic at best" feels a bit demeaning. He did fail the N2 test but most definitely not N4, not that it matters to him as he thinks JPTL can become pretty circle jerky.

It’s カルピス

Thanks! Never done cycling here, but It Would be great absolutely

Sorryyy

Kitsune are the messengers of the Shinto god Inari. Inari is also the god of rice. Kitsune protect you from evil spirits, and move with swiftness and cunning. That is why inari are a good food to eat when travelling, and kitsune udon will have similar associations. Inari is rice protected by the favourite food of Kitsune, no less.

clean your ears

Thank you so much 😊

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Thank you! Hope you enjoy other videos too

Their Japanese is so good but they still sound, foreigners who can speak Japanese so well. まだ日本人の発音じゃない。

Thank u very much!

Yeah. Both of their Japanese is amazing.

Well, "Y" at some points. For instance, in a word where it sounds like it could be replaced by a "vowel". However, if not then it is a consonant. As a vowel: M(y) Vowel similarity: M-i (similar to the word "eye/I", thus a vowel) Consonant example: take "Y"oung Consonant pronunciation: "Y-uh"ng Actually, I have noticed something interesting about Japanese and English over the years. While in English our vowels are pronounced differently (A (ay), E (ee),

@@TheMechanicalGirl999 The sound of it depends on the beginning, middle and end of it, according to crow. J

They are both very good 👍

Lol not at all. His pronunciation is shit and grammar is basic.

yeah I like his personality haha

Oof! Shots fired.

Native speaker here. I disagree. To say in this video "We are now going to watch Chris speak Japanese" is fine. Or "We're going to watch Chris speak Japanese now," "We're going to now watch Chris speak Japanese." All of these are fine, both in the placement of "now" and in the context. It's fine to specify "these times he spoke Japanese," but it isn't necessary. Anyone watching this video would know the video he is reacting to is pre-recorded-- Just as we know the video we're watching isn't live either. To make an argument that he should specify "these times," you might as well argue he shouldn't use "now" at all and instead address the viewer directly: "You are now going to watch the time when I reacted to this video of these times Chris spoke Japanese." It's redundant.

We also don’t say “lessoning”. That’s just not a word.