How American Students are Treated at a JAPANESE High School 

i think this is secretly sora's backstory because we all know sora is an american pretending to be japanese

the fact the phrase "she wants many friends to play with" is actually in a serious textbook, it just breaks me

Congrats to Mike for being the first American in a Sora skit to not have an (overtly) American accent when speaking Japanese.

1:15 “I will tell your mother” is one of the strongest spells in Indian schools also😅

"There are Japanese students who say let's be friends but never actually hang out" They're just like me fr fr

"I will tell your mother" is one of the strongest spells. The power of an Asian mum!

I actually just came back from a 9 month high school Japan exchange this year! Well, not as an American but a Malaysian but still, that self-introduction part where they ask to speak English was spot on. They even asked me to speak Malay. At the time, it was super awkward since my Japanese was super bad but thankfully, I did have 2 friends in class who could speak English very well and apparently, one of them lived in Indonesia once so we could even speak in our mother language! As time went, of course, my Japanese got better and I was friends with more of my classmates and even the few classes next to us. I'm even continuing my Japanese study and practicing with them until today. Overall, my entire exchange was amazing mostly because of my classmates. I was part of the going-home club at first but I had a liking towards sadou club. And at that point I saw how serious Japanese take clubs haha. Thanks for reading this long thing, it was just a really amazing experience.

"Weeb" is a derogatory term to an American, but "Otaku" is a badge of honor.

Hi! I’m an American who actually studied abroad in a Japanese high school for six months recently (last August to this February) and although this video is accurate to some degree, I feel like my circumstances prevented some of these from happening. For example, I was actually placed as a 三年生 (third-year student or to an American, a senior in high school), so I was actually invited to walk home with my classmates because they weren’t going to clubs anymore (due to studying for entrance exams). Another thing was that my high school in Japan actually had an English teacher who was also from America (and another one from the Netherlands actually) so there was never a moment where there was sketchy English lol. If you read this far, thanks! It was the best experience of my life and I’ll forever cherish my memories and the people I met there :)

"DAMN IT, HE'S A WEEB." Is probably one of my favorite lines in anything.

The Good Ending: *The Japanese students befriend with the American student and make him feel more comfortable in a new environment.*

as an american exchange student this is exactly how i’m treated in japan

"She wants many friends to play with" is one of those phrases that is technically correct, but only ruined by cultural slang. I can only imagine the amount of times this same experience happens with other languages.

The same happens here, if you're taking Spanish and the textbook says something that doesn't make sense, you're wrong and the textbook is right

I studied in a Japanese school about 2 months ago as an exchange student. I can confirm that this is almost 100% accurate, especially with the English in textbooks lol. But every friend I made was so nice and they showed me around Osaka almost everyday. The only thing missing is that ur basically a celebrity and the amount of student in the class that ask for a picture with u is hilarious 🤣

“She wants many friends to play with” Classic Sora. Still funny.

sora's reactions is so funny 😭😭 the way mike is just like "bitch what?"

2:52 XD She wants many friends to play with❌ She wants many friend to hangout with✔️

I've wondered at times what it would have been like to have a Japanese high school life but I think my American high school life was pretty dang good

Last part is pretty hilarious! 😂 This is true that not everything in a text book is not correct. My mom was an engineer from the Philippines. They always studied even though they are already a graduate from college. She saw an American Textbook the math was wrong so she had written a letter to the professor in Colorado about his mistake. They invited her to the US to visit in Colorado to meet her. They were pretty impressed by her. I wanted to share her story because there are people who think just because its in the book it is correct. Just like anything there is always human error even in textbooks. This video was a cute way to demonstrate it. 😆

Self reflection is when Sora says “DAMMIT HE’S A WEEB” to himself

I think one of the things that when I was younger that made me want to study in Japan was that there was a Welsh university course taught in exactly one Japanese university (Daito Bunka), and I thought it was the coolest thing ever that some Japanese people knew Welsh, and that if I went there, my Welsh could compensate for any gaps in my not great Japanese 😂

Duuude. Your videos are spot on. Foreigners need to understand japan is a regular country and not an anime fantasy. Sora, please come visit our low class public high school. (don’t worry, they’re all Japanese so they won’t know who you are…😅)

As a weeb myself, I can confirm that just like the Japanese person I also laugh by myself all the time

"DAMNIT! HE'S A WEEB!" Lmaooo

He just described all Russian schools without even saying Russia once

No matter what video sora posts, it always will contain a weeb

I would love to visit or work in japan, but I feel like I'd be laughing every 5 minutes. Just hearing "nani" in any context is too damn funny for me.

4:03 that would be me💀

Oh god, I was one of those students but in reverse. I used to hang out with this Japanese exchange student all the time. He actually helped me study Japanese to begin with. Really cool dude that got visibly annoyed with the constant attention he got from everyone at first, so he just sorta hung around my quiet weird group of friends a lot lol

I'm always so captivated by the videos as if there are actually different people speaking when it's only Sora 🐥

2:53 To be fair, even *native* English speakers will often get this wrong. It's daijoubu desu! "To play with" is a prepositional phrase; the rule is you should never end a sentence with a proposition; there is a list of these words that's fairly easy to remember (I think it's the 4th grade when they start teaching this). We used Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming to break phrases apart, which helped us to understand complex sentences. I'm not sure it's used as much anymore, but sentence diagrams are a must to really grasp English, imo. This rule is often ignored in casual conversation, such as with common phrases like: "Where are you at?" So, I can see why this might end up in a textbook, but it's wrong! 違う!

Hahahaha! This reminds me of the time I found out that Japanese students have tons of after school clubs and activities and don't get home until after dinner sometimes. I remember thinking of how brutal it must be, but this is coming from someone who was homeschooled.

thanks for the insight, sora. very interesting experience in a japanese high school.

This made my day. Thank you!

thank you for always making me laugh Sora. i've been very depressed lately but your videos always make me laugh even when i feel terrible. keep up the great work!

Takuya & Ken are back at it again! These characters have appeared in previous skits before!

Oh damn it! These Backstories are so wholesome! wish i was japanese to actually experience them like sora. I'm surprised how Mike doesn't like anime. He is build different since he is not like other exchange students pretty cool ngl we got to see so many types of exchange students lol. Love this one! Thx sora for Another brilliantly funny skit.😂✨

What a amazing video, love it.

I love that you're reacting

"Damn it, He's a Weeb!" Hahaha~ I laughed like crazy at the end 3:58

2:57 I could really feel the emotion he put into that for some reason XD

i think your newer videos after your burnout stream are actually more creative and funny lol your old vids are still classic but it's nice to see new classics hit the spotlight

That ending caught me so off guard!! XD that was amazing, this channel is amazing

"She wants many friend to play with" i can't stop laughing that part 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

The next time someone asks me to hang out and I don't want to I'll just say I have club activities despite graduating in 2018 😂😂

This is actually entertaining and educational :D

I love your videos!

this is gonna be funny as fuck sora bringing us good content

Can we take a moment to appreciate the quality of content he creates 🔥🔥🔥

high quality video... sugoi~!

Great video, Sora-san.

I don't know, but I feel like this happens in every school in Asia. I'm from Malaysia, once, we had an exchange student from Japan, we were so close. Well, he is Malaysian but raised in Japan. We had him for one or two years before he moves somewheree.. we don't know. Can't remember, I think he went back to Japan. Anyway, everyone was amazed and always wanted him to speak Japanese. Even his existence was a miracle

Your videos are so entertaining, you could literally become an anime yourself. Have you thought about making a comic with these skits before?

the ending killed me, great video.

THE ENDING! XD just when I was expecting a part two. AYE YO! XD and here I thought this was gonna be one of soras experiences with a student. You could say that I was trolled.

I bought a wonderful little water measuring cup thing for my coffee from Japan. One side says "microwave serve" in English which I assume means "microwave safe"? So the "if it's in the textbook" thing makes me laugh hahahaha

That final line was delivered just so perfectly XD

thank you for the heads up. now I know how to act when I some day go there.

I love these videos 😂 😂 😂

That line about a girl wanting friends to play with reminds me of the Japanese textbook used here (Genki) that just has an entire storyline about Mary dating a dude named Takeshi and he like ghosted her on their date. The class was laughing cause like they thought a teenage romcom was the best way to teach us Japanese 😅

"She wants many friends to play with" To be fair is still a correct sentence. It's even used in innocent contexts.

Damn sora has been real active recently, really cool

Banger😂😂

Lol. The ending got me. 😂

We had a Japanese exchange student when I was in high school. Her English wasn't that good, so hopefully being here helped her improve. I never really hung out with her though, but she did make a small group of friends, so hopefully it wasn't completely terrible for her. I know I'd have hated my school if I was an exchange student.

This is so funny yet real❤

Great entertainment. Thanks for the laughs.

the ending was so fucking well made lmao

Just Imagine Ichika would say "Oh yeah" when Sora asked him "Do you like poop?" in previous video. It would be funny as hell

Great skit, what an improvement

Last part was the most interesting 😀

That ending was perfect 😂

🎉

Sora never disappoints us

"Oh Yeah!" is the perfect answer for everything.

This is true with Japanese friends even as adults. I have a Japanese friend, Linda. We both live in the US and Linda is her American name. She has said, “Let’s go to art museums and do a half day at the local museum park,” and I say, “Sure! That sounds good.” Then she never calls me. Eventually when we talk again she makes the same invitation. In her defense, she is a nurse and works very hard.

That thing about saying one foreign word because it sounds is so common lol. I've had my relatives saying English or Japanese words without having any clue of what it means, simply because they saw it from a movie or anime

i wasn't expecting the ending to be so abrupt. that was great lmao

I'm just watching this now and this is hilarious! I was a foreign English Teacher in Korea and it was VERY similar in a lot of ways with co workers!

“Damn it, he’s a weeb.” -Mike, 2023 I’m gonna get a plaque of this and frame it on my wall

It's funny in American schools or at least from my experience public schools the teacher uses the same excuse "well the textbook says it's right" or "well google says it's right so your wrong".

I related to that last line on such a personal level

This videos never fail to be AMAZING! xD BTW this isn't an alt account of Sora to boost the comments.

*DAMN IT HE'S A WEEB* [video freezes on exchange student] _In Japanese schools, most exchange students who laugh like him (__3:50__) are weebs._

Lol I used to tutor ESL students in the US. I loved it, but when they disagreed with me because they "saw it in a book," it was so difficult. Some teacher said "they" should never be singular and they took that as law. Saying "what'd they say?" is a gender-neutral way of asking about details or avoiding gender pronouns when you encounter androgynous names like Chris, Terry, etc. They disagreed with me. Not only was I a native English speaker, but also held an English degree. Bless their linguistic dogma 😂

awesome

That "why" with all the tone and facial expression 😆😆😆

the DAMMIT IT'S A WEEB is what I imagine Japanese people saying to most of foreigners

Sometimes I play games online and when I am paired against a Japanese person, I hope my username doesn't give the "damn it he's a weeb" reaction.

As I am currently writing a story about an American who goes to a Japanese school, this was helpful. Thanks. ;)

I'm loving it! Haro!! Ebarywa. Oh yeah, how waryu?? fayn sankyu. I wish I wer a bard. Mad scientist so choool

"damn it he's a WEEB" is my new go-to phrase LMAO

It appears even the American exchange students can’t escape their weeb friends

That last line, LOL!

The end got me good XD

this is why i want to go to the student exchange program. because i will finally be cool for speaking english, not norm,al or average

If you were an English teacher before, then do you actually follow the textbook or do you correct it yourself?

Ha! That was fun!

"Dammit he's a weeb!!" 😂😂😂😂😂 She wants many friends to play with works if you're talking about kids playing lol