How English Sounds to Japanese People 

this is so interesting and hilarious at the same time. 🤣language is truly a fascinating concept, and no matter how much you learn about it, and regardless of what language or languages you speak, you always can find something new.

This is hilarious! Some in the US would be offended by people attempting to mimic how Japanese sounds, because of political correctness. The same people would evoke a double standard with this video and say that it is great. As for me, I found mimicing languages by people who dont speak it, insanely funny, regardless to who and what language.

Are there Japanese equivalent of "Karen's" in Japan?

Let's see how the Japanese language sounds to non Japanese people ☺. Every language is unique in its own way.

Ha! The tables are turned! I wish I could play this for every ignorant person that tries to imitate Asian languages. This was refreshing to see, thank you Yuta!

it reminded me of the comedy duo on OddTaxi

That's just a description of Natsuki.

@@ffwast must be a fallback career

i wonder why its called hairdresser

LMFAO BEFORE I SAID THAT I WAS LIKE “oh that guys a comedian I’m dying” but he’s just a hairstylist LMAO

American English anyway...

@@forposterity4031 lmao yeah there are NO loud obnoxious people in britain u right

@@forposterity4031 OY ISS CHEWSDAY INNIT. GO CHURN AWN THA TELLY SHO WEE CAN WATCH SUM TEWNS.

No

Most of them didn't

No one really thinks about the UK very much tbh

@@_E_Pluribus_Unum_ Good. It’s crap here anyway.

Ugh don't start

@@Uajd-hb1qshey, sometimes it’s nice here ATLEAST!:)

@@stitchgor3 The Peak District, the Lake District and a number of coastal towns are very nice, I’ll admit.

I think it’s because they’re also imitating a foreigner who would probably speak to them in exaggerated gestures in order for them to understand what they’re saying.

Americans are hand talkers lmao

Because Americans are animated. We have a tendency to use our hands to move around a lot when we speak whereas a lot of of Asian people are not animated.

​@@Tzippi And Italians are next level.

Suddenly we're all an Italian. 😂

😂😂😂

Lol I never realize how much I talk with my hands until someone imitates it

@@Peter_Joshuaboppity boopita

Are you capable of speaking without waving your hands about 👏 Yes.... 👏 👈 No

0:34

not even close

Fucking flawless

@@annakat3754 what are you talking about? U sone kinda weirdo that doesn't clap enthusiastically when you're casually talking to someone??

You mean Kim jong-un?! 😆

omg I noticed that too...we speak with our hands a lot! LOL

Octopusssss

Yibs

@@Parisroam LMAO

Schalooob!

dag dag!

Sul Sul!!

Oh my ga

​@@KaliBella That, "Hello, Hi", "Goodbye", "Sorry" are probably the first words non-English speakers learn. And also cuss words. The first ones I remember learning back when I was a kid were "Sorry" and "Hot Wheels".

Mmmuphuhmmumnmmuuhu SANKU!!

I love how when american people make fun of Asian languages we actually do say real words :3

@@deletingthis00 Is french and spanish real words, or fake ? Just wonderning as to what define it as real or not

Pauses?

I am usually quiet and shy in English unless you are close to me you're not going to get that funny little bumpy sounding English voice... I can't explain America have volume and tone bumps and each work comes out a different volume and tone but other places just have a even tone and volume so for me it is hard to understand for that reason.

When I speak Japanese I tend to go more polite and slowly so you definitely do change your persona a bit depending on the language. I am a native English speaker as well

I'm a bit more quiet and polite when I speak English as opposed to when I speak Spanish, I tend to be very loud, speak fast and I'm also more expressive

That’s funny because I tend to be more quiet when I speak English and speak louder in Japanese 😆 maybe because I speak a little kansaiben

@@Neimykanani Love that kansai dialect. It sounds so funny, yet tough too.

Totally lol i noticed that too, but like if i were to imitate Japanese I'd probably throw in like the four words i know too xD

So just like native English speakers

@@alexpender6317 if sounds like the Japanese kid in the scary movie

That’s what it sounds like to them tho

@@TacoBellLiquidShits that can be said for any language that you don't understand not just English speakers

They all wear mouth masks...

not all of them..i dont have to see their smiles to know they are smiling..@@paddotk

Dead ass 🤣

Ctfu 😭😭🤣

I literally looked to see if anyone mentioned how the tones sounded like Simlish. They aren't *wrong* but omgosh! lol

Ayeeee one of the best sneaker RU-vidrs of all time. Didn’t know you watched Yutas vids

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Plss I just realized how much us Americans say "oh my god" 😭

@@6g882 oh my god you're right 😳

@@jetso2000 😩🤷🏾‍♀️😂😂😂😂

@@jetso2000 omg ikk

Omg !

shlobrsbord glamarabadoop grabbajoos flamaramadus BEAT DROP

And I laugh at the Sims language lmbo

Funny, Japanese sounds EXACTLY like sim speak to me!

Flabadoosh! Yarb nay. Gib nib wobnay snul? Dar nak toosh.

Literally came to the comments section for this... I immediately thought, "Is this Simlish?"

I was going to say the same thing and it's so true. I'm a hand talker but I think most, if not all, Americans are to some degree lol

Boden has been placed in Japan.

Ha Ha.....😂😂😂

Ikr, I feel very called out 😅

You a weeaboo boii😂😂??

Who said they were imitating Americans?

⁠​⁠@@jasonabbott4623the girl at 1:30 perfectly imitates the typical college aged girl in America

​@@jasonabbott4623at 2:40 is one

American hyper-pronunciation? sounds like a sophism

I'm amused that many of the people start using their hands. I'm an American who talks with his hands, and other Americans think it's weird. So funny to me that's how they picture English speakers in general.

I've noticed that in some South Asian cultures. Didnt think it was the same in the east

@@Takashii85 as in they do a lot of gestures when speaking English?

@@princevimbai1 the head movement more specifically. English or native tongue

@@Takashii85 ooooh, I get you now! That's quite interesting actually, I thought it was just an Indian thing hahah

Lol

yeah that’s true that’s the reason I think why it’s so hard to do accents, accents are like completely about cadence, now that I think about it

When I do the same thing for Japanese, I just pretend I’m trying to lift a house and say a lot of vowel sounds.

Cadence nuts Im sorry

@@starscape2030 CADENCE DEZ NUTZ-

During language learning At a certain age babies will become deaf in a sense to certain sounds in a lanague that they don’t speak which is why it’s hard for us to recreate it especially at a later age.

Shut up 🙄😑

i didnt hear it but now i do geez that was so fumny

YEEET

Yes

😭⚰

He did a good job. They were the only were the only pair where both gave it a try.

that was good but he also sounded russian a bit lol

He must actually know some English cos he said many English words

Octopus shall we? And my name is..

@@mistalongname4674 im guessing he knows the word from hearing it but doesnt know what it means

100%, the hairdresser in the red jacket is imitating a rapper-turned-businessman on a podcast, while the elderly lady is channeling her inner Reagan

01:05 reminds me of when they used to say Sminky Pinky on the fast show. The accents the same. The guy maybe is a fan 🤣 or he's seen it.

I ran into a gal that had the American southern accent. What’s funny is when they don’t even know it! Then there are those who learned English from England - of course, right?!

Octopus...octopus! I'm crying. 😂😂😂

wait, is that my cousin?

@@I-forgot-how-to-draw. the person in the video..? You tell me

@@daizul5698 nevermind I just remembered my cousin knows english

my name it eighto town XD

The word barbarian comes from the sound "barbar" which the romans thought foreigners sounded like.

Extras mutter "rhurbard" to make it sound/look like they are talking

That’s actually funny bc my theatre director would make us say “rutabega rutabega rutabega” for like whispering scenes or scenes where background characters were supposed to have a silent or low toned conversation, not rhubarb but … close enough

@@dogeyes7261 I doubt he knew that, since my mom said he learned the word from being served rhubarb cobbler, but clearly he was on to something!

This is the funniest comment I've seen in all my 14 years on this site.

I didn't and I have been speaking English for quite some time now

@@astitvakumar8618 bruh moment

@@lifetime_ You said it... Mind translating? I got 1 "name". It sounded like the one guy said Billy/Birry 2-3x or something and thats as far as I got

DAMONNN LOVE U BRO

@@lifetime_ 💀💀

I find, though, that at least in media, Japanese people tend to speak much more dramatically than we do, and it sounds more natural. It's why I definitely prefer subs over dubs when watching Japanese media, even though I speak basic Japanese.

@@vorpal22 understandable I have actual Japanese and Korean friends what is mainstreamed is overly exaggerated like americans stupidity is over exaggerated in media as well They are very quiet

@@yhwhisgod7773 LOL before I spoke Mandarin, in one of my classes at university, there were a lot of students from China, and they would basically be yelling at each other... but when they spoke English, they would almost just whisper. One time I was sitting next to three Chinese women and they were having a loud conversation together and then one of them turned to me and said so quietly I could barely hear her, "Excuse me sir... can you please move your book?" I have taken Japanese classes and yes, the way the teachers taught were nothing like on the media. I guess the media here is pretty dramatic in English too. Just the gasps and high pitched voices and overly dramatic inflections sound natural to me from anime and video games, and really unnatural when English voice actors try to do similar things. I guess it's just what you're used to.

Also our hands apparently

@@squiggleworks9 I don't think we use our hands nearly as much as this video shows... but maybe Japanese people do very little (I'm not sure), so by comparison to them, it might seem like a lot.

well yeah what do you expect them to use actual words? lol

Speech is gibberish until meaning is attached to it

LMAAOO

@@frankie3351 fr? like what

@@scvpest lol 700 people liked the comment too lol

😂😂😂

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I'm impressed that he knew so many legitimate words lol

🤣🤣

My name is Eight Down!

HAHAHAH this was my favorite too haahha

Same here ...octopuss ...octopuss...i can't handle it..lol😖🤣🤣

All I heard was "octopus together" so it sounded like he was reading English subs for the chorus of a Japanese anime intro. Loved it.

I loved it!! LOLOL

I loved it! It felt like he's was saying the three words he knew.

After us Sims explain our anger towards guitars we choose to make a burnt grilled cheese and put it on the bathroom floor and streak XD

right on the simoleon

@@joeman123964 isn't that the currency in the game? Correct me if I am wrong but I'm almost positive that it is Simlish.

@@gakbedz4612 yeah its the currency. i worded my comment silly and mesnt it like "right on the money" 😂

@@joeman123964 ohhh I see now. I'm sorry I struggle with reading XD English is my first language and yet I can't even comprehend basic sentences

Weirdly i can speak all of that too

Probably sounded like aliens lol

hey fellow Malaysian

Yes that’s what me and my mum will do, especially when we are secretly talking about someone without letting them notice we’ll speak in Malay haha

Ayy fellow Malaysians here? 👀

Yes!!!

Yes! And the “Oh my God” depicts us Californians quite accurately! Ha ha

@@SWEETPEA.522 LMFAOOOO

this video was giving me hardcore agita and I wasn't sure why, it took me a solid minute to realize that it was from seeing Japanese people in Japan waving their hands around and speaking loudly in public

Honestly this is what sold it.

What do you mean "learning how to talk"?

American sounds like 'Made in China' version of British english

@@yutudelickzolonskyyballs7146 that makes sense, China dominates the market, as we will dominate Britain

Xi Jin Pooh also dominated Biden the molester a couple days ago

Same!

Ay stop fighting

Agree! I love this so much! I finally get to learn how we come off to others 😂💓

To Germans, who don't understand English I assume, I've been told that we sound like we have something in our mouth when speaking.

while listening to some one talk no matter what your native language is just go off into a trance and do not focus on any words what being said instead clear your mind and soon you start hearing only syllables sounds and pitches that what I think it sounds like

Ageree

It's weird for me since I grew up in China when I was a child without knowing English at all. Thing is I watched so many American movies like scream, spider man, transformers etc with subtitles on, that English didn't sound that weird? So when I lived in England, English wasn't that weird, but there was a time I remember where my thoughts suddenly turned English, and that was a hella weird experience. It was absurd and also fascinating because it was basically like I was creating stories in my head in mandarin as usual but then have certain characters speaking in English. Then over a period of a few years, I completely lost my ability to speak mandarin. I went from fluent, to it's all gone

those are called filler sounds "uh" and "um" in English and "er" and "erm" in British English

Yeah but i bet just about every language has some type of sound like that as a filler

I like the equivalent Japanese noises. Eeehh

@@SunnyD876yep! English fillers are some of the weirdest in my opinion as well as

@@jaredf6205 "eto" "sou" seemingly are used as Japanese filler words, I couldn't say for sure I don't speak it, but I feel like its close to "uh" and "um"

Never gets old 😂

It's "I think I'll use my credit card"

Empty card. Pennies 😂

👉👁👃🏻👁👈 don't forget to stretch your eyelids vertically before saying it....

Hey that guy killed us bad with that one 😂

😂😂😂😂

that’s a sentence that would be said by that one character who randomly speaks english outta nowhere in anime

Lol gesticulation

What gesticulation.

@@randomonlineuser6401 y'know, gestures?

i thought it was a normal amount lol

gesticulate is a word choice that isn't used enough imo. LOL

And their voices got lower.

@@Jennieallen415 oh wow! i didn't even notice that

Fascinating

And they spoke much slower! So cool that other than the language itself, they got everything right!

So when I get my nails done, I always notice that they talk from different sides of the shop. I was so fascinated when I was younger by that lol. I’m assuming since they don’t talk as lousy as we do on a normal basis that they can also hear better. I’m sure it’s a more scientific way of putting that

homestuck

@@dogferret what’s that

​@@coffingxrl i think its when someone cant go outside their house idk

Now copy British English, please

@@krollpeter oi thank etts uen shaumone cunt go eoutshise theee hause i dtsond kneou

Roles reversed: “try to speak Japanese the best you can” *CANCELED*😊

@@Litfilmzunfunny

@@iwatchytwhenimbored1636 wasn’t supposed to be so good🤡

@@Litfilmz “roles reversed” “canceled” -🤓

@@quarksnstuff shouldn’t you be in gender studies class🤡

And the husband telling the wife "That's enough" 🤣🤣

​@@yukiefromoz2573 maybe the husband listens something like this everyday at home after watching the movies together, they're so sweet 😂

GRAMMA legit said YEET 1:59

Lmao

*russian accent* "Republic is democrazit yeeeeet!"

Lol

@@knighthunter1791 🤣

she probably met logan paul when he was in japan

OCTOPUS SHALL WE

I would vote for him top choice

Better than last 100 years of presidents

yes he will save the octopus

WE SHALL

Yes!

Japanese are polite and clear communicators. They do not wave their hands about when they speak. So naturally when they imitate American English speakers they speak over assertively, wave their hands about and point their fingers like Americans do, particularly American young women.

@@just-a-fella3212 I heard a lot of American-womenese here lol

@@SirMoist. And western feminist tone of voice and body language.

They captured the over pronounciation some white Americans LOVE to do.

Bobby lee

What, you don't wildly wave your arms around and shout while talking? I thought we all did that lol. If someone asked me what Italian sounds like, I'd definitely be talking with my hands and arguing (they will argue with strangers so loudly I kept thinking fights were going to break out when I was there).

Yes, Americans do sounds like that . 🙈

Very true. I think a lot of English speakers use hand motions to better convey the emotion that the sentence is based on, since most sentences can be used for the same emotion. Something like “That person is driving too fast!” Pointing and hand motions that go up in the air can express that the sentence is being used in an annoyed way, compared to hand motions that perhaps go to the chest or face express the sentence in a more concerned way. In English tone is very important too for the same reason.

I don't like using hand gestures

I don't use my hands that much when I talk at least I never noticed but maybe I do who knows LOL

It’s like funny that Americans gesture is far more exaggerated than let’s say Italians and Spaniards and then they stereotype other countries as loud, exaggerated and boisterous.

It’s better to gesture and actually have personality instead of Japanese culture where we act like scared schoolchildren afraid to move at all. Expressive is good.

My ex would constantly tell me I’m talking too loud. Her dad had to go to the byouin and they almost didn’t let me come with them because they thought I’d disturb the other patients.

@@rplatt9829 You obviously haven't experienced sharing an office with several Chinese people, they are much much louder.

We are loud know-it-alls

@@rplatt9829 From a family with living Mexican roots on my mother's side, can confirm Mexicans can get loud, especially at parties and over modelo beer. From the outsider it might sound like a confrontation, but they're just excited and happy to have everyone together... I think. Everyone speaks and understands spanish instead of me, only learned english because speech impediment when I was little.

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imagine how funny a westerner sounds like to them when imitating an eastern language :)

Unless you actually speak Chinese or have been studying Chinese for a long time 100% my friend, you will get those tones wrong lol 😂 such subtle tone changes make it soooooo hard. My daughter has been taking Mandarin since she was 4 (she is now 12- continues to take it in school and we pay privately for lessons outside of school), she can read, write, and speak it and when she’s trying to teach me things I swear I’m repeating correctly and she’s like nope the tone is off which changes entire meaning. Having began so early, she’s pretty close accent wise to a native speaker (which throws people entirely off because we’re Latino).

@@krystinas8828 yeah I really wish I properly learnt a language since I was young, i was taught a couple in school, but I didn’t take it seriously and can remember hardly any of it

Its because they are imitating the sound they hear when they listen to a foreigner speak, not the actual words. It’d be hard to imitate a language you know because your brain would think “ok i just need to say some words i know” But it wouldnt turn out gibberish because you usually dont know how your language sounds like to a foreigner. But you can try turning on a video/movie in a foreign language and you will be able to imitate the sound they make even though you dont understand what they are saying.

Because...It's 8th Down's countries' objective to share Octopus together. It's their project. I thought he was pretty clear on that.

Looking forward to that. I'm at 3:03 now. :) ❤️ 🐙

Indeed.

Because my country objective together!

Yea she could nail down the accent

Yes, really good inflection. Very impressive without any real English words.

Yes, I wasn't sure if she was actually saying real words or not but she had it pegged.

Yeah she sounds like Jen Psaki

sounds like "nothing so much and the common station now"

Me to , he has my vote

Ong, I’m voting for the Octopus party from now on

im voting for Atootou for team octopus!

Same! 🤣🤣

It's hilarious when they only know a few words. If somebody asked me to do the same thing but for Japanese, I would just be saying hello, thank you, and listing off food items lol 😆

I would say "takadanukinishikida" while slightly nodding

@@TheEtherny translation?

@@TheRickestRick33 idk lol

Saying hai!! Whilst nodding my head vigorously.

I wonder what their imitations of italians be like

We hosted an exchange student from Japan. The first time she heard the word octopus her eyes got huge and then she laughed for about ten minutes straight.

@@SS-hw9vu that’s so awesome 🤣

@@SS-hw9vu Ngl that’s quite hilarious!

Apparently we do sound like we’re singing to much of Europe.

Yeah only American English