I asked ALL my Japanese friends THIS question... 

You thought it was an video without self-promotion, BUT IT WAS ME! DIO!

BRAH I TYPE LIKE THAT TOO

I'm seething about your typing

@@aceforthelulz9655 even worse: I type 120+wpm with this disgusting “style” 😂

What's the source for the English proficiency rankings that you are using?

Sounds like a great Journey

Not unheard of. I've learnt English by watching movies without subtitles, listening to English bands and playing PC games that were just in English.

Our education curriculum taught us english starting kindergarten and i dont remember how they did it but by third grade most of us were able to read basic english from our books even though we cant understand all of it and only majority of it

@@alexander1989x that's how I learn Japanese, just I have more resources like dictionaries and Anki flashcards. It's 100% do-able but people waste their time with methods that don't work.

@@r3ll282 where are you from? Is it super common for people to speak English in your country or was it just the environment you grew up in?

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@@Ren-ik7xi 9:24

Now in ameri-

@sxke Only suspended? Damn you must miss a lot.

same

I lived in Japan and Tokyo for 10 years and had stuff stolen from me albeit inexpensive. I used to run 5k at a nearby park in Tokyo and would always bring some snacks for replenishing of calories after the run. One time, I had my snicker bars stolen when I came back to my bench from the run. Till this day, I'm almost certain the high school punks chatting nearby took them. And I would have countless umbrellas stolen from outside my flat near my door. Probably someone at my flat unit who didn't have one on a rainy day and selfishly took mine instead. Pissed me off so bad as I needed it to leave for work as well on those rainy days. This happened like 3 times during my 2 year stay at that flat and I later left a note by my door to warn other not to take it. And not going to mention the countless times other foreigners and I got ripped off at izakayas and restaurants where they made up/jacked up prices without listing items on receipts. Or the complete lack of integrity at the workplace. It's not all sunshine and rainbows for people who actually lived there. I'm living in Taiwan now and not once have I had anything stolen from me including umbrellas left unattended outside my place.

@@dennischen8887 Hi Dennis, Sorry to hear about your negative experience with umbrellas and izakayas, etc. Someone should have told you as I was told when I moved to Tokyo in 1983, umbrellas and bicycles are almost “free game” in Tokyo. Weird but true. I remember on a rainy day on the train in Tokyo I hung my umbrella on the back wall of the train car’s metal railing and about a minute later, a fellow walks up, and starts to take it. I just reached over and grabbed it to let him know it was mine. I was standing next to it. lol You have to always lock your bicycles and you can’t park them in some place that you think is safe and okay because some local will call the police and a truck will come by and cut the lock and take it to the lost bicycle storage yard. Japanese people can be extremely anal about following the rules which I’m sure you discovered. In izakays, you will automatically be charged for a small food plate which most likely won’t be on the bill and in the last 30 years you may also be charged a seat/entrance fee that may or may not be advertised. So, I think that may have happened to you. Actually, there aren't any real, delicious izakayas left in Tokyo if you ask me. They used to be family run, all food cooked from scratch and awesome! Now, 99% of them are part of some chain or use frozen, factory-made food for some of their dishes. Japan is the safest country in the world 100%. And that’s why you could drop a bag with 1,000,000 yen on the street and someone will turn it into the police box “Koban”. Crazy as it sounds, that actually happens every year. I lived in Japan for about 15 years and visit every year and have Japanese family. No doubt that crime exists there but like with you and your friends feeling like you were ripped off at izakayas and restaurants, why don’t you list those by name and location instead of making a generalized statement. You may be young and a little naive to not know that for Japan, work and workplace is economic war and has been since 1945. War and integrity mean one thing in Japan, winning by any means necessary. Things like that are unspoken but true, nonetheless. I wish you the best of luck in Taiwan and hope you can remember the nicer things you experienced during your time in Japan. 10 years is a good stay. Most non-Japanese start itching to leave after 7 years. Taiwanese food is so delicious. Lucky you. I hope that the people and culture are not negatively impacted should the mainland decide to invade. Of course, I hope that never happens. kind regards,

@@centurycleaners96 Thanks for your opinions and inputs, but I thought I made it clear when I said that the izakaya experiences were of my own and no where did I state that ALL izakayas rip off foreigners. If I were to do something silly like disclosing the names of the restaurants, that would open me up for defamation and slander litigation risks as Japan doesn’t take these too lightly, and I don't want that. Funnily enough, it's always the non Taiwanese or non Chinese folks who have never even lived in Taiwan or China to always respond with ignorant China invasion fud right off the bat when they find out I live in Taiwan. This is last thing on most Taiwanese's mind when talking to them. On the contrary, job prospects and what to eat for lunch today are probably high on their list of daily discussions and topics in Taiwan. Although I personally believe there's a very slim chance of a Chinese invasion due to economical and geopolitical factors, not sure how the culture here can be negatively impacted since 99% of it is already of han chinese origin and imported from the mainland. I may be young at heart but anything but young and naive. This may be a generalized and sweeping statement about me personally no? Been through it all - worked around the global including military service for the US as well as cut throat foreign fortune 500 IT environments in Tokyo, as well as running my own company. Foreign gaishikei firms especially startups may internally have the like "war" and winning is everything mentally or else they won't survive in Japan, but traditional Japanese firms from own personal experiences in my dealings with them no longer have the strong drive like they used to and merely on cruise control now. Long gone were the days of promised lifetime employment and attractive compensation packages/large raises/bonuses. Young Japanese studs with decent English ability are flocking to foreign firms for more aggressive pay structure and much more flexible work/life balance and company culture.

@@dennischen8887 Sorry to have misjudged your experience. I wonder why Japan has been building up its military base near Taiwan and has substantially increased its military budget if indeed there is no threat from mainland expansion? Who knows? Japan certainly loves to keep growing its national debt to the no. 1 position in the world. Makes no sense. Yes, there are many people who are ignorant of Japan and Asia in general. My life in Japan mimics your life a bit in business and I have governmental consultancy experience. It’s probably from that I believe Japan still maintains the old school idea about winning. The top players, I mean. I’ve been to Taiwan and was one of the first people to enter the mainland when it officially opened up back in 1986ish. I’m sorry to have offended you. I am realistic about Japan’s flaws. As a society as a whole I believe it’s one of the best places to live as long as you realize you will never be considered Japanese no matter how much you assimilate. It’s not heaven. Best thing is to think about what’s for lunch.

Your last sentence describes Philippine governance in general

That's so stupid lol I can understand changing it in overseas countries since I went to a Philippine school in Saudi Arabia as a child and June is like...summer so it's super hot, the hottest weather I've experienced being around 50°C and this was probably 20 years ago now lol although our open area has a roof on it, if you do gym/PE, you'll just sweat and it's super hot even if the weather is dry...

Yeah, it's so messed up ngl that it needs to revert back to June tbh

Apparently they will actually revert it back to June

if I ever meet someone doing kamekameha pose infront of me, I will try to move away or dodge, I mean it was probably fake but I won't risk my life for it.

They prolly just wanna avoid any weird shenanigans Japanese outcast do in public

Hadouken!

Dude might be goku im not fighting goku.

You do your own Hadouken and see who wins

That was actually something we westerners used to do way back in the roman times

In the older times, they had to resort to forceful adoptions, insane times 😧😧💀💀

Someone can adopt me, I'd love to get a family business

You can adopt anywhere in the world.

thats also a thing in germany, i remember a prince once adopted a man in his 30's who know works a c classs celebrity.

i was requiref to grt more, but it required bein dumped in the deep end, to prove my knowledge

Totally true. I took 4 years of French. I know enough to pass as special needs

The main reason IMO is in the difference between the languages. As someone who speaks 5 languages, Japanese was the hardest to learn by far, because of how different it is from European languages. Japanese people have a much easier time learning Korean, for example.

I don't get it.

It was in the video. If they serve you ochazuke(rice in green tea), it means you have to go home

Go home after finish the dish or just leave and say goodbye the moment food served? Not like i plan to visit Japan one day

遠回しな表現で皮肉を言ってくる礼儀正しいイギリス人を想像してください。 京都の人はそんな感じの人たちです

"Sweats in regret" is not a thing humans do.

Is there anywhere that adults have summer vacation? I'm moving there.

@@Lihoa Finland, 4 weeks babyy

@@Lihoa all of Europe? Sweden, at least

@@Lihoa In France, out of 5 weeks, most companies ask you to take 2 weeks in summer (because there is less activity when more people go on holidays to enjoy the weather). Plants frequently close the whole of August.

@@Lihoa teachers who don't work on summer maybe?

Also the fact that Dutch is one of the closest languages to English lol and Frisian is THE closest.

Speaking as an American, Dutch bears no resemblance to English for me. Love the country, culture and people though - would be happy to retire to Amsterdam.

There are lots of smaller countries with less foreign language knowledge. In comparison to Japan, English education in your country is good. Maybe not super-brilliant - but competent enough to learn the actual language - not a few words. It also helps that your native language has some similarities to English.

@@jwhite5008 Do you actually have experience or are you simply assuming? I'm sure that relative to Japan the education is better but if this were the reason then Dutch people should be equally proficient in German or French which are also mandatory in high schools and this is certainly not the case.

​@@JoumyakuSalad I may be mistaken but that is my personal take - it's an opinion based on a very small sample size and likely very skewed input including a lot of stuff including second-hand experience, watching people on youtube trying to communicate, stories by people living in both countries, and much more - not just a theory. I never physically traveled to either country though. I don't speak German or French myself - and never had reasons to research anything related to those - so I cannot provide any useful information on that topic. However I am kinda under impression that mandatory French and German are not universal throughout all of the Netherlands or at least it was not the case until semi-recently - however I never actually researched that topic so maybe I'm mistaken.

You know, I just learned the word 外国人 gaigokujin, and now the term gaijin makes SO much more sense to me.

she can choose to speak standard? i wonder what that feels like. i'm imagining if a group of people couldn't understand me unless i tried to sound like the queen of england..i'd feel so silly talking to them 🙂

@@mm-yt8sf I think the dialect’s so different it’s another language and less so as an accent

@@mm-yt8sf My boss is from Aomori, but he speaks regular Japanese all the time. But when we're in Aomori and he speaks with his mother or with an older local, the Tsugari-ben comes out.

@@0PE. its similar to classic arabic. Back they use to speak classic arabic which is also the holy book that muslims learn. But there was one women who took it to the limit. Most of the time she'd speak in quotes of the quran. Just imagine reading a book and speaking from that book most times. Needless to say she was seen as a genius.

@@AhmedHassan-sp1mx that is more like standard Arabic, no? It's just other Arab speaking country have their own dialects.

i find this very interesting. do you yourself go against the curriculum when teaching?

They are not testing speaking skills just there ability pass a written test. Its really no different than the US high school requirement, it really kind of filler. I like countries where you can actually use the language you learned but that only because I been spending time learning.

@@likesflower no, I'm a guest in this country and don't have the right to declare it broken. It's just my opinion, instead I ask for 5 minutes at the beginning of each class to teach phonics. Only in a few months I have see a huge improvement in my students, not only in pronunciation but also in Grammar.

Fellow teacher here. Japan prioritizes order over efficiency. Take care.

Forreal just because you know the words of a language dosent mean you can speak it. Its kind of hard to explain but its kinda of like dialects,pronounciations, and tones. England and America both speak English but they have very different styles. Really the best way to learn a language is to immerse yourself in the culture. If i was a teacher teaching id slap on an American movie so they could see how it was used. Edit: Actually the video itself mentioned Tsugaru

Is that Irish Gaelic/Gaeilge that students there are required to learn? Here in the US we are required to take 3 years of foreign language classes to graduate highschool. We can choose which language we want to take for that amount of time but in most schools we are limited to what they offer (usually French, Spanish, German, and in some schools Italian).

​@snapdragon6601 What other Irish language are you familiar with?

It's the Japanese equivalent of "the floor is lava".

I saw it in anime a few times, so I suppose everyone just sorta gets the joke over there. Not too hard to flinch either so it's a pretty inclusive game.

@@delta-a17 Inuyashiki?

@@THExRISER The fact, that I just binge watched Inuyashiki and than came across this custom in this video makes me really uncomfortable.

@@christianhohenstein1422 I think it's cute, but the way the show took that custom and turned it into something sinister is definitely creepy, they did a good job.

Was it Bob Saget's autobiography in japanese?

@@ShibaDoge981 I’m almost positive it was lol

Shows with little girls are quite popular in Japan.

A lot of my Japanese peers talk about Full House, but I never even watched it, despite being from Canada.

@@alukuhito It's like expecting every Japanese to have watched Akira Kurosawa's films or to be a DragonballZ fan.

This is not uncommon in many European countries as well.

It's amazing how safe ethnostates can be isn't it?

And then they grow up and get forced with exams upon exams and lose all hope and cheeriness.

When parents work 16h per day to pay rent for 30m square flat is no wonder kids must do everything alone.

Pretty common in Finland as well, although most parents do try to drive their kids around at least until they're ~10. Not possible everywhere, so some kids take busses or ride bikes to school. Alone.

lmao, no it doesn't, people today are not even sure about the the meaning of the word VIKING, maybe something like "bay warrior"

It was really because they couldn’t turn smorgasbord into a wasei-eigo. It would be like 8 syllables. So Viking is easier.

Actually it is Biking because no one can really say V properly here

@@ferretyluv but that's never been a problem before, they just shorten the word to スモボ sumobo or スガボ sugabo because sumo might be confused

That's not why it's used. It's because Smorgasborg is too difficult of a word to use when changed to a katakana equivalent. It's much easier to say バイキング. Smorgasborgs come from the land of the Vikings. It's as simple as that.

No surprise. Japanese English teachers are notoriously bad, and basically only teach rote things, and there is very little conversational level work done. Really, one of the best ways to get good at a language is immersion.

it remember me of an annoying teacher who do his posoned morals at every section he goes. he impose his moral dictatorship in every comment of japan videos. he thinks to ne a living encyclopedia , he annoy everyone , he antagonize the ones who refuse to believe him.. He once said that relationshps takes time but it depend of the people. he assume that everyone wants to live in japan but it's false we could befriend people when travelling in a country. his name his Graham. please report him if you saw him.

Pretty much how I learned French. Best way when you hit it off in a roommate situation.

I like japan but I don't appreciate the locals. I met an arrogant Japanese girl who defended her compatriots when she saw my comments. I was just warning people. she said that seeing them made her sad but it's ridiculous, she forced herself to read them. she should know that her compatriots have many cultural faults and refuse to understand aznd discriminize foreigners. she refused to admit their flaws. she asks me to speak Japanese but it takes too long and her compatriots would not forgive badly spoken Japanese even in a slight way. then she forced herself to say "nyyyeeeeh good day" with her forced politeness. it's pathetic. her compatriots are not good . they think they say what would be good for us but they are wrong. I can show you her comments to show you why she make me want genralize them now.

Good for him. Most just get with people who speak the same language and don't learn anything, despite being overseas.

the auto-door was broken lol

How old was that sushi?

@@kenzolohmuller6565 Most likely, yeah lol

Cool. Thanks for sharing!

Ok

This is true. My daughter started elementary school in Korea.. in 2020. Due to the pandemic, the first day was delayed, and ceremony cancelled (ㅠ) they attempted to start classes in April, so I actually have 1st day of school photos of her with cherry blossoms, but then they delayed school again, and there was a second attempt in June, meaning I got more 'maybe this will finally be the beginning of school' photos when the roses were blooming everywhere. .. but ultimately she spent the first year and most of the second online.

Wow I didn't know about that! Thanks for sharing!

@@user-qv8sr6hv7r FAst

About the big sushi in Edo Era, I hear that the city back then had larger single male population, so the fast food like sushi and tempra were very convenient for those workers. The bigger meant fewer needed to eat and less time.

@@atsukorichards1675 I wouldn't mind if they were still that size! Hehe =]

I agree, much morre fitting than the country one

or longest lasting Empire in human history?

@@No_Anime_No_Life. government with a royal family at the head

@@comradekenobi6908 well not all Empires anyway being absolute monarchy in past time Japanese Empire have government with a PM at a govt and Emperor at the head even Shoguns in Sengoku-era is same level as PM and they still in below than the Emperor today after WW2 the Emperor still be treated as the head and anyway listening by PM or govts in some situation like the Emperor ordering PM to focusing on helping people in Tsunami disaster 2014 even the Emperor come to that places to meet with people

@@No_Anime_No_Life. I know but they're probably the most constant thing in Japanes history, surviving numerous brutal wars

I live in Buffalo, New York. You know, "Buffalo wings" and generally anything "Buffalo" flavored. (I have eaten bison, the "American buffalo"--it is wonderful, almost enough to justify the price.) Anyway, if you were to order "Buffalo wings" here, you'd totally out yourself as a tourist. Even "chicken wings" is suspect. Here they are just ... "wings," no further elucidation required (except the heat, mild, medium and hot, though some joints do us proud by offering "suicidal"--I've never heard of killer wings being offered elsewhere).

It's like when non-Canadians (including Japanese) call hockey "ice hockey". Any other type of hockey is irrelevant, so you just call it hockey.

I came home from school and just in time for dinner, Full House was on NHK. (NHK plays anime at that time of the day.) I remember watching it in that vein!

If you think of it - it does make sense to start new school year after New Year...

In India, a new academic year starts in june and ends in late march [the next year]. This makes sense for us as April and May in India gets scorching hot, unfit for even going outside to school, as most of our classrooms dont have AC.

It still weirds me out how school can work may-august? Like? You just take out a whole chunk of school 😂 i was looking at going to school somewhere different and i could either go in august or december and it *didnt sit right*

@@lemonwillow lmao my school started in april for a month but then we got may and june of as summer vacation

Most countries start school after the summer holiday, and end the school year before summer vacation, which of course is then a good fit to the calendar year in the southern hemisphere. And I wonder if maybe the start in April for Japan somehow originates with "Golden Week", a week long stretch of holidays that is most peoples main vacation time, so it would make similar sense to switch the school year then.

Same in France

Lol dense. Hold my f in biere

Yeah but it's not significant because there is only a 2 week difference between the regions. It's only divided between North, Mid and Southern region.

really? wow.

yes before the reform in the 80s, English education was taken seriously in japan. The reform, which came along with a low birth rate era, in an attempt to prevent people from leaving the country, changed the educational goals to "raising people who can read / write". Communication was left out, on purpose. Yes I have been teaching in Japan for over 10 years now, this is my area of expertise.

If they were wealthy enough to move and the father was a teacher then their education was probably pretty high tier compared to the rest

Nowadays schools in Russia start teaching English in first or second grade, I think, but as recent as in 90s or 00s it was only started in 5th grade and back in the Soviet Union I think English might have been started as late as in 9th grade. In the Soviet Union most people didn't really have a use for English anyway.

@daenackdranils5624 Not really. More foreign-language speakers would have meant more Japanese people leaving. Japanese people used to leave in droves to the US and South America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The biggest reason why Japan's English-speaking skills suck is partly the same reason why French, German and Turkish people's English tend to suck in contrast to say Scandinavians who sound fluent. The former airs English-language programming dubbed whereas the latter airs it subbed. The ability to hear and get used to a foreign language is what helps the most in speaking it yourself. Japan's case is even harder because so much time and memory is also spent learning Kanji (Traditional Chinese) which is logographic and is so different from Latin or even native Japanese (Katakana, Hiragana) alphabets which are phonetic.

seven reasons why japanese doesn't make good friends for western ppl: 1 they choose who is worth to hear their honne (truth thoughts ) and prefer to overuse tatemae ( lies) for any pretexte except when they get drunk, it's just stupid 2 they only thinks to work-work , notghing else 3 they're too serious and too positive, they're creepy , they force themselves to be polite and helping others for no reason 4 they never wants to learn international languages, and when we speak poorly japanese they mocks at us while we just do what we can to communicate 5 they have national xenophobia , their elders assume bad things about us 6 they treat us as walking wallets/dictionnary 7 they thinks that our apparts are like museums don't trust their politeness. stop with the praising. even ppl in my country aren't like that.

this is similar to something a japanese man told me about the ‘truth’ about english education in schools. he said that as poor as the standards are within the curriculum and the staff themselves, the actual students simply dont care or try hard enough. its the same in the english speaking world, i think we all (?) take a foreign language at some point in school, but we cant speak it at all because we dont take personal responsibility outside of that. the teaching also sucks, but his point was that you cannot learn a language for someone.

Almost all of your post is written quite acceptably and doesn't make it obvious that English isn't your first language. That said, there are two words at the beginning that make it obvious that it isn't your native language. The word Vietnamese, like Japanese or Chinese, is an adjective and never a singular noun. You are Vietnamese, or a Vietnamese person, but you are not "a Vietnamese." That works for German/Korean, or other words ending in N, T, or K, but not for words ending in softer sounds like -ese or -ish. "A British" is also not correct, but a British person, a Briton, or a Brit would be. The exception is when using it as a mass noun; "the Vietnamese" would be acceptable when referring to all Vietnamese people. It's a really common mistake (in Japanese/Chinese natives, anyway) but one that's never pointed out.

Another thing to add here (I live in Poland but was in a relationship with a vietnamese girl for few years) is the focus on written language and not enough on listening or having a conversation. My ex that I'm mentioning here had C1 certificate but, at least when we began dating, having a conversation was really hard for her since she struggled with understanding what's being said or using more than few basic words while talking

Well we did bomb your country.

granted we only have ~4 years of compulsory non-english language education in the US, but most people come away from it barely remembering a word or two.

You should smile more.

It's mad, because I used to go to a kickboxing gym in Nagoya where i could be shirtless and still train (two full arm sleeves), and now at my current gym in the changing room I only get compliments and people will chat to me, the manager/ trainers know I have them (although in this gym I do have to cover up). It's not as if regular people actually care, it's like one obaa-san with literally nothing better to do in her life. Rules are rules. Even sitting on trains with sleeves rolled up/ short sleeves (I have p scary tats; skull w/ crown of thorns, wolf w/ 4 eyes, Eredin from the witcher/ snake tattoo visible), I'll get some obaa-san/ kid sit next to me and no one gives a fuck. Idk who reported you but they've seriously got no life, they're just tryna start shit.

@@WesticlesUK Hope someone reports you soon.

You tell 'em Jimmy! 🙄

It's their country, don't cry about racism like a little infant.

in Korean cafes too, many people will leave their laptops and phones on top of their tables while they go off to the restroom. with the expectation that their electronics will all still be there when they get back (and they usually are) 😅

nako pag satin yan wala pang 5minutes wala na. HAHAAHAHA

in ateneo and lasalle, i can expect someone there to use an iphone or any smartphone or laptop to reserve a seat a seat or table

You can leave laptops and cellphones to save your spot in cafes and restaurants here in Davao. Keyword "cafe and restaurants" because security is tight. Just don't do it in fastfood chains or the mall's foodcourt where security is a lot loose.

In Mexico City doing something like leaving your shit anywhere is bound to be stolen, it's why everyone learns to either be really good at hiding their things or just not bring valuables out on the street.

Damn, feel bad for my German bros 😞

@@oobee123 But it means less of a pile up on streets and airports as people leave or return from holidays. =)

@@gazz3867 But only 6 weeks of summer holidays? Geez...

Only 6 ?! In india we only get vacation for june. 4 weeks

Germany is weird as usual :D

Mugwort- or Artemisia princeps Pamp. - Korean mugwort (ssuk), Japanese mugwort (yomogi), used as a culinary herb and in traditional Chinese medicine. It was used by the Ainu for the Bear festival Shaministic ritual. Parts of Northern Russia, Siberia, North Korea, the people used to be hunters of Asian bear meat. The root is called Artemisia Princeps and when burned induces a trance like state. Western drug companies hate it because it helps ward of Cancerous toxins from the body naturally after a sauna water bath. The Asians used it to rid the intestines of aches and diarrhea due to drinking unboiled stream water. It was mixed with a white tea made from the peaks of herbs found in mountains. The Native Americans of the Midwest and Atlantic Coast used it to protect families and lands from evil spirits, ghosts, night walkers etc. This incense herb is popular with magic practitioners and grows wild in all parts of the planet but is varied due to climates and temperatures.

The World War however was inevitable due to the defeat of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Czarist Russians, Germany, the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and the overthrow of the Yuan Dynasty in China. World War II was a by product of the defeated Axis powers of Germany and military men bent on rearming their military in order Conquer lost territory, add more lands, and colonizing foreign lands much as the Western Europeans had done on all major continents displacing the Ottoman Empire from Ukraine and parts of European Russia and Central Asia.

That makes sense, given their beliefs in the shinto kami.

@Homie Yeah. I was gonna say that other commenter wasn't right- I have mugwort, and I use it occasionally, but it does nothing more than screw with your dreams and maybe calm you down when you use it. No hallucinations from mugwort. Tbh I use it to practice rolling joints at this point lol

An old Japanese man told me about growing up in the countryside and how him and his friends would pick magic mushrooms and eat them, getting quite the high.

Genius!

Funny. I just rode the packed train and people push there way in. No one cares tho.😂

Youre the fourth or fifth person Ive seen who has their name spelled in both English and Japanese, and the second one just today. What is with that, and am I missing something?

@@michaelcherokee8906 I live in Japan. I have my name in both. No special reason really. :)

japanese does not make good friends. i had made the experience with a chinese-japânese girl from Kyoto. i can tell you.

That is super impressive, especially for a native Chinese speaker. Even Chinese speakers who have lived in the US for decades tend to have a pretty heavy accent.

As someone stationed at Kadena, this is true

@@ColonelFatass3 🇺🇸

Spam is a big Japanese-Hawaiian thing too, so the Japanese-American community even in the Rockies where I live has picked it up. Spam Musubi is a very powerful snack

Spam, just like plastics, gained huge popularity during industrialization because they DID provide quite decent and preservable items to a large population that was previously impossible, only eltisim came along and started to give special "quality" assurances to food that is difficult to get, just like caviar, diamonds, and all kinds of controlled goods like simply local farming that doesn't fit regulations. When capitalism ALLOWED England to make hearty soups easily, and Germany to make tasty brisolettes and wiener schnitzels that were not functionally different from ones made traditionally out of preserved meat despite coming out of a can, only more capitalism came along and strted marketing for that to be a bad thing, and deserving more money for worse things on the basis of rarity. Currently they're trying to walk it back with stuff like gestated "impossible burger" meat substitute, that is returning to the basics of fermentation that originally gave us cheeses and wines. Those being themselves highly preserved and highly nutritious delicacies that shouldn't be rare at all.

spam is popular in many places with former or current US bases, like Korea and the Philippines.

One big difference between Japanese game shows and western ones is the Japanese ones always have celebrities, as you noted, and that's actually how a lot of them make a living. Whereas in the West, it's all about regular people as celebrities already have lots of money. Westerners want to watch regular people get the jackpots through their skills and luck. Japanese just want to see the same old trusted people again and again on TV.

Remember 'ninety nine" back in 1990s

It's probably exactly the same with comedy panel shows from Britain where people think that every British quiz show must be like 8 Out of 10 Cats or Would I Lie to You.

I like japan but I don't appreciate the locals. I met an arrogant Japanese girl who defended her compatriots when she saw my comments. I was just warning people. she said that seeing them made her sad but it's ridiculous, she forced herself to read them. she should know that her compatriots have many cultural faults and refuse to understand aznd discriminize foreigners. she refused to admit their flaws. she asks me to speak Japanese but it takes too long and her compatriots would not forgive badly spoken Japanese even in a slight way. then she forced herself to say "nyyyeeeeh good day" with her forced politeness. it's pathetic. her compatriots are not good . they think they say what would be good for us but they are wrong. I can show you her comments to show you why she make me want genralize them now.

And it rains hard, like the recent typhoon

India and Japan are like polar opposites

Cbse schools start in june.

Now state board is following CBSE..

@@ameera3562 nope, as a student studied from cbse and recently graduated from school in 2022 i can say, they don't, we get summer holidays starting from the end of June to the mid of July. (Btw no summer holidays for senior students generally 9th-12th grade) The school session every year starts from either the beginning of April or from the mid. The state boards are also following the central board these days so the dates don't vary much.

My children are studying in cbse. Here the school starts in june. We have summer holidays in april-may. It starts raining in june.

Fr bro ! People don't seem to care about the small countries in the world !

Thank you very much!

HEy im from Denmark could you take Mary back? any chance of that happending?

No one asked. Stupid.

it's more a question of how much you use it. japanese isn't that hard to pick up if you use it a lot. well, the spoken part, at least. writing is neigh impossible to "pick up". my self-taught japanese is enough to understand a lot of un-subbed material and probably hold simple conversations too (never got the chance to do that though), but i can't make sense of a single one of their runes. that was not a problem with english. in fact, i learned written english way before i could speak any of it.

@@GraveUypo if you want be fluent I would say just the grammar is way harder than the writing. It’s not comparable. I also think that no. As a a language learner that goes to japan over the summer and goes to school, I’ll tell u that the education is a big factor. It seems like they’re quite literally learning for the tests and not the language. When I was in 6th grade, so they would have been learning for over 6 years, they were learning how to say “What do you like to play?” “I play guitar?” No offense because it’s not there fault, but the pronunciation was terrible including the teacher.

And the ones that do speak English half-decent will likely have an Australian accent. (I suppose it's a proximity thing, making it easier for instructors that travel.) Second might be with U.S. accent due to U.S. military being there or Hawaii still being a tourist spot for Japanese vacationers.

Haha, too different? Finland beats Germany in the English as a foreign language ranking. German and English actually belong to the same language family, while Finnish belongs to an entirely different one, separated by so many thousands of years that nobody can even make good guesses about it. Others have already told the real reason in the comments: The Japanese don't have enough use for English. If they had more, the poor English teaching would also be fixed. But because there's little need, they won't even bother. They know that those who dream of leaving Japan or otherwise need to use English, they will learn it on their own. English is not a difficult language, anyway.

@@herrakaarme I was tutored in Finnish by a kind journalist from Turku about 30 years ago. After a year of instruction on a weekly basis, I still could only manage very basic expressions (thank you, good day, etc.). The grammar of Finnish is a labyrinth of inflectional complexity (too many noun cases, for example). The mere memory of those lessons still gives my poor head migraines. The grammar of Japanese is much simpler than that of Finnish! 😁

Huh, that's very interesting!

It’s also to do with horse & carriages, when mounting a horse it’s usually easier to do so from the left hand side, but to avoid collision or halting anyone else currently on the road, it makes sense to mount the horse on the left hand side of the road and then merge. The reason most of Europe drives on the right hand side is because Napoleon wanted to make a change that would change the world & would be caused by him, that’s it lol, just ego.

We carried swords on the left in Europe and Britain, too, however.

All urban societies usually drove on the left throughout history. It's easier to navigate a horse on the left to prevent it from colliding with something on the opposite side of the road as the righ eye in more responsive in most people. In more rural societies with mud roads people drove on the right as the right hand could be used to rein carts with multiple horses(assumuing the driver would mount on the offside).

@@theKobus Britain is still Europe, you know. Just as much as Norway, Switzerland, Serbia, Montenegro, Ukraine etc. The EU and Europe are not synonymous.