This song is to promote Japan and their slang that commonly used in Japan. It wasnt directly point out bad English though most asian country speak very little english in daily basis not only Japan.
No we didn't speak little english most of our languages have a mixed english in it but every asian country have different ways to pronounce English not because we are bad in English but it is our way to speak English where it cannot affect our beloved language that is why we still use our accent... You have good comment anyway
The video tell about japanese culture. Also tell how foreigners like us who can't speak Japanese struggling in Japan country... The important words we can learn from Namewee video... I dont think Namewee has a hidden criticsm like you said.. just because his controversy back then you assume all his video like that... Its not from Japanese point of view, its about foreigner point of view... What i learned from this video is we as a foreigner need to learn basic Japanese if we want to visit that country, like others who visit your country Korea, they learn basic thing.. soo we become very closer and comfortable. Its easier ti live if we learn basic thing, especially about foods store..
i think it was more a joking about all the "japanglish" words used in japan (japanese words derived from english) the accent is completely different for the words and sometimes the meaning has also become different from its origins. i don't think namewee's criticizing it either, it's just funny since some japanese will use the words trying to communicate more easily with foreigners but the words sound just as foreign as regular japanese
Namewee already popular in China. U can react to his mv featuring with famous actor n singer Wang Lee Hom. Good luck guys. Good opinions n reactions too 👍👍👍
If anything he is criticizing foreigners who go to Japan expecting people to speak English and thinking they know the place just because they are fans of the japanese culture (like myself).
I agree w' Chris, that Namewee isn't Criticising Japan but it's actually an official video from Cool Japan TV to teach foreigners in fun way "Japanglish" (borrowed English-American words pronounced the Japanese way in Japanese accent or “Katakana Eigo” (Katakana English) for tourists to be able to get around Tokyo during the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. For example if an American asks a Japanese on the streets of Tokyo where's McDonalds, they probably won't understand like the obasan /granny in the beginning of video unless you pronounce the Japanese way of Makudonarudo. "Japanglish" is used in Japan especially since Japanese words always end in a vowel.
Basically somebody interprets the last scene where the sumo guy tried to correct Namewee's pronounciation for the Japanese word, 'idiot' in English as 'bakayarou' in Japanese, is to metaphorically symbolizing the original and main intention for Namewee to write this song is never to mock the exclusive phenomenal Japanglish in Japan, and also to show a common situation ----- whenever foreigners/non-Japanese native speakers try to speak Japanese too encounter such situation where the foreigners can't even pronounce those Japanese words properly. Vice versa. The way of Namewee pronouncing 'Bakayarou' brings another totally different meaning of the true original word the sumo tried to teach him. Morale of the story, before you tease or mocking somebody else, stand in front of your mirror and look at yourself thoroughly first before start to speak out any bad words. Basically Namewee is try to narrate the phenomenon (like distinct cultural language pronounciation and mentality) which happen like almost every corner in this Earth. Credits to @學藝 And as quoted from @追追追's comment, he is praising the versatility of Namewee as a pop singer who able to passing across the nationality boundaries and prejudices, and with his easing personality which always work well to tease and make fun of others but as well self-teasing at the same time for self-awareness and self-improvement, and bringing up the society awareness about social ill-value issues. P.S. Sorry for my bad English. Maybe I'm more to Chinglish/Malaysian-English (Manglish) XD 'He' at here represents any gender. Peace from Malaysia
Namewee is a great artist. But he got into a very serious case when he made a remake of the national anthem, of course with hidden criticism and such, and that fired up the whole nation. You can google him up and you can see it there're many articles relating to his controversies. Too bad, he really is a great artist. And i really like Tokyo Bon. It's catchy although i find the lyrics amusing. In a way, the song is good in summarizing Japanglish. Living in Japan for a year sure makes me able to relate to the song. It can be a bit offensive to Japanese, but i dont find any harm in the song though.
hey. Maybe you don't know but there are really many people who think some japan and chinese costumes are very similar. They just not used to it very well.
Because Japan learned Chinese's culture far from Dinasty Tang...There are Kanji in Japanese writing system, so this is the proof. Japanese well kept some of the ancient Chinese culture and turned them into typical Japanese style. So you can see many similar things comparing each culture. Honestly, Chinese can easily learn Japanese, because most of the pronunciations in Kanji is very very similar to Chinese words. That's what you need to know
Korean derived their traditional clothing Hanbok from Ming dynasty of ancient China, Japan derived their Kimono from Qin dynasty of ancient China if I'm not wrong.
Guys. There is a song about Korea and Hong Kong, and Singapore too, just search Namewee RU-vid channel. You will find it, I don't tell you what he said about Korean..😁 for you to find out...😂😂
The song teaches us that there are many English words in Japanese, but they are pronounced differently, cause a consonant can't stand alone. So they show how the most important "English" word in Japanese are pronounced. It's also funny how the foreigner only says famous Japanese words like brand names.
Actually he has a song called 全民偶像k-pop idol And you're right, it's about plastic surgery. But I think it wasn't as good as Thai Cha Cha and Tokyo Bon etc. I would like to recommend other songs of him which I like. 1)老母Mother (this song is not a funny song and he sang this song with his mother and she sang really well) 2)學廣東話learn Cantonese (he sang many Cantonese foul languages in the song,foreigners may not understand but the song is good) 3)飆高音high pitched I hope you guys would like these songs :)
Haha...Yes,the song is soooo goood!!!! I can say. His latest song now is a collaboration song with Vietnam. You should listen to that. Rain in Ho Chi Minh. Glad to see this reaction video.
Most of the word in this lyric is using Katakana (Japanese language pretending to be English). That why is so funny. To someone who only know English, talking in Katakana don't mean shit to them.
Malaysian here! Really hope y'all could make a video about Malaysia 😂 Can't really speak korean but yeahh Malaysia is a country with multiculture Could guide y'all when y'all visit Malaysia ( although maybe y'all were just saying )
This video is talking about the japan culture, not criticism on their english. They speak english in their own unique way like most country do especially singapore, malaysia, thai etc..
COCONUT Channel 코코넛 채널 haha i dont know because usually mid-nov until january there will be rain season.(but not everday raining )and around this month it is school holiday so there will be a lot of people especially in KL.but if you come around feb to sept it will be hot season and u can come here around those month.but have to endure the hot weather cause sometimes the weather will be above 33 °c(just sometimes). make sure to drink a lot water if u come here in hot season.
hahahaha yeah! and if you come to Malaysia don't believe weather forecast. Also bring umbrella everyday as it can protect you from rain and also from sun.
오래 된 영상이지만 리플을 달자면 여자애들이 추는 춤을 봉오도리(盆踊り)라고 합니다. 오봉(백중)때 축제를 하는데 그때 추는 춤입니다. 검색해보면 많이 나올겁니다. 2018년 도쿄 봉오도리를 찍은 영상이 있네요. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-e7SoUIKWkqc.html
아~ 안녕하세요. ㅋㅋㅋ i want to suggest you guys to react on SYAMEL & ERNIE - AKU CINTA #AJL32 they won the vocal on the music awards in Malaysia last week! you wont regret 😊
you guys should do a collab with another youtube channel in Korea name Blimey since both of you guys famous among Malaysian. Blimey is a group of girls youtube while Coconut is a male group. I dunno just interesting if you guys meet.
I'm Indian🇮🇳and love this Japanese song,even I can sing it. 😄👘 kimono girls are beautiful.sir it's my humble request to react on Indian songs also please please.. 🎌🇮🇳🎌
The video of course is about that are many japanese people who can't pronounce correctly english. but at the end he don't get that word he said to sumo guy. Then he tried to teach him. but even though his japanese is also wrong. It's very common that a foreigner haven't a good pronouce at another language.
バカ野郎 (Bakayarou) is commonly mispronounced "Bagero" in Malaysia because that is the pronunciation that was handed down over the generations since the Japanese Occupation. That's the joke at the end ;)
I realize this is an one year old post. But you're right the old lady does sounds a little Korean in that the two languages have some similar vocal sounds. the video seems more like a commonality video of many westernized cultures. people like similar food items, have similar needs, enjoy music and Japan is a fun place to travel. I've been to Japan a couple of times and the second time I went, I had to go to McDonald's because they were recently introduced into Tokyo at the time. nothing really negative about the video, and if you talk to any student who'll be in uniform that person would probably speak English. pronunciation in japanglish is derived from not being able to pronounce certain words without training. Words with the letter L do not exist in the Japanese language so R is used. English letters are read separately so MacDonalds has additional syllables in japanglish.
Did u all guys play Winning Eleven?? Famous late years before... shooootttttttto... But in english we say Shoot only.. Thats what Namewee did. We as Gaijin (learn from Tokyo Drift), we try to learn your slang.. thats all.. Also have Singlish (singapore).. Malayglish (malaysia)..
He not mentioned that Japan people do not know english, but their english is different because mix with japan which is Japanglish. That sound so different. Thats why he did not understand the lady at the first of video, eventhough the lady speaking in english. So he learn Japanglish
Can you react to #AJL 32 Haqiem Rusli - Tergantung sepi and Syamel & Ernie Zakrie - Aku Cinta? Really hope you can react to this Malaysian song..thank u..
Malaysian Chabor is a song to clear doubt that everyone mistook her as Korean Girl, has no offense on Korean. Instead you should look into "K-pop Idol" sang by Namewee a direct appreciation of Korean pop culture and plastic surgery trends 😁
I like this guy's work..but somehow he kept pissing off the malaysian goverment with his too outspoken attitude..watch his movie nasi lemak 2.0..its a great movie..
COCONUT Channel 코코넛 채널 malaysia started to know him for his rasist song controversy..its just not acceptable coz malaysia is a multiraces country..actually nasi lemak 2.0 is a good movie but for those who thingking they know the double meaning of it..hes actually in trouble now as we speak..for his new like a dog chinese new year video.. Hes very talented thoug..its a shame hes using it the wrong way..
Last week, Namawee uploaded his latest video clip for Chinese New Year titled 'Like A Dog' featuring a group of individuals wearing a dog mask allegedly containing vulgar dance moves near the Putra Perdana Building which houses the Prime Minister's Office in Putrajaya.
yeah i love his work to reunite all malaysian people but sometimes it over the boundary thats why some of his work become big issues but there are lots of good video to watch like ali,ahkao dan muthu(it is video about malaysia indepence day)
loa lo 日本語わかるなら日本語で言うけど、NameweeのTokyo Bonでaoi soraは「青い空=blue sky」って訳されてるんだよ。 「I love aoi sora=青い空はマジで好き」って。嘘だと思うなら日本語訳見てみなよ。 そもそもaoi soraって名前のAV女優がいるとかいないとかどうでもいいし、知ったこっちゃないね。 ただ発音が同じだけだろ。 それを盛りな外国人変態男子どもが喜んでキャーキャー喚きやがって。ヘドが出らぁ。
It is double meaning joke. ppl in japan might think he talk about the sky but for foreigner aoi sora is a AV actress, if you google “aoi sora” you will not get the meaning of it but you will find the AV actress info.
That is not japanese words. Its english actually, with japanese slang. What namewee want to show is as a foreigner, even you know english.. Its different in japan because of their slang. Its still hard to understand. At least, from this video we learn something right? 😁