I love the instant "Haaaa?" of pure outrage. Like "what the fuck did you just say to me". Mega cute, like that clip on Twitter of it going "Toronto is in Canada" and Polka, in response, wailing in despair.
This is all it takes, huh? Not even close to a personal shoutout or something, she was just talking about a big city I live nearby and I already feel happy hearing her talk about it.
I'm now realizing that when I was in Japan, me walking around like a dumbass and saying "I'm from Toronto" probably didn't land for everyone lol. I honestly don't think it's conceded to think that most people know where or what Toronto is. Kind of like how I can't imagine most people being unable to point out where Sydney, L.A, London, Paris, Berlin, Stockholm, or Seoul is etc. But now I'm a little self conscious lol.
True. Tbf, there are a lot of times where the person does understand your language, just that a native speaker speaking is too fast for them to catch what you're saying. With me, I can understand basic written Spanish to some extent. But spoken Spanish, spoken very fast, with a ton of local slang, can't get any of it. Sometimes the slang actually help since they're closer to the words we borrowed from them here in the Philippines, but usually it just adds to the confusion. With English, I can understand someone speaking fast most of the time. There maybe some raps where I have to replay the thing, but otherwise fine since I'm basically a native English speaker. With my other native language of Tagalog, I also sometimes have problems with rap, especially if there's regionalisms. Then there's lectures/lesson (which we get in either English, Tagalog, or Taglish depending on the subject and on the teacher). If a teacher is talking faster than what would be "normal" in that language, I can only catch like 40-70% of what they're saying. Sometimes none at all. I'd ask her to repeat, but we'd get scolded lol.
Fun fact: Some of the most common things Japan knows about Canada is that Justin Bieber is Canadian, and the country has a lot of wilderness. That's basically it. Occasionally you find something who knows about maple syrup.
@@lolipedofin Japanese knowledge of most other countries is weirdly filtered through pop culture and the ancillary media surrounding it. It absolutely does not surprise me that "Justin Bieber is Canadian" is one of a very short list of the most well-known "facts about Canada" over there.
Americans don’t get it, but whenever anything Canadian is mentioned by anyone outside of Canada, any Canadian watching is filled with unimaginable national pride
Some Japanese students come to Canada and only come here because they thought it was also the U.S, then find they can't stand the cold. Source: Friends I met while learning Japanese from Ryerson
When I hear the word Toronto, my mind instantly went to Toronto Raptors. Probably because I've been watching NBA on TV back in the day. I was surprised that they would think of the Blue Jays instead of the Raptors. Are they not popular anymore?
I think the origins of Canada wa from some kalanguage of the word "village" equating to Kanata, and ot was misheard that the land was Canada. Don't ask how I know, it's a random passsing fact.
That's probably because after Polka gave the right answer, the Japanese translation トロントはカナダにあります [Toronto wa Kanada ni arimasu] was displayed at the bottom of her screen. :^)
She probably learned it from Calli. Despite being better versed in Japanese than most of the other EN members, she always speaks it with the thickest North American accent.
@bobu dinkle Last time I was up in Ottawa there were abandoned building everwere and the city smelled so bad in the mid July heat. Definitely similar to Detroit.
I don't get it, what do you mean? It's not hard to say and isn't that unusual. She's just unaware of the country, a lot of countries don't know anything about Canada other than we are apparently nice and love maple syrup, much less our provinces/territories and cities.
@@Alyrael lmao if you actually listened, when she started speaking Japanese, she said the country name fluently and pronounced it “kaneda”. She had trouble with saying “Canada” because that’s not how it’s said in Japanese. She’s not “unaware” of Canada, it’s literally impossible to have never heard of Canada before, it’s just pronounced differently
It's interesting that they're pronounced differently in Japanese when both Toronto and Canada are made up entirely of Japanese native syllables represented by hiragana/katakana
"a thing called toronto is not actually a thing and Toronto is just a name for a city?!" Yup. A lot of Canadian place names are based on, but don't precisely match, aboriginal languages' words for those areas. Toronto comes from the Mohawk word "tkaronto" meaning "where trees stand in water", referring to a strait between Lake Simcoe and Lake Couchiching. "Canada" itself is derived from Laurentian "kanata", meaning a village or settlement.
hmmm Toronto seems to be more of an Japanese word... I mean... 1:30 vs any time she tries to speak some English with Toronto right after she said it correctly while asking what it is, she reverted to "its so hard to speak English" 2:01 and here back to correct Japanese Toronto
Chat made her think Toronto was the English word for city... that's why she asked if it's the same as the Japanese word toshi (city) at the end. I hope she learned it's a city in Canada.
I live pretty close to Toronto, the main reason people hate it is that people drive absolutely terribly there, and traffic is just a huge mess in general. Recently, they're also a HUGE reason for why the lockdowns keep happening in Ontario, because as soon as the lockdown level goes down a little, people in Toronto party and spike the numbers up massively, causing us to go back into lockdown again. For some reason there's a lot of ignorant & uncaring people in Toronto. People also don't like the entitlement that a lot of people from Toronto have, very "self important" kind of types that live there. I'm also personally not a fan of Toronto because like 75% of the game development jobs in Canada are there (with like another 15-20% being in Vancouver) so if I wanted to work at a studio, I'd basically need to live in Toronto which also has some of the most ridiculously priced houses in Canada.
