Why my Japanese is so weird / 自分の日本語は何故おかしいのか 

This video is basically a student explaining to his parents why he got a 99% instead of an 100% but actually being disappointed

Looks like Dogen finished the main game and is now stressing about all those side quests and hunting down small upgrades.

This is what overthinking about overthinking looks like...

jokes on you i cant understand japanese

It’s the same as Japanese people When Japanese read a script, they always sound weird I’m Japanese, but I will sound strange as well when I read a line

“Yeah my Japanese is terrible sometimes” *speaks for 52 minutes non-stop in Japanese covering multiple points*

3:49 I think rather it means that by having it scripted you don’t say ええと which as everyone knows is the most vital part of japanese fundamentals

In this 15 minutes video he didn't misuse any particles including は and が. I don't think he actually flips a coin. I'm simply amazed.

This is like being in a language class on presentation day and the guy, who is usually the best in class, is suddenly nervous for some reason.

I can't believe that all this time I thought your 日本語 was うまい.

It does indeed feel "less natural" yet it is because you are perfoming, like you said already. We watch your content and we know you are performing. It doesn't feel less natural, or not in a negative way whatsoever. it isn't something necessarily bad to come off as less natural, for when you are performing a script, it is only natural to sound less natural. I've lost count on how many times i've said less natural

When he started describing folks noticing an oddity in his style that they could not explain I had flashbacks to a certain 2005 RPG. I then was half expecting the reason to be a former sensei purposefully having trained an exploit into Dogen's Japanese so that they could eventually betray him and take over the channel when the time was right.

I'm only 3 minutes into the video. The point about the script just got raised which reminded me that when I showed a few of your skits to my gf, she suddenly pointed out how she felt that you were reading something. She insisted on it, from what I recall. Then she added "oh but his Japanese is very good". Edit : made her listen to the video. Now she added your Japanese is a bit "too beautiful and not broken enough." If she had never seen you before, she would have believed with a ~70% certitude (whatever that means aha) that you were Japanese. I guess your narrator side is what stands out the most to (at least some of) your Japanese audience.

the tone shift actually is pretty noticeable having "uncle magnet" and casual speech so close together. you sound like you're memorizing a presentation. much more calculated lmao

Doesn't matter how you sound. I'm hear for that sexy hair and that minimalistic background decor. Oh and by the way, would love a full rendition of Uncle Magnet at some point.

I'm fluent in Japanese. If I were blind or closed my eyes I wouldn't be able to tell that you were a white American guy speaking Japanese. It sounds native enough you could have fooled me.

I'm Japanese but I've never felt your Japanese bad.If you keep studying even more, you should be a newscaster.

やっぱり母語じゃないと不自然なところが話に出てくるんですよね。私の場合は、日本人友達と話してる時は常に「この話題について俺の意見は、日本語でこうやって正しく言える」ってそれを言う数秒か前からもう既に考えてある。でもその間に話しの話題が変わったら大変なことになる。クリス大丈夫？とか、クリスさっきから黙ってんだけどどうした？って聞いてくる。黙ってるわけじゃないよただ次何言おうか考えてんだよ！って言いたい．．．話し方がギクシャクしがちです。このせいで通訳者の夢はもう無理と判断し諦めました。悔しくて落ち込んでしまうときもある。でもDogenさんの動画を見て少しでも勇気がもらえます。いつもありがとうございます頑張ります！長文失礼しました。

一番！ Those are some big bags under your eyes, Dogen-san. Please take care of yourself!

What a genuinely self-reflective video, thanks for bringing this to us Dogen. I can hear the 'shift' between your regular conversational tone and your acting tone, but it is subtle, so it's great that you have been able to recognize it. I love your videos and will keep watching them regardless of any slight shifts (Please do the rest of your Uncle Magnet skit, I was quite enjoying it). What steps do you think you'd like to take to correct what you've now identified?

私の感性としてにはなりますが、まず台本に関して。Dogenさんの作られる文章は小説的な語り方と日常的な言い回しが合わさった表現をよく聞くような気がします。通常、小説的な語り方はお笑い芸人のコントであってもシュールな場面でのみしか使われません。日常表現でも使わないので、その辺りの珍しさが表現者のDogenさんと聞いた日本人との乖離があるのじゃないかな、と思います。ただ、私としても少し変とは感じますが、嫌な壊れ方じゃないと言いますか、お笑い芸人の千鳥の表現として表すなら、クセが強い。になるので、それはそれでDogenさんの魅力ある個性なんじゃないですかね。

You just addressed Tkyosam's recent comment heads on! Respect for bravely putting this video out... I know you've got nothing to hide or you wouldn't have uploaded this. Thumbs up!

私Dogenさんの日本語上手いと思っています。発音もちゃんとあってるし問題ないって言う意見です。I’m half Japanese and half Iranian, but born and raised in Italy. I started studying Japanese from an early age but at a certain point I stopped and seeing your videos makes me want to study all kanji well. You have a nice pronunciation, you should just be more confident while talking!❤️

I respect you so much for making this video. It takes courage to be open and vulnerable about one's own shortcomings. Thank you for sharing with us! I feel reluctant using Japanese in my videos because even if my grammar is fine my pitch is all over the place. However, watching your videos on Patreon has helped a lot and I'm much better at hearing the differences now, even if I can't always mimic them correctly myself.

You are so inspirational. The fact that your Japanese is so good and you still work everyday to get better. I think that's very admirable and one day I want to be able to speak as fluidly as you.

道元さんの日本語お上手すぎて日本語吹き替え見てる錯覚に陥る まじよ こんなの感じたことない

I feel the same way when I speak either French or Spanish, Dogen-sensei. It certainly doesn't help that there are so few people in my area to correct me whenever my faults arise. Thank you for addressing something I didn't know needed addressing.

どうも初めまして　いつも楽しく動画拝見させていただいてます あえて台本を読む部分以外で感じた違和感（感じた違和感って正しい日本語？）をお伝えしたいです 「不自然/なのか」「日本語/の中の」「文章/の/冒頭/を」など、日本人は切らないところで、言葉が区切られているのが気になりました 話す速度が速いのに区切れが多くなるので、ﾀﾀﾝ ﾀﾀﾝ ﾀﾀﾀﾝと日本語っぽくないリズムになってしまっているような気がします 「ただの日本人が勉強されている外国の方に指摘なんて何様だ」と自分でも思いますが、 Dogenさんの成長の0.00001%の助けにでもなればと思いコメントさせていただきましたm(__)m

まさしく！台本なしの、今回みたいなときの方が、圧倒的に自然です！

細かいかもしれませんが、｢なんでかって言って～｣という言葉の繋ぎに関西在住の私は違和感を感じてしまいます。しかし同時に、英語をできないなりに話す私はそれ以上の違和感を英語を母語とする私の会話の相手に感じさせているので、結論、Dogenさんの日本語は｢日本は長いのですか?｣と聞かれるに価すると思います。

As a native speaker, I did notice a bit of a stronger nasal accent in some of the other videos (like “nga” rather than “ga”) but not so much on this one. Of course some Japanese, especially the elder ones would do that too so I didn’t find any problems with that at all

I honestly find it so inspiring and amazing that your Japanese has become way proficient since you’ve left the states. How was that transition? I think that your Japanese is absolutely stellar already and mistakes are always a part of anything. Been subbed for a while now! You’re always amusing and I appreciate all of the nuances within your videos. Always glad to see your videos in my recommended as well. Keep up the great work and the great videos!

確かに普段話してる時は気にならないのに、朗読したりスピーチの場に立ったりすると急にイントネーションや滑舌が気になりだすことってありますよね！笑 Dogenさんの日本語は、朗読している時より普通に話をしている時の方が少し自然な感じがしました。それでもやっぱり日本語がお上手なのでどちらにしろ不自然さは気にならない程度ですが😅 私は日本人ですが滑舌が悪く、日常会話でも上手く単語が言えなかったり文法を間違えたりすることがしょっちゅうあるので、本当に尊敬します😭笑 日本人ですが(?)いつも動画楽しみにしてます！これからも応援してます🙇🏻‍♂️ 長文で日本語失礼しました…

Sure, as a native speaker I do notice some "incorrect" pitch accents, slightly off vowel and consonant sounds, overenunciation and other non-standard features here and there, but I believe they could be boiled down to small idiosyncrasies in speech rather than downright wrong or anything. Personally I greatly prefer your speech over supposedly "perfect" NHK announcers' pronunciation and intonation. I'm afraid you might've internalised a bit of prescriptivism that seem to be so prevalent among the Japanese, though it literally sounds like 釈迦に説法 and I guess you've already been through this a thousand times. I'm no accent expert or a person with a career in performance art so I don't really have much to say about which of your scripted performance and spontaneous speech sounds more "natural" since as others have pointed out a lot of non-professional speakers, myself included, sound odd or at least somewhat different when they're reading from a script, be it with a note or from memory. As a bookworm however, I spot a number of peculiar word choices in your stories which are by no means ungrammatical nor do they fail to get your point across, but nonetheless sound a tiny bit awkward because they don't fall neatly under either of the colloquial or formal/literary register. They are neither flat-out flowery and archaic nor do they come off as witty; In my opinion they sort of belong to some strange nooks and crannies of 国語辞典. Then again, it could be those exact combinations of words that give your prose your own character so I wonder if changing them would turn your uniquely Dogen performance into another unimaginative Japanese stand-up. Or they could transform into something entirely different, for the better. I'm not really sure.

Do you always feel ドキドキ when speak japanese without script?

若干外人さんのイントネーションかなっては思いますが、文法とかは完璧ですよね！

いつも楽しく見させてもらっています。まだ動画は最後まで見きっていないのですが、コメントさせていただきます。 意識せずに聞けばほとんどネイティブにしか聞こえませんが、あえて指摘するのならば、全体的に何となく鼻にかかったような印象があります。ただ、客観的に見てこれ以上改善する(ネイティブらしさを追求する)必要があるとは思いませんし、今のお話のされ方も非常に魅力的であると思います。

The best kind of Dogen video is an unscripted Dogen video

I feel the same way! I was brought to the United States at age 15 and somehow was able to pick up the language and lose my accent in a very "convincing way" but sometimes I say words in a different pattern or with a slightly odd accent. People have told me I don't sound foreign at all but they can pick up on a couple of things I say in a different way.

おかしくないよ カタカナ発音も上手だよ たぶん話し方が堅いんだと思う 話し言葉と書き言葉は違うからね

wait, your 日本語 isn't 上手？

Interesting self-analysis! So, according to that theory, some people would find any rehearsed speech by a person who didn't grow up speaking that language as 'weird,' I guess?

おかしくないと思う私の日本語がおかしいのか？ めちゃくちゃ上手

I've started wanikani. As of 3 days ago I am beginning a 1 year commitment to actually finally learn Japanese. A patreon sub coming your way once I am confident enough to speak more.

日本生まれ日本育ちで、特に方言とか持ってないつもりの僕でも、地元を出て東京に行くと「訛ってるね、どこ出身？」なんて言われます。 日本人はhomogeneousであることに固執し過ぎて、他人のアクセントに敏感なだけだと思います。 You have a certain accent tbh but it’s totally acceptable and not unintelligible. it’s just differences among individuals. So...you’re great!!

まだ全部見てないけど日本語は意外と発音難しいですよね

多くの場合、台本がある演技であれば、日本人でも日常のフリートークとは違う話し方になります。なので、ポイントは全く別の部分だと思います。たとえばラリルレロの舌の位置や形、促音の弱さ、不要な長音（ex.おーかしい、ふーしぜん）、子音/摩擦音の強調、その他イントネーションなど。でも、そもそも気にし過ぎだと思います。

I’m autistic, (aspie more specifically,) so 99% of my life is speaking English in a highly-scripted manner. (I've read it’s more common with aspie women than men, and I'm certainly an argument in that direction, I suppose.) So I totally get what you’re saying on that part. One thought that ran through my mind while you were talking about how you normally edit your comedy videos was that, if, say, line 1 is from take B but line 2 is from C and 3 from A, it could start to sound odd because how you said line 2 in C was probably based on how you said line 1 in C and line 3 on how you said 1 and 2 in A? (Or maybe I’m misinterpreting.) Even for something as silly as signing a check, if I don’t fill it out all at once, I can see tiny differences in my handwriting based on which parts I filled out when. (Even with the same pen, my positioning and such may be different. The positioning part could absolutely transfer over to speech, IMHO.) Looking forward to the rest of the story! Bonus if we hear you sing again 😜

Your Japanese pronounciation is rather perfect than to some real Japanese. I bet your question is in your 漢語 words. Perhaps you rely too much on senarios in 書き言葉 when you use it. In the video clip 田舎の電車 you said, ここの電車はどのくらいの「頻度」で来るか, but Japanese say 何分/何時間「置きに」 in plain everyday speech language. 書き言葉 have tendencies to be 漢語 which sound like formal, stiff and sometimes cold-tone words. On the other hand, 口語 have tastes like warm, soft and friendly tone. I mean your choice of words is proper, so only switching them into 口語 (話し言葉) makes your speech more natural speaking Japanese. I respect your unstoppable interest for perfection. がんばって！

Dogen definitely had some 'coffee' right before recording this.

朗読で噛まない所が凄いと思いました。自然な会話の日本語もDogenさんが深く追求されてて、とても熱心な方だなと思いました。

I'm looking forward to the rest of this story! One thought in addition to some I found in the comments - if you listen to one word or line of speech specifically to find out if it sounds odd, it will end up sounding odd. Always. Especially when repeated.

I like these types of content as much as the scripted comedy videos, you should do more of em. :)

道元さんの日本語は自然だと思います。ノンネイティブとしてはマーティー・フリードマンさん以上に自然です。

I actually joined a japanese extemporaneous speech and your're right, it does sound unnatural. And despite studying the language for the longest time, I still can't figure out why that is. btw your kyari pamu singing was spot-on lol

子供の頃から喋ってるネイティブと大人の学習者との間には 絶対に超えられない壁があると思う。

道元さんの動画のおかげで言語学習に興味が出て、今までになく英語学習が楽しいです ありがとう

ほんとにめちゃくちゃ日本語上手なのでほぼ言うことなしって感じだし日本人じゃないのにここまで喋れることがすごいことだと思います。まぁめっちゃ細かいところを言うなら、話すこと？話したいこと？の説明とか結論をもっとわかりやすく簡潔に伝えることができたらさらに良くなるんじゃないかなって思いました！あと、難しい言葉を無理に使ってるような感じがしました。でも使い方が間違えてるとかではないです！なんか上から目線になっちゃってすみません💦すごく真面目な方ですね！

I’m a shirouto linguist so please correct me if I’m wrong, but I feel he sometimes pronounces ア as [ɑ] instead of [ä], such as が in 〜ですが

I've taken Japanese classes for three years in high school and I visited Japan for 2 weeks, one week with a host family on my own. I could be flat out wrong, especially because i haven't taken a lesson in years, but to me the way you talked in that skit reminded me of a train announcement or the way a teacher would talk while narrating a history book. It is very properly paced. Looking back to your phonetics episode 59, I do agree that each "syllable" has the same timing and none of them have particular stress (like how we speak in English). However when I visited to japan and conversed with my host family, I found that they didn't stress syllables but instead whole words and sentences themselves. I noticed that when excited, they spoke very quickly. Then as the conversation went on, the speed of their speech changed to fit the context. For example when explaining something very carefully (especially to a foreigner) they slow down and use simpler words. Additionally to me it also seemed like they had a different speech pattern for when explaining context. This tends to be quick, like when getting excited, but instead keep it at a more dulled tone. Like I said I haven't properly studied in years so I could be explaining this incorrectly, or completely wrong, but that is what I think. Thank you for your content Dogen.

日本人です。まず十分すぎるほど上手です。 （「小学校サファリ」最高です！） その上で、あえて考えてみたんですが、 単語と単語の間の息の「伸ばし」や「止め」。そういう文字と文字の間の繋げ方の癖みたいなものが、日本人のそれと、やや違う感じはします。 例えば「ですが」が「ですnが」になっていたり。 昔、自分自身、喋り方にコンプレックスがあって、アナウンサーの喋り方を聞いて練習したことがあります（重ねて言いますがdogenさんは今ので十分とは思います）

こんにちは。動画幾つか見ました。僕は、大分出身で、しかもDogenさんと同い年なので勝手に親近感を持っています。Dogen さんの動画を見て思ったのは、自分にとって（少なくとも今は自分として）快適に感じる社会をこの地球上のどこかで見つけられた人は幸せなんだろうなという事です。

If you're worried about sounding too scripted, my suggestion would be to write cue cards containing topics instead of lines that can be read word for word

「えー」「あー」みたいなのがかなり日本人っぽいです。 あとDogenさんの演じるおばあちゃんが好きです。

This is my experience with English, which is my second language (my first is Indonesian). I could speak the language just fine, but since several years ago I decided that I should follow one consistent way of pronunciation; RP in my case (known as the so-called 'BBC English', even though nowadays the broadcasters speak many different regional accents). Constantly being aware of your pronunciation of words was... quite an odd experience. Sometimes I was too concious on how to say things that I forgot the thing that I wanted to say! Your sudden stops and repeating the same points over and over again are things that I experienced as well. I think many advanced second language learners can relate to your experience.

Brave of you Dogen! Liked!

My family is Japanese, and you STILL speak better than I ever will 😉. I'm an embarrassment

何がすごいってさ、英語のネイティブなのにここまで日本語が自然で流暢なこと。韓国人とか中国人で日本語うまい人はかなりいるけど、アメリカ人とかヨーロッパとかの人でここまで日本語日本人ぽいのは本当に珍しい。

私はDogenさんの大ファンなのでこのコメントが届くかわからないのですが 今回のビデオが今までで一番自然だと思いました。今までの動画も大好きですがあまりにも完璧すぎてなにか違和感を感じるんだと思います。（文脈や表現力がうますぎる） ちなみに、お世辞でもなんでもなくてシナリオを読んでいてもセリフなしで話している日本語も本当に怖いくらい違和感ないです。本当に日本人じゃないんですか？冗談です。 これからも応援しています。

To be honest I wish I could listen to you reading from your short stories more! I know you strive to perfection, but really I think I've never heard a foreigner with such an amazing pronunciation and with the ability to explain such difficult topics in a language that it's not his main one. Keep up the good work!

この動画、他の動画より確かに自然だと思う。ていうか十分すぎるくらい上手いし、ネイティブレベルだと思う。

Haha I'm fluent in Japanese and I can definitely tell a huge difference between scripted and non-scripted but isn't that to be expected? I think people can sound off when reading in your native language too. Maybe instead of focusing so much on accent, you should try to focus on pauses, emphasizing certain words and adding emotion to make it sound more natural? Your non-scripted Japanese is definitely amazing though!

外国語勉強しているので、これだけ日本語を完璧に喋れるドーゲンさんを本当に尊敬してます...

I've always seen your videos like a very unique type of Rakugo. Audiobooks are very distinct in their enunciation as well, and they can sound 'unnatural' but I do think it has to do with the difference between acting/telling a story and everyday speech.

この動画、とっても面白かった！Uncle Magnet、楽しみ！

I like seeing your true personality unfiltered sometimes. You’re awesome. And I do enjoy videos like this without scripts. It feels genuine.

私の感想は、台本の文の方が発音やアクセントに気をつけているだけあって聞きやすく感じますが、日常会話の雰囲気ではありませんよね。 だからその意味で台本がない方が音や雰囲気に親しみを感じました。 たまに台本のないDogenシリーズもやってほしいです！ それと、今英語を勉強中の私にとっても、うまく発音したくて力が入ったり気にしすぎるあまりスムーズに話せないことは悩みなのですが、それよりもDogenさんの何度も練習して本当に美しい発音に近づいている文章は(内容も含め)本当に感動しますし、自分はまだまだ修行が足りないと思わせてくれます。 ありがとうございます:)

It's so good to hear you struggle that much, I love it 😂

I just feel that your constants are sharp because of your focus on clear pronunciation.

Dogenさんの鼻音は、特にフレーズの最後に来る「あ行」が鼻にかかりやすい気がします、「が」とか「な」とか。文中のあ行は結構意識して口内を開けているように見えます。 台本なしで話ししているときのほうが自然に聞こえるのはやはりそうですね、だいぶ違います。台本があると、例えば今回朗読してくださったのは、声が低くなり声の高さの振れ幅がかなり狭くなるので、普段の会話での身振りや声の高低、「あー」「えーっと」などでカバーできている微妙なアクセントの間違いや癖や耳につきやすいのかなと思います。 また台本がある時のコント中の会話は、シェイクスピアの劇ような、現実的というよりは本の中の出来事のように行われているように感じます。劇中の人物が本当に生きているのではなく、劇中の人物を演じているのが聞こえてしまうというか。だから余計不自然に感じるのかもしれませんね。色々推敲して煮詰めたからこそ辿り着いた話し方で、おそらくそれが自分でもおっしゃっているようにDogenさん自身の好みなのかもしれません。 よく友人たちに「君はほとんどフランス語にアクセントがないけど、たまに聞こえる日本語訛りがかわいくて好きだよ」と言われても、できるだけ完璧に話したいので嬉しくないのですが、それでも言わせてもらえば、Dogenさんの話し方は既にその個性として確立されていて、私はとても好きです。 ちなみにいつも台本は全て暗記して撮影にのぞんでいるのですか？それとも少しずつ撮影してセリフをちょっとずつ覚えたり、どこかに台本を表示させてチラ見しているのですか？最後のところを間違えたと言っているのを見ると、暗記しているのでしょうか。素晴らしいですね。 こちらこそいつもありがとうございます、これからもまた楽しみにしています！！

「井上ジョーJAPAN」さんは日本人として通用する。Dogenさんは、日本語がとても上手な外国人。 私が気になったところは、言葉を探す間です。 私は、いまのままのDogenさんが好きです。完全に日本人になれない美しさと儚さがあります。 梅のような感じです。桜には勝てないけど、梅の良さがある。

audibleとかでdogenさんが自分の好きな小説を朗読したら絶対買うのに、、！

3 years late on this, but absolutely noticed more emotion during this video, compared to when you're performing. honestly though i wouldn't have seen it as a bad thing; a more "dry" delivery can really enhance a joke, and i think it works spectacularly for you. of course, most of the words are in Japanese and i'm only a beginner so i can't comment on the accuracy, only on the comedy.

このビデオは最高‼︎ありがとうございます。　字幕を読むことは余所にする。 I am always looking for casual videos in Japanese to train my listening practice and understanding and this is just great. I love your other videos too but they are so short and it is so sad when they end. But thank you thank you for your content, it is so enjoyable

I don't even know enough Japanese to know _where_ you're making mistakes.

Ad. 5:50 - I actually experienced this once - when participating in a german poem recital contest (I think it was Hesse's poems specifically). I used to be somewhat comfortable with german (mind you, I'm polish), but during the actual attempt my performance was so bad I actually can't remember it these days (this was like 10 years ago xd). I still got some sort of diploma for participating in it, probably out of jury's pity and the fact that there weren't that many participants to begin with. If you're wondering, the poem was "Im Nebel" by Herman Hesse.

As a polyglot myself I never thought an actual american would be part of my language immersion journey. You're one in a million, Dogen. Thank you.

初めまして！いつも動画楽しく観ています！ 台本あり vs 台本なし 比較すると違いがハッキリわかり、面白い検証だと思いました。個人的な感想ですが、台本ありは Dogenさんが指摘するほど変とは言えないと思いました。日常会話でそのトーンで話されたらそれは不自然だと思いますが・笑 台本があり、それをコメディ的なシュールな感じを出すなら断然その方が良いと思いましたし、聞きて側も聞きやすい。そして、だからこそ面白いんだと思いました。 台本なしの、いわゆる通常モードは、あぁ外国人だねって感じがしましたが、台本ありと比較すれば、全然日本語話者らしいと感じました。 また、他の方が指摘されたように日本人が区切らないところで区切ってることでちょっとした違和感や 中高、尾高等々のイントネーションはあるにせよそれでもフラットなトーンの日本語という所がやはり日本人が話す日本語との差を生んでいるのではと感じました。 ご気分を害すような事がございましたら申し訳けございません。これからも動画配信、楽しみにしています！

Dogen San, I aspire to be as good as you one day. And I know I'm not the only one. There are many language learners that are inspired by you. Please don't be too hard on yourself. And enjoy the journey. 🙂 Even if you think your japanese is weird, you are able to converse with a native and express your views ideas etc. Isn't that the most important thing? Good luck with the future videos and tc. 🙂

Dogen, first of all, thank you for all your videos which are not only entertaining but also very interesting. This video was particularly good to me, but maybe a little bit "out of reach". I'm a Theater comedian in France, and I'm also a student in Japanese studies, so I can assure you that your videos has answered or maybe reopened questions I sometimes have regarding several topics like "acting ; pronunciation ; orality ; body gestures..." I do think that it is pretty normal not to feel 100% natural while acting, because what you're doing in your other videos is a lot of work (getting to what you want to express, the way you want your sentences and mimics to be done...) and putting so much effort is like crystallising your speech bringing it to a different level out of what we call natural. It is perfectly normal. When I'm listening to French youtubers, or comedians, their French isn't the one they are using on daily basis, and thanks god, because acting, is exactly that. Bringing messages, mimics, gestures to another level so that the content can be stronger. Of course this video sounded more natural, but I can find this kind of natural contents everywhere, what you usually do, is mastering a language in a funny way, and that's beautiful because some of us knows all the work behind. Thank you again, and sorry for that long comment.

自分も特に台本のない会話してる時の英語の方が教科書に載ってる英文読むときより発音マシな気がするのでDogenさんが言おうとしてることがすごくよくわかります。英文読んでる時は「この単語はこんな感じで発音したほうがいいかな？」とか常に意識するんで結果的にちょっと変になるんですよね。

"え…" Translating to "Let's see..." is so good.

I would watch a 13 hour version of this in which he just spirals into a self-conscious madness.

Basically saying he's a bad actor and he over delivers his lines but it took him 15 minutes to dance around that

To me you speak splendid! I love how you try and try to make it better 👍👏💪

I died when I heard Morning Musume… but on a Japanese language learning, you are one of the RU-vidrs based in Japan, that are foreigners that make me strive to learn Japanese - and maybe go go to language school in Japan. Doubt you’ll see this over two years after posting! Keep up the amazing videos - love from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

Actually whenever I record myself playing piano, I often end up messing up things I never would because of this "acting switch" you mentioned. Maybe it's something completely different but I often feel more fluid when I'm performing live or just improvising.

Yup, when speaking normally you sound less nasal, while I believe nothing is wrong gramatically, the emphasis taken on the "ga"s and some words sometimes feels off. But also, that's one of the interesting things about you. It feels off, but that's an off you don't get very often from other people

Fun video again! Thanks. Tomorrow I'll be a visiting guest at a local high school in a small town in Ohio, meeting with Japanese language students of various levels. I will probably recommend your channel to the advanced students. I could nit pic some of the things I hear in your Japanese but you have probably already given consideration to all of them. I make little mistakes in my Japanese all the time and try to correct them but it is a never ending task. Anyway, one thought I had in regard to your concern about scripted texts; in my work in Japan I frequently preach in Japanese churches. My standard practice is to write my manuscripts in English (my native tongue) but deliver them in Japanese. I like having a full manuscript so I am clear about what I want to say. At the same time, having the manuscript written in English allows me to be less tied down by the text. Nobody wants to hear a preacher who reads a text verbatim. So having the text in English and speaking it in Japanese allows me to take certain liberties. It serves as a buffer between written word and spoken word. Furthermore, I can read English more quickly than Japanese, so I can just glance at the English text and absorb it, whereas if it were in Japanese I would be slower to read it and would have to spend more energy following the characters on the page, resulting in a less natural delivery. My method forces me (and allows me) to exert more energy and give more attention to my spoken Japanese. Hopefully that makes it sound more natural, and allows it to flow a bit more.

It would be the same in English. Imagine if someone was speaking with perfect grammar and enunciation on every syllable. It might be correct... But it ain't right. That being said, I admire the dedication to growth and learning that makes you look so particularly at yourself even as skilled as you are. Because you are skilled! We are very impressed.