Wow! Very impressive. I just made a whispering video on here talking about learning Japanese n how difficult it can be. I ran across ur channel by accident but I love ur accent n ur fashion sense so I am now a new follower here on YouTube n on twitter! Hop to see more videos! Arigatou gozaimasu!
In the future, I will speak to my children in Japanese like you do! : ) oh well I betrayed my mother tongue! xD Kekeke. It's a 57 seconds cutest video ever! "o(^^,)o"
@MrFarhanno LOL thanks! I had no idea my son was going to repeat after me in English...normally he doesn't like to repeat what I say so I was totally surprised!
@canary767 No, I live in Oregon. I've been speaking Japanese with my son exclusively since he was born - he picked it up as a first language, but still struggles with English.
@TheKittengoddess Thank you for your kind words! Give me a little time...I'm slammed with school and projects right now but I hope to make more videos since everyone seems to want to hear it:-)
Dang I wish I was that fluent in japanese :O I recently started learning though.
Also, are you able to write in Japanese too? If you can, was it hard to learn all of the kanji, katakana, and hiragana? It seems like it might be hard for me D:
@pizzahut7384 Yes, read, write, the whole kaboodle. The kanas were easy to learn; the kanji up to a point. Of course I don't know *all* of them, but I know enough to read novels and newspapers. Just not medical textbooks, since I have no need to be able to read "basal ganglia" or "haemophilia" or stuff like that. I don't really need to know those words in English, anyway lol.
@sashababe12 He's really shy, and I don't feel too comfortable posting his face on Youtube (hope you understand since he's only 6). He looks Japanese, except with my color hair (a little browner), and lighter skin like me. And the same smile. But everything else he looks just like my husband!!
The last part was really cute. :) And terrific Japanese, makes me wish I was that good and my grandparents have spoken Japanese/speak Japanese around the house and I never.. except when I was little, caught or catch on. D: Haha, IDK if I want to learn the language seriously though.. But nice video and your son sounds very cute. :)
@Crescentclawe , awesome! I knew it would take time. I also (didn't think, but somewhat knew) that alot of Japanese words were the same in English or very si
@carlyjcais , oh btw, u watch a show called Ayakas Surprise English Lessons. It's a great and funny skit of the Morning Musume( a J-pop group that have many different generations) members learning English. The best generation is probably the one that's in the surprise English lessons, but I like Tsuji Nozomi, Kago Ai, and Yaguchi Mari. They are probably the artists I listen to the most.
@carlyjcais Hey thanks! I'm in LOVE with J-pop, even more than music in English! I'm glad I'm doing the right thing and I will take your advice. Thx!!!
@carlyjcais Thx! Oh by the way, I'm eleven right now. Do you have any tips on learning Japanese? Like a book or site or something? Remember I'm eleven, so I have limited resources( but my parents know I'm interested in Japan, so they can also help me out)
@ilikemusicdawg The way I learnt the language (besides living there) was through music. I fell in love with J-Pop, and listened to it all the time, to the point where I could sing it. Then I would read the lyrics that came with the CDs to learn the words. & I watched alot of TV (TV shows there add words to the screen, so it's great reinforcement). And if you can't read hira/katagana yet, the best way to learn is through mnemonics, through a book like this:** Good luck!
@ilikemusicdawg Arrgh it won't let me post a link:-( Just search on Amazon under "hiragana mnemonic" and "Kana Pict-o-Graphix" will come up. It's a great book! So: watch Japanese TV shows on Youtube, listen to music wherever you can find it (ITunes?) and study mnemonic characters so you can learn to read, and that will put you light-years ahead of other kids learning in a class environment!
@ilikemusicdawg Hmmm...it's hard to say. I began learning it when I was 11...I would say the two hardest things are the accent (i.e., dropping all the "Americanized" overpronunciation of consonants that I have a tendency to do since I am American), and mastering the myriad compound verbs in the language, which can get very complex. Plus grasping and using the many levels of politeness is tough, too. The basics are easy; speaking at an adult level I think is very difficult.;-)
@ilikemusicdawg Of the three most popular Far East Asian languages in the world (Japanese, Korean, Chinese - in that order), Japanese is the easiest, Korean somewhat average, and Chinese the hardest. Note that even if Japanese is the easiest out of those three, it's still going to take you - probably - at least one year to master all the different alphabetical styles (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) along with the most basic pronunciations (aa-ii-uu-eh-oh).
@Crescentclawe Well, they're all different in terms of difficulty in different areas. Linguistically-ranked (I went to a linguistics school) from easiest to hardest to learn (for an English-speaking person): Pronunciation=(Korean, Japanese, Chinese)...Reading/Writing=(Korean BY A MILE!, Japanese, Chinese)...Grammar=(Chinese, Korean, Japanese). Check out the Four Hour Workweek blog (sorry, Youtube won't let me post links) and his examples for learning any language in only 3 months...fascinating!
@kanadajin3 Correct, it's not hard to pronounce the sounds in Japanese (except for the "R" sound, which does not exist in English). However, as a native English speaker it is extremely difficult to learn how to pronounce Japanese correctly since you have to essentially "unlearn" all the pronunciation conventions of vowels and consonants in English. The sounds are formed in a different part of the mouth in Japanese, and you have to *lose* an American accent to pronounce Japanese.
so i just found your chic steals blog today and saw this video and wow. your japanese so is good! and it sounds like you even kind of have an accent when you say japanese. its so cool! hahaha. but your blog is awesome and your fashion sense is so creative and unique!
@panGG Thanks! I worked my butt off to be able to mimic the accent as best I could...took awhile and though I'm still not 100% perfect I'm happy with the work I did. Thanks so much for your kind words about my blog...probably my weird fashion sense is also from living in Japan!!;-)
@CatStarxo Wow, good luck!! See my reply to @ilikemusicdawg above re: ease of learning... It's a very musical language to listen to, but there are a lot of subtleties and shades of meaning to speech that can be difficult to master unless you also have a good understanding of the culture and are able to "read" people and their gestures/moods well...I find even now I sometimes misinterpret or mistake the intention behind some things, simply because meaning is inferred rather than stated.
@JusttBethhx I moved to Japan when I was 11, lived there for 3 years, and continued studying it independently til college, then I majored in it. I've worked as a translator and simultaneous interpreter before, too...so somewhere along the way I ended up fluent.;-)
Yes - my son is half-Japanese. But we only speak Japanese at home so it's his native language and the only one he has been speaking since birth. He only started really using English in the last year or so.
OMG. Yeah that was awesome. I enjoyed this :) I've been studying Japanese for 3 1/2 years now and I can barely speak it (Admittedly, I don't focus enough on speaking). However, it's still hard and you have quite the background to go along with your language skills. I have no idea what kind of videos you make, but I would encourage you to make videos about the Japanese language. There's a community for Japanese language learning on Youtube and those ppl, including me, would love your videos.
Thanks! Yes, it is a tough language to speak because of the different levels of politeness in speech and the pronunciation which a lot of native English speakers have trouble with. Thanks for your encouragement and I may in fact make some more videos about the language - though as you wrote, it is a hard language to learn to speak without actually practicing it yourself. Best of luck to you!
Does your son speak english as well?
sweetcarebear90 4 days ago
@sashababe12 how do you know japanese? Do you live in Japan?
papan1990 6 days ago
Hope*
harajuku559 1 week ago
Wow! Very impressive. I just made a whispering video on here talking about learning Japanese n how difficult it can be. I ran across ur channel by accident but I love ur accent n ur fashion sense so I am now a new follower here on YouTube n on twitter! Hop to see more videos! Arigatou gozaimasu!
harajuku559 1 week ago
You sound like my host mom in Japan :)
TheSomethingWitty 1 week ago
@TheSomethingWitty LOL Is that a good or a bad thing?;-)
carlyjcais 1 week ago
SO COOOOOL. i was not expecting that. hard work paid off!
sdfxrplv2 2 weeks ago
He sounds so cute~~~
emikoakuma 2 weeks ago
That was really good. Sounds natural. And what's more is you speak like a mother (which I think you really are) as I can tell you care about him.
More videos of you talking with the kid, please!
jp10IamMeNotU 2 weeks ago
There's something about white girls speaking Japanese....
...I like it.
TheJeremiewatson 1 month ago
"hashi o tsukutteru!" hahahha. cute.
hertnerbredin 1 month ago
@hertnerbredin Yeah, he was making a bridge with some wooden Thomas tracks at the time I think.
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
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hertnerbredin 1 month ago
In the future, I will speak to my children in Japanese like you do! : ) oh well I betrayed my mother tongue! xD Kekeke. It's a 57 seconds cutest video ever! "o(^^,)o"
MrFarhanno 1 month ago
@MrFarhanno LOL thanks! I had no idea my son was going to repeat after me in English...normally he doesn't like to repeat what I say so I was totally surprised!
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
That is so cute!!
ringosan8035 1 month ago
@ringosan8035 Thank you!:-)
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
How do you know japanese so well?
nicknbg1981 1 month ago
@nicknbg1981 I moved to Japan when I was 11 and lived there 6 years. I've also been studying the language for 20+ years now.
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
@carlyjcais I admire you very much and someday I hope to be as good as you!!
nicknbg1981 2 weeks ago
do u live in japan? not to be pushy but how does ur son know too? cuz that was AWESOME!!!!!
canary767 1 month ago
@canary767 No, I live in Oregon. I've been speaking Japanese with my son exclusively since he was born - he picked it up as a first language, but still struggles with English.
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
AWESOME!
Austyg 2 months ago
Please make more. I love listening to you. I am trying to develop my ear for Japanese and you inspire me.
TheKittengoddess 2 months ago
@TheKittengoddess Thank you for your kind words! Give me a little time...I'm slammed with school and projects right now but I hope to make more videos since everyone seems to want to hear it:-)
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
Dang I wish I was that fluent in japanese :O I recently started learning though.
Also, are you able to write in Japanese too? If you can, was it hard to learn all of the kanji, katakana, and hiragana? It seems like it might be hard for me D:
pizzahut7384 2 months ago
@pizzahut7384 Yes, read, write, the whole kaboodle. The kanas were easy to learn; the kanji up to a point. Of course I don't know *all* of them, but I know enough to read novels and newspapers. Just not medical textbooks, since I have no need to be able to read "basal ganglia" or "haemophilia" or stuff like that. I don't really need to know those words in English, anyway lol.
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
that was sooooo coolll:)
magbs 2 months ago
Awesome stuff :-)
livc44411 3 months ago
Soooo cute!
mustardpoopable 3 months ago 2
@mustardpoopable Awww thanks so much!;-)
carlyjcais 3 months ago
Awesome... You are more fluent than me!!
itm0929 4 months ago
that WAS interesting!
brain1les1 6 months ago 7
@brain1les1 :-)
carlyjcais 6 months ago
your son sounds sooooo cute! i wanna kniw what he looks like
sashababe12 8 months ago 7
@sashababe12 He's super-shy. He looks Japanese but with brownish red hair.
carlyjcais 6 months ago
@sashababe12 He's really shy, and I don't feel too comfortable posting his face on Youtube (hope you understand since he's only 6). He looks Japanese, except with my color hair (a little browner), and lighter skin like me. And the same smile. But everything else he looks just like my husband!!
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
@carlyjcais sure thats perfectly fine. protecting your children should always be your number one priority
sashababe12 3 weeks ago
awww that was so cute! I wish i can speak to my son in Japanese one day :) Thanks for the video!
Daver869 8 months ago
that was sooo cool.
IsabelBlue1 9 months ago 3
@IsabelBlue1 Thanks!:-)
carlyjcais 9 months ago 2
That was amazing!
rainbowpencil27 10 months ago
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See you guys later! That was hilarious.
LeClassics 10 months ago
The last part was really cute. :) And terrific Japanese, makes me wish I was that good and my grandparents have spoken Japanese/speak Japanese around the house and I never.. except when I was little, caught or catch on. D: Haha, IDK if I want to learn the language seriously though.. But nice video and your son sounds very cute. :)
andagii 11 months ago
@Crescentclawe , Simalier , sorry
ilikemusicdawg 11 months ago
@Crescentclawe , awesome! I knew it would take time. I also (didn't think, but somewhat knew) that alot of Japanese words were the same in English or very si
ilikemusicdawg 11 months ago
@ilikemusicdawg Well, they just took the English words for imported ideas, products, and food...so there's a lot of overlap.
carlyjcais 11 months ago
that's awesome!
shadupp 11 months ago
@carlyjcais , oh btw, u watch a show called Ayakas Surprise English Lessons. It's a great and funny skit of the Morning Musume( a J-pop group that have many different generations) members learning English. The best generation is probably the one that's in the surprise English lessons, but I like Tsuji Nozomi, Kago Ai, and Yaguchi Mari. They are probably the artists I listen to the most.
ilikemusicdawg 1 year ago
@carlyjcais Hey thanks! I'm in LOVE with J-pop, even more than music in English! I'm glad I'm doing the right thing and I will take your advice. Thx!!!
ilikemusicdawg 1 year ago
@carlyjcais Thx! Oh by the way, I'm eleven right now. Do you have any tips on learning Japanese? Like a book or site or something? Remember I'm eleven, so I have limited resources( but my parents know I'm interested in Japan, so they can also help me out)
ilikemusicdawg 1 year ago
@ilikemusicdawg The way I learnt the language (besides living there) was through music. I fell in love with J-Pop, and listened to it all the time, to the point where I could sing it. Then I would read the lyrics that came with the CDs to learn the words. & I watched alot of TV (TV shows there add words to the screen, so it's great reinforcement). And if you can't read hira/katagana yet, the best way to learn is through mnemonics, through a book like this:** Good luck!
carlyjcais 1 year ago
@ilikemusicdawg Arrgh it won't let me post a link:-( Just search on Amazon under "hiragana mnemonic" and "Kana Pict-o-Graphix" will come up. It's a great book! So: watch Japanese TV shows on Youtube, listen to music wherever you can find it (ITunes?) and study mnemonic characters so you can learn to read, and that will put you light-years ahead of other kids learning in a class environment!
carlyjcais 1 year ago
Ya is
Japanese easy to learn? I would like to learn it.
ilikemusicdawg 1 year ago
@ilikemusicdawg Hmmm...it's hard to say. I began learning it when I was 11...I would say the two hardest things are the accent (i.e., dropping all the "Americanized" overpronunciation of consonants that I have a tendency to do since I am American), and mastering the myriad compound verbs in the language, which can get very complex. Plus grasping and using the many levels of politeness is tough, too. The basics are easy; speaking at an adult level I think is very difficult.;-)
carlyjcais 1 year ago
@ilikemusicdawg Of the three most popular Far East Asian languages in the world (Japanese, Korean, Chinese - in that order), Japanese is the easiest, Korean somewhat average, and Chinese the hardest. Note that even if Japanese is the easiest out of those three, it's still going to take you - probably - at least one year to master all the different alphabetical styles (Hiragana, Katakana, Kanji) along with the most basic pronunciations (aa-ii-uu-eh-oh).
Crescentclawe 11 months ago
@Crescentclawe Well, they're all different in terms of difficulty in different areas. Linguistically-ranked (I went to a linguistics school) from easiest to hardest to learn (for an English-speaking person): Pronunciation=(Korean, Japanese, Chinese)...Reading/Writing=(Korean BY A MILE!, Japanese, Chinese)...Grammar=(Chinese, Korean, Japanese). Check out the Four Hour Workweek blog (sorry, Youtube won't let me post links) and his examples for learning any language in only 3 months...fascinating!
carlyjcais 11 months ago
@carlyjcais . Japanese is an easyer language than English, Its not hard to pronounce the Japanese words, we use all the sounds in English.
kanadajin3 2 months ago
@kanadajin3 Correct, it's not hard to pronounce the sounds in Japanese (except for the "R" sound, which does not exist in English). However, as a native English speaker it is extremely difficult to learn how to pronounce Japanese correctly since you have to essentially "unlearn" all the pronunciation conventions of vowels and consonants in English. The sounds are formed in a different part of the mouth in Japanese, and you have to *lose* an American accent to pronounce Japanese.
carlyjcais 3 weeks ago
so i just found your chic steals blog today and saw this video and wow. your japanese so is good! and it sounds like you even kind of have an accent when you say japanese. its so cool! hahaha. but your blog is awesome and your fashion sense is so creative and unique!
have a good day!
panGG 1 year ago
@panGG Thanks! I worked my butt off to be able to mimic the accent as best I could...took awhile and though I'm still not 100% perfect I'm happy with the work I did. Thanks so much for your kind words about my blog...probably my weird fashion sense is also from living in Japan!!;-)
carlyjcais 1 year ago
@carlyjcais lovely japanese i just started learning japanese today! i really enjoy it its a great languge would u say its easy to learn?
CatStarxo 1 year ago
@CatStarxo Wow, good luck!! See my reply to @ilikemusicdawg above re: ease of learning... It's a very musical language to listen to, but there are a lot of subtleties and shades of meaning to speech that can be difficult to master unless you also have a good understanding of the culture and are able to "read" people and their gestures/moods well...I find even now I sometimes misinterpret or mistake the intention behind some things, simply because meaning is inferred rather than stated.
carlyjcais 1 year ago
@JusttBethhx I moved to Japan when I was 11, lived there for 3 years, and continued studying it independently til college, then I majored in it. I've worked as a translator and simultaneous interpreter before, too...so somewhere along the way I ended up fluent.;-)
carlyjcais 1 year ago
Yes - my son is half-Japanese. But we only speak Japanese at home so it's his native language and the only one he has been speaking since birth. He only started really using English in the last year or so.
carlyjcais 1 year ago 2
OMG. Yeah that was awesome. I enjoyed this :) I've been studying Japanese for 3 1/2 years now and I can barely speak it (Admittedly, I don't focus enough on speaking). However, it's still hard and you have quite the background to go along with your language skills. I have no idea what kind of videos you make, but I would encourage you to make videos about the Japanese language. There's a community for Japanese language learning on Youtube and those ppl, including me, would love your videos.
forgottenmemories21 1 year ago 3
@forgottenmemories21
Thanks! Yes, it is a tough language to speak because of the different levels of politeness in speech and the pronunciation which a lot of native English speakers have trouble with. Thanks for your encouragement and I may in fact make some more videos about the language - though as you wrote, it is a hard language to learn to speak without actually practicing it yourself. Best of luck to you!
xoxo
Carly
carlyjcais 1 year ago