my japanese speech contest (now with subtitles!)

[TheChocOtaku]

I do the poetry divisions in my local speech contest. Last year I won state in short poem, and I'm doing long poem this year because my sensei won't let me do free speech. Is this in America? It looks a lot like the Texas state speech contest stage.

[CerberusX3]

勝ったおめでと〜

[x4heshe9x]

Love the way u began the speech, so interesting ♥

[suzyhur]

日本語うまいですね！何か羨ましいです（汗）

英語だけでなく、日本語も上手ってww

[veuvecliquot]

great speech!

[asdney101]

sugoi!!!! he was amazing

[morenachica110]

Wow. That was really good and interesting! I'm currently learning beginner Japanese and have never heard of phenomines before... Thank you for this. ^_^

[mypetmachine]

There are actually phenomimes in English, they are just exceedingly rare. The most easily recognized example would be "yoink," the sound of something being stolen, as popularized by The Simpsons. One could also make the case that "bling" is the sound of light reflecting off of flashy, showy jewelry.

[veuvecliquot]

@mypetmachine @mypetmachine I've been thinking about this this morning, and of course it is hard to find the english correlations. I also thought of flipflop for politicians (the verb), and teenyweeny for small things ( one actually closes the mouth more, as opposed to a word like "enormous" where our mouths get big) though these last ones can be classified differently

[kfcman33]

Awesome video and congrats on first place! What was the deal with this contest? 外人 speech contest? Or open to all? Either way, great video. I really enjoyed it.

[MicknFumi]

Nice one : )

[nuregami1]

uwahtahshi uwah... ><

[ANTBKN]

it'snice idea! i love this :D

[Yoostoobz]

Ha ha, very enjoyable! This will certainly help with my studies!

[andyelgrand0]

arigatou, where did you study?

[fitness0101]

That just opened my mind on how to speak Japanese a little bit better! Arigato!! >^.^<

[sma5her1]

totemo omoshirokatta :)

[sma5her1]

totemo omoshirokatta :)

[303v]

本当いいのスピーチでした。

[MassuNoEgao]

That was an awesome speech! congrats!! :)

[fdsman]

I think we do have phenomimes in english actually. For example, in a cartoon or comic when someone looks back and forth rapidly when they're nervous or planning on doing something devious, you hear a SWISH sort of sound every time they do it. Granted we don't use this in every day language but we do use it.

[rockaphobia]

That was very nicely done and a great speech topic! I myself have noticed the difference in english and japanese speech patterns. :)

[alexknyde2]

Wow! That was excellent! How long have you been leaning Japanese for?

[koldijk]

wow... amazing ... and Korean is often spoken the same way....

[KireiHana95]

wow great video.

[ninjabuddy1]

also, I don't intend on copying you in the slightest, I hope to make my own at least a bit as good as yours, but I was never a great writer. I'm doing japanese music, and describing influence and how it's affected me, and so on and so forth, not the best topic, but this is my first year so... may as well pick what I'm somewhat knowledgable about right?

[ninjabuddy1]

thank you for posting this, I'm doing the speech contest as well, I couldn't think of how to start it, didn't think it would be as easy as good afternoon everyone. figured there'd be a specific means to start a speech. anyways, thanks.

[LucyPersa]

You are really brilliant *.*

and your speech was really tanoshikute, subarashii desu yo! ^.^ omedetô

[MILDSVN8]

大変興味深く、またとても楽しく聴かせてもらいました＾＾

[sigursiggi]

mada gaijin de gozaimasu. kono bideo wa isshokenmei de ne.

[AthensHasMe]

awesome!

[felnaris]

"Oki-Ni(Kansai ben)"

Why thank you?

[morning1988]

I was impressed by this video.

You said there is no Gitaigo in English or other countries.

then i have a question for you.

Why do you think there is no gitaigo, which describes the state of something, in English?

[veuvecliquot]

@morning1988 there is gitaigo in english and other languages it is just very rare: yoink, bling.........maybe teenyweeny and flipflop also work.

[RawBigFoot]

Much Respect man! I lived in Japan a long time and might study again. At my best I was almost as good as you! :) You studied hard man, I know what it take, much much respect man, not sure what you are doing now, I am in Korea teaching at a unversity, anyow, thanks for sharing this video, very cool! There was a book a long time ago that I had in Japan that had these type of words, it was fun. Anyhow, peace be with you,

Oki-Ni(Kansai ben) ;)

[hollymanybears]

Omoshoroishi, tanoshishi, totemo suburashikatta!

[Gigi086]

i love this speech!

[Koroodetto]

I'm also interested to know is this a National compeition (in which country)? Is it run by the Japan foundation?

[Koroodetto]

Bravo.............

I don't know the equivalent in Japanese.

Is there one?

[jaybullen]

well done!

[remikit]

The subtitles are there.

Great speech! Where can I find more about pheromimes and onomatopoeia in japanese? Are there books you recommend?

And what would you recommend to become fluent?

Thanks!

[braveheartofglasgow]

I'm using rocketJapanese. It's been great so far. Try the trial.

[MizukiPanda7]

do u know fluent japanese?

[auryngirl]

Very interesting and humorous speech topic...you speak so confidently and easily! You deserved your first place :)

[badangelgld]

うまいですよ。

おめでとうございます！

[EuropaBloke]

Awesome Job mate!

May I ask how your japanese got so good? How long have you been studying?

Im envious XD

keep it up! cheers

[Xen0]

hey man, great speech.

great use of expression, words, and a great topic.

can i ask which speech contest this was for? and on top of that where it was held? =]

[Losagirl1980]

Why the * for? That's not it. Should need this " one is better, i'm deaf, I know everything with captions. Use the " not the * but deaf not understand with the * make it confousing. Better, use the " is better for understand. watch the closed caption on tv and find out if i'm fuck dead right.

[GuamRin]

Are you bitter?

[krabykevin]

Lol this was pretty funny :3

When I clicked the caption thing nothing came up for me, but lucky enough, I could understand you XD Sugoi desu! Honto hontoni sugoi desu!

[mangofish69]

you seem very prepared and confident during this. Very impressive

[GearGadgetz]

Wow that was very impressive, you took something quite common in Japanese culture and made it into something quite interesting and entertaining. I never knew about that part of the Japanese language (i don't know very much spare a few phrases). Anyways good stuff look forward to see more of your videos.

[GearGadgetz]

ohh and did you win? what where the other speeches about?

[macduckston]

The use of onomatopoeia is great.

[sacamuela]

u had a great, interesting and funny speech that i could relate to. the big pink ribbon on ur chest is eye catching... very east asianish..

[planetsound2004]

hahaha very nice, cant wait for the subbed one. i only know a bit of japanese taking it in school though so hopefully i'll get as good as this :P