Speaking is not considered important in East Asia. Tests are based on reading, writing, and some listening. I want to hear him speak Japanese considering they don't teach it in his country from an early age. lol
English in Japan is still generally taught by Japanese teachers, with very poor pronunciation. She like many might be able to read english with some skill, however conversing is difficult as they have very little (correct) spoken instruction. Theres simply not enough native English speakers in Japan to teach the correct spoken form to everyone.
Very sad, but this is the truth of the Japanese education system. Really, this girl isn't stupid, she's simply a product of the system. What is touching about this is that usually people like this are simultaneously proud of the English the do know while being super embarrased by the fact they know so little after studying for so long. It's a shame the Japanese system will not change at all any time soon and this trend will continue.
@y007ism i believer the "correct" term is "Engrish", not politically correct but as a general reference to English spoken with a (usually) Asian accent. :)
@gordox As a possibility before mocking people. Maybe 1 hour per week as an extra curricular activity (night class) or something. Make 52 hours per year for 7 years, thats 364 possible hours of contact. Average school working around 7 hours a day 5 days a week is 35 hours. Divide her 364 contact hours by the full time education hours of around 35 per week is 10.4 weeks. That works out to just over two and a half months full time. I'd like to see you learn Japanese that fast in that time.
Put it this way, her English is better than my Japanese! At least, she tried and did understand the questions, even if she wasn't absolutely sure how to give the answers.
She at least tried. You can't bash every one in the world because they don't speak English well. So WHAT? This girl tried and didn't even give up. Unlike most people here who are saying things hows she's stupid and after seven years blah blah. She has determination. She tried even though she was completely confused. Cut her slack. Who knows. Maybe one day she will be fluent.
most Japanese don't need English ^^ she is referring to 7 years in school and what you learn there in school is worthless, probably only when you go study English in college is worthwhile.
@hoangbv15 Don`t get me wrong, I`m not trying to be an asshole, but you have to be retarded to think that you can learn Japanese in one year. Good luck though. After 2-3 years of studying hard you should be able to talk about some stuff.
people dont realize ,learning english for them and being talked to in english is like an american being talked to in Japanese and excpected to understand and reply.
I am taking Japanese classes right now and my teacher is from Japan and she says that if you ever get in a conversation with someone in Japan and get stuck on a word, write it down and they will probably know the word. They usually have very good writing, but don't have good speaking skills because of lack of spoken practice.
@jigoku66 I apologize for the knuckleheads that are insulting you. Their insipid kind should not be considered American Standard. Disregard these cyber bullies. They can't get along with themselves, let alone their own countrymen or anyone else (trust me. As a Black American, I've gone through this idiocy far too much.)
I'm not an ape like this fool. I would treat you with great respect and never resort to crude insults or obsolete name.
In fact, I hope we can be cyber-friends. Peace. --S.C.
Then most Americans are idiots. They spend so many years learning Spanish and French and when they go abroad they aren't able to ask for directions. And they are always rude and noisy and lack basic manners, too.
When I say the "basics of English" those are including grammars, sentence structures, etc.. English speakers learned those things while in elementary or middle school which eventually, they will forgot some parts. I got plenty more reasons why English speakers might not speak better English learners, but no one probably read this. And I know this because I'm an English Learner myself.
I agreed that we can't speak Japanese. But you fools need to learn that in America, Japanese is an OPTIONAL language to study not a requirement language. That's why stfu about "why don't you try to speak Japanese?" Bullshit. Secondly, the reason why Japanese and any other English speakers CAN speak better English than the "racist piece of shit" because they learn all the basics of English during high school while living IN their countries. AND FUCKING WATCHING ANIME ISN'T LEARNING JAPANESE.
When they study English they study in order to pass an exam which has multiple choice questions that gets them into university. Hence they can't communicate very well in English.
7 years and she still cant speak english??? That means she does little to no studying at all, just enough to get by. I know Japanese people who have been studying japanese for like 5- 8 years and are fluent. They can speak and hear like a native. I think she meant to say 7 months.
This reminds me of how one time I posted something in a Japanese forum, written in Japanese (with a little help from Promt)......someone responded "Please post in English and we'll translate it," or something to that extent.
Just think......if I ever want to take a trip to Japan, I'll have to cram Japanese into my head, which is already a tough language to learn. I just don't want to come off as some ignorant foreigner to them. D:
You guys just flag this video in the "hateful or abusive" sections. This crap shouldn't be on a site like Youtube. Leave it on 4chan's /b/ or ebaumsworld or something.
I think she meant that she started studying English 7 years ago which means the written English. Nowadays, young japanese kids are given English training right from elementary school and lot of Americans live here just becoz they can teach English (useful or not? secondary conversation :D)
actually neither japanese nor english are difficult. They are troublesome because of the kanjis and because the english spelling does not make any sense at all.
I taught in Japan and had some students about this level, certainly not higher, that had private classes 1 hour a week that made ZERO improvement after a year. Absolutely ZERO improvement!!!!
@scrabbleking1965 I think it has something to do with how Japanese kids are actually forced to take english classes. Thus, turning them away from it and not wanting to learn. I'm not saying that I am 100% correct.
As an English Teacher in Thailand, this sounds about right!.. I've had University "English Majors" come to our language school for extra help... Their level in our school is usually BEGINNER!
Iyou gave her a peice of paper and pen, she'd be able to write a pretty decent essay introducing herself. There's not a lot of English people to practice speaking and pronouncation with. Her classes in high school likely wouldn't have included an English native speaker unless she got lucky enough to have an ALT which is about 1 in 50 high schools/elementary schools. She's probably pretty decent at reading and writing. Besides, how many people have spent years watching anime can't speak.
Some people are just much more introverted than others, for instance I've been studying English from 3rd grade but because we almost never spoke anything in class, I couldn't answer when tourists asked me something because it was too unexpected. People from more introverted nations have to think their sentences through when speaking.
@drey27 Lol, bro, chill. He never claimed to have been learning Japanese for 7 years, so...? How is he a hypocrite? If she didn't say she was learning English for 7 years, then yes, he'd be a hypocrite.
Give her a break! she is doing pretty good, english is a pretty difficult language to learn if it isn't your language or learned it when you were young.
I love Japanese accent ,i think its cute ..and i m an english teacher myself still struggling about many rules as well as pronounciation and spelling .People who learn english as a second language esp those speakers of languages who have diffrent grammar syntax structure (like subject object verb) and phonetics have great difficulties in learning english..native speakers may try to learn Japanese if they want to experience this .
@kelRapunzel Word order isn't hard to grasp. German was pretty simple and logical, and I know a bit of Gaidhlig (scots gaelic) which is VSO (verb subject object) with 4 cases. it too, was pretty easy. Japanese people seem to be just completely inept to learn anything, language wise..
@Uberkatzchen thank you..may be u are right but i m not an English speaker .My language is not Indo European group ,thats why its complicated for me, to change whole sentence -almost upside down to make a question for example (we only add a question tag at the end) ,make word derivations to add suffixes at the end of stem word,i still struggle with English after 20 years -because of its grammar ..thats why i understand why English is so difficult for Japanese and Korean..
@Uberkatzchen and pronunciation is a diffrent story .imagine you try to learn a language that has completely diffrent pronunciation,also has some letters you can't simply say..can u learn Vietnamese or Chinese ..can u make the sounds exactly?
It would be VERY easy for a Japanese person who has only been studying for a few months or even a year to use the wrong number, mix up words like "year," "month," and "day." I've had a decent number of Japanese friends in California, and this is what they typically sound like when they've only been here for a few months. I bet if this guy went like "seven YEARS!? :O" she'd quickly go "no no no no! :O ano..." while laughing about the obvious mistake,
@megatroll Hey woa woa what the hell? We're not all like this guy or whatever stereotype you've created for all Americans. I hate this guy just as much as you do for going to her country and trying to make her speak another language.
But you have to acknowledge the majority of Americans are hyper religious, ignorant war mongers who cheer at everything their corrupt fascist government serves them. Over the last 10 years the US have killed almost 1 million innocent people in their war for profit and power.
Do yourself a favour and move to another country where people are civilized and know the meaning of life and respect.
@RedPlumJam I'm sure everyone knows what it's like to not be able to speak another language. I hate how he goes to her home country and makes her try to speak another language, though. This guy is an asshole.
i think they just don't have the feeling for foreign languages like English. They don't even use the latin alphabet. This alone is a disadvantage. Maybe they should chance the method of teaching in Japan. Wll don't give up.^^
tbh the japanese teaching of english or any other foreign language is mainly reading, writing and grammar. not much time is spent on the speaking and listening side so even after 7 years of study she wouldn't be able to speak english well and because of that amount of time there is a lack of confindence when speaking. so this doesn't really surprise me
@DivideAndCondom After 2 years of study I was doing live radio interviews in Japanese, 100 times more advanced than this. I studied and talked HOURS everyday.
@scrabbleking1965 Nobody cares. The English education is different in Japan. You would know this if you weren't lying or actually had some Japanese friends that could tell you about it. Fucking idiots on youtube >.<
@rhapsody123456789 You my friend are the idiot. I speak fluent Japanese, lived there for 8 years, hitchhiked to 47 of 47 prefectures. RAN up Mt Fuji 6 times from the BOTTOM!!! in the Fuji Climbing Race, 3000 meter gain in 21Km. I don't need Japanese friends to tell me about Japan I lived IT for nearly a decade. You will enjoy life more if you if you open your eyes and ears and don't assume so much about people you don't know. Yes public schools only teach written English, not spoken.
@scrabbleking1965 Wow, congratulations. You win the internet. Ignoring the fact that nearly every Japanese high school has an oral communication class and many colleges and uni's require an oral interview in English now. I would say its more they are just afraid to speak English and are doing their best to avoid a situation...judging from my own experiences here in Shizuoka-ken at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
It could be that she has good reading and listening skills (perhaps good writing skills as well) but lacks the ability (or confidence?) to actually speak.
what's the point of this stupid video?!?! I know alot of idiotic gaijin living in Japan who have been studying Japanese for longer than 7 years and still can't even hold a proper conversation in Japanese. So if your trying to make fun of this girl this is kind of pointless.
@abadiqaisy123 umm but even if she was studing for 7 weeks or months, the basics u learn in english are the days of the week, months, and years, so i dont think she would make an error like. that so she probably did mean 7 years >_>
@abadiqaisy123 it could also be the case that she has been studying English for 7 years but has not had proper speaking classes the Japanese tend to concentrate on reading and translation more than the speaking itself in their English as a second language classes
@abadiqaisy123 no I think she means 7 years, counting from the first English class she ever had in middle school or something, that's usually how Japanese people answer anyway, but it's kind of irrelevant to answer how many years it has been since you had your first class of English since what really matters is how much you've actually studied, it's like saying I studied french for 4 years since they made us choose a third language, and I would not even be able to answer like she did here :p
From what I have been told...Japanese youths study English writing and grammar in school, but they get to do very little speaking and conversation..so it makes sense her verbal skills are not great. That is why they spend so much money on going to independent english teaching schools..to learn real conversation with native speakers.
Most of the Japanese I speak with tell me they've been "studying" English for 4-8 years. Yet many of them speak no real English. Because they haven't actually been studying, they've been sitting in very bad middle/high school classes learning little or nothing for most of those years. Just like America's language classes--the only difference is, there's is mandatory.
from what i learned in my japanese class from my teacher, english teachers in japan actually don't teach students english. they really learn nothing; it's just phrases and no real communication study.
Well, for the vast majority of English speakers, taking regular classes it takes about 9-10 years to be fluent in Japanese (this number comes from the average number of class hours it takes someone to learn it according to the US military). It's pretty much the same the opposite way, from Japanese to English. Because they're not related languages, you could literally learn French and German in the time it would take to learn Japanese (about 4-5 years each).
Speaking is not considered important in East Asia. Tests are based on reading, writing, and some listening. I want to hear him speak Japanese considering they don't teach it in his country from an early age. lol
HumaneAnon 2 days ago
English in Japan is still generally taught by Japanese teachers, with very poor pronunciation. She like many might be able to read english with some skill, however conversing is difficult as they have very little (correct) spoken instruction. Theres simply not enough native English speakers in Japan to teach the correct spoken form to everyone.
tehScribbles 2 days ago
Very sad, but this is the truth of the Japanese education system. Really, this girl isn't stupid, she's simply a product of the system. What is touching about this is that usually people like this are simultaneously proud of the English the do know while being super embarrased by the fact they know so little after studying for so long. It's a shame the Japanese system will not change at all any time soon and this trend will continue.
strokerman01 1 week ago
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GreatAffiliates 1 month ago
Japlish!!!
y007ism 1 month ago
@y007ism i believer the "correct" term is "Engrish", not politically correct but as a general reference to English spoken with a (usually) Asian accent. :)
FudgeDread 3 weeks ago
7 years? hahaha
gordox 1 month ago
@gordox As a possibility before mocking people. Maybe 1 hour per week as an extra curricular activity (night class) or something. Make 52 hours per year for 7 years, thats 364 possible hours of contact. Average school working around 7 hours a day 5 days a week is 35 hours. Divide her 364 contact hours by the full time education hours of around 35 per week is 10.4 weeks. That works out to just over two and a half months full time. I'd like to see you learn Japanese that fast in that time.
FudgeDread 3 weeks ago 6
@FudgeDread I agree wholeheartedly, and thank you for saying it.
tautau1a 2 weeks ago
Put it this way, her English is better than my Japanese! At least, she tried and did understand the questions, even if she wasn't absolutely sure how to give the answers.
JFredUK 1 month ago
Yup, she's an illegal alien! :P
alamoghost 1 month ago
Yup, she's and illegal alien!
alamoghost 1 month ago
OMG SUPER CUTE!!!
MurdocLC 1 month ago
She at least tried. You can't bash every one in the world because they don't speak English well. So WHAT? This girl tried and didn't even give up. Unlike most people here who are saying things hows she's stupid and after seven years blah blah. She has determination. She tried even though she was completely confused. Cut her slack. Who knows. Maybe one day she will be fluent.
Mashichanlove 1 month ago 2
IIRC, Japanese schools focus mainly on teaching how to read English.
300Spartans 1 month ago
lol, in japanese I heard her say "I'm not studying anything" to someone at 0:12
She means, she studied English at high school= 7 years
bennixanime 3 months ago 2
@bennixanime actually, she says 何を勉強している (Nani o benkyou shiteiru) meaning, "what am i studying"... sad day, doesn't even know what she's studying xD
seaking020492 2 months ago 3
@seaking020492 no... shes clarifying that she is understanding his question properly
rhysmuir 2 months ago 2
@seaking020492
that's not true...she just repeat the question and make sure if she's going to answer properly.
a40511a012325 3 weeks ago
@bennixanime She didn't say she doesn't study, she just restated the question in Japanese.
MurdocLC 1 month ago
OMG seven Years! she study english for seven years hahaha!!! Kinda Rough 4 her
kelbyhaines 3 months ago
well that's quite impressive for someone who'd learn english in 7 years, imagine how much would she have progressed in another 7 years?
kfki 3 months ago
For me japanese language is more difficult than english language
harold29o5 3 months ago 4
studying English 7 years and this is wat she've got... THIS IS INSANE
これはマジで日本でおきてんのかＷＷなんか恥ずかしいな
hajisarabuntakunn 3 months ago
@hajisarabuntakunn just one look in an English classroom in Japan will explain everything. 日本の英語教育は最悪だから。
electrickabuki 3 months ago
@electrickabuki 日本は、「英語」って言うのにとらわれすぎてるというか、使うための英語じゃないですよね。何の為に習っているのかわからないくらいのレベル。あくまで私個人の考えです。
hajisarabuntakunn 3 months ago
Speaking Japanese is not so difficult but writing Kanji and reading it takes alot of time to learn and the grammar is different (hard).
SemiChii 3 months ago
most Japanese don't need English ^^ she is referring to 7 years in school and what you learn there in school is worthless, probably only when you go study English in college is worthwhile.
SemiChii 3 months ago
@cokotuossurdum あなたの日本語は最高だ！！！！！
AGenericAccount 3 months ago
right, make fun of their english here, while they do all they can to help the foreigners in japan who cant speak japanese
beautyfulaku 3 months ago 2
@beautyfulaku hey, those who made fun of Japanese are just losers. :) don't get irritated now. :)
lightmrwa 3 months ago
what are you staying?
naju332 3 months ago
If you don't live in an English-speaking country, to properly learn English you have to become an Internet addict.
*True story*
ZequeZ1 4 months ago 68
@ZequeZ1
Very true. But being an internet addict doesn't naturally makes you a proper English user.
skillless 3 months ago
@ZequeZ1 nope. Before ynternetz it was also done by movies and vydeo games with text.
Ottexr 1 month ago
@Ottexr Indeed, but I must differ that in less degree, since the interaction is way more in the Internet.
ZequeZ1 1 month ago
@ZequeZ1 Well, if you really are from Argentina, then your english is not bad. You must be an internet addict then. I know I am one.
GaryWeichannel 1 week ago
i love her accent
that so awkward random person asking you questions puting a mic and camera in ur face recording u AND in a different language
watcherofzideozeszz 4 months ago
Oh great. There goes my hope for learning Japanese in one year...
hoangbv15 4 months ago 2
@hoangbv15 Don`t get me wrong, I`m not trying to be an asshole, but you have to be retarded to think that you can learn Japanese in one year. Good luck though. After 2-3 years of studying hard you should be able to talk about some stuff.
kubapl90 4 months ago
people dont realize ,learning english for them and being talked to in english is like an american being talked to in Japanese and excpected to understand and reply.
955pokerface 4 months ago
I am taking Japanese classes right now and my teacher is from Japan and she says that if you ever get in a conversation with someone in Japan and get stuck on a word, write it down and they will probably know the word. They usually have very good writing, but don't have good speaking skills because of lack of spoken practice.
Lilithaaaa 4 months ago
I don't think this girl is an idiot. She was nervous.
Having someone put a camera and a mic in front of you doesn't happen too often.
Plus there aren't too many people over there who can help her perfect her English (just as there aren't many folks here who speak Japanese).
She's no idiot. Chances are, this lady is a lot smarter than her critics.
SuperCartiel 4 months ago 4
7 years? More like 7 weeks O_o
fishNguitars 4 months ago
@NeoTranshuman
Yes, I am Asian, but my nationality is none of your business.
Anyway, stop insulting people because you give your country a bad name.
jigoku66 4 months ago
@jigoku66 I apologize for the knuckleheads that are insulting you. Their insipid kind should not be considered American Standard. Disregard these cyber bullies. They can't get along with themselves, let alone their own countrymen or anyone else (trust me. As a Black American, I've gone through this idiocy far too much.)
I'm not an ape like this fool. I would treat you with great respect and never resort to crude insults or obsolete name.
In fact, I hope we can be cyber-friends. Peace. --S.C.
SuperCartiel 4 months ago
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SuperCartiel 4 months ago
@SuperCartiel
You don't need to apologize, you haven't done anything wrong. It's the knuckleheads that should be held responsible.
jigoku66 4 months ago
@jigoku66 Right. Absolutely. I wish You Tube would ban these cretins. I am so done with these blooters.
SuperCartiel 4 months ago
@NeoTranshuman
Then most Americans are idiots. They spend so many years learning Spanish and French and when they go abroad they aren't able to ask for directions. And they are always rude and noisy and lack basic manners, too.
jigoku66 4 months ago
@NeoTranshuman
So anyone who doesn't speak English is clearly an idiot?
jigoku66 4 months ago
When I say the "basics of English" those are including grammars, sentence structures, etc.. English speakers learned those things while in elementary or middle school which eventually, they will forgot some parts. I got plenty more reasons why English speakers might not speak better English learners, but no one probably read this. And I know this because I'm an English Learner myself.
BloodTheBad 4 months ago
I agreed that we can't speak Japanese. But you fools need to learn that in America, Japanese is an OPTIONAL language to study not a requirement language. That's why stfu about "why don't you try to speak Japanese?" Bullshit. Secondly, the reason why Japanese and any other English speakers CAN speak better English than the "racist piece of shit" because they learn all the basics of English during high school while living IN their countries. AND FUCKING WATCHING ANIME ISN'T LEARNING JAPANESE.
BloodTheBad 4 months ago
she obviously has not been doing her homework..
Leed86012000 5 months ago
Also... the guy interviewing her may not have even edited this to make it look all surprised.
zERImewsick 5 months ago
just nervous and cute xD
redplll 5 months ago
When they study English they study in order to pass an exam which has multiple choice questions that gets them into university. Hence they can't communicate very well in English.
braeduin 5 months ago
7 years and she still cant speak english??? That means she does little to no studying at all, just enough to get by. I know Japanese people who have been studying japanese for like 5- 8 years and are fluent. They can speak and hear like a native. I think she meant to say 7 months.
CoreyLongmire 5 months ago
*people can speak better.
skinnyxranger 5 months ago
it can't be real, even in my country, Poland, (where the standard of teaching english in schools isn't that good) can speak better.
skinnyxranger 5 months ago
WTF seven years, do i hearing well?
#Brazil
ThePitaRock 5 months ago
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ThePitaRock 5 months ago
I think she did very well. I hope she continues to do her best and work towards her dreams ^^
Fallenmoonchild 5 months ago
I wanna speak fluent Japanese! ToT
HayleeHugs 5 months ago
Its FAKE not real thing.
fufueater 5 months ago in playlist nova
her pronounciation is excellent
MrJumong2010 5 months ago 2
This reminds me of how one time I posted something in a Japanese forum, written in Japanese (with a little help from Promt)......someone responded "Please post in English and we'll translate it," or something to that extent.
Just think......if I ever want to take a trip to Japan, I'll have to cram Japanese into my head, which is already a tough language to learn. I just don't want to come off as some ignorant foreigner to them. D:
dave55811 5 months ago
Speak japanese in Japan
ikura009 5 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
you are the racist
glevix 5 months ago
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theroxorman48 5 months ago
Can you read this?even one word
操你妈的白痴!
VansFaith 6 months ago
Your english sucks too
VansFaith 6 months ago 27
she wanted to say 7 weeks..
jackichan472 6 months ago
why do you fool people in a foreign country?
martintar1 6 months ago
Almost as bad as americans are at english!
AngelBiLove 6 months ago
@AngelBiLove I'm guessing your British... So you can fuck off.
BrahnTheHandyMan 6 months ago
@AngelBiLove I'm American, and I'm not bad with English.
mikepep33 6 months ago
Well thats 7 years wasted ,how the hell did she get through immigration
quest1931 6 months ago
@quest1931 ....this was shot in Japan....
Fallenmoonchild 5 months ago
I bet this asshole doesn't even know how to say "hello" in Japanese, but she at least understood what he asked.
Nickosys 6 months ago
show some respect to other people..do not mocking others
MrMujaheedin 6 months ago
Stupid video, big ass lag its like this shit was recorded using a calculator
Shoot1ngStar 6 months ago
You guys just flag this video in the "hateful or abusive" sections. This crap shouldn't be on a site like Youtube. Leave it on 4chan's /b/ or ebaumsworld or something.
tsukael 6 months ago
AHAHAHYAHAHA so funny :3
chuckey10 6 months ago
I think she meant that she started studying English 7 years ago which means the written English. Nowadays, young japanese kids are given English training right from elementary school and lot of Americans live here just becoz they can teach English (useful or not? secondary conversation :D)
witty3838 6 months ago
wow she is so cute
dinajasim 7 months ago
actually neither japanese nor english are difficult. They are troublesome because of the kanjis and because the english spelling does not make any sense at all.
MyHugestFan 7 months ago
Also joining in that foreigners can write better English than speaking it
Warsie 7 months ago
Usually pronounce Mcdonald=Makutunarutu
TennoheikaBonsaiDesu 7 months ago
You're scaring her...
remboy3000 7 months ago
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shunsuke93 7 months ago
Do YOU speak Japanese? Some Japanese speak better English than you fucking racist piece of shit.
iloveinazumaeleven 7 months ago 62
I taught in Japan and had some students about this level, certainly not higher, that had private classes 1 hour a week that made ZERO improvement after a year. Absolutely ZERO improvement!!!!
scrabbleking1965 7 months ago
@scrabbleking1965 I think it has something to do with how Japanese kids are actually forced to take english classes. Thus, turning them away from it and not wanting to learn. I'm not saying that I am 100% correct.
CraziiDago 7 months ago
As an English Teacher in Thailand, this sounds about right!.. I've had University "English Majors" come to our language school for extra help... Their level in our school is usually BEGINNER!
CosmicSurfer1 7 months ago
Iyou gave her a peice of paper and pen, she'd be able to write a pretty decent essay introducing herself. There's not a lot of English people to practice speaking and pronouncation with. Her classes in high school likely wouldn't have included an English native speaker unless she got lucky enough to have an ALT which is about 1 in 50 high schools/elementary schools. She's probably pretty decent at reading and writing. Besides, how many people have spent years watching anime can't speak.
Burchnall87 8 months ago 29
Wow who is the dickheaded interview?
rinwhr 8 months ago 5
Mean people ... ): Seriously , she's trying !
KuroNeko1995 8 months ago 5
Stupid arsehole bitch. We're not like that!!
hirochan224 8 months ago 2
the only way you learn something is to apply it in real world. ; )
arjay2002ph 8 months ago
Some people are just much more introverted than others, for instance I've been studying English from 3rd grade but because we almost never spoke anything in class, I couldn't answer when tourists asked me something because it was too unexpected. People from more introverted nations have to think their sentences through when speaking.
SuperMsifiableful 8 months ago
Studying a language in school doesn't mean you can carry on a conversation in it. I've met people who took years of a language and still couldn't.
thrash77581 8 months ago
kkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk
até eu sou melhor !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
how long have U been studying in english?
for a while????7 years
7 YEARS????
maacellaingrid 8 months ago
The girl was obviously nervous.
You'd be surprised at how well some Japanese speak English. Many are reluctant to do so because they're rather sad or embarrassed of their accents.
SuperCartiel 8 months ago
7 years???? i think she meant 7 days
vatan1923 8 months ago
How about english speakers when they speak Japanese??
khalid9999k 8 months ago
this dude probably dont even know how to speak a word of japanese and he criticizes her for not having good enough english. What a hypocrite
drey27 8 months ago
@drey27 Lol, bro, chill. He never claimed to have been learning Japanese for 7 years, so...? How is he a hypocrite? If she didn't say she was learning English for 7 years, then yes, he'd be a hypocrite.
zERImewsick 5 months ago
seven years with this result OMG
shichi78 8 months ago
seven years OMG
shichi78 8 months ago
kkkkkkkkkkkk
takayashi27 8 months ago
Give her a break! she is doing pretty good, english is a pretty difficult language to learn if it isn't your language or learned it when you were young.
kei0kusanagi 8 months ago
Well, I don't see you learning Japanese.
ponyopurin 8 months ago
loook at that! hes telling her what are you studying! she will tell him My MAJOR! he will tell her media! lol.... no comment haha.
abadiqaisy123 8 months ago
I actually graduated from this college and I feel so ashamed that there are students like her 0_o
arciawebb 8 months ago
fruent engrish
lamareikan666 9 months ago
nani o benkyou = studying what
heyheyalan1 9 months ago
7 years huh... she still speaks better English than I do German.
Alexc3217 9 months ago
I love Japanese accent ,i think its cute ..and i m an english teacher myself still struggling about many rules as well as pronounciation and spelling .People who learn english as a second language esp those speakers of languages who have diffrent grammar syntax structure (like subject object verb) and phonetics have great difficulties in learning english..native speakers may try to learn Japanese if they want to experience this .
kelRapunzel 9 months ago 2
@kelRapunzel Word order isn't hard to grasp. German was pretty simple and logical, and I know a bit of Gaidhlig (scots gaelic) which is VSO (verb subject object) with 4 cases. it too, was pretty easy. Japanese people seem to be just completely inept to learn anything, language wise..
and people say English speakers are lazy.. o_O
Uberkatzchen 8 months ago
@Uberkatzchen thank you..may be u are right but i m not an English speaker .My language is not Indo European group ,thats why its complicated for me, to change whole sentence -almost upside down to make a question for example (we only add a question tag at the end) ,make word derivations to add suffixes at the end of stem word,i still struggle with English after 20 years -because of its grammar ..thats why i understand why English is so difficult for Japanese and Korean..
kelRapunzel 8 months ago
@Uberkatzchen and pronunciation is a diffrent story .imagine you try to learn a language that has completely diffrent pronunciation,also has some letters you can't simply say..can u learn Vietnamese or Chinese ..can u make the sounds exactly?
kelRapunzel 8 months ago
omg adorable. <3
marsflamesniper 9 months ago
Nonsense video.
aiseruchan 9 months ago
It would be VERY easy for a Japanese person who has only been studying for a few months or even a year to use the wrong number, mix up words like "year," "month," and "day." I've had a decent number of Japanese friends in California, and this is what they typically sound like when they've only been here for a few months. I bet if this guy went like "seven YEARS!? :O" she'd quickly go "no no no no! :O ano..." while laughing about the obvious mistake,
pho820 9 months ago
give a credit to this girl!! can u imagine when we speak japanese?
silverapple127 9 months ago
stupid video , for the japanese is very difficult learn english...
but the kanji is more difficult that the english.
:) stupid video
HideSpookySama 9 months ago
About the greasy American war monger interviewing her?
How many languages do YOU speak fat ass??? Huh???
All you can do is invade countries and kill and torture...
Fucking uncivilized apes!
megatroll 9 months ago
@megatroll Hey woa woa what the hell? We're not all like this guy or whatever stereotype you've created for all Americans. I hate this guy just as much as you do for going to her country and trying to make her speak another language.
zildjianuo7 9 months ago
@zildjianuo7
Okay sorry mate.
I have friends in America too.
But you have to acknowledge the majority of Americans are hyper religious, ignorant war mongers who cheer at everything their corrupt fascist government serves them. Over the last 10 years the US have killed almost 1 million innocent people in their war for profit and power.
Do yourself a favour and move to another country where people are civilized and know the meaning of life and respect.
Peace
megatroll 9 months ago
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pho820 9 months ago
@zildjianuo7 Did you notice his username?
PKrockin 9 months ago
@PKrockin He actually responded and apologized. :)
zildjianuo7 9 months ago
this video is nonsense.
donairewycheel 9 months ago
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RedPlumJam 9 months ago
@RedPlumJam I'm sure everyone knows what it's like to not be able to speak another language. I hate how he goes to her home country and makes her try to speak another language, though. This guy is an asshole.
zildjianuo7 9 months ago
poor girl ><!
shadowcouncil911 10 months ago
stupid foreigners..
MilkyStreets 10 months ago
i think they just don't have the feeling for foreign languages like English. They don't even use the latin alphabet. This alone is a disadvantage. Maybe they should chance the method of teaching in Japan. Wll don't give up.^^
1990alucard 10 months ago
who is korean?
raychen1121 10 months ago
because this fucking gaijin's talk is so fast.
sijotakane 10 months ago
tbh the japanese teaching of english or any other foreign language is mainly reading, writing and grammar. not much time is spent on the speaking and listening side so even after 7 years of study she wouldn't be able to speak english well and because of that amount of time there is a lack of confindence when speaking. so this doesn't really surprise me
hoshiko123 10 months ago 3
wooooooooooooowwww looooooooooooooollllllllllllll 7 years come one such a dumb thing to say
Borislav18 10 months ago
they study it for so long but they never get a chance to practice it!
shamille724 11 months ago 2
that's why people say that japanese are monkey ~!
jjyzzang8456 11 months ago
@jjyzzang8456 You're from Afghanistan? 'Nuff said.
Gautigoth 10 months ago
What other language can u ever speak fluently before bullying and fooling her????????
martintar1 11 months ago 4
How about you speak their language.
DivideAndCondom 11 months ago 109
@DivideAndCondom After 2 years of study I was doing live radio interviews in Japanese, 100 times more advanced than this. I studied and talked HOURS everyday.
scrabbleking1965 7 months ago
@scrabbleking1965 HAHAHA
HaaruhiSama 7 months ago
@scrabbleking1965 Nobody cares. The English education is different in Japan. You would know this if you weren't lying or actually had some Japanese friends that could tell you about it. Fucking idiots on youtube >.<
rhapsody123456789 7 months ago
@rhapsody123456789 You my friend are the idiot. I speak fluent Japanese, lived there for 8 years, hitchhiked to 47 of 47 prefectures. RAN up Mt Fuji 6 times from the BOTTOM!!! in the Fuji Climbing Race, 3000 meter gain in 21Km. I don't need Japanese friends to tell me about Japan I lived IT for nearly a decade. You will enjoy life more if you if you open your eyes and ears and don't assume so much about people you don't know. Yes public schools only teach written English, not spoken.
scrabbleking1965 7 months ago
@scrabbleking1965 Wow, congratulations. You win the internet. Ignoring the fact that nearly every Japanese high school has an oral communication class and many colleges and uni's require an oral interview in English now. I would say its more they are just afraid to speak English and are doing their best to avoid a situation...judging from my own experiences here in Shizuoka-ken at the foot of Mt. Fuji.
muldurag 7 months ago
7 seconds i guess
sound1wave2 11 months ago
It could be that she has good reading and listening skills (perhaps good writing skills as well) but lacks the ability (or confidence?) to actually speak.
YouStoleMyTube 11 months ago
what's the point of this stupid video?!?! I know alot of idiotic gaijin living in Japan who have been studying Japanese for longer than 7 years and still can't even hold a proper conversation in Japanese. So if your trying to make fun of this girl this is kind of pointless.
monolocco 11 months ago
this is kansai gaidai :O
sakuraga0ka 11 months ago
this is wrong! i think she wanted to say 7 month or weeks
abadiqaisy123 1 year ago 101
@abadiqaisy123 well it could just be 7 days,7 hrs,7mins
kamikazeboy123 11 months ago
@abadiqaisy123 umm but even if she was studing for 7 weeks or months, the basics u learn in english are the days of the week, months, and years, so i dont think she would make an error like. that so she probably did mean 7 years >_>
narutofreakdbz1 11 months ago
@abadiqaisy123 it could also be the case that she has been studying English for 7 years but has not had proper speaking classes the Japanese tend to concentrate on reading and translation more than the speaking itself in their English as a second language classes
chocomilk1989 8 months ago
@chocomilk1989 loook at that! hes telling her what are you studying! she will tell him My MAJOR! he will tell her media! lol....
abadiqaisy123 8 months ago
@abadiqaisy123 no I think she means 7 years, counting from the first English class she ever had in middle school or something, that's usually how Japanese people answer anyway, but it's kind of irrelevant to answer how many years it has been since you had your first class of English since what really matters is how much you've actually studied, it's like saying I studied french for 4 years since they made us choose a third language, and I would not even be able to answer like she did here :p
1281247124 7 months ago
cute hehe
abadiqaisy123 1 year ago
From what I have been told...Japanese youths study English writing and grammar in school, but they get to do very little speaking and conversation..so it makes sense her verbal skills are not great. That is why they spend so much money on going to independent english teaching schools..to learn real conversation with native speakers.
sombs 1 year ago 6
wish i could speak japanese but its to confusing with all that kanji and hiragana together, i think thats what it was called.
totopoo123 1 year ago
Most of the Japanese I speak with tell me they've been "studying" English for 4-8 years. Yet many of them speak no real English. Because they haven't actually been studying, they've been sitting in very bad middle/high school classes learning little or nothing for most of those years. Just like America's language classes--the only difference is, there's is mandatory.
chaossscape 1 year ago 5
Lol 7 years
WindX5 1 year ago
from what i learned in my japanese class from my teacher, english teachers in japan actually don't teach students english. they really learn nothing; it's just phrases and no real communication study.
happyneon 1 year ago
Well, for the vast majority of English speakers, taking regular classes it takes about 9-10 years to be fluent in Japanese (this number comes from the average number of class hours it takes someone to learn it according to the US military). It's pretty much the same the opposite way, from Japanese to English. Because they're not related languages, you could literally learn French and German in the time it would take to learn Japanese (about 4-5 years each).
Tzadeck 1 year ago
@Tzadeck
That's some pretty lolz-worthy statistics, what retard would need 10 years to learn to speak Japanese?
I could speak fluently after around 2 years, maybe not with impeckable accent, but still.
It's to be honest one of the easiest languages to learn how to speak, imo.
Kana, you can learn within a few weeks, sure Kanji takes a whole lot of time to get down though, but speaking is an entirely different matter.
JrockNerd 1 year ago