Japanese Speech by American student at Meguro Gakuin

[Stektanudlar]

How can he be that proficient and pronounce it so badly?

[chiron1219]

i think the first time they laughed was when he said 「父は６０歳ですが、もう退職しています （it means "my father is 60 years old, but he's already retired", literally）」, and I guess this might be considered as a humor that he implied, because it could be interpreted as he mentioned "he's ONLY 60 years old, but ANYHOW, he's retired already", and that is clear by the fact that right after he said that, one of those students said "(that's) Too early!". This, in Japan, is what to be called as"

ツッコミ(tsukkomi)”.

[TheWhiteStripes3]

Thank you for your helpful explanation!

[bbfan77]

awesome, I understood most of it :D couldn't make out some things, but still ^^

I wonder why they were laughing...

[Oty3d]

Wow, I would have spoken much slower because I would be searching for the right words and playing them in my brain before speaking.

[MiNDx1er]

Is it hard to go to school there? what are the requirements?

[devilswing5k]

hi can you post the romanji of your speech coz your speech is too fast. im studying japanese module 1 and my teacher wants me to have a japanese speech.

[mederius]

nice man very good you speak very good Japanese.

[sakuramiyakawa]

OMG this is soooo touching XDDD don't you feel great to have this opportunity? I'm a Japanese student (I look american though) and I'm living in USA right now (going to move back to Japan in a month). When I first came here, we didn't do these type of introductions and when I did talk to the class, people would make fun of my pronounciation. In japan though, we are happy to know that people speak Japanese. ^_^ that's a good thing. good job ;D

[alirubit]

@sakuramiyakawa people around the world love to learn Japanese because it is a great Language, I love Japanese 私は日本語を学んでいます

[junpeif80]

pretty good for a 15 year old. good job!

[azda09]

normally in japan they woudnt laugh when you say your dads alriedy dead .

[wasabiwild]

@azda09 thats not what he said. he said his dad is already retired at age 60.

[azda09]

@wasabiwild i re listened to it and i misunderstood it .cheers :). i thought he said かれは　もうさっそく死んでいます

[Numa1234567]

Haha they were all so impressed! Lovely job. IT takes guts to do a speech in a different language.

[billyblue8]

fair play to you!!!!!!!!!! i can speak almost perfect japanese but no way got the guts to give a speech like that in front anyone!!!! fair play to you!!!!

[erickamay28]

isnt Shinigami death god? or sumthiing?

[wasabiwild]

@erickamay28 yeah, i think he definitely mispronounced the name but he did pretty good job for a year and half learning.

[Yomioka]

Is your teacher not teaching you proper accent?

Beejeebus, man.

You should watch some good anime.

Get that accent down pat.

[dramaxxteen]

@Yomioka No offense but anime doesn't teach you Japanese nor does manga. It helps, but you need to learn it properly. Classes and textbooks.

[Yomioka]

I didn't say anything about learning the language from the anime.

I said ACCENT can be learn from listening to people. Japanese people. In anime.

Yeah.

[heero171]

That, or Japanese movies, radio, news, TV (all on the internet)

[putangfable]

dayuuum

[vgycgy]

this is from a real japanese (me) u have excellent grammer but u should work on ur accent and pronunciation and u should have used different words at some parts but u did alrealy YAY

[MetalShin0bi]

I want to learn Japanese so bad. I need a class like this. Good job man!

[ononokootokonoko]

hows that going? u still into it??? i really want to learn it to but am having second thoughts coz its really pretty useless unless u live there.... :(

[prettyunicorn1]

Your grammar is very very good. The pronunciation not so much. You accent is very noticeable. If you haven't already(I'm guessing you have since its been two years), I would try to improve it. Pronunciation is the easiest thing in the language though imo, so it isn't to hard. I think the major problem with your pronunciation is the length of each phoneme isn't pronounced equal with others. All phonemes are pronounced equal except for the long vowels.

[painandink37]

Well done friend

[nyappykid777]

What did you say to make them laugh? lol

[DominicanDP809]

hahaha he said "watashi" he should of said "boku"

[TheWhiteStripes3]

Nah, it was in a formal setting and I was speaking in front of teachers as well as students. "Watashi" is not for females only. I used it correctly.

I said boku after the speech when I talked to the students individually or in small groups.

[DominicanDP809]

yea i kn but i like boku better it sounds badass haha well Ore sounds better but i guess u cant use it in a speech well depends how u use it

[katrandom]

they all laughed when he said that his dad is already retired.... but I think he pronounced it wrong so they laughed.... not sure...

[LimeLemonLeaf]

taishoku wo shite imasu means "eat a lot(glottony)"

[katrandom]

ah I see! that makes sense I suppose...

[rud3ForLaruku]

cute!

[meggzy94]

what'd you say to make them laugh?

[Emeraldgreenoczna]

'de moi moi ha cho hu hi he właz :P

[meggzy94]

what does that even mean!?!?!?!?

[htake21]

yappari sugoi ne:p

[theeBADEST09]

do I even want to know what you done? 0.o

[Bananas1000]

Your Japanese is very nice, however, you've got a very heavy American accent haven't you? Still working on getting rid of my own Dutch accent though ^^

[RedStompa]

yeah, good job. i may try and learn it in the future.

One thing though: work on presentation skills, you were kneading your pant legs throughout. They must think we are a bunch of pantleg kneading mutants now.

[AznZZprodigy]

what the fuck?

ohh shit! that's who that waas!

[punkrgurl]

Very nice Japanese, i am still working on learning it.

[DrewJ16]

That's pretty good.

[AkinaMizuki]

Can you tell me what your saying?

[TheWhiteStripes3]

Hello everyone, nice to meet you. My name is Sage Wright. I am 15. I am a junior in highschool. There are five people in my family: my dad, my mom, my big brother and my little brother, but my big brother doesnt live in our house. My dad is 60 and hes already retired. 40 years ago, he lived in japan for 4 years....

[TheWhiteStripes3]

My mother is 52. She is very kind. My older brother is 24. He is cool. My brother is 12. He is funny. As for pets, I have a dog. 2 Japanese students have stayed in my house. Takumi Nishino and Ryo Shimagami. I was impressed by how well they spoke English. I have studied Japanese for 1 year and 4 months...

[TheWhiteStripes3]

This is my second time coming to Japan. I would like to be fluent in Japanese. In college, i want to major in Japanese language. As for a job, I want english teacher. I am honored to be at your school. please be kind to me.

[TheWhiteStripes3]

Happy? :D

[AkinaMizuki]

thank you! =) I was wondering what they were laughing about

[TheWhiteStripes3]

lol, hmm. i didnt really say anything too funny. They were just in a happy mood because i got them out of having to do school work.

[seamonkeywater]

probably about the retired?

[edenpie]

you certainly made your classmates giggle alot, you sounded very good too. it was kinda start and stop but then again, i speak worse than that giving a speech in english lmao

[withthebeatles7000]

wow how many languages do you know. i know greek, spanish, english and soon learning japanese and french

[TheWhiteStripes3]

lol just English and Japanese.

[Juanserz]

cool i want to learn it too, i know english and castilian (Spanish)

[BBeatMalaria]

Shame to myself... i'm half japanese, but i understood like 3 words... ;)

But it's pretty cool, that you can speak japanese that good!

[CUKCY]

It's very nice of you to make a speech in Japanese!

You must be smart! :o

[aphroditegrl88]

sage you are such a nerd. lol but at least you acn speak japanese. i suck at it but as you insisted i'm taking 3rd year...hopefully one day i'l be able to understand what you're saying. :)

[Cybernetic]

so i presume your japanese is tip top and know a lot

[TheWhiteStripes3]

I had only studied Japanese for about a year and a half when I made that speech. I've been motivated to learn quickly by the Japanese students that I've hosted. The school that im at in this video is the school of two of the Japanese students I've hosted in America

[Cybernetic]

oh thats cool, i did live in japan for 3 years but since i did not go to a japanese school i do not know as well but know much, yet have much to learn

[vianneyanzu]

wow..that was nice...too bad i know little japanese when I delivered my speech during my exchange student days...waah.. i so envy you...honto ni sugoi!! omedetou!!

[Silky777]

I don't know why, but this video is awesome. Kickass.

[animelover177225]

........wow.. I didnt not understand. Just some basics.

[koronbiajindesune]

あなたは日本語がすごいね^^でも、あなたは漢字でも読める?

[Five5Five6Six6]

I'm not too fond of Kanji.

D:<