Referring To Oneself In Japanese

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In this video, we teach you the Japanese gesture for referring to yourself. Instead of pointing at your chest (possibly with your thumb?) you point at your nose with your pointer finger. "Me?" you ask, as you point to your nose. Why yes, you.

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[tomreynolds339]

What the hell what that British accent? Come on @tofugu you can do better than this!

[tofugu]

you can't talk like that to michael cain!

[demertknight]

Too Short T-T

[tofugu]

but, we uploaded like 3 videos at once!

[SuperNEKO64]

it's a bit awkward to do this... I feel like I'm not respecting my own personal space... hard to explain ಠ_ಠ

[Christopher Ashton]

If your a guy is it okay to use boku with strangers?

[Alexander Malattia]

when ever i lose at nose goes (i refuse to to play because there are better ways to decide who is the designated driver) i tell everyone to "fuck off" in a British accent. then i order a white Russian in a Russian accent and there is always the one Russian guy that gives me the "you ass hole" look for a while.

[Battfro]

Oh, wow that's actually pretty funny because, at least where I'm from, we have a thing called "nose goes" where you have to make that exact gesture and the last one to do it has to do whatever activity we were arguing about (like who will cook breakfast).

[Neonsakura1022]

I never really noticed that I did this until my friends sent me a link to this video...

[im19ice3]

extreme double self pointing gives asian eyes 0:23

[jaedenize]

LOL I think that was supposed to be a joke lol

[NightGoddessMai]

Lols, he missed.

[AtupoMaruru]

Oh... all of a sudden 自 sometimes meaning "nose" in addition to "oneself" makes total sense!

[daemon2797]

Yea i think ill just not point at all when i refer to myself. Because i think it would be awkward. Also with my luck i would end up failing and stab out an eye.

[jaxenyakamouru]

OH thats why JACKIE CHAN points to his nose all the time in movies! but i thought he was Chinese....