 Welcome to Konnichiwa, Hawaii, a Japanese broadcast streaming live from downtown Honolulu and available on YouTube. I'm your host Yukari Kunisue and joining me today in the studio actually is J. Fidel, the founder and CEO of Think That Kawaii. Today we will have slightly different type of show because J is going to practice Japanese. If you are a Japanese native and this show will help you how to teach the very basic Japanese. I'm Yoshiko Yoshiko, the founder and CEO of Think That Kawaii. I hope that many of you who live in Hawaii and those who are watching from other places want to learn Japanese and receive requests. Even if you are a native Japanese, it is quite difficult for foreigners to learn Japanese. Today, we will be talking about J-san's experience. We will be teaching Japanese phrases to people who are native English speakers. Today's show will be in English and Japanese. Konnichiwa, Yukari-san. Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Let me ask you, J, what is your background in Japanese language? When I came here in 1965 in the U.S. Coast Guard, they sent me for conversational Japanese course at UH. How many years? That was 45 years ago, I think. Okay, so how many months or weeks have you studied Japanese? Oh, it was probably about a month, that was the whole thing. Okay, and do you have any chance to speak Japanese or associate with Japanese people? Only on my trips to Japan and at home where my wife calls me names in Japanese. What names? Well, she says, she says, Kite and I, and for the longest time I thought they meant I love you. I found out later it doesn't mean that at all. Okay, what does it mean you found out? It means something like, and I can't pronounce this, Kiyoki Gaijin. Kiyoki Gaijin, okay. Crazy Gaijin, okay, okay. Actually, Kitana means little meaning is dirty, but not like dirty old man, but it's more like a messy, messy is the word. I think that's what your wife is expressing. Yeah, no, she made that clear, yeah. Right, okay. So, first of all, what other language words do you know, other than Kiyoki Gaijin and Kitana? If you remember anything from- Sure, Ohio, and we know Konnichiwa, Kumbawa, Sayonara, let's see. And others that I can't remember right now, a handful of words. Maybe Honda, Sushi, Toyota, Suzuki. Cars, yeah, food cars. Good, all right. So today we are going to slightly correct your pronunciation. So it really sounds like not Gaijin Japanese, but real Japanese. Okay. Okay. So as you know, Japanese have no distinction between L's and R's. You know that, right? Yes. All right. So when you pronounce or see the sign with R, try to sound more like L. Okay. Okay, that's one thing. And also English is a language has ups and downs and stress and a little less stress, something like that, right? So how are you or how are you like this? Japanese don't have that. Japanese is up and down kind of language. Of course you can emphasize, but so let's try this Konnichiwa, Hawaii. That's an English way of saying, how would you say more, more flat and... Yeah, Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Okay, getting better. One more time. Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Okay. So let me show you this. If you can show a little bit closer. Yes. All right. Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Good. So try this one with me. Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. Very good. Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa. What's the last part? Konnichiwa, J-san. Oh, J-san. Okay. Yeah, okay. Konnichiwa, J-san. Okay. Konnichiwa, Yukari. Yukari-san. Okay, that's good. What is san? It's a respectful statement, isn't it? Or maybe an endearing statement, huh? Right, more respectful statement. And as you know, Japanese do not use first names so much, more like a last name. So we put Tanaka-san, Suzuki-san, Honda-san, and so on. Right? Yeah, so you would not call me J-san, you would call me Fidel-san. Fidel-san, that's more appropriate. And also, san is unisex. You can use it for male or female. So that's very universal, Mr., Mrs., Ms., and so on. Okay, so even if I know somebody, I would not use the first name I would use the last name. First time, if you're introduced, then the person said, oh, my name is Yukari, and you say Yukari-san. Oh, that's okay. That's okay, so J-san. All right. One more time, how do you say Yukari-san? All right. One more time. How do you say, hello Yukari? Konnichiwa Yukari-san. Perfect. Okay, so for Japanese teachers, I would like to repeat. Okay, famous word. All right, before I show it, how do you say good morning? Ohayo. Okay. Ohayo gozaimasu. Wonderful. All right, so that's the famous one and everybody knows. And again, let's pronounce just like, as it says. Ohayo. Enlarge it. Ohayo. Hayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo gozaimasu. Good, do you hear the up and down sound? No. Ohayo. Oh, I do. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo. Ohayo, J-san. Ohayo, Yukari-san. All right, so that's very good. Okay, get in there. All right, how do you say then? Good evening. Konbawa. Uh-huh, excellent pronunciation. Let's do it. Konbawa. Konbanwa. Konbanwa. Konbanwa. Konbanwa. Ojido. Konbanwa. Okay, how do you say good evening, Miss Yukari? Konbanwa, Yukari-san. Excellent. How do you say good evening, Mr. Toyota? Konbawa, Toyota-san. J-san is a very good student. 35 years ago, education is being off. All right. Now, how do you say goodbye? Oh, sayonara. I know that from the movie. Ah-ha, yes. And that's another famous word, next to Ohio. Yes. Ohio or Ohio. Yeah. Sayonara is actually the pronunciation. Let's try again. Sayonara. Good, so remember, raw is more like L. No, sayonara, nara, nara. Okay, good. Nara is an ancient city near Kyoto. Yes. All right, one more time. Sayonara. Good, you see two O's there? Yes, sayonara. Good, I like that opera effect. Sayonara. Yes. Sayonara. Okay, now. Sayonara, Yukari-san. When you say sayonara, it's actually farewell. Goodbye. I will probably never see you again. Have a good life. So we do not use this word often, unless you break up, you know. Bye-bye. So, I don't know, how do you say that? Right, so next word is the word that we often use. Can you enlarge this one for me? Yeah. De wa mata. Good. De wa. De wa. De wa. De, de, de. Yeah, so it's like D-E-E is not E, not E. Oh, D-E-E-D wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa is well then. Well then? Mata means again. Okay, be well again. Or see you again. Well then, see you again. De wa mata. Right. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. De wa mata. Okay. And sometimes de wa is a little bit hard, big words. So we just say, Ja mata. Da mata. Ja mata. Ja, ja mata. Ja mata. Ja mata. Thank you. Da mata. Okay. Ja mata. Ja mata. Very good. Okay. So these are the greetings. Let's see without my fresh card. Do you remember the word for good morning? Ohio. Gozaimasu. Okay. And how to say fail well? Forever. Forever. Sayonara. Yes. Sayonara. See you later. De wa mata. Ja mata. Excellent. Ja mata. How about good morning? Ohio gozaimasu. All right. How about good evening? Kumbawa gozaimasu. Kumbawa gozaimasu. Go gozaimasu. Yes. Kumbawa Yukari-san. Hai. Konbanwa, Jay-san. Konbanwa Yukari-san. Good start, I think. Okay. Shall we take a little break here? Yes. Okay. Yeah, hi. Hai. Koko de chotto yasumi wo itadakimasu. Jay-san, ganbatte masu. We're going to be right back. We're going to take a short break here. My name is Mitch Ewan. I'm from the Hawaii Natural Energy Institute, and I'm the host of Hawaii, the State of Clean Energy. We're on every Wednesday at four o'clock, and we hope that we have interesting guests who talk to us about various energy things that are happening in Hawaii, all the way from PV to windmills to hydrogen, close to my heart, electric buses and electric vehicles. So please dial in every Wednesday at four o'clock on Hawaii, the State of Clean Energy. Aloha. We're back. We are live. I'm Yukari Kunisue, and this is Konnichiwa, Hawaii. Talking with Jay Faideo, founder and CEO of Think Tech Hawaii, who is practicing Japanese today after 35 years. The director, Jay Faideo, is studying Japanese all of a sudden. What you see behind me is the cherry blossoms. Hello, Yukari. Hello, Jay. Thank you for your hard work. Now for the next lesson. The next lesson is we are going to count Japanese numbers. Jay, do you already know Japanese numbers? Some of them? Yes, I do. Okay, you want to try? Ichi, ni, san, shi, go. Okay, something. Hachi, ochi, mochi, and ju. Ju, okay, ju, he remembers. All right. So for those of you don't know Japanese numbers, and those of you want to teach Japanese numbers to non-Japanese, I'd like to give you some easy sound association method. Okay, so first five, he already had this, but if you don't know, if you can see this. Ichi. So ichi is like ichi. Yes, scratch, ichi. But it's pronounced ichi. Ichi. Ichi. Ichi. Okay, ichi. Good, two. Oh, sorry. Two is ni. Like ni, your knees. Right. Ni. San. Good, san. Either the san, above on the sky, or your san. San. Yeah, that's easy, right? Next one. Shi. Okay, shi, just like shi, but we pronounce it short. Shi. Shi. Or, can you read this? Yan. Yon. Yon. Yon. Yon. So I was explaining to J-san earlier, shi means same sound word as death in Japanese. So we tend to use non, yon, more often. Okay. Okay. And? Yon is the good word. And? Just a sound. Ichi, ni, san, yon is a good word. Shi is not the good word. Shi is the same as death. Okay, we'll skip that. Skip that. Okay. Now, five is? Go. Go. So make it shorter. Now, let's go, but go. Go. Go. Is that the same as the game? Go. Yes, it's the same sound. Okay. Okay, let's review. One, two, five. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go. Excellent. I'm going to go backwards before we move on. Go. You, yon, san, ni, ichi. Excellent. I'm going to mix up, okay? Okay. Ni, go, ichi, san, yon. Excellent. Let's do it from one to five. Ichi, ni, san, yon, go. Very good. This last one was a little bit tricky. Okay, we move on from six to ten. Okay, ready? Your brain's working. Yes. Very good. All right. Yes. All right. Okay. So number six, we pronounce roku. Rok. Yeah, it sounds like rock, right? But it may get more like roku. Roku. Okay. Roku. Got it. Roku, yeah. Okay, J-san, what is five? Go. Okay, what is six? Roku. Roku. Yeah. So make it, roku. Kuu is a little higher. Roku. Excellent. Roku. Okay, what is three? San. What is six? Roku. Okay. Just a moment. So, ima omise shimashita yoni, sukoshi kurikai shite mae ni modottari, kurikai suru koto ni otte susundeku to moimasu. Okay? Yeah, I agree with that. Yes, very good. Okay, nana. Very good. So, I put this b-a-n-n-n-a because it sounds like banana, right? So, seven is nana. Nana. Nana. Nana. What is six? Roku. Seven. Nana. Okay. Nana. All right, next one. Hachi. Hachi. Hachi. Hachi. Hachi. Hachi. If you're going to enlarge this a little bit, you can see it's like sound like a hatch. Hatch. Hatch an egg. Hachi. Yeah, hachi. Hachi. Okay, hachi. Next two are very easy. All right, so next one. Nine. Kyu. Kyu. Just like letter q. Kyu. Kyu. Kyu. What is eight? Hachi. Aha, nine. Kyu. Okay, and the last word for number ten is Kyu. Kyu. Kyu. Exactly the same sound. Okay, Kyu. Kyu. Kyu. Okay, slowly. Number ten. Kyu. Number nine. Kyu. Okay, number eight. Hachi. Good, number seven. Nana. Yes. Number six. Roku. Okay, one more time. Roku. Roku. Nana. Hachi Kyu. Kyu. Okay, got it. Okay, we're going to do backwards. Ten. Kyu. Kyu. Long silence. Kyu. Yeah, Kyu. Okay. Hachi. Nana. Roku. Excellent. So repeat after me once. Okay? Ichi. Ichi. Ni. Ni. San. San. San. Yon. Yon. Yon. Go. Go. Roku. Yon. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Roku. Nana. Nana. Hachi. Hachi. Kyu. Kyu. Ju. Ju. Okay, Ju is so fast. Okay, backwards. Ju. Ju. Kyu. Kyu. Hachi. Hachi. Nana. Nana. Roku. Roku. Go. Go. 4. 4. 3. 2. 1. 0. 0. Right. 0. Okay. So I'm coming back to the numbers. So this is a very easy way to learn. And I teach this way. I used to teach this way to kids to 80 year old too. So we'll come back. Right. Next segment of today's show, he was requesting several sentences that he would like to use when he visits Japan. Yes. So would you like to share your request? Yes. This is a question I always like to ask taxi drivers. How come you are driving so slowly? What is wrong with you? Okay. How come you're driving so slowly? What is wrong with you? You want to say that in Japanese? Yes. Okay. So because your level is still very beginning, you can't complicate a sentence like that. By the time you finish the sentence in Japanese, you probably reach the destination. Not with the taxi drivers, I know. Okay. So my suggestion is this. Slow in Japanese is also slow. Slow. Slow. Slow. This is not a photo. That's in the real time. The photo is in there. No, never mind. No, it's the English word. We just borrow this slow slow slow slow. But if you pronounce it like English, they would not understand. So pronounce it like Japanese slow slow slow. So L and R are kind of similar, right? Yeah. So you do to the taxi is slow. Slow. No good. Slow. Yeah. Yeah. Fast. Fast. Fast. Fast to. Okay. He would understand that. Right. So visiting different country with no back language background is always hard. So the basic one probably you want to learn is do you understand English? Or I don't understand Japanese or Chinese or Korean or whatever. Right. So I would like to introduce that those sentences. Are you ready to do understand English? Right. Probably who on clay? Right. That's the French. It's a different show. All right. So understand in Japanese is this word. What kind of must? Mm hmm. What kind of mass on clay? Right. What kind of mass I'm great, but I'm great part. They could not understand. So what kind of I put it in the black letters, and must is pink letters, because this is the part in Japanese it conjugate in the verb. Yes. Okay, so I'm going to show you this next word. Okay, large. What kind of mass car? Yeah, what kind of mass car? Also question. Yes, car at the end is question. What kind of mass car? What kind of mass car? What kind of mass car? Right. You see that that one part is conjugated. And this is the word. I can't see. I can't see. You see the S E N is negation. Oh, okay. So what kind of mass and Oh, what does it say? How come you don't help? How? Why are you driving so slow? You still stick to the taxi driver issues. But anyway, so this one, if you don't put any word in front, usually, I don't understand. I don't understand what what. So if I say, what car you must send? You don't understand. I don't understand. I don't understand. And I don't. Okay, okay. So somebody says something to me in Japanese. And I do not understand. I said, Oh, my what car you must send. Right. So you say, What car you must send? Mm hmm. What car you must send? Okay. How do you say do you understand? What car you must do you understand? This is what car you must. What car you must car? Right? Okay. So you can say English is a go. Oh, hey, go. What wasn't that the capital of Japan before Tokyo? Ed. Oh, I don't know. Okay, okay. Okay. So let's just practice one more time in three words. Okay. So a go. What car you must repeat? A go. What car you must car? What car you must car? Do I have a question mark inflection? No, you don't have to. What car you must car? A go What car you must car? Very good. Nihongo Japanese language. Nihongo. What car you must. What car you must send. Right. How do you say? I understand English. What a go what car you must. Excellent. Excellent. So what car you must. What car you must car? What car you must send. These are very important words. Yes. Yes. Okay. So last comment. We have only a few minutes. Okay, how do I find the bathroom? Are you fine? Okay. So bathroom is in Japanese is Benjo. Benjo. Oh, let's be careful. Benjo is a very vulgar term for low class male. So we say toilet, what's it? Toy, the toy that it came from a toilet, a toilet or a toilet, yeah, a toilet, a toilet, a toilet, toilet, toilet. Doko desuka, very good. Toilet, Doko desuka. Very important, yes. Very important word. If I have more shows, I can show you more words. But today we are just limiting here, and usually in Japanese class we're going to review everything. However, our time is almost almost there. J-san, arigatou gozaimashita. Kyou wa ganbarimashita. We are out of time. J-san, arigatou gozaimashita. Arigatou gozaimashita, Yukari-san. Stay tuned for more shows in Japanese. Thank you all for watching Think Check Hawaii. Konnichiwa Hawaii. I'm Yukari Kunisue, and see you next time.