Can Japanese Spot Foreigners' Japanese by Listening? (Osaka)

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[Kain]

Yuta standing there while they are roasting his japanese: 🗿

[kilindogma]

3:55 "#5 is starting to sound suspicious too"

**sad That JAPANESE MAN Yuta noises*

[J.Crime]

Lol. The moment the long sentence got introduced you could instantly tell that #5 was Yuta.

[communismwithgiggles]

When Yuta's been so focused on understanding English sarcasm that his Japanese has turned foreign

[flyingpigs]

Thanks for the feature Yuta! I'm #2 and it was really fun being a part of this experiment. I enjoyed hearing the feedback and definitely feel motivated to keep working on my Japanese. I'm also Asian American so the guy at the end was pretty spot on with his guess haha

[Tophbbq]

I spent a year living in Japan (near Kansai) and I got pretty good at sounding relatively "native". The proudest I ever was of my Japanese was when I took a trip to Tokyo and a waiter said to me, "Hey, your accent. Are you from..." and I expected him to say America, but he said "...Osaka???"

[majibento]

This was really interesting, thanks Yuta! I’m #3 and this was both very humbling and very embarrassing to watch, humbling because I’ve been told I have great pronunciation and embarrassing because I hate hearing my own voice (esp with my crappy mic) but I wanted to see them react to me... I did a lot of takes to even get to what I did 😂
Btw for the people complaining about there being too many Americans, I feel you, I also wish there had been more variety, but maybe it’s some consolation to know that I was raised bilingual in German and I’m a German citizen so uhh Germany represent I guess? 👀🇩🇪

[ب_ب-جك]

LMAO Yuta's Japanese sounds like a foreigner.

[nobodyexceptme]

Hilarious that no one believed Yuta was Japanese/said he spoke like an announcer.

[TheMrCarnification]

I love their reaction noises.
- The first person is <spoiler>.
- Eeeh.
- Eeeh + Ooh
- <An actual sentence>
- Un un un.
- Ooh

[anikevin]

Breaking News:
*Kanagawa boy disappoints whole prefecture with his poor pronunciation*

[HoshiMiddayDelusion]

Funny thing is that sometimes a native speaker of a language will start to pick up intonation and whatever small things from another language they're fluent in and use it when speaking their native language. Like if you move to another country, you start to sound like you're not native in your own language because you use the other language more often and your face and mouth muscles get more used to that. It's fascinating.

I was born and raised in Bulgaria and moved to Denmark when I was 18 (I'm 26 now) but I speak English with my Danish partner (cause we met online and it feels more natural) and also with my friends. I use mostly English and Danish in my daily life. I only really use Bulgarian when I'm talking to my parents so it feels kinda unnatural to me at this point and I feel like I sound like I'm not native lol. Some of my pronunciations have definitely changed.

[Ger]

From the first exercise using "hello", who else discovered that #5 was Yuta's pronunciation?

[uni]

I'm a Japanese. Honestly all but 1 sound as if spoken by a foreigner, but I wasn't surprised to hear 4 and 5 were also Japanese. As a woman in the video says, it's one thing to speak Japanese in conversation, but reading complete sentences out loud is another because they can have words or phrases you don't usually use so that it's hard to read smoothly even for Japanese native speakers.

[vanessameow]

0:46 Thats our best boy Yuta right there

[__Dimos__]

I thought #5 こんにちは was Yuta himself. I'm commenting before I find out

[Baierunjin]

こんにちは
#1 Japanese
#2 foreigner; sounds like a german
#3 I tend to foreigner but I'm not sure
#4 foreigner
#5 Sounds like Yuta

[leibico]

It's about time Yuta hit 1mil!!!! 🎊🎊🎊🎊

[janina]

I'm a foreigner so that's why, but I guessed 2 and was unsure about 3. The only reason I got 3 was because of the places he took a break and a few words, but to me his voice sounded pretty Japanese.
1 was obvious. I mean if they were foreign and people thought she was I would still want to speak Japanese like that cause it sounded beautiful. 4 was interesting.. to me it sounded Japanese, but there was something unique to it and I wouldn't want to change that. It's funny a lot of them couldn't tell with Yuta. That just shows Japanese people themselves can't always tell. Honestly all of them sounded pretty good and were easy to understand. My biggest takeaway from this is I need to learn to hear pitch accent better. I could only guess. On one hand this made me feel like it doesn't really matter to get it perfectly "native".. on the other hand it's still my long term goal to get there. Probably for once own self satisfaction I guess and to prove to myself that I can do it? This is really so interesting. You can speak beautiful Japanese and have a foreign accent too. Especially if you speak multiple languages some stuff slips in. My German probably had changed a lot too. I was even once told by a foreign friend who learned German and has a almost perfect pitch accent, my "komisch" (weird) sounds weird... anyways cool video! Thanks Yuta!

[VicVlog]

The moment I hear #5 "konichiwa", I instantly knew it's Yuta's voice.