When a Foreigner Speaks Japanese in Japan #Shorts

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Hi, I'm Layla from Japan! I'm so happy to be a part of your Japanese learning journey!!
I love sharing my language and culture with people from all over the world. I also love watching people study new languages. I learnt to speak English using Podcast and YouTube videos on my own. So now I really want to help Japanese learners to speak Japanese with my videos!!
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[gco]

Start by saying the magic intro word. "Hai eeetto/はいええっと" then say the name of the product. Always works like magic. I do it all the time. So in this case. Hai, eeetto, chiizu keiki onegai shimasu, would work perfectly. Eeetto is the word to switch Japanese people from English to a Japanese mode. You are welcome.

[papurica]

I'm Japanese but I could understand his Japanese very well. I honestly can't tell much difference between two people😅
So don't worry! Japanese people, at least those around me, are happy when they see people from other countries studying Japanese!

Sorry if this is not the main point of this video. I'm still learning English, so I hope you can understand a little bit.

[sususs]

If I was studying Japanese, this vid would discourage me from trying to speak

[griff]

15 yrs in Japan. It's not usually being rude. They see the foreigner, their brain desperately starts digging up half-remembered highschool English lessons but nothing you say sounds like the English they know. By the time they realize you're _not_ speaking English the situation has already escalated.

[dennisengelen]

Say something rude and they'll understand you perfectly fine.

[まめまーめ-rz]

I’m Japanese and I perfectly understand what the guy were saying; his Japanese is pretty good!

[liliopetale]

For those who didn't get it : Some Japanese deliberately do not understand foreigners who speak fluent Japanese because they do not look like Asian-

[チェンバレン-ej]

I am Japanese, but if the man in this video speaks Japanese as well as he does, I can understand him without any difficulty.

[Krader]

For some natives, it’s probably more of an intonation thing. But y’all can’t deny some natives def are racist as heck for like no reason. I wish we could all just vibe together.

[tacticalmisandrist]

“They won’t understand you” you mean they intentionally don’t understand you/pretend not to lmao

[tortellinifettuccine]

In my experience, they try to do this, but I immediately tell them I know what they're doing and that it's embarrassing for them, and they suddenly understand me perfectly

[bellgrand]

This is common in Japan. The locals do not expect you to be speaking their language. So they are trying to process what you are saying as English. Japanese is full of English loan words, so it's an easy mistake.

On a side note, this can also happen in reverse. There may be the rare Japanese person who is confident enough to try to speak to you in their heavily accented Japanglish, and you might not immediately recognize that they are speaking in English.

[lobemqg]

I’m Japanese. Still understandable. I think salesperson is Foreigner too. 😅

[jasmintea]

Thats the equivalent to when Americans tell you "wow your English is so good" although you've been living there since you were born 💀

[englishamani]

I’d love to travel Japan and learn more about their culture and language but there’s one minor problem..









I’m Black 🧍🏽

[itzame]

What a great way to discourage me from continuing my japanese studies

[mlksoda]

nah it’s usually on purpose though i went to japan once and they refused to serve us because we weren’t asian 💀

[derp]

"I have no idea what language he's speaking, but whatever he said sounded exactly like ordering cheesecake in Japanese!"

[DentyOne]

I can't tell you how helpful this video is. I already suffer from crippling social anxiety and I have a tremendous fear of being misunderstood. Now I know that I will certainly experience panic attacks in Japan. Thanks!

[glimtglimt]

I’m half Chinese and when I go to China sometimes people do this to me too 😭 It’s like they choose to not understand but its just because of the culture there, and for the most part people aren’t like this. But it can be infuriating especially because I have always maintained good pronunciation and have grown up with Chinese culture but people just assume I don’t know anything…would be nice to not cause a scene what feels like everytime I just want to practice my Chinese and speak my moms mother tongue.

Edit: I’m a little sad that people are assuming I have an accent or something and that I’m not as educated on Mandarin Chinese as I claimed. I assure you I don’t have an accent, I have been deeply self conscious of my Chinese my whole life and have worked really hard to maintain it to “prove” myself because I have felt excluded in the past because of my appearance. When I ask every relative or friend, they tell me I sound almost if not just like a Mainland Mandarin speaker. Chinese pronunciation has always been super easy to me, which is why as I said originally, for the most part when I go to China everyone understands me perfectly. Just sometimes, it happens that the odd person assumes I don’t speak Chinese and so they listen for English and then get confused. And even when I’m understood, sometimes it’s like “shocking” or whatever because I don’t look Asian enough I guess. I really don’t mean any disrespect to any Chinese mainlanders or other language communities where this happens, it’s not a constant issue, but it does happen more than it should, and pointing that out is in no way trying to generalize each and every speaker, it’s a cultural issue, there is no one individual or group of individuals to blame. Just wanted to share my experience. Those experiences have definitely made me feel bad and still have some effect on me, but they don’t control me and they aren’t representative of China as a whole. Man I miss China, haven’t been there in forever because of travel restrictions.