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

[andydyer]

List of countries in the world:
1. Japan
2. Thailand
3. Slovakia
4. Close to Slovakia

[emirko]

Laughed so hard when the third speaker started talking. You cannot fool us, Yuta!

[chasemathis]

Slovakia is a strangely specific location.

[Griiisetryne]

I lived in Tokyo for a year as an exchange student a while back, and one time I was taking a cab home after a long night of partying I got the best compliment. I chatted a bit with the cab driver, and when we arrived at my place he turned around and looked at me, and was surprised I wasn't Japanese! He jouzu'd me and took off 70 yen from my taxi fare 🤣

[mfaizsyahmi]

The girls who roasted Yuta's otsukaresama as sha-sha-sha 💀💀

[hontouhahitorikiri]

I agree with that woman... Yuta-san is very passionate in his work 😜

[nesle]

It doesnt matter if you sound native speakers or not, language are made for communication.
And its a good thing people will know your origin by the way you speak. But as long as you can communicate thats enough

[kipchickensout]

it's interesting how you can tell if they're japanese or not even without speaking japanese yourself

[nathanmerritt]

The guy Slovakia guy is throwing out some really weird random guesses out there lol

[chromakuro]

10:12 it would be interesting to have a video on how clearly you actually have to speak to still be understandable. From what I have seen of Japanese people in real speaking, they don't seem to be as nearly pronounced as Japanese in media such as anime or music, but regardless they can still be perfectly understood

[usageunit]

I kind of remember him doing a video like this years ago, and one of the speakers was a Kansai native who a lot of Japanese guessed was a foreigner because their pitch accent was different.

[nullbeyondo]

That one guy: "Slovakia!" "Wait... Close to Slovakia!" "So difficult.. AHA! She couldn't fool me!"
I'm dying

[nhondude]

YUTA!!
You should add a Japanese raised abroad who doesn't speak much Japanese to throw them off.

[Nogha]

This is one of my new favorite videos from this channel! Number 2 totally had me fooled. They sounded really good.

[mfaizsyahmi]

Hoo, surprised only Yuta is the Japanese in the sample.

Well, it's definitely not impossible to completely adopt another language's full range of expression, especially if one fully immerse themselves in their people and culture.

It's the case for one brit guy named Danial Tyler, who on a coin flip chose to stay at Perhentian Island for some years, initially for the clear tropical sea water but later became fully engrossed in the local culture to the point of completely adopting the state's local dialect. Made a name for himself in Malaysia.

[asaris_]

😂
I KNEW the German one was a fellow German. Don't ask me why, just ... Total pack mate vibes... 🤦
Still funny that I was able to spot a German accent in Japanese.
Didn't know I had that "power".
And funnily enough I did think the Japanese one was the only Japanese. Just couldn't put the others. 🤷‍♀️

[Nordlys]

Love the video, Yuta! ^^,

Would be nice if the intro had a short notice that we could try to play along by watching the numbers in the corner, since the reveal only comes at the end. I didn't notice it at first before the second phrase. Would be funny if you included a Japanese person who was just bad at spoken Japanese as well.

As a non-Japanese speaker that has consumed a lot of Japanese media, I also got it right, but I was very uncertain of #5. I heard that parts didn't sound quite right, but most of it sounded fine so I thought maybe it could be due to dialect variation or an introvert speaker. I couldn't place any of their origins though.

[sunkuu]

Very interesting video! I’d be interested in seeing a similar experiment but with clips of Dogen’s Japanese in as well!

[Firegarden]

As someone living for a long time in Japan, I just think it’s not so important to sound like a Japanese but be understandable enough to communicate. N3 lvl is enough imo.

[pahoopahoo]

二番目は、やや長めの決まった文章を朗読するというもの。