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today we're just gonna briefly talk
about how we learned a second language
ya know some of you guys were asking
actually how do you learn to English and
most of you know that he lived in the
States so I feel like that is a big
factor in it but we can talk about some
tips and things that we learned for me
when I learned Japanese and for him when
he learned English
he's obviously more fluent in English
than I am at Japanese so I feel like it
would be more interesting to hear from
you like he understands everything I say
he gets jokes like today he said
something really like I don't remember
what you said when we were sushi I went
to the heaven came back he had some
oyster and he said oh my gosh I went to
heaven and just came back and I just
think it's so funny because a lot of
like Japanese people who learn English
is their second language it's like those
things they don't know but like I just
want you to kind of explain how you
learned all of this and then
I have some of my tips because I'm an
intermediate Japanese speaker I'm not
like fluent or anything like I graduated
with the Japanese degree but I've lived
in the States so it's very different and
then living in Japan I'm an English
teacher I feel like because of that job
it kept me from really succeeding or
advancing in that language because I was
doing YouTube and like I didn't have
time Fila it's all about the time you
put into learning right when did you
start learning English like when when
was your first English class when I was
a kid I think the system has changed now
kids started learning English from
elementary school in Japan I was a kid
it was a middle school so my first
English class was when I was 13 and I
did not speak any single English word
for 3 years we had this regular English
classes but as you probably know
Japanese education is very naughty
practical I guess for speaking that's
how I started so I was interested in
learning English and I loved American
music and like movies and that kind of
stuff so when I was like 14 or 15 or
something I was just like watching you
know making TV shows or movies and stuff
and that's I was like watching movies
with my dad often Oh in English yeah
with the subtitles I think Japanese
subtitles yeah I think I started
listening to make music more like what I
started watching in the movies from
there were you like interested in
English were you interested in learning
English the culture in general and that
of course includes in English as well I
just loved the music I think that's my
introduction did you learn any English
when you were watching the TV shows I
did not tried to study I guess but like
I guess in my mind somewhere I was like
cool are you those like some phrases and
stuff but I it's not like I watched it
to study or anything like that and I
took oh no opinion
like that I do not do any of those I
started learning Japanese in elementary
school junior high school because they
has like a four yeah they had a foreign
language class and it but it was like
four different languages just gonna
choose right yeah well no we didn't
choose that time but it was like you
tried out different languages one month
we learned French the next month we
learned German the next like it was like
a World Language sort of thing yeah I
thought that was interesting cuz it
helped us choose what we wanted to pick
when we went to high school cuz we have
to choose when we go to high school I
liked it I liked it because in music -
because I discovered utada hikaru and
then that was when I was like I want to
know I want to know what she's singing
and I thought it was really beautiful
like the way people sing in Japanese she
sang in japanese was very beautiful is
that like your first Japanese album you
got yes yeah cut it was my first
Japanese singer that I really liked and
then I started like getting really into
music and then nice downloaded like all
I remember I had LimeWire waiting all
her song all day yeah yeah I started
buying video games in Japanese Elda I
have that in Japanese high school I took
Japanese so oh I think it's so cool that
in America I mean I don't know if this
applies to all the schools but at least
the school you went to you have chances
to learn like multiple Sifl
I guess try out I think that's very rare
like I don't think it's like that in all
schools but like my school offered a
chance to like take a class where you
can learn like multiple languages I went
to international it's like a public
school with more intense like a more
focused on English did you choose that
school or like yeah from second year of
high school the first year it was just
no more
we had like did you choose the high
school that you had to go go to or like
it's not just your school like it was
more intense I chose to high school
because oh you can choose yeah maybe we
get to yes you have to take
exams and yeah oh you've to take an exam
to get into the high school yes what the
heck that you took a lot of English
classes I'm assuming right
yes from second year of high school yes
I went to international course and I
have more classes is that what you
wanted in your life like you wanted to
be able to speak English that time I
wasn't rethinking I was really into just
like play music and you wanted to go to
my band
yeah but I was writing a music in you
know some songs or in English and is
that what you wanted to do it is so you
can write in English I couldn't learn
and understand at the end of high school
I wanted to go to a music school yeah
then I end up not going I did go after
college but it wasn't like school school
and make high school when you learn a
language it's more about really
discovering the culture and I think
that's good what got me excited
ultimately in college we had the groups
where you would come together and just
speak Japanese do you have did you have
that in your college or did you not do
anything in college I went to study
economics yeah I didn't really have a
lot of English classes in the row did
you have an English class in college yes
see I don't know these things why do I
not know these things about I mean you
go to college in Japan you have to take
English classes ah really you have to
college yeah on top of that you have to
take another language as well and I took
Spanish went back to the high school I
actually went to ian's which is an
English class extra classes yeah okay
they're fun like you wanted to do it
yeah I was forced to speak I was forced
to write every day and foremost I know I
almost hated it because you're a forced
yeah I just don't like it when people
force me to do certain things and even
though I liked learning English and I
never actually did that homework and
and hours old the teacher was always
scolding me actually as much as I can
feel that the thing that's like one
thing that people don't really like
explained to you before you start you
know taking classes is that like you get
excited about the class but even for me
like in Japanese when you're forced or
told to do like write an essay in
Japanese or like you know do specific
tasks and Japanese it just it gets more
I don't know it makes you more
unmotivated it did help me in a way but
it also like during college turned me
off a little bit to Japanese because I
was like stressed you're like rushing to
learn something for a test and you're
not enjoying it if that makes any sense
a lot of Japanese education it's like
that even like okay it's all
memorization yeah and it's just like
it's not as enjoyable as if you were to
study it as a passion and you were going
you were doing things that you loved to
learn the language every morning we have
we have this little 10-minute English
test which we have to like to learn 20
words every day or something
testing every day and actually that's
that became really helpful later on my
life yeah I think actually learned you
know something out of it yeah I think if
you take outside classes that has
nothing to do with college it's a lot
you're a lot more motivated like if I
were to find a class in Japan I would
probably really enjoy it cuz you're
paying you actually you're using your
money you're forcing ya to take the
class II you you're probably gonna like
exactly to you know the United States
after college I work like two three
years to say that save up to move and I
went there in my English sucks I went to
Starbucks first day and I could not
order that drink that I wanted to get oh
yes it's not the English that you know
that I saw in the textbook it's it's
very sad Japanese well faster mm-hmm so
I could not understand what I was there
and I could not say what I want what I
wanted to say textbooks are good for
when you start like when you start out
and and you know you want to learn a
second language textbooks and language
programs and all that stuff online
language programs are really good to use
to like really learn words and things
yeah but like naturally if you want to
get better if you want to get to an
advanced level you have to put yourself
in like stressful situations like that
there's some people that like go out in
Japan and then they get so frustrated
you're in that situation take that as a
lesson like learn from it it's part of
listen yeah yeah to alarm if you don't
know how to say anything then like go
home and like look up the phrase that
you want to say right is that what you
kind of did like you didn't know how to
order right so you kind of like looked
over I was very grouchy I put myself in
a position or situation where I'm not
I'm not with Japanese people I guess I
kind of dissented distanced myself from
Japanese people so that my English will
improve you had roommates right when you
first moved Russian people yes yes but
they spoke English yeah okay so did you
communicate them with them in English
yeah okay that's why I lived with in the
Russian people yeah that's the best
thing to do and look I did not talk with
Japanese people for I guess a while I
spoke a little here and there because
there's so like a lot of Japanese people
in LA I guess the first year I was very
very stubborn that like oh no I'm not
gonna talk to Japanese people I'm here
in Los Angeles Los Angeles to you know
study music and learn English mm-hmm why
would I talk to Japanese people so you
can't wait came to LA to study music
first yes okay Yugi was putting himself
in situations where he could learn the
language so I think maybe a lot of
people do know this or don't know this
but if you put yourself in those
situations it does help you and when you
get a job like teaching English and
you're like I want to learn Japanese you
have to take set aside that time in
order to learn
language whether you're in the native
country or you're not it makes a huge
difference for me I started learning
like real English when I first moved to
the States
even though I learned like basic and all
the other syntax or grammar yeah my bad
grammar of English which helped me a lot
actually
you have to know grammar in order to I
guess improve from the second year
though it was very too much I missed
speaking japanese and i started
forgetting japanese so i changed my mind
and it's actually kinda agree quickly
like why did I do that distance me from
myself from jealous people I think it's
still good to like do it but like not
too much mm-hmm it's good to like say oh
okay six days out of seven days like
I'll speak English maybe about one day
out of the week you know I can speak
Japanese I can be a Japanese yeah yes
and you're gonna go nuts if you only
speak your language
yeah thing is when you move abroad to me
maybe this isn't you but like for me
like when I moved abroad like I wanted
you know a sense of family because I
didn't have that here so it's for you
you can't you can't just connect with
Japanese people all the time you have to
have a balance between the two if you
want to learn the language it's good to
hang out with Japanese people if you
want to like you know stay sane in
another country then you need to build a
family and relationships with people
that you know know your language and
know your culture so it has to have a
balance I obviously don't hang out a lot
of Japanese people in Tokyo but in
Nagoya I had all Japanese friends like I
was always hanging out with Japanese
people but Tokyo everybody's so busy
working like it's so hard to hang out
with people here unless you really put
yourself in like groups that are like
language groups like on apps you can
find that you want to learn the language
you have to make mistakes and that's the
things I struggled on with them
struggled with the most I was scared to
make mistakes and I still am today and
something that I work on all the time
okay here's something I need to tell you
we don't care if you make music I know I
listen to you if you speak super slow
we'll still listen to
we're in past I use big the second line
people are impressed here in Jeff demand
I say if I say konichiwa everyone I
remember the first two three years I was
having trouble with like it was like a
catch ball right and it's like at some
point like after five minutes or
something I lost track of what they're
talking about something
yes it's exhausting it's really mentally
exhausting when I studied abroad it was
like that for the first time I was like
I'm gonna learn Japanese but you can
only listen for so long and then you
just lose it and you just can't think or
listen anymore and when people learn a
second language it's exhausting like it
exhausts your body you like physically
feel it when I studied abroad I was
always kind of frustrated with myself
because I would listen and like try
really hard and then I just I can't do
it's like running a marathon
yeah it'll by the little way it gets
better and like at some point you
realize though you can actually you know
understand what's going on like even
after ten minutes twenty minutes you get
the chalk and it's little by little you
know you're learning okay so one thing
that helped me a lot when I was learning
Japanese and when I was like really
pushing myself was phrases and this is a
coming from another friend of mine in
Japan I became best friends with the
girl in Mori and she told me that she
learned she got so good at English she
was perfect and like she just lived in
Japan she like didn't really she she I
think she studied abroad like once or
twice but she was like fluent and she
said the thing that helped her the most
was learning phrases like she'll learn a
vocabulary word right yeah and then
she'll look up sentences with that
vocabulary word in it to put it into
context and then she'll just remember
those phrases and then use them when she
needs them and I started doing that and
I was like wow this is so much more
exciting than learning like repeated
words obviously I start
like natural conversations because I was
learning phrases with the vocabulary
where it's awesome nowadays it's really
easier to just I guess get sources like
to study along racial I guess like
there's apps yeah there's so right now
there's products like rosetta stone no
like rosetta stone actually I tried it
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English Japanese you can opt to get a
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you know in this case what is rosetta
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mm-hmm
and I think it's better than just buying
a bunch of random books do it like for
once and move on to another one so I
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