Hello it's your American friend Anming here.
I've been studying Chinese and Japanese for quite a few years now.
And it's opened the doors to communicating with people that I otherwise would have never had the chance to talk to.
Sometime I even get a chance to talk to them in Chinese and Japanese at the same time.
There's an idea out there that elderly Japanese people are particularly throw back by
talking to foreigners or hearing foreigners speak Japanese,
but actually I found that it's more or less the kids that are really shocked.
Yes, basically you can say anything to Japanese kids in Japanese and they will be absolutely shocked by it.
And you can even mess with them, which I sometimes do.
But anyway, today I'm out to prove that it's not just elderly Japanese that are rather shocked by foreigners, in fact
In fact they're probably the friendliest of all and most willing to chit-chat.
But every once in a while you'll still find Japanese people from different age groups
that are rather shocked to hear foreigners speaking Japanese in different situations.
How often do two blondes walk into a bar speaking fluent Japanese?
Probably not very often, but hey we're breaking down stereotypes on this channel.
Today I'd like to break down some stereotypes about elderly Japanese people
especially the idea that they all, every one of them, dislikes foreigners. Let's talk about that
Did you say he's a very famous piano player in Japan?
Yeah
Professional piano player
Now he has to play after that guy.
I don't want to be the one to play after that guy.
You gotta follow that up. That's a lot of pressure.