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- Hi my name is Sean.
- Hi my name is Ayaka.
- And today we will be building some Legos.
- I've been speaking japanese for 28 years.
- [Crew] And how comfortable are you speaking Japanese?
- 100% comfortable in my own language.
- [Crew] You okay?
- Why'd you let her go first?
(everyone laughing)
I've been speaking Korean probably all my life.
I used to be way more comfortable
but at a certain point my Korean proficiency
just started dipping down.
Back when I used to live home,
I would always speak it with my parents
but now that I've moved out and I live on my own,
I'm a little rusty but hopefully, you know,
hopefully I don't get chewed out today.
(both laughing)
Language is always a barrier but you can make it work,
we can make it work.
- Yeah, I feel it, yeah. - Yeah, we can make it work.
- [Crew] Legos that you'll be using.
- [Ayaka] Oh my God!
- Y'all gave us a hard one on purpose.
I don't know all these words in Korean.
(both laughing)
Fun fact, tape in Korean is still tape, so.
- Same, same to Japanese culture.
- [Crew] Five.
- What you're counting down now?
- [Crew] Four.
- No English at all, afterwards.
- [Crew] Three.
- A'ight, just find all the pieces
then give it to me. - Two.
- Yeah, let's spread it out, - One.
open it, yeah.
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- [Crew] How is this so far?
Since you're two minutes in.
So we started doing individual work.
- [Sean] Yeah.
- At first. - You know.
So there was no unity.
- [Crew] You have 10 minutes and 50 seconds.
Okay, I think.
(buzzer beeping) - I think, I think.
- [Crew] It seemed like there was this moment
where you guys were trying to help each other
learn the language, what was that like?
- I think it was just, we realized there's certain words
that kind of like floated across.
I don't know, I don't know what was going on,
we're just in the vibe.
We're just grooving. - Yeah, yeah.
Yeah.
- He took this textbook away,
so I was like, okay.
- I was looking out for the both of us.
- [Crew] Two minutes.
So I felt like if we just pushed for something to be made,
you know, we would look a little bit better.
And we did. - Right.
We did, that's not bad.
- [Crew] One minute.
- [Crew] 10 seconds.
- [Crew] And time.
- Wait, I feel like it's justified that I put this on
'cause I made it.
- [Crew] Okay, go ahead.
- Yeah, let me just, let me just,
I feel like this is the final touches I need.
- That his pride.
- Yeah, this is my pride, this is all I was working on so.
Well I feel like this is the general gist
of what they were asking for.
Be careful, be careful.
- [Crew] Yeah, be careful.
- I know, I know.
- Piece of art, piece of art right here.
You wanna zoom in?
We even gave him a pitchfork.
We had the time for detail.
- We even put a sticker.
- Yeah. (Lego thumping)
Oh.
That's part of the design.
So what you think?
- No bad, no bad at all.
- Not bad.
- Yeah, not bad.
- Yeah, like, you'd think it would be harder
but I feel like at a certain point,
you just kind of know what the other person was saying.
- Right, right.
- We're not speaking the same langauge
but we're on the same wavelength.
I'm not an expert on history of Asian languages
but I do know that some of them overlap.
So like for example, promise is Japanese,
is (speaks in foreign language).
- Yeah, (speaks in foreign language).
- Yeah and that's the exact same word for Korean.
So I kinda knew that going in
and I was like a little bit less worried.
Yeah it was cool, it was a fun experience.
I wouldn't do it again but.
- Yeah, for sure, for sure.
- It was cool.
- Yeah, now we know.
- Yeah, I would do.
- Wait you said you would do?
- I would, I would.
- I said I wouldn't (laughing).
- You wouldn't?
Excuse me?
- Not with you, not with you. - Excuse me?
- I thought we had a nice time.
- We did.
All those kids who think they're way better
than us right now,
you guys speak two languages to each other, huh?
- That's right. - We'll see, yeah.
Try it then let us know.
- Let us know.
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