The biggest lie that Japanese people say it "Your Japan is so good".
Even if your Japan is horrible, they'll just be like "Your Japanese is so good."
But you're telling me they don't mean it? It might not be true?
They kind of want to motivate you. Even if your Japan sucks, they would say "Your Japanese is so good."
Your Japanese is so good! (fake coughing) But....
When you Japan is good they know you've been living here for a long time.
So they change the question. They won't just say "Your Japanese is so good."
They'll ask you some other stuff.
They'll be like "Oh, you've been in Japan for a long time?"
Yeah, that's the difference. So if they just stop at "Your Japanese is so good." they just think you're horrible.
If they ask you more questions then they really mean it that you're good.
But when they really mean it you kind of get it because when you get to the point
when you're actually good, the compliment it kind of changes.
They won't say your Japanese is good. They'll be like "Your Japanese is great." They'll change the words.
Do you feel like if your Japanese really is good they just stop saying anything at all?
Yes, they'll think like maybe you're half (Japanese). I don't know.
Like you. Yeah, yeah.
So why do they do it? Why do they say it's good when it's not actually good?
I think maybe just for the effort.
For you trying hard because Japanese is a difficult language I feel.
They're being nice. Yeah, they're being nice.
How about America? Do they do the same?
I feel like in America we don't really compliment people on their English too much because
one part of us is like afraid that maybe they are American.
It's pretty awkward like "Your English is so good! Where'd you learn?"
Like here. I was born here. It's just too awkward. We don't want to get into that situation.
In Pakistan it's very rare. In Japan you meet people from all over the world.
Whereas in Pakistan there are not many tourists.
Nobody goes like "Let's go to Pakistan for vacation." They go for hiking.
That's been one thing that kind of annoyed me about the comments section of my videos.
"Oh, they're just surprised because you know Americans are speaking a foreign language."
"If it was an Asian guy, if it was a Japanese guy they wouldn't be surprised."
I'm like no I bet they would if they were speaking Urdu or Hindi or whatever. Yeah, it would shock the heck out of you.
We would be surprised. Actually it would make us happy kind of in a way.
Even if he makes mistakes, at least he's trying and at least he knows some words.
So yeah, not many people are interested in Pakistan.
Right, I think it's more of... well that guy is defiantly not from our country but he speaks our language.
That kind of makes us proud.
Even if he's making mistakes, but we will obviously correct him. But not in a bad way.
People would just listen and they knew I was making mistakes, but they would never correct me.
So, I actually wanted them to correct my sentences, but they would never.
Won't you lose your confidence?
Um yeah, it depends person to person, but I think in the long-term
if I was making mistakes I would rather people correct me
instead of me making mistakes, because in the long-term it can help me.
Like let's say getting a job or anything.
Yeah. there's polite ways of saying it.
Well thank you mysterious cameraman.
Ok thank you. Umer and Rody, thank you.
And they walk majestically into the sunset.
What are you doing? Alright, thanks guys. Thanks gentlemen.