This is your American friend Anming here taking you on yet another adventure.
I have been living in China and Japan since 2012.
And I am absolutely fascinated by these countries.
Especially how Chinese and Japanese people interact socially and how they interact with foreigners.
If you've seen any of my videos, and I hope you have. I hope you've subscribed as well.
The you've noticed that there's quite a difference in the way that Chinese and Japanese people interact.
There's nuances and different hand gestures. For example I have gotten so many thumbs up from Chinese people.
Which hey it's great, who doesn't love a thumbs up?
But this is defiantly something that I haven't seen very often when talking to Japanese people.
Now on the surface it might seem that Japanese people are a lot shyer around foreigners
but you'd be surprised. There's quite a few outliers that will get really really close.
Closer than you expected.
This video just keeps getting more and more cringe. I like cringe.
The purpose of this video is to help you better interact with Chinese and Japanese people
and use your language skills better
so that you can pick up on the little nuances in conversation
and you can learn to start a conversation better and more effectively when you're talking.
For example there's just little things while you're around Japanese people that you might think
"they didn't react much to that much or they weren't interested." But you might not have picked up on the little nuances.
I know what you might be thinking at this point. Of course all of those women in the Chinese supermarket were so positive.
You're just a couple of girls walking around. Now if it were a guy it would be totally different.
Yes, I've gotten this comment a lot especially on the Harajuku video I did where
I talked to Japanese girls on the street.
But I really think the major factor in your success or failure right here is going to be how charming you are
and how good you are at socializing and making people smile.
Don't believe me? Well, let's go test it out. Let's go find a big American guy who's really social.
Well, what do you know?
Huh? I told you stop following me. That restraining order is very real.
You mist stand at least one foot away from me at all times.
You have a restraining order against candy.
I just went to the gym this morning and worked out for an hour and a half and now we're here.
And now you're tempting me.
Haichu the gummy snacks. $1.25 big lollypop.
This is Soshenmu. They have caramel.
Nice Sam. Nice.
Even better than this is the maple one.
They had a picture of a polar bear on the package. I don't know what that's supposed to mean.
What's the connection?
Remember Taiwan #1.
Oh my gosh.
Taiwan #1
Oh, my gosh.
Taipei? Kaohsiung? Taichung.
I don't know what you're talking about but I like it though.
I like this conversation.
Yeah, what did we say?
Don't forget maple kitkat.
Taiwan #1
Well there you have it. A little bit of knowledge of the Chinese and Japanese language
and a whole heck of a lot of confidence and charm
and I don't care who you are, you can talk to anybody over here.
And just go up and talk to people. If you see something interesting just go up and say "hi".
Too many! Too many dogs.
That's a lot of dogs and he said that's very few for him.
He'll take like 17 of them. Oh my gosh you'd get carried away.
This statue is completely covered in salt.
I've never seen anything like this and they haven't either.
I was like wait when did it snow? It's too early to snow.
That's salt, but don't eat it. That's not gonna taste good at all.