konichiwa ohgenkee deskah my name is
Ronnie and I'm here to teach you some
Japanese huh well no what am I here to
teach you Japanese or English or both so
do you like Japanese are you interested
in Japanese manga which means comic book
do you like sushi which means sushi do
you like singing karaoke
which is karaoke guess what
in English we steal words from Japanese
so not only in this lesson are you going
to learn English you're gonna learn
Japanese okay so you can take me twice
how to get the wins thank you in
Japanese so you can do it thank you
already got those so this lesson is for
anyone who studies likes learns loves or
speaks Japanese what we have done is
we've stolen your words and we've made
them our own so you're thinking wow why
is this important the reason why it's
important is because it helps you learn
and remember vocabulary because you
already know what these words mean so
now you're gonna understand oh my god
this word in my language is the same in
English so you have a bonus okay please
my kanji is not what it used to be my
brush strokes are just out of shape
these days my katakana lacking so if you
see any problems with my hair again a
katakana or a kanji please do tell me in
the comments but write in in English
because I don't want a Google Translate
I've tried my best to actually write the
things in Japanese if they look funny
it's because they're funny but let's go
through this so these are words that are
actually Japanese that we use in English
first one we say karaoke karaoke is when
you sing you make a fool of yourself in
front of your friends it's great in
Japanese they say karaoke so the
pronunciation is different
it actually means empty or
did you know that it means there's
nobody playing behind you so means the
empty orchestra so karaoke karaoke is a
Japanese word do you like karaoke I hate
it oh god I hate karaoke please never
invite me to karaoke unless you're gonna
buy me drinks all night because Ronnie's
not into that this word is a new word
it's huge I didn't know his Japanese
emoji somehow blue dah this means word I
know this means word and this means
letter so maybe this means face or
appearance emoji is actually a Japanese
words figure this out
face letter face letter it means face
ladder and there you go emoji futon you
might think futon is a couch mm-hmm in
Japan they don't have beds like we do
off the floor they most people use
what's called a fruit on a futon is
basically a soft mattress on the floor
called a futon I have no idea what this
means it means bed on the floor I guess
but our folding bed futon is a Japanese
word it doesn't mean a couch it means a
bed next one
kamikaze now you're thinking wow hey I
know this word because it's a very
delicious drink it's a nice cocktail and
it's also what the Japanese pilots did
in World War two or one two one two to
win the war or to try and win the war
kamikaze actually means deveined wind
kamikaze doesn't mean that there's
suicide bombers it means Divine Wind
so this their idea was that they their
God will help them win the war with
their wind and didn't sorry
katana this is a sword maybe you know
the word oh I need to buy a new katana
because mine's getting rusty haven't
used it that much since my samurai days
which is another Japanese katana is a
sword this is the kanji for it cool I
don't
how this looks like a sword kind of
looks like a square with a little thing
in the end
so katana we say an English sword or
katana next one this is a terrible thing
tsunami a tsunami is something that
happens it's a natural disaster where
the ocean basically just destroys and
kills things on the shore Japan has been
struck with many tsunamis but we use
this word the same way they do its
destructive water that comes and washes
away the countryside this part means
water
it means Harbor Banzai Banzai
this is a tree and actually in Japanese
it means a plant that's growing in the
tray hmm and instead of us saying wow
your plant that's growing in the tray
really looks nice we just call it a
bonsai because that's what you guys call
it so a bonsai is a kind of plant do you
have a bonsai tree they're very small
crazy haiku haiku is a kind of poem I
remember when I was a wee Ronnie in
school we had to write haiku poems it's
something like five lines seven lines
five lines I don't remember it was
poetry really short and I was like damn
this is deep why doesn't it rhyme a
haiku is a kind of poem that we get from
Japan are you a haiku writer no I am NOT
five syllables next origami origami this
is in my opinion super cool I remember
being a kid grade 3 my teacher taught me
how to make a frog took a square of
paper folded it made a frog that jumps
Wow hello super cool origami means
Gami means paper maybe or means folding
I don't remember but origami is the art
of folding paper you can make so many
cool things out of it take it up as your
next hobby super cool otaku do you know
this word otaku maybe to you means
someone that likes comic books or reads
comic
in Japanese the meetings a little bit
different it represents a nerd so a nerd
is someone who stays in their home and
and doesn't do anything except for read
comic books we learn otaku as someone
that plays video games or really likes
manga which is Japanese comic books so
they use it to be like a nerd
someone who stays home and has no social
life we use it for more of someone who
loves video games and loves comic books
the meaning is a little different don't
you think
sensei I'm a sensei sensei means teacher
I think this word became very popular
from a movie called Karate Kid karate is
a Japanese word too so Karate Kid I'm
sure they use the word sensei I don't
know though I never saw the movie hmm
but sensei means teacher Tycoon Oh have
you heard this word a lot recently
they're calling the president in America
a tycoon now in English a tycoon means
someone who has a lot of money like a
millionaire and Japanese it means a
powerful leader or a big power
maybe not power but someone who has a
lot of strength so yeah the meanings
different a little bit different but you
get the same idea thank oh okay if you
guys look at this hmm lettering okay
there's three different kinds this one
is called in Japanese called kanji and
it's taken from Chinese this one is
fans own lettering this is called
hiragana and this means that this didn't
originate from China these are Japanese
own words and then we have this thing
called hiragana hiragana no katakana
sorry cat scanner katakana means that
they've taken a word from another
language
for example pan pan means bread and
they've made it their own language so
panko panko hmm our breadcrumbs but this
isn't originated in Japan or China
they've taken this these this word from
another language and made it their own
so Japan borrows words from German and
France and we borrow words from Japan
and Germany and France and French and
Latin well everything karate
well they say karate this means hand so
we say karate mmm and they say karate
the way it's written it's the same it's
a martial art where you fight with your
hands tofu this means soy bean this
crazy kanji might mean fermented I'm not
too sure but I know this means soy bean
so tofu is fermented soybeans we use
this word a lot but it is actually a
Japanese word and the last one Zen to a
garden we think of Zen is being very
peaceful and wonderful so we've actually
taken this word Zen in English to mean
calm hmm so if you can think about words
that you have in your language and you
can understand that in English we take
some of your words from your language we
take some Japanese words and we use them
you guys know sushi tempura a lot of
food words we use as well so it will
help you a lot to remember and learn new
vocabulary ah this is all for money I'm
out of here
not tonight