you got the city Tammany banging I lived
in China for six years Japan for two
years Wow Wow six years that's amazing
so she's like super clone in Chinese
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why is it so difficult for us to learn a
language I see many people struggle
myself included to get better at
Japanese we say things like I wish I was
better at this language or I wish I
could understand what they're saying we
get nervous when we move abroad to try
to communicate when it comes to daily
tasks when you throw yourself into the
real world of Japan you struggle and you
wonder why
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hey guys welcome back to my channel so
today I'm going to meet a friend I
haven't seen since maybe two years ago
but she's actually a friend in junior
high school so she lived in China for a
really long time and she also lives in
Japan no well now she lives in Japan but
she's fluent in both languages oh it's a
gloomy day I don't know if it's gonna
rain hopefully it doesn't but I can't
wait for you guys to meet my friend
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all right it's so hot wearing a mask but
I didn't wear any lipstick today because
I wasn't expecting to not learn enough
but I'm taking it off because there's
nobody around and I'm heading to Reno
right now and I'm gonna meet up with my
friend we're gonna go get some sushi or
some lunch around the we know station
and just have a little bit of a chat
doors on the right side will open
Oh busy here and everybody's still
wearing the dream like hot outside and
I'm waiting for my friend here because
I'm a little bit early you know I
haven't been here in so long it's kind
of nice to be out and about and just
like walking around this is my friend my
school friends here my school we're
junior high school we tend to see
language as foreign something that is
separate from who we are but language is
who we are it's a deep part of us that
wants to come out we want to communicate
everyone has the ability to speak any
language they want to we don't have to
sound native or be native to understand
and communicate to tell stories it's not
necessary that place over there it looks
very western-style home get the log get
the log we've been looking for a place
to sit for like an hour well this'll do
all right we found a spot it's not a log
on an actual bench now yeah in this
beautiful little forest where there's
like nobody this is my friend her name
is I mean that's my Chinese name
I lived in China for six years Japan for
two years Wow Wow six years that's
amazing so she's like super cool in
Chinese and really fluent in Japanese I
don't know how that happened today
because a lot of you guys were saying
that like oh I want to come in Japan or
oh I want to learn you know Japanese but
I'm thirty year and I'm it's too late
you know so I feel like I wanted to get
given a little bit of an interview she's
actually a friend of mine from junior
high school so we've known each other
for a really long time
in 15 16 years yeah yeah yes and it's so
crazy because we kind of you know found
each other on the other side of the
world he learned language way later in
life and I just want to show you some
proof and I don't know if you can give
my viewers any tips on learning the
language and why you got so good because
people think it's always impossible
honestly it's only impossible if these
states impose impossible if you give up
if you keep saying like oh it's so hard
I'd like to hear them say that to the 80
year old Japanese people who I taught
English to so if any of them like really
good
some of them were good they were
learning at 80 years old so if you think
thirty is too late you should go talk to
them but I feel like if you don't enjoy
it then you're not gonna get good
because if you don't enjoy learning the
language then you're just never gonna
settle right because some people don't
know how to learn it they pick a very
boring way to learn it and then in that
case you wouldn't enjoy it but there are
fun or ways to learn than just from a
book
she speaks Japanese in Chinese so
fluently you could you should check her
channel out it's called oriental pearl
and she just makes video mostly videos
about interacting with people around
Japan and China so you can just see like
she when did you start learning Japanese
you said I started learning Japanese in
2015 and Chinese in 2012 and that was
long after I was a child start like
around college years and yeah and but
this like how did how do you think you
got but one of it was a money investment
I had to put out money because after I
spent all that money on language
learning and came all the way to Japan
I'm like okay I cannot just let this go
I cannot just not study this after I
made this huge investment you know it
was kind of like an investment in myself
and I would feel like it was a total
waste of my time and money if I just
gave up after that so I put that risk
out there and went into this school and
paid money for the classes and I'm like
I'm gonna learn something having that
time investment that money investment
pushed me because I'm like okay I'm not
gonna waste time and money ice I'm
committed to this fully committed if you
want to grow or like make a change in
your life or something like your and you
invest in it
it's it's it makes you more motivated
and more committed to completing
whatever you're investing in your ear
light it's just the same as like life
coaching or something like people invest
money I invested in business coaching
okay you know I invested a lot of money
into that and I'm like I am NOT gonna
fail like I'm gonna actually do it I
think the problem is a lot of people see
the results of that okay where I am
today where other people are today what
the videos look like when you have
enough confidence to post them well you
don't see all the hard work that went
into that so they get this idea that
certain people are good at languages and
other people are not it's not
necessarily true I don't think I have
any special ability with language I
think it's a little bit more about
willpower how much time how much
sacrifice you put into it
some people think see the finished
product you see the work after it's all
done I struggled a lot there were many
many times many times where I wanted to
give up especially when I was a beginner
and that is the biggest hurdle that's
the the point that a lot of people stop
because they get discouraged they feel
like there's no end in sight and that's
when you're most vulnerable I think I
had gotten made fun of in China was I
first moved there by my students made
fun of me they were brutal like kids
will just tell you like it is kids don't
hold anything back I said some things to
my students and Chinese and they they
mocked me I I mean they were kids I
can't get too humiliated by a bunch of
kids but I feel bad about it like these
kids making fun of my Chinese and I
would leave the classroom feel like wow
I suck man except being imperfect you
have to accept making mistakes because
if you don't make mistakes you don't
learn so making mistakes is key but some
people are embarrassed to make mistakes
especially many Japanese adults that I
taught did not want to make mistakes
they would think about sentences for a
long time but it is essential so a lot
of perfectionists have trouble with
language learning because they don't
want to be wrong but you have to
especially in the beginning the
sir is simple we can't learn Japanese
because we think we can't learn Japanese
so we give up we see the progress other
people made and see it as something so
out of our reach but it's impossible our
thoughts shape our reality and
everything we do if we think we don't
have time to study then we don't have
time to study if we think we're too old
then we're too old if we say something
is hard it's hard it takes work in
progress but complaining that it's hard
will make us overthink and it won't make
it any easier to do the task okay this
is this is my Japanese husband I have a
Mexican husband and I also have a
European husband well my husband is
Japanese right are you Japanese this is
my American Way Wow okay so the window
has a lot of like Meiji period type
thing
we see all these cool buildings oh can
we go in there oh we can look there's
like a little shop okay so now I'm
starting to speak like I'm from Michigan
now do you do you still sound like it I
was like oh my gosh so this is a school
but it looks really small it's a little
little shop here I haven't explored in
so long it feels so good
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yeah
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today's you don't need to be perfect and
speak perfect Japanese or go up there
like you know like some master you could
just learn a little bit and have a
conversation and get to know the people
exactly in that and the Huff and don't
afraid to open your mouth and talk yeah
even like me like my Japanese is only
intermediate level but I understood
everything that they were saying so
listening is also a good skill it
doesn't have to be perfect when it comes
to seeking like listening is also good
right right so a little you want to be
able to understand it's you know
someone's trying to talk to you or
something that's really important what
is this way is this a restaurant oh it
is a restaurant it has food and stuff
nobody is perfect it takes time to break
the limiting belief of I can't do
something we have to become a terminator
of past limiting beliefs a samurai for
our demons that keep us from moving
forward your self-doubts will always
resurface but as you work more and more
in yourself become more aware of how
you're thinking and how BS that thought
actually is you'll discover how to break
the chains and reach every single goal
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we're in Yamaka Ginza and they sell a
lot of related shop it's a really really
unique came looking for a Japanese cup
because I really wanted one I like these
this is cute this one's a cute one
this one's nice no I like it it's like a
coffee yeah I kind of I don't know yes
the real world is important for learning
but learning from a textbook classroom
online program app or whatever you
choose is an important step to begin
your journey choose something that's
enjoyable for you don't feel ashamed
that you're using materials to help you
learn that's just the beginning don't be
afraid of going back and reviewing your
language programs tests quizzes it's all
essential the one thing most people need
to understand is after learning you need
to use it people actually love that
you're trying no matter how many
mistakes you make the only way to get
better is to make mistakes courage won't
come overnight so start by telling
yourself that you can speak Japanese
stop telling yourself that it's
impossible it's only as impossible as
you make it
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this is the coolest illustrate actually
I've never been down here
Yannick ax is like an old street there's
lots of cafes we're near cemetery right
now Yannick uh Cemetery I think oh
there's those little rain spirits this
is so cute yeah like they keep the rain
away or like stop the rain or whatever
are they to keep the rain from falling
or to make rain fall pink stop right
stop stop the rain this is a cool water
bottle
so I just met one of my subscribers and
she's from Venezuela right there's so
awesome it's your first time in Japan so
that's so cool what are you planning on
doing today in Japan doing this wood
frame oh okay I'm very beautiful a small
but very nice whoa we're talking about
blood types so due to the B type in
Japan they take blood type super
seriously right so most Japanese are
typing oh yeah yeah beauty isn't easy so
he like doesn't fit it nobody likes it
he is supposed to be outgoing but
disorganized and don't really know a lot
of people and my mom
my mom I think it'd be positive what is
the cultural difference between Japan
and China but you were talking about how
the first years are stairs a hardest
year the first year is that absolute
hearted here when you move to a new
country especially because of the
language because you have to make all
your mistakes in the very beginning to
learn it so you just feel lost you feel
stupid you feel like you regret your
decision did I do the right thing and
everyone goes through this honeymoon
period where it's really wonderful and
you're on vacation fixture three or
suits they have there's actually a
science like honeymoon phase crisis
phase rather than like you just say
there's a loop and a lot of people break
at the crisis space you know because of
the language and the culture and
everything and you just feel lost and
silly and you look silly when you don't
understand stuff or you messed up a
favorite right I mean you're in the
States
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you want a cheese dog I've never heard
of a cheese dog what does the cheese
don't he's our dog with cheese Oh with
this what are you living on
that's a cheese that looks like a
Chinese finger trap wait is there a hot
dog in it that's it okay it's just
cheese inside it looks like string
cheese in there
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we're gonna go to karaoke
for the first time in like how many
months like 12 um hey right karaoke
don't come for me it's open okay we're
going because it's open and it does to
sit two meters apart from the people
that you're singing with but we came
together I got a see you away from my
husband oh yeah
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