Did the results turn out how you thought they would? What do you think it means to “belong” to a certain culture?

@enterthebruce91

3 ай бұрын

Back again with the fresh content! Appreciate it, Jesse. Love from the UK 🇬🇧 👊🏽

@phen-themoogle7651

3 ай бұрын

Basically she would be correct whoever she chose, I love the message at the end of the video, nice one :) Hopefully a lot of Japanese people see this video and learn from it. It should be shown in schools all across Japan.

@Mizuyah

3 ай бұрын

In Japan, if you’re parents are foreigner, but you’re born in Japan, you’re still not classed as Japanese, but the girl was born and raised in Japan which would make her Japanese to me. Granted, I’m from England where birth grants you instant British nationality. The rules work differently on different places.

@user-ov4wr5yu4r

3 ай бұрын

She was BORN and grew up there. She's Japanese. But to answer, if you grew up your whole life there and feel at home in the culture, it is your culture. Sincerely, a Hong Konger. We have a lot of people who started out somewhere else, came for a while, and never left. The question is where do you feel more at home.

@faith9505

3 ай бұрын

A Ray of Light But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. -Nehemiah 9:17 Even in the mess Samson had made of his life, even though the Philistines had captured him and blinded him, there was a little ray of light. The Bible says, “But before long, his hair began to grow back” (Judges 16:22) What is this verse saying? It’s telling us there is hope, even if we have failed. As Samson’s hair began to grow, his strength returned. However, Samson’s strength was not in his long hair. Rather, it was in his commitment to God. His hair symbolized a vow he had taken as a Nazirite. And his hair was returning. One night when the Philistines were having a drunken feast to their false god, someone came up with the idea of dragging out the sightless Samson to make fun of him. So, they brought Samson from the prison into a big party where Philistines were engaging in debauchery and the worship of a false god. Meanwhile, Samson said to the young servant who was leading him, “Place my hands against the pillars that hold up the temple. I want to rest against them” (verse 26) So, the servant did as Samson had asked. Then the Bible tells us, “Samson prayed to the Lord, ‘Sovereign Lord, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.’ Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars that held up the temple. Pushing against them with both hands, he prayed, ‘Let me die with the Philistines’ ” (verse 28-30) Samson pushed with all his might, and the temple where they were came crashing down. As it turned out, Samson killed more Philistines that day than he had during his entire life of fighting them on the battlefield. In contrast to the life of Samson, the Bible tells the story of another young man who experienced sexual temptation. His name was Joseph. The Bible says he was good-looking and well-built, and his employer’s wife constantly tried to seduce him. She also was about as subtle as Delilah. In fact, she said, “Come and sleep with me” (Genesis 39:7) But Joseph resisted her, saying, “My master trusts me with everything in his entire household. No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God” (verses 8-9) But one day she decided to do whatever she could to make this happen. She sent her servants outside, grabbed Jospeh, and pulled him down on the bed. So, Joseph did what any smart person should do in a similar circumstance. He ran. And he ran fast. That is what we need to do when we’re faced with temptation. But even when we mess up, even when we have failed, God gives second chances. Do you need a second chance? Do you want to get up and try again? God can give you a second chance today.

I agree with Harukaze about Sasha being Japanese, she should for sure be considered Japanese. Also would have been interesting to see some information on each participant like if they were born in Japan or for how many years they have livied in Japan

@phen-themoogle7651

3 ай бұрын

They are all 'Japanese' lol Linguistically native level for all of them, I've been using the language 30 years and to me they are natives, I'm just very fluent (been fluent 25 years) and sometimes told I'm native but they were a notch above me.

@user-qy7vz9bi8c

3 ай бұрын

nah the first girl especially was clearly a foreigner her accent was very off

@jasmithyantro9680

3 ай бұрын

@@phen-themoogle7651 1 and 7 were definitely not native; you can hear them mess up the intonation quite a few times. 3 said 'oya' kinda weird so that gave it away and 4's pronunciation of 'anime' was a little off. 2 could've passed as a native but it felt like 5 and 6 sounded more native. 5 and 6 definitely sounded the most native (because they are lol) but everyone except 1 and 7 could've easily been mistaken for a native speaker. Edit: 4 was apparently raised in Japan from age 5 so the way he said 'anime' was probably the way kansai people say it and not him butchering the pronounciation.

@zeddo-kun

3 ай бұрын

Naw. Your country of origin is of great importance in terms of identity

@RealTragoe2

3 ай бұрын

@@zeddo-kun girl was literally born and raised in Japan, therefore Japan is her country of origin. Her parents may be immigrants from other countries and that is for sure part of her identity because of how they bring her up or what languages they teach her, etc, but that shouldn't make her not Japanese for whatever reason

When the real Japanese aaid "hai" for no reason, I burst out laughing. That would be the biggest sign for me who would be the real Japanese

@azul1964

3 ай бұрын

I would say that too since "hai" is the only word that i could say when other words are too difficult to explain precisely

@andersonentwistle

3 ай бұрын

The way he said it right off and continued to was hilarious and made the others feel overly perfected

@Andytlp

3 ай бұрын

Only japanese i know is from anime and my accent is so thick i'd be out in 0.2 seconds.

@im7254

3 ай бұрын

​@@Andytlpnani? baka

@rivellr

2 ай бұрын

as a japanese person, I do think that even though the others were really good at japanese that classic japanese behaviour such as saying "hai" is kind of a giveaway. Then again the other contestants could of studied prior to speak more like that

Would've been nice to have short interviews with each of the other contestants throoughout to get to know how they learned japanese as well

@jesseogn

3 ай бұрын

Love the idea! We shot 1 on 1 interviews but unfortunately had audio issues :(

@user-ov4wr5yu4r

3 ай бұрын

​@@jesseogn😢

@faith9505

3 ай бұрын

A Ray of Light But you are a God of forgiveness, gracious and merciful, slow to become angry, and rich in unfailing love. -Nehemiah 9:17 Even in the mess Samson had made of his life, even though the Philistines had captured him and blinded him, there was a little ray of light. The Bible says, “But before long, his hair began to grow back” (Judges 16:22) What is this verse saying? It’s telling us there is hope, even if we have failed. As Samson’s hair began to grow, his strength returned. However, Samson’s strength was not in his long hair. Rather, it was in his commitment to God. His hair symbolized a vow he had taken as a Nazirite. And his hair was returning. One night when the Philistines were having a drunken feast to their false god, someone came up with the idea of dragging out the sightless Samson to make fun of him. So, they brought Samson from the prison into a big party where Philistines were engaging in debauchery and the worship of a false god. Meanwhile, Samson said to the young servant who was leading him, “Place my hands against the pillars that hold up the temple. I want to rest against them” (verse 26) So, the servant did as Samson had asked. Then the Bible tells us, “Samson prayed to the Lord, ‘Sovereign Lord, remember me again. O God, please strengthen me just one more time. With one blow let me pay back the Philistines for the loss of my two eyes.’ Then Samson put his hands on the two center pillars that held up the temple. Pushing against them with both hands, he prayed, ‘Let me die with the Philistines’ ” (verse 28-30) Samson pushed with all his might, and the temple where they were came crashing down. As it turned out, Samson killed more Philistines that day than he had during his entire life of fighting them on the battlefield. In contrast to the life of Samson, the Bible tells the story of another young man who experienced sexual temptation. His name was Joseph. The Bible says he was good-looking and well-built, and his employer’s wife constantly tried to seduce him. She also was about as subtle as Delilah. In fact, she said, “Come and sleep with me” (Genesis 39:7) But Joseph resisted her, saying, “My master trusts me with everything in his entire household. No one here has more authority than I do. He has held back nothing from me except you, because you are his wife. How could I do such a wicked thing? It would be a great sin against God” (verses 8-9) But one day she decided to do whatever she could to make this happen. She sent her servants outside, grabbed Jospeh, and pulled him down on the bed. So, Joseph did what any smart person should do in a similar circumstance. He ran. And he ran fast. That is what we need to do when we’re faced with temptation. But even when we mess up, even when we have failed, God gives second chances. Do you need a second chance? Do you want to get up and try again? God can give you a second chance today.

@user-su4dd9kp7l

3 ай бұрын

Pretty sure they were all actually raised in Japan

@stephaniem8278

3 ай бұрын

@@user-su4dd9kp7lAbi was raised in the Midwest USA. She moved to Japan at age 17.

Harukaze thank you so much for saying what you said about Sasha being Japanese. My kids were born in Sapporo and most of their lives have been in Japan, we left Japan about a year ago and they still identify as a Japanese and have troubles identifying to their passport countries. My oldest especially, he went to school in Japan and the keeps telling me he is Japanese. That love and connection to their "home" is impossible to erase and it breaks my heart that anyone would tell them they are not Japanese. They don't have the passport, but their heart and soul is strongly shaped by the country they grew up in.

@Handle0108

2 ай бұрын

I wonder why they don't have the passport if they are born there, its one of the best passports in the world

@lifeofvix

2 ай бұрын

@@Handle0108 Japan doesn’t do duel citizenship beyond age 21 I think, and they don’t have birthright citizenship like the USA and other countries do. We had to report our children’s birth to our home countries to get them citizenship there. My understanding is that both our home countries would have to deny our children (born in Japan) citizenship in order for Japan to even consider giving them citizenship.

@Handle0108

2 ай бұрын

wow, its really that difficult?! but I would have to believe that its at least worth a try given how attached the kids are to Japan, and if they really want to live there in the future permanently and smoothly. @@lifeofvix

@DynamicalisBlue

2 ай бұрын

​@@lifeofvix Still difficult to believe that's how Japan does citizenship. Most other countries will give you citizenship if you have legally resided there for several years. That sucks.

@darthwater999

2 ай бұрын

@@DynamicalisBlue that's the only way to preserve their culture unlike we do in europe

There isn't a difference in speech between an ethnic Japanese person who was born and raised in Japan and a non-ethnic Japanese person who was also born and raised in Japan so someone like Sasha should just be counted as a Japanese in a challenge like this.

@tenacious_takakumi2680

3 ай бұрын

In my view, if you have the mindset and way of life of Japanese people, you can be Japanese. But what many people confuse with is ethnicity and nationality so it’s probably better to ask are you ethnically Japanese or not. (Then of course you have situations where I’m half Japanese and I don’t know if I’m Japanese or not. It’s actually pretty funny how just by ”being” Japanese, I’ll be percieved as Japanese but by ”being” my other half, I’ll be percieved as the other nationality)

@user-pd9ju5dk5s

3 ай бұрын

@@tenacious_takakumi2680Well, you just you're half so your category is half

@Volzotran

3 ай бұрын

​@user-pd9ju5dk5s no human is half, he is fully japanese and fully whatever else. That's not how genetics and humana work, even tho it's a common way of linguistically expressing it, no one is really "half"

@user-pd9ju5dk5s

3 ай бұрын

@@Volzotran Yes, that is how geenetics works. Roughly half and half from your parents, ya dolt 😂

@user-pd9ju5dk5s

3 ай бұрын

@@Volzotran Yes, that is how geenetics works. Roughly half and half from your parents, ya dolt 😂

...Wait, so she was born and raised in Japan, went away a few years, then got back? So... the question wasn't who is japanese, but who is biologically japanese? Quite a diffrence.

@StephJ0seph

16 күн бұрын

More so ethnically Japanese

@GloriaTheAnimator

6 күн бұрын

@@StephJ0seph genetically japanese

The people that were born and raised in Japan should just be counted as a Japanese since they learned Japanese the same way 'real' Japanese people learned it.

@jit085

3 ай бұрын

japenese people dont think that way though,so it dont really matter what we think, we should respect they way of thinking (youre only japanese by blood)

@chippukumikyoku7267

3 ай бұрын

@@jit085 I'm just speaking from the context of this video. Sasha was born and raised in Japan and grew up speaking Japanese so her Japanese is just as fluent as the 'real' Japanese person so there's really no way to tell who sounds more native.

@hirotohoashi

3 ай бұрын

@@chippukumikyoku7267 I guess sometimes even if you're born in Japan, having non-Japanese parents can give you a slight accent or different common sense. Like, I was born in Australia, but since my parents are Japanese, I watched a lot of Japanese TV at home, and sometimes don't relate to TV shows others grew up with.

@dreadformer

3 ай бұрын

in japan citizenship is by blood, so technically american-born japanese people are japanese but japanese-born people who are not ethnically japanese are not legally citizens of japan or japanese.

@hirotohoashi

3 ай бұрын

@@dreadformer It's not about ethnicity, it's about nationality. A child shall, in any of the following cases, be a Japanese national: (1) When, at the time of its birth, the father or the mother is a Japanese national; (2) When the father who died prior to the birth of the child was a Japanese national at the time of his death; (3) When both parents are unknown or have no nationality in a case where the child is born in Japan.

I appreciate the effort to find everyone who are SO native on their accent. It actually made the challenge difficult.

日本人の見分け方 7:18 でスゥーー って無駄に伸ばしちゃう

@user-iw6xs5lu4q

2 ай бұрын

めっちゃ分かる😂

I’m a Brazilian who was born and raised in Japan too, and I fell sad when people says I’m not Japanese cuz, I lived my whole life in Japan and my first language is Japanese. I feel you Sasha 🤍🤍

@overbored617

3 ай бұрын

you just admitted you're not japanese

@Cyhcg5uhgb

3 ай бұрын

​​@@overbored617she has japanese citizenship. So she is japanese, but does not have japanese ethnicity. I was born abroad as well, where I live in Europe if I were to say that I am not "from this european country" people would get upset at me and acuse me of not intergrating well enough, because I was born here. So I guess it also depends on the country I suppose

@dannyshucksill7687

3 ай бұрын

​@overbored617 there's nationality and ethnicity. I wish english had different words for a person who is ethnically from versus nationality but it doesn't. So yes she is Japanes and at the same time not Japanese 😅

@Thayrinesayuri

3 ай бұрын

@@overbored617 it’s hard to born in a country and automatically be from another country…💔 It isn’t easy to understand this, but I believe a lot of people feels what I feel🙏

@marvinsulzer8258

3 ай бұрын

I can see why you feel bad. But on the other hand if they allow all foreigners to be considered Japanese and bring in a sudden surge of immigrants who all suddenly claim to be Japanese after integrating… then Japan isn’t really Japan anymore. The citizens will have no historic connection to the land

Honored to be in this video! What I want to say to everyone studying Japanese is that your second language does not need to be perfect or “native” to be valid. Never feels bad about your level or your process!❤ その言語が母国語じゃないと完璧に話せることは現実的じゃないし、どれだけ上手くても、どれだけ語彙力があるとしても、些細な発音の間違いだけでネイティブじゃないとすぐバレます！ 完全にネイティブじゃなくても、完璧じゃなくても、外国語で流暢に話せることさえもすごいことだよ！！とみんなに伝えたいです❤

@faysburp

3 ай бұрын

I LOVE YOUR VIDEOS AND STORIES! I OFTEN WATCH THEM ON TIKTOK IM A FOLLOWER💕💕💕

@katikudorei

Ай бұрын

いやいや、日本人の俺からすれば、それだけネイティブにしゃべられると、君たちが日本人にしか見えないし、逆に外国の人とは思えない。

10:45 "nihonjin dayo!~" sent me hahahaha

Love this video. I recently moved away from Japan and I miss it so much. This brought me a lot of joy and hope to return in the future ❤ also, Sasha is definitely Japanese and Haru did a great job narrowing everyone down!

１と７は分かりやすい

@NO1xANIMExFAN

3 ай бұрын

確かに。発音だけで分かる

I thought it was a pity "Tomoka" got eliminated so quickly, her japanese accent was quite good. And surprised "Ayaka" lasted so long, I thought her accent was pretty obvious.

@turuus5215

3 ай бұрын

Ya ahaha, her pitch and word elongation was off

The conversation at the end is really important. There's a lot of Japanese people who don't "look Japanese" so they tend to be treated like "foreigner" by other Japanese people. But the end is correct, she is Japanese, she grew and lived in Sapporo. She is Japanese regardless of where her parents are from and what they look like. It's a shame this is still an issue in Japan in 2024.

@wussrestbrook1200

3 ай бұрын

Ofc we have a white colonizer trying to mansplain Japanese identity lmaoo

@EdLo.

3 ай бұрын

true kinda sucks

@KarlMarxBR700

3 ай бұрын

It's not that simple, in some countries, you need to have "native blood" to be considered a national. I'm not saying I agree with that, just stating a fact. It's called "ius sanguinis"

@avsambart

3 ай бұрын

@@KarlMarxBR700 And you don't think that's a problem? Because it sounds pretty discriminatory to me.

@PhamGiaBao-zu3gz

3 ай бұрын

@@avsambartyeah that's racism 😢

Love seeing Ananya in all these collabs with Japanese content creators. First Takashii, now Jesse! And omg! ABI! I love her TikTok content!

wouldve loved for her to have seen and interacted with all of them at the end too. youre making great content man keep it up

More of these videos please! So much fun to watch! ✨

I was truly entertained! Thanks

I had so much fun watching this, I love it.

Great video! I wonder if most of the 'foreigners' were actually born in Japan and the whole idea of this was to teach us not to judge someone by their appearance. In that case they are all real Japanese. It would have been cool if the Kyoto guy knew that and so he purposely let Sasha win to prove a point.

@henloworld514

Ай бұрын

if that was the case they would’ve went into it at the end. Sasha is actually Japanese so it’s understandable the Kyoto guy lost since the judge was also from Sapporo like Sasha. You’re not giving Sasha enough credit. She is actually Japanese, I don’t know why they made it seem like she wasn’t in this video.

Wow, this was really entertaining! Seriously, from beginning to end, she was nailing them each!

Lol that shouldn't have even counted, Sapporo girl was actually Japanese!! I was thinking everyone except Kyoto-san was gaikokujin. Damn, maybe if I was Japanese myself I would've suspected she was native from the start.

@lawrencewong4347

2 ай бұрын

true, if you're born and raised in japan, you're japanese no matter your ancestry it's not like she can just travel to brazil and instantly be a citizen there solely because she's not actually brazilian; her ancestral country wont even accept her fakeness but she's definitely a japanese citizen solely due to place of birth; otherwise she's stateless as both her parents arent even from the same country

Great videooooooo. Please do more. I love your videos, I learn a lot of Japanese, thank you

Accents aside, their grammar and placement of words is all perfect they already speak Japanese better than tons of actual Japanese people 😂

@user-ce1pw5bp1m

3 ай бұрын

I can tell from the pronunciation that some are not Japanese.

@turuus5215

3 ай бұрын

Actually, non-Japanese all had accent or pitch peculiarities. It isn’t too hard to distinguish.

this was such an entertaining episode. i love this! i want to see more.

This was such a fun video to watch, thank you!! Also everyone's Japanese is so good, you guys are amazing ❤

What an awesome showing. Please do another intro at the end so we can learn everyones real background, i think thats the most interesting part.

Such an interesting video! Everybody speaks such good Japanese. It was a fun challenge to watch

@jesseogn you really making moves out here! this is such a positive, fun video, perfect length, perfect editing one of my favorites !! Goodjob to you and the team !

would love more of this!

The guy from Kyoto could have ended the contest in a second by fully answering the challenge when he was asked to speak in Kansai dialect (really hard even for native Japanese to fake that dialect if they're not really from there). But I wonder if maybe he was holding back from fully answering because he didn't want to "reveal" himself in this contest or else maybe he really was just shy to be put on the spot. But anyway, good job by him and everyone.

@andiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

kyoto has its own dialect separate from the kansai accent that people in osaka speak. its very different

@MusicFanOnline

3 ай бұрын

@@andiiiiiiiiii You make an excellent point, and thank you for your feedback. As an American that lived in Osaka and other Kansai areas, I would still view the Kyoto dialect as one type of Kansai dialect, but yeah, probably Japanese people are aware that the Osaka dialect is the one that most people think of when they imagine "Kansai dialect", so this guy from Kyoto in this video may have been a little uncomfortable and unsure about whether to answer in the Kyoto dialect or to try more general Kansai phrases that are also used in Osaka and other Kansai areas as well.

@andiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

​@@MusicFanOnline i could be misreading but, it seems to me more like he legitimately didn't have much practice speaking like an osakan, and interpreted the question as testing to see if he could speak with that particular accent. thats awesome that u lived in osaka though. i'm studying hyoujungo but osaka is infinitely more appealing than other places in japan so far

@MusicFanOnline

3 ай бұрын

@@andiiiiiiiiii Yeah, it could be what you said. When I mentioned in my previous comment about him being "uncomfortable". I was thinking about the same possibility that you mentioned about him not being that comfortable in speaking like someone from Osaka as opposed to the Kyoto dialect which is more familiar for him. Yeah, I studied hyoujungo first, too, and then got a job teaching English in Wakayama just outside of Osaka. Then I moved to Osaka later.

@andiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

​@@MusicFanOnline 結構すごいですね！なかなかうらやましいが、僕もそのうち日本に行くつもりです ちなみに、もうわかってるかも知れないが、僕もアメリカ人です＾＾

I wanna hear stories from the other foreigners! They were all so good!

Would have loved to see more of the ethnic Japanese person’s reaction😂 such a touching and surprisingly deep philosophical ending. Very cool.

Man this was so fun to watch! It's so interesting to look for those super-subtle tells. Interesting thing to look at: the Japanese guy saying かぶっちゃうんですけど at 3:32. His んですけど sounds kind of like "nasaya", which is off, but it's off in a very natural way. I think it's the kind of pronunciation flub that you'd only make if you have a Japanese accent and are speaking confidently. For me that would be a sign that he's absolutely Japanese. Then again, I obviously have confirmation bias watching this! So I might be talking complete nonsense. ALSO, the girl talking about how she realized what's amazing about Japan when she studied abroad was beautiful. I thought she was just an extremely good actress (and a completely perfect Japanese speaker) because that's exactly what my Japanese friends have said in the fast. But it turns out she was just giving her honest feelings!

@yokoakimura

2 ай бұрын

That’s very interesting that it sounded that way to you. I thought I heard every single letter, but now that you say it, it's a bit blurred. I think he did flub though, because it's the first time I thought his dialect came out. The guesser asked for a heavy Kansai dialect, but I thought his dialect slipped out a couple times in the video lol.

Really cool vid! I would love to hear the stories of the other contestants. Why is their Japanese so good? Are there any language learners among them? (like learned it after 16 for example) Or who speaks Japanese for the shortest time?

@jeffwoodruff282

3 ай бұрын

Their accents are all so good. I couldn’t tell. They must all be born there or moved to Japan when young.

@nankinink

2 ай бұрын

If you grew up listening to japanese (not anime), it's pretty easy to identify which ones have mixed accents. The hard ones were the last two, which are the only ones that grew up in Japan..

Great job, Jesse! Although it would have been fun and interesting to interview the Kyoto guy too.

i just love watching different people from various nationalities and races sharing their admiration for a languege and culture

Thanks for the amazing content, really enjoyed it and I'll keep supporting you till you hit 1m one from from your bro in 🇳🇬

Amazing country with an amazing people. I was so close to visiting Japan at one point myself. I had experience with modeling and in late 2015 I was in contact with Capcom about the facial likeness role of Leon for the Resident Evil 2 Remake. I failed to mention I also have a voice acting background, in the end I lost the part and I can't forgive myself for wasting such an opportunity. That would've been a real dream come true to visit this place.

最初の自己紹介で半分くらいには絞れるけど、それにしても皆さん日本語上手すぎますよ！

really enjoyed the video and the many prospectives it offered

this was great ! really fun to watch .. nice job everyone!

Petition to get Jesse to be the Jubilee/CUT of japan 🎌✨

いやぁ、素晴らしかった。みんなめっちゃ日本語うまいわ。7番の方って最後の方だけ少し訛りが出てきちゃって…　私もハーフで幼い頃から日本語も英語も話してるんですけど、時々緊張しちゃうと日本語話してる時に謎の訛りが出てきて「えっ、なんで？？」って思うんだけど、もしかしてそれと同じようなものな^^；　とても面白い企画でした、ありがとうございます。 Great video. As others have mentioned, I'd love it if you could maybe do a follow up video with everyone because I'd love to know more about them and their journey with learning Japanese. Cheers.

@turuus5215

3 ай бұрын

I would kinda pinpoint who was Japanese pretty easily. Japanese guy has very standard Japanese voice.

This was so fun! Please do this again! ❤

Thanks very informative Great content love it❤

W video idk why I'm so addicted to this channel

Very unique content 😊👍

The bilingual subs is a very nice touch!

it was really exciting, i really love this kind of content

this was really nice , but it would've been great to see harukaze meet the other participants and the real japanese person at the end , and see her reaction

you could reverse it also, "who is not japanese"

Such class putting credits on the inspiration of the Video!

This is a great video! I think the guy from Kyoto who might actually think Sasha is a real Japanese too, the responses and answers from her are so on point

that was some big brain move right there. the kansai guy tricked her into thinking he doesn’t speak the kansai dialect that much even though it’s the otherwise so she would eliminate him hahaha. i love the video so entertaining !

@andiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

kyoto accent =/= kansai accent

@karkador

3 ай бұрын

@andiiiiiiiii kyoto is inin the kansai region

@andiiiiiiiiii

3 ай бұрын

@@karkador it is but it's still not really the same. thats like someone saying "do an american accent" while the person being asked has a louisiana accent. you would assume they mean a midwestern or californian accent. look up kyoto vs osaka accent and you'll see what i mean (osaka is colloquially what people mean when they say kansai)

3番のともかさん日本語うま過ぎる。

Fun video! They were all really good! But I think Harukaze was either too kind or trying to play her role because even I could tell the accent of the rest of the people😅 But Sasha is def Japanese. I could tell by listening to the way she speaks, not only her accent but things like using ‘jibun’ instead of ‘watashi’ etc. Loved the way she speaks ❤ (and I’m probably a little jealous too as a non-native Jp speaker 😅)

Love the video!!! and i rly like the way you tell the message at the end!!!

That black guy was also raised in Japan.

That was a really wholesome ending. I think it was great that the ethnically non-japanese but still "japanese" person was chosen because its important to talk about the subject of inclusivity in other cultures despite different DNA.

Really enjoyed that Jesse, look forward to the next!

this is great content and so interesting to watch

The girl she picked was born in Japane and grew up in Japan, so she sort of is Japanese.

@ganqqwerty

3 ай бұрын

sort of 100% Japanese

なんか最後は人間讃歌でチャンチャン大団円となったけど、最後の二人は共に日本で育って自然に習得した日本語の話し手で、つまり挑戦者のharukaze さんは言語的にそのネイティブの日本語と後期習得の日本語を聞き分けられたということになる(偶々かもしれないが)。 またこのようなゲームをする場合、質問の仕方もある程度ルールを決めておかないとダメなのかなと思う。というのは、この動画でも若干微妙な箇所があったが、言語的観点というよりは明らかにローカルに突っ込みすぎた質問をすると簡単に日本人と外国人で分かれてしまう恐れがあるからだ。 具体例を言おう。 例えばだが、「小学校の運動会で得意だったのは？」とか「理科の実験でどんなのやりました？」とか「音楽の合唱コンクールで課題曲は何でしたか？」など、この辺をやられたら一撃だろう。 またharukaze さんはなぜここまで英語を話せるのか。最近日本でも若者でこういう人が増えてきたが。この雰囲気は(日本人で)話せるほうの人でもまあまあ上位のほうだと思う。

@BrianLinsen

3 ай бұрын

黒人の星野ルネさんも日本育ちですよ～

Yes! I knew it would come down to accents. Most non-first language speakers learn the standard Kanto dialect and by noticing someone speaking naturally with a different accent it's quite clear they are from the area. Like at 12:44 the "ko to ba" intonation goes from high-low (high-low) as opposed to low-high (Kanto). Quite similar to if this was done in English and someone had an authentic Manchester accent it would be easy to single out. And Manny accent isn't popularly faked anyways too as opposed to something like Cockney.

Wish there was more to this vid or a 2nd part. Would have loved to seen Harukaze's reaction to meeting the others she eliminated.

I agree that she should be considered Japanese! I was born and raised in Australia, but dont have a fully Australian accent, am ethnically Asian and wouldn’t necessarily say i have “Australian personality traits” but i would whole heartedly say Im Australian :’) no “consideration” needed

画面を見ずに、”転職活動をしております”と聞いた瞬間すぐ”ひびき’だとわかった！w

This was very fun to watch. Nice one Jesse :)

loved the video! it was super fun to watch!

She's too kind. It's obvious. You could tell immediately without seeing the video, except sasha because she grew up in Japan

@cesar5666

3 ай бұрын

How were the others obvious? I’m just curious since it wasn’t as obvious to me

@user-ge5oe9oo2k

3 ай бұрын

@@cesar5666 The way they talk, words they use, and pronunciation specially. In the case of Sasha, I don't consider her to be Japanese because I'm a firm believer that your DNA is part of what makes you French, Japanese, German, etc. However, because she grew up in Japan and her vocal chords are similar to Japanese people, she really does sound Japanese.

@turuus5215

3 ай бұрын

@@user-ge5oe9oo2kBased on your belief, only America accepts people that is why it’s immigration destination.

みんな日本語うますぎっ！！！

I'm enjoying this

Omg harukaze, i listened to your stuff from naqt vane daily

bro really left us on a cliffhanger

Ok, yes, Sasha even bowed when Haru was blindfolded! Her mannerisms and hand movements are even Japanese. Her cadence is awesome - if I closed my eyes, she sounds native to me!

Crazy you got harukaze on this. Shes amazing.

What an amazing mix from the winner girl. Latin-russian-japanese. wow

日本人の方は話してる中に「はい」って言葉がさりげなく入ってることが多いから、そこでわかりやすいかも🤔

@user-tp6kr4fw2k

3 ай бұрын

I think so, too.

@turuus5215

3 ай бұрын

マジで話し方がちょっと変だったからさ、結局アウトされたのよ

That Black man who was speaking Japanese has perfect pronunciation. But like...academically perfect. To me.

@raquanwilliams5572

3 ай бұрын

He grew up in Japan from the time he was 5 years old. He’s a mangaka, and his steopfather is Japanese. He speaks a natively at this point lol

@JesusChrist2000BC

3 ай бұрын

When he said TM Revolution I knew he was legit. Only the best listen to TM Revolution/ABS

@Reeks-bi1mr

3 ай бұрын

What do you mean academically? What academic words did he use?

That was an incredible video, I've been learning Japanese and it's been helpful watching content that is mixed with English and Japanese! Thank you for the great video

So nice to see Abi here! Love her TikTok content

Only in japan can you be born and raised in the country but still considered a foreigner lol. fun watch! (and yes there's a couple other places e.g., China where this is true as well)

@lashyn4221

3 ай бұрын

I feel like that would just suck for the most part.

@oneplay5570

3 ай бұрын

that because your half japanese

@Mnguyen92

3 ай бұрын

The soul is japanese but the looks arent

@oneplay5570

3 ай бұрын

@@Mnguyen92 its still half you can never be full

@gerijokub7737

3 ай бұрын

Umm, that's pretty much the case in every homogeneous society. China, South Korea, India, Nigeria, Afghanistan, Mongolia etc hell even here in Eastern Europe nobody would consider you as the "local" if you were, let's say, an Asian born and raised here. Japan isn't the only country on this planet...

So she lost and won at the same time!

Great video made me smile a lot~! So inspiring too. Even though we don't know everyone's backstory, I can assume a few of them at least had put in a lot of effort to attain fluency and did not grow up in Japan, so for language learners like me it's so inspiring! But who knows, maybe all of them were born in Japan and spent their whole lives there lmao~~

It's fun to see the dynamics. I liked the loyalty between the people in the line. All the people in the line are trying to get the Japanese girl to pick wrong! The non-Japanese are trying to get her to choose them, and the Japanese guy is trying to get her to eliminate him. So that when she finally made the wrong choice, he gave the thumbs-up sign to the non-Japanese girl! Also, I felt he might have been trying to get her to believe he was a non-Japanese by saying it was "too hard" for him to speak in the Kyoto-accent.

The girl trying to guess who is Japanese, grew up outside of Japan, so it was always going to be difficult for her anyway!

札幌と京都は確かにかなり難しいけど、京都のアクセントは日本人かつネイティブじゃないと自然に出せないと思うから京都の方1択になっちゃうよなー笑 でも札幌の方を否定する要素もなかなか見当たらないから難しい笑

This was awesome. Hope you do more video's like this but with a curtain or something in front of the participants. Just so the guesser can get a reveal when they guess the participant. lmao

Bilingual here - as a person who was raised in a similar situation, but overseas, people have often reassured me that I'm either Japanese or foreign, like it's meant to be a compliment. I feel that identity is a complex thing and it's not up to others to tell us what we should identify as - I think it's really up to the person themselves based on how they feel, and for others to support it. We definitely get a unique sense of our bicultural values, perspectives, opinions and expectations, and which country (if any) we identify more with as we grow up. eg. I personally identify as a melange of both. My vocab range is wider in English, I can debate/explain things better in english, but I can express my feelings better in Japanese and relate to with my family (and therefore feel closer to anyone) in Japanese. In the case of people who have emigrated to a country then learned the language, I get the impression it's a slightly different case in general - there is a clearer sense of their home country as their origin that never really leaves them.

My god... what a dream would be to speak japanese like them... But if most of them were born and raised in japan and japanese is their native language, then this challenge is unfair.

How did the girl on the end survive until the final 3 lol, I would have clocked her first. I got so pissed at how much better than me Sasha is at Japanese until I found out that I was getting trolled and there were actually 2 people from Japan in the game. (I'm not that good but I'm supposed to be for work so it's super annoying when I encounter the CEFR C2s becauithe more people know about them, the more I am expected to be a C2.)

Fun video to watch!

@5:58 bump of chicken - tentaikansoku. LOL me too! xD

kansai dialect is kinda cool

Was curious to know where everyone else was from...

Amazing video ❤