People are being jerks, her Japanese is fine. I can understand her just fine. She’s even speaking slowly. It sounds a little robotic and it’s accented but it’s totally understandable.

@adamd.philips7657

6 ай бұрын

I can’t understand anything she is saying

@MsTwissy

6 ай бұрын

@@adamd.philips7657 where are you from in Japan?

@gregh5061

5 ай бұрын

@@adamd.philips7657 I don't speak japanese either, what a coincidence!

@adamd.philips7657

5 ай бұрын

@@gregh5061 lol good one

@gregh5061

5 ай бұрын

@@adamd.philips7657 We've been online long enough haven't we, can always tell ;)

Look, if she's not playing a native Japanese speaker, then this is exactly how she should sound like. It'd be weird if her Japanese is perfect.

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

She said she lived there for 8 years.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

Someone who studied Japanese as a non-native speaker would not sound like an English speaker reading romaji without understanding what the text means. I know a couple of white boys that majored in Japanese in their 4th year, they don't sound remotely like this.

@WhiteDeviluke

3 ай бұрын

@@rangertherusky so she's supposed to be fully fluent in it without accent now? what kinda logic is that. any immigrant living in america should lose their accent by living their for 8 years by your logic

@petergreen1994

3 ай бұрын

@@rangertheruskyI live in the US since high school and have a partner who is native English speaker, we speak English to each other every day, yet, I still have a very distinguishable accent. Why do you think that is not normal?

@zat1245

3 ай бұрын

@@rangertherusky Learning a language and learning a native accent are two separate skills. I’ve known people in the US that have been here for 40 years. Still have an accent.

Languages are forms of communication. As long as she can get her points across, who cares if she doesn’t pronounce perfectly.

@foodmore

3 ай бұрын

Exactly.

@jakubmierzejewski961

3 ай бұрын

Say that in france 🤣

@racoonfrenzy3617

3 ай бұрын

Most Japanese would have a hard time understanding what she was trying to say😂

@laurahamilton4554

3 ай бұрын

@@racoonfrenzy3617Are you Japanese?

@jdfromparis6230

3 ай бұрын

@@jakubmierzejewski961 I'm French, feel free to butcher my language, as long as we can basically understand you, you'll be fine. 😀

Although I only studied one year of college Japanese, I can confirm that her accent is very American but her grammar and word choice is (I assume) spot on.

@hospitalfood6621

3 ай бұрын

And her accent should be American. Just like when I meet Japanese people here in the U.S. they speak fluent English with a Japanese accent. And that’s ok.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

They picked the right script writers. Just not the right actor to recite them.

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

Maybe you’re not the right person to criticize her on just one year considering Olivia Munn actually grew up in Japan during her childhood and minored in Japanese. I have many Japanese friends and speak to them casually in their tongue whenever they teach me. There was nothing wrong with how she spoke. I would trust her Japanese over yours, dude. It has a hint of American but I attribute that to her voice. Some people inherently have a pitch and tone that throws off their sounds even though it the words are flawless.

@sleepyearth

3 ай бұрын

@@dooshmasta They actually picked the right actor in this case. She's NOT supposed to be native japanese speaker. Hold your saltiness.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@sleepyearth She's supposed to depict someone who can converse in Japanese without a teleprompter, not some one who needs to read a script in roman letters in a language she's clearly has no mastery of.

She got across her point correctly, what more can you ask her. Obviously she can't speak as a native. Idk why people are getting mad. The purpose of language is to communicate not to sound perfect

@thenewplantationisinyourmind

6 ай бұрын

I want to see the same little whiny bitches pissing on about how first generation immigrants speak English here in America next 😂

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

She wouldn’t in real life, even with a script.

@Victor-rb6pq

3 ай бұрын

She was raised in japan, dude. Sounding american was a choice in this scene

Some ppl watching could be bilingual. She's in the right, integrity notwithstanding

@arandombard1197

6 ай бұрын

Nope. She attributed to him things he hadn't said on air and in fact he'd only said in private off the record. It's a massive fuck up.

@shrubby-ov4yw

4 ай бұрын

agreed integrity wise. professionally, no she royally fucked up. as the chief ediotr says later. people didnt hear him saying it, they heard her saying it. people are stupid by nature. people panic, people are mindless herd things when frightened. she would have been better keeping her calling out the mistranslations, and the misinformation but keeping the real scale to herself, until she was authorised by the station. its stupid, its wrong, but that is the rules. dont like it, stop being panicking scared little twats when shit goes wrong. you only need to see how easily people went batshit insane over COVID if you think im wrong

I don't understand a word of Japanese, but I assure you, to Americans, her Japanese sounds perfect.

@stephengregory1655

3 ай бұрын

Right? I dont speak a word of the shit... but I believed it

@JaeStories87

3 ай бұрын

I am American and I speak Japanese (not fully fluently and it's been years since I minored in Japanese Culture Studies) and I was able to follow enough of it that the role was convincing. She sounded like an American that learned it, not like a native speaker... which is perfect

@villianaire

3 ай бұрын

@@JaeStories87 the point is, she could've spoken in gibberish, and most Americans would've believed it to be authentic Japanese. Awesome language to know, though!

@zat1245

3 ай бұрын

It is only the weebs commenting about it.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@JaeStories87 bro she sounds like someone sounding out romaji and has no idea what these words mean. That’s not what an American would sound like in a conversation

What’s baffling about his meltdown is that she provided them with great news and fierce tenacity. She did an amazing job and he doesn’t appreciate it whatsoever.

@bill3641

3 ай бұрын

Her job is accurate reporting , his is control.................

@cloudunderweather9554

3 ай бұрын

A lot of the time in the workplace, the biggest factor determining whether you did a good job, is whether you did as you were told. She did..... not do that. She did the right thing, but sadly you can get fired for doing the right thing.

@MO-zk8qs

2 ай бұрын

He was doing his job in trying to prevent her committing ethical suicide on air

@thejamesasher

2 ай бұрын

i think shocking truth gets better ratings than comforting lies

@ChanelCoco-pk7mp

5 күн бұрын

If it was a man he would be promptly praised and promoted, whereas as since it is a woman in this situation, all we ever get is patronising and perdition 😔

Weird a lot of haters on her Japanese not realizing that the actress was raised in Japan as a kid and minored in Japanese. I have many close Japanese friends that speak around me and despite sounding like a white girl, it’s only a hint. Her Japanese sounds flawless.

@Madmike271

2 ай бұрын

Flawless is a stretch but issaight

some guys here take it seriously, come on, its just acting. give the actress a break.

@tmbpotatoe5975

6 ай бұрын

which part?

@jackoe1246

6 ай бұрын

Are you retarded?

@DucatiPaso750

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, I'm guilty of the same. Being fluent in Spanish with a Central Mexico accent, I used to critique the Spanish spoken on Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul all the time. But in the end, I understand that it's acting and the actors do the best that they can, possibly with multiple takes.

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

@@DucatiPaso750 Which? The white actors speaking Spanish? Because a majority of the Spanish speakers were straight up Spanish. Maybe it’s a regional dialect thing.

@Qichar

3 ай бұрын

@@rangertheruskyCastellano does sound different from Mexican Spanish. But this is the true of many languages. For example, the Brits do not quite sound like Americans, and Aussies are doing their own thing as well. Isolate people from one another geographically, and the language diverges over time.

My father was a polyglot, but he wanted me to blend in my education experience at primary school in the UK in the sixties. I was bullied anyway. He gained all his languages growing up in a multilingual area and as a child. I just got asset stripped. Studies have shown that being multilingual actually makes you sharper at school and later on in life and is a valuable asset. I love this scene. The translator - and/or whomsoever her boss is - tried to pull a fast one and couldn't.

Honestly I think he kinda awkward pronunciation improves things, makes sense that the team wanted her talking in english and why she had to wind up to speaking japanese instead of just going for it immediately, it also gets across she ain't doing it for appearances but to get to the truth

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

If the point of this scene was to make her look like a smart cookie girl bossing, the Japanese know that it’s all smoke and mirrors and only the west eats that shit up because they are ignorant.

@Victor-rb6pq

3 ай бұрын

She did on purpouse. She is acctually fluent, hence she was raised in japan, and even minored in college there.

The point of this scene is that the translator was being disingenuous, and she knew it. She was able to ask the question and was able to relay the answer truthfully, accent be damned. (Unless Olivia Munn's character _is_ Japanese, in which case okay, critique the accent.)

Everyone is talking about the newscaster's Japanese. No one is talking about the interpreter's English.

@ChanelCoco-pk7mp

5 күн бұрын

Exactly - it wasn’t the best but I guess nobody speaks about that 😒 they always pretend Asians are so perfect 😂

this scene is so chaotic was the producer trying to hide a narrative? is the translator also hiding the narrative? why did the reporter and the lab scientist have a private convo prior?

@g0nt411

2 ай бұрын

You should watch the whole episode or series to make sense of it.

Her Japanese doesn't sound native, but more a fluent level. Like, she has an accent, but any Japanese person would be able to understand her as she speaks clear and confident Japanese.

@ganasde65

Ай бұрын

Her character also isnt supposed to be fluent.

@jaylinjapan4683

12 күн бұрын

@@ganasde65 yeah listening to her speak, she sounds perfect for someone who is fluent. Natives have a different accent.

That was just amazing. Great scene.

Guy -“put me back”when your dad unplugs your phone

I love that the subtitles are in Turkish, it's one of the most beautiful languages in the world, but I'm curious as to why since it has nothing to do with the scene.

@benjy6358

6 ай бұрын

because this video is ripped from turkish broadcasted version ?

@SpeedyWings2323

3 ай бұрын

Shows like this are oftentimes broadcasted in other nations. Either the show is dubbed over or they have translations if there is no dub

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

@@SpeedyWings2323 It did for me. It said “Suzuki Honda Mitsubishi ara ara yaoi yuri American Johnny fat capitalist American pigs.”

@VjjnOsu

3 ай бұрын

Plus the guy who posted this is Turkish so it’d make sense

@zaks7

2 ай бұрын

@@benjy6358 I havent seen the word "ripped" used in this context in almost a decade. Good memories..

子供の頃日本に住んでらっしゃったんですよね 早口で言わなきゃいけない場面だから尚更大変だったと思います

@light80050

Жыл бұрын

日本に住んでても横田基地の中で育ってるから日本語がどれくらいできるか疑問。

@MagnuzJ3

3 ай бұрын

Your momma (just in case)

Olivia Munn was so great in this role. Her career should have really exploded after Newsroom.

Watch the background players. Their faces!!!

certain pronunciations are fishy but over all she speaks it fluently and with great confidence. even with tones. shows she's got solid fundations of Japanese speaking offense but much better than other actor who only memorises the rough pronunciations for the scene.

@g0nt411

2 ай бұрын

Can you understand the whole interaction?

@allenzhu3478

2 ай бұрын

@@g0nt411 ya, the english translation lines are to exactly the mean too but it's understandable

@g0nt411

2 ай бұрын

@@allenzhu3478 yeah, I don't understand why people complain. It seems that those who can understand Japanese can understand her

I love this scene!!

Where are all the clips from the ep about the Deepwater Horizon? I just watched so many on tiktok but a search here has produced nothing. I know I have seen them before. Have they been deleted for some reason?

Viral moment to watch this series next :)

I need to watch these. Never seen an episode

she speaks japanese realllyyyyy well. I'm impressed.

@NewBornChoppaRoblox

7 күн бұрын

She grew up in japan

Japanese critique notwithstanding, where's the person who explains everything? What happened after this? Did the translator get in trouble? Did she?

Most people dont know she spoke trilingual. Completely 3 different languages. Vietnamese-Japanese- english. Keep judging yall.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

Well you can count Japanese out. I bet her Viet is just as bad.

@odinaryday

3 ай бұрын

@@dooshmasta can confirm. Her Viet is quite bad 😂.But it's not really a problem. The problem is her fans overestimate her language proficiency.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@odinaryday The problem is that the proficiency level is zero

@odinaryday

3 ай бұрын

@@dooshmasta as an acting scene, I think she did okay, much better than Jennifer Lawrence speaking Vietnamese 😂. But calling her "fluent" is streching too much. Alicia Vikander - who doesn't know Japanese, can act like she's fluent in Earthquake bird. Her speaking, even though still has an accent, is clear. What a great actress!

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@odinaryday I don’t think Jennifer Lawrence lived in Vietnam for 8 years.

Great scene. Did this actually transpire during the Fukushima disaster?

There will be a time to discuss accents and intonation's after you save lives

The series is called (The Newsroom)

Epic translation

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

Yeah. Loved when they said you can get used panties at vending machines.

Which movie/series is this?

I do love how it’s generally (and correctly) considered wrong to mock a Japanese person for speaking English with an accent and different inflections, but if an American does the same in Japanese, people feel comfortable mocking them. For the record, it is wrong to mock anyone for speaking a different language in THEIR accent.

It's weird. It's like she's reading romanized syllables as they appear on screen.

@gonzarellious6102

9 ай бұрын

Or, maybe, she simply has an incredibly heavy accent. Huh, weird.

@JaxLittles

6 ай бұрын

^ exactly. Never heard of different accents existing?

@orti1283

6 ай бұрын

​@@gonzarellious6102this goes beyond heavy accent, it's mostly incomprehensible

@EmBiOi

6 ай бұрын

Languages are forms of communication. As long as she can get her points across, who cares if she doesn’t pronounce perfectly.

@jerryborjon

5 ай бұрын

@@orti1283 - Do you speak Japanese? Because a lot of Japanese speakers in the comments here are complimenting her

What episode?

So what happened next?

the truth issue reminds me of the Chernobyl series, especially at the end

Why are some people here talking about the accent? The scene is about manipulating the interview. PEOPLE!

Sandra burnhart!!!😁🤣😅

What movie/series is this? What streaming service is it on?

@JonesNate

3 ай бұрын

Series title is The Newsroom. It's available for purchase here on KZread.

@michaelweeden7533

3 ай бұрын

@@JonesNate thank you very much 👍🏼

Why are some of you getting triggered when she speaks Japanese fluently? When, in Black Panther, they hired a non-Korean to do a scene in Busan, and I didn't see any of you mentioning that awfully inaudible dialogue besides Koreans. I have many friends who speak English fluently; having an accent doesn't mean you aren't fluent in it.

@animeXcaso

2 ай бұрын

'murica is not n°1

Don owned this scene

I know at the end on the episode, they said to lie about mishearing 4 and 7 as a translating mistake because they sound alike. I know 4 and 7 are yon and nana, respectively which do not soundalike. I also know shi and shichi are respectively as well. However, I clearly heard her say yon. Can anyone else confirm this? Am I missing something or is this just half-assed writing?

@user-vi4os1sl9u

3 ай бұрын

basically her boss was using misspoken excuse to conveniently explain to the news viewers the "mistake". so instead of radiation level was 'shichi(7)', the guy "mistakenly" said 'shi(4)'. as she herself explain that it wont fly because they didnt even said 'shi(4)' or 'shichi(7)', instead she use 'nana(7)' during the conversation. but her boss explain the viewers wont understand anyway. the excuse is used to save face for the guy who was forced to lie about the radiation level and later allowed to resign for the "mistake".

@rangertherusky

3 ай бұрын

@@user-vi4os1sl9u I figured as much. The problem is that Japanese viewers wouldn’t be as convincing. They were clearly upset over how the Japanese interpreted the news and how she has become poison to sources even internationally. It seems though they were mainly concerned about their stateside viewers which didn’t make sense when you consider that. I was holding out hope that this wasn’t lazy writing and that my Japanese is pretty basic so I wouldn’t have understood it fully. But it seems I knew it well enough to pick up on this lame attempt to flip the situation around for the plot.

Her Japanese is 9999x better than any US actor attempting Mandarin.

@ephraimcullen

3 ай бұрын

Except Mr. Cena's Famous Bing Chiling, haha

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@ephraimcullennot an actor.

@ephraimcullen

3 ай бұрын

Look up "John Cena filmography" And you will see that he has acted in over 30 films@@dooshmasta

Is Olivia Munn related to Ren Azumi???? They look like twin

Like all the comments I see are people defending her Japanese... were people really complaining about it? I actually teach English and German as foreign languages (in Germany) and I always tell people that there is no reason to try to completely get rid of your accent unless it's personally important to you. Like, grammar, vocabulary, cultural expectations and good-enough-to-be-clearly understood is what matters. So for example in German, go ahead and mix up s, sch and ch. But u/ü you need to differentiate

The great Sloan Sabbith!

HAVE A TOKYO……GET “HAI”!

What are thry saying? KZread doesnt have english translation

@IsmileLikesGuitar

6 ай бұрын

the reporter is asking Mr Tanaka about the possibility escalation of the nuclear radiation level, from level 4 to level 7. And Mr Tanaka’s translator is misrepresenting and lying to her (the reporter) that’s why she was angry. Hope this helps

@elainagilbert7663

6 ай бұрын

The subtitles on screen are in Turkish for some reason. If you turn your captions on, you'll get the English subtitles, but it probably won't translate the Japanese.

Hmmm. I loved her character, (and the actress is a bit yummy too), but this scene was one of my faves from the whole series. I'm so impressed.

I’d just like to know the movie or show??😅

@rachelanderson4325

3 ай бұрын

tv show Newsroom

Yall just MAD she nonchalantly blasts out more Japanese than any of you weebs will ever learn from watching anime lmao

As someone who knows absolutely no Japanese, she sounds awesome to me.

Her japanese isn't perfect, but more than enough to understand. it's like how foreigners talk in japanese, you can understand them, sure it's not fluid like water, but like a slush.

@animeXcaso

2 ай бұрын

Meanwhile people never question the hilariously bad Engurishu

Weird how you guys are fixated on her "non-perfect Japanese accent" and even goes so far as to say that you "don't understand her" yet, not a peep about the thick Japanese accent from the Japanese lady when she speaks English. No criticism over her not sounding native or her being "hard to understand".

why would they not tell that information lol

Phoebe Callisto did the news!? Aw Craters!

This is 100% typical and very common among Japanese media. Not being racist here at all, as I have been to Japan many times, as well as worked with several teams of engineers from there. However, many of them have a very difficult time telling hard truths.

@animeXcaso

2 ай бұрын

no need to excuse yourself, we can distinguish between fair criticism and pseudoscience-driven bigotry

LEVEL (HOLLYWOOD) SEPT!

that Japanese woman act like most of anime localizer in US and 4kids

Why we talking about her "japanese"? We should focus on the girl who mis represents tanaka-san. What kind of translator would do that? And then, the director... He got into my nerves - no integrity. Why isn't he empowered to deliver truthful news

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I love how Japanese people get mad when others are trying to speak the language, but make fun of them even though they’re not native but yet when they speak English, we don’t really correct them like that

@alexzasokhashvili3412

3 ай бұрын

Japanese are super cringe

I’m Japanese, I have no idea what these women are saying. Tanaka san’s Japanese is clear as fuck tho

@zahraa4149

6 ай бұрын

The translator's Japanese seems fine, they just never clearly show any parts of her speaking Japanese

@benjy6358

6 ай бұрын

japanese with adam phillips name 😂

@zahraa4149

6 ай бұрын

@@benjy6358 because people never use fake names on the internet

@benjy6358

6 ай бұрын

@@zahraa4149 i'm asian mate, i know how asian named themselves even online, and their english..yes, people use fake name on the internet, but not THAT..

@zahraa4149

6 ай бұрын

@@benjy6358 and how many Asian people are there on the internet? Just because it's not a name that a Japanese person would typically choose, it doesn't mean they're not

Olivia munn speaks Japanese? Awww

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

She doesn’t. It’s clear from this footage.

@Victor-rb6pq

3 ай бұрын

Yes she does. She was raised in japan. She is a fluent speaker, but she tried to sound as american as possible in this scene.

@Victor-rb6pq

3 ай бұрын

​@@dooshmasta You don't what you're talking about. Stop preteding to know stuff just to look smart, its embarissing.

the real news need to learn from this and stop making excuses say to truth

Do people seriously prefer pronunciation over news integrity, this is a fiction so just like the Crown, we should take it as a grain of salt 0:19 作業員近づけない為、確認が取りておりません (Because the worked can not get close, there is no confirmation) and the interpreter said we know of no core damage That is very different in the content and way off and no way it is cultural interpretation issue, it is either a mistake or deception

Why the translator is wrong translating ?

@attilamagyar91

3 ай бұрын

Because they want to downsize the issue.

Most people who speak English as there first and only laungue sound boring and robotic. Well done Olivia Munn.

You know what bothers me most about this scene? It’s that the context is a girl boss revealing deception, and they do this by deceiving YOU the Western viewer, that her Japanese is good enough to hold a conversation about nuclear power in a language she clearly can’t speak at a first grade level.

@Victor-rb6pq

3 ай бұрын

She was raised in japan. I don't think you acctully know what you're talking about.

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

@@Victor-rb6pq Bro, I was raised by parents from Japan, speak only Japanese to them. My mom still barely speaks any English. I grew up on anime like Dragon Ball as it aired in the late '80s, off Beta and later VHS tapes recorded in Japan and shipped to Japanese grocery stores here in the US. I went to 9 years of Japanese school on Saturdays and have the equivalency diploma. Even won awards in poetry in Japanese while I was in middle school. You're the one that doesn't know what you're talking about.

@animeXcaso

2 ай бұрын

Conversational skills come before diction purity.

@Victor-rb6pq

2 ай бұрын

@@dooshmasta By that logic, Jackie Chan doesn't speak english. Acctually, most asian actors (some of them acting in America for over 30 years) can't speak english. Not only did she lived in Japan for several years, but she acctually went to college there. So what, the teachers just gave her a pass cause she's pretty ? I thinks its amazing how foreigners get so ofended by Yankees being unable to completly master their languages all the way to fluency, but if you call out one of them for butchering the english language (Or any language for that matter) your called a racist, so we're just supost to smile and wave.

@dooshmasta

2 ай бұрын

@@Victor-rb6pq Are you seriously comparing Jackie Chan's English to this woman's Japanese?

アクセントがあること自体は問題じゃない。彼女が何を言っているか理解はできる。ただ、話している内容の難易度にくらべて彼女のイントネーションは非常にカタコトなので、日本語話者にとってはこのシーンは正直にいって滑稽に見える。

memriTv 101

People get so triggered with her japanese, but they just criticize her to look smart, because in reallity, she's acctually a fluent japanese speaker, and most of the internet trolls can't even pronouce "Toshiba" right. She was raised in Japan! And how many foreign actors been in Hollywood for decades and still sound like tottlers learning basic english ? You guys don't know sh***, you just like to complain to sound smart.

Her Japanese pronunciation is terrible. She must have not left the base the whole 8 years she lived in Japan.

@musicismoreimportantthanyo9246

2 жыл бұрын

She's Vietnamese so .. not her first language

@dooshmasta

2 жыл бұрын

@@musicismoreimportantthanyo9246 yeah but she lived in that country for 8 years!

@grouphappy2914

2 жыл бұрын

Doosh Masta, I have been living in the US for the last 20 years. I speak English fluently but I still have an accent. English is my second or third language. Anyway, I am not an actress🤗

@DiscipulusMundi

2 жыл бұрын

@@grouphappy2914 You can tell from the way she's talking she can't speak Japanese at all. She's saying the words as if she's never said them before, and it's obvious she hasn't.

@kokonoi.seishu

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah… as a Japanese person, I’m pretty disappointed in her Japanese..

Dang. The only other bad@ss news reporter I’ve seen like this is Tucker Carlson

@dooshmasta

3 ай бұрын

Except Tucker doesn’t pretend to speak another language and completely fail on film.

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