For real, I'm in Japan right now. I didn't know how to explain that I was Asian American. So I said I was my ethnicity and American. And the other person went "Ahhh, hafu!" Oh well, I tried.
I was lucky cause I actually am mixed, so pretty much every intro is "Hello, my name is ____. I'm Thai and American mixed!" and everyone acts amazed and impressed as if I achieved something
As a halfu I was somewhat concerned being mistaken as local just on sight my first time ever going to Asia but my buddy in HK quickly pointed out at over 6'1" tall most folks would easily assume I'm American
@@oooow6861 I meant more that plenty of Japanese people also enjoy anime, so their thought process when meeting an American who speaks understandable Japanese who also likes anime is more along the lines of, "This is great! I met someone who also likes anime!" At least, according to Sora's videos. I wouldn't know since I've only ever met 1 Japanese person and she thought all anime were only for children.
@@sharingheart13 The concept of Otaku came from Japan though. It's just that anime is more mainstream than before, but even so there's a difference between interest or passion and obsession.
When you want to tell the teacher a student is using their phone in class, can't find the teacher, then realize you ARE the teacher relates to me so much.
I normally give them 3 seconds to put it in their backpack but if they don't make it in time, I just take their phone away and they can get it back at the end of the day.
Back in the day, not that long ago, they used to just hit the kids in this situation. There are still teachers teaching today in Japan who will tell you that they miss the good old days. At worst they can just make kids stand at their desks as punishment.
As a mix race Asian Aussie I've had so many similar experiences while teaching in Japan. Many students thought English isn't my native tongue and question me about why I don't look like the "typical" English teacher, they also asked me many strange questions including this question a few times "English is from America. How come you speak English and not Australian?" as well as "you are foreigner. Why don't you look like one, with blue eyes and blonde hair, are you really a foreigner?"
i can definitely tell sora was serious about being a teacher based on how he tears apart english lessons on stream. you don't have that kind of knowledge if you did a half ass job.
I've been teaching in Japan for a few years now, and I remind my students just about every week that I'm actually American and not Japanese. Every year at some point I ask them where I'm from and some of them still say "Japan" 🤦♀
@@kirbya9545 Or they teach history, but it's mostly Japanese history, and whitewashed like most countries teach it. (For example, according to J history books, Japan basically did nothing wrong in WW2, and the most important event in the entire war was the bombing, and how unjust and terrible it was of the Americans to do it. But we're great people so we forgive them. The End.)
I'm an Asian American English teacher in Japan, and the students and teachers often think I'm from Asia, and when I tell them I'm from America, their brains seem to crash. Also, I get the feeling that they expect me to speak Japanese fluently, or at least better than a non-Asian English teacher.
I'm a Korean-American and I'd heard stories about others like me teaching english in Korea who were seen as inferior english teachers because of the racism of parents in private schools. Is it sometimes like that in Japanese private schools too?
@@LightningNavigator I can see that. But it's interesting to me because in those instances asian-americans end up occupying a sort of schrodinger's english teacher space. They're foreigners who may always be seen as outsiders, yet look so familiar in the context of physicality to native students that they feel like how you said :b
It's like going to a sushi restaurant but all the staff are Korean. Would you rather the staff were all Japanese? Food probably won't be any different, but I'm sure you know what the answer is.
@MrDdz No it's definitely different with food. I've seen many Koreans ran japanese restaurants make Japanese food look mid that I can catch the vibe pretty quickly that it's not run by a Japanese person lol
@@MrDdz Funny thing, I can't recall a Japanese restaurant where the staff weren't all Korean. I mean, Japan did make them speak Japanese and take Japanese names when they colonized them only 100 years ago, so I guess it's only fair that they get to own sushi (in the US at least)
'but i was too lazy to say anything so i decided to let it go' this is literally how i solve my problems lol the skit was hilarious although i feel sorry for jack
As a Korean high school student this is so relatable. Everyone wants to self study when exams are near but some people see it as an opportunity to use their phones. And when they're caught? Yes sensei I was just searching something in the dictionary 💀 Sora is the type of teacher everyone would love, giving lots of self-study time and pretending nothing happened instead of punishing.
Lololololol! Cognitive dissonance + being introduced into a new situation is so funny, and I love hearing stories about this as well. It's funny because when I moved from one state in the USA to another state in the USA, this thing happened to me as well, and unlike Jack, I was also a student and I wasn't from a different country.
"I sometimes say something completely random just because it's bothersome." Nope. Can't relate. No one like that here or subbed to your channel! lol. I don't know if you're flexing your organizational skills, or your talent, but thank you for your hard work and for the laughter. 🐾🏆💖
I often hang out with Asian Americans, but Japanese people always think they must be foreigners because of their fashion and attitude. They also think I’m a foreigner because I speak English with them. My English has a strong Japanese accent though…
In Philippines, if anyone foreign speaks English and looks like from western countries, until you found out s/he's not, s/he's American. (Well, at least in my own grade 6th experience.)
I’ve heard some terrible stories from teachers I’ve worked with who’re Asian American or from other Asian counties (like Hong Kong). Some of the Japanese teachers and students were really rude and pretty racist to them. It’s really sad to hear. 😕 I can’t say much myself… some Japanese people are surprised I’m from the States because of the color of my skin. 😔 There seems to be an image in Japan that only white people know/speak English, and that’s not true at all. 😑
I feel like we’re westerners conflate annoying generalizations and stereotypes with racism too much. Annoying stereotype: Americans are all blonde and blue eyed. Racism: Americans are all selfish and wish harm on them all. You see the difference? One is simply misinformed the other is pretty harmful. It’s not good to clump these together in my opinion. Also I would gladly trade Japan’s annoying misinformed naive attitude towards other races any day to the west’s fake dishonest performative script any day. A lot of people in the west don’t actually give a fuck about racism they just like to score internet points by saying the right shit but when they hit the power button on their computer and go to sleep they do absolutely nothing about it. Clacking away at their keyboards for social points is just self serving theatre.
Cranking out these videos like a b0ss! Good job, I like how you’ve been using your green screen and idk why but the tiny Sora voice coming out of the phone made me giggle. thank you (btw noticed awhile ago in your streams that you didn’t always translate, idk much Japanese but enough to notice that and thought it was funny)
amazing video sora. i hope u make more and didn't just upload a day ago it's ok u don't have to force Ur self if Ur doing that. Ur viewers will literally watch anything u upload like a weed like me :)
Usually Sora would upload in a few weeks, but now he seems to be uploading frequently! I'm pure Asian but I speak English and a bit of Italian (English is my first language, actually). Whenever I walk around in my country, some locals that I encounter wondered, "is this boy (referring to me) British or what?" I find that to be quite funny because I have a neutral accent. I also have teachers that thought I was studying abroad at first glance.
At this point Sora's life experiences are slowly morphing into live action Gintama skits except without the diabetes. So we went from John, to Peter to Jack now. The cycle is complete. Let's hope those three never meet or it will lead to some really wanky situations.
Oh no, I have had to lie many times, it doesn't matter what language it is. Sometimes it is just too hard to explain... everything. But the lie starts to spiral and you have to stop it somehow. So relatable. It sounds like you were a good teacher!
I can imagine that Americans of Asian decent that visit Japan probably get weird looks when people find out they do not speak Japanese and only speak English. 🤣🤣
The title does look like it's generated by ChatGPT, but it kinda looks off without the s at the end of teacher... Honestly Idk but this video is funny as usual lol
Apparently my sleep is bad atm. So of course I come to Sora, now I'll just attempt to go back to sleep in deep confusion over the complexities of teaching English in Japan 🤯
I’m a Filipino born in a America and once went to the Philippines for vacations and all the street vendors were treating my family so nicely until I started talking *in english* and then they started charging my family more so now I just don’t talk if I’m there 💀💀💀
For real, I'm in Japan right now. I didn't know how to explain that I was Asian American. So I said I was my ethnicity and American. And the other person went "Ahhh, hafu!" Oh well, I tried.
This
かわいそうwww
I was lucky cause I actually am mixed, so pretty much every intro is "Hello, my name is ____. I'm Thai and American mixed!" and everyone acts amazed and impressed as if I achieved something
@@TheGoldenDunsparce facts tho
As a halfu I was somewhat concerned being mistaken as local just on sight my first time ever going to Asia but my buddy in HK quickly pointed out at over 6'1" tall most folks would easily assume I'm American
Starting as a 21 year-old teacher at a Tokyo high school, it took a while to convince my classes that I wasn't an exchange student 😂
what program did you work with to get that job, or were you already in the country
I still get confused for an elementary or middle school student. Mainly because the kids are so much bigger than me.
@@PitohuiLife Most public school teachers are JET or Interac. Interac isn't a great gig but it's a lot easier to get accepted to.
I’m 10 years younger than you, born in 2007 what should I do should I become a teacher in Osaka? Are there any other good jobs?
ill never go to a japanese school because imagine a teacher shouting "damn hes a weeb too" on your first day 😭
From Sora's other videos, apparently that's not something most Japanese people even think about.
@@sharingheart13 actually most Japanese even don't know what "weeb" means
@@oooow6861 I meant more that plenty of Japanese people also enjoy anime, so their thought process when meeting an American who speaks understandable Japanese who also likes anime is more along the lines of, "This is great! I met someone who also likes anime!"
At least, according to Sora's videos. I wouldn't know since I've only ever met 1 Japanese person and she thought all anime were only for children.
@@sharingheart13 The concept of Otaku came from Japan though. It's just that anime is more mainstream than before, but even so there's a difference between interest or passion and obsession.
@@sharingheart13 💢💢💢JAPANESE ONNA NEEDS CORRECTION!!!💢💢💢ANIME ALSO FOR OJISAN💢💢💢OJISAN ATTACK 💢💢💢
Sora taught me that working as an English teacher is the most anime-like job in Japan
Yep all people in schools are animals, true savages.🤣
They need to make a meta anime about a weeb who goes to japan to teach English
@@leviticuscornwall9631 I would watch that unironically
Me too fr
@@mouhiazeck Same
The translation method works until another person who knows both languages walks in and is like wtf 😂
that's just Sora's everyday life according to his videos
Being an English Teacher is the most exciting job one can have from the sheer amount of bullshit you'll hear or see happen😭
No actual English teacher would type this.
@@byofg3514 Oh c`mon don`t say that. I suppose English teachers know how to type.😋
I wouldn't call it exciting
@@byofg3514 because I'm not one
@@kazemizu would be for me
When you want to tell the teacher a student is using their phone in class, can't find the teacher, then realize you ARE the teacher relates to me so much.
I normally give them 3 seconds to put it in their backpack but if they don't make it in time, I just take their phone away and they can get it back at the end of the day.
@@fioreolivares1638 My rule is if i see it texting I'm taking it and giving it to the parents. no take backs.
Back in the day, not that long ago, they used to just hit the kids in this situation. There are still teachers teaching today in Japan who will tell you that they miss the good old days. At worst they can just make kids stand at their desks as punishment.
hey if i was a student I'd stand and take that instead of being hit. it wouldn't be a punishment in my mind.@@dogchaser520
I’m glad Sora is embracing his Asian American heritage
*embarrassing 😂
As a mix race Asian Aussie I've had so many similar experiences while teaching in Japan. Many students thought English isn't my native tongue and question me about why I don't look like the "typical" English teacher, they also asked me many strange questions including this question a few times "English is from America. How come you speak English and not Australian?" as well as "you are foreigner. Why don't you look like one, with blue eyes and blonde hair, are you really a foreigner?"
the Australian one is so funny
That hurts on so many levels because I often poke fun at my American friends for not speaking real English and speaking "American"
I guess Japanese kids are just as dumb as American kids
AHAHHAHAA RIP
"English is from America" im dying--
i can definitely tell sora was serious about being a teacher based on how he tears apart english lessons on stream. you don't have that kind of knowledge if you did a half ass job.
Please never stop making these videos. It’s literally the best entertainment I can get nowadays.
Sora’s upload schedule goes crazy recently
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I need sora to be my english teacher in school and tell him “you’re definitely american”
I've been teaching in Japan for a few years now, and I remind my students just about every week that I'm actually American and not Japanese. Every year at some point I ask them where I'm from and some of them still say "Japan" 🤦♀
imagine your reality being so foreign to someone that you explain it but they don’t have the mental framework required to even remember it…
Wtf, how is this real? How can such a simple thing as that confuse them so much?
How old are the students you teach?
@@TopOfAllWorldsJapan doesn’t teach history that’s why
@@kirbya9545 Or they teach history, but it's mostly Japanese history, and whitewashed like most countries teach it. (For example, according to J history books, Japan basically did nothing wrong in WW2, and the most important event in the entire war was the bombing, and how unjust and terrible it was of the Americans to do it. But we're great people so we forgive them. The End.)
He tells how tough to be an English teacher but it actually fascinates me a lot
It's really based on Sora's experience! A story to live by!
I love the way you narrate the story, it's so good and also hilarious too. Amazing
jack should've introduced himself in japanese so that satoshi would know he's a foreigner 😔
I'm an Asian American English teacher in Japan, and the students and teachers often think I'm from Asia, and when I tell them I'm from America, their brains seem to crash. Also, I get the feeling that they expect me to speak Japanese fluently, or at least better than a non-Asian English teacher.
Damn we asian americans are really an anomaly huh? In the west and in the east lol
I'm a Korean-American and I'd heard stories about others like me teaching english in Korea who were seen as inferior english teachers because of the racism of parents in private schools. Is it sometimes like that in Japanese private schools too?
@@LightningNavigator
I can see that. But it's interesting to me because in those instances asian-americans end up occupying a sort of schrodinger's english teacher space. They're foreigners who may always be seen as outsiders, yet look so familiar in the context of physicality to native students that they feel like how you said :b
It's like going to a sushi restaurant but all the staff are Korean. Would you rather the staff were all Japanese? Food probably won't be any different, but I'm sure you know what the answer is.
@MrDdz No it's definitely different with food. I've seen many Koreans ran japanese restaurants make Japanese food look mid that I can catch the vibe pretty quickly that it's not run by a Japanese person lol
@@MrDdz Funny thing, I can't recall a Japanese restaurant where the staff weren't all Korean. I mean, Japan did make them speak Japanese and take Japanese names when they colonized them only 100 years ago, so I guess it's only fair that they get to own sushi (in the US at least)
I purely love this guy's RUclips videos. Like, he legit makes such great work.
bruh how could you reject sora's english classes i'd imagine them to be fun
English is so boring for me but Sora would be a fun teacher.
Yeah like i feel after a while you would say pnis like it's a normal thing and that would be funny
'but i was too lazy to say anything so i decided to let it go' this is literally how i solve my problems lol
the skit was hilarious although i feel sorry for jack
As a Korean high school student this is so relatable. Everyone wants to self study when exams are near but some people see it as an opportunity to use their phones. And when they're caught? Yes sensei I was just searching something in the dictionary 💀 Sora is the type of teacher everyone would love, giving lots of self-study time and pretending nothing happened instead of punishing.
Wow.. Another unexpected upload! This is his current state of mind currently.. Sora's on fire!
Sora is the most reliable interpreter ever.. if you ever hire Sora as your personal interpreter while visiting Japan .. well good luck with that ..
"Maybe because he's a Asian he's English is a bit strong."
Thanks to Satoshi, I learn that my English is strong because I'm Asian.
Well, I guess most Asians train their English in the gym.😅
Lololololol! Cognitive dissonance + being introduced into a new situation is so funny, and I love hearing stories about this as well. It's funny because when I moved from one state in the USA to another state in the USA, this thing happened to me as well, and unlike Jack, I was also a student and I wasn't from a different country.
I’m impressed how your face hasn’t gotten stuck in the shocked expression by how much you do it in your awesome skits
"I sometimes say something completely random just because it's bothersome." Nope. Can't relate. No one like that here or subbed to your channel! lol. I don't know if you're flexing your organizational skills, or your talent, but thank you for your hard work and for the laughter. 🐾🏆💖
painful experience. thanks for sharing, sora. so many amazing moments from your teaching career, just like an anime!
Not many RUclipsrs make me laugh out loud.. Arigatou Cringysan for making my days better. Your videos are hilarious.
I often hang out with Asian Americans, but Japanese people always think they must be foreigners because of their fashion and attitude. They also think I’m a foreigner because I speak English with them. My English has a strong Japanese accent though…
I like that you put so many facts about schools in Japan and also what you have experienced.
I'm really gonna miss these daily uploads once Sora gets even more burned out from the constant uploading LOLOLOL
Actually it’s working the opposite way, prob I’ll talk about it in a stream?
I am going to miss it too! But I see what Sora means thanks to his "Let's troll Rin 1000 Likes video" lol
@@sorathetroll huh that’s weird but hey whatever works is good then 🤷🏻♀️
@@sorathetroll OH SHIT OK
@@dragonifyamazing2721 Sora Senpai is the SHIT.
"I sometimes say something completely random just because it's bothersome" 🤣
Opening youtube and seeing that sora posted 2s ago is really refreshing
His videos keep getting better and better ngl
In Philippines, if anyone foreign speaks English and looks like from western countries, until you found out s/he's not, s/he's American.
(Well, at least in my own grade 6th experience.)
Face it Sora, not everyone who's interested in Japan is a weeb, but all of us watch anime.
How can you make so many videos + live the same day, you’re inspiring me Sora
Japanese students today are too busy playing with their "study app" !
they were playing Math quiz - Asian difficulty level!
Jack just introduced himself a few seconds ago and Satoshi already forget that he was from the US
Americajins are masters in the secret ways of memory erasing techniques and all sorts of deceptions. Don`t trust them, avoid at all cost.🤣
I love Sora's projection on "how did you study Engrish!"
everything about this is gold!
I’ve heard some terrible stories from teachers I’ve worked with who’re Asian American or from other Asian counties (like Hong Kong). Some of the Japanese teachers and students were really rude and pretty racist to them. It’s really sad to hear. 😕
I can’t say much myself… some Japanese people are surprised I’m from the States because of the color of my skin. 😔
There seems to be an image in Japan that only white people know/speak English, and that’s not true at all. 😑
tbh, in reality, they're still kind of racist ya know. haha
they are racist. just that they dont publicly show it.
@@gracewood6768 Very true and xenophobic too. 😒
I feel like we’re westerners conflate annoying generalizations and stereotypes with racism too much.
Annoying stereotype: Americans are all blonde and blue eyed.
Racism: Americans are all selfish and wish harm on them all.
You see the difference? One is simply misinformed the other is pretty harmful. It’s not good to clump these together in my opinion.
Also I would gladly trade Japan’s annoying misinformed naive attitude towards other races any day to the west’s fake dishonest performative script any day. A lot of people in the west don’t actually give a fuck about racism they just like to score internet points by saying the right shit but when they hit the power button on their computer and go to sleep they do absolutely nothing about it. Clacking away at their keyboards for social points is just self serving theatre.
Especially if you’re Chinese there remains ancient bad blood.
Cranking out these videos like a b0ss! Good job, I like how you’ve been using your green screen and idk why but the tiny Sora voice coming out of the phone made me giggle. thank you
(btw noticed awhile ago in your streams that you didn’t always translate, idk much Japanese but enough to notice that and thought it was funny)
Kiyomi's on fire. Keeps on uploading new videos from weekly basis to daily basis.
1:27 can't believe sora had ash as a student back then
With how you are, I'm honestly surprised you didn't push out this many uploads in a short period sooner.
面倒くさいからって人生のことなんですねー😂
10年前福島県の小さな町で英語の教師のことをしました。あの日小学校の一年生の2人の女の子は私のことが外国人ってについてしゃべっていました。1人の子は私がアメリカ人とわかったので外国人だと言いましたが、その他の子は先生がかわいいなので外国人ではないはずだと言いました。外国人は肌も黒と思いました。外国人は沢山の国から聞いたり多様な格好があったりと説明してやりましたけど、よくわかりませんでした。
小の一年生って面白いだよねー😅
*来たり
Japanese people after talking to a white person:
He's American. He's English is so good.
These last three videos have been really fun. Enjoyable themes.
毎日投稿うれしいです！！！
しっかりとyoutuberみたいなことしちゃってる
Ayeee my man uploaded today too!! That just made my day! Ty for another upload Sora it was so Awesome as always 😂i died laughing
Don't think of Japan as a developed country anymore, think of it as a kind of Galapagos Islands.
More like Gilligan's Island.🤣
I learned Japanese from watching anime and English from watching Hollywood movies. That's how you learn it.
i don't know how I came across your videos but I'm really glad I did :)
Loving these new uploads.
Sora is frequently uploading these America-jin videos and I love it.
For someone talking about RUclips burnout recently you are doing good with the uploads, and every video is so funny!
It's a studying app. Ready, fight! 🤣
Wait.. Wait wait.. I thought satoshi is on journey with pikachu..? He's student now? Good to know..Lol great video sora..
I feel like "diary" would be the wrong word to describe these, but I like your "these goofy things happened to me" videos.
LMAOOOO the way you ditched them at the end... but relatable. I too would simply fade from existence. 😂
amazing video sora. i hope u make more and didn't just upload a day ago it's ok u don't have to force Ur self if Ur doing that. Ur viewers will literally watch anything u upload like a weed like me :)
If Sora was translator for his government it would end in war
A global war or a civil war?🤣
@@SzaraSzarancza An intergalactic war, perhaps?
😂 i was thinking the opposite somehow
Ohayou gyoza is much Sora-san, nice skit as always
Your ability to ignore what the some person said and just making up some random translation is really impressive
Usually Sora would upload in a few weeks, but now he seems to be uploading frequently!
I'm pure Asian but I speak English and a bit of Italian (English is my first language, actually). Whenever I walk around in my country, some locals that I encounter wondered, "is this boy (referring to me) British or what?" I find that to be quite funny because I have a neutral accent. I also have teachers that thought I was studying abroad at first glance.
Yes, study hall was for break and snack time. Lol
He's gonna be down to 14 scripts saved by June
So I thought I'll tell the Teacher, then realized I am the Teacher. lol
... so I started talking to myself and I never actually stopped doing this.😅
I love how the American character is always in head to toe denim 😂
the temptation for jack to say "ENGLISH IS MY FIRST LANGUAGE GODDAMMIT"
What anime do you watch?
→自己紹介していいですか？
この翻訳に疑問を抱かない生徒のテストの結果が心配になるw
Apparently the solution to burnout is to upload more? Gotcha. Should I set a timer?
Seeing sora being serious is like seeing the class clown become the CEO of a major company
I laughed out loud, this was really good!
These bring me so much joy 😂😂
At this point Sora's life experiences are slowly morphing into live action Gintama skits except without the diabetes.
So we went from John, to Peter to Jack now. The cycle is complete. Let's hope those three never meet or it will lead to some really wanky situations.
watching Sora's videos made me want to say pushy destroyer and burner adjuster daily
俺のお母さんが学校で英語の先生だった時一番最初に
アメリカ人だ！や、
ウァトカラードューユーライク
など言われたらしい💀
"Let's go jack!" (0:21)
"Well, I usually do that alone, but since you insist..."
The visible confusion in Jack's face cracks me up.
watching this at school and people think im crazy
Sora being the irl google translate.
"ill just say something random..." 💀💀💀
Sora went get in teacher mode.. ..
ChatGPT really accelerating Sora's upload schedule. What an amazing technology
It really do be like that sometimes
Oh no, I have had to lie many times, it doesn't matter what language it is. Sometimes it is just too hard to explain... everything. But the lie starts to spiral and you have to stop it somehow. So relatable. It sounds like you were a good teacher!
I can imagine that Americans of Asian decent that visit Japan probably get weird looks when people find out they do not speak Japanese and only speak English. 🤣🤣
The title does look like it's generated by ChatGPT, but it kinda looks off without the s at the end of teacher... Honestly Idk but this video is funny as usual lol
Apparently my sleep is bad atm. So of course I come to Sora, now I'll just attempt to go back to sleep in deep confusion over the complexities of teaching English in Japan 🤯
Today I learned that Sora somehow cloned himself so he could have awkward adventures with himself as an English teacher.
ソラさん英語教師の頃は髪型も真面目な感じだったのかな😌
😆
I’m a Filipino born in a America and once went to the Philippines for vacations and all the street vendors were treating my family so nicely until I started talking *in english* and then they started charging my family more so now I just don’t talk if I’m there 💀💀💀
I hope Jack is still doing ok. Lol He’s probably gonna have to watch a lot of Attack on Titan to cope with the awkwardness
Even as a teacher sora was a troll