Best Black BM song ever ! Finally I know what it's about thanks to Duane the "Babymetal Whisperer". Awesome channel. So glad I found it. More songs please.
This is so helpful to learn japanese, you explain everything very well !! And you're funny ! Please keep doing this ! I'm a big fan of BABYMETAL and it's amazing to understand all the lyrics ! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!
I want to thank you Sir for all the hard work and time you put into these videos. I like the style you are talking and explaining. And by the way, english is also not my native language, I am german, but as far as I can tell, your english is very good. Thank you a lot.
I already knew the translation of the text but it's good to go word by word! Now I get the deeper meaning and learned some more vocabulary! Thank you~!
The cultural differences between Japan and the West are pretty striking at times. In Japan a girl flattering her father by telling him he's her ideal type of guy and so handsome and such things might be seen as just innocent flattery, but in the West many would tend to view this as kinda creepy and inappropriate. The Western media has whipped people up into a full blown moral panic over the issue of child sex abuse, to the point where we believe child molesters are lurking everywhere just waiting to snatch a child. So in the West a daughter saying such things to her father would seem creepy, and if the father were totally comfortable with his daughter saying such things that would make him extremely suspect in the eyes of a lot of people. Many would suspect there might be something illegal going on if they were to witness something like this going on between father and daughter, even though it might be completely innocent. It would make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. I don't know if it's just the media hysteria, or maybe something more deeply embedded in our culture, or maybe it's just simply that Japan has fewer occurrences of child sexual abuse than most Western countries so you guys aren't as freaked out and paranoid about it as we are. What's your opinion Duane?
Ungroomed Lover Yes, what we have here is innocent flattery. We don't hear any cases of father molesting his daughter, although we hear much about child abuse (beating up or ignorance). Child molestation cases are reported on TV only as a stranger taking advantage of the girls. One reason here is that there are much less cases of divorces in Japan compared to the US. Also it is very rare to adopt children or becoming foster parents. Fathers and daughters have blood kins in most cases, and it's hard for us to think of a blood father raping his daughter. I have a 19 year old daughter and I never dream of having sex with her.
Duane Metal In the West this shit's totally out of hand. The media has whipped us up into a frenzy of fear so we're now seeing child molesters everywhere. Every man is viewed as a potential child molester now, much the same way all women were viewed as potential witches in the middle ages. A man for instance could not go sit in a public park and watch children play without people immediately thinking he's probably a child molester or something. Even if he just enjoyed watching children play for totally non-sexual reasons, it would nonetheless be assumed immediately that something nefarious is going on. A woman on the other hand could do the exact same and never fall under suspicion, which is one of the main reasons that female child molesters (yes, they do exist) go undetected in most cases and are less likely to be convicted than male child molesters. Nobody thinks, or wants to think, that a woman could be capable of abusing a child sexually...yet it happens. The way the media covers the issue in the West is sick too. Have you ever seen that show called "To Catch A Predator" with Chris Hansen? That's a disgraceful example of the media exploiting the issue of child sexual abuse for entertainment purposes. The whole thing is really voyeuristic and unethical.
No those things are still ok between father and daughter, though becoming less common because dysfunctional families are more normal in the West now than functional ones. But if you weren't the girl's father or otherwise related to the girl and there was a big age gap between the two of you and you kissed or hugged or whatever then people would be suspicious. As for liking Babymetal as a male in the West, you only need to look on internet forums and chat exchanges on social media to see the preoccupation with child molester paranoia at work. Babymetal fans are accused all the time of being sexual perverts. It's one of the favorite accusations that Babymetal haters love to level at Babymetal fans. It's pretty common for people to say shit like, "Babymetal fans are just a bunch of middle aged male pedophiles who only like the band because they're eye candy for pedophiles". Happens all the time.
Ungroomed Lover Oh, that's a false charge. I'd like to believe fans of Babymetal like the band simply because the music and the performance is very much worth appreciating. I'd hate to be looked at as a pervert. There's nothing wrong about praising something pretty, skillful, and fantastic.
Duane Metal Well living where I do I just have to live with the fact that some people aren't going to understand, and will view me as a pervert. That's just the way it is here. But to paraphrase a great meme I once saw on facebook: you should always do whatever makes you happy and not worry about what other people think, because at the end of the day people are cunts and will judge you anyway. There are probably some fans out there who feel they need to keep it a secret that they like Babymetal, but I'm pretty open about it 'cause I decided to just give up caring about what other people think. Their opinion doesn't matter. If they can't see that Babymetal is genius then that's their issue, not mine.
I am subscribed! :D You would deserve way more views you are not just teaching Japanese but the culture as well and combining the two i am pretty sure next time i hear Katamomi i will remember this video and your explanation. There is a learning method called Word webs and it's pretty similar except there you only learn words with related words the teacher said in his video weapon-bow-arrow-bullets and so on and you can put them in a "web" like spider web. :D They all related and make it very easy to remember. :D Great video! Love Babymetal :D
Yeah, they always do player rotation, just like a football team +Duane Metal Anyway, who is that guitarist you shown in this video, sensei? Is he Leda?
どうもありがとうございます, this is my favorite Black BABYMETAL song, but the English translated lyrics are a bit confusing. Your expert explanation here has helped me understand what these song lyrics are saying on a much deeper level! 感謝
So, is this „sama“-ending different from the honorific -sama used to address people with high status? Or can otsukaresama literally be understood as addressing a hard working person as „dearest Mr. Fatigued“? Regarding the Kami Band, I‘m always amazed by every single member‘s musical abilities (I‘m a guitarist myself). And especially Takayoshi Omura and BOH to me have an unbelievable stage presence. I hope they stick with the band!
I don't know where this sama came from, but it adds a sense of politeness to the words, and preferred to be used to seniors or strangers. Other such words include Goshuushoosama, Gochisoosama, Ojamasama, etc.
Hello Duane, thank you for your great videos. I have three "random" questions: 1. It seems that "r" sounds like "l" in slow speech, "d" in normal speech and "r" in fast speech. Especially in your case it sounds almost always like an English "r" unless you speak very slowly. Is that right? And why do Japanese people have so much trouble with "r" in English words, even if they use an "r" themselves as soon as they are speaking fast. I also noticed that it depends on the following vowel a bit. So there are vowels that seem to lead to an English "r" sound more often than others. Is that observation right? I watched your corresponding video about tongue placement, but I don't succeed in creating your kind of English "r" that way. Only "l" and "d" are working for me. Do you do something else with your tongue, if it sounds like an English "r"? Does it depend on the speaker, if and "r" sounds like a real English "r" and is it influenced by your English studies? Or is it depending on some kind of dialect/region? 2. Why is it correct to say "Babi Metal" instead of "Babi Meta(l/d)o"? You told us, that it's wrong to say "Baby", because that is not real Japanese, but why is it OK to say "Metal" instead of "Meta(l/d)o"? Does this work, because we can make vowels silent at the end of words? 3. If Yui says "Yui Metal dis(u)" she is making the "u" silent, but why does she put her tongue between her teeth like an English "th"? Does she try to say "death" instead? It still sounds like "diss". Why is she the only girl doing it that way? Greetings from Germany.
Frank Dust That's a very complicated matter. Japanese doesn't make any difference between l and r, and sometimes it even shifts to d. But that's all I know. For your question 2: see Duane-sensei's first video about Babymetal. For your question 3: see Duane-sensei's video about Babymetal Death, I think it's his 2nd video.
Frank Dust Thank you for your questions, and I thank Void-Theft for a followup. Q1) Japanese "r" sound is called a "flap" or "tap" which means you let your tongue tip hit the alveolar ridge only once. (If you hit several times it becomes a "trill" -- a Spanish "r" as in the word "perro".) So, it sounds very similar to English "l" and "d" which require the touching of tongue to the alveolar ridge, and not as similar as English "r" sound which does not require a tongue contact. You can take Japanese "r" as a mixture sound of r and l and d, and it takes practice to get this sound right. There is a professional golfer named Ryo Ishikawa who is doing well in US PGA tour, but I have had heard no announcers in the US broadcasting pronouncing his name right. It should be pronounced [rjo]. Do you think you can do it? My pronunciation may not be consistent, because I'm pronouncing Japanese words in English context. You will know if you can try; it's hard to maintain perfect pronunciation when you are talking in two languages. Q2) It doesn't matter if you pronounce Metal as "metal" or "metaru"; all it matters is the word "Baby". If you pronounce Baby as [bejbi], it doesn't rhyme with the word Heavy. That's the point. Q3) Actually all three of the girls are saying "death", but only Yui might look more conspicuous than others. Did these explanations clear some of the haze you have?
Duane Metal Re. Q1) There is a professional golfer named Ryo Ishikawa who is doing well in US PGA tour, but I have had heard no announcers in the US broadcasting pronouncing his name right. It should be pronounced [rjo]. -> it is difficult for English speakers to pronounce roumaji right, but for Dutch speakers it's much easier, and so for German and Spanish speakers, I guess. "Hi" has to be spoken in roumaji as the Dutch would, but the English say "hai". I learned roumaji very quickly. Of course, pronouncing the Japanese l/r is a different matter. and the "fu" isn't easy either. Re. "You will know if you can try; it's hard to maintain perfect pronunciation when you are talking in two languages." -> Yes, they influence each other. I use 3 different languages a day. Awful.
A reasonable complaint, but the Japanese has Kanji to express content words such as nouns and verbs, and Hiragana to express function words, so we can pretty much segment words by looking at these Kanjis and Hiraganas. :-)
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Every international non Japanese speaking baby metal fan should know about your channel. Appreciate your effort sir
Thank you very much for your comment. I appreciate people's viewing.
Best Black BM song ever ! Finally I know what it's about thanks to Duane the "Babymetal Whisperer". Awesome channel. So glad I found it. More songs please.
Glad you came! Please explore the rest of the video series, and you'll like 'em all. Ha ha.
I love the way you explain everything, and your attitude is just so delightful. It makes me happy. Thank you, Mr. Duane.
My pleasure!
I love how you are teaching Japanese but also speaking about traditions in Japan
Not at all. It's fun to please people in a meaningful way.
This is so helpful to learn japanese, you explain everything very well !! And you're funny ! Please keep doing this ! I'm a big fan of BABYMETAL and it's amazing to understand all the lyrics ! THANK YOU SO MUCH !!!!
+YumeGore Thank you! Keep supporting BABYMETAL and learning Japanese.
I want to thank you Sir for all the hard work and time you put into these videos. I like the style you are talking and explaining. And by the way, english is also not my native language, I am german, but as far as I can tell, your english is very good. Thank you a lot.
I already knew the translation of the text but it's good to go word by word! Now I get the deeper meaning and learned some more vocabulary! Thank you~!
Vivian Kokot Yes, there are lots of nuances and cultures behind language. The deeper you dig, the more interesting things you find.
Great work. Thank you for these videos they are very helpful.
Thank you for watching! I hope you take something useful for your intellectual development.
This is wonderful! Glad I found your channel, thanks!
+giglbox Thank you for finding me out. ：−）
so in depth love it...its sad im only finding this now, better late than never i suppose
Welcome to this video series. Indeed, never too late to start learning new things.
The cultural differences between Japan and the West are pretty striking at times. In Japan a girl flattering her father by telling him he's her ideal type of guy and so handsome and such things might be seen as just innocent flattery, but in the West many would tend to view this as kinda creepy and inappropriate. The Western media has whipped people up into a full blown moral panic over the issue of child sex abuse, to the point where we believe child molesters are lurking everywhere just waiting to snatch a child. So in the West a daughter saying such things to her father would seem creepy, and if the father were totally comfortable with his daughter saying such things that would make him extremely suspect in the eyes of a lot of people. Many would suspect there might be something illegal going on if they were to witness something like this going on between father and daughter, even though it might be completely innocent. It would make a lot of people feel uncomfortable. I don't know if it's just the media hysteria, or maybe something more deeply embedded in our culture, or maybe it's just simply that Japan has fewer occurrences of child sexual abuse than most Western countries so you guys aren't as freaked out and paranoid about it as we are. What's your opinion Duane?
Ungroomed Lover Yes, what we have here is innocent flattery. We don't hear any cases of father molesting his daughter, although we hear much about child abuse (beating up or ignorance). Child molestation cases are reported on TV only as a stranger taking advantage of the girls. One reason here is that there are much less cases of divorces in Japan compared to the US. Also it is very rare to adopt children or becoming foster parents. Fathers and daughters have blood kins in most cases, and it's hard for us to think of a blood father raping his daughter. I have a 19 year old daughter and I never dream of having sex with her.
Duane Metal In the West this shit's totally out of hand. The media has whipped us up into a frenzy of fear so we're now seeing child molesters everywhere. Every man is viewed as a potential child molester now, much the same way all women were viewed as potential witches in the middle ages. A man for instance could not go sit in a public park and watch children play without people immediately thinking he's probably a child molester or something. Even if he just enjoyed watching children play for totally non-sexual reasons, it would nonetheless be assumed immediately that something nefarious is going on.
A woman on the other hand could do the exact same and never fall under suspicion, which is one of the main reasons that female child molesters (yes, they do exist) go undetected in most cases and are less likely to be convicted than male child molesters. Nobody thinks, or wants to think, that a woman could be capable of abusing a child sexually...yet it happens. The way the media covers the issue in the West is sick too. Have you ever seen that show called "To Catch A Predator" with Chris Hansen? That's a disgraceful example of the media exploiting the issue of child sexual abuse for entertainment purposes. The whole thing is really voyeuristic and unethical.
No those things are still ok between father and daughter, though becoming less common because dysfunctional families are more normal in the West now than functional ones. But if you weren't the girl's father or otherwise related to the girl and there was a big age gap between the two of you and you kissed or hugged or whatever then people would be suspicious. As for liking Babymetal as a male in the West, you only need to look on internet forums and chat exchanges on social media to see the preoccupation with child molester paranoia at work. Babymetal fans are accused all the time of being sexual perverts. It's one of the favorite accusations that Babymetal haters love to level at Babymetal fans. It's pretty common for people to say shit like, "Babymetal fans are just a bunch of middle aged male pedophiles who only like the band because they're eye candy for pedophiles". Happens all the time.
Ungroomed Lover Oh, that's a false charge. I'd like to believe fans of Babymetal like the band simply because the music and the performance is very much worth appreciating. I'd hate to be looked at as a pervert. There's nothing wrong about praising something pretty, skillful, and fantastic.
Duane Metal Well living where I do I just have to live with the fact that some people aren't going to understand, and will view me as a pervert. That's just the way it is here. But to paraphrase a great meme I once saw on facebook: you should always do whatever makes you happy and not worry about what other people think, because at the end of the day people are cunts and will judge you anyway.
There are probably some fans out there who feel they need to keep it a secret that they like Babymetal, but I'm pretty open about it 'cause I decided to just give up caring about what other people think. Their opinion doesn't matter. If they can't see that Babymetal is genius then that's their issue, not mine.
I am subscribed! :D You would deserve way more views you are not just teaching Japanese but the culture as well and combining the two i am pretty sure next time i hear Katamomi i will remember this video and your explanation. There is a learning method called Word webs and it's pretty similar except there you only learn words with related words the teacher said in his video weapon-bow-arrow-bullets and so on and you can put them in a "web" like spider web. :D They all related and make it very easy to remember. :D Great video! Love Babymetal :D
Yeah, it’s a good way - remembering vocabulary with word association. Use any method you think is effective as you try to learn a foreign language.
this series is awesome!! thanks so much!
wow that's definitely a interesting way to bribe someone my friend I really enjoyed watching^_^
Duane Metal I think Duane-sensei has a daughter.
They should keep all members! no replacing! kami band is awesome!!
+jim k Right, but Kami-band has not been a fixed member band. The members are always changing.
Yeah, they always do player rotation, just like a football team
+Duane Metal Anyway, who is that guitarist you shown in this video, sensei? Is he Leda?
No, another guitarist.
どうもありがとうございます, this is my favorite Black BABYMETAL song, but the English translated lyrics are a bit confusing. Your expert explanation here has helped me understand what these song lyrics are saying on a much deeper level! 感謝
どういたしまして。
Wow thanks so much for these. Can't wait for the new songs :)
+Hilary Helena There are lot more to come. ;-)
Thank you for the amazing lesson
My pleasure! I'm glad you liked the videos.
Will you be doing anymore of these videos? I'm loving them so far.
If Babymetal comes back to a trio, I may resume. It's still a duo now.
My parents loved that tv series.
VOID-Theft Yes, they were good.
this was very entertaining!
Thank you!
you're the boss!!!!
I dread the thought of one of the three babymetal girls being my daughter. She'd get away with murder!!
Oh, that's dreadful.
So, is this „sama“-ending different from the honorific -sama used to address people with high status? Or can otsukaresama literally be understood as addressing a hard working person as „dearest Mr. Fatigued“? Regarding the Kami Band, I‘m always amazed by every single member‘s musical abilities (I‘m a guitarist myself). And especially Takayoshi Omura and BOH to me have an unbelievable stage presence. I hope they stick with the band!
I don't know where this sama came from, but it adds a sense of politeness to the words, and preferred to be used to seniors or strangers. Other such words include Goshuushoosama, Gochisoosama, Ojamasama, etc.
Hello Duane, thank you for your great videos.
I have three "random" questions:
1. It seems that "r" sounds like "l" in slow speech, "d" in normal speech and "r" in fast speech. Especially in your case it sounds almost always like an English "r" unless you speak very slowly.
Is that right? And why do Japanese people have so much trouble with "r" in English words, even if they use an "r" themselves as soon as they are speaking fast.
I also noticed that it depends on the following vowel a bit. So there are vowels that seem to lead to an English "r" sound more often than others.
Is that observation right? I watched your corresponding video about tongue placement, but I don't succeed in creating your kind of English "r" that way. Only "l" and "d" are working for me. Do you do something else with your tongue, if it sounds like an English "r"?
Does it depend on the speaker, if and "r" sounds like a real English "r" and is it influenced by your English studies? Or is it depending on some kind of dialect/region?
2. Why is it correct to say "Babi Metal" instead of "Babi Meta(l/d)o"? You told us, that it's wrong to say "Baby", because that is not real Japanese, but why is it OK to say "Metal" instead of "Meta(l/d)o"? Does this work, because we can make vowels silent at the end of words?
3. If Yui says "Yui Metal dis(u)" she is making the "u" silent, but why does she put her tongue between her teeth like an English "th"? Does she try to say "death" instead? It still sounds like "diss". Why is she the only girl doing it that way?
Greetings from Germany.
Frank Dust That's a very complicated matter. Japanese doesn't make any difference between l and r, and sometimes it even shifts to d. But that's all I know.
For your question 2: see Duane-sensei's first video about Babymetal.
For your question 3: see Duane-sensei's video about Babymetal Death, I think it's his 2nd video.
Frank Dust Thank you for your questions, and I thank Void-Theft for a followup.
Q1) Japanese "r" sound is called a "flap" or "tap" which means you let your tongue tip hit the alveolar ridge only once. (If you hit several times it becomes a "trill" -- a Spanish "r" as in the word "perro".) So, it sounds very similar to English "l" and "d" which require the touching of tongue to the alveolar ridge, and not as similar as English "r" sound which does not require a tongue contact. You can take Japanese "r" as a mixture sound of r and l and d, and it takes practice to get this sound right. There is a professional golfer named Ryo Ishikawa who is doing well in US PGA tour, but I have had heard no announcers in the US broadcasting pronouncing his name right. It should be pronounced [rjo]. Do you think you can do it? My pronunciation may not be consistent, because I'm pronouncing Japanese words in English context. You will know if you can try; it's hard to maintain perfect pronunciation when you are talking in two languages.
Q2) It doesn't matter if you pronounce Metal as "metal" or "metaru"; all it matters is the word "Baby". If you pronounce Baby as [bejbi], it doesn't rhyme with the word Heavy. That's the point.
Q3) Actually all three of the girls are saying "death", but only Yui might look more conspicuous than others.
Did these explanations clear some of the haze you have?
Duane Metal Re. Q1) There is a professional golfer named Ryo
Ishikawa who is doing well in US PGA tour, but I have had heard no
announcers in the US broadcasting pronouncing his name right. It should
be pronounced [rjo].
-> it is difficult for English speakers to pronounce roumaji right, but for Dutch speakers it's much easier, and so for German and Spanish speakers, I guess. "Hi" has to be spoken in roumaji as the Dutch would, but the English say "hai". I learned roumaji very quickly. Of course, pronouncing the Japanese l/r is a different matter. and the "fu" isn't easy either.
Re. "You will know if you can try; it's hard to maintain perfect
pronunciation when you are talking in two languages."
-> Yes, they influence each other. I use 3 different languages a day. Awful.
I wish Japanese had spaces between words, it would be a lot easier to read as a westerner
A reasonable complaint, but the Japanese has Kanji to express content words such as nouns and verbs, and Hiragana to express function words, so we can pretty much segment words by looking at these Kanjis and Hiraganas. :-)
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