I thought they meant like “little girl” and I was like “oh the little girl wants friends to play” but if it’s like an adult then it sounds really weird lol
I think it is actually Sora. He only changed the name so that no one knows that it's actually him. Or rather, his actual name is Mike, he only pretends to be a Japanese, that's why he changed his name to Sora.
What's worse is if they actually say "Come to Japan, let's hang out!" and then they never hang out with you. Only 1 friend out of like 30 fake friends ended up hanging out with me when I went there lol I thought I had a lot of friends and stuff lmao Made me so depressed at the time. I got over it, but it was really annoying. I lost trust in Japanese people or humanity a bit then.
Cuz Japanese people didn't get used to talk to other people or worse strangers easily, more over if the target they talk with is from outsider, because is "Mendokusai"/ troublesome for them.. and they are like shy shy cats when meet a new person, they only talk with the people they close with, some will say it's introverted, but not all people on japan like that..
I actually just came back from a 9 month high school Japan exchange this year! Well, not as an American but a Malaysian but still, that self-introduction part where they ask to speak English was spot on. They even asked me to speak Malay. At the time, it was super awkward since my Japanese was super bad but thankfully, I did have 2 friends in class who could speak English very well and apparently, one of them lived in Indonesia once so we could even speak in our mother language! As time went, of course, my Japanese got better and I was friends with more of my classmates and even the few classes next to us. I'm even continuing my Japanese study and practicing with them until today. Overall, my entire exchange was amazing mostly because of my classmates. I was part of the going-home club at first but I had a liking towards sadou club. And at that point I saw how serious Japanese take clubs haha. Thanks for reading this long thing, it was just a really amazing experience.
Hi! I’m an American who actually studied abroad in a Japanese high school for six months recently (last August to this February) and although this video is accurate to some degree, I feel like my circumstances prevented some of these from happening. For example, I was actually placed as a 三年生 (third-year student or to an American, a senior in high school), so I was actually invited to walk home with my classmates because they weren’t going to clubs anymore (due to studying for entrance exams). Another thing was that my high school in Japan actually had an English teacher who was also from America (and another one from the Netherlands actually) so there was never a moment where there was sketchy English lol. If you read this far, thanks! It was the best experience of my life and I’ll forever cherish my memories and the people I met there :)
I’m really looking into being an exchange student in Japan so I can learn better Japanese, learn about the culture, meet new ppl, and honestly just see Japan and eat the food. But they also have a great education system there
In Japan, they know that the punishment doesn't end with their mom, either. First comes mom's wrath, then comes dad's. Eventually. Once he actually manages to escape Salaryman Purgatory for a single evening.
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
"She wants many friends to play with" is one of those phrases that is technically correct, but only ruined by cultural slang. I can only imagine the amount of times this same experience happens with other languages.
My family had a German high school exchange student live with us for a while. We had to cure him of going around saying "I'm hot!" when he was talking about the weather.
Trying not to end sentences with a preposition is still a thing for me. My roommate in college would always ask, "Do you want to come with?" and it drove me nuts that he didn't say "with me?" People often say, "Where are you at?" You only need to ask, "Where are you?"
I studied in a Japanese school about 2 months ago as an exchange student. I can confirm that this is almost 100% accurate, especially with the English in textbooks lol. But every friend I made was so nice and they showed me around Osaka almost everyday. The only thing missing is that ur basically a celebrity and the amount of student in the class that ask for a picture with u is hilarious 🤣
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
I don' think so. In English, Weeb used to be a derogatory term and Otaku used to be what you'd call someone who was into anime and Japanese culture. But nowadays, Weeb is what Otaku used to be and Otaku is Weeb's cringy formal cousin. Saying "otaku" nowadays is "Ok, boomer" worthy.
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
*cries in native speaker with listening comprehension and horrible speaking* 😢 The spanish im used to sounds different than its written. Abuelita: Your textbook is wrong I’m right! My grades:
@Zephyr it's the other way around for me. My speaking is alright. But my listening comprehension is horrible. It's like a listening version of DDR on the hardest difficulty. In my head I'm like "For the love of God! Slow down! I'm like a toddler learning to walk hanging with Olympic sprinters."
That might be because it might be a different "Spanish." A lot of American textbooks, for example, teach the Spain version of Spanish instead of the "Mexico" version. You know, the more relevant one.
yeah when i was in high school in Brazil (i was born in the U.S and speak fluent english, but i'm also brazilian bc of dual citizenship), people would be like "omg you're so cool you speak english!" but then the moment i said something different from the textbook in english class, they're like "omg not even the american knows the answer!"
Last part is pretty hilarious! 😂 This is true that not everything in a text book is not correct. My mom was an engineer from the Philippines. They always studied even though they are already a graduate from college. She saw an American Textbook the math was wrong so she had written a letter to the professor in Colorado about his mistake. They invited her to the US to visit in Colorado to meet her. They were pretty impressed by her. I wanted to share her story because there are people who think just because its in the book it is correct. Just like anything there is always human error even in textbooks. This video was a cute way to demonstrate it. 😆
I had once had a math teacher who couldn't do math. The "correct" answer was the one in answer key in the teacher's edition of the textbook, no matter how obvious a typo it was. So frustrating to be in that class.
I think one of the things that when I was younger that made me want to study in Japan was that there was a Welsh university course taught in exactly one Japanese university (Daito Bunka), and I thought it was the coolest thing ever that some Japanese people knew Welsh, and that if I went there, my Welsh could compensate for any gaps in my not great Japanese 😂
Duuude. Your videos are spot on. Foreigners need to understand japan is a regular country and not an anime fantasy. Sora, please come visit our low class public high school. (don’t worry, they’re all Japanese so they won’t know who you are…😅)
I just care if in Japan there exists non weebs that like anime. The weebs in late 2000s-2010s in high were creeps, I want something like a nice normal person into anime.
Oh god, I was one of those students but in reverse. I used to hang out with this Japanese exchange student all the time. He actually helped me study Japanese to begin with. Really cool dude that got visibly annoyed with the constant attention he got from everyone at first, so he just sorta hung around my quiet weird group of friends a lot lol
Hahahaha! This reminds me of the time I found out that Japanese students have tons of after school clubs and activities and don't get home until after dinner sometimes. I remember thinking of how brutal it must be, but this is coming from someone who was homeschooled.
2:53 To be fair, even *native* English speakers will often get this wrong. It's daijoubu desu! "To play with" is a prepositional phrase; the rule is you should never end a sentence with a proposition; there is a list of these words that's fairly easy to remember (I think it's the 4th grade when they start teaching this). We used Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming to break phrases apart, which helped us to understand complex sentences. I'm not sure it's used as much anymore, but sentence diagrams are a must to really grasp English, imo. This rule is often ignored in casual conversation, such as with common phrases like: "Where are you at?" So, I can see why this might end up in a textbook, but it's wrong! 違う!
This is actually not true, it's perfectly permissible to end English sentences with prepositions. There are many circumstances where it is actually preferred (eg. "This is what I am worried about" vs "This is the thing about which I am worried")
That's one of those rules that grammarians made up but nobody actually follows, because it's made up in the first place (unless it was true hundreds of years ago but by that logic it's grammatically incorrect to not use thou)
I think that's not the problem he is trying to bring up, but the fact that saying "playing with someone" has a sexual connotation, and is just a literal translation of japanese in which is ok to say "to play with someone" when meaning "to hangout".
@@bobboberson8297 It was never a rule in English. It was a rule in Latin, and one stuffy idiot grammarian named Joshua Poole from the mid 1600s, who thought English should be more like Latin, declared it was a rule in English. (The same grammarian is also responsible for the idea that there's something wrong with singular "they".) Anyone who says it's a rule in English is objectively incorrect, and they're either parroting what some teacher mistakenly told them, or they just like correcting people to feel superior.
Casual conversation etiquette is hilarious. The only people who speak "correctly" in are those who learned the correct manner without daily exposure to casual speak. And those tend to be immigrants, foreigners, or sheltered people. It's worse with the current exposure to forums/comments/internet, as people will just correct others, giving the false impression that we give a crap of your grammar when you speak.
I don't know, but I feel like this happens in every school in Asia. I'm from Malaysia, once, we had an exchange student from Japan, we were so close. Well, he is Malaysian but raised in Japan. We had him for one or two years before he moves somewheree.. we don't know. Can't remember, I think he went back to Japan. Anyway, everyone was amazed and always wanted him to speak Japanese. Even his existence was a miracle
I bought a wonderful little water measuring cup thing for my coffee from Japan. One side says "microwave serve" in English which I assume means "microwave safe"? So the "if it's in the textbook" thing makes me laugh hahahaha
As a native English speaker, I nearly took your comment seriously at the "microwave serve" and began thinking I was illiterate. Not lying, I legit nearly took that part seriously.
@@hansmohammed5486 it’s currently being disassembled like a makarov pistol or a rocket launcher in one of the rooms (trust me I did it when I was in school ahaha)
Oh damn it! These Backstories are so wholesome! wish i was japanese to actually experience them like sora. I'm surprised how Mike doesn't like anime. He is build different since he is not like other exchange students pretty cool ngl we got to see so many types of exchange students lol. Love this one! Thx sora for Another brilliantly funny skit.😂✨
That line about a girl wanting friends to play with reminds me of the Japanese textbook used here (Genki) that just has an entire storyline about Mary dating a dude named Takeshi and he like ghosted her on their date. The class was laughing cause like they thought a teenage romcom was the best way to teach us Japanese 😅
i think your newer videos after your burnout stream are actually more creative and funny lol your old vids are still classic but it's nice to see new classics hit the spotlight
We had a Japanese exchange student when I was in high school. Her English wasn't that good, so hopefully being here helped her improve. I never really hung out with her though, but she did make a small group of friends, so hopefully it wasn't completely terrible for her. I know I'd have hated my school if I was an exchange student.
THE ENDING! XD just when I was expecting a part two. AYE YO! XD and here I thought this was gonna be one of soras experiences with a student. You could say that I was trolled.
This is true with Japanese friends even as adults. I have a Japanese friend, Linda. We both live in the US and Linda is her American name. She has said, “Let’s go to art museums and do a half day at the local museum park,” and I say, “Sure! That sounds good.” Then she never calls me. Eventually when we talk again she makes the same invitation. In her defense, she is a nurse and works very hard.
An a shy introvert myself I also say yes to plans from my friends then never call back to discuss, I love the idea of spending time with my friends but the act of getting ready and going itself feels too much trouble/stressful. I think you'll have better luck if you made a more solid plan, like tell your friend directly I'm going to so and so place on this date (2 weeks later), will you be free to come along? I will pick you up/meet you at this time and place. You have to be direct and take the initiative, the friend will be annoyed but will eventually be happier during/after the trip.
@@Silverraine1 this is a good idea! Linda and I are both too polite and shy, but I know we would have a great time at the museums. She says I'm her only art friend and she's my only art friend. I will try to be more direct at planning. If it comes across as rude, I'll say, "Sorry. You know how Americans are." 😂
If you speak English everyone will treat you like you are from America. I’ve told the same people I’m not from America multiple times and they never remember it lol
That thing about saying one foreign word because it sounds is so common lol. I've had my relatives saying English or Japanese words without having any clue of what it means, simply because they saw it from a movie or anime
Lol I used to tutor ESL students in the US. I loved it, but when they disagreed with me because they "saw it in a book," it was so difficult. Some teacher said "they" should never be singular and they took that as law. Saying "what'd they say?" is a gender-neutral way of asking about details or avoiding gender pronouns when you encounter androgynous names like Chris, Terry, etc. They disagreed with me. Not only was I a native English speaker, but also held an English degree. Bless their linguistic dogma 😂
It's funny in American schools or at least from my experience public schools the teacher uses the same excuse "well the textbook says it's right" or "well google says it's right so your wrong".
@@Silverraine1 Remembering some of my college professors. “This is wrong. We are learning it this way. I write the exam. You answer it like the textbook on the exam and I won’t mark you down, but you’ll waste tons of time.”
i think this is secretly sora's backstory because we all know sora is an american pretending to be japanese
Nah Sora would be the weeb one in this case, being Mike is out of his range, he is too cringe
Are we going to enrage Sora so much, that he decides to pull out a samurai sword out of his pocket?
We know
Someone already exposed him. But many still didn't want to accept the truth. 😅
It's written in his script it must be true.
the fact the phrase "she wants many friends to play with" is actually in a serious textbook, it just breaks me
wait whats wrong with it though?
@@chan9982 It sounds very wrong ehem. like in a sexual way
@@Hy-phenn damn i cannot even want to have friends to play with anymore 😭
@@chan9982 you did?
I thought they meant like “little girl” and I was like “oh the little girl wants friends to play” but if it’s like an adult then it sounds really weird lol
Congrats to Mike for being the first American in a Sora skit to not have an (overtly) American accent when speaking Japanese.
There was an accent, but it was slight, compared to his other characters.
His Rs were incorrect, among other things, but not as bad. Mike is 上手!
Konichi war. Levi-senpai wa kakoii desu.
Straight up expected a konichi war when he came into the classroom
I think it is actually Sora. He only changed the name so that no one knows that it's actually him. Or rather, his actual name is Mike, he only pretends to be a Japanese, that's why he changed his name to Sora.
1:15 “I will tell your mother” is one of the strongest spells in Indian schools also😅
No in Indian school they smack the hell out of you haiyaaaa
and in china....
Thank goodness mine is out of the picture, they can't do a thing!!
And in Mexico...
Means nothing in the US. 😢
"There are Japanese students who say let's be friends but never actually hang out" They're just like me fr fr
What's worse is if they actually say "Come to Japan, let's hang out!" and then they never hang out with you. Only 1 friend out of like 30 fake friends ended up hanging out with me when I went there lol
I thought I had a lot of friends and stuff lmao
Made me so depressed at the time. I got over it, but it was really annoying. I lost trust in Japanese people or humanity a bit then.
@@phen-themoogle7651 Then you got Isekai'd right ? That usually how these tales go.
@@southcoastinventors6583 I went to Japan and got izakaya'd. Pretty good time.
This is me but with multiplayer games
Cuz Japanese people didn't get used to talk to other people or worse strangers easily, more over if the target they talk with is from outsider, because is "Mendokusai"/ troublesome for them..
and they are like shy shy cats when meet a new person, they only talk with the people they close with, some will say it's introverted, but not all people on japan like that..
I actually just came back from a 9 month high school Japan exchange this year! Well, not as an American but a Malaysian but still, that self-introduction part where they ask to speak English was spot on. They even asked me to speak Malay. At the time, it was super awkward since my Japanese was super bad but thankfully, I did have 2 friends in class who could speak English very well and apparently, one of them lived in Indonesia once so we could even speak in our mother language! As time went, of course, my Japanese got better and I was friends with more of my classmates and even the few classes next to us. I'm even continuing my Japanese study and practicing with them until today. Overall, my entire exchange was amazing mostly because of my classmates. I was part of the going-home club at first but I had a liking towards sadou club. And at that point I saw how serious Japanese take clubs haha. Thanks for reading this long thing, it was just a really amazing experience.
And I had to talk about the "play" thing a lot too haha. I either say it sounds sexual or it's just childish.
Are Japanese people familiar with Malaysia?
@@deliciousnoodles5505 ww2
@@weebooo1069 fr
I'm glad to hear you had a great time here, unlike Mike.
Hi! I’m an American who actually studied abroad in a Japanese high school for six months recently (last August to this February) and although this video is accurate to some degree, I feel like my circumstances prevented some of these from happening. For example, I was actually placed as a 三年生 (third-year student or to an American, a senior in high school), so I was actually invited to walk home with my classmates because they weren’t going to clubs anymore (due to studying for entrance exams). Another thing was that my high school in Japan actually had an English teacher who was also from America (and another one from the Netherlands actually) so there was never a moment where there was sketchy English lol. If you read this far, thanks! It was the best experience of my life and I’ll forever cherish my memories and the people I met there :)
Very informative. Thank you 👍
I’m really looking into being an exchange student in Japan so I can learn better Japanese, learn about the culture, meet new ppl, and honestly just see Japan and eat the food. But they also have a great education system there
Nah man I ain’t reading that ungodly comment shut up u weeb
I'm actually in a school in Japan too, but in Inaka and everything said in the video I am living right now lol
arabic?
"I will tell your mother" is one of the strongest spells.
The power of an Asian mum!
In Japan, they know that the punishment doesn't end with their mom, either. First comes mom's wrath, then comes dad's. Eventually. Once he actually manages to escape Salaryman Purgatory for a single evening.
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
What happens if he trys it on Mike?
But how would it work if an international trunk call may be prohibitively expensive?
@jonesjermaine4387
"DAMN IT, HE'S A WEEB." Is probably one of my favorite lines in anything.
as an american exchange student this is exactly how i’m treated in japan
Found Sora's alt account.
@@citizen_grub4171 fr
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
@@jonesjermaine4387 wth😭
Oh yeah
"She wants many friends to play with" is one of those phrases that is technically correct, but only ruined by cultural slang. I can only imagine the amount of times this same experience happens with other languages.
My family had a German high school exchange student live with us for a while. We had to cure him of going around saying "I'm hot!" when he was talking about the weather.
@@MyFiddlePlayerI mean, he was technically correct which is the best kind of correct.
Trying not to end sentences with a preposition is still a thing for me. My roommate in college would always ask, "Do you want to come with?" and it drove me nuts that he didn't say "with me?" People often say, "Where are you at?" You only need to ask, "Where are you?"
I studied in a Japanese school about 2 months ago as an exchange student. I can confirm that this is almost 100% accurate, especially with the English in textbooks lol. But every friend I made was so nice and they showed me around Osaka almost everyday. The only thing missing is that ur basically a celebrity and the amount of student in the class that ask for a picture with u is hilarious 🤣
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
@@jonesjermaine4387 GTFO Jones 😂
"Weeb" is a derogatory term to an American, but "Otaku" is a badge of honor.
I don' think so. In English, Weeb used to be a derogatory term and Otaku used to be what you'd call someone who was into anime and Japanese culture. But nowadays, Weeb is what Otaku used to be and Otaku is Weeb's cringy formal cousin. Saying "otaku" nowadays is "Ok, boomer" worthy.
As a Cis Chinese man I wouldn't trust any round eyes in my school, it was a round eyes who stole our Secret recipe to Egg Fried Rice dating back to the Ding Dong Dynasty.
@@ikaiko8612 why would you care lol. Its fun being a weeb. Dont let others judge your likes
@@R3_dacted0 okay himikomori
Literally you rn: 🤓
@@chrisallen1668 “I like children” - 👴🏻
The Good Ending: *The Japanese students befriend with the American student and make him feel more comfortable in a new environment.*
Oh, yeah!
Yes, it’s the true anime way! Not these SORA lies!
Oohh yes
Something Something Roy Browmell
oh, yeah!
“She wants many friends to play with” Classic Sora. Still funny.
Puppet master, that`s what she is. XD
sora's reactions is so funny 😭😭
the way mike is just like "bitch what?"
The same happens here, if you're taking Spanish and the textbook says something that doesn't make sense, you're wrong and the textbook is right
*cries in native speaker with listening comprehension and horrible speaking* 😢
The spanish im used to sounds different than its written.
Abuelita: Your textbook is wrong I’m right!
My grades:
@@zephyrias true that's exactly how the class felt lol
@Zephyr it's the other way around for me. My speaking is alright. But my listening comprehension is horrible. It's like a listening version of DDR on the hardest difficulty. In my head I'm like "For the love of God! Slow down! I'm like a toddler learning to walk hanging with Olympic sprinters."
That might be because it might be a different "Spanish." A lot of American textbooks, for example, teach the Spain version of Spanish instead of the "Mexico" version. You know, the more relevant one.
yeah when i was in high school in Brazil (i was born in the U.S and speak fluent english, but i'm also brazilian bc of dual citizenship), people would be like "omg you're so cool you speak english!" but then the moment i said something different from the textbook in english class, they're like "omg not even the american knows the answer!"
2:52 XD
She wants many friends to play with❌
She wants many friend to hangout with✔️
I suppose if the girl is a child, it's fairly normal to want many friends to play with.
Last part is pretty hilarious! 😂 This is true that not everything in a text book is not correct.
My mom was an engineer from the Philippines. They always studied even though they are already a graduate from college. She saw an American Textbook the math was wrong so she had written a letter to the professor in Colorado about his mistake. They invited her to the US to visit in Colorado to meet her. They were pretty impressed by her. I wanted to share her story because there are people who think just because its in the book it is correct.
Just like anything there is always human error even in textbooks. This video was a cute way to demonstrate it. 😆
I had once had a math teacher who couldn't do math. The "correct" answer was the one in answer key in the teacher's edition of the textbook, no matter how obvious a typo it was. So frustrating to be in that class.
I think one of the things that when I was younger that made me want to study in Japan was that there was a Welsh university course taught in exactly one Japanese university (Daito Bunka), and I thought it was the coolest thing ever that some Japanese people knew Welsh, and that if I went there, my Welsh could compensate for any gaps in my not great Japanese 😂
Self reflection is when Sora says “DAMMIT HE’S A WEEB” to himself
Duuude. Your videos are spot on. Foreigners need to understand japan is a regular country and not an anime fantasy.
Sora, please come visit our low class public high school. (don’t worry, they’re all Japanese so they won’t know who you are…😅)
I just care if in Japan there exists non weebs that like anime.
The weebs in late 2000s-2010s in high were creeps, I want something like a nice normal person into anime.
@@HackersSun I hate to say it, but I think the love of anime : degree of weeb is 1:1.
@@DisgruntledPigumon lmfaoo😭😭
@@HackersSunKeep dreaming bud.
Stop insulting foreigners and realize that nobody thinks Japan is a fantasy country
I've wondered at times what it would have been like to have a Japanese high school life but I think my American high school life was pretty dang good
With a small chance of picking up a few 5.56x45mm NATO or .223 Remingtons in the body
@@shinjiikari1021👀
@@shinjiikari1021 👀
@@shinjiikari1021 So true Shinji. Keep it up!
@@shinjiikari1021 well at least I'm bulletproof from resistance training so I don't think it's much of a downside
"DAMNIT! HE'S A WEEB!"
Lmaooo
Oh god, I was one of those students but in reverse. I used to hang out with this Japanese exchange student all the time. He actually helped me study Japanese to begin with. Really cool dude that got visibly annoyed with the constant attention he got from everyone at first, so he just sorta hung around my quiet weird group of friends a lot lol
Can we take a moment to appreciate the quality of content he creates 🔥🔥🔥
I'm always so captivated by the videos as if there are actually different people speaking when it's only Sora 🐥
same here!!!
It's only Sora? D:
@@Giomancer lol
"Damn it, He's a Weeb!" Hahaha~ I laughed like crazy at the end 3:58
No matter what video sora posts, it always will contain a weeb
Well, yes, the author himself.
@@amadeosendiulo2137Sucks to be him
Takuya & Ken are back at it again! These characters have appeared in previous skits before!
As a weeb myself, I can confirm that just like the Japanese person I also laugh by myself all the time
I would love to visit or work in japan, but I feel like I'd be laughing every 5 minutes.
Just hearing "nani" in any context is too damn funny for me.
You know they don't actually say NANI constantly right?
@@zamasterhando3399 NANI?!
Typical weeb here
@@JosephPriceArt B-BAKANA!!!! *Kore wa.... hokuto shinken...!!!*
Nanda?
Hahahaha! This reminds me of the time I found out that Japanese students have tons of after school clubs and activities and don't get home until after dinner sometimes. I remember thinking of how brutal it must be, but this is coming from someone who was homeschooled.
Typical high schools don't do this, they stay until 4pm lasted ._.
I remember wanting to be an exchange student until I found out about that because I knew I wouldn’t survive
this is gonna be funny as fuck sora bringing us good content
2:53 To be fair, even *native* English speakers will often get this wrong. It's daijoubu desu!
"To play with" is a prepositional phrase; the rule is you should never end a sentence with a proposition; there is a list of these words that's fairly easy to remember (I think it's the 4th grade when they start teaching this). We used Reed-Kellogg sentence diagramming to break phrases apart, which helped us to understand complex sentences. I'm not sure it's used as much anymore, but sentence diagrams are a must to really grasp English, imo.
This rule is often ignored in casual conversation, such as with common phrases like: "Where are you at?" So, I can see why this might end up in a textbook, but it's wrong! 違う!
This is actually not true, it's perfectly permissible to end English sentences with prepositions. There are many circumstances where it is actually preferred (eg. "This is what I am worried about" vs "This is the thing about which I am worried")
That's one of those rules that grammarians made up but nobody actually follows, because it's made up in the first place (unless it was true hundreds of years ago but by that logic it's grammatically incorrect to not use thou)
I think that's not the problem he is trying to bring up, but the fact that saying "playing with someone" has a sexual connotation, and is just a literal translation of japanese in which is ok to say "to play with someone" when meaning "to hangout".
@@bobboberson8297 It was never a rule in English. It was a rule in Latin, and one stuffy idiot grammarian named Joshua Poole from the mid 1600s, who thought English should be more like Latin, declared it was a rule in English. (The same grammarian is also responsible for the idea that there's something wrong with singular "they".)
Anyone who says it's a rule in English is objectively incorrect, and they're either parroting what some teacher mistakenly told them, or they just like correcting people to feel superior.
Casual conversation etiquette is hilarious. The only people who speak "correctly" in are those who learned the correct manner without daily exposure to casual speak. And those tend to be immigrants, foreigners, or sheltered people. It's worse with the current exposure to forums/comments/internet, as people will just correct others, giving the false impression that we give a crap of your grammar when you speak.
4:03 that would be me💀
"She wants many friend to play with" i can't stop laughing that part 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
I don't know, but I feel like this happens in every school in Asia. I'm from Malaysia, once, we had an exchange student from Japan, we were so close. Well, he is Malaysian but raised in Japan. We had him for one or two years before he moves somewheree.. we don't know. Can't remember, I think he went back to Japan. Anyway, everyone was amazed and always wanted him to speak Japanese. Even his existence was a miracle
I bought a wonderful little water measuring cup thing for my coffee from Japan. One side says "microwave serve" in English which I assume means "microwave safe"? So the "if it's in the textbook" thing makes me laugh hahahaha
As a native English speaker, I nearly took your comment seriously at the "microwave serve" and began thinking I was illiterate.
Not lying, I legit nearly took that part seriously.
@@qwmx i read that as serve the bowl to the microwave. 😂 ahh yess give the microwave a bowl.
Oh! Microwave safe
He just described all Russian schools without even saying Russia once
but, where is the ak?
@@hansmohammed5486 it’s currently being disassembled like a makarov pistol or a rocket launcher in one of the rooms (trust me I did it when I was in school ahaha)
In mother Russia you don't study at school, the school studies you.
That is indeed true. I didn't even know the alphabet until I started studying English seriously.
@@GrabbandeseNuts Don't all Public Schools do that, though?
Oh damn it! These Backstories are so wholesome! wish i was japanese to actually experience them like sora. I'm surprised how Mike doesn't like anime. He is build different since he is not like other exchange students pretty cool ngl we got to see so many types of exchange students lol. Love this one! Thx sora for Another brilliantly funny skit.😂✨
thanks for the insight, sora. very interesting experience in a japanese high school.
The next time someone asks me to hang out and I don't want to I'll just say I have club activities despite graduating in 2018 😂😂
2:57 I could really feel the emotion he put into that for some reason XD
Your videos are so entertaining, you could literally become an anime yourself. Have you thought about making a comic with these skits before?
That line about a girl wanting friends to play with reminds me of the Japanese textbook used here (Genki) that just has an entire storyline about Mary dating a dude named Takeshi and he like ghosted her on their date. The class was laughing cause like they thought a teenage romcom was the best way to teach us Japanese 😅
"Dammit he's a weeb!!" 😂😂😂😂😂
She wants many friends to play with works if you're talking about kids playing lol
"Dammit, he's a weeb!" Hahahahahahaha! Perfect bit of irony there.
"She wants many friends to play with"
To be fair is still a correct sentence. It's even used in innocent contexts.
Just Imagine Ichika would say "Oh yeah" when Sora asked him "Do you like poop?" in previous video. It would be funny as hell
That ending caught me so off guard!! XD that was amazing, this channel is amazing
I love that you're reacting
That final line was delivered just so perfectly XD
“Damn it, he’s a weeb.”
-Mike, 2023
I’m gonna get a plaque of this and frame it on my wall
2:13 "Your hairpiece is lovely. Who shot the dead bird you are currently wearing?"
"Oh yeah!"
i think your newer videos after your burnout stream are actually more creative and funny lol
your old vids are still classic but it's nice to see new classics hit the spotlight
the ending was so fucking well made lmao
Lol. The ending got me. 😂
The "dammit! He's a weeb!" Got me 😂
This is actually entertaining and educational :D
We had a Japanese exchange student when I was in high school. Her English wasn't that good, so hopefully being here helped her improve. I never really hung out with her though, but she did make a small group of friends, so hopefully it wasn't completely terrible for her. I know I'd have hated my school if I was an exchange student.
Sora please pin Val in the comments man they just want to display their love for eggs
THE ENDING! XD just when I was expecting a part two. AYE YO! XD and here I thought this was gonna be one of soras experiences with a student. You could say that I was trolled.
"Damn It he's a Weeb!
-Mike 2023
"damn it he's a WEEB" is my new go-to phrase LMAO
This is true with Japanese friends even as adults. I have a Japanese friend, Linda. We both live in the US and Linda is her American name. She has said, “Let’s go to art museums and do a half day at the local museum park,” and I say, “Sure! That sounds good.” Then she never calls me. Eventually when we talk again she makes the same invitation. In her defense, she is a nurse and works very hard.
An a shy introvert myself I also say yes to plans from my friends then never call back to discuss, I love the idea of spending time with my friends but the act of getting ready and going itself feels too much trouble/stressful. I think you'll have better luck if you made a more solid plan, like tell your friend directly I'm going to so and so place on this date (2 weeks later), will you be free to come along? I will pick you up/meet you at this time and place. You have to be direct and take the initiative, the friend will be annoyed but will eventually be happier during/after the trip.
@@Silverraine1 this is a good idea! Linda and I are both too polite and shy, but I know we would have a great time at the museums. She says I'm her only art friend and she's my only art friend. I will try to be more direct at planning. If it comes across as rude, I'll say, "Sorry. You know how Americans are." 😂
"Oh Yeah!" is the perfect answer for everything.
“damit he’s a weeb!” i lost it 🤣
That ending was perfect 😂
I would love to see you do a video about how Canadians are treated in Japan. It would be hysterically funny. 🤣
同じ
If you speak English everyone will treat you like you are from America. I’ve told the same people I’m not from America multiple times and they never remember it lol
Every time he says eh, the japanese will wonder what's got him spooked
@@warpspeedscp hahahahaha Best part of your comment is that very few Canadians say "Eh". It is said mostly in the Maritime provinces.
@@shyphirenflowerchild4631 thank you for pointing this out, steriotypes are the darnedest things
“do you understand what i’m saying??”
“oh yeah!”
“…are you 12..?”
“OH YEA-“
"I will tell your mother" is a potent spell in many cultures.
That thing about saying one foreign word because it sounds is so common lol. I've had my relatives saying English or Japanese words without having any clue of what it means, simply because they saw it from a movie or anime
the DAMMIT IT'S A WEEB is what I imagine Japanese people saying to most of foreigners
That last line, LOL!
That "why" with all the tone and facial expression 😆😆😆
🎉
lol
@@sorathetroll looks like a happy birthday to you Sora!
J THE FIRST TIME YOU SHOWED UP WAS WHEN I WAS AT A RESTAURANT
j thanks for reminding me that Sora's a weeb
🎉🎉 yaay celebration for something!
It appears even the American exchange students can’t escape their weeb friends
"She wants many friends to play with."
Hmm maybe I should be her friend. 💀
“DAMNIT HE’S A WEEB” 😂
Lol I used to tutor ESL students in the US. I loved it, but when they disagreed with me because they "saw it in a book," it was so difficult. Some teacher said "they" should never be singular and they took that as law.
Saying "what'd they say?" is a gender-neutral way of asking about details or avoiding gender pronouns when you encounter androgynous names like Chris, Terry, etc. They disagreed with me. Not only was I a native English speaker, but also held an English degree. Bless their linguistic dogma 😂
It's funny in American schools or at least from my experience public schools the teacher uses the same excuse "well the textbook says it's right" or "well google says it's right so your wrong".
"DAMN IT! HE'S A WEEB!"
LOL!
"Let's be friends"
"Great!"
"So let's do something later"
"NO"
lol
"Damnit he's a weeb" XDDDDDD
DAME IT HE’S A WEEB!!!
"That's not what the English in our textbook says..."
"English in the textbook? _I am_ the English!"
"That straight up sounds like..." LOL
Sora's life is just meme material
3:26 really? I speak English on Japanese Game Streamer and sometimes they understand what I say and sometimes they said"sorry no English"
That last line made me 😂
that "dammit hes a weeb!" at the end got me though
this is why i want to go to the student exchange program. because i will finally be cool for speaking english, not norm,al or average
If you were an English teacher before, then do you actually follow the textbook or do you correct it yourself?
He can't correct the textbook or the students won't believe him, as seen in this dialogue lol
@@phen-themoogle7651 Hmm that's what I thought, but I'm still curious lol
Also, if he corrected the textbook then students might lose a mark in exam.
@@Silverraine1 Ahh okay, makes sense
@@Silverraine1 Remembering some of my college professors. “This is wrong. We are learning it this way. I write the exam. You answer it like the textbook on the exam and I won’t mark you down, but you’ll waste tons of time.”
“Say Hello.”
Now I lowkey wanna see a manga/anime about an American exchange student in Japan.
I can't stop bursting out laughing the fact this might be true or every exchange student's life in Japan is a parody.
2:09 are you 12 caught me off guard 💀💀💀
0:58 lmaoo😭😭
"-i will tell your mother about this.
-im sorry"
I could say with strong certainty that "I'm going to tell your mother." is universal