Thanks for this video! I agree with what you said about those polyglot videos in general showing very broken Japanese. After learning Chinese, I started Japanese in 2015 and just began working in a Japanese office this year. It should only get better from here on out!
This video is 2 years old so I'm not sure that she neven knew Tommy at that time much less was married to him. But at home they speak Japanese 100% of the time because his English isn't all that good.
Another great reaction as always! I hope to visit Japan soon. I’ve been learning some Japanese in my spare time and wonder how I would fare being in Japan for a little bit. I recommend you give How American Occupation changed Japanese culture by The Cold War. Very interesting topic I looked more into recently.
She's amazing, luv her, she's Def the real deal, she's no let me learn for 10 min online and wala .. she's actually takin time to attrnd school, and also taught children English there as well... she is now learning Korean last I knew, her husband Is Japanese she's lived in China for many yrs and now lives in Japan..absolutely luv her videos and she's such an inspiration and points out through reality of speaking people there that usually people don't really take notice that the videos online showing all these reactions only happens sporadically and sheds light on that ...
Great video - lovely to see a positive video like this! Your English accent is excellent- you sound like you’re from the UK (where I’m from) with 90% of the words you say.
I'm learning Japanese and live in Japan. What I love so much about this video is that people love talking to her. I think that's the best advice I can give. Keep a smile on your face and be genuine. Hardest thing at first (and I still have this problem just less so) is that you're going to make a lot of mistakes. I'm kind of a shy person. Don't worry about it. If you treat people with respect, they will return the favor. Leveling up will feel like molasses too once you get better at the language, but all of a sudden you're going to have this feeling of "omg, I can actually hold conversations with people". Never give up. It's a great feeling.
Honestly, your Spanish is probably better than mine, I get so nervous when trying to talk to people that I need to write it down. I'm only as fluent as a toddler after a couple years of study AND talking.
@@andresbautista933 oh ok I heard some people in India are like that they have excellent grammar than English people in England, but it’s the accent that keeps en kinda down.
I went to study abroad in Mexico City. While I was close to fluent, I was pretty uncomfortable when I first arrived because I had no one to practice with. But after just a few weeks, I was able to hold a normal conversation and I was thinking and even dreaming in Spanish since I was around it 24/7. Everyone I come in contact with and speak Spanish with now is always surprised at how well I speak because it sounds natural, not schoolbook stiff.
It's not just your Aussie/British accent it's the type of phrases and words you use in English that are really native, which is what separates the C2 from the C1 speakers (note C2 English speakers can still have a foreign accent as long as their pronounciation is flawless), nobody listening would think you spoke English as a second language though!
If you're not fluent in English then idk who is. You're certainly damn conversant. Your English sounds so natural to me I watched one of your videos for the first time just a little bit ago and was wondering the entire time if you grew up with a parent that was a native speaker and came to your channel trying to find out if I was right.
I agree with this comment. While I can’t speak to your size of you vocabulary, your grammar and pronunciation and the use of words is fluent sounding to me. I’m an American native English speaker here and I initially thought you (the poster) were British with maybe a Japanese parent. You would have no problem traveling to the US but beyond that your English seems good enough that you would have no problem living or working here.
For real! I live in New Zealand and speak Engligh as my first language, and Timothy's English sounds perfect to me. Not even native English speakers here speak that well haha :3 (we Kiwis tend to speak too fast and mumble a lot)
Thanks for the video! I learned more about Oriental Pearl today via your video and appreciate your respect for her. I notice your face lights up in praise and that is really nice. Just some constructive comments on your videos as I noticed you'll repeat yourself with the same sentences when you speak but I don't really understand unless you elaborate even more (which you do). See 4:40-4:55 and 5:45-6:00. I am new to your channel. Would appreciate more eye contact with the audience towards the end of you are talking to us too. But overall I appreciate your evaluation and explanation. Thank you for making this video.
Dude, one of the most annoying things is when people (like you) say "I'm not fluent in English" in perfectly fluent English. It really feels like you're just trying to get praise and high-fives. Tim, serious question here: what does it mean to "be fluent" if you're not fluent?
Only a single language native speaker can ever be truly fluent. It has been said, by who I can't remember, that children who are truly bilingual never have the same ability in either of those two languages as the single language speaker. So I completely understand where he is coming from. He is not trying to curry favour, it's just how he sees his ability in English. Even worse, if you spend too long living in another language you lose your English, no matter how native your English is. I worked with an English dude named John in Switzerland. His Schwyzertütsch was so good that when I told a local that John was an Engländer, he turned and listened to him for a minute and told me that "no, he comes from Bern, he speaks Bernertütsch". John turned to me one morning and asked me if I had seen his hand shoes, Handschuhe is of course the word in German for gloves, it does literally mean hand shoes. I knew exactly what he meant, so just answered in the negative.
I dont really like those kind of language videos. I sometimes am in these awful situations where people talk about me in another language and i do understand but they think i don't. I have been a pretty shy person. I find these videos cringey and uncomfortable, they bring up these bad memories, But i hope people stop assuming things. I speak japanese, English, and italian. Many people can speak many languages, assuming somrone in your country doesnt speak your language is pretty dumb and embarrassing actually.
Oriental Pearl makes interesting content but sometimes (and perhaps that's my perception) she sounds a bit arrogant, like boasting about how good her Japanese, Chinese, Klingon,etc is...
She's also really judgmental about how other people learn regardless how well it works for them personally. If it's not the way _she_ did it, it's the wrong way, even if the end result is the same. I'm not a big fan of the attitude/rudeness she conveys, even if it's unintentional.
Why are you pretending you think that you are not fluent in English? You know you are fluent. Saying otherwise is just show and makes people who are really not fluent yet feel more insecure about their own level of English. Your video is good though.
I understand she's very much in Japanese and mandarin, i have found she has a very toxic personality. Once she started making exposing fake polygot vids, i just unsubscribed lol
@@tzenzhongguothat video is how i found her lol i watched hoping shed call out the fakes but she didnt. so i dont see how its toxic. she was just making it known that its a problem to watch out for but i can only notice fakes when they speak korean :/ it does kinda bug me how she makes it sound like shes already fluent in korean but if you actually talk to her shell say shes not fluent in korean. its her descriptions that make it sound like she is (so i give her a pass cause shell clarify) i also shared her views in that video though. so many people pretend to be advanced in korean and it irks me cause theyre barely upper beginner. it can be damaging and discouraging to people interested in learning the language :/
no way man her pronunciation is crap. There are a lot of foreigners that have better pronunciation. Even your albanian pronuciation is way more great than her japanese , belive me :D
Polyglot as a term is annoying, multilingual not enough? Lol. They are cringey as hell. Speaking, like you, as if a Gatekeeper to other languages. The purpose of learning other languages is to communicate. If you are awkward as a person, it's not going to change with language. It also blows my mind that people think you CAN'T learn their language? Having said all that Pearl is very good at languages. Like many Foreigners learning a language and culture to a level that takes natives 20 years, she does it in 4/5. Is it Racism to be surprised that she can speak your language well. Slightly. If I judged someone's English, like, in an almost patronizing manner. How would you take that?
Thanks for this video! I agree with what you said about those polyglot videos in general showing very broken Japanese. After learning Chinese, I started Japanese in 2015 and just began working in a Japanese office this year. It should only get better from here on out!
Why did you shit on that girl, Hannah? She had legit criticisms of you that even some of your own fans agreed with.
@@jackspratt7264 No she didn’t.
@@jackspratt7264 what happened?
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@@jackspratt7264 I agree
She is married to a Japanese !! I follow her
This video is 2 years old so I'm not sure that she neven knew Tommy at that time much less was married to him. But at home they speak Japanese 100% of the time because his English isn't all that good.
I'm from England and you speak better English than me... but I am from Yorkshire so...
You should check out her Chinese, really impressive.
Another great reaction as always! I hope to visit Japan soon. I’ve been learning some Japanese in my spare time and wonder how I would fare being in Japan for a little bit. I recommend you give How American Occupation changed Japanese culture by The Cold War. Very interesting topic I looked more into recently.
bruh! what are you talking about? your english is perfect. your acccent sounds like a british/australian hybrid. haha, i like it.
I would never guess he is Japanese just by listening to his excellent English
@@AdrianBoyko Obviously has an English or Aussie parent.
Your Spanish was really good! I was able to understand you clearly better than me I get so nervous and stutter talking to my grandparents 😓
woow omg she is my friend anming
her Japanese is really good ne👍💕
you speak chinese too 🙄🙄that's cool
She's amazing, luv her, she's Def the real deal, she's no let me learn for 10 min online and wala .. she's actually takin time to attrnd school, and also taught children English there as well... she is now learning Korean last I knew, her husband Is Japanese she's lived in China for many yrs and now lives in Japan..absolutely luv her videos and she's such an inspiration and points out through reality of speaking people there that usually people don't really take notice that the videos online showing all these reactions only happens sporadically and sheds light on that ...
Love the setup. This video looks very professional.
Great video - lovely to see a positive video like this!
Your English accent is excellent- you sound like you’re from the UK (where I’m from) with 90% of the words you say.
Oriental Pearl has a million subscribers now.
i think anyone would absolutely consider you fluent in english!
I'm learning Japanese and live in Japan. What I love so much about this video is that people love talking to her. I think that's the best advice I can give. Keep a smile on your face and be genuine.
Hardest thing at first (and I still have this problem just less so) is that you're going to make a lot of mistakes. I'm kind of a shy person. Don't worry about it. If you treat people with respect, they will return the favor.
Leveling up will feel like molasses too once you get better at the language, but all of a sudden you're going to have this feeling of "omg, I can actually hold conversations with people". Never give up. It's a great feeling.
Honestly, your Spanish is probably better than mine, I get so nervous when trying to talk to people that I need to write it down. I'm only as fluent as a toddler after a couple years of study AND talking.
Dude, you speak better English than many full grown Americans
P.S. great Bulls sweatshirt
He’s has a British sounding accent. What’s wrong with the American and Canadian accents?
@@tzenzhongguo It’s not the accent he’s making fun of but rather that he speak better grammatically than most Americans
@@andresbautista933 oh ok I heard some people in India are like that they have excellent grammar than English people in England, but it’s the accent that keeps en kinda down.
@@tzenzhongguoprobably the result of where he learned English in the first place. I'm from the US but had no trouble at all understanding him.
this is a bit unrelated but I just wanted to let you know that your voice is quite calming to listen to 😊
I went to study abroad in Mexico City. While I was close to fluent, I was pretty uncomfortable when I first arrived because I had no one to practice with. But after just a few weeks, I was able to hold a normal conversation and I was thinking and even dreaming in Spanish since I was around it 24/7. Everyone I come in contact with and speak Spanish with now is always surprised at how well I speak because it sounds natural, not schoolbook stiff.
It's not just your Aussie/British accent it's the type of phrases and words you use in English that are really native, which is what separates the C2 from the C1 speakers (note C2 English speakers can still have a foreign accent as long as their pronounciation is flawless), nobody listening would think you spoke English as a second language though!
If you're not fluent in English then idk who is. You're certainly damn conversant. Your English sounds so natural to me I watched one of your videos for the first time just a little bit ago and was wondering the entire time if you grew up with a parent that was a native speaker and came to your channel trying to find out if I was right.
Thanks!!
I agree with this comment. While I can’t speak to your size of you vocabulary, your grammar and pronunciation and the use of words is fluent sounding to me. I’m an American native English speaker here and I initially thought you (the poster) were British with maybe a Japanese parent. You would have no problem traveling to the US but beyond that your English seems good enough that you would have no problem living or working here.
For real! I live in New Zealand and speak Engligh as my first language, and Timothy's English sounds perfect to me. Not even native English speakers here speak that well haha :3 (we Kiwis tend to speak too fast and mumble a lot)
Yay she met some colorful people in harajuku!
Your Spanish is actually pretty good, impressive!
You should react to Dimash singing "ikanaide." It's really cool! It's in Japanese.
You're English is very good. It's very fluid and natural sounding. I guess you lived in the UK for a while...
Very nice objective point of view. ...In a very polite and nice way 👍🏼👍🏼🙂
Xiaoma lived there and spent many years learning, so to me he is unquestionably good at it, not just "'fun' to watch"..
Thanks for the video! I learned more about Oriental Pearl today via your video and appreciate your respect for her. I notice your face lights up in praise and that is really nice.
Just some constructive comments on your videos as I noticed you'll repeat yourself with the same sentences when you speak but I don't really understand unless you elaborate even more (which you do). See 4:40-4:55 and 5:45-6:00. I am new to your channel. Would appreciate more eye contact with the audience towards the end of you are talking to us too. But overall I appreciate your evaluation and explanation. Thank you for making this video.
Are you kidding ? Your English is wonderful
Dude, one of the most annoying things is when people (like you) say "I'm not fluent in English" in perfectly fluent English. It really feels like you're just trying to get praise and high-fives. Tim, serious question here: what does it mean to "be fluent" if you're not fluent?
Guy's name is 'Timothy James', it's a massive clue.
Only a single language native speaker can ever be truly fluent. It has been said, by who I can't remember, that children who are truly bilingual never have the same ability in either of those two languages as the single language speaker. So I completely understand where he is coming from. He is not trying to curry favour, it's just how he sees his ability in English. Even worse, if you spend too long living in another language you lose your English, no matter how native your English is. I worked with an English dude named John in Switzerland. His Schwyzertütsch was so good that when I told a local that John was an Engländer, he turned and listened to him for a minute and told me that "no, he comes from Bern, he speaks Bernertütsch". John turned to me one morning and asked me if I had seen his hand shoes, Handschuhe is of course the word in German for gloves, it does literally mean hand shoes. I knew exactly what he meant, so just answered in the negative.
Yea, I’d say your English is fluent
Your english sounds native level. You said you aren't even fluent... You are obviously fluent.
You crazy, you’re suuuuper fluent in English.
Compare her Japanese to Matt vs Japan's. 😊
Hope you'll decide to review that patriotism video I sent you awhile back. That will be a great reaction sometime 😁
Tim I want to help for now I have bills to pay. When you come to America I'd be happy to meet you. Take care
I kept getting suprised by how British you sounded
I wish I was smart.
"I'm not fluent in Japanese"
What???? What is fluent to you??
I dont really like those kind of language videos. I sometimes am in these awful situations where people talk about me in another language and i do understand but they think i don't. I have been a pretty shy person. I find these videos cringey and uncomfortable, they bring up these bad memories,
But i hope people stop assuming things. I speak japanese, English, and italian. Many people can speak many languages, assuming somrone in your country doesnt speak your language is pretty dumb and embarrassing actually.
Oriental Pearl makes interesting content but sometimes (and perhaps that's my perception) she sounds a bit arrogant, like boasting about how good her Japanese, Chinese, Klingon,etc is...
She's also really judgmental about how other people learn regardless how well it works for them personally. If it's not the way _she_ did it, it's the wrong way, even if the end result is the same. I'm not a big fan of the attitude/rudeness she conveys, even if it's unintentional.
Why are you pretending you think that you are not fluent in English? You know you are fluent. Saying otherwise is just show and makes people who are really not fluent yet feel more insecure about their own level of English. Your video is good though.
I understand she's very much in Japanese and mandarin, i have found she has a very toxic personality. Once she started making exposing fake polygot vids, i just unsubscribed lol
How is she toxic ? At least she’s a legit polyglot unlike Ikkena and others.
@@tzenzhongguothat video is how i found her lol i watched hoping shed call out the fakes but she didnt. so i dont see how its toxic. she was just making it known that its a problem to watch out for but i can only notice fakes when they speak korean :/ it does kinda bug me how she makes it sound like shes already fluent in korean but if you actually talk to her shell say shes not fluent in korean. its her descriptions that make it sound like she is (so i give her a pass cause shell clarify) i also shared her views in that video though. so many people pretend to be advanced in korean and it irks me cause theyre barely upper beginner. it can be damaging and discouraging to people interested in learning the language :/
no way man her pronunciation is crap. There are a lot of foreigners that have better pronunciation. Even your albanian pronuciation is way more great than her japanese , belive me :D
Don’t chat shit lol
Polyglot as a term is annoying, multilingual not enough? Lol. They are cringey as hell. Speaking, like you, as if a Gatekeeper to other languages. The purpose of learning other languages is to communicate. If you are awkward as a person, it's not going to change with language. It also blows my mind that people think you CAN'T learn their language?
Having said all that Pearl is very good at languages. Like many Foreigners learning a language and culture to a level that takes natives 20 years, she does it in 4/5.
Is it Racism to be surprised that she can speak your language well. Slightly. If I judged someone's English, like, in an almost patronizing manner. How would you take that?
Her Japanese is no good