Foreigners in Tokyo Couldn’t Believe I Spoke Their Language!



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Foreigners in Tokyo couldn’t believe a Japanese guy was speaking their language! I walked around Tokyo talking to tourists in 14 languages, Mooré, Kazakh, Croatian, Swiss German, Malayalam, Twi, Hindi, Russian, French, Italian, Cantonese, Mandarin and more, and the reactions were unforgettable.

One girl from Burkina Faso froze when I greeted her in Mooré (“How do you know Mooré?!”). A Croatian couple couldn’t believe a Japanese person was learning their language. And the man from Kazakhstan I spoke Kazakh with turned out to be the MAYOR of Kokshetau, he handed me his business card and invited me to Astana.

I also met an Irish-Indian couple on their honeymoon (Hindi & Malayalam), a man from Geneva who has visited Japan 20 times, a guy from Ghana who grew up in Italy, and then, a Russian couple living in Tokyo who talked to me about why Japan feels so peaceful to them. It was one of the most memorable interactions ever!

Most people expect English in Tokyo. Almost nobody expects their own native language.

Which reaction was your favorite? Let me know in the comments, and tell me which language I should learn next!

Currently, I speak 15 languages, which I studied properly. These are English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Arabic, Indonesian, Russian, German, Turkish, Chinese, Thai, Korean, Polish, Dutch and Italian. And now I’m learning Vietnamese, Greek, Tagalog, Hindi and Cantonese! Apart from that, I speak Japanese for sure, which is my native language.
Furthermore, I know a tiny bit of Swedish, Romanian, Farsi, Swahili, Burmese, Geogian, Finnish, Uzbek, Kazakh and Bengali!
Of course, my skills of these languages are still far from sufficient.
The thing I value the most, however, is the attitude to trying to know their culture.
Interacting with people from different background is an eye-opening experience and that makes me really happy.
I wanna inspire people to learn different languages.

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[ Timestamps ]

00:00 (English) A Heartwarming Chat with Aussie Tourists
01:58 (Hindi & Malayalam) I Shocked Them TWICE in Their Native Languages!
03:58 (French) He Has Visited Japan More Than 20 Times!
10:55 (Mooré) “How Do You Know MY Language?!”, From Burkina Faso
12:29 (Kazakh) He Turned Out to Be the Mayor of a City in Kazakhstan!
13:38 (Croatian) They Invited Me to Their Country on the Spot!
15:52 (Italian & Twi) From Ghana, Raised in Italy, We Spoke 6 Languages!
17:59 (Russian) A Deep Talk with a Russian Couple Living in Tokyo
29:19 Outro

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31 Comments

  1. はじめて、コメントします。今回の動画とは関係ありませんが、もともとすごい観光地ですが、カズさんの地元の名古屋もすごい気になりますし、深掘りカズさん目線の名古屋すごく気になります!それくらい言語のスキルがレベチです。これからもおうえんしてます。

  2. 5:46 Very interesting moment for learners of french: the guy is using a passé surcomposé : j'ai eu voyagé dans d'autres pays. It's very rare among young people to hear that but 40 y.o people and older generations are still using it. I didn't expect to hear that in such a video. Very cool.
    Ce suisse est super sympa 👍

  3. Cảm ơn bạn đã chia sẻ đăng ký rồi, chờ video tiếp theo — mong chủ kênh ghim comment này ^^ · Tuyệt vời, học được nhiều điều mới

  4. Hi Kazu! I have a friend in Nagoya, he's name is the same as you, Kazu. Have you been to the Philippines? I think I've not seen a video of you talking to a Filipino, or maybe I haven't seen it yet. Come visit us here in Manila! Mabuhay!

  5. "В Ижевске тоже есть Ксюша" – вот с этого я офигела. Я, конечно, не Ксюша, но… откуда вы знаете наш маленький город? 😱 К слову, вот вы в видео говорите про 12 июня. Для Ижевска это день города🙃
    Небольшое замечание по видео – не очень уместно звучат эти ударные звуки после некоторых фраз. Обычно подобные штуки делают в юмористических видео, где они звучат в конце шуток.
    Всегда по-хорошему завидовала людям, которые знают много языков. Лет 12 назад начинала учить японский, но забросила из-за работы, хотя тетрадь с записями до сих пор есть. Английский был в школе и колледже, но преподавали так себе, тем более что одноклассники шумно себя вели, отвлекали учителей и в такой атмосфере запомнить что-то было крайне трудно. Я интроверт и поэтому проще общаться текстом, чем разговаривать. Но, будучи анимешницей (хотя давно ничего не смотрела уже), петь мне проще все-таки на японском. На английском только если по слуху и подражанием, потому что сложности с произношением некоторых слов 😊 Еще в подростковом возрасте учила песни на испанском из любимого сериала Rebelde Way.

  6. この場であまり政治的なトピックを取り上げたくはないですが…それでも今、我が国が直面している「外国人との共生」という社会課題に対して、このチャンネルが一つの希望になってくれることを心から願ってます。応援しています!

  7. Hi Kazu, just wanted to let you know that one of the main guys who started the Protestant Reformation (John Calvin) mostly lived in Geneva. There's a wall of statues of him and three of the other reformers in Geneva. Most Christian churches except Catholic and Orthodox are Protestant.

  8. 海外の人からすると、日本人(外国人)が母国語を学んでくれているというだけでリスペクトを感じるんだろうね!
    動画見てるとそれを見ているこっちまでニッコニコになってしまってものすごく幸せな気持ちになる!カズさん尊敬します!このまま世界中の人たちが尊敬し合えるような地球にしてください!!
    これを視聴できること自体が誇らしい!僕も英語は大好きだけどまだまだだ。カズさんほどじゃないけど海外の方がいたら積極的に話しかけるようにしているよ!!

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