A friend of mine sent me this video in an email. Many English language speakers like me who are studying Japanese find it very difficult because of the difference between the languages, how it is spoken, read, pronunciation and much much more, but have you ever thought about it from the other side? Here is a hilarious video from a television program in Japan, the aim is not to laugh while a native Japanese speaker tries to speak English. I laughed within the first minute, and by the end of the video I was laughing uncontrollably.
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10, 10? ………….10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10, 10
That just killed me lol.
yea that part was hilarious!
Those were some hard licks they were getting with the stick! Blimey!
I saw this show in youtube before. Japan is pretty creative with their shows!
i remember seeing this clip some time ago. totally hilarious!
@ PJ…here a newbie….welcome!
@ David…"creative" is the wrong word to use ^_^
@ Lina….hilarious indeed
I didn’t laugh, but it wasn’t easy. Guess they are right. English really is the hardest language to learn. Great game show.
English isn’t something people can really pick up quickly due to all the stupid grammar and suffix’s we have. I even know fluent English speaker’s who have problems differentiating between their and there and one of the most common ones, then and than. I applaud those who are trying the language as it is one hell of a task.
ha ha… Proving your point partially (suffixes!)
But Japanese is seriously hard to learn! The main point is contrast. English and Japanese are very different languages, so being a native of one and learning the other is very difficult but achieveable.
(something is probably wrong in this, no-ones perfect) [japan]
@ Leon…there are many even crazier shows from Japan
@ AS…you explained the complexities of English very well.
Too bad the video is no longer available. But I know how different Japanese and English are and I can tell that as a native Japanese speaker!! I have no idea what it’d be like from English to Japanese, but there are so many of Japanese people struggling with listening and speaking English, which is so true.
In my case, as I studied English very hard and I have some experience of living and working in the U.S and Australia, I have almost no big problems in communication in English. (But I had many harsh experiences in the U.S when I spoke poor English. So I had to improve it by all means to live in there!) But it’s so sad that most of Japanese people still cannot use English properly after 10 years of study in school. [japan]