Learn Japanese pitch-accent and pronunciation from my Patreon Series "Japanese Phonetics" / dogen bad kanji tattoos vs. bad engrish 漢字の刺青 タトゥー Dogen Dōgen Japanese 日本語 ダサい刺青 変なタトゥー
I still remember my Japanese teacher telling me about a foreign woman she saw at the beach who had the kanji for "free" tattooed on her body but instead of 自由 (freedom) it was 無料 (free of charge) 😅
@vladys5238
7 ай бұрын
that's awful
@chanokhkaibe5743
7 ай бұрын
God....
@towelie1313
6 ай бұрын
I once saw a woman (imagine a tall, blonde, model-esque kind of girl) with a giant "豚" tattooed on her arm...
@emma981
6 ай бұрын
😱Oh no
@ahmedalrdady3655
6 ай бұрын
@@towelie1313豚 puta = it means Pig by the way , but damn
@mellowfellow2434
7 ай бұрын
Then there's the a third party who understands both Japanese and English, snickering among themselves
@thuweirdsailorgaming
7 ай бұрын
Laughs in subtitles (we are the 3rd party)
@theramendutchman
7 ай бұрын
Yeah, there's like a 106 of us!
@brinkiTOgo
7 ай бұрын
Now it's 171 ^^
@Vulture402
7 ай бұрын
Should we tell him? ;P
@yorurumi
7 ай бұрын
Or, you know, *choking on second hand embarrassment*
@TheLaughingPanda
7 ай бұрын
The best Engrish I've ever seen was on a shop window that said "Life Is Parallel To Hell But We Must Maintain"
@Sternburg
7 ай бұрын
That sounds pretty cool actually
@JoumyakuSalad
7 ай бұрын
wtf I literally took a pic next to that shop window, it even had the 👌emoji on it, it was iconic
@makeda6530
7 ай бұрын
Endure~
@LemonPoppyMuffin
7 ай бұрын
"Life is parallel to Hell" kinda goes fucking hard.
@DisasterxUs
7 ай бұрын
that is English?
@a3vus
7 ай бұрын
My favorite shirt I saw in Japan had only one thing printed on it: "SKULL SHIT"
@Johnnyvtg
7 ай бұрын
To be fair, as someone who has gotten acquainted with American culture over the internet for the past ten years, a metal band named "SKULL SHIT" sounds just about the most American thing I've ever heard.
@bmac4
7 ай бұрын
I'd wear that in a heartbeat
@totally_not_a_bot
7 ай бұрын
@@JohnnyvtgYou need to print it as 🤘SKULL SHIT🤘 Then the metal heads will tell you they've never heard of that band and ask if they're any good.
@KarolaTea
7 ай бұрын
It's like brain fart. But more solid.
@jama211
7 ай бұрын
HAHAHAHAHA I want it
@wendymarvell1653
7 ай бұрын
In all seriousness, a t-shirt with bad English is way better than a tattoo with wrong kanji 😂
@JustinKoenigSilica
7 ай бұрын
Based on... what exactly?
@wendymarvell1653
7 ай бұрын
@@JustinKoenigSilica based on a lot of things. Tattoos are on your skin, you can't change it every day. It hurts to get a tattoo and yet you've got the wrong thing on you. It hurts to get it covered up too and you gotta wait for a set period of time before you can even cover it up. Tattoos are also more expensive than shirts. If you've got a wrong t-shirt you can use a diff shirt, throw it away, buy another one, or whatever. Go figure.
@theluminousone5883
7 ай бұрын
"Hey bro, look at my Tattoo." "Nice tattoo, what does it say" "It's says four, after all it's my favorite number, and the artist even gave it a little frame around it! How cool is that!" "屍"
@bettyboosh8384
6 ай бұрын
It depends on what they say, there was one brand a few years back selling Tshirts that said Diarrhoea in huge letters.. that must have been pretty embarrassing for anyone who found out what it meant 😂
@k0ch1a
6 ай бұрын
@@theluminousone5883i dont understand how an "四" becomes an "屍" tho
@TheNikkePikker
7 ай бұрын
My favorite English one that I saw in Japan was a wine bar called 'Very wine, very cellar'.
@cheddarcheezit2647
7 ай бұрын
Much drunk, very doge
@joocleary4576
7 ай бұрын
There was a pub in Kyoto called Drink Drank. Would've gone in but I didn't have the time
@ayszhang
6 ай бұрын
@@joocleary4576they missed drunk! 😂
@RadenWA
6 ай бұрын
They better have a doge there
@Draconicrose
6 ай бұрын
I read that like the "very beautiful, very powerful" lumpfish guy :P
@salade99
7 ай бұрын
I am Japanese, and one day I was walking around Tokyo and an American-looking tourist looked at me with a grin, and I wondered why. Later I realized it might have been because I was wearing a cap that said "smooth" on it lol
@wareforcoin5780
7 ай бұрын
It's not that weird, we have people falling over themselves for stuff that says "supreme" on it. You called the trend, just used the wrong word.
@Sangtrone
7 ай бұрын
Well if you hear them start humming a Michael Jackson or Santana song afterwards, sorry, that's probably me.
@rociosilverroot2261
7 ай бұрын
"Give me your heart! Make it real! Or just forget about it!"
@scintillam_dei
7 ай бұрын
I laugh when I see Cambodian trucks with the Imperial Jap flag. I abbreviated Japanese because I'm lazy. Oh wait. Oops.
@Giraffinator
7 ай бұрын
I'd rock that hat
@blainechristian7556
7 ай бұрын
I bought a "Redneckjokes Madplay Kickass" hat in Kyoto and I regret zero part of that purchase.
@justarandompally
7 ай бұрын
Man this sketch reminds me of how much I love wearing the ヒラガナ hoodie when I meet Japanese people for the first time so much! It's just so perfect and always gets a good laugh out of people. Thanks for that, Dogen
@Ghostmaxi1337
7 ай бұрын
Why a good laught? I mean its kinda useless writing, but i dont get it.
@UnethicalExperimental
7 ай бұрын
@@Ghostmaxi1337It's because it's "hiragana"... not written in hiragana.
@Iemonzinger
7 ай бұрын
It's "Hiragana" written in katakana. @@Ghostmaxi1337
@Ghostmaxi1337
7 ай бұрын
@@UnethicalExperimental Ooooh yeah, now i noticed. xD
@Cerebrum123
7 ай бұрын
That's perfectly hilarious.
@benparker1822
7 ай бұрын
Yup. it goes both ways. That's why I want to get a shirt that says "Sorry, I don't speak Japanese." in Hiragana followed by "Where are the Subtitles?" in English.
@yagomizuma2275
7 ай бұрын
すみません。日本語が分からない。
@AndyGneiss
7 ай бұрын
Where are the subtitles?
@Mercadian
7 ай бұрын
I'm only learning Japanese, but I did grow up speaking Chinese (Mandarin), and one day a colleague of mine got a tattoo that he was proudly showing off, saying it meant "honour" in Chinese. It was upside down, mirror-imaged, and still had the straight line they use at the bottom to show where the bottom is (but on top...), and it said "收據" which means "receipt", except they used the first character as if it were a radical for the second character. He asked for my honest opinion, and was NOT very happy when I told him what was wrong.
@ValkyrieTiara
7 ай бұрын
Probably should have asked someone BEFORE getting it permanently etched into his body.
@spoonikle
7 ай бұрын
@@ValkyrieTiara - classic advise I give to all prospective tattoo owners, get the picture and show it off to friends as “I was thinking about getting this tattoo” and hold on to the picture, look at it daily, research it. Its going to be part of your body, think it over before you have your whole life to think it over. You deserve the coolest tattoos, not regret turned into self deprecating jokes just to cope.
@fireaza
7 ай бұрын
@@ValkyrieTiara People who get tattoos are generally not the type to think ahead.
@jiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii
7 ай бұрын
At least he had the receipt to get it exchanged.
@ValkyrieTiara
7 ай бұрын
@@fireaza Uhhhhh that is disgustingly prejudiced and closed minded. Like what are you even talking about? I have a tattoo and I thought for YEARS about what I wanted before I got it. Most people put a lot of time and thought into their tattoos before getting one. These people with the messed up kanji are the exception, not the rule.
@ButchLeColosse
7 ай бұрын
I made myself a t-shirt with うんこ written on it for that exact purpose. It gets a laugh out of people and it brings me joy.
@scintillam_dei
7 ай бұрын
I once had a "North Korea Best Korea" shirt back in América but thought that since I had to stop in China in my flights to the Far East, the commies might take offense, so I didn't bring it. Sad noises.
@Johnnyvtg
7 ай бұрын
@@scintillam_dei giving a whole other level of meaning to "dodged a bullet"
@CyrilJap
7 ай бұрын
Make it a tattoo
@kytoda
7 ай бұрын
I have a hat that reads 帽子 which I wear to work and my coworkers love it. I also jokingly call it my tourist hat because I'm very clearly white, and I suspect when I'm wandering around tourist heavy areas it makes me seem like your standard tourist who speaks no Japanese but wanted a thing with kanji on it.
@geneMag
7 ай бұрын
@@kytoda They might also assume you're a My Hero Academia fan since Deku wears shirts with the shirt type printed on it.
@naab_asd6534
7 ай бұрын
Honestly, I never comment on videos but this is probably one of my favorite (if not my favorite) sketches you've made. I just laughed out loud on this.
@JFBence
7 ай бұрын
Praise! Another "never commenting" god descended among us...
@marywenzel3199
6 ай бұрын
Seen on a very handsome otaku on a Tokyo train circa 1990-this young man looked like a J-Pop star and was obviously proud of his cool American varsity style jacket. Emblazoned on the back, it proclaimed I AM THE BEST-LOOKING GAY AMONG ALL MY FRIENDS. Legend.
@callysta1414
7 ай бұрын
I LOVE purchasing merch with crappy English in predominantly non-English speaking countries. It sparks such joy
@LordJazzly
7 ай бұрын
This is hilarious, and very weird to watch, because I'm Australian, and those 'garbled English' items are almost a must-buy souvenir to bring back from _any_ country that has them because - we have no shame, and wandering around your local town wearing a t-shirt that says 'BEES HUGS MY: Je cherche la vie' on the front and 'CALENDAR $9.95' on the back is exactly the sort of thing people find amusing here Point of fact I think we even had a few domestic companies that sold clothes like that for the local market a few years back, when it really took off as a bit of a fad. People are weird.
@nosuketaki
7 ай бұрын
服は脱げるけど、タトゥーは剥がせないんだよね……
@tman229
7 ай бұрын
最新の技術でタトゥーも除去できますよ。
@rafanada3746
7 ай бұрын
服みたいには脱げない
@Nonameron
7 ай бұрын
服は毎日新しい英文に変えれる。 英文のレイヤリングも出来る。
@tman229
7 ай бұрын
@@rafanada3746隠せる。
@rafanada3746
7 ай бұрын
@@tman229 服みたいに脱げないし、隠すために服も脱げなくなって二重の意味で脱げないっすね
@JustPlainRob
7 ай бұрын
This was pretty great. The subtle "blavely" at the end cracked me up.
@toyama307
7 ай бұрын
There is a mother whose son went to the same daycare centre and now the same after school care place that my son goes to and she seems like a serious kind of person. The English on the back of her jacket reads 'I was a teenage fuckup'
@vdinh143
7 ай бұрын
Maybe that's why she seems like a serious kind of person now 😂😂😂
@sakkikoyumikishi
5 ай бұрын
I met this one guy once who had a tattoo in kanji that was just "bus stop". I almost wanna believe that was on purpose, because I have *no clue* what he could even have gotten wrong to end up with *that* and I thought that was the end of the saga. But now, just recently, I came across an Asian guy (I couldn’t tell with certainty whether he was Japanese; he wasn't speaking, but he was sharing a group of seats with two other people and *those two* were speaking Japanese, so it's somewhat likely he was, too) and he was *WEARING A T SHIRT THAT READ "BUS STOP".* I swear I almost got up to ask him where he got it and whether it was on purpose 😂 Anyway, apparently there are a t shirt shop and a tattoo parlor who are working together to troll both white and Asian dudes into proclaiming their love for bus stops and *I am here for it* 😂
@noparticularreason9791
7 ай бұрын
Honestly tho, I saw an American guy who wore "nihongo jozu" which was written on his long sleeve in Oita,Japan
@signbear999
7 ай бұрын
Dogen merch
@vnXun
6 ай бұрын
I would wear that actually
@liqqit
7 ай бұрын
I saw a lady in Kanazawa wear a bag on her shoulder and it had MAGYARORSZAG written on it. Literally the name of Hungary in hungarian. I laughed myself silly
@kattkatt744
4 ай бұрын
Sounds like a souvenir. Sold bags like that in my part time job as a student, and have seen them in turist spots all over Europe with country or city names. Seems to be the same company providing them all also...
@henryxyz1
7 ай бұрын
The best T-shirt I've seen in Japan, plain and simple "MEDIOCRE"
@DouglasWatt
7 ай бұрын
I once went to a concert in Tokyo, and one of the acts was the Nose Waters. I couldn't believe the name was correct, but then they were selling t-shirts labeled 鼻水人. I bought one immediately. Still wear it all the time.
@jlguidry2
7 ай бұрын
There is so much truth packed in this one!
@RaspK
7 ай бұрын
Greek-language tattoos also have such mistakes, most-notable one in my mind being the case of an unlucky Chinese fellow who got the word for "gratis" (δωρεάν) tattooed, because they wanted to have the word "free" as in being in a state of freedom (ελεύθερος in Greek), and apparently went ahead and looked up the English word "free" to translate from, but "free" can also mean "gratis" and they got the wrong word in Greek!
@DanielAvocardo
7 ай бұрын
and the tattoo artist even went ahead and charged him for it. So much for free
@confusioneternelle
7 ай бұрын
I've seen the same mistake in Japanese where somebody got 無料 tattooed lol
@capuchinosofia4771
6 ай бұрын
Gratis is the same in greek and spanish? :o
@annekekramer3835
5 ай бұрын
I didn't know gratis was used in those languages too. I guess the Dutch stole it from Greek too, it looks Greek at least.
@slkjvlkfsvnlsdfhgdght5447
4 ай бұрын
how is this "gratis"? shouldn't it be "dorean"?
@jannepeltonen2036
7 ай бұрын
There was a design shop in Tokyo called "Ehkä söpö". Which is Finnish for "Maybe cute". So it's not just English. Although in modern colloquial Finnish, you can use "ehkä" as an intensifier. Or I don't know if you can anymore. That was a thing among teens two decades ago. On the other hand, that was when I spotted that shop in Tokyo.
@Rgyth
7 ай бұрын
I dunno, as far as shop names go, that works for me. Am a 40-something Finn btw
@Narnendil
7 ай бұрын
I watched a jdrama like 15 years ago and there was a guy in the show with a t-shirt that said "DALA HÄSTEN". A misspelt dalahästen, which in Swedish means "the Dala horse" and is a type of traditional Swedish souvenir. And it's really weird that it said "THE Dala horse". Just "Dala horse" (dalahäst) would have seemed less weird on the t-shirt. A few episodes later in the show the same guy wore a dark blue t-shirt that said "MÖRK BLÅ", again a misspelt Swedish word, mörkblå, meaning "dark blue", that is, the colour of the t-shirt he was wearing... I had troubles following the dialogue from laughing so much. So yes, it's definitely not just in English this happens. Would be fun to hear if anyone else has spotted more examples in different languages :D
@AAAAAA-qs1bv
7 ай бұрын
I was not expecting to see Finnish when I scrolled down to the comments.
@MoonshineMist
7 ай бұрын
@@Narnendil Do you remember which jdrama that was? Because when I read your comment, I remember that too & pressing pause to check if I saw that right! lol
@Narnendil
7 ай бұрын
@@MoonshineMist I'm glad to know I wasn't the only one who noticed 😆 But I'm not a 100% sure. The one wearing the t-shirt was definitely Nakai Masahiro and when I just now looked through his list of jdramas, Konkatsu seems to ring a bell, so maybe that one? It's around the correct time too, so probably that one.
@regisphilbin529
7 ай бұрын
Seeing someone with a nonsensical english shirt was always so exciting.
@joblohnny
7 ай бұрын
this might be one of your best sketches
@ChiruYES
7 ай бұрын
In college I had learned a couple of kanji but I burst out laughing when I saw a guy in line during lunch with 子 tattooed on his calf.
@foogod4237
7 ай бұрын
Ah.. He clearly _intended_ the tattoo to say 子牛... :)
@MrFirecasters
7 ай бұрын
Wow, that's a deep-cut, love that 😅@@foogod4237
@tree_anna
7 ай бұрын
@@foogod4237😂
@vdinh143
7 ай бұрын
@@foogod4237that would be hilarious 😂
@hikageniko
7 ай бұрын
@@foogod4237nice
@SigiL2
7 ай бұрын
This reminds me that I had an old shirt with stereotypical japanese koi art and テキトーな日本語です written on it. My japanese teacher got a kick out of it when i wore it to finals
@brinkiTOgo
7 ай бұрын
My brother once send me a picture of a tattoo a friend of his got himself to ask me what it meant. It was written in katakana and his friend apparently didn't know what was written there. It was just a bunch of kana put together, meaning nothing. I wondered how anyone could just tattoo something on their arm, not knowing what it means 😂 My brother and me had a good laugh afterwards
@jackthompson6296
7 ай бұрын
Every word is just a bunch of kana put together.
@brinkiTOgo
7 ай бұрын
@@jackthompson6296 But this one was, as I said, without meaning
@Kakurady
6 ай бұрын
It's possibly a "Japanese font", where each English letter is assigned a katakana glyph. It is meaningless in Japanese, but you might be able to decode it as English if you treat it as a substitution cipher. (A hint: E is the most common letter in the English alphabet, followed by T, A , O)
@GRBtutorials
4 ай бұрын
Especially now that the Internet exists and there are millions of people who will happily correct your mistakes if you post it before you get it tatooed.
@FruitsChinpoSamuraiG
7 ай бұрын
Both are dumb, but only one is permanent... Lol
@teawithmilknhoney
7 ай бұрын
Tattoos can be removed though
@FruitsChinpoSamuraiG
7 ай бұрын
@@teawithmilknhoney yea but it's never going to look like nothing was on your skin, unless they improve the technology. there even was issues with temporary tattoos that would be still looking fresh even after 2-3 years, so not even that will work as seemlessly
@imveryangryitsnotbutter
7 ай бұрын
@@apathydron I dunno, if the recent political climate in the U.S. has taught me anything, it's that some hats stick with you long after you take them off.
@BenjiSun
7 ай бұрын
photos on the internet can be both and are forever.
@tman229
7 ай бұрын
@apathydron You do understand that you can just cover up a tattoo, right? And since we are talking about Japan, place where it's appropriate to have no clothes like an onsen or pool, you probably wouldn't be allowed in anyways because of that tattoo.
@mohammadalinejad728
7 ай бұрын
Hit the gym bravely.
@MooglesandNoponForever
7 ай бұрын
I saw an example recently that literally translated to "foreign pervert."
@angelbear_og
7 ай бұрын
That MIGHT have been intentional. 😉
@_P2M_
6 ай бұрын
変態外人, right?
@Spiriax
5 ай бұрын
Similar to me, I saw a Japanese girl wearing a t-shirt that said "Pervert the norm" on the back.
@670839245
7 ай бұрын
I learned a new word from this second-hand embarrassment always had that feeling when watching movies but never knew how to express it
@Lordgeorge16
7 ай бұрын
Pretty much The Office in a nutshell. It's a funny show, but it is THE textbook definition of secondhand embarrassment. Same goes for that one scene in Breaking Bad when Skylar sings to Ted and most of The Good Doctor.
@ThomasWinget
7 ай бұрын
These days I'd say that phrase has been supplanted by "cringe", but maybe there's a nuanced difference I'm missing.
@IronLotus15
7 ай бұрын
cringe perhaps feels less supportive, more derisive. But really depends on the tone
@ThomasWinget
7 ай бұрын
@@IronLotus15 that's...interesting, actually. I'm not sure I've ever seen "second-hand embarrassment" used in a way that couldn't be considered derisive, but I am curious to see such a scenario. I think it's fair to say that the usage in this video would qualify as such and that "cringe" -- while I may dislike the term -- can fulfill that specific need nicely.
@IronLotus15
7 ай бұрын
@@ThomasWinget Well, I feel like part of "second-hand embarrassment" is sympathizing with the person doing the thing / you would feel embarrassed in that situation. Which is what I mean about it feeling less derisive or mocking. But "cringe" can also be used similarly
@five-toedslothbear4051
7 ай бұрын
Just remember, you can get rid of the stupid shirt or hat, but the tattoo is essentially forever. And, you can take off the shirt or hat at the onsen, but the tattoo could be a problem.
@naxxtor
7 ай бұрын
This is why I'm terrified to wear clothes with a language I don't speak fluently on them. Also, seen in Korea: "THE CLAP - 5AM WHEN LEGENDS DETERMINE TO WAKE UP OR BE ASLEEP". 🧑🏻🍳💋would have been mediochre if it weren't for the accidental STD reference.
@bmac4
7 ай бұрын
Honestly I find Engrish amusing in an almost endearing way. There's an account I follow that posts memes in Chinese and English and the English translation is terse in such a way that it honestly makes it funnier.
@stargazer0016
7 ай бұрын
Lol I can believe that. There's a Chinese online shop I know that has very long and funny product descriptions like 'halloween-christmas, creative anime action-figure, ideal for anime fans, boys, japanese anime-decoration, exquisit car accessories'
@kaltaron1284
7 ай бұрын
I remember an add campaign by PONS dictionaries where they got the kanji for love wrong. That was hilariously embarrassing.
@Feroce
7 ай бұрын
Yup, that's pon alright.
@yourswordsir2537
4 ай бұрын
ad*
@satanyanko
7 ай бұрын
Why is Dogen playing catty characters who display a good amount of Schadenfreude so incredibly entertaining 😂
@hazelwitherspoon2721
7 ай бұрын
Dogen, truly...you have jokes. The First time I was in Japan, I was amazed at the English on some of the goods. As for the kanji tattoos, I can only laugh at folks who have no idea of what they paid money to ink themselves with and have no idea if they are right.
@silentbutterbruh1641
7 ай бұрын
the irony is too real LOL
@ebonykitsune5031
6 ай бұрын
I got myself the worlds best English shirt in Sapporo. It says “A Lady is one who never shows her underwear” 😂 I wear it everywhere in Canada haha
@bobfranklin2572
7 ай бұрын
Bad engrish is tempory, but glory is forever. Wait. Wrong saying
@tohaason
7 ай бұрын
The big one is of course "All your base are belong to us" (from the European release of a Japanese game back in 1991), which became a meme long before "meme" itself was a meme.
@jordydelage4304
7 ай бұрын
I had to embroider a guy's tatoo on some shirts once. 外国人毛 😮
@GreenPizza577
7 ай бұрын
外国人毛 outside land person hair. Or foreigner hair. Weird.
@equilibrum999
7 ай бұрын
waiguo ren mao, outside country person hair??
@jordydelage4304
7 ай бұрын
@@equilibrum999 Foreigner hair. But what you need to know is that the guy's order was delivered in a zoo in France. Yeah I know, it only adds to the the mystery:D
@gabem.5242
7 ай бұрын
@Dogen Setting: "H Automotive Company" European HQ in Italy Do a job interview with the internal panel: Marketing Director, Logistics Director, HR Director, Automotive Market Director. Head of the panel: Mr. "A.O", Head of Automotive Department directly from the Japanese HQ, along with his assistant, Mr. "S.N.". All of them are Italians but A.O and S.N., both Japanese but with a good understanding of Italian. The interview goes rather well, the A.O. and S.N. compliment me for the manners and having studied the H Company philosophy, got the job as an Engineer, with a temp contract for starters. A few days pass, and A.O. comes in again. "Can you read anything in Japanese?" Me: "Sadly not... I'm willing to learn though." A.O.: "Just a reminder: if you do, don't try to read tattoos or shirts. You'll have to work in tears of laughter and it's definitely distracting."
@AubreyKerria
7 ай бұрын
My favourite Engrish was a set of screws sold in China. They listed the country of origin: "SCREW TAIWAN"
@Jen_erallyNails
7 ай бұрын
My god, the simlish at the end sent me 😂When I lived in Japan, I saw both sides of this coin so frequently, never ceased to make me amused!
@KipperStudios
7 ай бұрын
And this is why you never get a tattoo in a language you either don't understand, or don't have someone who does understand it to confirm for you 😂 Hell, when I got my two foreign language tattoos (Japanese and Latin) I made sure to double check what the artist was about to ink on me, and I'm glad I did because while he hadn't altered the Japanese any, his auto-correct had changed my latin phrase. For anyone curious; 君の知らない物語 || Perfer et obdura; dolor hic tibi proderit olim
@brinkiTOgo
7 ай бұрын
I must admit I don't understand the latin one 😅🙈 Latin lessons were too long ago apparently
@DanielAvocardo
7 ай бұрын
I love the song so i applaud you
@CyrilJap
7 ай бұрын
Those are good ones actually, well done.
@Lumorisaa
7 ай бұрын
Supercell ❤❤
@themetamancer7402
7 ай бұрын
My favorite is the national anthem in Legend of the Galactic Heros, it's soooooo good
@Kurobeau
7 ай бұрын
U know the bilingual in me noticed both, but never noticed the irony of both commenting. i guess i dont often hear japanese people comment about tattoos, but do often hear english speakers comment about bad english. like here in my town we have Sunshine Praza, as a huge entrance sign....
@swame
7 ай бұрын
That depicts well what exactly each side feels. Man, your sketches are so cool, i wish i could learn some of the fundamental Japanese this way
@KatarzynaMichta
4 ай бұрын
The library of Tsukuba University has a section of NIPPONESE literature, I shit you not. I now know that term was in use but is outdated now, but it still warmed my heart when I first saw that word on library shelves. I also lived in an "International StudenCE Residence" there, so Engrish still cheks out :)
@tcg2717
7 ай бұрын
One of your best sketches in awhile!
@MrJurgenman
5 ай бұрын
My favorite souvenir from a trip to the Philippines was a hat that read "Mr. Real Good Man"
@scrimblefish
7 ай бұрын
I needed this, thank you for making my day :)
@Zm4rf
6 ай бұрын
ngl "yuusha" is a sick tattoo. maybe not "boku wa yuusha desu" though xd
@urufu-erikuson
7 ай бұрын
Ariana Grandeの「七輪」事件思い出した…
@M.T.Fucccc
4 ай бұрын
I was once playing a game online with some foreign players and one of the Japanese players chatted "life is such an enjoyment" and now this is my manta for life lol
@hackptui
17 күн бұрын
This makes me want to wear Dogen's 土手 t-shirts to Japan when I go.
@mullen320
7 ай бұрын
これ傑作だろ
@metalninja2474
7 ай бұрын
yep, seen a car out in the wild with a sticker that was kanji for black (黒) but it was upside down, and the best part was that it was on a white car
@belldrop7365
4 ай бұрын
"Boku wa yuusha desu"? Ok that is so bad it's good. Imagine that on a really buff dude's back.
@brumm3653
4 ай бұрын
Well, I've seen once a car that had big 新年快乐 ("happy new year" in Chinese) sign on its trunk, upside down.
@KaotikBOOO
5 ай бұрын
While working at a convenience store, I saw some quiet interesting ones Like a Japanese girl that tattooed her birthdate but in Roman numbers and that was as one could imagine quiet wrong I didn't really see foreigners with kanjis tattoos but I guess that's because they're not usually the ones living in Japan, that's more an abroad thing. In Tokyo you see more often Japaneses with English, sometimes French or rarely German
@totodos
7 ай бұрын
i died at "catch ya at gym blabley!" 😂😂
@andrewgibler
7 ай бұрын
Me too ha 😂
@youravantgarde
4 ай бұрын
I'm glad I looked up my tattoo in a dictionary before getting it
@YuBeace
4 ай бұрын
I quote a shirt I saw on the daily, it’s says “Hamburger friend I feel happiness when I eat a him”. I dunno, it’s the perfect combination of silly and wholesome.
@Goober_gobbler
7 ай бұрын
Reminds me of that photo of the kid who’s wearing a “Too Drunk To Fuck” shirt 😭😭
@garyc6183
13 күн бұрын
That is actually a song by the Dead Kennedy's
@littlemissevel3607
6 ай бұрын
There's a video somewhere on youtube where someone who speaks english asks Japanese people if they know what the english on their clothing means. Some of them were a bit weird but not bad. Like there was a whole clothing shop devoted to designs based on signage like ... Caution Floor Wet. However! By FAR the worst one... In the biggest font you've ever seen! Written down their front someone had the word DIARRHEA. 😬
@Marcel._B
7 ай бұрын
英語と日本語どっちもめっちゃ笑ったww
@Simkets
3 ай бұрын
The best English one are the ones that are trying to tell you something but don't finish. I was once in a museum in a foreign country and the sign said "When inside don't forget to" 😅😅 I hope I didn't break any rules because to this day I don't know what I was not supposed to forget to do/not do 😅😅
@TheActualJae
7 ай бұрын
My favorite thing in all of City Pop (aside from it being called City Pop) is an Anri album, with a lovely summer scene, that is simply called "Timely!!" Oddly, not about the trains in Japan.
@kuklama0706
6 ай бұрын
"Guys i want "sole" hieroglyph on my bike, what would it be?"
@musAKulture
7 ай бұрын
i saw a woman with a shirt that says "sexi", in pepsi colors and font. it was mind blowing
@jfziemba
7 ай бұрын
One of your best.
@nasis18
5 ай бұрын
This Japanese dude's english is pretty good.
@ianfinrir8724
6 ай бұрын
I always thought it'd be funny to get the Kanji equivalent of "Sample Text" as a tattoo.
@malachyte_art
7 ай бұрын
This is my new favorite, no question.
@lmost
5 ай бұрын
Two mirrors facing each other, both commenting on the others appearance.
@LongPeter
4 ай бұрын
Apparently the Japanese used on Superdry garments has always just been picked for how it looks, not what it says.
@Oblithian
6 ай бұрын
lmao. You did a good job with all the different characters.
@Grim_Beard
7 ай бұрын
This video was like a magic. Wait, wrong channel.
@W4iteFlame
7 ай бұрын
Video is interesting too. But I've already seen some examples with Chinese vs. My native tongue that are far more...well, far less family frendly
@cmdrlightwalker_9877
3 ай бұрын
And that is exactly why I stopped buying clothes with anything remotely resembling Kanji, Hiragana, Katakana. That's sold in the U.S. just never know what it might say
@valtteripennanen4043
7 ай бұрын
alright, this hits way too personal, and i don't even have tattoos nor any clothes that have text on them, except some old hand-me-downs i wear every once in a while.
@Mikaela_Westmt
7 ай бұрын
Gaijin wish their tatoos could be dumped like Engrish written T shirts.
@bonedoggle
7 ай бұрын
one of my favorite souvenirs i brought back from my study abroad period in nagoya is a piece of calligraphy i did during an activity with my exchange group. i wrote 税金還付 on it.
@hanksilman4016
7 ай бұрын
Meanwhile some of the businesses with english names in tokyo are the best - i enjoy 'Golf Chicken' and 'Super Potato'
@judee.caulfield6386
5 ай бұрын
100% accurate
@signbear999
7 ай бұрын
Can't wait for my 勇緒 tattoo!
@DominyWaKimodebu
7 ай бұрын
逆になんで「勇緒」を「勇者」って読めたんだよw 普通は名前の「いさお」とかだろ
@Kebbythetraveler
27 күн бұрын
Visited Japan last year and was losing my shit over how many hip boutiques in Osaka were just selling American college sweatshirts??? Could have bought an Ohio State crewneck for so much money X"D GU had several different baseball caps with American places on them (San Francisco, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, Lake Winnipesaukee) for ¥1000 each so I bought those instead xp Gave them to friends from said places and they all laughed their asses off XD
@drewsmith7726
5 ай бұрын
When I came back from living in Japan I met a girl who was wearing a T-shirt with a single character on it 安I know the makers of that shirt were going with the peaceful meaning, but all I could think when I saw it was安い😂
@YuBeace
4 ай бұрын
I mean… whether something is stuck on your skin or on your clothes is quite a significant difference I suppose. 😂
@TheMakoyou
7 ай бұрын
If you really want to get a tattoo of a kanji character, I think a four-letter idiom would be cooler than a single character. For example, 「疾風勁草 」A parable that says that it is only when adversity and bad luck strike that a person's true strength is revealed. 「雨過天晴 」A parable in which a bad situation or state of affairs turns for the better. 「獅子奮迅」The words that describes the way with fierce fights, like a rampaging lion. 「運否天賦」To leave luck entirely to chance. 「暮雲春樹」Words of affection for a friend who is far away 「比翼連理」A parable of the deep and sincere love between a man and a woman.
@ishko108
6 ай бұрын
I don't know if this is more hilarious because of how real life it is, or because Dogen does both sides so well. Well, it's always super funny to see failings at grammar like that by people of other nations. It's just the way it is. And Engrishu is hilarious always.
@psycofire93
7 ай бұрын
As Mr. Affable Chris Broad always says, "Like a Magic!"
@TheSabaton1
7 ай бұрын
i came to see a comment about whats said by the gaijin at the last seconds but i just realised im here 23s after upload xD
@TheSabaton1
7 ай бұрын
gotta wait for someone with good hearing cause i hear The Sims like "catchyo jims bleybleey"
@Nick_The_Greek21
7 ай бұрын
@@TheSabaton1Catch you at gym “Blavely”
@raygoh9003
7 ай бұрын
@@TheSabaton1 think it might be "catch you at gym bravely" ?
@hellopio
7 ай бұрын
I believe it's "Catch you at gym bravely!" although the "bravely" is pronounced a bit like "blavely"
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