It’s astonishing how fast children can immerse themselves into the other culture. As a Japanese I can say that the children there sound just like normal Japanese kids at their age.
@popn6189
4 жыл бұрын
ikr 0:55 sounds pretty native imo
@kyuubipie8279
4 жыл бұрын
They are doing so good with the language! 😍🥺
@10ReasonsWhy
4 жыл бұрын
When you grow up amongst native speakers and learn the language that tends to happen. I live in a multiracial country (Singapore) and I've seen lots of non-natives picking up our native accent and speech mannerism, even though they were originally from China, Philippines or India. However when they speak to their family members, their accents changes back to their native accent, be it English or their mother tongue.
@popn6189
4 жыл бұрын
@@10ReasonsWhy Singapore is the best!!😃I don't remember anything about it bc I was too young, but I really want to go!!
@kenjayaseelan7090
4 жыл бұрын
I second that. When I went to the local schools in Japan, they sounded just like them.
@RayMak
4 жыл бұрын
Multilingual families are the best!
@KennyGuite
4 жыл бұрын
you're here, yet again
@TimeDiddy
4 жыл бұрын
Yeah
@marie4519
4 жыл бұрын
Agree
@dontsaymynameoutloudgurlpanda
4 жыл бұрын
i see you EVERYWHERE
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Multiple languages and cultures make the world a more understanding place!
@TKMaths
4 жыл бұрын
I was blown away when Rebecca talked about her research on Global Warming in fluent Japanese. Amazing.
@abreelcielo1483
2 жыл бұрын
Same! She’s so fluent!
@itriedbutfailed5953
4 жыл бұрын
I enjoy how expressive the dad is! Very hard for a male role model to express emotions in front of your kids! Too many try to be “masculine” and try to fit those roles! It’s refreshing to see a dad that isn’t afraid to show his children that! Amazing and keep it up!!!!
@3alaiyer
4 жыл бұрын
I Tried But Failed u must’ve grown w the type of dad ur talking about because manyyy dads r like the man in this video
@unsexyman
4 жыл бұрын
He's doing it for youtube perhaps?
@afhamyareuhere9395
4 жыл бұрын
Your dad must be suck, because literally all father are like this
@mezzymoon
4 жыл бұрын
@@afhamyareuhere9395 no, no they're not. Not every father is like this.
@coldonylum
4 жыл бұрын
idk man... the sounds he was making sounding more like animals crying. idk tho, when i speak japanese my pitch is also way higher.
@nafslee
4 жыл бұрын
Immersion learning is amazing. The kids aren't just fluent in Japanese, they have a native Japanese accent
These comments like 'these kids know more Japanese than me' when their whole family literally lives in Japan LOL - immersion is amazing
@messysnacks
4 жыл бұрын
Kids brains help with intake too. My daughter became fully conversational at 7 with a 3 month visit to the in-laws -- mom is Japanese, so she had a good precursor knowledge. Came back to the U.S. and couldn't converse in English for about a month, pretty wild.
@eb.3764
4 жыл бұрын
Living in a country doesn't guarantee fluency. There are so many kids who live in a host country but will attend an international school for example where English is the language of instruction. My friend who I met while studying French, speaks better French than he does Thai despite living in Thailand for 16 years, because his parents wanted him to get a "better education" at the international school.
@Nanancay
3 жыл бұрын
@@eb.3764 That's true, but it's also not super remarkable if their parents decided to send them to a non-international school. They speak good Japanese because of how they grew up - A Japanese person living in America is more likely not to know Japanese than a person that has to deal with Japanese every day tbh
@eb.3764
3 жыл бұрын
@@Nanancay exactly, them going to a local school is why it's impressive and different from parents who send their kids to international schools
@Timothee_Chalamet_CMBYN
2 жыл бұрын
I’m Mexican and my cousins came to the USA over 5 years ago and is enrolled in school but they still have trouble with English.
@JackieHappyinJapan
4 жыл бұрын
Watching this makes me realize “life is great” tomorrow is another day . just keep going!😉
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Love that!
@momokk8084
4 жыл бұрын
the kids are so good and fluent- i’m japanese/american and i think they’ll have a great future :)
@ravenmatias3507
4 жыл бұрын
Imagine the opportunities that these children's will have when they grow up. In today's industry especially in hospitality industry, multi lingual persons are the most requested due to growing numbers of tourists around the world.
@Valete85
4 жыл бұрын
My dad was an English teacher in Osaka, I lived there from 7 to 11 years old and one thing I regret was not learning Japanese, I was at an international school for foreigner kids, and it was over 20 years ago
@junetori122736
4 жыл бұрын
Damn I feel you. I was in New Zealand as a Japanese exchange student for a while but the only thing I regret is not going to watch allblacks game but slurping noodles in my room.
@jayjoonprod
4 жыл бұрын
@@junetori122736 Lots of exchange students eventually end up that way lol. The world's globalized nowadays and you can quite manage to live without using local language if you wanted to..
@LyzPlays
4 жыл бұрын
at lesat youre not japanese born who cant speak japanese.. like me.. who grew up in germany T_T
@rachelcookie321
2 жыл бұрын
@@junetori122736 I’m from New Zealand and I’ve been to a few rugby games and you honestly didn’t miss much, it’s pretty boring. I only ever went for the food. It seems New Zealand is a popular destination for Japanese exchange students as I know quite a few.
@grace-carolinealumbassa7142
2 жыл бұрын
Same I went to a French school I arrived as a trilingual little girl and left as a trilingual little I was so close to becoming a polyglot at 8 😢
I love how they adapted Japanese culture like saying “tadaima” and their children are so well behaved like how Japanese kids are Japan is a good place to move in with children as they are being taught manners and respect since young
@anntrim5132
4 жыл бұрын
kim chi dam racist kimchi
@rustynail3893
4 жыл бұрын
@@anntrim5132 It's not racist and it's true.
@Chrisgarciam
4 жыл бұрын
@kim chi That's not true tho. Respect and good behavior are things that kids learn from his parents. If you are good at parenting and you spend enough quality time with your children, they will behave respectfully no matter where you raise them.
@damanipage5990
4 жыл бұрын
@kim chi Generalizing an entire country just because you seen a few videos. Please stop.
@XxSwagBeatboxerxX
4 жыл бұрын
@@damanipage5990 "few videos"
@onigireee
4 жыл бұрын
Goodness, all your children are so well-spoken, but your older girls are really something else! 😁
@YukiEmma
4 жыл бұрын
The kids are incredible but hats off to you two! It's clear that you're 100% trying to immerse not just your kids but yourselves in Japanese life and it's really inspiring. Would love to see another one of these 'all Japanese' videos once your heads recover from this one ;)
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@mirutankuru
4 жыл бұрын
The children's japanese pronunciation sounds perfect...
@尼崎ジョータロウ
4 жыл бұрын
yeah pretty good
@bingc6917
4 жыл бұрын
Born and raised in Asia, we are taught English as a second language from kinder to senior high. So it is refreshing to hear westerners speak an Asian language other than their mother tongue. So happy for your family!
Last week, I came to Canada from Japan. I was depressed because I couldn't speak English at all, but watching this video cheered me up. I will try do my best to study English more.
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Good job! You can do it!
@rileydinkleman1022
4 жыл бұрын
k yui you seem to write fine.
@yunwei4346
4 жыл бұрын
@@rileydinkleman1022 maybe it's translated? But if it's not he really is doing well..
You guys creating a powerhouse. Those kids will be unbelievably valued in the workforce since they seem to speak fluent Japanese and English. Because in Japan it's rare to find people that are capable of speaking English still whilst in most European countries it's basically standard. They would be more surprised if you couldn't use English at all.
@j134679
3 жыл бұрын
add Spanish and Mandarin into the mix and they'll be able to converse with majority of the world.
As someone who's experienced being a Japanese kid raised in the US, I distinctly remember how uncomfortable I felt when my Japanese parents tried to talk to me in English occasionally back then. 1. It just feels weird to talk to them in English. They're "people who I talk in Japanese", and that labeling somehow was pretty robust for me then (I feel like this is a thing for bilingual kids in general). 2. Even as a kid, I knew that (at least in terms of fluency & pronunciation) my English was way better than theirs. It's already hard trying to understand the English world outside, and now what did I do to deserve this additional guessing game at home of understanding BAD English?? So overall, while I do think this 1-day project was cute, I think I can really empathize with the girl at the end saying "it was hard to understand you though + ROLL EYES". I know! PARENTS!
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
So true! We almost always talk in English at home, so this was a fun change of pace.
@shinjid3705
4 жыл бұрын
u r not alone. Same with me when Im talking cantonese only to my parents and have to switch over to dialect when we visit relatives in france xDDD And to my brother I only speak german instead of cantonese. Cause cantonese i only use for elder ppl that have a hard time with german.
@agilpriyatna6736
4 жыл бұрын
Same here in Switzerland, we are from Indonesia. Like we speak German outside, but at home pretty much Indonesian or English all the time. I also noticed that my German is getting better in a different pace then my parents.
@agilpriyatna6736
4 жыл бұрын
@som Slovaak It's been some years, but my father worked with a company in Switzerland. They told him to come over, so here we are now. The paperwork did take quite a while though, about more than a half-year. I heard the company hired a lawyer too. So it needed hard work from both inside and outside, I guess.
@rachelcookie321
2 жыл бұрын
@@shinjid3705 wow, your family seems quite multicultural
I wish I was taught more than one language as a kid...
@bazli83
4 жыл бұрын
It's not too late now :)
@marihi2387
4 жыл бұрын
I'm learning Spanish in school this year and I started learning Japanese 2 years ago but learning feels impossible trying to learn Japanese with kanji .-. It probably would have been easier learning really young like them
@annabethyeung8512
4 жыл бұрын
@@marihi2387 it would have been for sure haha you wouldn’t even have had to try
@nanagaming6564
4 жыл бұрын
Same bro
@nanagaming6564
4 жыл бұрын
@@marihi2387 I’m good I’m hiragana katakana but I’m trash at writing kanji
this is interesting...because I started learning Japanese a few months ago and tried to build my Japanese vocabulary, it's swell to be able to see that the English translations are accurate, word-for-word. This is due to your excellent translation work for the dialogue between your family. But for me it was being able to recognize most of the the Japanese words and match them with the English ones. That was the best part, fun also. Thank you.
@Kitty294_
2 жыл бұрын
Ikr it really helps with learning languages when the transition is word-for-word
@ポコやん-y8p
4 жыл бұрын
サラちゃんが日本語を話すと、英語の時と雰囲気が違う! ちょっと大人っぽくなった感じ!
@official_FoxGaming
4 жыл бұрын
Damn your Japanese is better than mine I'm half and can't even speak Japanese or read all I can do is understand what they say lol
@lhananas8875
4 жыл бұрын
so relatable im half French/Algerian and i can only speak french but understand arabic... what a pain
@kamuromat
4 жыл бұрын
yeah thats basically how i feel too, im an american-born half japanese/other asian ethnicity i wont name. and i can only understand some japanese but i can’t really read or speak it.
@pastelfart
4 жыл бұрын
I relate. I am half Finnish and half Turkish. I speak Swedish but I can not speak Turkish or Finnish.
@kysphattie
4 жыл бұрын
@@pastelfart 💀
@SilverArro
4 жыл бұрын
The parents’ accent is just terrible lol 😐
@hidemivanderschyff5613
4 жыл бұрын
children speak fluent Japanese without American English accent. Splendid!
@bigbuggie5
4 жыл бұрын
That's what immersion will do =)
@MxMoondoggie
4 жыл бұрын
Kids pick up accents quite easily when they move somewhere at a young age and when they grew up going to school in Japanese they pick up the pronunciation and everything else. It's much harder as an adult to learn these things and get accent and pronunciation down. Even in English languages accents are all over the place for kids, my cousin lived near me as a kid then the family moved to Scotland when she was 6 and now she has a strong Scottish accent. That kid who played Newt in Aliens is from America but was living in England at the time as her dad was in the Air Force so she had a British accent at the time of filming. She sounds American as an adult.
@007-l6u2z
4 жыл бұрын
cause they grew up and studied in Japan, certainly they are able to speak natively.......
@robertrijkers4923
4 жыл бұрын
why would australians have an american english accent ? ;p
@KoriJaiden
3 жыл бұрын
@@robertrijkers4923 they speak with an American accent in English and then the kids switch to pretty phenomenal Japanese. :) The parents definitely have an English-influenced accent in Japanese though.
@Ichirukibetter
4 жыл бұрын
Lmaooo. I swear this is not cringe but heartwarming instead. It's funny to see how they speak in japanese and using the formalities as well while they usually dont use formalities in english language. 😂
@Wra8h
4 жыл бұрын
bc when you speak a different language you speak a different culture; it'd be cringe if they spoke japanese as if they literally translated from everyday American Japanese.
@Ichirukibetter
4 жыл бұрын
@@Wra8h I mean, some people can address their family in their own comfortable way, but in different language they can keep it that way instead of using the manner of the language they are using. Like if you know a kpop group called NCT, mark and johnny are foreigners and they are english speakers, in Korea mark is addressing johnny with Hyung and with formalities, but in english, addressing him with hyung is not a must right? But sometimes he tend to address him as with hyung too even when they are speaking in english. And in this video all of them use most of the polite way of speaking in Japanese, but when they speak in english they really go back being a normal english speaker without any formalities.
@silentsmurf
2 жыл бұрын
They switch between casual and polite throughout the video though. Maybe since they’re being filmed, they’re trying to be cautious and use polite form?
@dowlernatasha1396
2 жыл бұрын
My Japanese huband is watching this video so happily.
@aky0sram
4 жыл бұрын
やっぱり流石にお姉ちゃん3人は、完璧なネイティブ日本語の発音ですね!!
@haej8279
4 жыл бұрын
“ It’s hard to understand you tho” 怖いw
@official_FoxGaming
4 жыл бұрын
Agreed
@malang73
4 жыл бұрын
Same if Japanese speak English with thick Japan accent. I met quite a few of them, had to ask them to repeat few times.
@basedhutao775
4 жыл бұрын
Some times
@phil6535
4 жыл бұрын
Its true loll
@matthewlim9026
4 жыл бұрын
Yea they should try to mimic the japanese accent better. They speaking it a bit broken. They could watch dramas to see how the Japanese speak
@yuukainnagoyanakaku
4 жыл бұрын
子どもの日本語初めて聞いた。 やっぱ小さいうちから日本にいると、日本語うまくなるんだね
@yusukemax6172
2 жыл бұрын
みんな日本語上手。パパちゃんの日本語が可愛すぎる。英語で話す時も可愛い
@mmc349
4 жыл бұрын
Papa & Mamachan speak Japanese so well I’m impressed
私も外人ですが、今日本語を勉強しています。このビデオは私にとって役に立ちました。どうもありがとうございます。 I think it better!!!!!!がんばってください!
@fabiohara9822
4 жыл бұрын
Not good nor bad, just a comment seeing my brazilian relatives living in Japan: At some point, your kids' primary language will move to Japanese as they are only practicing English within your home environment. But being bilingual will always be a plus for their lives!
@penguin-tc1cx
4 жыл бұрын
10:02 small correction- nodo (喉) means throat, not head :) I believe the word you’re looking for is atama (頭)
@SalmonSalmonfish
4 жыл бұрын
Maybe it was confused for 脳? :O
@AlexandreMcK
4 жыл бұрын
YES THIS WAS WHAT WE WANTED TO SEE!!! Fluent Japanese, especially the kids are literally like native speakers, perfect pronunciation.
Kids speak Japanese so fluently and accents are just like natives.
@benw-l7k
4 жыл бұрын
They growing up in Japan, they're not "like natives" they are natives
@名もなき戦士-m2t
4 жыл бұрын
Ben Withington oh yes, that’s appropriate expression!
@yutoshiraishi2451
4 жыл бұрын
Ben Withington well they’re speaking english at home. I was the opposite, i spoke japanese at home and english at school. it made it difficult to speak both languages well.
@vivoai2831
4 жыл бұрын
@@yutoshiraishi2451 Are you half Japanese- half English? If you were taught to speak both languages in your family when you are still young, I think it would not be difficult as it is now when you've already grown up.
@yutoshiraishi2451
4 жыл бұрын
Vĩ Võ đại my parents immigrated to the us from japan and i was going to school speaking english and went home speaking japanese. yea now i’m good with both but i struggled when i was yohnger
@akiregarde
2 жыл бұрын
I saw some negative comments on the parents’ accents, and I say, who cares? I’ve heard worse, but regardless, it’s hard adapting phonetics of non-native languages. I can understand their Japanese well, and I appreciate that they learned the language! I think that’s very respectful to the culture.
Your kids' Japanese sounds like just the local Japanese kids. That is sooo cool. It's amazing how kids easily learn languages when you expose them to it at a young age. The intonations are perfect too! They truly sound great. I love watching this video!
Omg your daughter at the end, “it’s hard to understand you though” 😂😂😂 kids are able to pick up languages so much smoother than adults it’s just nor fair 😂
@LIJ
2 жыл бұрын
Just not fair indeed! :)
@ghostfaithk
4 жыл бұрын
日本人として、すごく楽しめる動画でした👍 落ちも完璧でした(笑)
@TheLineCutter
4 жыл бұрын
if my future daughter would tell me she's better than I am at something, then I'd be so damn proud
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
I'm very proud of them!
@Higurasi_0183
4 жыл бұрын
この家族を見ていると自然と凄い笑顔になります。どうか幸せに日本を過ごしてください🇯🇵
@hidemiyamoto5697
4 жыл бұрын
Great job!!! You guys are really good at speaking Japanese especially your children. They sound exactly the same as Japanese 😮😮😮 The ability of childhood blow me away!!
@tsuyoshi-tsuchiya1018
4 жыл бұрын
I am amazed how everybody can speak Japanese so fluently. Ever since I came back to Japan from Thailand due to Covid-19 situation, I rarely use English and Thai. At most of time, I use Japanese so I am forgetting some words so this video help me not forget English. Thank you very much!!!
@keidear
4 жыл бұрын
This is pretty amazing to watch. I'm half Japanese (living in Canada) and I don't remember the last time I went a full day speaking Japanese. It's impressive. These kids have really adapted into the culture and their speech flow is so natural.
This was absolutely すばらし! my kids loved. its hard to find content on the internet with kids speaking Japanese in their everyday life but this was definitely what we were looking for. Raw responses from the kids and it had put a smile on my kids faces knowing other kids out there are thinking the same as them when learning a new language. ありがとうございます!
Los niños se adaptaron muy bien al nuevo idioma, eso es asombroso. Quisiera hacer algo así con mi madre, somos colombianas pero ambas sabemos inglés, sin embargo hablar el idioma se nos dificulta enormemente, un día entero solo hablando inglés podría ayudarnos bastante. The children adapted very well to the new language, it's amazing! I want to do something like that with my mother, we are Colombian but we both know English, however it's very difficult to speak the language, a whole day speaking in English will help a lot.
@oceanstaiga5928
4 жыл бұрын
It's so cool to see how fast kids can catch up. I went to school in germany during the refugee crisis and many kids just were super fast to catch up with the language and everything. Graduated together with kids that only had been in the country for 3 years, truly amazing the skill they have but most importantly the work they put in! Young kids learn so well, it's just wonderful to teach them a second langauge.
@Rumil_
4 жыл бұрын
Yo I learned so much from this video. These kids have waay better japanese than I do and its so helpful to watch the family say things a bit slower whilst still being able to communicate with each other. Defintely sving this.
@tomoyoshi55
4 жыл бұрын
本当に幸せなご家族で良いなぁ。1日全部日本語で会話動画も新鮮で良かったです!
@SLImREKOJ
4 жыл бұрын
"it was hard to understand you though" hahahahha feelsbadman
@SooKyung05estelle05sookyungx
4 жыл бұрын
Your kids speak amazing Japanese! Joshua tries to speak in Japanese with his sisters. This is so cute ! I love you from France.
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@techatom5699
4 жыл бұрын
I 'm japanese. お子さん達が 話す日本語が 何の違和感もなく 聞こえます。 英語、日本語 両方が使い分けられるのが、すごいなと思います。
@taka9109
4 жыл бұрын
素晴らしいご家族ですね。将来が楽しみですね。健康で長く日本に住んで下さい。応援してます。
@kibo98764
Жыл бұрын
love the end 😂, "thank u for reminding daddy he has a very bad accent" was ur laughing-thought i guess lool 🤣
私はオーストラリアに8年住んでます😚こんなにペラペラで日本語話して、子供だけやなくてお父さんもお母さんも頑張ってるなぁ、すごいなぁって思います!But the most thing I love is you guys look always happy. I follow yours. Thank you. I learn English in Australia and enjoy my life here as well.
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
Thank you for watching!
@海老名沙羅
4 жыл бұрын
みなさん日本語上手ですね✨わたしも英語頑張ります!
@missmammamia
Жыл бұрын
I just came across your page! And I’m so excited! I’m an Australian born Japanese who only visited Japan 3 times in my life so seeing how you live there is so exciting to watch as I grew up in Australia! いっぱい学びさせていただいてます。ありがとうございます❗️がんばっていますね。I can’t imagine the difficulties living in a different country and learning about the cultures so it’s really amazing! As someone who has a Japanese background but not going to school to learn it and only learnt it from my household I would definitely struggle myself living in 日本so I want to say how wonderful you are all doing! 私も日本語をもっと勉強したいと思います〜thanks again for your videos from your beautiful family!
as someone who is part japanese and speaks it fluently, it makes me smile the way these kids can speak japanese so fluently just like a native would. what a beautiful wholesome video
I always somehow burst out crying watching your videos. I never had a family as warm as happy as you, I'm sure you guys have your obstacles and moments in life where its rough. But your videos always warms my heart
@LIJ
4 жыл бұрын
We certainly have our moments (sometimes many) of difficulties, but it really encourages me to read your comment. I pray you can enjoy warm family dynamics personally someday!
素晴らしいな、こうして多国籍な家族が増えてそれに対して寛容的になってきてる日本もLife in Japanさんの家庭も。 I was born in Japan and grew up there but I really had a hard time since I'm half Caucasian and was always seen and labeled as a foreigner. So much so that I just straight dipped from Japan when I was 20 and moved to Canada. But seeing your family I'm really happy that it seems to be changing and becoming a place that's more welcoming and understanding towards diverse people. Maybe one day I might just move back, I felt there might be hope.
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