【親日】日本を愛する外国人から見た日本の良い所と難しさが深かった

【親日】日本を愛する外国人から見た日本の良い所と難しさが深かった

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Konnichiwa Good afternoon What’s up

It’s Rupa sensei here

Welcome to Melbourne buddy

The real Rupa sensei right here

Honmono~!

Rupa sensei Could you give us a bit of introduction of yourself?

Just in case Some people might see you for the first time in this video

In English?

In English yeah

Hey guys how are you doing?

I’m Rupa sensei

I was born in Australia and

At eighteen after I finish high school I moved over to Japan

And I taught English over there in Ibaraki

Ibaraki

Ibaraki prefecture little countryside

But I really liked it over there

You loved it?

Yeah yeah and

You know I’ve been studying Japanese ever since I started high school so it’s

Quite awhile all together around eight years I think about it now so pretty long time

I love Japan and then

After that I moved to Osaka

And I went to KGU Kansai Gaidai

As a student?

As a student

Many people thought I was a teacher there

That’s what I read on google

I was a student there I was studying Japanese and business

So that’s good

I got a bit of experience living in Tokyo

Experience living in Ibaraki

Experience living in Osaka

Golden trio you know

That’s pretty cool man

Now on YouTube I teach English with movies and everything like that

Make some funny videos here and there

I watched heaps of your video man

I’m a big fan Rupa sensei

Likewise I always watch your videos too

So you lived in Japan, right? Since you were eighteen years old

I lived there for three years total

So first time I lived there for a year and half

And another year and half

I just wanna simply ask you that what made you interested in Japan?

You are from a countryside around Melbourne, right?

So a countryside boy from Melbourne

Why were you interested in Japan at the time?

I started learning Japanese in high school

And that was kind of my gate way into Japan

It’s culture It’s language Everything like that and

I really like studying Japanese but

When I was year ten

So that would be kouichi

I had a Japanese teacher

So before that I studied Japanese but

I never met a real Japanese person

So then my teacher he’s a really friendly guy

He started teaching me Japanese and

He also told me more about the culture so

Not just the language but the culture of Japan

And I think that’s super important

For getting more into the country and more into the languages

Learning about the culture as well

So I started learning about the culture

He showed me Nihon no drama

Gokusen

One of my favorites is Nagase Tomoya

“Ikebukuro Westgate Park” Do you know that?

Everyone knows that especially around my age

I’m not sure about the young generation but yeah

Other that that I watched a lot of Anime

“Dragon Ball Z” That was my favorite coz

I like gym and everything like that and That’s the best motivation

Seeing Goku level up gets stronger

From Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z

He’s constantly getting stronger It’s the best motivation

I only realized this recently but like

Japanese culture has been such an influence on my life

Even as like young kid going to primary school

Not knowing anything Japan

I’d go and watch Toasted in TV on like a kind of

Kid’s channel that shows Dragon Ball and like

Naruto and stuff like that and

Ever since young age I didn’t realize it was Japanese at the time

It was just too normal for you yeah? It was just there

It’s just a tv you know

Interesting man

So that’s it man and then yeah

I studied Japanese really hard

I went up top my class and

That’s how I got the job opportunity to go be a teacher in Japan

Were you good at studying like mathematic and stuff? Like science or

No no

I think same board as you, you know

You didn’t really like studying math or your own language

But learning a language it kind of makes sense Because it’s very practical

Like when you learn about triangles, okay..

How can I use that in real life?

But when I learn Japanese phrases

I used to work at Subway

Make sandwiches and

We had sometimes Japanese customers come

And then I tried my Japanese at the Subway

And then you even like started liking it more and more

Yeah, that’s it

When you actually meet people from the country of the language you are learning And you use that language

It’s the best thing ever It’s so rewarding

Yeah, definitely man and your

I don’t know how you say

The world you see gets bigger

That’s it

You broaden your horizon That’s how we say it

So what kind of image you had about Japan before you went to Japan?

And did it change since you started living there?

Good question so

My image of Japan The biggest influence of my image of Japan before going to Japan was

Tokyo Drift

Wild Speed three

I just thought that was whole of Japan that was like

Tokyo, street cars, constant parties and

Sky scrapers everywhere

And then the first time living in Japan

After I got of Narita Kuko I went straight to Mito Ibaraki

And Mito Ibaraki it does have a city It does have a station

But it’s pretty countryside

Where is the scramble cross?

Where is the scramble? Where is the scene from the movie?

So literally my apartment was next to like rice fields

So it was good, I guess, disparity

My image completely shifted of Japan and

Also it was pretty cool living on countryside

Especially because no one knew English

I had to learn Japanese to survive

Going to the supermarket or just talking to people at the bus

I had to use Japanese everyday

From your perspective as an Australian guy

What did you like about Japan?

Is it its culture? Or its people? Or it could be anything but

I’d say what first drew me in was the culture

I really wanted to practice Japanese that I learnt in school

But then when I actually got there People are so friendly

The hospitality there is amazing

I’ve really felt like at home and really felt welcome so

I guess the culture is what drew me there

But the people is what made me stay

People there are so friendly I met so many people in Ibaraki

I met my best friend just like outside is a convenience store

I was just drunk one day

He was drinking Red Bull

I said “Hey dude, you like Red Bull?” And then yeah

We became best friends

Honestly

A lot of non-Japanese people reckon Japanese people are quite shy

But I’m pretty sure that’s because id the language barrier as well

Let’s say if all of Japanese could speak English

I’m pretty sure that they are very friendly you know

I’m not too sure if they are

As openminded as Australian but

They talk to people

That’s what I really believe

I think yeah that’s exactly right

English is kind of the bridge between the two cultures

So this is gonna be one of the main things I want to ask you in this video

I’m assuming that when you used to live in Japan

You had friends who are non-Japanese

Who’s pretty much like you came from another country live in Japan

So it could be like your opinion Or it could be like

Their opinion as well

Did you find any difficulties when you were living in Japan? Or

Did you find something negative about Japan?

Which you could find because you started living there

I think for sure

I think if you go to any country Whether be Japan or anywhere else in the world

If you go there for a holiday You are in kind honeymoon period

But then you actually live there and you do your day to day activities

You start to realize some of the things that You are not so used to

So one of the first jokes I realized was Trying to get an apartment over there

Trying to get an apartment

I’ve heard that it could be very hard for non-Japanese people

It is

Luckily I went there with school so they could help me The principal really helped me out

And the second time I was a student

So the school that I was going to helped me out

There was student accommodations

But when I was trying get an apartment by myself

It’s pretty strict

They want you to stay for two years

But I only had a one year visa so it didn’t make sense

They want me to pay like key money

The first time I heard about key money I was so shocked

Completely different from your culture

In Australia we just kinda sign a lease

You can get six month, one year, two years up to you

And we don’t pay like key money

We pay a bond but you get the bond back

When you leave the place yeah

Unless you smash something

Key money was… I thought I was gonna get it back

But it was just kind of like a present

Did you have any like difficulties about culture and stuff?

Culturally

One thing I noticed was it’s hard to get good deodorant

Deodorant yeah?

I don’t know .. maybe Japanese don’t sweat so much

But it’s hard to get a very strong deodorant

Here you can get some really good ones

I put it on and I’m fine the whole day

I’m cool in those areas

But in Japan I used the ones you get at the Seven Eleven Or at a drug store

It doesn’t seem to work

Especially Japanese summer is so humid and so hot

I sweat so much

And I don’t want to My cloths get pisya pisya

You don’t wanna get pisya pisya yeah

That’s one thing

I don’t know if that’s the culture That’s just a kind of

No, it’s funny man It’s the first time I’ve ever heard something like that

But it makes sense

One of my friends she is from Canada

I filmed a video before with her

She was saying

High context culture and Low context culture

You know what they are?

In Western countries especially in Australia as well

If you have an opinion you gotta say it to the person

“I don’t like that”

“You shouldn’t be doing that”

You speak out

You speak out loud

Whereas in Japan we kind of read the air

Have you ever felt it?

“Kuki wo yomu” right?

Have you ever felt it?

Yeah for sure

In Japan there’s whole like “Honne to Tatemae”

Over here in Australia like if you don’t agree with something

You kinda just say it

“Honne to Honne” literally

I guess even in my work if I didn’t agree with something

I’d just call it out and I’d just say There’s more efficient way to do this

Obviously you don’t wanna be rude

But you wanna say it to inform the person that There might be a better way to do something

Over here we kind of promote that kind of thing in a workplace

So you should be doing it?

Yeah

I think because in Japan In a workplace especially it’s very hierarchal

You use keigo with the person above you

You don’t speak your opinion to the people above you

Bet the people below you, your buka? Is that right?

Buka yeah

They speak keigo to you

It’s the other way around but

In the west we obviously do

Speak a bit more politely to managers or something like that

Than close friends that I would go to the bars and stuff with but

You know they are much more open to hearing opinion

Even if you are a new recruiter or anything like that

Oh really

So even you are freshman if you have an opinion And if you think it’s very right

You should be able to speak out and talk to even your manager

Not only are you allowed to

It’s actually kind of seen as a good thing

It’s seen as you are someone who has a strong opinion

Right now a lot of people they just wanna go on sidelines Just collect their pay check Just get by but

If you are someone in a workplace that puts your opinion put

As long as it’s productive

You are actually seen as That’s a really good thing

It looks like more an enthusiastic person to the business

It’s really good to know man

So the last question is gonna be like this

You have a lot of experiences of teaching English to Japanese people, right?

What do you think we should be doing If you wanna be an English speaker?

I think because Japan has such a focus on entrance exams and

Eiken score so

That English obviously it’s very helpful to get motivation

If you have your eiken test next month You are very motivated to study

But if you wanna actually speak and things like that

You do have to kind of go a step beyond and practice speaking so

You should have a lot more input and output and also

Watching those movies they are really beneficial Watching YouTube and

Learning that natural English rather than textbook English

It’s one of the key things to do

That’s what Rupa sensei dose in his channel as well

He cut some nice clips from famous films

You learn from that kind of things right? Like

Natural English which is used in daily life in real life

If you study for a test, it’s very different from studying for life

because you study for a test you study really hard You cram it all in

And then you take a rest right?

And then you forget what you learnt so

Like what you said before

English is use it or lose it

English, a lot of people think you can learn at once and that’s fine

English is a language learning process like learing the piano or learning to play basketball learning to ride a bike

You can learn at once, forget it

You learn it again. The second time you learn it you are stronger

It’s a journey for your whole lifetime

And one thing I noticed is Japanese people can be very kind of worried or anxious about their accent

You don’t have to sound like a native speaker

English is a global language

Most of English communication

Is actually done by two non-native speakers

You sound like Ken Watanabe in Last Samurai or Inception or something like that

It’s super cool

It’s your unique thing so don’t try and hide your unique beauty

You should show that to the world

Show the this is English from a Japanese standpoint

Thank you Rupa san for the cooperation today

I’m very happy to be able to film with you

No, my pressure man Thanks for inviting me on to the channel

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