Hey guys! Welcome Jei back to my channel!
and this is Holly! This is her first time being in my videos
She was actually the first person to ever send me mail!
She sent me this adorable picture that I still have up over there
So we've known each other for years, and now she's finally in Japan!
Today we're gonna be making a Japanese tongue twister video
The other day when I was drinking with Jei at his seijin shiki
we were talking about tongue twisters and he was ridiculously good at them
So I figured I had to bring him here to make a video
So we've got 5 tongue twisters today to teach you guys
Me and Jei are gonna battle, and Holly is going to be the judge
And we'll try to think of some penalty for the person that loses
Let's do this!
We'll start with something easy, I think the easiest one is probably...
Nama mugi means raw wheat
Nama gome is uncooked rice
Nama tamago is raw egg
So we're gonna try and say that 3 times
Ladies first!
Oh god, okay...
That was really good
I've got the pressure now, you said I was really good at this
All right, here we go
Holy shit!
Oh my god
That was so fast! He totally won that one
That was like twice as fast as mine
Ok the next one is his specialty
This is the one that he's been practicing for years
So I'm obviously gonna fail this one
Do you wanna teach them this one?
A bouzu is a monk or priest
So I guess it's like a religious head figure
A byoubu is a folding screen
You know those fancy folding screens that you see in traditional Japanese homes
Jyouzu means to do something well, skillfully
Bouzu, so again the monk or the priest
E is like a painting
Kaita can mean to draw in this situation
So the monk drew the monk's picture well on the folding screen
Doesn't have to make sense it's just a tongue twister
Three times?
Sure if you can yeah
I'm good at once, but all right let's go
Holy crap! What even!
Is there a world tournament for this? Because you should definitely enter
Ok this one is new for me so I keep forgetting what it is
You definitely won that one
A for effort
I feel like they get harder though
Yeah it's gonna get harder for me too
This next one's a new one for both of us, we just found it on the internet
He said he went to Tottori with his brother 2 days ago
Ototoi is 2 days ago
Otouto = younger brother
Tottori is a place in Japan
Itta to = said he went
Ok ok, I'm gonna try
Was that right?
Yep you got it
I feel ilke I'm gonna lose this one, here we go
I think you're gonna win one
Here we go, my last attempt
No... you got it you got it
I finally got one!
Mine didn't even sound like Japanese though
I feel like when you say it really fast it doesn't even make any sense
This is the first Japanese tongue twister that I was ever taught when I was learning Japanese
Tonari no kyaku = the customer next to you
yoku = often
kaki = persimmon
kuu = casual way of saying eat
kyaku = customer
The customer next to you is a customer that often eats persimmons
That's even hard in English
I'd never eaten a persimmon until I'd got to Japan
Yeah me neither!
It looks like a tomato but it's orange
One of my friends gave me those and I was like "Is it supposed to be a mandarin??"
I learnt the Japanese word before the English word
Yeah same!
Everytime I see them in Canada I'm like "Oh kaki!"
Do you wanna try this one first?
Ok wait, one under my breath practice round
Ohh that was really good
Oh no~ the pressure
I wanna give it to you
Cause she's been friends with her for years
That makes it 2-2 and the last one will be the deciding round
Ok we have 2 more to choose from, which one do you think we should go with?
Let's go with the super hard one that makes no sense
So this last one is very long and very awkward
It's actually kinda difficult to explain
I can't even say it slowly
kaeru = frog
pyoko pyoko = frog noises
mi = 3
So it's saying the frog croaks, 3 croaks
and then put them all together and it's 6 croaks
So I think it's saying there are 2 frogs that are croaking 3 times each?
And all together it's 6
Let's go with that
Something like that
Do a slow round first
Did I say it?
Yeah you said it well
You did it pretty well
What's happening if I lose again? We don't know yet?
We don't know yet, we'll find something in my fridge
Ahh it's not mu, it's awasete. I'm gonna read it
He was like THIS close to beating you
If you had said that last one properly you totally would've won
Do you like licorice?
Black licorice I hate
So I've got these snacks from Finland
So his prize is some Super Salmiakki
If you guys watched my fan mail opening video over on my 2nd channel you know what these are
They're like a combination of black licorice and menthol
They've got like a minty flavour to them
That's even worse than just normal black licorice
All right, I say you have 3
Oh yah the menthol!
You're going one by one I woulda just been like get it all over with
Yeah I have to I have to
I think my gramma would like this
Actually yeah my gramma used to eat something really similar
So to me the flavour isn't that strange
You're willing eating one
I'm used to this flavour
Oh my god
That's so funny, I'm used to the flavour
When I posted the video everyone was surprised that I wasn't keeling over with disgust
That's me, omg it's so bad
All right guys, well thanks for watching
Cheers!
If you have any more Japanese tongue twisters you would like us to try
Leave them down in the comments!
I'm not really familiar with any more so I would like to learn some more
Make sure you check out Jei! And Holly also has a channel!
I will link them both below, so check them out
And I'll see you guys soon! Bye!