Demonstrating my Terrible Japanese Skills
Uploaded by: dangero2000
Upload date: 9/22/2025
Description:
A few of my friends have heard me speaking Japanese, and the ones who don't speak the language themselves believe that I sound great and that my skills must be impressive. I am here to demonstrate that this is not at all the case. In fact, in my opinion, my skills are rather disgraceful given the length of time I have been studying. If you are not convinced, generate a transcript of this recording and translate it, and you will see what I mean.
For context, I have started with Duo Lingo, then moved onto Anki, then Japanese Pod 101, and then started talking to native speakers. Perhaps my best language learning streak was setting my phone language to Japanese back when I had an iPhone, as well as my Siri language. This forced me to learn the language via immersion. I learned quite a lot using this method. Unfortunately, I almost completely stalled out after I learned everything I could possibly learn about the iOS user interface in Japanese, as your phone interface can only teach you so much. To this day, I have not found any methods that have even come close to matching my forced immersion experience, let alone surpassing it. Hence, what you hear in this clip.
The Machine - 09/22/2025
People tend to say things sound good when they like you. Hence why they say I'm a good metal screamer. Lol
KamiKitsune - 09/22/2025
So our mission at The Water Project is really to provide sustainable access to clean water in sub-Saharan Africa. Um, and so our goal, our work is really twofold. One, we provide access to clean, safe, reliable water points. And then two, we pair that work with behavior change campaigns. So we really, you know, understand that you can't just put a well in a community, um, and then walk away. There's so much more that needs to happen for there to be, you know, sustainable water, sustainable clean water, you know, for years to come. Um, and so we pair our work with behavior change campaigns, which really focus on, you know, hygiene and sanitation practices. And then we also do a lot of work with, you know, our local partners and our communities to really teach them how to best maintain, um, these water points, how to, you know, best manage them. Um, and then also how to, you know, best manage the funds that are coming in from communities that are, you horrific, um, paying for the use of the water, um, to then, you know, ensure that there's always going to be available funds for future repairs and for future maintenance."
the space pup - 09/22/2025
i think the more you practice speaking it more, the better you get.
Dan Gero - 09/22/2025
What's that comment about the water project? Is that what it translated as? Was my speaking really that bad?
KamiKitsune - 09/22/2025
tbh no clue. it's what it gave, could be a halusination.
Dan Gero - 09/22/2025
Definitely is a halucination. I said I've been studying Japanese since December of 2020 and talked about the hardships of that, particularly finding Japanese dubs of American media due to region locking. What did you try to use as your translator?
KamiKitsune - 09/23/2025
gemini
The Storm Weaver - 09/23/2025
Which model did you use? This seems accurate enough. Gemini 2.5 Pro.
Good evening. This is Garrett.
Uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
This recording,
uhm,
is for my Japanese skill
uhm, what was it?
"Blacktice"... "Practice"
Uhmm,
please. Please, I ask of you.
Yes, uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
I started studying Japanese from December 2020.
Uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
Japanese conversation is
still difficult, but, however,
uhm, you know,
(sound of clearing throat)
English conversation is
really difficult, so
Japanese is difficult too, you know.
Uhm,
uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
I don't know the topic,
uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
It's a little bit, uhm,
(sigh)
it's difficult, that's why.
Uhm, you know,
(sound of clearing throat)
I was trying to find
uhm, English movies,
uhm, with Japanese dubbing,
but, uhm, American
movies are really
uhmm, uhm,
difficult to find, you know.
Ehm,
for example, I wanted to watch
Monsters, Inc. and Monsters University.
But, uhm,
Pixar is an American company,
and, uhm,
uhm, in America,
uhm,
uhm, even if they return
the Japanese dub,
uhm,
I don't think they can do it.
Uhm,
uhm, "region lock," "region lock," uhm,
What is it in Japanese? Uhm, what was it?
Ah, anyway,
uhm,
(sound of clearing throat)
I'm sorry.
My
conversation skills are
really difficult, though.
Uhm,
So, this recording will end. Thank you very much.
The Byte Bender - 09/23/2025
damn. All the natural fillers become so obvious and annoying in text but you almost don't notice them in talking!
Sora Hashinara - 09/23/2025
Yup, I'm quite certain he's talking about how he start learning Japanese, followed by something-something monster ink university and watch dogs legion japanese dubb something-something. While I'm not quite so sure how accurate those AI translations in the above comments are as I don't read them completely.
For those who're curious, I cannot speek Japanese. I'm mearly learning what I can from online resources and stuff. Perhaps one day I'll take a full corse, but that's a thing for another time.
lucas - 09/23/2025
I feel like sometimes, in articles and things like that, you can tell how much the writer likes someone else when quoting them by how much they clean those fillers up.
KamiKitsune - 09/23/2025
I used the flash model
Prime Minister Lord Zach - 09/24/2025
@Lucas yeah, I think the same as well