Japan for two years, wow, six years, that's amazing.

So she's like super flow in chinese.

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Mhm Yeah.

Why is it so difficult for us to learn a language.

I see many people struggle myself included to get better at Japanese.

We say things like I wish I was better at this language or I wish I could understand what they're saying.

We get nervous when we move abroad to try to communicate when it comes to daily tasks.

When you throw yourself into the real world of Japan, you struggle and you wonder why, Hey guys, welcome back to my channel.

So today I'm going to meet a friend I haven't seen since maybe two years ago, but she's actually a friend in junior high school.

So she lived in china for a really long time and she also lives in Japan.

Well now she lives in Japan but she's fluent in both languages.

So it's a gloomy day.

I don't know if it's gonna rain.

Hopefully it doesn't.

But um I can't wait for you guys to meet my friend.

All right, so hot wearing a mask.

But I didn't wear any lipstick today because I wasn't expecting to not wear a mask.

But I'm taking it off because there's nobody around and I'm heading to Ueno right now and I'm going to meet up with my friend, we're going to go get some sushi or some lunch around Ueno Station and just have a little bit of a chat and just enjoy the outdoors.

Today, doors on the right side will open.

Mhm Mhm Oh busy here and everybody's still wearing that extremely hot outside and I'm waiting for my friend here because I'm a little bit early, but you know, I haven't been here in so long.

It's kind of nice to be out and about and just like walking around and doing stuff.

Mhm.

Mhm This is my friends, high school friends, high school or junior high school friends.

We tend to see language as foreign, something that is separate from who we are, but language is who we are.

It's a deep part of us that wants to come out, we want to communicate.

Everyone has the ability to speak any language they want to, we don't have to sound native or being native to understand and communicate to tell stories.

It's not necessary that place over there, it looks very western style home.

You got to get that log, get the log, get the log, we've been looking for a place to sit for like an hour.

Well this will do alright.

We found a spot, it's not a log on an actual bench now in this beautiful little forest where there's like nobody, this is my friend, her name is coming, that's my chinese name.

I lived in china for six years.

Japan for two years, wow, six years, that's amazing.

So she's like super fluent in chinese and really fluent in japanese.

I don't know how that happened, that's what we're here to talk about today because a lot of you guys are saying that like oh I want to come to Japan or all I want to learn Japanese but I'm 30 or and it's too late, you know, so I feel like I wanted to given a little bit of an interview.

She's actually a friend of mine from junior high school.

So we've known each other for a really long time, like 15, 16 years.

Yeah.

Yes.

And it's so crazy because we kind of found each other on the other side of the world.

She learned language, wait later in life and I just want to show you some proof and I don't know if you can give my viewers any tips on learning the language and why you got so good because people think it's always impossible.

Honestly, it's only impossible if these states impose, it's impossible if you give up, It's impossible if you give up and it's impossible if you keep saying like, Oh it's so hard.

I'd like to hear them say that to the 80 year old Japanese people who I taught English to are any of them like really good.

They were, some of them were good.

They were learning at 80 years old.

So if you think 30 is too late you should go talk to them.

And I feel like if you don't enjoy it, then you're not going to get good because if you don't enjoy learning language then you're just never gonna let's sell well, some people don't know how to learn it.

They pick a very boring way to learn it and then in that case you wouldn't enjoy it.

But there are funner ways to learn than just from a book.

She speaks japanese and chinese so fluently you can, you should check your channel out, It's called oriental pearl and she just makes video, mostly videos about interacting with people around Japan and china.

So you can just see like she, when did you start learning Japanese?

You said I started learning Japanese in 2015 and Chinese in 2012 and that was uh long after I was a child, that's when you start around college years and stuff and but like how did, how do you think you got better?

One of it was a money investment, I had to put out money because after I spent all that money on language learning and came all the way to Japan, I'm like okay, I cannot just let this go, I cannot just not study this after I made this huge investment, you know, it was kind of like an investment in myself and I would feel like it was a total waste of my time and money if I just gave up after that.

So I put that risk out there and went into the school and paid money for the classes and I'm like I'm going to learn something, having that time investment, That money investment pushed me because I'm like okay, I'm not going to waste time and money, I'm committed to this fully committed if you want to grow or make a change in your life or something like you and you invest in it, it makes you more motivated and more committed to completing whatever you're investing your life.

It's just the same as life coaching or something like people invest money.

I invested in business coaching.

So like, you know, I invested a lot of money into that and I'm like, I am not going to fail, like I am going to actually do it.

I think the problem is a lot of people see the results of that okay, where I am today, where other people are today, what the videos look like when you have enough confidence to post them, but you don't see all the hard work that went into that.

So they get this idea that certain people are good at languages and other people are not.

That's not necessarily true.

I don't think I have any special ability with language.

I think it's a little bit more about willpower, how much time, how much sacrifice you put into it.

Some people think see the finished product, you see the work after it's all done.

I struggled a lot.

There were many, many times, many times when I wanted to give up, especially when I was a beginner and that is the biggest hurdle.

That's the point that a lot of people stop because they get discouraged.

They feel like there's no end in sight and that's when you're most vulnerable.

I think I had gotten made fun of in china when I first moved there by my students, I still made fun of me.

They were brutal.

Like kids will just tell you like it is kids don't hold anything back.

I said some things to my students and chinese and they mocked me.

I mean they were kids.

I can't get too humiliated by a bunch of kids but I feel bad about it.

Like these kids making fun of my chinese and I would leave the classical feel like wow, I suck man to accept being imperfect.

You have to accept making mistakes because if you don't make mistakes, you don't learn.

So making mistakes is key.

But some people are embarrassed to make mistakes.

Especially many japanese adults that I taught did not want to make mistakes, they would think about sentences for a long time.

But it is essential.

So a lot of perfectionists have trouble with language learning because they don't want to be wrong.

But you have to, especially in the beginning, the answer is simple, We can't learn japanese because we think we can't learn japanese.

So we give up, we see the progress other people made and see it as something so out of our reach that it's impossible.

Our thoughts shape our reality and everything we do.

If we think we don't have time to study, then we don't have time to study.

If we think we're too old then we're too old.

If we say something is hard, it's hard, it takes work in progress but complaining that it's hard will make us overthink and it won't make it any easier to do the task.

Okay, this is this is my japanese husband.

I have a mexican husband and I also have a european husband, but my husband is japanese.

Right, are you japanese?

American?

Whoa!

Okay.

Ueno has a lot of major period type of things.

We see all these cool buildings.

Oh can we go in there?

So we can look there's like a little shop and this is so cool.

Okay, so now I'm starting to speak like I'm from michigan now because I'm around you.

You do you still sound like good.

I thought it was going, I was like, oh my gosh!

So this is a school but it looks really small.

Little little shop here.

Haven't explored in so long.

This feels so good.

I'm on my way now.

Mm come on, I wanna go way back.

Yeah.

Mhm Hello!

Welcome to japan.

Uh one thing we learned today is you don't need to be perfect and speak perfect japanese or go up there.

Like you know like some master, you could just learn a little bit and have a conversation and get to know the people.

Exactly.

And that's enough and don't be afraid to open your mouth and talk.

Yeah.

Even like me, like my japanese is only intermediate level, but I understood everything that they were saying.

So listening is also a good skill.

It doesn't have to be perfect when it comes to speaking, listening is also good to, Right, right?

So you want to be able to understand if someone's trying to talk to you or something that's really important.

What is this?

What is this?

A restaurant?

Oh, it is a restaurant has food and stuff, nobody is perfect.

It takes time to break the limiting belief of, I can't do something.

We have to become a terminator of past limiting beliefs, a samurai for our demons that keep us from moving forward.

Your self doubts will always resurface, but as you work more and more in yourself, become more aware of how you're thinking and how bs that thought actually is, you'll discover how to break the chains and reach every single goal.

I look terrible right now because it's sweating grows.

We're in Yanacocha ginza and they sell a lot of food and old shop.

It's really, really unique.

Okay, I'm looking for a japanese cup because I really wanted one.

Yeah.

Tell people that I like these.

This is cute.

This one is a cute one.

This one's nice.

No, I like it.

It's like a coffee.

I kind of, I don't know.

Yes, the real world is important for learning, but learning from a textbook classroom online program app or whatever you choose is an important step to begin your journey, choose something that's enjoyable for you don't feel ashamed that you're using materials to help you learn.

That's just the beginning.

Don't be afraid of going back and reviewing your language programs, test quizzes.

It's all essential.

The one thing most people need to understand is after learning, you need to use it.

People actually love that you're trying.

No matter how many mistakes you make, the only way to get better is to make mistakes, courage won't come overnight.

So start by telling yourself that you can speak japanese, stop telling yourself that it's impossible.

It's only as impossible as you make it.

Yeah, this is the coolest little street actually.

I've never been down here.

Yonica is like an old street.

There's lots of cafes were near cemetery right now.

Yanacocha Cemetery, I think, oh, there's those little rain spirits.

This is so cute.

Yeah, like they keep the rain away or like stop the rain or whatever are they keep the rain from falling or to make rainfall?

Um, thanks, Stop, stop, stop the ring.

Okay, so kids make those tomorrow.

This is cool water bottle.

I just met one of my subscribers and she's from Venezuela.

Right, that's so awesome.

It's your first time in Japan.

So that's so cool.

What are you planning on doing today in Japan?

Do friend?

Okay, here is very small, but very nice.

We're talking about blood types.

You so do these A.

B type in Japan.

They take blood type super seriously, right?

Most Japanese are type A Oh yeah, but he has a B.

So he doesn't fit it.