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Cultural Understanding How English speakers sound to people who speak Japanese ![]() Yuta Aoki teaches Japanese language online. He also maintains a really good YouTube channel, That Japanese Man Yuta, on which he dives into cultural challenges you may not have considered before, such as How to Date a Japanese Girl, According to Japanese Girls, and Actually Being Mixed Race in Japan. On a recent episode he hit the streets and asked random people if they could imitate how English-speakers sound to them. What is striking to me is how emphatic they act, with a lot of physical gesturing and guttural proclamations. Video: How English Sounds to Japanese People |