Hey Guys! It's Loretta and welcome to my channel, KemushiChan!

Thanks so much for watching Part 1!

I really appreciate all of your comments!

We covered a lot about pronunciation and pitch accent!

We sure did.

So... shall we continue?

Let's finish up this video!

We're going to do part two of this video,

sharing the 10 most difficult Japanese words to say

and the ten most difficult English words.

Our videos always end up so crazy

we always end up laughing too much!

Alright, here's the next word!

Here!

I'm scared. [word: SENSEI]

I've been saying this one wrong too?!

sensei? ..... sensei?

Yep, you got it.

[sasuga sensei] Ah sensei, just as I expected.

A common mistake is to say it like SEN↓-sei

a lot of people say it with a hard, downward emphasis on SEN

I get called that way a lot.

SEN-sei, SEN-sei!

Another common hiccup, is people who pronounce the first "se",

almost as if the first "S” where a "TH"

almost like... thensei.

Kind of like there's a T in there... like that almost.

SEN-sei, I have a question!

But see, you have to lean upwards into the last half of sensei.

sen-SEIIIII.

If you say them evenly like that it sounds like the "sensei" (宣誓） pledge at the start of a Sports Day Festival.

The problem is that the word "sensei" is normal in English now

So we just use the hard SEN↓sei pronunciation common in English.

Let's go to the dojo, practice karate with sensei!

Karate from SeNSei

There's Daniel(-san) and Miyagi-sensei

doing wax on, wax off.

WhAt The HeCk?!

The original Karate Kid movie

Will Smith's kids are in the new version

It's called Best Kid in Japanese.

Well, in the states everyone knows Karate Kid

its the movie everyone saw as a kid.

You gotta go like this, and this, and this...

He just ended up cleaning the whole house.

Next: Colonel

Ahhh, This one's bad.

Colo..nel?

Colonel? I don't even know what this means.

I'm sorry, this is a mean one!

I'm in the mood for the colonel.

i've never seen this word before!

Ohhhh no no no. You know this person. You see him almost everyday.

I see him EvErYdaY?!

Yeah, every single day. Here's the answer:

Ohhh! I know now! I didn't know that's how you write it!

It's pronounced like kernel right?

Exactly! For some reason, the L in the middle sounds like an R.

It's pronounced like an R ?!

I had no idea!

AND I DON'T SEE THE COLONEL EVERYDAY.

Let me clear the air!

I'm not eating this.

It's Colonel Sanders, right?!

I see now. This one's pretty interesting.

Colonel is a rank or title in the military

Oh, not a name? Nope!

His name is Sanders, and Colonel is the rank

like an officer or title like that

It's like there's colonel... and general [IGNORE MY HANDS, THEY ARE NOT INDICATIVE OF WHICH IS HIGHER. I know the comment's coming DON'T DO IT!!!]

What was the other rank I knew...

Ughhh, omg I learned it from this reference...

I even forgot the name of the movie it's from!

Saving Private Ryan?

It was that movie with Tom Hanks...

Forrest Gump? YEAH!

In Forrest Gump ... ...ahhh Lieutenant!

LieUTeNaNt DaNNnn!

Ahhh, phew I remembered.

so this is Colonel then.

Yep, so when I say "I'm in the mood for the colonel..."

you're saying you want to go to KFC.

I'm in the mood for some colonel!

Your diet is wrecked, Loretta.

Lolz.

How embarassing.

Colonel Harland Sanders...

He's a real person?! I'm so sorry!

He was really a colonel?!?!?!

I should be a lot more respectful then!

ThAnKs For Your ChIckEn!

Next word, please!

Here!

Ki ni suru.... Hmm? Say it again.

*smaller voice* ki ni suru...

*says it fast* ki ni suru...

I think I hear a slight accent?

ki NI suru. ki NI suru.

Wait, how did I say it before?

Ki↓ ni suru (emphasizing the KI)

A lot of people emphasize the KI in ki ni suru or ki ni naru (sounds like "to become a tree")

(wrong) Ki↓ ni naru

Ahhh　I actually hear it now.

me kara uroko (scales from the eyes)

we also say "the scales fell from my eyes" in English!

Like you finally realized and see clearly now.

That's crazy we have the same idiom.

ki ni suru to.....

ok hold up...... ki ni suru to kiri ga nai

....ki ni suru to Ki↓ri ga nai...UH OH (said the KI in KIRI too forcefully)

ki ni suru to... ki ni.... ki NI SURU TO

aghhwhw....

KI ni suru to - NOPE

ki　↑Ni SURU TO (lean upwards into the ni) (if you pay too much attention...)

If you pay too much attention to grammar and pronuncation you'll BECOME MIST

Nope, missed it again.

Ahhhh I'm so pissed!

go up after the first ki

ki NI SURU TO KIri ga nai

go back down on the second ki and back up on RI again

Just like the phrase, THERE'S NO END TO THE MADNESS

this phrase has a double meaning!

This is actually really hard, but a lot of fun.

Everyone needs and AkKiE-SEN-sEi in their lives.

An Akkie-SENsEi...in their rural lives.

OK sending you the next English word...

Back with the R's again?!

YEP!

Squirrel.... squirrel... ...PERFECT!

My Japanese friends are always shocked by the amount of squirrels in the States.

There's a lot of them?

Dude, they're everywhere!

I'm imagining all these squirrels bounding over to you like a Disney movie

Yeah, squirrel is pretty hard to say.

Do you have any tips for the Japanese viewers?

Yeah just like, throw up your guts.

Ya just gotta hurl it out there.

From the deep depths.

I do actually have a tip that worked for me

I haven't seen it because it's too scary, but do you know The Grudge?

Oh, the sound the girl makes?

Practicing this sound actually really helped me.

You have to get use to making the sounds from deep in there.

Something like that.

If you can do that you can also master girly-style of talking in the States!

with THIS sound?!

*vocal fry* if you talk like thisss then you're totally AmerIcAnNNn

I got this new cARRrr and it's totally COoLLLl

then SquiRRelLlSs where in my CaRrRR

So cooLlLll squirrels in my YaRDdDd and

Yeah, the whole vocal fry thing.

A lot of people actually can't make that grudge girl sound.

DiD you Get iT ThiS TimEEe???

Didya GetTT iTTtt??

Seriously though, as Japanese students learning English

we were told to curl our tongue back

but if you don't use your throat more it sounds more like this sound

Yeah you gotta dig deep for this one.

You HAVE to use your throat.

Just like... throw up.

If you don't...

ThenNn You Won'T SpeAk EnglIshHhH

squirrel and...quoerrl?

the word that means fight?

Ah, quarrel!

Ah yeah, this one's tough too!!

It's so hard when L and R are in the same word.

Pearl? Curl?

A twirling squirrel...

See and now you've got W's R's AND L's in one word...

Uncle Earl in his rural yard went outside to find the twirling squirrels.

My guts will fall out if I say that too hard.

Alright get ready for the next word...

mine are going to really test you!

Wait.. what?! Hashi no hashi....

Hashi no Hashi de hashi wo tsukau. Say it again?

(starts saying it up and down 8million ways)

(meaning: I use chopsticks by the edge of the bridge)

The first two HASHIs are said the same way.

Ha↑-SHI NO Ha↑-SHI DE HA↓shi wo tsukau.

Hmm, may we should like google check my pronunciation.

I'm not sure this will come out though...

haSHI NO haSHI DE HAshi wo tsukau.

OH WE GOT iT NOW, FAMMM

Yeah, that just then was perfect.

It worked!!!!

I'm soooo happy. Sending the next word!

existential...

existential crisis.

Don't forget the eggs.

You can pronounce it like eggs-istential!

laundry is my existential crisis...

It means... is this from "exist"?

It has to do with your mental state

Like when you start overthinking if your life has meaning

then you start to kind of get stuck in a loop

like, your feelings and mental state.

As a joke I say laundry is my existential crisis

Like I'll always have to do this. There's no point so why keep doing it?

I'm not getting anywhere running in circles like this.

Everyday you wake up like... this same loop again?

When you get up and think about going to work again and again

you start to worry if everyday for the rest of your life is just going to look like this.

it's like a bad mental complex.

That's such an English...way of saying it.

Wait, really!?

I don't think we'd think about it that way in Japanese

Ahh, about the laundry right?

Like why did you move to Japan? Because of an existential crisis.

If I stayed in the States for the rest of my life, doing the same thing everyday I might break.

Like you have to keep changing things up.

It does seem hard to pronounce...

OH YEAH! The point is how to say it, not what it means.

Oh yeah, back on track.

the end part is pretty hard.

An even harder word to say may be existentialism.

it's like the whole movement behind it?

Like a movement in art and books

ahhh, like a faction/way of thinking you subscribe to.

I feel like the most famous/closest example in Japan is Natsume Soseki.

kind of like the realism movement?

I think it came before realism....

er no, I think after.

You first have to see your reality before you start freaking out about it.

I'm sure I won't see this word in normal conversation.

You might in English!

This sarcastic cynicism is common in American English

this is my existential crisis. Mmk, got it.

Everyone in the comments is going to worry if I'm ok...

There it is. Existential Crisis.

Siri: Should I keep going?

No, see Siri, that's YOUR existential crisis.

[tsuchi wo tsutsuku] to poke at the ground

This is... uh... tsu...ts--- tsuchi?

Yep, you got it.

Want to read the whole sentence?

I can't ok lemme warm up my mouth...

Calm downnn calm down...

tsuchi wo tsutsuku.

Oh you got it! Great!

I feel like Slim Shady with this.

tsuchi wo tsusuku...

*starts beatboxing*

THAT WASN'T JAPANESE :) ?!

OK, my last one! Are you ready?

These words I gave you, are real everyday words.

In other words... they are... .... you gotta be kidding me.

Oh wait, you almost had it!

....cololo..quiaill..ellweee..

do you say the i ? I really don't even know.

Ah, nope. Can't say this one.

Even native English speakers...

or at least a lot of them can't say this.

Like shujutsu-chuu in Japanese. It's a common colloquialism...

but somehow the world colloquialism is a common colloquialism

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