It's affordable, effective, AND easy to use!

お手頃、効率的、 簡単につかえるウェブサイトなの

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あなたの好きな言語を 家で学ぶことができるのよ

If you're interested, click the link below

もし興味があったら 下のリンクをクリックしてね

and you can try one lesson and get the second free!

2回目のレッスンは無料になるよ

Thanks for listening and enjoy the show!

聞いてくれてありがとう ではビデオ楽しんでね

Hey guys! Welcome back to my channel

みんなこんにちは〜 私のチャンネルへようこそ

And I'm really happy to say that I'm here with Rachel

レイチェルと一緒に動画とれて嬉しいです

And we are going to talk about Culture Shock in Japan

今日は日本で感じた カルチャーショックについて話します。

It's not gonna be a lot of Common Culture Shock

典型的なカルチャーショックじゃないよ

You have to take off your shoes indoors?

靴脱がなきゃいけないの？？みたいな。笑

Yeah, like the "taking off your shoes" is kind of a no-brainer

靴を脱ぐのはみんなもう知ってるよね

I think a lot of people who are studying Japanese or interested in Japan are viewing our channels

日本語を勉強してたり 日本に興味のある人が私たちのチャンネル見てるから。

So I feel like we should talk about the less commonly known Culture Shocks!

だからあんまりみんなが知らない カルチャーショックを話そうと思って

We're just gonna go ahead and start with:

ではさっそく始めましょう

Number 1...

まずは一つ目！

These are things that I've noticed recently and the number one thing I've noticed recently is

最近私が気づいたことがいくつかあって まず一つ目は

People on trains with books, and there's covers on their books

電車で本を読んでる人の 本にはカバーがついてるの

So when they're reading books, it's just for privacy reasons, so I think that's actually a good idea

プライバシーの為だと思うけど いい考えだと思う

because people aren't looking at what you're reading and you don't feel so self-conscious

何を読んでるかバレないし 一目を気にすることもないしね

But I didn't notice that until just recently!

でも最近まで気づかなかったの

So they have like newspaper on their books or like book covers sometimes come with the book

新聞でカバーしてる人や本を購入したときに ついてくるカバーをかけてる人もいるね

in Japan, so yeah it's actually kinda convenient and I actually like it

便利だし、私は好きだな

I noticed that really early on because Jun reads a lot and he buys lots of books

私はジュンが本をよく読むから すぐ気づいたよ！

Everytime he buys a book it comes with one of the plain white cover on it

いっつもジュンが本買うと 白いシンプルなカバーがついてる

so I never know what book he's got

だからどんな本を買ってるかわからないのw

He'll even use it at home, he just doesn't ever take it off

家でもカバーかけてて 絶対とらないの

I'm like "What are you reading Jun??"

「ジュン、一体何読んでるの？」って感じww

Since I've been here this past year and we've been driving to a lot of places

日本には何年かいるから 車でいろんなところへ行ってるけど

I've noticed that in fancier stores, if you go somewhere where you buy suit, or nice work clothes like that

高級なスーツを売ってる服屋さんとか

or some places like the Toyota Home places that we've been to recently

最近行ったトヨタホームとか

where people are potentially buying a house

家を購入したい人が行くところね

like really nice places like that

そういう場所では

a lot of the workers, when you leave in a car, they'll come outside and stand there and bow to your car

従業員の人が 私たちが車で帰るのを外で見送ってくれて お辞儀してくれるの

until you've left the parking lot

完全に駐車場からでるまでね

Sometimes there's a lot of traffic so you have to sit there for a couple of minutes and they're just bowing

たまに渋滞してて中々出れないときでも ずっと外にいて礼をしてくれてるわ

Actually a lot of people in Japan just stand there and wave at you when you leave

日本人ってお別れのとき ずっと手を振ってくれてるよね

and just wait for you to be out of sight

視界からいなくなるまで

That's actually something that I've learned in Japanese class before

前に日本語の授業で学んだわ

it's just a normal thing here

こっちでは普通のことなんだって

And they do that even at the Sony Store when I go and check out the stuff for my camera

カメラ用品を ソニーストアに見に行ったときもあったわ

They just walk you out and then they wave until you leave and they bow to you

外まで送ってくれて 帰るときに礼をしてくたわ

It feels so formal and honestly it feels so weird to me

すっごく丁寧すぎて なんだか緊張しちゃった

Greeting you at the mall, it kinda goes with what we were talking about on the first one

モールが開店したときに礼をすること！

When stores open, you basically walk in and then everybody at the store goes to the front and bow to you

お店がオープンしたときに入店すると スタッフの方がみんなお辞儀をして出迎えてくれるの

as you walk through the mall

開店のときは 明るい音楽も流れるよね

Then they have this music playing, this happy music plays when it's open

開店と同時に入ると たまにお客さんは私だけなんじゃないかと思うw

and sometimes i'm like the only person walking into the mall

みんなが自分に礼をするから なんだか緊張しちゃうの

So it's kinda awkward because they're all bowing to you

なんだか王族にでもなったみたい

It feels like you're royal or something

なんだか重要な位の高い人になった感じ

Really important, like you're high up there

入店したらみんなお辞儀してくれるの

But yeah they all come to the front of the store and bow to you when you come in

でも開店のときだけね

So that's only when they open

8-bitの音楽がスピーカーから流れてる

They play 8-bit music over the speakers

多分、著作権にお金を払いたくないのよね

Because I guess they don't wanna pay for royalty

実際の曲を使っちゃうと使用費が 発生しちゃうもんね

For like playing real music with real instruments and singers

だから8-bitバージョンの音楽を流すの よく昔携帯の着信音になってたようなやつ

So they'll play like 8-bit music versions, like you would hear on a very old cellphone ringtone

ビデオゲームとかにもよくあるやつ

or in a videogame

そうそう、ビデオゲームの。 アニマルクロッシングのみたいな！

Yeah, like in a videogame, like Animal Crossing it's...

90,80年代の曲を流すの

And then they'll play 90's music or like 80's music

マイケルジャクソンとかね！

or Michael Jackson or something

たまに聞いたことあるけど なんの曲か思い出せなくて気になるときある。笑

Yeah and it's just distracting because you'll recognize the music but you can't figure out what it is sometimes

たまに通りでも音楽流れてるよ 栄の通りでは朝に音楽が流れる

They play some music outside too on the streets like at Sakae, like in the morning they play music on the streets

なんかビデオゲームの世界に入っちゃったみたいw

Like it feels like you're in a videogame like 24/7

冗談じゃないよw たまにループで流してるお店とかもあって

Not even joking, and some stores even have it on a loop

あるお店で イッツ ア スモールワールドが永遠に流れてて 気が狂いそうになったわ

Like one store played "It's a small world" over and over and like I feel like you go crazy

やば、 そこで働いてたらやばいね

Oh my god! And if you're a worker there...oh my god

あとは日本人は 自分のやってることを口にする人が多い

Other thing I noticed is say everything you're doing

日本のオフィスで働いているときに

So I've noticed this while working at a Japanese office

ドアのところで トイレに行く場合でも

In a Business office

「トイレに行ってきます」っていうの

They would go to the door, and even if you have to go to the bathroom sometimes they'd say

それからドアから出ていく

"I'm going to the bathroom" and then they'll bow their head

でもそれで誰かが反応するわけでもなく 静かなんだけど

and walk out the door

でも日本ではそれが礼儀正しいことみたい どこでもじゃないけど

Like it would just be very quiet, like you wouldn't even notice, people wouldn't even glance up, right?

特定の場所では 自分の行く場所を言わないといけない

But it's kinda like the polite thing to do in Japan sometimes, it's not everywhere

どこかに行く前は お辞儀して行ったりするよね

but at certain places they'll tell you where they're going

バスの運転手さんも 「前に進みます、後ろに進みます」

or they're going and coming back and then they'll bow and leave

「左に行きます、右に行きます」って

And they do that on the bus too, so they're like "i'm going straight! I'm going back!"

それから「停止します」って言う

"I'm going left! I'm going right!"

「次の駅へすすみます」とか

And they'll tell you on the bus "I'm stopping!!"

全ての運転手さんじゃないけどね

"Next Station! I'm going to the Next Station!"

でも多くの運転手さんがするわ

Not all bus drivers do that, like some bus drivers do that

日本はとにかく礼儀正しいのが大事なのよ

But most of them actually do

だから、それらのことをやるのね

It's all about being polite in Japan

さっきの音楽の話と同じ感じだけど

it's the reason for why they do things

日本には音楽を流すトラックがあって

Okay, so I guess along the same lines as of noise and music and stuff are

アメリカにも音楽を流しながら アイスを売るトラックとかあるけど

they have music trucks here

日本にはいろんな種類の トラックがあるの

So we have Ice-Cream trucks in America that will go around and will play like a jingly music

ゴミを回収してくれるトラックとか

and they have trucks like that here for a lot of different things, some of them will be selling food

あとは選挙とか宣伝カーとかね 日本の音楽グループの宣伝とか

some of them will be picking up trash for you, like special trash

私たちの住んでる地域でよく遭遇する トラックが二つあるんだけど

and some of them are political vans or advertisements for groups, like music groups up in Tokyo and stuff

ひとつはわらび餅を売るトラック

There are a couple that come around the places that we've lived a lot and so I hear them all the time

毎日くるから 頭から音楽が離れないの

and one of them is selling warabi mochi

わらーびーもちっ♪

It's stuck in my head because it would come around every single day, I hear it it's

冷たくておいしいよ〜♪

"Waraaaaaabiiii Mochi!!"

あともうひとつは ジュンが言ってたのは豆腐のトラックね

「Tsumetakute Oishiiiiii yoooo」

豆腐トラック！

and then there's one here that Jun said is for tofu

はじめはトラックって気付かなくて 子供がリコーダーを練習してるのかと思った

Tofu truck!

リコーダーを毎日練習する子供が 引っ越してきたのかと思ってたの

And I didn't know it was a truck first, I thought it was a kid practicing the recorder

２つのノートをずーっと繰り返してるの

and I thought "oh my god we moved in next door to a kid who practices his recorder all the time"

リコーダーの音楽なの

And it was just two notes repeatedly over and over again

何回も何回もね

It's recorder music

だから他のも学べばいいのにって思ってた

Yeah, same over and over again

でも子供じゃなくて 豆腐を売ってるトラックだった

And I was like "this kid needs to learn new notes, try something new!"

私が初めて気づいたのは 青森で焼き芋を売ってるトラックだった

It wasn't a kid, it's a truck selling tofu

焼き芋とか豆腐とか いろんなトラックがあちこちにある

First time I noticed that was in Aomori, they did that with the sweet potato truck

実際に売ってるの

They sell sweet potato, tofu, like they have these trucks that go around like

結構いいよね

they sell this stuff!

日本で勉強してるときに気づいたのは 朝のアナウンスがあること

It's actually kinda cool!

「おはようございます、今日は９月27日です。」 みたいな感じの。

When I first had to study abroad they just did morning announcements they'd be like

それってトラックから流れてるの？

And they'd be like "good morning, today is September 27th..."

トラックじゃなくて スピーカーから流れてるの

Just a truck driving around?

住んでる地域によるわね

It wasn't a truck, it was actually like a speaker in a tower

町民の皆様おはようございます！

It depends on where you live

そう、アナウンスがあるの 「おはようございます。7時です。起きましょう」

Good morning town!!!

でも7時以降に起きる場合はどうするの？笑

Yeah so announcements, "good morning, wake up it's 7am!"

もし夜勤だったら困るよね。 家に帰ってさあ寝ようってときに。

like what if you wanted to sleep past 7am?

それに似た感じだけど

What if you worked the night shift, you got home and now you wanna sleep?

駅ごとにジングルがあるよね

Kinda related to jingles and sounds and all that stuff

その音で電車が来るってわかるの

At the train station, they always have their own jingle

それぞれのテーマソング

or their own sounds so like when the train is coming

なんかオルゴールみたいな音

like they have a certain theme song

同じ路線でも 方向が違うと音が違ったりする

So it'll be like a little music box sort of sound

だからどっちの方向から 電車がきてるかわかるの

and even if it's on the same line, if you're going the other way, it'll have a different sound to it

あとCMのジングルもあるよね

So then you know the train is coming and which side it's coming!

私は日本のテレビみないから全然わからないけど

And some of them are like commercial jingles too!

東京の恵比寿では エビスビールのCMのジングルが流れてるよね

I don't know anything about them because I don't watch Japanese TV

そうそう、エビスビールのジングルね

But I know in Ebisu in Tokyo, it's like the commercial for Yebisu beer

電車くるたびに エビスビール思い出して買いたくなるw

The jingle for Yebisu Beer

いっつもどのジングルがいいかな〜って考えてる

So when the train is coming it's reminding you of the commercial to buy Yebisu Beer

5〜4でランク付けしようかな ビデオにして

Like I always think about like "what's the coolest sound that they have?"

ケリーのジングルランキングっていう 再生リスト作ればいいよww

like, rate from 5 to 4, I could do a video about that

そうだね、いいかも。笑

You can start a playlist on your channel ranking each jingle

もしビデオみたかったら高評価押してねww

I could! That would be good!

ビデオみたい人は 高評価押してねw

Thumbs up if you want that video

アメリカでは室内での喫煙は禁止されてるの

Like this video if you want that!

州によるけど

In American we have banned Smoking indoors and..

私の出身のオハイオでは禁止されてる

I think it's a State by State thing

レストランとかどこでも 室内で喫煙できないわ

but it is banned in Ohio, in my State

でも日本ではまだ 室内で喫煙できる場所がたくさんあるわ

So in restaurants you can't smoke inside, Bars, anymore

喫煙と禁煙で分けられてる

So like, no smoking indoors and when I came here to Japan they still do it so like a lot of restaurants have

だからびっくりしたの アメリカで育ったから

Smoking sections and Non-Smoking sections

でもアメリカ以外の国では まだまだ室内で禁煙できる国が多いね

So I was kinda surprised by that, it shouldn't even be a surprise because growing up as a kid in America

州にもよるしね

we have that everywhere!

そうだね、他の州のことは知らない

But I think that's an American thing because a lot of countries still have smoking pretty much

だからアメリカ全体ってわけじゃないかもしれない

For a lot of States yeah, definitely

室内で喫煙できる州から来てる人からしたら そこまでびっくりしないかもだけど

I don't even what other States in America

喫煙できるガラス張りのスペースがあるの

so that might not be in everything in America

あと公園にもあるよね 公共の場所にあるのはなんだか不思議

It might not be a culture shock for someone who comes to Japan from a State that has smoking restaurants

例えば何かを買うときに 1万円を渡すと

But they do have like a glass sections where you can go into the room and smoke in the glass room

店員さんはマネージャーに 「１万円入ります！」って言うの

And they have them at parks too, like parks and other public places so it's kinda interesting

それは最初の方に言った 日本人が全て行動を口にするってのと似てるんだけど

So like when you go and buy something and you'll give them a hundred dollar bill or something

それからお金を必ず数えるわ 数えてきちんと見せてくれるの

They'll say to their manager "I have a hundred dollar bill, I'm putting it in the register"

扇みたい広げてね それからきちんと数えるの

And that kinda goes along with "saying things that they're doing"

それで枚数が間違ってないか確認するのね

So they do it and they count the money, they always count the money for you

でもレジの人はあんまりフランクに話してこないから なんだか機械的な感じがする

Like, they put out really nice like a fan, like a Japanese fan and they're like counting the money

私も過去に経験あるけど。 そんなによくあることじゃないわね

They go through all of it and you know you've got the right amount

会話のきっかけっていうのかな。

Counting everything to you kinda feels like an artificial conversation, because cashiers don't really talk to you

お釣りですよって

I've had some in the past, it's really uncommon

少し話すか 全然話さないかって感じだね

So i feel like it's kind of a conversation starter

次はお医者さんと歯医者について

Here's your money

はじめに「靴を脱ぐ」みたいな 典型的なのは話さないって言ったけど

It's more or less something to say than stay completely quiet

でもお医者さんとか歯医者さんでも 靴を脱がなきゃいけないのよ

So moving on to like doctors and dentists

大抵はね。

I know we were like "uh we're not gonna talk about taking off shoes"

一回脱がなくてもいいところに行ったことあるわ

but you have to take off your shoes to the doctor's and the dentist's

でも大抵の場合は脱がなきゃいけない。 アメリカとは違う。

Usually!

アメリカでは お医者さんに行くと個室に入って

I've been to one where you didn't have to

プライベートな部屋ね

but usually you take off your shoes, it's a little different than America because in America...

でも私が日本で行ったお医者さんは

if you go see a doctor you get your own room

他の部屋に繋がってるような作りだった

and you're like in a private room

後ろが開いてるの

but here, at least the doctor's that I've gone to

小さな机があるの。

it's like connected to all of the other rooms

いろんな人が通るし みんなの声も聞こえるし

It's open in the back

だからプライベート感はない。

So you'll have your own little desk

病院に行くと

but then people walking along behind you, you hear everyone else

部屋がカーテンで仕切ってあるの 個室じゃないわ

it's not as private

だからすごくオープンな感じ

In the hospitals and stuff, like when I went to the hospital..it sounds like crippled

多分、病院や病室によるんだろうけど

They just have curtains, like they don't have rooms

何が目的できてるとか

You're all out in the open with everybody else

例えば赤ちゃんがいたら 個室に入れたりする

It probably depends on the hospital room

日本の病院に行ったのが １回だけなの

like what you're in for

ビクターの赤ちゃんを見にいったのよ

Because, when you have a baby, then you get a room to yourself

それから歯医者さんだと

That's the only time I've actually been to a real hospital here

アメリカでは ライトが眩しくないようにサングラスをくれるけど

when I visited Victor's baby

こっちは布をかぶせられるの

And then at the dentist's, something that...

布で顔を覆われるから まるでスパに来たみたいな気分になる

In America you get sunglasses so you don't have to look at the light or whatever

美容院でもそうだよね

But here they put a cloth over your face

髪を切ってもらうとき

They just lay a cloth over your face, it feels like a spa

髪を洗うときに 顔に布かけるの

Yeah, they do that at the hair-dresser too

リラックスできるよね

when you go get your haircut

ショッピングカートに入ってる子供！

they put the cloth over your face, so you're not looking around

インターナショナルスクールで働いてたから 子供を公園に連れていくことがあったの

so you're just relaxing

３歳以下の小さい子供を連れていくときは

Kids in a shopping cart!!

カートに入れるのよ

I used to work in an international school, and we got to take the kids out to the park

なんか羊をフェンスの向こう側に 追いやるみたいな感じw

And when you do and you take little kids to the park if they're like 3 or under

カートに入りやすいようにランプがついてて それを下ろすと子供達がカートの中に入ってくるの

you put them in a cart

それを閉めて カートを押して移動するのよ

It's kinda like herding sheep into like...behind a fence

こうやってカートから外を眺めてるの

There's like a little ramp that unclasps, and then you put it on the floor and they run up the ramp into the cart