How Shogun Stars Learned Japanese FAST
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Get 50% off StoryLearning Courses at any level. 🇯🇵 When I found out the cast of Shogun learned 1600s Japanese, I had to find out more. These guys really put their language skills to the test–and I uncovered some pretty valuable tips in the process. Stick around! Whether you’re learning Japanese, Spanish, or Chinese, you’ll find some valuable information to help you learn your language FAST.
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0:00 – First Englishman in Japan
0:49 – What is Shogun?
2:00 – Cosmo Jarvis
2:54 – Immersion Mirrors
5:27 – Reading and Parroting
7:42 – Summer Sale
11:56 – Body Language Clues
14:02 – Going “Method”
16:05 – English = Portuguese
17:39 – The Japanese Cast
20:52 – Translating the Script
22:15 – Subtitles
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idea regarding prepared phrases. in our new weird age of large language models, you can just ask a LLM to generate such phrases for you.
even very job specific prepared phrases.
thank you for this video.
I can’t wait to watch it I hope they put it on YouTube
Ooh. Anjin-sama!
I am currently watching this TV series, interesting
As a Japanese speaker, I can attest to the old dialect. You can generally get the jist but there are many more yamato-kotaba than modern Japanese and many words/expressions are just different, such as 拙者 and かたじけない. Having a background of graduate study in medieval Japanese history and having seen some jidai geki, I could do okay but the subtitles were absolutely necessary. I never would have known the meaning of 紅天 (“kouten” for Crimson Sky) without them.
That’s fascinating! I didn’t know it was quite so distant!
From that short clip, I caught “hi no moto no kotoba” instead of “nihongo” 😂 yamato kotoba everywhere
@@ayszhang Yes, they always referred to Japan as “hi no moto”, which of course is quite similar to the modern “日本”.
In contrast, I found the Japanese in The Last Samurai to be perfectly understandable. Of note, Tom Cruise’s accent was much better than Peter Pettigrew’s even though he was supposed to be the expert. 🤣
I lived in Japan for 8 years, and I know more than a bit of the language. I’ve been told that Japanese is ‘difficult’ but I find Thai much more challenging. I speak a fair bit of German and French as well, although I’m not fluent in any of the languages. I know a Japanese professor of Japanese at a Thai university, and he gave me a backhanded compliment by saying ‘Your Japanese is ALMOST OK!’ lol
Top series. I felt so agonized all the times Mariko perverted or flat-out censored Blackthone’s real intentions when translating.
I’ve been learning MSA Arabic just for fun for a couple of years now and Short Stories in Arabic is due to arrive this afternoon. 🎉
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Shogun is awesome! And the old Japanese an absolute thrill-ride! Thanks for the explanation.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Now i got a new strategy
That basic Italian course is mighty tempting!
I’m just glad you call it “Show-goon”
Hollywood folks tend to go “Show-GUN” which always irk me so 😅
@@BrokenSoulConfession you probably just Looove “carry-oh-key” :p
Showgoon is so offensive. Please have some respect.
I’m an interpreter (Spanish/English). I’m surprised you didn’t differentiate between interpretation and translation.
Arabic and Turkish are the toughest languages I have tried to learn for a prolonged period. They are still underway.
The most difficult languages i learnt as an adult were Greek and Aramaic. They are a huge brain-shift about how thoughts are structured, how much about time and space and number can be conveyed in a single verb, and how much a verb’s base meaning is altered by context.
Greek reminded me how much language controls how you think and what you even think of. Oddly, I spoke Navajo and Spanish via Navajo when I was a kid. While I lost facility in Navajo around 10, I believe it was what engendered my interest in how language changes observation, expectation and imagination.
I cannot comprehend learning Japanese so quickly. I’ve been studying for a year now and some days I will spend 8 hours or more studying but I hit a wall and my brain refuses to absorb any more information after a certain point.
Hi Olly! I love your content and find your language learning tips incredibly helpful. Could you make a video recommending books and other reading materials specifically for intermediate Spanish learners? It would be great to have a curated list to help us progress to the next level. Thanks!