This week we talked to Kaho Shibuya, a retired JAV actress who was also previously a guest on the Trash Taste Podcast! In the episode we talk about her current projects, how she was able to learn English through immersion, her favorite YouTube channels and anime, her experience working with Trash Taste, CDawgVA, The Anime Man, and more.

Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8kDGeC1OxAc

This week we talked to  アーサー (IU-Connect), who runs a YouTube channel with over 250k subscribers teaching English to a Japanese audience. In the episode we chat about how he learned Japanese to a high level, his stories with living in Japan, and his experience teaching English on his YouTube channel IU Connect.

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This week we talked to Dr. Capital (ドクター・キャピタル ) ! He is a guitarist, vocalist, university professor and has an ACTUAL doctorate of musical arts. He speaks impeccable Japanese on his YouTube channel covering Japanese music. In the episode we dive into how he learned Japanese, how music theory helped him acquire pitch accent, and his stories of studying abroad and staying with a Japanese host family.

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This week we talked to  Steve's POV (スティーブ的視点 ) ! He runs the channel Steve's POV where he shares his love for Japanese culture and cars, and makes video purely in Japanese. He runs a company for the Japanese and American market and he owns over 15 cars (including Japanese cars) in the US. We were really blown away by his level of Japanese and we just had to interview him to learn more about his story.  In the podcast we hear about his experience learning Japanese, how he got into Japan and cars, and his thoughts on American and Japanese culture.

This week we talked to Amandumb, a half Japanese content creator that makes content around Japan including translating songs into Japanese and covering them and cultural content as well. Her work has been featured in the Oscars and she has garned over 580K followers on TikTok with over 16 million likes.

Check out the episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/yfq-CGlL-Ew

This week we talked to Julien Gaudfroy, one of the best foreign speakers of Mandarin of all time. We hear about his personal story living in the country, language learning philosophies, the nuances he's picked up the years, and his advice for those trying to reach the highest levels in a foreign language.

Check out the podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/oai17s8_3EQ

Outline:  
0:00 Who is Julien Gaudfroy  

2:46 How Julien Started Learning Mandarin Chinese 

05:54 "Learning Languages is Easy Compared to Being a Musician" 

6:40 How Long Did it Take To Reach Perfect Pronunciation? 

8:30 Study Methods That Julien Used  

15:30 Learning Chinese Outside of China  

18:25 Thoughts on "Shocking Natives" Videos 

21:03 The Truly Advanced Level of Shocking Natives 

27:24 Nuances of Accent in Mandarin 

28:40 Julien Speaks Chinese

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This week we talked to ALBO, who makes videos about the Japanese Car Culture on YouTube. We talk about his story of coming to Japan, how he got into cars, crazy stories of street racing, and more.

Check out the podcast on YouTube: https://youtu.be/OrO6NXkFlc0

Outline:
0:00 Introduction  
0:38 How Albo Got to Japan
3:00 Gunma and Initial D
3:50 How and Why Albo Stayed in Japan
6:24 Illegal Street Racing Stories in Japan
9:50 Albo's Approach to Studying Japanese  
13:21 Sponsor
14:01 Street Racing the Police in Japan  
20:00 The Drifting Scene in Japan
23:15 ALBO's KoreKara Message (in Japanese)

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This week we talked to Peter Barakan, a professional broadcaster and host of Japanology! He's written several books mostly about music all in Japanese and has been living in Japan for almost half a century. We talk to him about his experience working in Japan, his approach to learning Japanese including pitch accent, and what he struggles with the most to this day.

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This week we talked to  @Ryan Kulp (라이언 컬프)  who is a tech entrepreneur turned K-Pop Star. We talked about his experience with learning Korean, stories with entrepreneurship, joining the entertainment industry in Korea, and why he's decided to move on from Korea and leave the country.  

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Richard Simcott is a hyper polyglot who has studied over 50 languages and speaks 16 languages fluently. He runs the Global Polyglot Conference and also the language learning blog Speaking Fluently.

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On this episode we talk to Landin who is a Japanese learner aspiring to delve into Nanpa (Pickup) in Japan and we talk about his embarassing stories as well as some success stories that he has had so far.

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https://youtu.be/SXKWhP6IOEQ

BJ Fox is a British stand-up comedian based in Tokyo who performs in both English and Japanese. We talk about his start to Japanese and comedy, his thoughts on the state of comedy in Japan, and his experience running a comedy club in Japan!

Check out the video on YouTube: https://youtu.be/A2WXWOcwAdk

Outline:  

00:00 Who Is BJ Fox And How He Got To Japan 

04:10 First Time Doing Comedy in Japanese 

07:00 Japanese Audience versus Western Audiences 

07:52 Thoughts on Other Comedic Forms in Japan 

12:00 Working with Other Comedians  

14:00 What It's Like Becoming Famous In Japan 

19:20 How to come up with jokes  

20:40 KoreKara message

LivaKivi is a YouTuber who documents his pursuit of different passion including programming, drawing, and of course Japanese. He joins us for a second round where we discuss his other hobbies, his thoughts after quitting his corporate job, his passion for YouTube, and whether or not language learning is considered to be easy.

Check us out on YouTube: https://youtu.be/mNZzGOqVBRY

Ethan O' Brien is a professional translator for Japanese media. In the episode we hear about what goes into translations for Japanese media, how to become a translator in Japan, and his personal journey becoming a translator as well.

Check out the YouTube version: https://youtu.be/HmPWC3vCns4 

This week we talked to Jason (aka supersonic540), who works at a Japanese Video Game Company (Koei Tecmo). He was previously featured on Dogen's channel and in the episode we talk about his experience moving to Japan, learning Japanese, and working in Japan.

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This week we talked to Nick, a professional Manzai comedian in Japan! We hear about his experience getting to an extremely fluent level in Japanese, his thoughts about comedy in Japan, his experience living in Japan, and more.

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This week on the podcast we interview Patrick, also known as @DiscipleOfAJATT on twitter! We hear about his experience studying Japanese for the past decade using the AJATT method, getting a PERFECT score on the JLPT N1 on his first attempt, and his thoughts on spaced repetition systems.

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This week we talked to  @mayuko , a Japanese-American software engineer and content creator! We get into her experience growing up bilingual, going to Japanese school in the US and other cultural parts of Japan in the podcast.  

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This week we get into a debate with medical doctor Justin Sung on the effectiveness of Anki and Spaced Repetition for high level Language Learning.   

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Today we talked to Becki (CuppaLang)! We discuss the academic study of Nihongo Jozu, her experience getting a Ph.D. in Japan, journey with Japanese, learning other languages, and more. Hope you enjoy!