Tokyo Record Style - 日本語、がんばるぞ！

[@Paneeks1960]

Hi Brian. Nice to finally catch up with you. Wow. You moved to Tokyo from the States? That is fantastic. You must love it there. I have longtime friends that vacationed here from there and ended up moving here permanently. I will certainly try to keep up with your posts. Hopefully I can share some music with you too. Thanks for replying to my comment that I left on Bill's video. When I started in the VC just about fifteen years now there was only about 35 of us posting vinyl videos. Now there are lots. But it is always the best meeting new friends/fellow collectors like yourself. Have a great weekend~ Rob/Boston

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Hey there, Rob in Boston! Thanks for this thoughtful comment So cool that you have some Japan connection both with your friends there and with me here. WOW, 15 years ago in the VC? That's crazy! That must have been almost at the beginning of KZbin! I've been here since 2004 and it's crazy to think that all these platforms have come (and some gone already) in these years. I'm glad that some have endured, like the VC. Salute to you, sir, for being a trailblazer in this space. Nice to make your acquaintance. Looking forward to checking our you vids, seeing you online, and who know, maybe someday meeting in person. Best from Tokyo!

[@Mfidelity]

I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so.

[@tokyorecordstyle]

With how frequently you are coming to Japan, you probably really ARE turning Japanese! kzbin.info/www/bejne/pHjcaqilosaahZY

[@robbrown1998]

Great to see you speaking like this. Photohoku is an amazing project and concept.

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Thanks so much Rob! I wish my Japanese was better but rather than stock up on words and language I might eventually need and use, I tend to get by what I have until I can't then I add a few more words on, and now looking back over these years, I wish I would have applied myself better but I was just to eager to get out and use what little I had. So this is where we are. Please be on the lookout for another Photohoku video coming out very soon! I have a little report from our late effort coming to the channel soon! Best for now! Love to you and yours!

[@IvanMusicMan]

I don´t understand it´s so strange

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Strange recognizes strange.

[@shogun_shogn]

はじめまして！ えいごは分からないけどレコードが好きなので前から見てました。 日本語の動画にびっくり！ 楽しく拝見しました☺️ これからも応援しています！

[@tokyorecordstyle]

@shogun_shogn はじめまして！ 20年も日本に住んでいるのに日本語が上手じゃなくて、本当に恥ずかしいですが、それでも私の日本語での挑戦を応援してくださり感謝しています。日本のフォロワーの方がいてくれるのは本当にうれしいです！いつか東京の街でお会いして、日本語でレコードについてお話できたらと思っています。 改めてありがとうございます。これからもよろしくお願いします！ 東京から、ブライアンより :-) Nice to meet you too @shogun_shogn I'm so embarrassed by my poor Japanese, especially considering I have lived here for 20 years and don't speak better, but nonetheless, I appreciate your encouragement for my effort to share what I can in Japanese. It's great to have some Japanese followers and I would love to meet you on the streets of Tokyo sometime and chat with you about records in Japanese Thanks again and looking forward to staying connected! Brian in Tokyo :-)

[@thebirdhills]

今日あなたを見つけました。とても魅力的な動画だと思います。これから応援しています。

[@tokyorecordstyle]

私のKZbinチャンネルを見つけてくださり、この動画を見ていただきありがとうございます。日本語をこんなにも下手に話してしまい、本当に申し訳なく、恥ずかしい気持ちでいっぱいです。それでも、私の努力を受け入れて応援してくださり、ありがとうございます！チャンネルのサポートにも心から感謝しています。また次の動画でお会いできるのを楽しみにしています。そして、もし東京で私を見かけたら、ぜひ声をかけてくださいね！ Thank you for finding my KZbin Channel and for watching this video. I terribly sorry and embarrassed that I have butchered your lovely language of Japanese so much, but thank you for accepting and encouraging my efforts! Thank you also for supporting the channel! I hope to see you on the next video ...and if you see my in Tokyo, please say hello!

[@ricefieldrecords]

I did this once. It was for a Rob Walker vinyltag. My Japanese was horrible. I showed it to my wife and she said, "most native Japanese speakers will understand what you're trying to say". I was heartened. And it's true. Most Japanese people will understand every single little effort a foreigner makes to speak the language. Because it's a formidable language. And they know that fact too. I need to find a Japanese toastmasters. That's trial by fire. But you know, I'm doing it. I'm pitching it. I'm always asking for directions or finding ways to make small talk. I walk into record shops or events, and I let it rip; and I always get a definitive answer...

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Thanks for the sentiments and shared experiences. Keep at it, that's all we can do. A lifetime of learning :-) You'll have to point me to that Vinyl Tag video so I can see it and cheer you on! Ok, "Jya ne" for now!

[@fitzelectricbar]

Nice job! Very impressive.

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Thanks so much Fitz! Enjoyed "hanging out" with you on a couple of your videos yesterday. Great to hear you voice again. Glad I hit the notification bell so I could get alerted to your next vids. Really love your insights on music in general! This was a bit of a train wreck, and I'm sure you can appreciate, a embarrassment for having lived here for 20 years and speaking this poorly, but I just keep telling myself, it's not how perfect you speak but how much deeply you can communicate. So I hope some of that is coming through. Last thing, just pulled our my 10 gratitude records. Think I will attempt this one :-)

[@Bootradr]

Hey Bryan, you do spell your name with a Y don't you? I know you say you have lived in Japan now for the last 20 years and I was just curious how long it took you to learn to speak Japanese? And was it difficult to learn? Thanks for any answers. Brian in Fort Worth 🎶

[@tokyorecordstyle]

I spell Brian the only way there is to spell Brian ;-) I think many people who come to Japan to live make a concerted plan to learn Japanese, and take classes, or they have studied it before arriving. For me, it was baptism by fire and I never took a single class (which I'm not proud of, rather quite ashamed). Had I taken a year or so of classes I would have learned the basics of the language, the tenants to adhere to. Instead I got some text books and some phrase books at the library and just studied on my own. Once I could hang at a party with people, and sorta lean on as a crutch one or two people who could speak English, I just kinda maintained and got along ok without every really completely immersing. Plus my job has an element of "being foreign" to it, but I also work in an office that 1/2 Japanese, 1/2 non Japanese, and we've all been in Japan for 10-20-30 years, so we're kinda the same, we all a bit of misfits and we just get by with what we got. I'm terrible at reading the Kanji but I can read the phonetic alphabets of Hiragana and Katakana, and I can almost read them like I can read English, in that I can't HELP but see them, but as soon as I get to a kanji character, I'm at a loss. MAYBE I can figure it out, or it's one of the several 100 (not several 1000) that I know. Was it hard? It's only hard when you want to say something and you can't. But I am lost 33% of the time basically, and that's the whole experience of being here. Best from Tokyo!

[@Bootradr]

@tokyorecordstyle thanks for the great explanation Brian! I was imagining how difficult it must be to be in any country that you're not familiar with the language in and having to learn it as you go. But a lot of people do it and it becomes second nature over time I assume. It would definitely be interesting I think. I've heard that Japanese can be very difficult for some people to learn. But I would also think that any language could be that way and it just takes time and studying like you did and it can be done 😁 Thanks again for the explanation and for the great content you put out. I love seeing some of the different record stores you go into and other landmarks in Japanese culture stories you show in your videos. Hopefully one day I'll be able to make a trip to Japan? I'd love to go there. But I definitely don't have anything in the plans at this time unfortunately. Take care and I will talk with you later...

[@tokyorecordstyle]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply! Japanese IS hard but not impossible and I think probably a fun language to learn! You can pick up some phrase books, or a text book and do like I did! And thank you for all the encouraging words about my channel! I hope to meet someday in person! When you get to Tokyo, please look me up! And until then, stay in touch!

[@TheVinylverse]

やあ、ブライアン、よくやった！コメントを日本語に翻訳するために Google 翻訳を使用しました。これは魅力的だと思いました。英語字幕をオンにして見ました。フォトホクはとてもやりがいのあるプロジェクトだったようですね。そういう形で彼らを助けることができて、本当によかったと思ったに違いありません。日本語であなたの話を共有してくれてありがとう。本当に楽しかったです --------------------------- Hey Brian, well done! I used Google Translate to have my comment translated to Japanese. I found this captivating. I watched with English subtitles on. Photohoku sounds like it was a very rewarding project. It must've really made you feel good helping them in that way. Thanks for sharing your story in Japanese. Really enjoyed it!

[@tokyorecordstyle]

@@TheVinylverse wow! You watched with English Subtitles?!?! That will be humiliating for me to do but maybe I should try. Maybe it actually makes it look like I speak better than I do but surely not! Well, as far as speaking Japanese goes, I’m ashamed to say I’m a terrible student. I studied hard up until til I could basically navigate all the daily transactions necessary and to be able to read THE most basic kanjis but not much further past that. Some of my fiends are obsessed with learning kanji - they find it fascinating and it most definitely helped them learn the language. In music terms, they can read, write, and play music, where as I can only my play, and play pretty poorly at that. But I can entertain the campfire circle, which is something. It’d take a lifetime to truly learn the language but you can get the basics in a year or two.

[@IvanMusicMan]

I don´t understand it´s so strange

[@tokyorecordstyle]

It's just me Ivan! You can use the subtitles but I don't think it will help you much ;-) Thanks for watching and commenting! I want to watch a video of yours in Norwegian sometime!