Yuta Aoki

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The last episode of Oshi no Ko Season 3 was iconic. Gave me so many different emotions lol

Which one do you think would be good for my second channel name? (Titles are truncated because of the character limit, but they all mean "Japanese".)

"Why does Japanese has so many homophones?" #learnjapanese

@W0rm_D3ath How about "Unlearning Awkward Japanese" or "Fix Awkward Japanese"?

@ThatYuta unlearning unnatural/textbook japanese are my favorite, they have more of a ring and still explain the point of the channel well. looking forward to when you make it! i will be there!

Can I ask for your opinion? I’m thinking about creating a separate YouTube channel where I fix unnatural Japanese in textbooks and apps. Not everybody likes this topic, so that’s why I’m thinking of creating a new channel just for this. But I haven’t decided on a channel name that represents what I do. Here are some of the names I’ve thought about. What do you guys think? - Context-First Japanese with Yuta - Natural Japanese Lab with Yuta - Native-like Japanese with Yuta - Naturalify Japanese with Yuta - Japanese in Context with Yuta - Unlearning Unnatural Japanese - Unlearning Textbook Japanese - Make Japanese Natural Again with Yuta - Native Level Japanese with Yuta

"Why should we use the contracted form with our boss?" #learnjapanese

"私歌得意です sounds awkward." #learnjapanese

"What does "meccha samukanai" mean?" #learnjapanese

"First rule in Japanese is to learn someone's name." #learnjapanese

How to say "This is for you" in Japanese #learnjapanese

"Pitch accent is overhyped." #learnjapanese

I’ve been watching Andrew Hales’s (@LAHWF) old videos where he goes around talking to people in an awkward way. And I remember how much I loved his content. This was around 2013, when prank videos were becoming very popular. But pranks became very elaborated and people started faking those videos. Today, if you see videos where people interact with random strangers, it’s really hard to tell if it’s staged or not. But Andrew didn’t take the route. His videos were barely a prank by today’s standards. He was just saying and doing something awkward. No sophisticated set-up. Just him doing things. A lot of his interactions didn’t lead to anything, with people just walking away awkwardly. And he included a lot of those less-than-stellar reactions, especially on his second channel. And I love that rawness. I used to do street interviews in Tokyo for my YouTube channel, where I would walk up to strangers and ask to interview them. Most of the time, I got rejected, and only a small percentage of people were friendly enough to say yes. Andrew’s videos mirror my experience. People in his videos represent the people we meet in real life. We meet a lot of people in our lives, and most of those interactions don’t lead to anything substantial. But occasionally, something magical happens. I connected with Andrew’s videos because I see him experience real life, not a curated version of social media that paints life through rose-colored filters.

"Instead of using Kanji, add spaces." #learnjapanese

君 vs. あなた #learnjapanese

"Native Japanese sounds like caveman speech." #learnjapanese

"You shouldn't use たい when talking about other people." #learnjapanese

"How to turn a Keigo sentence into a non-Keigo sentence?" #learnjapanese

"Why is it written 行こう and やろう, but it sounds like you're saying 行く and やる?" #learnjapanese

"Is 私は車かあります correct?" #learnjapanese