and this is Holly! This is her first time being in my videos

She was actually the first person to ever send me mail!

She sent me this adorable picture that I still have up over there

So we've known each other for years, and now she's finally in Japan!

Today we're gonna be making a Japanese tongue twister video

The other day when I was drinking with Jei at his seijin shiki

we were talking about tongue twisters and he was ridiculously good at them

So I figured I had to bring him here to make a video

So we've got 5 tongue twisters today to teach you guys

Me and Jei are gonna battle, and Holly is going to be the judge

And we'll try to think of some penalty for the person that loses

Let's do this!

We'll start with something easy, I think the easiest one is probably...

Nama mugi means raw wheat

Nama gome is uncooked rice

Nama tamago is raw egg

So we're gonna try and say that 3 times

Ladies first!

Oh god, okay...

That was really good

I've got the pressure now, you said I was really good at this

All right, here we go

Holy shit!

Oh my god

That was so fast! He totally won that one

That was like twice as fast as mine

Ok the next one is his specialty

This is the one that he's been practicing for years

So I'm obviously gonna fail this one

Do you wanna teach them this one?

A bouzu is a monk or priest

So I guess it's like a religious head figure

A byoubu is a folding screen

You know those fancy folding screens that you see in traditional Japanese homes

Jyouzu means to do something well, skillfully

Bouzu, so again the monk or the priest

E is like a painting

Kaita can mean to draw in this situation

So the monk drew the monk's picture well on the folding screen

Doesn't have to make sense it's just a tongue twister

Three times?

Sure if you can yeah

I'm good at once, but all right let's go

Holy crap! What even!

Is there a world tournament for this? Because you should definitely enter

Ok this one is new for me so I keep forgetting what it is

You definitely won that one

A for effort

I feel like they get harder though

Yeah it's gonna get harder for me too

This next one's a new one for both of us, we just found it on the internet

He said he went to Tottori with his brother 2 days ago

Ototoi is 2 days ago

Otouto = younger brother

Tottori is a place in Japan

Itta to = said he went

Ok ok, I'm gonna try

Was that right?

Yep you got it

I feel ilke I'm gonna lose this one, here we go

I think you're gonna win one

Here we go, my last attempt

No... you got it you got it

I finally got one!

Mine didn't even sound like Japanese though

I feel like when you say it really fast it doesn't even make any sense

This is the first Japanese tongue twister that I was ever taught when I was learning Japanese

Tonari no kyaku = the customer next to you

yoku = often

kaki = persimmon

kuu = casual way of saying eat

kyaku = customer

The customer next to you is a customer that often eats persimmons

That's even hard in English

I'd never eaten a persimmon until I'd got to Japan

Yeah me neither!

It looks like a tomato but it's orange

One of my friends gave me those and I was like "Is it supposed to be a mandarin??"

I learnt the Japanese word before the English word

Yeah same!

Everytime I see them in Canada I'm like "Oh kaki!"

Do you wanna try this one first?

Ok wait, one under my breath practice round

Ohh that was really good

Oh no~ the pressure

I wanna give it to you

Cause she's been friends with her for years

That makes it 2-2 and the last one will be the deciding round

Ok we have 2 more to choose from, which one do you think we should go with?

Let's go with the super hard one that makes no sense

So this last one is very long and very awkward

It's actually kinda difficult to explain

I can't even say it slowly

kaeru = frog

pyoko pyoko = frog noises

mi = 3

So it's saying the frog croaks, 3 croaks

and then put them all together and it's 6 croaks

So I think it's saying there are 2 frogs that are croaking 3 times each?

And all together it's 6

Let's go with that

Something like that

Do a slow round first

Did I say it?

Yeah you said it well

You did it pretty well

What's happening if I lose again? We don't know yet?

We don't know yet, we'll find something in my fridge

Ahh it's not mu, it's awasete. I'm gonna read it

He was like THIS close to beating you

If you had said that last one properly you totally would've won

Do you like licorice?

Black licorice I hate

So I've got these snacks from Finland

So his prize is some Super Salmiakki

If you guys watched my fan mail opening video over on my 2nd channel you know what these are

They're like a combination of black licorice and menthol

They've got like a minty flavour to them

That's even worse than just normal black licorice

All right, I say you have 3

Oh yah the menthol!

You're going one by one I woulda just been like get it all over with

Yeah I have to I have to

I think my gramma would like this

Actually yeah my gramma used to eat something really similar

So to me the flavour isn't that strange

You're willing eating one

I'm used to this flavour

Oh my god

That's so funny, I'm used to the flavour

When I posted the video everyone was surprised that I wasn't keeling over with disgust

That's me, omg it's so bad

All right guys, well thanks for watching

Cheers!

If you have any more Japanese tongue twisters you would like us to try

Leave them down in the comments!

I'm not really familiar with any more so I would like to learn some more

Make sure you check out Jei! And Holly also has a channel!

I will link them both below, so check them out

And I'll see you guys soon! Bye!