Hearted Youtube comments on Oriental Pearl (@OrientalPearl) channel.

  1. My late boyfriend was born in Japan, he was Japanese/hispanic and his mom's side of the family actually completely disowned him. He said they hated him. His mother was buried in the family site and he was not allowed to even visit. I'm very glad Jesse has a good attitude about it because from what I've experienced even as an outsider it can be awful. He said the general people would be very judgmental as well especially the older generations.
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  2. The day of the entrance ceremony at the school I'm working at, a 1st grader came to me and asked "外国人ですか？" (which means "are you a foreigner?"). Didn't expect that one 😂😂 Also, because I'm overweighted, some 1st graders used to run to me to touch my tummy 🤣🤣🤣 But my funniest experience was about 1 year ago, when I was living in Otsu (a small city in Shiga prefectura, near Kyoto). It was raining, so I was using an umbrella. A kid (maybe 8 years old?) passed by while I was waiting to cross the street, and then he looked up and realized I looked different. His face suddenly changed and he opened his eyes wide, and he kept staring directly at me with that shocked expression while he walked away (yeah, he was walking backwards so he could keep looking at me) 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
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  3. His family is so sweet!!! His mom saying there were lots of embarrassing photos and his dad saying he might get teased on YouTube. Omg. So adorable!!! This looks like an amazing way to spend new years!! 🥰🥰
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  4. I had a Japanese roommate in college for something like 3 years. He had come to the US originally on some sort of agricultural exchange and then learned enough English to enroll in college. I grew up on a farm so he would come stay with my family on holidays and over summer vacation. He invited me to come with him to visit his family in rural Japan in 1974 or 1975 (don't remember). His family had some land with sheds for raising chickens and for gathering eggs for sale. His uncle had a rice farm in the neighborhood. So, being a farm boy, I helped out gathering eggs, vaccinating chickens, and other farm chores after I studied Japanese in the morning. One day I was helping harvest rice. My friend would run a small combine to pick the rice and I would carry the bags full of rice to the edge of the country lane to be hauled away by a truck. One afternoon, I just happened to be at the edge of the lane putting down a bag of rice when a woman walked right by me down the lane. I said "konnichiwa" to be polite. When I got back to the house , his sisters were howling with laughter because the woman had called all over the neighborhood to find out where the "woman with a mustache" was staying. It was because I was wearing a Pendleton wool shirt against the chilly weather (October) and the color was mostly blue with thin yellow and red stripes. To her only a woman would wear those colors. At the train station when classes of kids would get off the train and see me, they would start jumping up and down yelling "gaijin, gaijin, gaijin" and shooting me with imaginary rifles. I really liked 99% of the people I met. They were thrilled to talk to a foreigner and I was invited out to dinner all the time. The people who had studied English at the university were ecstatic to be able to practice. I did get tired of being taken for some sort of non-human by some people who would tug my hair and pull down my eyelids to see my green eyes. The retired school teacher who tutored me in Japanese was one of my favorite people in my life in the world.
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  5. The more you know a language, the more humble you become about it. Some real polyglots won’t even tell you because even though they’re almost at a native level they will still be insecure about it.
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  6. My pet peeve: polyglots claiming "I learned language X in 15 days!", when they should actually say that they studied it FOR 15 days. Subtle difference in a cheap shot.
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  7. That kimono/American fusion dancing was amazing. I literally started laughing it was so good. I've never seen anything like it. Gonna have to watch that over and over.
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  8. When I was a kid, seeing and talking to a foreigner in my hometown was a reminder that there's a bigger world out there. It did not seem much, but Im very sure you just made their day 😊
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  9. It was weird hearing you speak English after all that Chinese and Japanese.
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  10. The lady when you said "Thank you for your hard work." was a delight! She cracked me up laughing too, it was contagieous like her good food. Everyone must try. I liked how even people from Canada visited her shop that made me feel happy (I'm from Canada as well).
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  11. I think you studying at Fudan University was a great decision because every time you mention it to Chinese people even those not in China their faces light up with surprise and admiration! :D
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  12. "Funny, I just got complimented by an American" for speaking accent free chinese in japan kek world is small
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  13. She got moves. That was a fun watch and I completely lost track of time (always a good sign).
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  14. When we visited Vietnam, we stayed mainly in rural areas. Everyday children would come up to us and practice their English. They were so polite and respectful
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  15. My son is a 6'8" American of European descent and when he went to Japan he was like a child magnet in the streets. They crowded around to get their photos taken with him!
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  16. I loved the relief in Tommy's parent's faces when they saw she put some effort into learning Japanese, and seeing that they learned some English was really heartwarming. It looked like such fun, I love it 😭😭
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  17. In I believe 1993 when I was about 20 years old I was walking through the parking lot at Tokyo Disneyland. I noticed far off in the distance a few girls coming towards me but they were pretty far away. As the gap closed I could tell they were probably high school age or possibly college age and they seemed oddly focused on me for some reason. As the distance began to close even more between us I kind of naturally and subconsciously shifted my path to avoid a head on collision between us but I noticed as I moved left or right they moved with me. After doing this for several minutes across the very long parking lot they were finally coming very close and I could see by the look on their faces that they were simply amazed to be seeing me up close. Why exactly I had no idea. I mean I was a fairly handsome 20 year old, sure, but it was Tokyo Disneyland not the middle of Saga Prefecture or something like that. Anyway as they apparently had a tractor beam locked on me we finally ended up literally face to face and so feeling a little awkward by the situation I said, "hello" in English and they literally started jumping up and down screaming like I was Tom Cruise or something. It's the only brief moment in my life that I experienced ever so slightly what it might feel like to be famous. lol PS. You ladies were rocking those bikinis. Yes, I'm old now but I'm not dead. :)
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  18. This is so sweet!!! So happy for you xoxoxoxo
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  19. We have a similar situation in my own extended family. My elder son fell in love with a beautiful Korean lady and was initially timid about going to meet her very conservative/traditional parents in Koreatown, Los Angeles. This is where the language connection comes in -- my son studied Japanese as his foreign language in high school, and her father spoke 5 languages, including Japanese. My son and his future father-in-law struck up a conversation in Japanese, and when my future daughter-in-law left the house at the end of the evening, her father confided to her, "I like him." My wife and I are now blessed with two delightful little grandsons, age 4 and 6. Life is good.
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  20. Your ability to walk up and interact with strangers is well beyond my capabilities at the moment. You inspire me to be more sociable
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  21. Omg. “He’s a Frenchman. And we are drinking sangrias... at a German festival... in Japan.” 🤣 I TOTALLY had a moment like that once! I won a competition for foreigners singing in Japanese in Japan at a Chinese festival once. 😂 Every time I explained it to people I sounded like that hahaha.
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  22. That taxi driver was so sweet. He just really wanted you to enjoy the place no matter what.
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  23. Learning Japanese to your level and living there... goals 🥰🇯🇵
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  24. Alyssa, thank you so much for everything you do for the homeless in Japan. Your video was awesome this time too! I'm really grateful that you let me share my story. Your help and kindness mean a lot to us. Arigatogozaimasu🙏🙌
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  25. When you realize the average 5 year old has a vocabulary of 10,000 words in their native language, you realize how little you know and how far you have to go.
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  26. Most of the faces are probably a reflection of "If she knows that many of MY languages, what have I been doing with my life?!?" Simply brilliant, I wish I was fluent in at least ONE of those languages...
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  27. Alyissa….. I owe you an apology…… I commented a while back on the first video you made with Nomad…. You were interviewing him on the topic of his homelessness…. After watching I began to think you were doing this for content….. I believe I said that in my comment… I now see how wrong I was…. What you really did is use your influence to help someone out…… Nomad has hit 100K now and I’m sure the exposure you gave him was a huge part in getting there….Thank you for proving me wrong……. I sincerely apologize….. Us Michiganders gotta stick together…… Take care…..☮️
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  28. What I find the most challenging about learning a different language isn’t speaking it, it’s understanding when it’s spoken to me by a native. If you don’t have a lot of practice—(that is, opportunities to listen to it spoken by a native)you end up needing a lot of processing time. And that makes a casual conversation with someone in the street difficult. I’m impressed at how well you’re able to engage in conversation in so many different languages.
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  29. Hello everyone. First of all I want to thank Anming, It was awesome to join her video project. I also want to tell everyone that you are more than welcome to ciriticize me. I always try to improve the languages and videos where I make grammar and pronunciation mistakes are part of the process. I also want to wish everyone the best, keep learning and never give up! Cheers
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  30. She's more sociable than me having the ability to breathe without anxiety around people
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  31. I remember when I traveled to Japan as part of a special credit system for a month and we visited a children’s elementary school and I got up in front of the class and introduced myself in Japanese, and they asked me about my favorite movie (I said it was The Lion King) and the teacher gave me a ball game - the one with the wooden post with multiple sides that are shaped to hold a ball, which is attached by a string, and the goal is to flip the ball up by force and land it on top without it falling off. I flipped it over [it was my first time playing with this toy] and it landed perfectly on top, and the entire class was a singular chorus of “OOOOOOHHHHH”. They asked me if I’d ever done that before and I said no, and they were amazed, lol. Then as I was leaving a group of kids ran out and asked me if I was coming back. They are such adorable beings.)
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  32. She reminds me of Rachel from Rachel and Jun’s adventures
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  33. “700,000 Chinese people living in japan, that means 700,000 opportunities to make a friend!” I love that positivity 😭💖 that type of attitude is so lovely ✨
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  34. "I know a little Japanese" continues to speak paragraphs of collegiate graduate level Japanese to a native speaker
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  35. This girl is a class act. Very kind, cheerful and skilled with languages. 10/10 vid.
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  36. My mother was in hospital in Kunming China for heart surgery. The nurses were examining her as she came awake after surgery. My mother had her belly button/navel removed in surgery decades earlier. The nurses thought as a westerner she did not speak good Mandarin. So they gossiped. They said "Look at that Canadian. She has no belly button. I guess all Canadians have no belly button."
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  37. repeating "your japanese is also good" back to them is such a POWER MOVE! 🤣🤣😂
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  38. I lived in Japan for 22 years. Within a given week I would always be asked, (in Japanese) Where are you from? How long have you been in Japan? And when are you going back to your country? Do you like living in Japan? I got tired of answering the same questions. I was always polite and friendly... but it did make me feel, that no matter how long I lived there, I would always be seen as a foriegner that had just arrived in Japan and was just visiting for a short time and would go back to my country in the near future. And the looks I got from arguing with my children in Japanese in the street. My kids look more Japanese than foriegn and can you imagine me a grown man dragging a crying two year old down the street - with them screaming at me in Japanese. Someone must of thought I was kidnapping a child LOL.
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  39. lol they casually ask "do you like Japan because of anime?" , id probably get embarrassed if I heard that and say "....yeah…"
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  40. Wow, there are people who just walk around in BDSM fetish gear at train stations, while I spend my time second guessing what colour shirt I should wear. 😂
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  41. Those young rickshaw pullers certainly work hard for their money, and such friendly chap! I have never taken a ride with them when I was in Japan as I noticed they always approach woman, or a dating couple.
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  42. ''foreigner living in japan'' half of the video: speaking chinese and about cakes nice
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  43. That lady looks like an assassin what is she clutching in her shirt?!?
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  44. So this also explains why the Japanese are so disciplined and orderly. It's been instilled in them since childhood. It's a good and bad thing at the same time.
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  45. Her: "i just started being a youtuber this february" Also her : has 111k Subscribers
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  46. 1:39 such a confusing moment, she speak Chinese in Japan while holding Korean ramen and Taiwanese cookie
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  47. It's pretty wild how some people just have no idea about how potentially dangerous this place could be, if you're not really street savvy. Being a New Yorker, this doesn't look nearly as bad as to what it COULD really be, but I think the appeal of the affordability and easy access to tourist attractions is what's bringing foreigners to the area. I hope Japan will see this as an opportunity to assist these people instead of ignoring them.
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  48. I appreciate the effort you put into this video
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  49. Her and her brothers mannerisms are very culturally Japanese. She did seem so much more comfortable speaking Japanese ❤ What an interesting video 😊
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  50. Great video. Poor Tommy. It's always his wife getting hugged by other people lol
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