KoreKara Podcast

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. Check the episode out on YouTube! 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. Support us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/SZnhQ3z4wfU

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. Check out the video on YouTube! https://youtu.be/B6ZY3LIlc0U

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. Check the podcast out on YouTube! https://youtu.be/PHnUbtk8C98

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.   ► Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Korepoddo $10 free italki credits (after first lesson) → https://go.italki.com/korekara Our Links: ► Eric's Twitter: https://twitter.com/reysuing ► Raza's Twitter: https://twitter.com/razatalks ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/korepoddo 

► Join the KoreKara Squad: https://discord.gg/korekara  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.    ► Support us on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/Korepoddo   Our Links:  ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/korepoddo ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/reysuing ► Twitter: https://twitter.com/razatalks

► Join the KoreKara Squad: https://discord.gg/korekara  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!