Random: Miyamoto Greets Fans In Australia And New Zealand With Hilarious Aussie Accent

Everytime someone makes an effort to speak in a language that isn't their native, bless them.

But I always say, speak with the language you feel most comfortable, and we will work it out.

Shiggy musta hit the bong. xD

"Feel free to share your personal admiration for Shigeru Miyamoto in the comments below. You never know - he might even be reading!"

Are you implying Shiggy regularly checks Nintendo Life?

He is awesome!

As a kiwi living in Oz, I found it particularly charming. Good one Shigeru, mate!

That was great, haha. And more costumes are still coming? Cool!

Wowsers trousers!

So weird, gotta love him.

I've always wondered what it must feel like waking up every morning as Shigeru and thinking "hahaha I invented Mario and Zelda and lots of the best things to ever exist hahahaha".
I can't imagine a world where he never existed.

As an aussie i love the man even more now!

@Big_Ounce Yes, and he knows when you've been Naughty or Nice -_-

@Big_Ounce Not since Tom left.

I find it easy to assume that anyone who's as successful and famous on the world's stage as Miyamoto is must have learned English at some point, but clearly that's not the case. How fascinating to think that (as far as I know) Miyamoto speaks only one language fluently, and one that is spoken by relatively few people outside his native country.

@Dr_Corndog He knows English. He's just not comfortable speaking it. If you notice, his translators only translate his Japanese to English. People talk to him in English and he just responds in Japanese.

@Dr_Corndog - He does speak english - but meanwhile, the majority of Americans or Australians do not speak fluently in a language that is spoken outside their country or family- in this case, especially true when considering he is famous in his own country also.

Besides, he’s too busy helping create the next Mario, Zelda..... and Wave Race (I can dream) to learn fluent English.

You beauty! Choice bro! =D

@FTL No Japanese can speak fluent English.

@Nincompoop Haha, I have a good friend from Japan... they speak perfect english =P Possibly better than me!

All that game development has clearly exposed him to a lot of 'Strain. Poor thing.

Missing one of my favourite phrases:
"I'll knife ya, ya @#$%"

@Big_Ounce He may be even posting anonymously!

@Nincompoop A few of my Japanese pals at work do. Some of them even speak pretty fluent Polish.

@Jin15 I was just about to quote that part but you beat me to it 🤣 Brilliant

I think I died from cuteness overload.

@SpaceboyScreams
This is why parallel universes are just a theory.
The local divinity hits the reset button every time something prevents Miyamoto's birth.

As a teacher who teaches English to Japanese students, and as someone who's practiced Japanese for years and still struggles, I give him a LOT if credit. There is nothing funny about his accent, he did very well.

You have to understand, Japanese and English are radically different languages, they have sounds in Japanese we don't really use in English and they lack sounds we regularly use in English. And that matters, a lot. Humans have selective hearing. Our brains are trained from birth to tune out "irrelevant" sounds. It can be very hard to overcome that. Furthermore, those sounds that you don't have in your native language, you lack the muscle memory to make them. Language is very complex, physically there are a lot of things happening when you speak a word.

A native Japanese speaker learning English or a native English speaker learning Japanese, is nothing like a native Japanese speaker learning Chinese, or a native English speaker learning German. It's a lot more challenging.

Haha! He's pretty great at English.

Awwwww Miyamato is the freaking best!! That was super cute! 😂😂 as a fellow Aussie I say good one mate! 😉

@Heavyarms55 : Knowing at least two languages from a young age really helps in distinguishing between sounds, adapting to different sentence structures and even concepts that do not exist in other languages. For example, in Turkey, I found it quite difficult to communicate at times because many of the words that I use in English simply do not exist or have an equivalent in Turkish, likewise in reverse. That is why with some friends and family, we find ourselves dipping in and out of English and Turkish because oftentimes one language merely isn't enough to adequately articulate ourselves. People who are limited to just one language are living in a very small world indeed.

Turkish and Japanese have quite a lot in common, especially in regards to sentence structure and word modifiers. I really should get back to learning it again.

@Silly_G That's true, that is why it is very very good to raise kids bilingual from very early on. My co-worker has two young children whom he is raising as bi-lingual and I think it's wonderful. If I ever have kids (and honestly I don't think I would want to, but if I did) I would try to do the same.

@Nincompoop You learned something today. My wife's sister-in-law is 100% Japanese and speaks fluent english, as well.

@Heavyarms55 Learning a second language is not highly valued in most of the US, as far as I've seen, which is a shame. It is typically taught starting in middle school (7th year or so) well beyond when our brains are focused on and primed for learning language, apparently. I still value what little I learned of Spanish.

That’s cool haha, I love Miyamoto.

What he should have said is:

“Oi! Listen up you bludgers! How d’ya feel about gettin’ bent over all the time with this Aussie Tax™️ bulldust? How’s 89.99 bucks for Octopath Traveller doin’ for ya, ya dero? Stick that up ya clacka! Hey Robbo, pass me a cold one...”

@aaronsullivan Born in raised in Michigan. Learning a second language not only wasn't valued, speaking one is seen as a bad thing. Though public schools tried to counter that attitude, and most colleges in Michigan require 2 years study of a foreign language in high school to gain entrance. That seemed to do little to help. And from what I hear, in the years since I left, it has gotten much worse. I have heard about people in America getting pulled in for questioning by police just for speaking Spanish in public!

Made my day!

That’s more English than the lawn mowers on my block know how to speak and they been around for years 🤣

That is awesome thanks for the special message Miyamoto San we here in Straya appreciate it!

'Choice bro' love it, still chuckling at that one.

Haha this was pretty charming.