Hello,
My mom is 1st gen Japanese immigrant, who lives away from me and doesn’t have internet, and tv options are limited. I am a terrible daughter who never learned Japanese, but introduced her to some japanese language youtube the last time I visited, and now shes into it, but I barely know the relevant vocabulary, and have no idea who the “good” japanese topical youtubers are. Tbh I don’t actually use youtube in general that much myself.
Can anyone help me find good, Japanese language streaming content creators for these topics (first three are priority)?
1. Music: She was born in the early 40’s, so any playlists of music from the late 50’s till 70’s would be good. She likes Misora Hibari, and I guess that same genre of music.
2. Piano: She’s trying to teach herself piano, and can do scales and taught herself to play fur elise, but wants to learn more songs shes familiar with. Any Japanese speaking youtubers with an inclination to teach using showa or enka music? 😛
3: Gardening, a wide variety. She has anthuriums, orchids, oranges, figs, kabocha, banana, papaya, avocado, kalamungai, dragonfruit and is having a little problem with those. She also has lemons, bitter melon, chaoyte, eggplant, others. Lives in Hawaii. On youtube, I found a white shirt black hat anthurium guy, and carmenkun’s garden channel, but I can’t tell if they are giving good info or just trying to get people to buy things.
4. She’s trying to learn drawing and watercolor (no digital anything); I found Shibasaki videos they are great. Anyone else that might be good?
5. She’s always into health and exercise. She does those short exercise segments on nhk? for seniors, but it would be good if there was japanese instruction on weight training for seniors (its good for bone strength). She’s always looking for new healthy recipes, though she does get a lot of that from tv.
I know theres a component of me just looking up the kanji for the words for these things. But there will be topic-specific associated vocabulary and phrases that I won’t know about, and I don’t know how to tell if someone’s a sell out youtuber vs a quality information youtuber. I’m hoping someone who kinda already has an interest in any of these fields, and is familiar with Japanese Youtubers or content creators on these topics might be able to make recommendations. If you’re not familiar with the specific topics, but are good at hunting down Japanese language quality content (I haven’t a clue, even for english language youtubers), that would also be great.
Thanks so much for anyone who can help, I know its a lot.
5 comments
please message me ?
https://youtu.be/6OTjlnvrVTQ he's kinda like a guy covering modern events and other things
https://youtu.be/Xehw-R4Xz0Y a gardening thing i found
https://youtu.be/iyiiiyWpVvA i just searched piano teacher in japanese
https://youtu.be/NOwkapVmuDk a playlist of music from 1958 / showa 33
try this out ????
For acuascape I like Asu Green https://youtube.com/c/AsuGreen11 If she likes gardening I’m sure she’ll enjoy his channel 🙂 He’s japanese and has japanese and english subs (I think you can even disable the english ones but not sure)
Search 懐メロ
But the best thing would be to teach her how to use the search feature herself.
Why don’t you get her a way to watch Japanese TV via smart TV? My mom is quite internet savvy for her age but she prefers regular TV over YouTube so she got a subscription and now she has all Japanese TV channels. Not sure what she used but I could ask.
Your mom might like this! [Beginner Drawing Tips](https://youtube.com/c/etegami) . It has a bunch of short, casual etegami tutorials.
Etegami is a fun drawing style because it often focuses on everyday, seasonal objects, lots of flowers. If she already has watercolor supplies and ink she’d be good to go!