American Starts Japanese Kindergarten (Yōchien)
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- čas přidán 18. 05. 2024
- After several months of living in Japan, our daughter is finally at Japanese kindergarten, or Yochien 幼稚園 as its known locally. Leaving Germany, we knew it would be a hard reality leaving the amazing support of her daycare/Kindergarten and we only hoped we could find something remotely close to that in Japan. Thankfully, we've found a great school where she is beginning to make friends, has great homemade lunches from school ( they even have a registered dietitian on the staff!), and learning Japanese every day. She's a superstar and we love seeing her take it on with a lot of excitement and confidence!
We share some first thoughts about all the school supplies and uniforms that she's required to wear, including needing a helmet in the event of an earthquake at school.
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Tanner, Risa, Willa + Noa! :)
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I've heard from various youtubers that comments turned themselves off randomly as of late. Who knows, maybe it's just youtube doing tube stuff.
So weird! We both don’t remember hitting the button to turn comments off, so it definitely seems like it was CZcams!
Thank you! It is soo fast!
@@K__a__M__I Some subscribers to other channels are complaining that they are being unsubscribed.
ウィラちゃん幼稚園入園おめでとう！
パパとママより先に日本語覚えちゃうかな？
いっぱい友達作って楽しんでね。制服がよく似合ってる！
Oh thank you! She is already speaking more Japanese then us! That’s for sure! She is having such a fun time at school 😊
Adorable video.
The school supplies are so extensive😮😮😮 I have seen so many videos about Japanese schools, their discipline, nutritional food etc.
Excited for her.. all the best willa😊
They really are!! We are excited to share how she is doing so far, what we’ve enjoyed about & the challenges that have come with it in a future video! Stay tuned and thanks for the comment!! 😊😊
御入園おめでとうございます。制服姿が可愛すぎます！
Aww thank you so much! We were so happy she got accepted in!
貴女のチャンネルの、タイトルを見て⁉️と思い動画を再生して、あ！、、！ ”幼稚園“ が養池園になっていたんですねぇ！漢字表記は難しいですよね😅おチビちゃんが頑張って、幼稚園に行ってくれる事を祈っていますね。おめでとうございます♪🥂🎉❤
Hi!! Oops did we have the wrong word for the title? We hope not, we used google translate to help us! We are still trying to speak Japanese, and writing it is definitely far in our future! Thank you for the wishes. So far she is loving it. We will share a video in the future with an update. :)
We were so lucky to have fresh meals in our daughter's German
Kindergarten every day ,too.All kids loved the food there. The chef was a lady originated from Poland and the Polish cuisine is delicious, even though she cooked also international meals that kids like. ( Pancakes. Pizza, fish fingers etc.)
That is so awesome!! 😋
お子さんに友達がたくさんでき、充実した幼稚園生活になるのを願っています。歌やお遊戯は良い思い出になると思いますよ✨
Thank you! 💗 She is having such a fun time making Japanese friends!!
Wow that school sounds awesome . She will have so much fun and learning another language , just amazing ! Willa is one lucky girl. Thank you so much for sharing .
We are very happy with the school so far!! Thank you for the excitement and support!! 😊
@@OurStorytoTell 😘
Good luck to Willa starting Kindergarten 🍀
I’m amazed that she’s already singing in Japanese, though of course I’m aware that very young children soak up a new language with lightning speed.
She’ll do just fine!
I’m looking forward to hear of her progress in a few months.
Someone commented here that hopefully she’ll keep some German … I think if maybe you still have - or get - some children’s books and children’s videos in German and she gets to look at it frequently, she’ll keep enough German to at least understand it.
Yes she catching on so quickly! She also is retaining her German quite well which makes us sooo happy! She watches shows in German, listens to German music(& on has German tonies) and talks with us in German a bit too! We really want her to maintain it!
@@OurStorytoTell
That’s great!
Our granddaughter just turned 4.
She’s growing up with 3 languages.
She lives in the Swiss speaking part of Switzerland, goes to preschool there and genuine „Swiss German“ local language is spoken there, it’s mandatory.
At home her mother, a German, speaks regular German with her, her father, also a German but he grew up in a bilingual household (ours) tries to speak English with her as much as possible. Sometimes he forgets. 😉
Anyways, she has Tonies in German and in English - I think the Tonies are great!
And she watches some kids videos in English language (the Canadian show Paw Patrol of course, and the British/Welsh show Fireman Sam), the WWW makes it possible, she’s not allowed to watch TV, I think she’s allowed maximum 20 minutes or half an hour of Paw Patrol & Co per day, she has children’s books in English, some of which we brought over from the states, Dr Seuss and various others. Her mom spent some time in the States as Au Pair, plus works at the front desk of a hotel in Zurich with international clientele, and is therefore quite fluent in English, so mom & dad can read English books to her.
So this little girl understands English, German, Swiss German - sings English songs but replies nearly always in German or Swiss German.
When she was a bit younger, all her responses were in Swiss German, at best I understood 2 thirds of it - and when I asked either parent what she had just said, the response was often: no idea, we don’t understand everything she says either 😧
(She entered KITA and therefore the world of Switzerduetsch as a 9 months old.)
But lately I noticed that she made an effort to speak more German German with me/us, of course some Swiss German expressions mixed in, but altogether we can now understand everything she says.
Her parents are starting to adapt, they are using more and more Swiss words/expressions instead of German ones, mostly those are French based words so with my long lost school French I understand and can explain to my American husband what they’re talking about.
I think it’s great for their minds if children have the chance to grow up bilingual or even better multilingual. And it also gives them better chances later.
入園おめでとう！
これからの成長過程が楽しみですね！
I am from Japan living in the States. Accidentally, I found your channel. Congrats starting Youchien Willow/Willa? chan! Wishing you guys the best of luck on everything! I will come back to watch more of youre video!
Hi!! We love to hear that!! Thank you for commenting and supporting our channel! We hope you love the rest of the videos! There are a lot of great ones we think. :) Where in the States do you live?
Congratulations on Willa's enrollment in the Japanese kindergarten! No doubt just having to keep tidy (and keep up with ) all those parts of the uniforms, gym clothes and other personal school equipment will teach Willa how to independently organized and disciplined (and it will be interesting to see how much of the spoken if not written Japanese language she learns in the process). Of course what's interesting is that before the Meiji Restoration in 1868, girls were rarely educated in Japan- with the notable exception of merchants' daughters so that they'd be able to help their future husbands with the family business's bookkeeping! However, since then, they have been keen to educate ALL their children from an early age! Regardless, I hope she soon makes friends there and that you two may become friends with her friends' parents before too long. Thanks for this!
Tales of Genji, Pillow Story...they're all written by Japanese women (for the sake of Japanese women) nearly 1,000 years ago. TERAKOYA system was already in place during the Edo period. Sure not everybody was trained Chinese classics, but most people were literate even before Meiji period.
@@yo2trader539 Good points but those women who received educations were exceptions instead of the rules before the Meiji!
In any case, it should be interesting how this family's daughter will fare in the Japanese kindergarten!
Thank you! We are amazed at how quickly she is already starting to speak the language. Willa has always been quite responsible and independent (thank you Germany for this too), and her Japanese Yochien has definitely made her capabilities more evident.
We will give an update about how it’s going in a month or two! 😊
Willa is so excited! That is great in so many ways. She will learn all kinds of wonderful things. Cleaning up her school gets her vested in the whole experience! Thank you for sharing ❣️
We agree! We are so so proud of her!! :)
It's so beautiful that you already have some japanese followers...❤️👍🤘🤓
We are very excited about it too!! 😊😊
Thank you for the support! 🫶 That means a lot to us!
She's going to have the best time ☺
She definitely has!!
ウィラちゃん、ほんとうにかわいい💖 これからが楽しみですね(^_^)/
Thank you!! It will be so fun to give an update in a month or two about how her school has been going. Stay tuned!! 🤍
きっとすぐ、日本語上手くなりますょう〰︎👍
She is already singing some songs! We are excited for you to see her speak and sing Japanese in a video coming out soon. :)
たまたま見かけました とても微笑ましく感じました😃
※ 幼稚園⇦🙆🏻
超可愛い❤😂
ウィラちゃん幼稚園頑張ってね👍
きっと楽しめるよ😊
Aww thank you!! Willa-Chan is really enjoying it! We can’t wait to share more soon about it! 😊
Willa looks absolutely adorable in her school uniform 🤍 Hope you enjoyed your first days at your New school .
Thats a lot of things 😜 i remember wearing uniform to my primary school/ Secondary in scotland. You don’t see it much in some European lands .
Lovely to see you. Hope your all well 🥰Take care
Wow that is such a fun memory to think about wearing the outfit in Scotland! How cool!! Thanks for the comment!! Sending love your way!
She looks adorable in her little uniform! :)
We agree! They are such cute uniforms!
Viel Spaß, kleine Willa 🙂
Thank you!! 🤍
OMG, I'm not sure I'd be able to keep track of all the stuff for school at first! But I'm sure it will soon settle down when it becomes routine for you.
And the school uniform is really very cute, even if I'm always a bit alienated when it comes to school uniforms, the idea is so foreign to us Germans! But it certainly has its advantages. Especially when I think of how often my best friend's grandson was bullied because of his outfits.
I like the idea that Willa starts with relatively few lessons and obviously gets the time to get used to it. And it was great to see how much she enjoyed singing along at the event!
Meanwhile, Noa is turning into a professional unpacker, it seems 🤣
Ohh that is so sad about your friends grandson. It is very nice for us in the mornings because we don’t have pick our outfits! 🤣 Willa is very responsible so it’s nice because she knows everything she needs for school and has it down great now. It’s been amazing to see her immerse in the culture! We are so proud!
Pretty soon Willa going speak Japanese too. I already heard some. Kids this age are sponges in learning. Have fun at your new school.
You are right!! She is already speaking (and singing) in Japanese! It’s so fun to hear how much she has learned!
@@OurStorytoTellPretty soon she will know German, Japanese, and English.
haha cute video. Villa is pretty elastic how i see at the end of the video. This is a good feature for Japan. :)
She was definitely so excited to start!! :)
She’s adorable in her new uniform! Have fun at your new school Willa!
The uniform is our favorite!! Thank you so much! 🫶 We will give an update on how it’s going in a future video so stay tuned for that! 😊
You are just wonderful parents! Your kids will become beautiful adult human beings in this would! You can be proude of yourself!🦋🍀🙏🥰
Wow THANK YOU 🫶🤍
Is there an opotunity for Willa to continue learning german? It would be sad if she loses her ability to speak german.
We are trying hard to help her maintain her German! This is really important to us! She watches shows/movies in German, we bought German speaking tonies for her toniebox that tell stories & she listens to a lot of music. We might end up doing some online German stuff too but so far we are very happy that she has maintained quite a bit of her German!🤞😊
And I thought German parents were the only ones to buy such a lot of stuff for their Kindergarden kids...
Haha definitely not the only ones! 😂
日本の制服の文化は経済的格差を子供に感じさせない配慮が多いですし親からしたら毎日服を選ぶ手間が省けて助かると思いますよ笑
It is definitely nice to not worry about what she is going to wear! She would wear a dress everyday if she could do the uniform is a good fit 😂
Enjoy moments like this. Creating memories 😊 Question, does the military base there don’t have a school inside?
Yes they do have a school inside! We just prefer to have her integrated in the local community! 😊
Willa ich wünsche dir ganz viel Spaß in der Japanischen Schule und du siehst toll aus in den neuen Sachen. oh hat Willa ihren Fuß gebrochen? Hat einen Gips
Thank you so much! Yes she broke a bone in her foot at an indoor play place unfortunately!! Thankfully she has it off now though :)
Hi, Willa have a great time at Kita/ Kindergarten and make many Friends. I think there is japanese and english spoken. Isn't it. Thanks for let us take part of your new Capital of live in Japan. I Hope Capital is the right word. All the best from Germany.
Hi! Thank you so much! She is making so many friends! We will do an update video in a month or so to share more about it so stay tuned! :) sending love back to you in Germany!
Capital = chapter 😉
@@CosmicCells thanks so much!
I think Noa will become a Marathon runner...🤣🤣
Hahaha she is quick for sure 🤣
WOW😊.ようこそ日本へ😊😊😊。日本での生活を楽しんで下さい！！🤗🤗😁
Thank you so much! We definitely are! 😊
Nice video where was Willa’s piano when this video was filmed
A bit confused, you mentioned American letters for her name, is that something different?
A helmet, wow😂
Hat happened to Willa's foot?
typo「養池園」→「幼稚園」
Thanks for bringing that to our attention! :)
Will she be walking to school with her schoolmates? I have heard that parents are not allowed to bring grade school students to school and they must walk with school mates. Is this true?
In our case Willa rides the bus that comes right outside our house! :) it’s very convenient. We do know that some of her classmates walk to school, but I think only the ones that live close by.
how much cost/month, thought western kids are home school😇
Oh - how cute Willa looks in her uniform! But what happened to her leg????
She broke a bone in her foot at an indoor play place! 👀
@@OurStorytoTell OMG!!! Get well soon!
I'm afraid that you use the wrong kanji character to express kindergarten. You should use "幼稚園", not ”養池園”.
I hope this will help you.
Thank you! We changed it! Let us know if it looks right now! :)
養池園❌
幼稚園⭕️
Thank you! We changed it! Let us know if it looks right now! :)
タイトルの養池園って何?
幼稚園の事?
幼稚園は 小学校に上がる前に通う所だよ