If 嫁 is wife 妻 is kinda the same or not？ I've been trying learning japanese for 6 months ive learned 500 kanji but sometimes i forget some of them i just do em for fun like a hour a day or so ,they are fun like a puzzle
@@gigaleader Well I feel dumb. I barely speak enough French to make basic sentences and this guy can speak to 80% of the people of the world in their native tongues.
To be fair speaking spanish let's you figure out just some written stuff in french, pronunciation is completely different so he must've studied french to at least say that line. So don't feel dumb you'll get there:)
Yuta : repeat after me ... しごと my brain : aight , shigoto Yuta : おいしい my brain : oishi Yuta again : "truns to japanese eminem mode" my brain : *Understandable , have a great day*
@@mr.personhumanson6871 it's almost the same with the english since you doesn't have an standard way to pronounce written words, maybe english has no kanji but to learn words by just reading is difficult.
I feel like Yuta very soon is going to announce to us his transition from making TH-cam videos and giving Japanese lessons to fulfilling his life's calling - stand up comedy.
You’re really motivating me to learn Japanese. I started a few days ago by starting to learn Hirigana and Katakana and am really proud of being able to pick out the characters I know when reading lyrics of songs and such. I’m gonna keep at it!!!
“Many people think Japanese is a difficult language because they spent 300 hours watching hololive Vtubers and are still not fluent.” i feel personally attacked
Fortunately I live in Switzerland and grew up bi-lingue (german and italian). Than had to learn french and english in school. Because of that it really helps when learning a new language.
It's a heck of a flex, I read that French is one of the most difficult languages for Japanese people to learn because almost every sound in French does not exist in Japanese. It's like the confusion of L and R in English but for everything.
Just had to pause the video after you spoke french. As a native of the province of Quebec I have to say your accent was excellent! You clearly studied the European accent and sound very much like any tourist from France I might encounter where I live.
The nuance in the "educational blu-ray collection" joke just cements the idea that Yuta's English has gone above and beyond that of student. His delivery on the otome game joke was on point too. さすがユタさん
It's true though, the more kanji you learn, the easier it is to learn more kanji, even if they are really complex character. That's why I always say that the hardest part about learning kanji is "learning to learn" kanji.
Hes right though, may sound obvious but when youre just starting learning kanji it really feels like a fools errand regardless of anything anyone says, i for example was doing like 5 a week tops and it melted my freaking brain. Now i can take on about 20-30 a week (still taking it easy compared to other learners but this is the pace i can digest the best) it really does get easier the more radicals and kanji you learn and its important to emphasize it whenever youre encouraging other learners
When you talked about car wash and tank being so similar words, I remembered a long running Spanish comic series (that first started in the 1950s) called Mortadelo y Filemón about, well, two disastrous secret agents called Mortadelo and Filemón. One of the running gags they have is that they receive orders from their boss but they mishear the orders and end up doing (or bringing) something completely different. For example, in a strip he tells them to "fly towards the HQ" (volar AL cuartel general) and they understood to "blow up the HQ" (volar EL cuartel general). And, thanks to this video, now I'm picturing them being in Japan with the interpol with a Japanese agent asking them for a car wash and them bringing him a tank instead.
In the U.S., the English version to this would be "Amelia Bedelia." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia There must be something specific to this genre but in Japanese language. Anyone with that info., I'd greatly appreciate!!
@@cultivatelife It's not just literalism, it's mishearing epicly. The same author has another character, "Rompetechos", which is half-blind and misinterprets everything he reads or sees, for example in an episode he thinks that a subway entrance is actually an underground tunnel for cars.
It would be great to read something similar but in Japanese, it'd be a fun way to learn. Something similar I can think of is a dorama called nihonjin no shiranai nihongo, which is about foreigners learning Japanese. Sometimes there are funny mistakes like the ones you describe
in english there are some words that are both verbs and nouns, like record. The record and to record something. The difference in the pronunciation is that these words usually have the emphasis on the beginning of the word, conversely, the verb usually has it as the end, with our example: the REcord and to reCORD. You could look at these for an english version of the japanese pitch accent
Regarding sensha and sensha, my family is Polish (I was born in the UK) and despite the fact that my mum has lived in the UK for 40 years and is absolutely fluent in English, she can't hear the difference between words like butter and batter and can't pronounce them differently either, so this is something that can happen in a lot of languages and can still be confusing even after speaking it well for a very long time.
In the US this is the case with many regional accents as well. I'm not saying that someone should go out of there way not to learn Japanese pitch accents, but you are definitely not disrespecting the language by not doing so. This is doubly so, when you consider that not every Japanese dialect includes pitch accent. If communication can be achieved in a smooth and efficient fahsion, then that's all that matters.
Yep, same as mixing up "th" noises with "d" noises when speaking (for polish foks because "th" doesn't exist in polish) Japanese folks mix up Ls and Rs because they use a sound that's almost like a combination of the two (it's seen as a racist stereotype but it's still true). Coincidentally you see that lallation in one of the examples given by Yuta....he says "Rinku" and "Ressun". As a native english speaker, I would not be able to figure out those were loan words taken from the english "link" and "lesson" simply by looking at the sentence in romaji. So their ears aren't used to differentiating Ls and Rs and consequently it sounds the same to them. Just like how native English speakers aren't taught to differentiate pitch in words because English is a stress accent language (with some exceptions). Conversely, I think English speakers probably would struggle with using glottal stops consistently in Japanese or even double vowels. On that note about pitch accents, that's why I've never even bothered to attempt to learn a language like Cantonese or Mandarin.
I just started your Japanese lessons, Yuta-san, and not only am I learning so much, but I'm also retaining the information I'm being taught! Cannot wait to further this learning journey! よろしくお願いします！
Japanese is difficult for me. It has taken a few years for it to “sink in”.... The hardest part, I think, is the order of grammar.... Then there is mass-barrage of syllables that Japanese natives cram into .05 seconds of speech. Lol.
Detroit becomes human What English says: Twenty eight stab wounds What it sounds like Twenty eigh stabwoons What Japanese says: Ni jū hachi kasho no sashi kizu da zo what it sounds like NIJYUUHACHKSHONSASHJKIZDAZO
stop watching ultra speed anime, actual people use filler words all the time so you have enough time to think about shit. or you can also ask them to speak a little slower and repeat what you didnt understand
fun fact when I was younger (around 6 or 7) and just starting to learn english in kindergarten (my native language is latvian) i tried to imagine scenarios in my head and try to think of sentences in english, but since i didnt know many english words i just replaced them with latvian words lol. So now, years later when I'm learning japanese, I imagine scenarios in my head and try to make up stories whilst trying to construct sentences in japanese. it's pretty fun and now i actually can look up the words i dont know, and continue imagining how I'd attempt to make friends with a cool japanese person i saw on instagram.
This video really helped out, especially for Kanji. I was intimidated by the “2000 commonly used characters” list, but knowing that more advanced Kanji is just built off of simpler ones is really reassuring. Thank you!
I'm going to watch you everyday over the summer as I'm brushing up for my 3001 class to keep me motivated. You're so pleasant to watch and I enjoy myself as I follow along! Thanks a lot!
Bruh wanikani is the way. Trust. I was trying to learn kanji before that and my progress wasn't as good. And since I am learning spoken japanese too it helps to keep a balance between written and spoken japanese.
When it comes to particles in Japanese, I've come to view them as the glue that binds the words together into a sentence. And as the types of glue differs depending on the material and what application you use them for, so do particles, as do the order in which you apply glue when making composite materials (or particles when making complex sentences). So, just as learning to glue is to learn what glues go with what materials and applications, what techniques (and order) they need to be applied in for proper results, so it is with particles. It may have been said by someone else before, but that's how I look at particles.
I really appreciate these educational videos of yours. The hint of comedic flavour, and the kind of light lessons even someone as thickheaded as me can keep up with. Thank you for the video!
The most challenging part is the writing, but I have to admit that the grammer isn't always easy as it is totally different from any Western language, with different construction and roles. Also, there are plenty of ways to say the same thing with slight variations, and sometimes it's hard to know which one is convenient. Your French is damn good BTW!!!
This presentation of how kanji reference one another is interesting to me, because English functions in a similar way. Which despite being an English speaker natively has still allowed me to expand my vocabulary in and out of school. For example, at my job I said "This box is malformed." I was not sure if that was a word when I used it. But I know from context that "mal" means "bad" "malfunction=bad-function" "malpractice=bad practice" so I used the word, and looked it up later. Turns out it's real. This might be a cold comfort for a lot of English speakers hoping to learn Japanese though, because while this pattern in English was obvious to me, I would point this out to peers in High School, and all they would say is "Well, yeah, I can see it _after_ you point it out to me." So if people have trouble recognizing patterns in their native language it will hardly reassure them that languages foreign to them have similar patterns to them.
In my opinion vocabulary es way harder than kanji, you only need 1000 kanji to read more than 90% of japanese, 2000 if you want to read almost everything. But you need to know a lot more words. If you want to pass the JLPT N1 you have to know 2000 kanji and 10,000 words.
@@kokitsunetora I thought that at first too, but not all compounds have an intuitive relation to their definition. At best, you get the etymology of the word, which can sometimes be enough, but often isn't.
As a native spanish speaker (Mexico), learning japanese was a little more easier to me because of the pronunciation, which is fairly equal to the sounds in spanish. However when it comes to the vocabulary, it was easier for me to understand most of the foreign words used in japanese because I do speak English, but since the language family is way too different for both languages, most of the native japanese vocabulary was all new and so different for me (for us native spanish speakers it is waaay more easier to understand words from Italian, Portuguese, French, and even English). Besides that I love to learn japanese, specially because of the kanji complexity and how things fit in after you learn more and more.
(Is Japanese hard to learn?) Is making toast without flinching when it’s done easy? Is putting in a USB the first try easy? Is opening a brand new pickle jar easy? No...? Then no.
this made me feel better and more motivated. i’m really happy you take time out of your day to teach us REAL Japanese. as a dominican person who has taken spanish class, they dont teach us realistic ways to speak in real life conversations. sound pretty robotic. if i didn’t already know spanish i wouldn’t have known and looked stupid. you actually want us to learn real life japanese and i appreciate that so much. i’ve always thought it was such a beautiful language. gonna try my best to learn! :)
I love the casual combination of humor and education lol. He's gotten me to laugh out loud many times in his videos. Thanks for all your hard work, Yuta.
thanks for your video course Yuta. I think the reason most textbooks teach you the polite way of speaking over the informal way of speaking is that if they taught you the informal way and you went to Japan and spoke to someone you didn't know like that, they could get offended (although if they saw you were a foreigner I guess they'd cut you slack). whereas if you had a friend in Japan that you would speak informally to, you could follow their lead and speak a bit more casual. :) I do love having your lessons though in addition to my text book (genki) :)
For は vs が I always thought of it as "Wa is when you just want to talk generally about something" and "ga is defining stuff. Watashi ga ningen desu." which would make ga a more specific version? Is that wrong?
from what i recall, two words with the same pronunciation can have different meanings depending on where you are in Japan, due to differences in dialects and what-not.
As a french speaker, i find it is a lot easier to learn the Japanese pronounciations as most vowels are practicaly the same in both language. What i struggled with at first was the R sound and the U sound. After watching a few videos on it i was able to get close, but it's still not perfect lol. As far as i'm concerned, vowel sounds are the same, the E sound is the same as the french È. So it's very similar. Also Yuta, your french was really good!
I love learning about the little things that English speakers learning Japanese might miss or not get right, and vice versa! I think it's actually a little helpful to learn the grammar rules that Japanese speakers struggle with in English because it kind of helps teach English speakers how to speak more naturally with Japanese grammar in turn. It's definitely helpful to think of the radicals and common kanji similarly to latin prefixes and suffixes in English! In middle school we had tests on prefixes and suffixes because learning them can help give you information on what a word means even if you don't know the word. Between the context and any prefixes and suffixes, you can understand a word you may not know. For example, you can learn that "ab"/"abs" means "away/away from" - using that, you can understand that "absent" can mean that something was missing, especially with the context of a sentence like, "he was absent from class," or that "abnormal" means something like "away from normal" (or not normal) in the sentence, "there was an abnormal result on the test." So, that's a really valuable way to think about kanji, and makes it more accessible to learn them- they can still be tough, but things like that are helpful hints to know!
4:24: "I stayed up all night long playing an otome game and I look like shi t this morning." I'm crying. Not gonna lie but I literally laughed out loud when Yuta said that. I love his humor!
You have no idea how much motivation you’ve given me to continue my Japanese studies! I’ve even bought books in the hope of being able to read them. They sit on my shelf as a source of motivation.
I spent a year at one of the better Japanese language schools in Tokyo, doing almost nothing but studying (no lie, I studied for hours at the school almost every day after class, and I was one of five people to receive a scholarship from the school in recognition of my efforts during the third semester, and the other 4 were all much higher level than me. I worked hard. I stopped caring during the fourth semester though. :-P), and for a while made a very serious effort to learn the language. For me, personally: Hiragana and katakana: Easy. Pronunciation: Super easy. Listening: I'm pretty good at this, even when Japanese people speak fast, and when I also can't understand everything that's being said because I haven't learned all the words yet, I can usually still get the gist of it, and pick the correct choice during listening tests. Vocabulary: Just like with any language, it's just a matter of memorization. It's not difficult, it just takes a lot of time to build. Grammar: Japanese definitely has plenty of cases of difficult grammar for me, some of which I still can't wrap my head around. I also happen to think Japanese has WAY too many different ways to conjugate words (taberu - tabenai - tabete - tabeta - tabenakatta - taberareru - tabesaseru - tabero etc etc (and all the possible conjugations also double due to pretty much all words also having a polite form, which I haven't even given any examples of here...)), like, jesus christ... >_< -_- But on the whole, it's mostly doable with time and practice, so I guess this is somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range for me. Some of the particles can certainly be tricky if you want to master all the nuances, but those are far from the hardest part of Japanese grammar to me, personally. Other things are much worse. Counter words ("ikko", "ippiki" etc instead of the standard "hitotsu" and "hitori" for "one", depending on what you're talking about, i.e different types of objects of different shapes, sizes, and usages, and people, animals etc): I hate this aspect of Japanese, because it just feels like such an unnecessary way to make things overly complicated for no good reason. There are soooo many of these, but then you don't HAVE to know most of these most of the time, and can usually get by with "hitotsu" and "hitori", so whatever I guess. *shrug* I managed to learn about 12 of these (my own language only has 2... :-/ ), though I don't use them much. It's just memorization though, so although it's annoying, it's not too difficult if you can just overcome the "fuck why do I need to know this?" mental barrier, and just make the effort. Keigo: Ugh, I hate this stuff...Leave it to the Japanese to make things overly difficult for cultural reasons (different layers of respect depending on who you're talking too extending not just to honorifics, but to what variations of the same verbs you should use as well)...Teinengo is fine, but screw sonkeigo and kenjougo, I don't think I'll ever manage to memorize all the forms properly for every different word they can be used with...This stuff is genuinely difficult to me... Kanji: For me, ultra-impossibly hard...This is the only single reason why I pretty much gave up; I can't handle kanji...For my use I thankfully don't really need to memorize how to WRITE the 2200'ish kanji the average Japanese adult is supposed to know, but never mind that, I can't even handle memorizing the readings for them all...I don't know how Japanese people do it (and yes, I'm aware radicals are a huge help, but I still can't even remotely do it)...It would be one thing if every kanji had one specific reading, like in Chinese, which is already difficult enough, but in Japanese some kanji have as many as 9 different readings depending on what other kanji and/or hiragana they are paired with, which just makes the whole thing impossible to me, as you're not just memorizing 2200 kanji readings, you're actually memorizing a lot more...I don't know, maybe my brain is just bad at memorization... Other things: One thing language schools can't really teach you, that you pretty much have to gradually master on your own through practicing speaking to real Japanese people, is the art of understanding what the subject of a sentence or conversation actually is even when not expressly mentioned, since Japanese people (annoyingly) love to frequently leave out this information. This just takes practice; You'll get good at it with time. It does mean you will have to actually be brave and talk to Japanese people though (something I personally love doing anyway). :-P Social anxiety is your enemy! Purge it from your soul! :-P Another thing is dialects; Japanese has plenty of dialects that are very very different from standard Tokyo Japanese, and personally, there are some of them that I can't understand at all. So even if you get good at standard Japanese, don't think that means you can have a decent conversation with every native Japanese person in Japan. :-P I guess this is an unfortunate fact for most languages, really. :-P In closing: Ultimately, I would say the answer is yes, Japanese is hard to learn, though of course maybe not for everyone. And it goes without saying, but what is easy or difficult is different for each person. Pronunciation and listening is easy in Japanese for me, but plenty of people in my classes really struggled with these. Some of them were however much better at kanji, reading and writing than me. And of course where you come from also matters; Not surprisingly, I've yet to meet a Chinese person who struggled to learn kanji. :-P Personally, after my 1 year of studying, I managed to pass the JLPT4, and I got around 50% on the JLPT3. I'm sure my skills have deteriorated significantly now though, since I haven't practiced Japanese in any way or form for over a year after I went back home to my own country...I'm an English teacher by trade, so I don't actually need to be fluent in Japanese to work as an English teacher in Japan, if I really wanted to do that, but since I really wanted to not only be able to watch and understand anime in Japanese without subtitles, but also to be able to read manga and visual novels in Japanese, it's pretty disappointing to me that kanji are personally such an impossible hurdle to me, especially since I spent a ton of money on my studies...Good luck to anyone who wants to give it a serious try though, you'll probably do better than me. :-)
I’m studying Japanese and as an Italian luckily the pronunciation is quite the same. The difficult part, as you said, is that Japanese is totally different. Not just the words, but the grammar! The structure of the sentences in Italian and English (and many other languages) are quite the same. I could translate from one language to another word by word and the sentence would still make sense in most of the cases, but in Japanese this is not possible, and it takes a lot of effort to get used to that new kind of structure. Thank you Yuta for all your interesting videos!
I feel this varies from person to person, but I guess for me learning other languages have become much harder over the years... and I think a lot of it has to do with information overflow. See, the general problem with learning a new language has to do with a couple of things mainly: immersion and focus. Like learning many other skills, you gotta put some measure of both in to get results. And gotta be honest, the difficulties I feel these days in learning japanese has all to do with those. I know I have to dedicate more time, focus, and get more in contact with japanese material to learn the language.... but there are too many distractions to avoid. xD English is not my native language. I've did english classes over several years, I had a whole ton of contact with english speaking cultures over the years, and nowadays I almost exclusively use the Internet in english... so I can keep up and maintain more or less. I'm at a weird point where I feel more confident writting comments in english than in my own native language. xD Reading and writting is not a problem... speaking and listening to is. xD Sometimes I have to watch english movies or TV series... with english subtitles. xD And speaking is hard for me... I know exactly what to say, but it often comes out wrong. The dynamics of speaking are different to writting a comment, for instance. As for japanese, I never got into a serious good system to learn the language, none available close to where I lived, just a whole bunch of random classes with different focus trying to teach something, mostly conversational japanese without writting and reading classes. Basically, japanese descendants trying to pass on what little they knew without a proper methodology. It never stuck, because part of those happened when I was not at all interested, and part happened when I was interested but the only contact I had was with animes with english subtitles. xD So you don't really learn much... you become vaguely familiar with the language, but you don't actually learn how to use it. I can always differentiate japanese from other languages when i hear it, but don't actually understand or know how to speak, write, read. So I know that if I really wanna learn, I have to switch a few habits, force myself into a japanese environment that forces me to read, write, speak and listen to japanese, and then things will start happening. But I'm just too accomodated. And the other problem you have when getting older is that you tastes kinda consolidate and get inflexible. I don't expect to get into Jpop or Jrock these days anymore, there are fewer hobbies or cultural sources to dive into, stuff like that. Anyways, I'm just rambling I guess... but reflections on how I learned english well, but can't for the sake of me learn the language of my ancestors. xD
Yeah, me too. He _may_have learnt english in Japan, if his parents were fluent english speakers and/or he went to an international school. More likely he has spent a lot of time in an english speaking country. I doubt very much he is self taught from books and youtube videos. But his english is good and it is a pleasure to listen to him.
Itd the same with learning most languages. Most people revert to a sort of slang seen as tehy are used to the language and learnt from there parents and stuff. Whilst when learning a language, at like school or something, they're probably going to teach you it in full grammar. I'm not really sure how to explain though seen as I don't know for sure.
being spanish native is pretty good for learning japanese and english, because you get simillar english grammar structures and almost the same sounds of japanese, i im so lucky of born in my third world country :^)
After 3 years of studying and speaking Im able to get my point across with bad grammar but cant understand probably 50% of casual japanese I hear because its all these hyper casual insanely fast phrases that bend grammar rules around
IKR... Yuta makes it look easy, but actually the grammar (At a higher and casual level) is the most challenging part of Japanese, probably harder than the writing system.
@@Miraihi *Turkish grammar intensifies(They are similar but there are millions of suffixes and really crucial rules that exist in Turkish.Heck we don't even use the official grammar in daily Turkish.For example we say"Gel buraya!" which means come here but it actually is "Buraya gel!".I've already burned your brain I guess.
@@myk1137Don't worry about that :D Yes, as a linguistics enthusiast I've noticed a while ago that Japanese and Turkish have weirdly similar grammar patterns, both being allgunative languages.
@@Miraihi Japanese isn't always agglutinative though.For example we use suffixes in the end of the verbs when Japanese people don't.(We simply just used to put nouns after the verb in the Turkish that existed 1500 years ago.For example Kelteçi"men"=Geleceğim.Men means me and geleceğim means I will/am going to come.Kel and gel are actually the same word with only one consonant change if you haven't already noticed.
Short answer: depends Long answer: depends on your native language By no means if you speak a language similar to your own native language, it will make the language easier. It just makes the language your learning gives you a better advantage over others
>It looks fun >He looks kind >i stayed up all night long playing an otome game and I look like shit this morning. Yuta we should've started with this lesson because you've now taught me every japanese phrase I need to know to get by in life.
Learn Japanese with me -> bit.ly/3bvP4F7
2:30 Your accent in french is almost flawless. I have heard some people living in france since 20 years and still having a more foreign accent ...
@@benmat true
as i have said before, i can't use the site you have because my computer is not compatible
@@AbusalihZ I'm just now getting adds for that app on instagram. Is it really that good of an app?
If 嫁 is wife
妻 is kinda the same or not？
I've been trying learning japanese for 6 months ive learned 500 kanji but sometimes i forget some of them i just do em for fun like a hour a day or so ,they are fun like a puzzle
damn, Yuta isn't just teaching me Japanese. He's also teaching me English
Lol me too
and a bit of french too lol
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@@Uri-l4g yep, same
the way he casually roasts every weeb is hilarious to me
i feel personally attacked
This guy is hilarious, I wish my language sensei was like this.
Be weeb.
Be more roast than the meat i forgot on the grill.
That's the Internet, my boy. Everyone hates everyone.
I laughed reading this.
*Everybody gangsta till Yuta starts speaking french*
C'était une surprise. Depuis quand il parle français?
@@chitlitlah il parle espagnol aussi. ゆたさんは言語が好きと思います ^^
@@gigaleader Well I feel dumb. I barely speak enough French to make basic sentences and this guy can speak to 80% of the people of the world in their native tongues.
To be fair speaking spanish let's you figure out just some written stuff in french, pronunciation is completely different so he must've studied french to at least say that line. So don't feel dumb you'll get there:)
Oui
Ah, the benefits of studying a language...
*The better his English becomes, the better his sarcasm becomes*
Does that mean the better our Japanese become, the worse our sarcasm will be?
@@ProGamer-ej1jo No, if you already know English, then you're already cursed
@@JosephGio KEKW
I should have been subscribed him earlier
@@skelebro9999 how's it going so far?
The way you present very specific examples like it’s something normal is a style of comedy I’m really enjoying 😂
Well, he does teach Japanese. If you're learning Japanese with Yuta, you know it's his usual teaching style.
@@cdscissor is this a woosh
It's kinda like when you take a shit and the water splashes up against your ass
@@Grimnoire OMMGGG
@@Grimnoire satan's kiss
Yuta : repeat after me ... しごと
my brain : aight , shigoto
Yuta : おいしい
my brain : oishi
Yuta again : "truns to japanese eminem mode"
my brain : *Understandable , have a great day*
That's probably a reference to this: th-cam.com/video/on6v8hpjDr0/w-d-xo.html
Yuta spittin fire in japanese
😂
I recognised that tongue twister from that clip with the cat girl
@@The_D0C70R Hanekawa?!
Speaking Japanese is one thing.
*READING Japanese* is a whole other dimension altogether.
If you don't know the most common kanjis, you basically can't read japanese xD
Japanese is unique in a way that you can (in theory) be fluent at it and at the same time be illiterate
@@mr.personhumanson6871 Every language is like that - children are already fluent speakers before they are taught how to read.
Reading Shōnen and shōjo manga is not that hard
They all have furigana
@@mr.personhumanson6871 it's almost the same with the english since you doesn't have an standard way to pronounce written words, maybe english has no kanji but to learn words by just reading is difficult.
"Because most of you have waifus instead of real wifes"
HE CAN'T KEEP GETTING AWAY WITH IT!!!
I feel like Yuta very soon is going to announce to us his transition from making TH-cam videos and giving Japanese lessons to fulfilling his life's calling - stand up comedy.
He's really good if you pick up on it. Its not too much, just enough to make the learning fun.
You’re really motivating me to learn Japanese. I started a few days ago by starting to learn Hirigana and Katakana and am really proud of being able to pick out the characters I know when reading lyrics of songs and such. I’m gonna keep at it!!!
“Many people think Japanese is a difficult language because they spent 300 hours watching hololive Vtubers and are still not fluent.”
i feel personally attacked
5 seconds in and Im already being bullied LOL
Amen
I know how you feel bud T-T
I'm in this picture and I don't like this
Should've watched Nijisanji instead.
Fortunately I live in Switzerland and grew up bi-lingue (german and italian). Than had to learn french and english in school. Because of that it really helps when learning a new language.
Also I think if you just remove the kanji‘s from the equation japanese is like any other language. You learn vocabulary and you learn grammar.
Yuta just casually flexing his French.
Il est magnifique
I have to give it to him, the pronunciation really took me by surprise.
Very good prononciation.トレビアン ですね。
It's a heck of a flex, I read that French is one of the most difficult languages for Japanese people to learn because almost every sound in French does not exist in Japanese. It's like the confusion of L and R in English but for everything.
フランス語上手！！！
Just had to pause the video after you spoke french.
As a native of the province of Quebec I have to say your accent was excellent!
You clearly studied the European accent and sound very much like any tourist from France I might encounter where I live.
It's incredible how this man manages to teach japanese whilst being funny as shittt
"Funny as shit?" I'm in the UK and If I heard that I'd think it meant not funny at all 😂
ok
Whilst? People actually use that word?
@@alexjustalexyt1144 British English uses whilst or while. Americans use while only
@@david-stewart idk ive heard whilst a lot here, the majority don’t use it but every once and a while you’ll catch it.
うける!🤣
説明が簡潔で分かりやすい。
Thanks as always for the cool videos!
That "Learn Japanese with me" segue was smoother than the melted butter I spread on my toast this morning.
The nuance in the "educational blu-ray collection" joke just cements the idea that Yuta's English has gone above and beyond that of student. His delivery on the otome game joke was on point too. さすがユタさん
"The more you learn, the easier it gets."
Thanks Yuta, why didn't I think of that before?
It's true though, the more kanji you learn, the easier it is to learn more kanji, even if they are really complex character. That's why I always say that the hardest part about learning kanji is "learning to learn" kanji.
its all about that grind
Hes right though, may sound obvious but when youre just starting learning kanji it really feels like a fools errand regardless of anything anyone says, i for example was doing like 5 a week tops and it melted my freaking brain. Now i can take on about 20-30 a week (still taking it easy compared to other learners but this is the pace i can digest the best) it really does get easier the more radicals and kanji you learn and its important to emphasize it whenever youre encouraging other learners
''...but you have to do it every day, that's the difficult part, but it gets easier''
"It's cool man -- if Japanese is hard, just learn some Japanese first!"
ありがとうございました。レッスンはとても役に立ちます!
At 10:03
''Kanji is totally not sexist'' got me rolling.
LOOOOOOOL I dropped on the floor 😂
I mean it makes sense cuz it was a system from thousands of years ago lol. China do be sexist.
@@nordindelosreyes3473 and America do be racist a while ago 👾. Things are nuanced bro
@@kanck7909 I think he was joking. Sorry if you got offended
when i heard that i spit my drink out lmao
I love Yuta's humor and teaching
I wasn't too long into my journey of learning Japanese when I realized I don't really know English, either...
Me neither bro
Well,my brain can't process this. HOW THE HECK DID YOU EVEN WRITE THIS THEN?!!!
@@myk1137 write*.
@@myk1137 maybe translator?
@@myk1137 He's probably talking about theoretical grammar and stuff
i just subscribed to your email learning program and it’s amazing! I’ve only done it for 5 min and I already know some really useful things!
When you talked about car wash and tank being so similar words, I remembered a long running Spanish comic series (that first started in the 1950s) called Mortadelo y Filemón about, well, two disastrous secret agents called Mortadelo and Filemón. One of the running gags they have is that they receive orders from their boss but they mishear the orders and end up doing (or bringing) something completely different. For example, in a strip he tells them to "fly towards the HQ" (volar AL cuartel general) and they understood to "blow up the HQ" (volar EL cuartel general). And, thanks to this video, now I'm picturing them being in Japan with the interpol with a Japanese agent asking them for a car wash and them bringing him a tank instead.
That's a damn funny comics. I need to learn Spanish.
@@brianplum1825 It is. It's made three generations of Spanish people laugh already.
In the U.S., the English version to this would be "Amelia Bedelia."
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Bedelia
There must be something specific to this genre but in Japanese language.
Anyone with that info., I'd greatly appreciate!!
@@cultivatelife It's not just literalism, it's mishearing epicly. The same author has another character, "Rompetechos", which is half-blind and misinterprets everything he reads or sees, for example in an episode he thinks that a subway entrance is actually an underground tunnel for cars.
It would be great to read something similar but in Japanese, it'd be a fun way to learn. Something similar I can think of is a dorama called nihonjin no shiranai nihongo, which is about foreigners learning Japanese. Sometimes there are funny mistakes like the ones you describe
I’m spending a lot of time learning Korean but I really want to learn Japanese, it sounds so pretty 😭
Another title: learn japanese and english with yuta
It's very useful to me
Because I'm learning english and japanese
in english there are some words that are both verbs and nouns, like record. The record and to record something. The difference in the pronunciation is that these words usually have the emphasis on the beginning of the word, conversely, the verb usually has it as the end, with our example: the REcord and to reCORD. You could look at these for an english version of the japanese pitch accent
Regarding sensha and sensha, my family is Polish (I was born in the UK) and despite the fact that my mum has lived in the UK for 40 years and is absolutely fluent in English, she can't hear the difference between words like butter and batter and can't pronounce them differently either, so this is something that can happen in a lot of languages and can still be confusing even after speaking it well for a very long time.
In the US this is the case with many regional accents as well. I'm not saying that someone should go out of there way not to learn Japanese pitch accents, but you are definitely not disrespecting the language by not doing so. This is doubly so, when you consider that not every Japanese dialect includes pitch accent. If communication can be achieved in a smooth and efficient fahsion, then that's all that matters.
Yep, same as mixing up "th" noises with "d" noises when speaking (for polish foks because "th" doesn't exist in polish)
Japanese folks mix up Ls and Rs because they use a sound that's almost like a combination of the two (it's seen as a racist stereotype but it's still true). Coincidentally you see that lallation in one of the examples given by Yuta....he says "Rinku" and "Ressun". As a native english speaker, I would not be able to figure out those were loan words taken from the english "link" and "lesson" simply by looking at the sentence in romaji. So their ears aren't used to differentiating Ls and Rs and consequently it sounds the same to them. Just like how native English speakers aren't taught to differentiate pitch in words because English is a stress accent language (with some exceptions). Conversely, I think English speakers probably would struggle with using glottal stops consistently in Japanese or even double vowels.
On that note about pitch accents, that's why I've never even bothered to attempt to learn a language like Cantonese or Mandarin.
I just started your Japanese lessons, Yuta-san, and not only am I learning so much, but I'm also retaining the information I'm being taught! Cannot wait to further this learning journey! よろしくお願いします！
Yuta back at it again with another food choking first liners
Amen
Amen
Thanks again for the nice video Yuta-san!
Japanese is difficult for me. It has taken a few years for it to “sink in”....
The hardest part, I think, is the order of grammar....
Then there is mass-barrage of syllables that Japanese natives cram into .05 seconds of speech. Lol.
Detroit becomes human
What English says:
Twenty eight stab wounds
What it sounds like
Twenty eigh stabwoons
What Japanese says:
Ni jū hachi kasho no sashi kizu da zo
what it sounds like
NIJYUUHACHKSHONSASHJKIZDAZO
stop watching ultra speed anime, actual people use filler words all the time so you have enough time to think about shit. or you can also ask them to speak a little slower and repeat what you didnt understand
@@sabikikasuko6636 basically every single language sounds like that when you don't know it, you fix it by practicing.
@@Ocklepod every language feels fast when you don't know it, it's not the anime per se.
No, actually I described Japanese's actual vowel allophony ^^ But diction in English voice acting and Japanese voice acting tend to be very different.
fun fact when I was younger (around 6 or 7) and just starting to learn english in kindergarten (my native language is latvian) i tried to imagine scenarios in my head and try to think of sentences in english, but since i didnt know many english words i just replaced them with latvian words lol. So now, years later when I'm learning japanese, I imagine scenarios in my head and try to make up stories whilst trying to construct sentences in japanese. it's pretty fun and now i actually can look up the words i dont know, and continue imagining how I'd attempt to make friends with a cool japanese person i saw on instagram.
My god Yuta, 10 seconds into the video and I'm already choking with laughter
and here I'm again at 1:16
Somebody stop this man, he's to dangerous to be left alive
He is definitely getting better and better.
first rofl right after 0:02
This is one of your most comprehensive and educational videos. Really well done Yuta.
I can’t wait for another godly mail list transition
this video's was esp godly :D
@@penguin-tc1cx frfr
This video really helped out, especially for Kanji. I was intimidated by the “2000 commonly used characters” list, but knowing that more advanced Kanji is just built off of simpler ones is really reassuring. Thank you!
Coming from a native french speaker, Yuta's French is insanely good!
He even had another youtube channel in spanish, but he stopped uploading videos
@@Charly_dvorak what channel?
ouais ça m'a étonné d'ailleurs
@@Charly_dvorak wait what what channel
I'm going to watch you everyday over the summer as I'm brushing up for my 3001 class to keep me motivated. You're so pleasant to watch and I enjoy myself as I follow along! Thanks a lot!
2:30 i'm french and holy shit that caught me off guard
it looks almost like native french speaking
Yes, he has an excellent pronunciation for a japanese speaker
Front-of-the-mouth consonants.
Looks? Sounds, surely!?
Yeah, his pronunciation's damn good.
thanks for the video yuta; there was a lot of good information.
Me who's about to learn Kanji :
*Yes*
Me who is Chinese: hey I’ve seen that before
Just do Rrtk
@@bobfranklin2572 agreed, it is a big boost to start but eventually i think the best way to learn is to basically force yourself to read a lot
Bruh wanikani is the way. Trust. I was trying to learn kanji before that and my progress wasn't as good. And since I am learning spoken japanese too it helps to keep a balance between written and spoken japanese.
@@raykings5244 yeah but that'll take you two years to learn em and you learn a ton of readings and definitions, plus its not free. Just do Rtk
Yuta is such a kind and delightful person. He can explain things well in different languages. This is a rare gift and I'm glad he's using it.
When it comes to particles in Japanese, I've come to view them as the glue that binds the words together into a sentence.
And as the types of glue differs depending on the material and what application you use them for, so do particles, as do the order in which you apply glue when making composite materials (or particles when making complex sentences).
So, just as learning to glue is to learn what glues go with what materials and applications, what techniques (and order) they need to be applied in for proper results, so it is with particles.
It may have been said by someone else before, but that's how I look at particles.
Really good analogy
I really appreciate these educational videos of yours. The hint of comedic flavour, and the kind of light lessons even someone as thickheaded as me can keep up with. Thank you for the video!
Yuta: snyusv,gojdscahsfigodgjv
Also yuta: *EASY*
🖤❤️ very informative video as usual, thank you yuta
The most challenging part is the writing, but I have to admit that the grammer isn't always easy as it is totally different from any Western language, with different construction and roles. Also, there are plenty of ways to say the same thing with slight variations, and sometimes it's hard to know which one is convenient. Your French is damn good BTW!!!
Nah you don't really need writing skill at this era
This presentation of how kanji reference one another is interesting to me, because English functions in a similar way. Which despite being an English speaker natively has still allowed me to expand my vocabulary in and out of school. For example, at my job I said "This box is malformed." I was not sure if that was a word when I used it. But I know from context that "mal" means "bad" "malfunction=bad-function" "malpractice=bad practice" so I used the word, and looked it up later. Turns out it's real.
This might be a cold comfort for a lot of English speakers hoping to learn Japanese though, because while this pattern in English was obvious to me, I would point this out to peers in High School, and all they would say is "Well, yeah, I can see it _after_ you point it out to me." So if people have trouble recognizing patterns in their native language it will hardly reassure them that languages foreign to them have similar patterns to them.
Therapist: "French Yuta isn't real he can't hurt you"
French Yuta: 2:30
And i thought Spanish was his 3rd language only
Senior Yuta
@adri.ph38 j'avoue que moi aussi ça m'a choqué mdr
@adri.ph38 ouais
I'm american and I'm learning things about English that I never knew. What a great teacher. I want to sign up for Yuta's course!
1:15 very nice joke, almost gagged on my coffe, the delivery was very good
9:51 'Onna' - 'woman' It easy for a Russian person to remember for in Russian 'ona' means 'she' )))
Kanji is the hardest part about Japanese, other than that it's realativaley easy.
Kanji isn't nearly as bad a keigo. At least even if I don't know how to say the kanji, I can still understand what I'm reading if I know the meaning.
In my opinion vocabulary es way harder than kanji, you only need 1000 kanji to read more than 90% of japanese, 2000 if you want to read almost everything.
But you need to know a lot more words.
If you want to pass the JLPT N1 you have to know 2000 kanji and 10,000 words.
@@kokitsunetora
Honorifics is harder than keigo
@@Charly_dvorak Not a huge difference between them to be honest
@@kokitsunetora I thought that at first too, but not all compounds have an intuitive relation to their definition. At best, you get the etymology of the word, which can sometimes be enough, but often isn't.
As a native spanish speaker (Mexico), learning japanese was a little more easier to me because of the pronunciation, which is fairly equal to the sounds in spanish. However when it comes to the vocabulary, it was easier for me to understand most of the foreign words used in japanese because I do speak English, but since the language family is way too different for both languages, most of the native japanese vocabulary was all new and so different for me (for us native spanish speakers it is waaay more easier to understand words from Italian, Portuguese, French, and even English). Besides that I love to learn japanese, specially because of the kanji complexity and how things fit in after you learn more and more.
(Is Japanese hard to learn?)
Is making toast without flinching when it’s done easy?
Is putting in a USB the first try easy?
Is opening a brand new pickle jar easy?
No...? Then no.
The first I can do, then again I can stand near the horn of a ferry and be unmoved when it goes off...
Yes because I'm an excellent liar.
I actually often get the usb in first try.
@@animeking1357 lucky lucky...It takes me 12 🥲
@@ceresbane well I can’t lie in person, but I lie to myself, if that counts 😎😎😎😎
I can’t believe we get this content for free, honestly. Thanks!
Answer: yes
That's why it ranked at the top of the hardest languages to learn. Along with Chinese, Korean and Arabic.
Arabic and hard?You really want to make me laugh,don't you?
this made me feel better and more motivated. i’m really happy you take time out of your day to teach us REAL Japanese. as a dominican person who has taken spanish class, they dont teach us realistic ways to speak in real life conversations. sound pretty robotic. if i didn’t already know spanish i wouldn’t have known and looked stupid. you actually want us to learn real life japanese and i appreciate that so much. i’ve always thought it was such a beautiful language. gonna try my best to learn! :)
1:10 did you just summon lord chin chin?
Thats from that cat girl saying what a guy wants her to say what he said
Im goes .exe in explaining
It's from Bakemonogatari
a imagine managing a manager imagining a manager while managing a imaginer managing a imaginery manager i think
I love the casual combination of humor and education lol. He's gotten me to laugh out loud many times in his videos. Thanks for all your hard work, Yuta.
Yuta’s on the road to 1 mil subs
thanks for your video course Yuta. I think the reason most textbooks teach you the polite way of speaking over the informal way of speaking is that if they taught you the informal way and you went to Japan and spoke to someone you didn't know like that, they could get offended (although if they saw you were a foreigner I guess they'd cut you slack). whereas if you had a friend in Japan that you would speak informally to, you could follow their lead and speak a bit more casual. :) I do love having your lessons though in addition to my text book (genki) :)
For は vs が I always thought of it as "Wa is when you just want to talk generally about something" and "ga is defining stuff. Watashi ga ningen desu." which would make ga a more specific version?
Is that wrong?
Hai
Fun and uaeful video! Also, Are you telling me Yuta speaks Japanese, English, Spanish AND French?! 🤯
Someone tell me why I said “senSHA wa Hoshii.” As a when I found out it meant tank lmao
Should've been が, though. ;-)
from what i recall, two words with the same pronunciation can have different meanings depending on where you are in Japan, due to differences in dialects and what-not.
Yuta, you are hilarious! Being serious and not at the same time is so awesome lol!
As a french speaker, i find it is a lot easier to learn the Japanese pronounciations as most vowels are practicaly the same in both language. What i struggled with at first was the R sound and the U sound. After watching a few videos on it i was able to get close, but it's still not perfect lol. As far as i'm concerned, vowel sounds are the same, the E sound is the same as the french È. So it's very similar. Also Yuta, your french was really good!
"because they spent 300hrs watching hololive vtubers and still arent fluent" i feel called out
I feel attacked, peko
Me learning English with HoloEN even though I already speak English: Tensai desu
Your dry humor is really evolving! I'm loving it
Yuta:"Is Japanese Hard to learn?
0:11 Usada Pekora:"Pain Peko"
難しい言語ですが慣れれば簡単ですよね
1:10 is this a monogatari reference?
I love learning about the little things that English speakers learning Japanese might miss or not get right, and vice versa! I think it's actually a little helpful to learn the grammar rules that Japanese speakers struggle with in English because it kind of helps teach English speakers how to speak more naturally with Japanese grammar in turn.
It's definitely helpful to think of the radicals and common kanji similarly to latin prefixes and suffixes in English! In middle school we had tests on prefixes and suffixes because learning them can help give you information on what a word means even if you don't know the word. Between the context and any prefixes and suffixes, you can understand a word you may not know.
For example, you can learn that "ab"/"abs" means "away/away from" - using that, you can understand that "absent" can mean that something was missing, especially with the context of a sentence like, "he was absent from class," or that "abnormal" means something like "away from normal" (or not normal) in the sentence, "there was an abnormal result on the test."
So, that's a really valuable way to think about kanji, and makes it more accessible to learn them- they can still be tough, but things like that are helpful hints to know!
4:24: "I stayed up all night long playing an otome game and I look like shi t this morning." I'm crying. Not gonna lie but I literally laughed out loud when Yuta said that. I love his humor!
yuta's humor is improving from time to time. just goes to show how he constantly learns his english and improves. im quite happy with that
i feel personally offended when i said i spent 300hs watching hololive
Yuta this may be your best video yet. Absolutely transcendent.
Yuta: "I have many informations about content of your secret hard disk drive"
Me: *starts sweating meme
You have no idea how much motivation you’ve given me to continue my Japanese studies! I’ve even bought books in the hope of being able to read them. They sit on my shelf as a source of motivation.
Yuta talks about pronunciation
*Dogen has entered the chat*
atamadaka, nakadaka intensifies
Hahahahaha 🤣
I spent a year at one of the better Japanese language schools in Tokyo, doing almost nothing but studying (no lie, I studied for hours at the school almost every day after class, and I was one of five people to receive a scholarship from the school in recognition of my efforts during the third semester, and the other 4 were all much higher level than me. I worked hard. I stopped caring during the fourth semester though. :-P), and for a while made a very serious effort to learn the language. For me, personally:
Hiragana and katakana: Easy.
Pronunciation: Super easy.
Listening: I'm pretty good at this, even when Japanese people speak fast, and when I also can't understand everything that's being said because I haven't learned all the words yet, I can usually still get the gist of it, and pick the correct choice during listening tests.
Vocabulary: Just like with any language, it's just a matter of memorization. It's not difficult, it just takes a lot of time to build.
Grammar: Japanese definitely has plenty of cases of difficult grammar for me, some of which I still can't wrap my head around. I also happen to think Japanese has WAY too many different ways to conjugate words (taberu - tabenai - tabete - tabeta - tabenakatta - taberareru - tabesaseru - tabero etc etc (and all the possible conjugations also double due to pretty much all words also having a polite form, which I haven't even given any examples of here...)), like, jesus christ... >_< -_- But on the whole, it's mostly doable with time and practice, so I guess this is somewhere in the middle of the difficulty range for me. Some of the particles can certainly be tricky if you want to master all the nuances, but those are far from the hardest part of Japanese grammar to me, personally. Other things are much worse.
Counter words ("ikko", "ippiki" etc instead of the standard "hitotsu" and "hitori" for "one", depending on what you're talking about, i.e different types of objects of different shapes, sizes, and usages, and people, animals etc): I hate this aspect of Japanese, because it just feels like such an unnecessary way to make things overly complicated for no good reason. There are soooo many of these, but then you don't HAVE to know most of these most of the time, and can usually get by with "hitotsu" and "hitori", so whatever I guess. *shrug* I managed to learn about 12 of these (my own language only has 2... :-/ ), though I don't use them much. It's just memorization though, so although it's annoying, it's not too difficult if you can just overcome the "fuck why do I need to know this?" mental barrier, and just make the effort.
Keigo: Ugh, I hate this stuff...Leave it to the Japanese to make things overly difficult for cultural reasons (different layers of respect depending on who you're talking too extending not just to honorifics, but to what variations of the same verbs you should use as well)...Teinengo is fine, but screw sonkeigo and kenjougo, I don't think I'll ever manage to memorize all the forms properly for every different word they can be used with...This stuff is genuinely difficult to me...
Kanji: For me, ultra-impossibly hard...This is the only single reason why I pretty much gave up; I can't handle kanji...For my use I thankfully don't really need to memorize how to WRITE the 2200'ish kanji the average Japanese adult is supposed to know, but never mind that, I can't even handle memorizing the readings for them all...I don't know how Japanese people do it (and yes, I'm aware radicals are a huge help, but I still can't even remotely do it)...It would be one thing if every kanji had one specific reading, like in Chinese, which is already difficult enough, but in Japanese some kanji have as many as 9 different readings depending on what other kanji and/or hiragana they are paired with, which just makes the whole thing impossible to me, as you're not just memorizing 2200 kanji readings, you're actually memorizing a lot more...I don't know, maybe my brain is just bad at memorization...
Other things: One thing language schools can't really teach you, that you pretty much have to gradually master on your own through practicing speaking to real Japanese people, is the art of understanding what the subject of a sentence or conversation actually is even when not expressly mentioned, since Japanese people (annoyingly) love to frequently leave out this information. This just takes practice; You'll get good at it with time. It does mean you will have to actually be brave and talk to Japanese people though (something I personally love doing anyway). :-P Social anxiety is your enemy! Purge it from your soul! :-P Another thing is dialects; Japanese has plenty of dialects that are very very different from standard Tokyo Japanese, and personally, there are some of them that I can't understand at all. So even if you get good at standard Japanese, don't think that means you can have a decent conversation with every native Japanese person in Japan. :-P I guess this is an unfortunate fact for most languages, really. :-P
In closing: Ultimately, I would say the answer is yes, Japanese is hard to learn, though of course maybe not for everyone. And it goes without saying, but what is easy or difficult is different for each person. Pronunciation and listening is easy in Japanese for me, but plenty of people in my classes really struggled with these. Some of them were however much better at kanji, reading and writing than me. And of course where you come from also matters; Not surprisingly, I've yet to meet a Chinese person who struggled to learn kanji. :-P Personally, after my 1 year of studying, I managed to pass the JLPT4, and I got around 50% on the JLPT3. I'm sure my skills have deteriorated significantly now though, since I haven't practiced Japanese in any way or form for over a year after I went back home to my own country...I'm an English teacher by trade, so I don't actually need to be fluent in Japanese to work as an English teacher in Japan, if I really wanted to do that, but since I really wanted to not only be able to watch and understand anime in Japanese without subtitles, but also to be able to read manga and visual novels in Japanese, it's pretty disappointing to me that kanji are personally such an impossible hurdle to me, especially since I spent a ton of money on my studies...Good luck to anyone who wants to give it a serious try though, you'll probably do better than me. :-)
I feel attacked with the intro! Yuta isn't pulling punches. Ow.
I’m studying Japanese and as an Italian luckily the pronunciation is quite the same. The difficult part, as you said, is that Japanese is totally different. Not just the words, but the grammar! The structure of the sentences in Italian and English (and many other languages) are quite the same. I could translate from one language to another word by word and the sentence would still make sense in most of the cases, but in Japanese this is not possible, and it takes a lot of effort to get used to that new kind of structure.
Thank you Yuta for all your interesting videos!
Yuta: "How do you pronounce "world" in English?"
Dio: "ZAAA WARUDOOOO!!!"
I feel this varies from person to person, but I guess for me learning other languages have become much harder over the years... and I think a lot of it has to do with information overflow.
See, the general problem with learning a new language has to do with a couple of things mainly: immersion and focus.
Like learning many other skills, you gotta put some measure of both in to get results.
And gotta be honest, the difficulties I feel these days in learning japanese has all to do with those. I know I have to dedicate more time, focus, and get more in contact with japanese material to learn the language.... but there are too many distractions to avoid. xD
English is not my native language. I've did english classes over several years, I had a whole ton of contact with english speaking cultures over the years, and nowadays I almost exclusively use the Internet in english... so I can keep up and maintain more or less. I'm at a weird point where I feel more confident writting comments in english than in my own native language. xD
Reading and writting is not a problem... speaking and listening to is. xD Sometimes I have to watch english movies or TV series... with english subtitles. xD And speaking is hard for me... I know exactly what to say, but it often comes out wrong. The dynamics of speaking are different to writting a comment, for instance.
As for japanese, I never got into a serious good system to learn the language, none available close to where I lived, just a whole bunch of random classes with different focus trying to teach something, mostly conversational japanese without writting and reading classes. Basically, japanese descendants trying to pass on what little they knew without a proper methodology.
It never stuck, because part of those happened when I was not at all interested, and part happened when I was interested but the only contact I had was with animes with english subtitles. xD
So you don't really learn much... you become vaguely familiar with the language, but you don't actually learn how to use it. I can always differentiate japanese from other languages when i hear it, but don't actually understand or know how to speak, write, read.
So I know that if I really wanna learn, I have to switch a few habits, force myself into a japanese environment that forces me to read, write, speak and listen to japanese, and then things will start happening. But I'm just too accomodated.
And the other problem you have when getting older is that you tastes kinda consolidate and get inflexible. I don't expect to get into Jpop or Jrock these days anymore, there are fewer hobbies or cultural sources to dive into, stuff like that.
Anyways, I'm just rambling I guess... but reflections on how I learned english well, but can't for the sake of me learn the language of my ancestors. xD
I want to hear about how Yuta learned English. I think his English is possibly better than most native English speakers.
Yeah, me too. He _may_have learnt english in Japan, if his parents were fluent english speakers and/or he went to an international school. More likely he has spent a lot of time in an english speaking country. I doubt very much he is self taught from books and youtube videos. But his english is good and it is a pleasure to listen to him.
@@paulreeves8251 it would be better if he had native E. accent but.. there is something uniq in his own.
Itd the same with learning most languages. Most people revert to a sort of slang seen as tehy are used to the language and learnt from there parents and stuff. Whilst when learning a language, at like school or something, they're probably going to teach you it in full grammar. I'm not really sure how to explain though seen as I don't know for sure.
He already explained it.
being spanish native is pretty good for learning japanese and english, because you get simillar english grammar structures and almost the same sounds of japanese, i im so lucky of born in my third world country :^)
did you know Hindi has 50+ alphabets, all with different pronunciation/sound; 11 vowels and rest consonants; also 2 nasals.
50+ alphabets or letters?
The humor in these videos is amazing
After 3 years of studying and speaking Im able to get my point across with bad grammar but cant understand probably 50% of casual japanese I hear because its all these hyper casual insanely fast phrases that bend grammar rules around
IKR... Yuta makes it look easy, but actually the grammar (At a higher and casual level) is the most challenging part of Japanese, probably harder than the writing system.
@@Miraihi *Turkish grammar intensifies(They are similar but there are millions of suffixes and really crucial rules that exist in Turkish.Heck we don't even use the official grammar in daily Turkish.For example we say"Gel buraya!" which means come here but it actually is "Buraya gel!".I've already burned your brain I guess.
@@myk1137Don't worry about that :D Yes, as a linguistics enthusiast I've noticed a while ago that Japanese and Turkish have weirdly similar grammar patterns, both being allgunative languages.
@@Miraihi The longest word in Turkish for you:Muvaffakiyetsizleştiricileştiriveremeyebileceklerimizdenmişsinizcesine
@@Miraihi Japanese isn't always agglutinative though.For example we use suffixes in the end of the verbs when Japanese people don't.(We simply just used to put nouns after the verb in the Turkish that existed 1500 years ago.For example Kelteçi"men"=Geleceğim.Men means me and geleceğim means I will/am going to come.Kel and gel are actually the same word with only one consonant change if you haven't already noticed.
Best Ad i've seen in years, 最高だった
"You will remember your waifu" *shows Hayasaka*
Excellent taste
Exactly!!! True man of culture ❤️
I would love a video about your journey with the English language
14 seconds in and I’m already being personally attacked
Short answer: depends
Long answer: depends on your native language
By no means if you speak a language similar to your own native language, it will make the language easier. It just makes the language your learning gives you a better advantage over others
>It looks fun
>He looks kind
>i stayed up all night long playing an otome game and I look like shit this morning.
Yuta we should've started with this lesson because you've now taught me every japanese phrase I need to know to get by in life.
the Japanese lessons plug had even smoother transition than usual.