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The interview in Japanese with the option of subtitles is amazing content. It is so hard to find spoken Japanese that isn’t affected (yelling, cutsie, very fast news broadcasts, etc ). This is perfect, thank you very much. More please. 👍🏻
I have found the best way to acquire true knowledge and ability in any language, is to shadow audio books narrated by professional voice talents. To enhance listening, wear headphones, slow to 0.6~0.8 speed, filter to dampen bass and boost midrange frequencies, and compress (Volume Smoothing) to enhance quiet consonants. Then repeat aloud half a second behind, imitating every nuance, at first focused only on sound with no concern for comprehension. Only after your preconscious ear and tongue can handle the patterns of the sound system, are you ready to realize the meaning of the sounds you have already heard and absorbed. Traditional vocabulary translation first, pronunciation second is not a shortcut, but an obstacle.
This interview is excellent! I have been studying Japanese on my own for less than a year, so it is interesting to hear Alex's perspective. Thank you for the English subtitles, Miku sensei. I hope that someday I will no longer need them.
I totally agree with Alex about learning formal Japanese first and casual next. I used to speak super formally, but then my friends taught me casual Japanese. Now I can quickly switch between the two at will.
Completely agree, now after recognizing casual and formal speech at the correct time. It’s just a matter of training your brain to get adapted, when it is necessary to use it. Having friends in a specific language you are learning, is a great way to start picking up speaking casually
Thank you for this video, I will finish watching it later. BUT! the first minutes of the interview solidify something in my mind. I remember when I first began to study Japanese, this was when I was in my early 20's and during my first years of college, I made a lot of Japanese friends in my major program. I was studying computer animation, and there were so many Japanese going to my college just to study computer animation. I made so many Japanese friends, and I would tell them that I was learning Japanese. Their first reaction was of confusion and they would react with the same phrase, "wow! Japanese is hard." It was funny to hear that, but I kept studying it. I remember a Japanese friend telling me once, when I told her that I wanted to go to Japan to learn Japanese better, she said, "no, don't..in my opinion, you are in the best place to learn Japanese. Why do you think my English hasn't gotten better? because I am using Japanese here more than I thought I would! make Japanese friends and speak to them in Japanese or practice it with other Japanese people whenever you hear a Japanese person around." I kind of stopped learning it, due to not having money to go take classes and due to pretty much focusing on getting through undergrad and grad school. NOW! since I've been a special ed teacher for the last 5 years, I decided to refocus and give it my all to make Japanese my 3rd language, English and Spanish are my native languages, and I wish to make Japanese my 3rd language. I really want to conquer this wish. And My Japanese friends' tip, of making Japanese friends, has reminded me! that I am lucky to be where I am. I live in Los Angeles, CA. Near my home is "Little Tokyou." In LT, there is a Japanese American community center building. In that building there is a pure Japanese language school, I hear Japanese every day whenever I go to Little Tokyo or Santa Monica. So! this year I decided to start taking Japanese language classes there. My progress has been great! I am progressing fast because the Japanese I knew from my college years, the 3 years of Japanese I took back in college, is coming back and the "dots" are connecting back in my brain. I even told my instructor that don't be surprise if I progress and start using a little more advance Japanese, compared to what we are learning in the classroom. LOL, I still have a ways to go, but I am progressing far better compared to when I was in college. I really want to become as close to fluent in Japanese as I can. :) BTW! I can tell that the classmates in my Japanese language class are really struggling with Japanese. I can answer some of the basic Japanese questions really fast...seeing them struggle reminds me of my own struggle of the language back when I was in my 20's and when I first began to learn Japanese. It is a humbling experience, and I am learning a lot more retaking some of the Japanese grammar I know. thank you for this video!
Keep up the good work Alex-sensei! I've been a fan of the LJP podcast for a long time. I actually applied for the JET Programme in part due to hearing about your experience... with any luck I should be flying out in September but who knows what's going to happen these days! Always enjoy your and Miku-sensei's chats, and I love that it's all in Japanese too. Feel chuffed I can follow along for the most part.
I hope you can do another interview with Alex. His Japanese is incredibly understandable to me, probably because he’s a native English speaker too. It’s great practice. Love your videos Miku!
I love Alexxxx ... such a humble guy.. His knowledge of Japanese is much much higher than he likes to admit and his podcasts are amazing ... just wish there would be more of it
I can't believe i understood more than half the conversation without subtitles, I thought they would be in the video but you had to turn them on yourself. So i watched without subs and tried my best to comprehend the japanese and it ain't all that bad!!
It is priviledged for me to say.. since i can speak chinese so when it comes to Kanji(basic one) is easier for me to learn and memorise because i know simplified hanzi. Im self study so im still struggle with how japanese word order in a sentence, and sometimes i find it read in hiragana is harder than kanji (read subtittle for a certain vocab) because there is so many words in sound the same but if see kanji i will recognize immediately.. now is my 3months self study, and im verry happy with the result i made so far
Very good to know his experience on learning japanese, because no one shares with you, like he did in the video, with so many details. It’s comforting to know that we are not aliens, that exists a process of learning and that’s ok, just respect your time, recognize your improvements, even it’s small. Thank you for the video.
Alex's wit coupled with his japanese ability not only makes this great listening practice, but gives me something to aspire toward in my japanese learning.
Cool conversation! I find that the most formal vs casual has been the most difficult part for me recently. I say that now because I'm a beginner but I sure something else will come up
I've been studying Japanese for 16 months since the Covid started , never thought about one day I'm really into it , thanks a lot for the video it's very helpful , I actually put it in slow speed so I could understand the conversation . Once again thanks Alex and Miku .
how to slow the speed of the conversation, I'm clueless😁?I'm just started learning Japanese this year in my spare time since I'm working as a caregiver .BTW I'm Judy from Philippines
@@judzarintocomak9330 Hi Judy there is a setting button that you can choose the speed of your video while you watching ,you can make it slower or faster , where you can choose the quality and subtitle also playback speed.
I watched to 11 minutes with subtitles off because I didn't realize I had to click the cc button. I actually picked up more than I thought I would lol. Been watching Alex's podcast so I can pick up a lot of what he says.
This is the 1st time i watched a collab you with him but He's totally great , he can be a mentor , I learned a lot things in him as a beginner , more than studying japanese but about life when in japan.❤
Everyone says the first step to fluency is just speaking without worrying about mistakes and really making lots of mistakes. It's one thing to hear this but another to put it into practice. My first foreign language was German and the grammar, if spoken correctly, is complex. Nouns can be male, female, or neuter. Once I stopped worrying about Grammar and just started talking then I suddenly spoke fluent, if unique (bad), German. Japanese is another beast though. *Rather than speak with sloppy grammar I would advise speaking in short sentences* If you don't keep the sentences short, everything being completely backwards is going to make your brain freeze and nothing will come out and you'll switch to English. And make a note of any words you wanted to say but couldn't and look up those words as the vocabulary you should learn next. For reference I have N2 and feel pretty fluent in Japanese but I don't mind making mistakes either.
I'm only 10min into the video and this is the best resource for listening practice, as well as overall strategy for language learning, I have ever seen. I'm so impressed. 感動した、このビデオで本当にすごいアドバイスがある。ありがとう！続きを見るのが楽しみです.
A few months ago, I wasn't focusing on speaking or listening to Japanese content and I could barely understand anything from your interview videos, vlogs, Sambonjuku's videos etc. But after practicing those things, I understand 98% percent of everything that is said here! 有る難しいございますw
Doing a listening practice video about how to learn Japanese is actually brilliant. I often find myself getting distracted from actually studying Japanese by watching/reading discussions about how best to learn.. now I can have both. 😁
I’m absolutely a perfectionist. I had a verbal exam the other day and I froze up soo badly. Japanese is my major so I need to be comfy in speaking it. I can speak it ok, but when it comes to presentations I am terrible. (In any language, though, even English.) Which makes me wonder why I signed up for a speech contest in October. It will be a good learning experience and if I win I get a plane ticket to Japan. But is it worth the possible embarrassment
I'm trilingual and I'm currently learning Japanese grammar, the 3 languages I currently know are very versatile and flexible where u can just say them in any order while Japanese is so hard cause its not just the order but also the level of formality huhu
Very interesting and fascinating video. Both of you make learning Japanese so easy though I know it is not. I don't get enough opportunity to speak and communicate in Japanese.
The best app I have found so far has to be Hello talk. Just dive in and make a fool of yourself , but eventually you will be reading , writing and talking in Japanese. Yes your grammar will be questionable but you will be communicating. After all what else could you ask for?
Super relate to everything! As a foreigner up to this day, I’m experiencing culture shock😭. That’s why I’m badly looking for easier way to learn japanese and this video and you, 先生 helps a lot. Thank you so much! 私は もっと 頑張ります！ 💪🏻
I watch anime to learn usage of words that I am not familiar with.Because you will encounter lots of word while watching,so it will really help to expand your vocabolary.
Regarding Kanji: Maybe there is a chance for the "Kanji-geek". I still speak very little Japanese and would not be able to follow your conversation without the great subtitles. But from the beginning I just love those kanji, and almost certainly spend too much time on that while making not enough progress on speaking and understanding. It's of course very tempting to just rely on all the cool technologies for reading and writing Japanese. But I find it actually a lot of fun to go the "good old way" and learn writing calligraphy. It isn't really so hard: Got a nice little (Pentel brand) brush pen with refill cartridges, and make probably 10 times more flashcards than I can ever memorize new words. It's a bit of an obsession, I must say, even though I'm not trying to make beautiful scrolls. Yet even with my limited knowledge of 2-3rd grade kanji I find it usually a lot easier to read text that doesn't avoid kanji. I find reading text with just hiragana much more difficult than when it's written with the usual dose of kanji, even if I have to look up lots of them to just read and understand one sentence. Of course it helps if there's a lot of furigana for the less frequent kanji. (btw, where can I get that book "わたしってADHD脳” in the US?). p.s. Here is a tip for other kanji-geeks: Instead of buying so many cartridges, get a syringe and a pot of ink - it's quite easy to refill the cartridges using the syringe. You may have to do some explanation though if you buy a syringe at a pharmacy. They may first assume you're a junky, and I was told that a doctor's prescription is required to buy a syringe, but they sold me one after some explaining.
Thank you, Alex-sensei! I could understand you perfectly with the Japanese you are using. Thank you so much, I enjoyed the conversation, with all the tips. Thank you so much!
So happy to listen you...your voice is like "Alex from the green monster!! Thank you so much!! I speak Spanish and practice with you English and learn Japanese
yeah its true the flash card is the most effective way ..next is writing the kanji characters to be much easier but in my expirience it depends on the person if what would be the best way for him/her learn easier..nice video
Thank you very much for your both interesting conversation. The most interesting point to me was: I was totally amazed, he speaks his mother tongue is much slower than he speaks Japanese. 本当に面白いです。^.^
i really like this segment, coz' I learn a lot. thanks. currently working here in japan, and I really understand this topic about Nihonjin to Mekishikojin.
Totally i have same problem with language, being too shy to talk because i want to be perfect...i want to get over it so i'm trying to practice with my friends for speaking!
I use way more casual Japanese than I should lol. Mainly because I don't have a strong enough command yet over switching, and keigo I can't speak smoothly , but because I'm not Japanese, it's kind of easy to get away with casual/polite alone.
As a foreigner who live in Japan, should be rarely used own language because every scene in the living must be Japanese, but like an Asian who live in the US will be rarely chance to speak English except in school.
im am blown away. i did massive immersion since 20 feb, didn't understand anything in Japanese ever... i did turn on subtitles here but actually didn't need them. whoever is serious learning japanese... MASSIVE IMMERSION AND all her guide vids you can watch ^^ this stuff works like magic it work... im stunned. you just have to be patiente the first month and a half and look up stuff and be okay with comprehending 50% and not understanding everything perfect.. i love that i understand this interview withouth subs o.O
@@JB52520 what do you mean by noice? I mean my understanding is mostly from input. I basically never touched a textbook except little check ups on the grammar sites of the internet.
@@JB52520 Because even though you don't understand anything. Your brain in working in trying to parce sounds. You're getting used to the language. Letting wash over you. Getting used to the sounds in the language. Also getting used to the sounds that don't exist in your native tongue. Your brain can subconsciously be working on several things at one time. Parcing sounds, the tone, exc. Learn the most common words. So you have somewhere to start from. At first you can only pick out words. Then eventually bit pieces phrases. Then entire sentences but maybe a word you don't know. Until you understand pretty much everything. You have to look up words you don't know. Not all at once just here and there.
I'm actually having some difficulties talking as there are alot of alternatives to 1 word so I don't really know which alternative is the one that japanese people nornally use to better fit in like a native speaker.
There are forums where you can ask. But, as in almost any language, it will probably sound better to say something reasonably fitting rather than stopping, thinking about it 10 seconds and saying something else.
I think not only nihonjin,most of Asians also think much about other people feeling.They hardly express their feeling and desire than westerners.You can easily see in relationship.
おととい、日本語の本をかいました! モルモン書と言う. Reading it is going veeery slow and I only understand 1% of the kanji pretty much. But despite sucking at Japanese it's a lot of fun!
Thank you SO much. These videos in full japanese with subtitles are so helpful for my learning. Easy to follow along but new vocab and practice. Please dont stop 😭😭❤❤ みく先生、こんな動画を作り続けてください!! ほんとに勉強になってるんですから❤ わかりやすくて日本人じゃなくてもペラペラになってる人にアドバイスを聞いてくれてよかったですよね。ありがとうございます! ^.^
I must be the odd one out - I've heard many people saying that Japanese people are encouraging towards lower-level speakers but that has rarely been my experience living here in Japan. I've had many occassions where I'm in a shop or on a phone call and the staff become clearly impatient with my mistakes, become flustered and then either try to switch to English (even if they can't speak well) or bring our exchange to an abrupt end in Japanese, saying they don't understand me or can't help me (where they probably could help me if they showed a bit more patience) - it's a definite dent to the confidence. I can never forget speaking to an employment agency guy on the phone (for an N5 level job), after a couple minutes of Japanese convo we hit a bit of brick wall in understanding, and then he switched to English, clearly annoyed tone - "No, no, no, no English, no English, bye bye, bye bye!", followed by a hang up - and that's a somewhat typical pattern in my world, to varying extents. If anything, my experiences have given me the impression that fluency is required in this country to earn that "friendliness", otherwise just stick to English and hope for the best. Maybe there's a point to be made with the differences of speaking with stressed staff, versus speaking to the old couple who live next door or your Japanese friends.
Well, there's something you should notice about Japan's society. First, they are very intense in thinking as groups, which means they always follow the rules, manners, procedures that familiar in the groups, so when you make them encounter something they rarely experienced before like when you speak in Japanese that they can't understand. It makes them confused, nervous, and annoyed, so most of them will want to avoid that asap unless they have been exposed to other cultures outside of their groups. In general, only Japanese who have traveled outside of Japan are capable of open-minded. The rest is what Kierkegaard described as "inauthentic" men. "Men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children. They are "inauthentic" in that they do not belong to themselves, are not "their own" person, do not act from their own center, do not see reality on its terms; they are the one-dimensional men totally immersed in the fictional games being played in their society, unable to transcend their social conditioning. Who doesn't understand what it means to think for himself and who, if he did, should shrink back at the idea of such audacity and exposure."
@Brian's Late Night Whatever "output needs to be the last thing you do until you're prepared ..." - this is my constant battle with my wife (Japanese) re: my learning, because that is exactly how I think, but she tells me "well I just spoke English whenever and with whoever I could and made a million mistakes and I didn't care, what are you scared of?!" - but then she's a lot more outgoing/talkative than me naturally and doesn't have my need to be equipped with confidence/knowledge before taking something like language on. Yep I'm doing italki too which is a lot easier than dealing with real situations, and yes I'm that can understand (a decent amount) but can't speak (much) guy too. Thanks for the good luck wishes, you too.
@@kiepnguoi5058 thanks for that, I do get that about society here, but then if the people here are like that it doesn't support the idea that they are "patient/encouraging with Japanese learners" - which was my point.
This is so helpful! I would like to shadow Tori-chan from TH, do you know where I can find more resources and if it's okay to ask, what do Japanese native people think about the way she speaks?
Damn Alex is old now. I used to listen to his podcasts back in 2006. Now I feel old. He used to have Beb and Alex on his podcasts on the reg but then they disappeared. I wonder what happened.
That "tudo bem" Alex said at 30:13 got me totally by surprise, got me laughing for how sudden it was. Tell Alex there's no need to apologize though, I instantly understood what he said then despite his English accent. But I'll hand out some tips if he's interested: if I had to oversimplify it, I'd say he should pronounce that "m" as an "ng" at all times (weird, I know), as most Brazilians have a hard-time telling them apart, I myself couldn't tell them apart until a few years ago. But, as for the full explanation, the actual Brazilian/European pronunciation is just a nasal diphthong that assimilates to the place of articulation of the next sound, which means the diphthong is followed by "ng" before "k"s and hard "g"s, by "m" before "p" and "b", by "n" before "t" and "d", and by nothing before all other sounds. Lastly, if he's curious about why "bem" is spelled with an "m" even though it's not pronounced with one, I think, and I'm not sure about this, that the "m" at the end is just an old spelling convention to make sure that "uma" and "um", which are respectively the feminine and masculine forms of the Portuguese word for "a/an", are spelled in a way that makes their relationship as clear as possible.
Even brazilian people have trouble to know and pronunciate some kind of words. Brazilian portuguese has a large vocabulary. Sou de Salvador kkkkk salve mano
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The interview in Japanese with the option of subtitles is amazing content. It is so hard to find spoken Japanese that isn’t affected (yelling, cutsie, very fast news broadcasts, etc ). This is perfect, thank you very much. More please. 👍🏻
I was very surprised when i saw it. I i will probably see it a lot of times just to listen to them speaking in Japanese!
Agree! We need it more😃
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yesssss i love these
god bless miku, Imma donate to her for real
I have found the best way to acquire true knowledge and ability in any language, is to shadow audio books narrated by professional voice talents. To enhance listening, wear headphones, slow to 0.6~0.8 speed, filter to dampen bass and boost midrange frequencies, and compress (Volume Smoothing) to enhance quiet consonants. Then repeat aloud half a second behind, imitating every nuance, at first focused only on sound with no concern for comprehension. Only after your preconscious ear and tongue can handle the patterns of the sound system, are you ready to realize the meaning of the sounds you have already heard and absorbed. Traditional vocabulary translation first, pronunciation second is not a shortcut, but an obstacle.
Will try your method 👍 thanks
I like how he mentioned Yuta先生 and the channel "Ask Japanese"! I watch them both, and it really helps in learning.
I love Yuta and how he talks and catch up to real society problems in a way that everyone can understand.
Hello, can you point me his channel? おねがいします
This interview is excellent! I have been studying Japanese on my own for less than a year, so it is interesting to hear Alex's perspective. Thank you for the English subtitles, Miku sensei. I hope that someday I will no longer need them.
I totally agree with Alex about learning formal Japanese first and casual next. I used to speak super formally, but then my friends taught me casual Japanese. Now I can quickly switch between the two at will.
Completely agree, now after recognizing casual and formal speech at the correct time. It’s just a matter of training your brain to get adapted, when it is necessary to use it. Having friends in a specific language you are learning, is a great way to start picking up speaking casually
Thank you for this video, I will finish watching it later. BUT! the first minutes of the interview solidify something in my mind. I remember when I first began to study Japanese, this was when I was in my early 20's and during my first years of college, I made a lot of Japanese friends in my major program. I was studying computer animation, and there were so many Japanese going to my college just to study computer animation. I made so many Japanese friends, and I would tell them that I was learning Japanese. Their first reaction was of confusion and they would react with the same phrase, "wow! Japanese is hard." It was funny to hear that, but I kept studying it. I remember a Japanese friend telling me once, when I told her that I wanted to go to Japan to learn Japanese better, she said, "no, don't..in my opinion, you are in the best place to learn Japanese. Why do you think my English hasn't gotten better? because I am using Japanese here more than I thought I would! make Japanese friends and speak to them in Japanese or practice it with other Japanese people whenever you hear a Japanese person around." I kind of stopped learning it, due to not having money to go take classes and due to pretty much focusing on getting through undergrad and grad school. NOW! since I've been a special ed teacher for the last 5 years, I decided to refocus and give it my all to make Japanese my 3rd language, English and Spanish are my native languages, and I wish to make Japanese my 3rd language. I really want to conquer this wish. And My Japanese friends' tip, of making Japanese friends, has reminded me! that I am lucky to be where I am. I live in Los Angeles, CA. Near my home is "Little Tokyou." In LT, there is a Japanese American community center building. In that building there is a pure Japanese language school, I hear Japanese every day whenever I go to Little Tokyo or Santa Monica. So! this year I decided to start taking Japanese language classes there. My progress has been great! I am progressing fast because the Japanese I knew from my college years, the 3 years of Japanese I took back in college, is coming back and the "dots" are connecting back in my brain. I even told my instructor that don't be surprise if I progress and start using a little more advance Japanese, compared to what we are learning in the classroom. LOL, I still have a ways to go, but I am progressing far better compared to when I was in college. I really want to become as close to fluent in Japanese as I can. :)
BTW! I can tell that the classmates in my Japanese language class are really struggling with Japanese. I can answer some of the basic Japanese questions really fast...seeing them struggle reminds me of my own struggle of the language back when I was in my 20's and when I first began to learn Japanese. It is a humbling experience, and I am learning a lot more retaking some of the Japanese grammar I know.
thank you for this video!
Thank you Miku Sensei, that was fun!
Learn Japanese Pod You are a legend ! I had so much fun as well:) Thank you so much for the collaboration and I will see you soon!
Keep up the good work Alex-sensei! I've been a fan of the LJP podcast for a long time. I actually applied for the JET Programme in part due to hearing about your experience... with any luck I should be flying out in September but who knows what's going to happen these days! Always enjoy your and Miku-sensei's chats, and I love that it's all in Japanese too. Feel chuffed I can follow along for the most part.
Hi Alex, any new podcasts in the works? I hope you and Ami are doing OK?
OH MY GOSH IT'S THE LEGEND HIMSELF!
I am a fan of you both. I still play LJP Over and over. Hope tou also interview Ami sensei.
I hope you can do another interview with Alex. His Japanese is incredibly understandable to me, probably because he’s a native English speaker too. It’s great practice. Love your videos Miku!
I love Alexxxx ... such a humble guy.. His knowledge of Japanese is much much higher than he likes to admit
and his podcasts are amazing ... just wish there would be more of it
Mikuさん、こんにちは。とても役に立つと思います。
this video was great. this is indeed an amazing way to learn when you can listen to the voices and read what you hear in the same time
10:44 this part killed me😭🤣😂
I got so many vocab just by watching this video. ありがとうみく先生。 ❤️
I can't believe i understood more than half the conversation without subtitles, I thought they would be in the video but you had to turn them on yourself. So i watched without subs and tried my best to comprehend the japanese and it ain't all that bad!!
It is priviledged for me to say.. since i can speak chinese so when it comes to Kanji(basic one) is easier for me to learn and memorise because i know simplified hanzi. Im self study so im still struggle with how japanese word order in a sentence, and sometimes i find it read in hiragana is harder than kanji (read subtittle for a certain vocab) because there is so many words in sound the same but if see kanji i will recognize immediately.. now is my 3months self study, and im verry happy with the result i made so far
Very good to know his experience on learning japanese, because no one shares with you, like he did in the video, with so many details. It’s comforting to know that we are not aliens, that exists a process of learning and that’s ok, just respect your time, recognize your improvements, even it’s small. Thank you for the video.
Terrace house taught me so much Japanese it’s やばい！
Very thankful for this type of video!
ありがとうございました！
Very cool conversation. Thank you both!
Alex's wit coupled with his japanese ability not only makes this great listening practice, but gives me something to aspire toward in my japanese learning.
More of thiiiis !!!! please ! That's so great ! Slow everyday japanese with subtitles .. Thank you !
Cool conversation! I find that the most formal vs casual has been the most difficult part for me recently. I say that now because I'm a beginner but I sure something else will come up
This was so good! More of these please it’s so easy to follow
Excellent interview. Really liked the fact that's in relatively basic Japanese with a slower pace. Keep them coming like this!
I've been studying Japanese for 16 months since the Covid started , never thought about one day I'm really into it , thanks a lot for the video it's very helpful , I actually put it in slow speed so I could understand the conversation . Once again thanks Alex and Miku .
how to slow the speed of the conversation, I'm clueless😁?I'm just started learning Japanese this year in my spare time since I'm working as a caregiver .BTW I'm Judy from Philippines
@@judzarintocomak9330 Hi Judy there is a setting button that you can choose the speed of your video while you watching ,you can make it slower or faster , where you can choose the quality and subtitle also playback speed.
I watched to 11 minutes with subtitles off because I didn't realize I had to click the cc button. I actually picked up more than I thought I would lol. Been watching Alex's podcast so I can pick up a lot of what he says.
This is the 1st time i watched a collab you with him but He's totally great , he can be a mentor , I learned a lot things in him as a beginner , more than studying japanese but about life when in japan.❤
If you're making a newspaper for foreigners but in Japanese.. use furigana for all the kanji. You might add spaces between words too.
Everyone says the first step to fluency is just speaking without worrying about mistakes and really making lots of mistakes. It's one thing to hear this but another to put it into practice. My first foreign language was German and the grammar, if spoken correctly, is complex. Nouns can be male, female, or neuter. Once I stopped worrying about Grammar and just started talking then I suddenly spoke fluent, if unique (bad), German. Japanese is another beast though. *Rather than speak with sloppy grammar I would advise speaking in short sentences* If you don't keep the sentences short, everything being completely backwards is going to make your brain freeze and nothing will come out and you'll switch to English. And make a note of any words you wanted to say but couldn't and look up those words as the vocabulary you should learn next. For reference I have N2 and feel pretty fluent in Japanese but I don't mind making mistakes either.
OMG its Alex from Learn-Japanese Pod! I love his podcast. He is just pure good vibes! :)
I'm only 10min into the video and this is the best resource for listening practice, as well as overall strategy for language learning, I have ever seen. I'm so impressed. 感動した、このビデオで本当にすごいアドバイスがある。ありがとう！続きを見るのが楽しみです.
Really sympathetic dude and nice advice he gave! All in all thank you so much for the work you both put into this!
Thanks for the chat with Alex again! I enjoyed it.
This is the type of listening practice I need. Please keep up the content and thankyou for not putting on English subtitles!
Alex san has good vocabulary skills.. he has used so many new words.. which I have learnt by seeing so many times this video. Great.
A few months ago, I wasn't focusing on speaking or listening to Japanese content and I could barely understand anything from your interview videos, vlogs, Sambonjuku's videos etc. But after practicing those things, I understand 98% percent of everything that is said here! 有る難しいございますw
hii! do u mind sharing how did you learn japanese? i know all the basics, and i could underdtand 40- 50% of the video... any advice? what did u do
Doing a listening practice video about how to learn Japanese is actually brilliant. I often find myself getting distracted from actually studying Japanese by watching/reading discussions about how best to learn.. now I can have both. 😁
I’m absolutely a perfectionist. I had a verbal exam the other day and I froze up soo badly. Japanese is my major so I need to be comfy in speaking it. I can speak it ok, but when it comes to presentations I am terrible. (In any language, though, even English.) Which makes me wonder why I signed up for a speech contest in October. It will be a good learning experience and if I win I get a plane ticket to Japan. But is it worth the possible embarrassment
ありがとうございましたせんせい😊
I'm trilingual and I'm currently learning Japanese grammar, the 3 languages I currently know are very versatile and flexible where u can just say them in any order while Japanese is so hard cause its not just the order but also the level of formality huhu
I'm bilingual, right now I'm trying to learn 2 more, French and Japanese, which languages do you speak?
ミク先生、日本のドラマは一番いいて何？
私日本語勉強したいから
Very interesting and fascinating video. Both of you make learning Japanese so easy though I know it is not. I don't get enough opportunity to speak and communicate in Japanese.
for short visits, I think the first thing to learn is Katakana - it's the most useful for reading signs and so on
You both Alex and 先生👩🏫are just amazing .
The best app I have found so far has to be Hello talk. Just dive in and make a fool of yourself , but eventually you will be reading , writing and talking in Japanese. Yes your grammar will be questionable but you will be communicating. After all what else could you ask for?
Super relate to everything! As a foreigner up to this day, I’m experiencing culture shock😭. That’s why I’m badly looking for easier way to learn japanese and this video and you, 先生 helps a lot. Thank you so much! 私は もっと 頑張ります！ 💪🏻
Alex-san, you are so interesting. I got inspired to learn Japanese more after watching this interview.
Thank you Miku-san for the video.
i love how all her rooooollls build-ups end with a super shy announcement ^_^ miku sensei ga sugoi desu!
great subtitles, you can slow down the video speed and understand everything
The best japanesse language teacher that i ever seen who used english language, すごい❗ミク先生大好き
look up 'japanese ammo with misa'. she is also very good
Very Very interesting!!! thank you thank you Very much Miku San!
Totemo arigatou gozaimasu sensei i love your videos special listening and speaking practice video
I watch anime to learn usage of words that I am not familiar with.Because you will encounter lots of word while watching,so it will really help to expand your vocabolary.
Regarding Kanji: Maybe there is a chance for the "Kanji-geek". I still speak very little Japanese and would not be able to follow your conversation without the great subtitles. But from the beginning I just love those kanji, and almost certainly spend too much time on that while making not enough progress on speaking and understanding. It's of course very tempting to just rely on all the cool technologies for reading and writing Japanese. But I find it actually a lot of fun to go the "good old way" and learn writing calligraphy. It isn't really so hard: Got a nice little (Pentel brand) brush pen with refill cartridges, and make probably 10 times more flashcards than I can ever memorize new words. It's a bit of an obsession, I must say, even though I'm not trying to make beautiful scrolls. Yet even with my limited knowledge of 2-3rd grade kanji I find it usually a lot easier to read text that doesn't avoid kanji. I find reading text with just hiragana much more difficult than when it's written with the usual dose of kanji, even if I have to look up lots of them to just read and understand one sentence. Of course it helps if there's a lot of furigana for the less frequent kanji. (btw, where can I get that book "わたしってADHD脳” in the US?).
p.s. Here is a tip for other kanji-geeks: Instead of buying so many cartridges, get a syringe and a pot of ink - it's quite easy to refill the cartridges using the syringe. You may have to do some explanation though if you buy a syringe at a pharmacy. They may first assume you're a junky, and I was told that a doctor's prescription is required to buy a syringe, but they sold me one after some explaining.
Thank you, Alex-sensei! I could understand you perfectly with the Japanese you are using. Thank you so much, I enjoyed the conversation, with all the tips. Thank you so much!
So happy to listen you...your voice is like "Alex from the green monster!! Thank you so much!! I speak Spanish and practice with you English and learn Japanese
このポットキャストは、とてもいいだと思う。聞くことはとても役に立った。もっとやりなさい！！！！！
Very cool conversation. Thank you both!
この素晴らしい会話によって、いろいろお勉強になりました
yeah its true the flash card is the most effective way ..next is writing the kanji characters to be much easier but in my expirience it depends on the person if what would be the best way for him/her learn easier..nice video
Thank you very much for your both interesting conversation. The most interesting point to me was: I was totally amazed, he speaks his mother tongue is much slower than he speaks Japanese. 本当に面白いです。^.^
6年で習得した漢字を全て忘れたくはないが、聴解がまだ下手です。 今ではミク先生が日本語を話すための私のお気に入りのロールモデルです！ アレックスもとても素敵です...
Very useful to have both the English and the kanji. Thank you!
Wow.....I love the interview. Learning alot
OMG I missed Alexes podcasts SO MUCH! I am so glad to hear him again... AND SEE HIM TOO!
大好きこんな動画、ありがとう!
I am not bothered about becoming fluent as long as I can communicate and still enjoy it 十分です。
i really like this segment, coz' I learn a lot.
thanks. currently working here in japan, and I really understand this topic about Nihonjin to Mekishikojin.
Totally i have same problem with language, being too shy to talk because i want to be perfect...i want to get over it so i'm trying to practice with my friends for speaking!
勉強になりました 本当に。ありがとうございます
Great video I am starting to understand Japanese more now ! 😊
I use way more casual Japanese than I should lol. Mainly because I don't have a strong enough command yet over switching, and keigo I can't speak smoothly , but because I'm not Japanese, it's kind of easy to get away with casual/polite alone.
As a foreigner who live in Japan, should be rarely used own language because every scene in the living must be Japanese, but like an Asian who live in the US will be rarely chance to speak English except in school.
ありがとうございました‼️
This is my first comment to my idol sensei in internet, Miku Sensei. I always look forward to your content sensei.
im am blown away. i did massive immersion since 20 feb, didn't understand anything in Japanese ever... i did turn on subtitles here but actually didn't need them. whoever is serious learning japanese... MASSIVE IMMERSION AND all her guide vids you can watch ^^ this stuff works like magic it work... im stunned. you just have to be patiente the first month and a half and look up stuff and be okay with comprehending 50% and not understanding everything perfect.. i love that i understand this interview withouth subs o.O
Without subtitles, I recognize nothing. It's not input, it's noise. I'll never understand how normal people are able to learn languages.
@@JB52520 what do you mean by noice? I mean my understanding is mostly from input. I basically never touched a textbook except little check ups on the grammar sites of the internet.
@@JB52520 Because even though you don't understand anything. Your brain in working in trying to parce sounds. You're getting used to the language. Letting wash over you. Getting used to the sounds in the language. Also getting used to the sounds that don't exist in your native tongue. Your brain can subconsciously be working on several things at one time. Parcing sounds, the tone, exc. Learn the most common words. So you have somewhere to start from. At first you can only pick out words. Then eventually bit pieces phrases. Then entire sentences but maybe a word you don't know. Until you understand pretty much everything. You have to look up words you don't know. Not all at once just here and there.
9ヶ月前の僕がこの動画を見るなら、何もわからないでしょう。僕の9ヶ月前の日本語より現在の日本語が上手だと思います！上達して良かったですね！それに、みくさん、動画を作って投稿してくださってありがとうございました！
めっちゃおもしろかった❗
手伝ってくれてありがとうございます！私は二年くらい日本語を勉強してますが話すときにまだはずかしくなるだから、日本に行くときは日本語だけを話すつもりです!
You should get Steve Kaufmann on your show! :D
This was great. Thank you sensei!
Thank you miku saan for such a useful source.......keep it up####.....Love you>>>>>>>>>
I'm actually having some difficulties talking as there are alot of alternatives to 1 word so I don't really know which alternative is the one that japanese people nornally use to better fit in like a native speaker.
Same thing in Korean.....ajust choose one and natives might correct you...don't worry about it. Speaking is better than not :)
There are forums where you can ask.
But, as in almost any language, it will probably sound better to say something reasonably fitting rather than stopping, thinking about it 10 seconds and saying something else.
I miss him and beb ... I really don't understood them and it's funnnny af
To me after Hiragana and Katana cool reading completion biggest obstacle -- kanji
The secret is you should get along with the native speakers. You cannot be fluent by just reading.
❤ありがとうございました❤
ミクせん大好き💕
Hi, Miku sense. I always wondered. How good Is Alex's Japanese in comparison to your English? Are you guys at the same type of level?
This guy: talks clam and explains his point
Also this guy: BUY MIKU'S DBSJBS!!!
I think not only nihonjin,most of Asians also think much about other people feeling.They hardly express their feeling and desire than westerners.You can easily see in relationship.
What did he suggest at 37:05?
37:05で何を進めたでしょうか？
おととい、日本語の本をかいました! モルモン書と言う. Reading it is going veeery slow and I only understand 1% of the kanji pretty much. But despite sucking at Japanese it's a lot of fun!
Thank you SO much. These videos in full japanese with subtitles are so helpful for my learning. Easy to follow along but new vocab and practice. Please dont stop 😭😭❤❤
みく先生、こんな動画を作り続けてください!! ほんとに勉強になってるんですから❤ わかりやすくて日本人じゃなくてもペラペラになってる人にアドバイスを聞いてくれてよかったですよね。ありがとうございます! ^.^
Shigoto no kotoba kaiwa shite onegaishimasu sensei 🙏💙💙💙
I must be the odd one out - I've heard many people saying that Japanese people are encouraging towards lower-level speakers but that has rarely been my experience living here in Japan. I've had many occassions where I'm in a shop or on a phone call and the staff become clearly impatient with my mistakes, become flustered and then either try to switch to English (even if they can't speak well) or bring our exchange to an abrupt end in Japanese, saying they don't understand me or can't help me (where they probably could help me if they showed a bit more patience) - it's a definite dent to the confidence.
I can never forget speaking to an employment agency guy on the phone (for an N5 level job), after a couple minutes of Japanese convo we hit a bit of brick wall in understanding, and then he switched to English, clearly annoyed tone - "No, no, no, no English, no English, bye bye, bye bye!", followed by a hang up - and that's a somewhat typical pattern in my world, to varying extents. If anything, my experiences have given me the impression that fluency is required in this country to earn that "friendliness", otherwise just stick to English and hope for the best. Maybe there's a point to be made with the differences of speaking with stressed staff, versus speaking to the old couple who live next door or your Japanese friends.
Well, there's something you should notice about Japan's society. First, they are very intense in thinking as groups, which means they always follow the rules, manners, procedures that familiar in the groups, so when you make them encounter something they rarely experienced before like when you speak in Japanese that they can't understand. It makes them confused, nervous, and annoyed, so most of them will want to avoid that asap unless they have been exposed to other cultures outside of their groups. In general, only Japanese who have traveled outside of Japan are capable of open-minded. The rest is what Kierkegaard described as "inauthentic" men.
"Men who avoid developing their own uniqueness; they follow out the styles of automatic and uncritical living in which they were conditioned as children. They are "inauthentic" in that they do not belong to themselves, are not "their own" person, do not act from their own center, do not see reality on its terms; they are the one-dimensional men totally immersed in the fictional games being played in their society, unable to transcend their social conditioning. Who doesn't understand what it means to think for himself and who, if he did, should shrink back at the idea of such audacity and exposure."
@Brian's Late Night Whatever "output needs to be the last thing you do until you're prepared ..." - this is my constant battle with my wife (Japanese) re: my learning, because that is exactly how I think, but she tells me "well I just spoke English whenever and with whoever I could and made a million mistakes and I didn't care, what are you scared of?!" - but then she's a lot more outgoing/talkative than me naturally and doesn't have my need to be equipped with confidence/knowledge before taking something like language on. Yep I'm doing italki too which is a lot easier than dealing with real situations, and yes I'm that can understand (a decent amount) but can't speak (much) guy too. Thanks for the good luck wishes, you too.
@@kiepnguoi5058 thanks for that, I do get that about society here, but then if the people here are like that it doesn't support the idea that they are "patient/encouraging with Japanese learners" - which was my point.
It is for this reason why many people don't bother to study another language. It can be humiliating and you sound really silly when speaking
My favorite Japanese actor is Ken Shimora so I will start shadowing and copying his mannerisms.
This is so helpful! I would like to shadow Tori-chan from TH, do you know where I can find more resources and if it's okay to ask, what do Japanese native people think about the way she speaks?
Damn Alex is old now. I used to listen to his podcasts back in 2006. Now I feel old. He used to have Beb and Alex on his podcasts on the reg but then they disappeared. I wonder what happened.
That "tudo bem" Alex said at 30:13 got me totally by surprise, got me laughing for how sudden it was. Tell Alex there's no need to apologize though, I instantly understood what he said then despite his English accent. But I'll hand out some tips if he's interested: if I had to oversimplify it, I'd say he should pronounce that "m" as an "ng" at all times (weird, I know), as most Brazilians have a hard-time telling them apart, I myself couldn't tell them apart until a few years ago. But, as for the full explanation, the actual Brazilian/European pronunciation is just a nasal diphthong that assimilates to the place of articulation of the next sound, which means the diphthong is followed by "ng" before "k"s and hard "g"s, by "m" before "p" and "b", by "n" before "t" and "d", and by nothing before all other sounds. Lastly, if he's curious about why "bem" is spelled with an "m" even though it's not pronounced with one, I think, and I'm not sure about this, that the "m" at the end is just an old spelling convention to make sure that "uma" and "um", which are respectively the feminine and masculine forms of the Portuguese word for "a/an", are spelled in a way that makes their relationship as clear as possible.
Even brazilian people have trouble to know and pronunciate some kind of words. Brazilian portuguese has a large vocabulary. Sou de Salvador kkkkk salve mano