Misa, I don't know if you read the comments anymore. But if you do, please know that it's 2024 and your videos are still super helpful to new Japanese learners like myself. Thank you!
If you are learning Japanese, it is very helpful if you write sentence structures in a notebook with katakana/hiragana form, romaji form, English form. You can highlight in different colors what these words mean and having a word bank is makes learning Japanese vocabulary much quicker. If you construct sentences in your notebook, you will also learn to write more efficiently and memories things faster.
isn't it better to skip romaji and just learn hiragana and katakana well beforehand? I feel that my brain gets lazy when it sees romaji and just doesn't remember how to write it properly, plus it makes it harder to get fluent at reading the other alphabets. :v
Noelciaaa Noelciaaa As someone who learned kana before ever learning Japanese. If you do that, you’ll definitely advance faster. Use that time to start studying Kanji
I realized after watching this series a second time, the relevance of formal speech is overrated when learning. I like these videos because they focus on real conversational Japanese, which is important to learn and get started. You don't teach children to first communicate with English majors, afterall, they literally just hear what people are saying and learn that, THEN they go to school when there is a framework.
I feel like after every video you will direct us to a japanese learning site that usually isn't free and really doesn't go into much detail, I say that after trying a few, I appreciate what you are doing. In class I could remember some things, but I couldn't go at the pace I needed to go, which was faster because I was adapting to it quicker, but then it was just repeating the same stuff, and even though it should have drilled it in, some parts we didn't go over enough, or at all, while some things too much and it got boring and I forgot it. I am not saying my teacher was bad but I am saying you are a great teacher, your kanji series was especially helpful, so I appreciate that. I am so happy I discovered your channel when I did, this year especially since I can learn in quarantine and you have so many videos up right now that I can just keep watching and looking over instead of waiting for the one I need, thank you. I have been learning Japanese for a year now but I am actually getting these concepts, so thank you. みさ先生、どうもありがとうございます。
Thank you very much Misa-san for these videos! I've watched five lessons today and will come back tomorrow to learn more. Your clear British English accent is what makes the channel different and unique from other channels. Please keep it up with the videos, they are informative and useful!
5th video finished. I Learned a good amount. I will continue to watch the videos including japanese101. Each video so far takes me about an hour and a half to two hours to finish while taking notes and pausing. I cant wait to make it to the 40 min sessions.
Video #5 and still going! Thank you for spending so much time creating Japanese learning videos! I enjoy learning from each of your videos. Hope you can find the time to continue creating more videos Misa-sensei !!
I've just found your channel, and I've got to thank you for these useful videos! I started out learning Japanese from Tae Kim's Complete Guide To Japanese but had to pretty much stop studying whilst I was at university. These videos make a fun refresher course for what I've learnt, and being in video format gives me useful listening practice too! みさ先生、ありがとうございます！
I think it would be good to mention about other ways how to negate the NA-adjectives e.g. kirei ja arimasen / dewa arimasen instead of "ja nai (desu)". Although you said the NA-adjectives negate the same way as nouns it is not so obvious to the beginners.
みさのえいがはつまらなくないです Thank you! I can't stop learn. I have watched your previously videos 2-3 times. //sorry for mistakes, i learn two languages at the same time.
Your videos are great. I started Japanese classes last week and accidentally ended up in a class where the others have already learned Japanese for 1,5 years, oops. I try to catch up with your videos. Would you mind if I show a video of my screen with a part of your video in my upcoming progress sharing? Obviously I would link the channel so people will know where to find you. Because I plan to add good resources etc and I think your videos are a great start.
Misa thank you for all these leassons, they are increadibly helpful❤️ I wish you used commonly used kanjis instead of just hiragana, so we could learn them and how they are used and said in a sentence:)
I've just put myself to the test by taking what I've learned so far, & used some of the words in sentences. Japanese isn't an easy language to speak. But, it's fun to learn.
If -na adjectives are negated like nouns with ja nai, then does that mean they can also be negated like nouns with ja/dewa arimasen? Or is that only used with nouns?
In France, we usually negates an adjective to say the opposite ("It's not stinky" really means "It smells good"), i was wondering if it is the same in japanese or if the negation of the adjective just mean what it literally means.
The main reason why I like these videos in particular is because of how she incorporates a lot of vocabulary all at once and she does it in a way where it flows well and isn't overwhelming. And am I the only one who hears a bit of an English accent?
みさ先生は好きです I should have said that☝️in the previous video 😅 Question: How do we know if the adjective is a i adj or a na adj? Is there a rule or do we just have to memorize them as we go? Thank for your videos. They're really helpful.
+Azula Mikazuki Thank you :) We only use 難しい! But you may hear people pronouncing it like "muzukashi!" in informal speech. It happens to all I-adjectives. For example, "hot" = "あつい" can be "あつ" or "あつっ!". But when doing this, we usually write it in Hiragana. So "むずかし！" looks better to me. But again it's mainly acceptable when speaking so in written speech it is not as common. Hope this helps ^^
Misa you're awesome. I watched so many youtube channels in order to learn Japanese but yours is the best!!! I just have one question. In another video it was explained that for the negation of a noun "dewa arimasen" is used while you said "janai desu". Like "Nihonjin dewa arimasen" and "Nihonjin janai desu". What is the difference. Would you recommend the other expression?
She mentioned about this in her 3rd video of this playlist. That they all mean the same except "dewa arimasen" is too informal you can use instead of this "ja arimasen" which is also formal but better than "dewa arimasen" while "janai" is informal.
It's so funny how everyone get's confused by that. XD Well, Austrians and other german speaking countries don't, since we call "Austria" "Österreich" and "Australia" "Australien". Btw, did you know that we have T-shirts that say "No kangaroos in Austria"? =D And I don't know if it's still there, but I once saw a sign at an austrian airport that said "Sorry, this is Austria not Australia" - I thought that was really funny! XD
This is confusing me a bit. So what if I wanted to say "this is not a beautiful book"? Would I say "kore wa kirei janai hon desu"? In the examples you gave, desu always followed the adjective immediately so I'm not sure what to do here. Like in the previous episode you gave an example of saying "kore wa sukina hon desu" (this is my favorite book), so how would the adjective negation apply to this kind of sentence structure? Anyone know?
I’m two years late and you probably already know this by now (sorry if I’m too late). You can do it like this 👉🏾これは本のきれいじゃないです👈🏾. In order to get it you’d have to put “kore wa hon NO kirei janai desu.” You can also add this as well👉🏾この本はきれいじゃないです👈🏾 . They both mean the same thing. I hope it helps.
@@ladarrylhunter4629 I appreciate the effort, but you've misused the の particle in your first sentence example (これは本のきれいじゃないです), making it grammatically incorrect. My example of これはきれいじゃない本です (This is a book that is not beautiful.) is actually grammatically sound, and it carries a slight nuance that makes it different from この本はきれいじゃないです (This book is not beautiful.).
Maple Strip It's how the language works. Misa Sensei stated in the last and current video that kirei is a Na adjective meaning that it will use Janai instead of kunai.
Maple Strip cuz い adjectives are only if they have "I" written in Hiragana きれい is actually written as 綺麗, as you see the "I" in it isn't written in hiragana, it's a part of the kanji, therefore, it's a NA adjective
I realized that the negation form of na-adjective is (ja) nai, and i-adjective is (ku)nai. Nai means "there´s not", "it doesn't exist", but what ja and ku means?
Hi Misa sensie. When I was reviewing my notes, I come across the word "deshita" which means "was" right? So I gof confused when do we use deshita word if we are using "katta" for past tense?
At 9:42 I noticed that "toilet", "toire", has an extra "de" on the end when it's pronounced. I've heard it from multiple sources, but the spelling doesn't indicate that sound. I wonder if there is a reason for this?
As far as I understand it, you use kunai くない when it's an adjective ending in I. If the adjective ends in NA, use ja nai じゃない. Like in her examples, kawaii かわいい is an I-adjective that changes into kawaikunai かわいくない and kantanna かんたんな is a NA-adjective and turns to kantan ja nai (desu) かんたんじゃない（です）. As for knowing which ones are I-adjectives and which ones NA-adjectives, you just have to know vocabulary.
Kaney Dudey In more formal situations, I believe it’s better to use じゃありません (jaarimasen). ではありません (dewaarimasen) is extremely formal, and I think is usually preferred to be written instead of actually being said.
Misa, I don't know if you read the comments anymore. But if you do, please know that it's 2024 and your videos are still super helpful to new Japanese learners like myself. Thank you!
If you are learning Japanese, it is very helpful if you write sentence structures in a notebook with katakana/hiragana form, romaji form, English form. You can highlight in different colors what these words mean and having a word bank is makes learning Japanese vocabulary much quicker. If you construct sentences in your notebook, you will also learn to write more efficiently and memories things faster.
isn't it better to skip romaji and just learn hiragana and katakana well beforehand? I feel that my brain gets lazy when it sees romaji and just doesn't remember how to write it properly, plus it makes it harder to get fluent at reading the other alphabets. :v
Noelciaaa Noelciaaa As someone who learned kana before ever learning Japanese. If you do that, you’ll definitely advance faster. Use that time to start studying Kanji
@@Noelciaaa I found it helpful to write romaji down under words when first learning to read kana
@@Noelciaaa I agree romaji just makes you skip actually taking time and reading the kanji or kana
@@Noelciaaa Yes, absolutely, maybe if you are just starting out then use romaji, but it is best to get rid of it as soon as possible
I realized after watching this series a second time, the relevance of formal speech is overrated when learning. I like these videos because they focus on real conversational Japanese, which is important to learn and get started. You don't teach children to first communicate with English majors, afterall, they literally just hear what people are saying and learn that, THEN they go to school when there is a framework.
I spend about an hour per a ten minute video taking down notes and writing down examples. You're a wonderful teacher! ありがとうございます！
みさ先生のヴィデオはとっても面白いです。ありがとう！
Not to discredit the quality of her content at all - but she honestly looks super cute in this one with the budget youtuber setup. みさ先生はいい先生とかわいい先生です！
I love you Misa. All your videos are so easy to understand and they really help me for school
you really put out a lot of stuff recently! nice video.
I feel like after every video you will direct us to a japanese learning site that usually isn't free and really doesn't go into much detail, I say that after trying a few, I appreciate what you are doing. In class I could remember some things, but I couldn't go at the pace I needed to go, which was faster because I was adapting to it quicker, but then it was just repeating the same stuff, and even though it should have drilled it in, some parts we didn't go over enough, or at all, while some things too much and it got boring and I forgot it. I am not saying my teacher was bad but I am saying you are a great teacher, your kanji series was especially helpful, so I appreciate that. I am so happy I discovered your channel when I did, this year especially since I can learn in quarantine and you have so many videos up right now that I can just keep watching and looking over instead of waiting for the one I need, thank you. I have been learning Japanese for a year now but I am actually getting these concepts, so thank you. みさ先生、どうもありがとうございます。
Thank you very much Misa-san for these videos! I've watched five lessons today and will come back tomorrow to learn more. Your clear British English accent is what makes the channel different and unique from other channels. Please keep it up with the videos, they are informative and useful!
5th video finished. I Learned a good amount. I will continue to watch the videos including japanese101. Each video so far takes me about an hour and a half to two hours to finish while taking notes and pausing. I cant wait to make it to the 40 min sessions.
Haha, I used to confuse Australia and Austria as a kid too! It was very funny when I was saying Australia is in Europe xd
I used to think Austria is a continent and something like Australia never existed for me
good lord, every time I learn a new part of japanese's sentence structure, i fall in love with the language more and more
Video #5 and still going! Thank you for spending so much time creating Japanese learning videos! I enjoy learning from each of your videos. Hope you can find the time to continue creating more videos Misa-sensei !!
I've just found your channel, and I've got to thank you for these useful videos! I started out learning Japanese from Tae Kim's Complete Guide To Japanese but had to pretty much stop studying whilst I was at university. These videos make a fun refresher course for what I've learnt, and being in video format gives me useful listening practice too!
みさ先生、ありがとうございます！
Misa-sensei, arigatou gozaimasu... ah slowly but unstoppable I begin to understand (xD I am at the very beginning of hopefully cheerful journey)
how is your language learning going :)@@phoenix7740
Lisa is the best sensei. I'm "walkthroughing" her channel.
本当ありがとう みさ先生
去年 私は日本学校に行きます
毎日に日本語に５時間を勉強します
でも、日本語はとて難しいだよ
Thanks to you its becoming easier
バイバイ
Hah, why haven't I found you earlier? I finally feel more encouraged to get back to learning :D
Thank you
I am always amazed by the massive amount of jump cuts in these videos. That jump cut at 6:05 is glorious.
I love how you pronounce April. :) I'm learning a lot from you. Thank you!!
so good. intuitive. straight to the point. you have a talent for teaching
Thank heavens for screen shots Sensei. They enable me to study all the wonderful examples more carefully. Thanks!
Funny, in the middle of the na negation we get a calendar lesson, nice. Thank you.
Very helpful video. You give detailed explanations.
I am watching your videos over and over again so i can fix the information. Thank you very much for your amazing work! 😊
みさ先生本当にきれいです！🐕🐈😊
みさ先生の 授業わ すごいです. I hope I've got that right. Anyway thanks for the amazing classes, they are helping me a lot.
Use は instead of わ
ありがとがざいます、みさ先生！
I think it would be good to mention about other ways how to negate the NA-adjectives e.g. kirei ja arimasen / dewa arimasen instead of "ja nai (desu)". Although you said the NA-adjectives negate the same way as nouns it is not so obvious to the beginners.
thank you for the lesson
みさのえいがはつまらなくないです Thank you! I can't stop learn. I have watched your previously videos 2-3 times. //sorry for mistakes, i learn two languages at the same time.
日本人じゃない、でも日本語を習っています。私の好きな言語は日本語で日本が好きです。日本に住みたい。ミサ先生のチュートリアルは本当になゆうようです。ありがとうございます！
I love the kunai ninja thing you do lol. Very helpful for memorization.
Thank for the Japanese Lesson Great video
Thank you for your lessons they are so helpful and you are a great teacher💙
This was extremely helpful. It's way better than always using ではありません, lol.
You didn't explain the GA particle in this one D:
Ludwig Van, here you will get help. www.japaneseammo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-は-wa-vs-が-ga-particles/
@@crigsbe thank you for sharing the link!!!!!
Oh no, it's broken now 2 years later 😣
I found it! www.japaneseammo.com/the-ultimate-guide-to-は-vs-が-the-only-lesson-you-need/
@@kalok6231 7 months later you saved a fellow 日本語の学生, thanks!
This is really helpful
thanks
Your videos are great. I started Japanese classes last week and accidentally ended up in a class where the others have already learned Japanese for 1,5 years, oops.
I try to catch up with your videos.
Would you mind if I show a video of my screen with a part of your video in my upcoming progress sharing? Obviously I would link the channel so people will know where to find you.
Because I plan to add good resources etc and I think your videos are a great start.
Excellent video
thank you misa san i've been struggling with when to use janai and kunai.
みささんが好きです。
Misa thank you for all these leassons, they are increadibly helpful❤️ I wish you used commonly used kanjis instead of just hiragana, so we could learn them and how they are used and said in a sentence:)
ありがとう せんせい！^^
Thanks so much Lisa Chan
I've just put myself to the test by taking what I've learned so far, & used some of the words in sentences. Japanese isn't an easy language to speak. But, it's fun to learn.
Japanese words are so beautiful and onomatopoeic. Little wonder it is the most learnt foreign language in Australia.
Misa sensei, you have introduced kanji in this lesson 5. It will help if you also include the Hiragana translation of the text. Arigatou gozaimasu.
No kangaroos in Austria
おもしろいです！
you may have found out by now, but 面白い is the word for interesting when written in kanji.
I actually had a friend tell me to say yongatsu for April though, because shi can also mean death and usually is considered unlucky
hello :)
I was wondering whether hima ja nai desu could also mean 'I'm not bored' ?
thanks.
That would mean “I’m not free” as in “I’m busy “
super helpful as always :) always looking forward to your tutorials!
+Wild Gengar Arigatou :D
Arigatou gozaimasu Misa-san!!
If -na adjectives are negated like nouns with ja nai, then does that mean they can also be negated like nouns with ja/dewa arimasen? Or is that only used with nouns?
the difference is only formal and informal speech.
So yes, to use ja/dewa arimasen isn't wrong.
In France, we usually negates an adjective to say the opposite ("It's not stinky" really means "It smells good"), i was wondering if it is the same in japanese or if the negation of the adjective just mean what it literally means.
日本語がすきてす！
Trying to learn Japqnese this 2018. btw she is good in teching.
Misa, the little line that comes before the s in *'s* is called apostrophe. You never called it by name so far and only drew it with your finger! :P
Arigato gozaimasu, Misa wa kawaii desu!
Arigato gozaimasu 🙏♥️
Приходится очень внимательно слушать, додумывая часть слов :)
ありがとうみさせんせい。
The main reason why I like these videos in particular is because of how she incorporates a lot of vocabulary all at once and she does it in a way where it flows well and isn't overwhelming.
And am I the only one who hears a bit of an English accent?
Lesson 5 Complete.
みさ先生は好きです
I should have said that☝️in the previous video 😅
Question: How do we know if the adjective is a i adj or a na adj? Is there a rule or do we just have to memorize them as we go?
Thank for your videos. They're really helpful.
i adjective usually ends in i (い) and na usually ends in na な.
難しい and 難し is there a difference ?when do i use which ? Both has the same meaning correct? Great vid btw 👍
+Azula Mikazuki Thank you :) We only use 難しい! But you may hear people pronouncing it like "muzukashi!" in informal speech. It happens to all I-adjectives. For example, "hot" = "あつい" can be "あつ" or "あつっ!". But when doing this, we usually write it in Hiragana. So "むずかし！" looks better to me. But again it's mainly acceptable when speaking so in written speech it is not as common.
Hope this helps ^^
+Japanese Ammo with Misa どもありがとう ございます先生 !!! 🙆🙆
Misa you're awesome. I watched so many youtube channels in order to learn Japanese but yours is the best!!! I just have one question. In another video it was explained that for the negation of a noun "dewa arimasen" is used while you said "janai desu". Like "Nihonjin dewa arimasen" and "Nihonjin janai desu". What is the difference. Would you recommend the other expression?
She mentioned about this in her 3rd video of this playlist. That they all mean the same except "dewa arimasen" is too informal you can use instead of this "ja arimasen" which is also formal but better than "dewa arimasen" while "janai" is informal.
@@sillyelliie8663 dewa arimasen is too formal, not informal
I am Australian and as I kid I used to think Austria was Australia too XD
yes an unimaginative name, it should have been an aboriginal name which would have been closer to Nihongo
It's so funny how everyone get's confused by that. XD
Well, Austrians and other german speaking countries don't, since we call "Austria" "Österreich" and "Australia" "Australien". Btw, did you know that we have T-shirts that say "No kangaroos in Austria"? =D And I don't know if it's still there, but I once saw a sign at an austrian airport that said "Sorry, this is Austria not Australia" - I thought that was really funny! XD
This is confusing me a bit. So what if I wanted to say "this is not a beautiful book"? Would I say "kore wa kirei janai hon desu"? In the examples you gave, desu always followed the adjective immediately so I'm not sure what to do here. Like in the previous episode you gave an example of saying "kore wa sukina hon desu" (this is my favorite book), so how would the adjective negation apply to this kind of sentence structure? Anyone know?
I’m two years late and you probably already know this by now (sorry if I’m too late). You can do it like this 👉🏾これは本のきれいじゃないです👈🏾. In order to get it you’d have to put “kore wa hon NO kirei janai desu.” You can also add this as well👉🏾この本はきれいじゃないです👈🏾 . They both mean the same thing. I hope it helps.
@@ladarrylhunter4629 I appreciate the effort, but you've misused the の particle in your first sentence example (これは本のきれいじゃないです), making it grammatically incorrect.
My example of これはきれいじゃない本です (This is a book that is not beautiful.) is actually grammatically sound, and it carries a slight nuance that makes it different from この本はきれいじゃないです (This book is not beautiful.).
Okay, thank you for the response! I’m still in the works of improving my journey in Japanese so this means a lot! ほんとにありがとうございました!
I'm confused. Kirei has an I, so why is it using a Janai? And not a kunai?
Maple Strip It's how the language works. Misa Sensei stated in the last and current video that kirei is a Na adjective meaning that it will use Janai instead of kunai.
Maple Strip cuz い adjectives are only if they have "I" written in Hiragana
きれい is actually written as 綺麗, as you see the "I" in it isn't written in hiragana, it's a part of the kanji, therefore, it's a NA adjective
Thanks daddy
Maple Strip np
are you japanese daddy?
I thought Are and Ano is like over there so "that film over there is..." please help me understand ^_^
Take 15 minutes and study lesson 2 . Good luck !
What happened between last episode and this one? Did Misa-sensei's power increase?
I realized that the negation form of na-adjective is (ja) nai, and i-adjective is (ku)nai. Nai means "there´s not", "it doesn't exist", but what ja and ku means?
Misa
ありがとうございましたみさせんせい
One of the ways I'm reading is to use dewa arimasen. Is there a reason not to use this? Is it too formal? Or just another way to negate something?
きれい belongs to which adjective group? い-adj or な-adj?
俺は日本人じゃないです、でもﾋﾞﾃﾞｵ隙です。ありがとう先生！
I know I'm late but, are like the 暇,ヒマ and ひま interchangable?
What would be the difference between ひま and 忙しい?
I put that last example on my toilet door.
Hi Misa sensie. When I was reviewing my notes, I come across the word "deshita" which means "was" right? So I gof confused when do we use deshita word if we are using "katta" for past tense?
7:16 Misa-sensei so cute when she said hima〜
おはよう皆さん、今朝は医者が会うに出かける覚悟しています！Good morning, this morning I am getting ready/preparing to leave(my house)to go meet/see my doctor.
ミサ - 先生 が かわいい です..
At 9:42 I noticed that "toilet", "toire", has an extra "de" on the end when it's pronounced. I've heard it from multiple sources, but the spelling doesn't indicate that sound. I wonder if there is a reason for this?
Some kanji. Nice!
日本言吾は難しでも楽しいと面白いです。Is this correct sensei ?😁😁😁
So, should I pronounce that "i" in "kirei", ミサ先生 (or maybe someone here knows)? Is't it the same as in "sensei"?
I'm late but kawaii has two い（いい）so you still has to drag i sound a bit.
How to know if im going to use "ja nai" or "kunai"? Whats the difference?
As far as I understand it, you use kunai くない when it's an adjective ending in I. If the adjective ends in NA, use ja nai じゃない. Like in her examples, kawaii かわいい is an I-adjective that changes into kawaikunai かわいくない and kantanna かんたんな is a NA-adjective and turns to kantan ja nai (desu) かんたんじゃない（です）. As for knowing which ones are I-adjectives and which ones NA-adjectives, you just have to know vocabulary.
19,29 and up years old say 〇きゅさい but I can imagine the awkwardness from saying 〇くさい xD.
みさせんせいはわたしのすきなせんせいです。☺
"Koushuu wa kirei ja nai desu"
Could it be written as
"Kire kunai desu?"
I had the same question
I guess No because it's a na adjective
Can anyone check this sentence, is this grammatically correct?
これわ簡単じゃないかんじです
Kore wa kantan janai kanji desu
Is it correct to say ' Kirei/hima/etc dewaarimasen' in more formal situations?
Kaney Dudey In more formal situations, I believe it’s better to use じゃありません (jaarimasen). ではありません (dewaarimasen) is extremely formal, and I think is usually preferred to be written instead of actually being said.
Ahh thank you for the clarification!
please 先生 why we put the word うち instead of わたしのトイレ in the last example ?
I could be wrong but I think its cause you're talking about the one at your house and not just a random toilet you have
TCG Guide XDDDDDDD
TCG Guide oh that makes sense.
How can I meet you, Misa?
Natsu wa atsu kunai desu if you live in england
woa u really good
To be honest I think I understand japanese better than english.
job less memer lmaoo