Tsu looks like people running away from the tsunami. The real struggle for me is ソ and ン My mnemotechnics is the right part shows somebody driving and the left part is the wheel. ソ is realistic so it's "souka" and ン has the wheel all screwed up so it's "*n*ot good, who would drive like this". But it takes over 3s to remember this so I don't recommend using this
I thought i had it a year ago, but suddenly i started messing them up sometimes, and now i just get paranoid... Sometimes i feel worse at katakana than kanji, and I'm bad at kanji T_T
@@zilliq-qz5uw Yeah, kinda messy to remember. Sincerely, I don't use mnemonics to remember them. I literally just remember. What can really help (and will ensure that you will always be able to differenciate them) is reading. Read a lot. You don't even need to understand, but read. Read what you can. you'll eventually know them by heart. Singing when reading the lyrics in japanese in another way. Give it a try!
@@silverhand861 Yeah, there's some katakana that's difficult to know for sure lol, and that`s because of their frequency. there was this day that I crossed upon the ヲ (wo) katakana and I just staggered in front of this alien symbol that I couldn`t remember at all. I totally forgot that there were a katakana for "wo" 'cause I rarely see it written.
One thing I've always wondered about Japanese is, is there a way to enhance an idiom? For example, in English, we have phrases like: Kill two birds with one stone Take it with a grain of salt A one-two punch And I've seen people emphasize them by saying: Kill three birds with one stone Take it with a _very_ large grain of salt Not just a one-two punch, but a "one-two-three-four" punch. This isn't even limited to idioms. Earlier today, my sister was describing how injured an anime character was, and she said, "Forget 1st aid, she needs 2nd and 3rd aid!" I wonder if this is possible in Japanese.
You'd have to make sure the other person gets the reference. Easier in writing, harder when speaking. I've seen 一石三鳥. Because 75% of the kanji are the same as the original, because it's a very popular phrase and because it's a popular alteration made by many people, most Japanese people will instantly get it. When speaking or referencing a less known idiom or proverb, you'd have to qualify it by mentioning the original idiom or proverb first. Just like your sister said "forget 1st aid..." or like you said "Not just one-two punch..." Beware homonyms. I've seen a coworker try to modify 三寒四温 by just mentioning しおん and fail to convey his point, because シオン can also be a flower, and nobody ever uses 四温 as a word in of itself outside of 三寒四温.
That last gag was profound! A nerd otaku would absolutely do something that dumb reflexively. If robot apocalypse movies ever get as big as zombie flicks, that will absolutely be a trope.
oh i absolutely love the "thanks for correcting me" joke, especially the brief pause before it as if it was thinking / the way it feels to wait for it to generate the response when it hallucinates
Whenever he swiches to his Michigan English I get the chills and a deja vu - like something's very wrong and the upcoming doom just got a little bit closer😅
@@W4iteFlame Long story short: during an italian senate online public conference, a dude managed to get into the Zoom call and screenshared a 3D hentai of Tifa.
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Long story short: during an italian senate online public conference, a dude managed to get into the Zoom call and screenshared a 3D hentai of Tifa.
The self-study in High School before a Japanese degree is so goddamn accurate, how do you know the fact I'd mix those katakana up in my first semester so much? Oh the joys of majoring in Japanese, welcome to the only degree-level language course where no one's heard about transitive and intransitive verbs before, but the whole class could debate for hours about whether Naruto or Bleach *potential spoiler incoming* . had a worse ending in terms of the ships, ffs give the people what they want. The only reason I want to get Jozu is so I can head to Tokyo myself and give those two mangaka a piece of my mind. Incredible stories, beyond lacklustre pairings, for the love of god it's almost like you lost all humanity tirelessly working on some ground-breaking shonen stories over a period of many years.
😂 It's been a while since I watched your videos. At first I was curious your thoughts on Chat AI for learning cause I tried it twice and didn't like it. Stayed watching for the jokes and smooth nordvpn sponsor. Left feeling more hurt about the learning hiragana/katakana call out than AI take over us.
What do you think about using it to practice conversation? Do you think that AI (Even smaller models) is capable of natural conversational Japanese that isn't just obviously Google-Translated?
If you are anywhere from beginner-intermediate it's okay to use something like GPT 3.5 , advanced level you might want GPT4 or Claude3 or GeminiUltra/Pro(whatever it's called I forgot) for more native level Japanese. As someone that worked as a translator, I've used some of the paid models to help with my work flow. Anything GPT3.5level or above is generally better than google-translate by far , but as you know they still make some mistakes on occasions and you will have to use them more on the side to supplement your learning than rely fully on them(depending on your goals). But you can still learn new vocab and expressions and have it customize how it converses with you so it's better than convos with some people that might not be good conversationalists, depends how you prompt it really. I'm not sure about smaller open-source models, but I heard there was something finetuned for Japanese before (but even so, it's probably close to GPT3.5 level).
You would get more benefit out of them if you have them write articles in the style of a certain native speaker and show them some native dialogue you enjoyed reading. They are really good at mimicking writing styles btw.
It's funny when you interject the actual response from the AI with your own jokes, because as an AI prompter it would be either fully jokes or not at all, its hard to intermix it.
"シ! No, ツ!" I felt the sting. Joke's on Grok, though. The Yohohama Gundam installation was taken down last week... I will now proceed to cry about it. :(
They become easier when you write them with the correct stroke order. Also, look up the Jojo meme of "shi""tsu" "so""n" and that can help. Another way is to also start with "tsu" katakana. That katakana has strokes that all kinda line up at the top where the cross-stroke of a "T" would be. That one in your brain just needs to be cemented as "tsu" always and only. Once you have that one down then the others become easier as you have setup a process-of-elimination for yourself.
A beginner wouldn't understand a word of it, making it completely useless for that task. For real conversation, I've seen a few youtubers chat with Cotomo which looks much better than GPT, but it's not available outside of Japan😢.Thanks for teaching me about Tifa!
Big props to NordVPN for approving this script-truly a company of culture. Get your exclusive deal + 4 months extra here! nordvpn.com/dogenvpn
Congratulations Dogen. This is the first ad read I’ve not skipped!
For a lot of other sponsor reads like that it can feel very forced and abrupt. But that was a very smooth ad segue.
misreading シ and ツ is honestly so real
bruh why are they so similar lol
Tsu looks like people running away from the tsunami. The real struggle for me is ソ and ン
My mnemotechnics is the right part shows somebody driving and the left part is the wheel. ソ is realistic so it's "souka" and ン has the wheel all screwed up so it's "*n*ot good, who would drive like this". But it takes over 3s to remember this so I don't recommend using this
I thought i had it a year ago, but suddenly i started messing them up sometimes, and now i just get paranoid...
Sometimes i feel worse at katakana than kanji, and I'm bad at kanji T_T
@@zilliq-qz5uw Yeah, kinda messy to remember. Sincerely, I don't use mnemonics to remember them. I literally just remember. What can really help (and will ensure that you will always be able to differenciate them) is reading. Read a lot. You don't even need to understand, but read. Read what you can. you'll eventually know them by heart. Singing when reading the lyrics in japanese in another way. Give it a try!
@@silverhand861 Yeah, there's some katakana that's difficult to know for sure lol, and that`s because of their frequency. there was this day that I crossed upon the ヲ (wo) katakana and I just staggered in front of this alien symbol that I couldn`t remember at all. I totally forgot that there were a katakana for "wo" 'cause I rarely see it written.
You slick bastard with the nordvpn transition
Right?!?
Your commitment to pronouncing it D-Bwee-D is commendable.
the AI turned his mic back on
I can see Dogen begging for a Stand Alone Complex of his own....
One thing I've always wondered about Japanese is, is there a way to enhance an idiom? For example, in English, we have phrases like:
Kill two birds with one stone
Take it with a grain of salt
A one-two punch
And I've seen people emphasize them by saying:
Kill three birds with one stone
Take it with a _very_ large grain of salt
Not just a one-two punch, but a "one-two-three-four" punch.
This isn't even limited to idioms. Earlier today, my sister was describing how injured an anime character was, and she said, "Forget 1st aid, she needs 2nd and 3rd aid!"
I wonder if this is possible in Japanese.
I've seen 一石三鳥 instead of 一石二鳥. Probably just depends on the phrase and how it can be reasonably modified.
You'd have to make sure the other person gets the reference. Easier in writing, harder when speaking.
I've seen 一石三鳥. Because 75% of the kanji are the same as the original, because it's a very popular phrase and because it's a popular alteration made by many people, most Japanese people will instantly get it.
When speaking or referencing a less known idiom or proverb, you'd have to qualify it by mentioning the original idiom or proverb first. Just like your sister said "forget 1st aid..." or like you said "Not just one-two punch..."
Beware homonyms. I've seen a coworker try to modify 三寒四温 by just mentioning しおん and fail to convey his point, because シオン can also be a flower, and nobody ever uses 四温 as a word in of itself outside of 三寒四温.
Infiltrates a Gundam, uses AC boot-up, takes the plot of _Macross Plus._ Very AI-like.
AI gonna call him a weeb, but I bet it still can't explain -na adjectives.
This has to be the best ad ive ever seen 😂
Best double add in fact 😂 want to sign up for both Dogen‘s patreon and the nordvpn service immediately
I didn't expect to be called out by fake AI for self-studying hiragana and katakana in middle school and yet here we are...
That last gag was profound! A nerd otaku would absolutely do something that dumb reflexively. If robot apocalypse movies ever get as big as zombie flicks, that will absolutely be a trope.
Ah yes Tifa, the most famous Italian Senate xD
Man, I love the end. Really summarizes what it's like to use text AI like this
Hahaha great video! "Tifa と yufie...hot" killed me
Tifa mizugi... DOGEN IS A MAN OF CULTURE
道元さん英語も上手なんですね！
oh i absolutely love the "thanks for correcting me" joke, especially the brief pause before it as if it was thinking / the way it feels to wait for it to generate the response when it hallucinates
Holy cats that was awesome! I actually sat through the ad even (well done, BTW! Best job incorporating the ad into the flow I’ve yet seen!).
Cheers!
Surely one of the best ads I've seen in years haha
As always laughing so much watching your videos !
I open my computer to a brand new Dogen video. Going to be a good day
Whenever he swiches to his Michigan English I get the chills and a deja vu - like something's very wrong and the upcoming doom just got a little bit closer😅
This got to be the funniest sponsor transition 2024
can't believe nordvpn let you do this lmao
But I'm so glad they did. Let him raise the bar for how funny an ad read can be. I hope it inspires others to be more creative with theirs.
He just keeps getting better and better at crafting a story.
My boi Sora the Troll is an AI now? Congrats to him
I love Jinnai-san’s skits and this is right up there with those! (Using even the same voice synth) Keep it up!
VPNの宣伝で入りたくなった動画は、これが初めてです。
you just keep getting funnier i swear to god i am gonna die laughing from one of your videos one day
Lost it at the "Stellar Blade, Stellar Blade protagonist" part 😂😂😂
You are 非常に good at subtleties holy shit
"Listening, speaking, reading, and writing." - magnificent 😂
I understand the struggle to understand the difference between ソ and ソ.
Taking over the Yokohama Gundam still isn't as serious as if he would've gotten nihongo jouzu'd.
Dogennnn even the sponsorships are clever and hilarious 🤭🤭
not tifa italy 💀
What is "tifa italy"?
I am also confused - elaborate?
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger google it at your own risk
@@W4iteFlame Long story short: during an italian senate online public conference, a dude managed to get into the Zoom call and screenshared a 3D hentai of Tifa.
@@Your-Least-Favorite-Stranger Long story short: during an italian senate online public conference, a dude managed to get into the Zoom call and screenshared a 3D hentai of Tifa.
This might be the greatest ad segue ever created.
At around 3:00 when he gets so shook he stops speaking in Japanese and starts speaking in English LMAO
The self-study in High School before a Japanese degree is so goddamn accurate, how do you know the fact I'd mix those katakana up in my first semester so much? Oh the joys of majoring in Japanese, welcome to the only degree-level language course where no one's heard about transitive and intransitive verbs before, but the whole class could debate for hours about whether
Naruto or Bleach *potential spoiler incoming*
.
had a worse ending in terms of the ships, ffs give the people what they want. The only reason I want to get Jozu is so I can head to Tokyo myself and give those two mangaka a piece of my mind. Incredible stories, beyond lacklustre pairings, for the love of god it's almost like you lost all humanity tirelessly working on some ground-breaking shonen stories over a period of many years.
I died when you broke character and switched languages XD
Forget the Tifa bit. An Armored Core fan, truly a man of culture.
Hearing you switch to English during the sponsor plug feels like a jumpscare
1 year in and I still can't tell シ and ツ apart
three years in and still not
the nordvpn switch was pretty funny
Thanks for pointing that out OH NO
Holy fuck Dogen I'm crying with laughter here
The sketch so seamlessly transitioned to a nord vpn ad
Brilliant. I laughed out loud and I mean that literally. :)
What a monitor you use?
Apple Studio Display!
Wake up..., Dogen....
The ChatGPT has you...
Follow the white rabbit....
Flawless NordVPN sponsor placement, Jesus that was funny
😂 It's been a while since I watched your videos.
At first I was curious your thoughts on Chat AI for learning cause I tried it twice and didn't like it. Stayed watching for the jokes and smooth nordvpn sponsor.
Left feeling more hurt about the learning hiragana/katakana call out than AI take over us.
Excellent and worrying Dogen. I don't think this video is far from the truth. Cheers, keep the comedy flowing, Muffy from Oz (Australia)
What do you think about using it to practice conversation? Do you think that AI (Even smaller models) is capable of natural conversational Japanese that isn't just obviously Google-Translated?
If you are anywhere from beginner-intermediate it's okay to use something like GPT 3.5 , advanced level you might want GPT4 or Claude3 or GeminiUltra/Pro(whatever it's called I forgot) for more native level Japanese.
As someone that worked as a translator, I've used some of the paid models to help with my work flow. Anything GPT3.5level or above is generally better than google-translate by far , but as you know they still make some mistakes on occasions and you will have to use them more on the side to supplement your learning than rely fully on them(depending on your goals). But you can still learn new vocab and expressions and have it customize how it converses with you so it's better than convos with some people that might not be good conversationalists, depends how you prompt it really.
I'm not sure about smaller open-source models, but I heard there was something finetuned for Japanese before (but even so, it's probably close to GPT3.5 level).
You would get more benefit out of them if you have them write articles in the style of a certain native speaker and show them some native dialogue you enjoyed reading. They are really good at mimicking writing styles btw.
@@phen-themoogle7651 Noted.
I don't think so - as I believe chatGPT would embed into you many things you would then have to unlearn as you become more advanced.
@@graceyeah3926 I don't use GPT.
Stellar Blade 😂🙏
did yall know that へ(hiragana) and ヘ(katakana) are different as well, didn't even realize till i saw momosuzu nene differentiating them on stream
Eh?!
I was truly hoping this was an Actual AI. Nice video man
It's funny when you interject the actual response from the AI with your own jokes, because as an AI prompter it would be either fully jokes or not at all, its hard to intermix it.
Dogen さんが日本でお笑いタレントになれると思う人
ティファ❤
instruction unclear I ended up waifuing the A.I
Dogen家【旦那さんをひとことで】
ｱﾆﾒﾜｲﾌｷｬﾗｸﾀｰ：主人,夫,亭主,などが考えられます。
ﾘｱﾙﾜｲﾌｷｬﾗｸﾀｰ：変態 嘘つき アニヲタ野郎 ＷＷ
普段から言われてるッポイ😂
"シ! No, ツ!" I felt the sting. Joke's on Grok, though. The Yohohama Gundam installation was taken down last week... I will now proceed to cry about it. :(
Started learning the kana for something to do when I didn't feel like doing my Duolingo French. Tsu/shi and n/so, what the hell, Japan?
They become easier when you write them with the correct stroke order. Also, look up the Jojo meme of "shi""tsu" "so""n" and that can help. Another way is to also start with "tsu" katakana. That katakana has strokes that all kinda line up at the top where the cross-stroke of a "T" would be. That one in your brain just needs to be cemented as "tsu" always and only. Once you have that one down then the others become easier as you have setup a process-of-elimination for yourself.
A beginner wouldn't understand a word of it, making it completely useless for that task. For real conversation, I've seen a few youtubers chat with Cotomo which looks much better than GPT, but it's not available outside of Japan😢.Thanks for teaching me about Tifa!
Well, even Japanese people mix up ツ and シ. Especially when it is written in some weird font people use for adds and titles
Bookmarking 5:39 for later because it's funny. 😃
Nice video, I will go watch some cultural content now.
Be sure to use NordVPN
That weird feeling that Dogen is also the creator of Oversimplified 🤔
Funny episode :D
What is your problem with Tifa in a swimsuit? That is not hentai. Also, Tifa is in a relationship with Cloud. 😁😁🤣🤣
罵ってくれるAIとか最高やん。てか、斬新なプロモーションの入れ方やな😆
あと余計なことですが「見下したな」は「みおろしたな」じゃなくて「みくだしたな」のほうが自然っす
Oh wow
Aw, I see you are a man of culture as well.
Scary as it was accurate!
うめっ
Dogen your beanie is aliasing with the camera and causing moire patterns
Yep. Cultured content. Exactly!
Very funny 😄
シツソン
シーツ
Oh. That's actually helpful. Thanks!
This guy Nihongos.
Oh yeah, you had been playing the new FFVII title.
How's that going by the way?
Hahaha brilliant the whole way through. Dogen's top on the AI world domination hit list after this one, though.
ガンダム見てきたけど、異常はありませんでした。
kind of disappointed the ad wasn't in Japanese. ちょっとがっくりです。
この動画は最良喜劇動画です
I know better, and yet still I clicked this expecting a serious video. What was it...kuso, you said?
I thought the video was going to end by calling you out for being an otaku xD
That's the smoothest transition into a sponser I've seen in a while
Hmm.
AIの罵詈雑言ワロタ、ヨシモトの陣内智則がこのネタ見たらパクリそうw
😂😂😂 hilarious
hell of an ad lmao
one of the best i’ve seen
Tifa Italy xD
No wow what a creative vid what a creative way to use click bait wow
😂
AIガキにわからされるドーゲン先生の図
lol
nice ai usage.
jajajajajajajajaja
"Tifa Italia", should've been "senate"