This video has hand-made subtitles (English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) - so if you find my slightly non-human voice difficult, please turn them on from the settings at the bottom of the video window. (Well all right completely non-human. But not a bad imitation, I thought). Thanks to Yanna-san for adding the Portuguese subtitles.
Hello, I made a spanish (latin american) translation, It helps me whit my englis it helps me whit my japanese, im a genius! (no im not ) j aja hope its ok, i had to shortend the title because it was too long for youtube. お休み
PS - I don't mean any criticism of your voice (I haven't even heard it) - but why is any being's voice the way it is? Presumably because it is that being and not another.
@archbishop of pride natsuki subaru I don't think TTS engines know what they are saying enough to put the kind of contextual stress/emphasis I do into words even if I still don't sound quite natural/human.
Man, this is the first video I'm watching and I scroll down to the comment sections, just to find that the creator has passed. I hope the people close to her are well and I feel sad I never discovered this channel earlier. Thank you.
That is truly heart breaking.... I really enjoyed this first video and now i know there is a finite amount and that this wonderful teacher is lost forever....
Some years ago I came across this channel and never really tried that much. Today I decided to finally do it and learned she passed away. I'll make her proud.
@fbimoe not that guy, but I started with this channel 2.5 years ago. I passed N3 last year, know 14k words, can understand most Japanese (including holding basic conversations with most people), and I'm moving to Japan in 32 days to teach :) Just don't ever stop. Keep that listening and reading grind going, and youll be Jyouzu before you know it. Good luck.
@@Consum98 I know there's tons of resources, but I'd like to learn how you personally learned; did you follow many grammar resources and study a lot? Or did you mostly let it come naturally with input?
Edited: Oct 9, 2021. After the devastating news of Cure Dolly's demise. I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart, for discovering you and for this wonderful knowledge that you have brought. Thank you so much, I really can't thank you enough! You have taught me more than just Japanese. I will cherish it for the rest of my life. How regretful that I wish I had said these words a little earlier. I am truly sorry. Goodbye, Cure Dolly. You will be missed. ーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーーー A timestamp for future aid since I often come back to rewatch some lesson 00:00 Introduction to the Organic Japanese Course 00:58 Who will benefit from this course 01:20 Basic Japanese core sentence in train carriages and engine terms 03:05 Introduction to う engine as the engine of verbs (The B-part) 03:23 Introduction to が particle as the main carriage (The A-part) 04:57 Introduction to だ copula as the engine of nouns 05:54 Introduction to い engine as the engine of adjectives 06:59 Summary of the lesson 07:31 Little exercise for new learners of Japanese 08:07 Basic kanji book recommendation Please point out if there are any typos or other errors 誤字、間違え等ありましたら 指摘お願いします
i just found this channel a few days ago...and this comment made me really really sad...have been working on japanese a little bit but was struggling when and how to use stuff like ga, wa, da, etc. etc. and this was an absolute blessing....genuinely feel like crying :(....may her soul rest in peace...
Rest in Peace wonderful アンドロイド先生. We will never forget you. I discovered this video by TH-cam recommendations long time ago and since then I was hooked. I have watched many of your videos up to 5 times for sure and I am pretty sure without you, I would have given up on Japanese. But now I actually speak usable Japanese and have so much fun doing it. To everyone new here: if you have an analytic mind, stay here and watch her videos. It’s unlike anything you will find anywhere else. It will change EVERYthing and you will be speaking Japanese AND having the confidence to make your own sentences because you will finally UNDERSTAND what you are doing. No other source will get you there like this channel. You left us way too early. I can just say a million thanks and love to you - and we shall meet again one day, in the Japanese studying section of the next world.
@@otaking3582 After doing some checking, it was announced on her Patreon page on 8th October 2021. I...I literally just found her today, and saw that her last video was dated several months ago noting that she had to take some time off. I was all, "I'll be happy to say hello when you return!" Now I feel sad I never got to know her.
For the longest time I always procrastinate learning japanese and finally I got hooked by this video. No BS and all straight helpful and I have fun knowing these interesting structure and all. Felt extremely happy finally I have a determination to learn. But then, this happen.. Goddammit. Better off not reading these comment. T_T
@@ally9624 Yes, I know how you feel. Watching her videos right now makes me feel sad because in the back of my head is the thought, "she sounds so happy and cheerful, and yet in only a year later..." In time the sadness will fade, but for now...
I only found this channel today (06/01/2022) and thought, "Oh, this will be good for my Japanese school club! The explanations are pretty simple to follow!" and so subscribed. Then I noticed her last posted video mentioned being unable to post videos for a time and I thought, "Ah, at this time that's understandable. That's okay. I'll greet and thank her properly when she returns." Then I learned I'll never have that chance. From one teacher to another, rest in peace, Dolly. I promise you your lessons will continue to help students, and you'll live on that way.
Without these lessons I would have given up learning Japanese years ago. To dedicate yourself so studiously to teaching outside the box is truly noble. Rest in peace, sensei.
I can't believe it, the original vtuber! It's bittersweet that I'm starting this series posthumously. I hope she rests well and knows she left a legacy. Thanks Dolly.
For you, Cure Dolly Sensei, I'll learn Japanese. I'll learn it through and through, and I'll never put it down. Even when it seems like I've mastered the language and have nothing left to learn, I won't stop. This one goes it to you, you beautiful soul.
Dear Cure Dolly Sensei, Quite recently I took the JLPT N4 on a whim and passed it rather well, and I just want to say it wouldn't have been possible without your channel. Your posts and replies have done so much for my understanding of Japanese. I still think it's the clearest channel out there. 本当にありがとうございます
Many thanks for teaching Japanese so very clearly! Here are my practice sentences: The bird flies. とりがとぶ The girl sings. おんなのこがうたう The woman is Japanese. おんなのひとがにほんじんだ Sakura is a girl. さくらがおんなのこだ Ice cream is tasty! あいすくりむがおいしいね The pen is blue. ぺんがあおい PS: I'm really enjoying "Alice in Kanjiland". It's a brilliant teaching method!
Perfect! 6/6. Note that あいすくりーむ needs to have that long dash because it indicates the long pronunciation (kreem, not krim). Actually it isn't usually used in hiragana, but ice cream is usually written in katakana (アイスクリーム). However there's no law against writing it in hiragana and material written for young Japanese children does. I used this form for beginners who only know hiragana. But we still need the lengthening dash. Just a piece of information. You don't lose any points - your answers were perfect.
I'm sad to hear of your passing, upon just finding your Channel. It really is promising and I think I will learn a lot from these courses you made. You seemed like a wonderful teacher and probably have helped a lot of people and soon I might also find this very helpful. The work and all of your efforts to teach everyone Japanese, are deeply appreaciated. Thank you! R.I.P. Cure Doly.
@@xenoblad this. I just found her in recommended, and finished this wonderful lesson, then decided to leave a comment... only to hear that she is dead. I can't exactly leave the comment I would like to anymore
I was trying to learn Japanese but it seemed complicated af. This video literally explained a whole book worth of knowledge in 8:40 minutes and it's really easy to understand. Thank you.
wow, did i just... understand a video on japanese grammar? wtf. this was so easy to understand. i've been struggling to find a grammar resource that was comprehensible, and it looks like i have. hope the rest of the series is like this. thanks cure dolly :)
i wish i could thank her......... i met someone a week ago who was fluent from her videos and using anki in tandem as well i too am now doing the same and hope she knows that she dropped one of the most sensible and actionable JP learning resources ive ever seen THANK YOU CureDolly
I was having such issues with sentence structure; it's such a blessing that I found your videos! I hope you rest well knowing your videos are still helping students even if you're no longer with us. ❤️
I recently began learning Japanese, I am about to start Lesson 10 and so far Dolly's lessons were extremely helpful. I am so thankful for the content she has left behind, and I am also sorry that I cannot express my gratitude toward her. RIP
Wow this channel is the best thing I've come across since I picked up Japanese. Everything I've come across up to this point has felt so strange and messy, so up to this point I've just been grinding kanji and vocab and jumping into immersion with absolutely no firm knowledge of the grammar. Just wanted to thank you for this!! :)
I sincerely thank the Lord that this android was able to drop all her knowledge on us before going out of commission. I've haven't finished the series yet but I've begun immersing in "simple" reading material and my word, the sheer power that comes from just understanding how ga works within the core Japanese sentences structure as presented by Dolly is amazing. I cannot stress enough how valuable this information is when beginning to immerse.
Hi Dolly-sensei. I added Portuguese subtitles to this video, I don't know if you got the notification. A friend of mine (Leh) translated another video (the second one I guess). I'm saying so just to let you know. Your work is amazing Yanna.
Thank you so much! I'll change the pinned comment to reflect this. I didn't get any notification (or if I did I must have missed it), so this is the first time I knew about this. Thank you so much for helping my work to be available to more people!
PS Thank also you for letting me know. I'll check out the second one too. It's helpful to keep me informed of anything like this. TH-cam's new creator interface is sometimes a bit confusing.
I couldn't see them at first - I think I needed to enable them - they are there now. If you ever add subtitles and they don't appear, please contact me and I will try to get it working. I'm not very good at these things!
After trying out Japanese grammar lessons from many sources, your channel is by far the easiest to understand for me. Thank you sensei, I will follow your lessons.
May you rest in peace. Thank you for the legacy you left with these videos to help many Japanese learners overcome some obstacles that have hindered our learning process. I will forever appreciate your contribution each time I speak and make progress with my learning.
For all of the millions out there who have expressed interest in learning Japanese, the fact that so many of your structure videos have less than 10K views ought to be considered criminal. キュアドリー先生が一番の先生だ。
Hey, Cure Dolly! I'm progressing in japanese almost everyday and I am so proud of my progress, And so I wanted to share a website that also helped my further understanding of the structure of Japanese, and It definetly helped since I got this information from your channel about the japanese language structure, plus a more detailed explanation on this website, I was able to think in japanese quickly without translating every word I said. Here's the name of the website: 80/20 japanese. I really am even more motivated to keep learning. Have a wonderful day. P.s. I hope you get better sooner than later, we really need you♡
ありがとうございました for this video and your series. I've been trying to bruteforce grammar using traditional textbooks/bunpro and nothing was really clicking. I know a few hundred kanji and vocab words but have been completely failing grammar. After this video, I went from having no real clue how to structure a sentence to suddenly having hundreds of different sentence ideas pop up. I'll definitely be watching the rest of this series.
I consider myself intermediate level but somehow I am still gaining a lot of knowledge from these videos, which I only recently discovered. What a shame Cure Dolly isn't around any more, but I'm grateful for the content she left behind.
It's so sad that Cure Dolly died before I discovered her work... You can tell that she was such a pure soul and had such a brilliant mind. This lady has left behind the English speaking Japanese learning community a great gift! Cure Dolly Sensei, wherever your spirit has decided to adventure next, I hope you find much fulfilment on your journey. I will forever be grateful that you choose to share your incredible gift of knowledge and wisdom with us all!
I just discovered your channel today, and read the news. I'm really really sad for been unable to interact with you, to thank you properly for the things you already teached me. I and most of the people here will carry your will, we can learn japanese because of your execelent videos, and we will reach the fluency. I hope that, wherever you're looking after us, you can be proud of us and your work, because we really love you and all your content, thank you.
Same. I'm sad to only come across this now and never be able to say 'thank you'. I'll have to honor her memory properly by studying the work she produced diligently.
Dang this whole playlist is gifted! I was so confused about japanese grammar i kept finding explanations which would make my doubts clear but couldnt find one. Luckily i found ur channel and this makes a lot more sense!! ありがとう先生！ Heres the practice sentence: スミス がフランス人だ (Smith is a French) and エミリアがうたう (Emilia sings)
As a visual learner who struggled so much with those clunky textbook explanations, I'm utterly gobsmacked at the brilliant simplicity of the train representation. ありがとうございます、ドリー先生！本当に勉強になりました！
Having been studying Japanese on and off for 15 years, your lesson is very useful and easy to understand. I am grateful that I have been introduced to your channel and the knowledge sharing. Thank you.
I've been studying Japanese on and off for over a decade, and I live in Japan now, and I would just like to say that this way of teaching the language is by far the most logical and easy to comprehend that I've ever seen. I attended a Japanese language school for 8 months in Tokyo, and I wish they would have taught us this, and other things from your lesson series. I hope to pass the JLPT N2 level someday and I'll be watching the rest of your series to help with this. Thank you for breaking it down so well.
I think in her honor we can make an exception to the Japanese people are Sakura phrase. A person who learned Japanese (from Cure Dolly) is Cure Dolly. She, her memory, and her lessons will forever live on inside us, in our hearts. Rest in Peace, you wonderful soul.
Arigato ❤️ I just found you channel tonight and i’m very happy to hear your voice and practice your teachings. Thank you for your everlasting help for us all. Rest in Paradise, until we meet again ❤️
I have been learning Japanese for a little over 2 years now and I knew sentence structure and everything, I knew how a sentence can end, but I did not know that -い adjectives have the だ built in. I didn't think about this because I have seen sentences like ”ペンが赤いです” and thought it just didn't matter if I included the です or not. Very helpful, gonna continue watching this series! Rest in peace Cure Dolly, I know you've helped a lot of Japanese learners, so thank you so much for these videos!
Just have to say this. This course helped me a lot. I think I have attained certain level of fluency in Japanese after studying for a year and half. You are a big reason why. I still remember this lesson. It totally changed my understanding of Japanese. Thanks a lot.
This looks like the start of a really exciting series! I know a lot of vocab, but the grammar has always been tricky for me. Looking forward to watching more; thanks for your hard work.
I already know some basic kanji and I know hiragana and katakana, glad to see your lessons since I'm ignorant at grammar for now. You're helping me a lot, thank you! STRUCTURE 1 おんなのこ が うたう とり が とぶ STRUCTURE 2 ひと が にほんじん だ ぺん が どいつ だ STRUCTURE 3 ひと が おもしろい こ が うれしい
Structurally all are correct. Congratulations. However, ぺん が どいつ だ means "pen is Germany", which is structurally possible but does not seem to mean very much. The others are fully functional sentences, so again congratulations.
@@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 Thank you! To imply they're german, is there any way similar to the use of "jin", like in "nihonjin"? I suppose "jin" only applies to people.
Thank you so much for this channel! I've been studying Japanese for few years, and I can already tell that your videos will be invaluable in understanding complex sentence structures.
I feel a little sad as I have just heard about her passing. I've seen this video a few years ago when I was studying Japanese with my friends for fun. I wanted to come back to it so I could study seriously, but I always put it off because I was distracted by other things, as well as not actually having the time to do so. I suppose I feel a little guilty about it. Thank you for your efforts to teach us, Sensei. May you rest in peace.
This channel got recommended to me and wow, your videos have been SO helpful! I’m finally starting to understand how Japanese grammar and sentence structure works. ありがとうございます
It absolutely baffles me how you are so insightful and excellent at teaching but have so few views. I literally felt like indiana jones finding the holy grail when I found you videos. Can't wait for your book to arrive! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much and I hope you'll like it! It baffles me a little too. I think I have always sensed a bit of a communication barrier with humans. I believe I have learned to express ideas clearly but perhaps in some sense I am not quite speaking "their language". I don't know. Maybe it's something else altogether.
Wow, I've studied about nearly 200 words in Anki and about 100 days of Duolingo plus just some random other stuff over the years and this told me SO much and it's only the first lesson. :D
Nobody ever told me that about い adjectives.. I never felt comfortable dropping the だ with them and was confused when told how weird it sounds to native speakers but this explanation was beautiful to say the least
Your series is an astonishing discovery. I am starting from the first lesson to finally get a grip on Japanese constructions that evaded me for so long, so much I thought something was wrong with me. My first intro to Japanese started on the wrong foot, a well-meaning textbook for university students which gave the formal language right away, while complicating it with intonation patterns that one could barely remember at that beginning stage. It would have been so much easier to learn the plain form of the verbs first and then stick on the endings. I filed in the back of my mind different ways of remembering the passive, for instance, but there were too many steps for me to get from Japanese to English and back again. It is far better not to go through that stage or added complication just to satisfy a need to relate it to English grammar. I cannot help but wonder how you yourself figured all this out. You seem to have a very penetrating and logical mind that questions received wisdom, and be brave enough to figure out something better.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I am very happy to be able to help you. Actually I have some very serious weaknesses in understanding human language and for that very reason it was necessary for me to find ways to put it in a rational form. My ability to "jump to conclusions" after having a handful of Japanese likened to a handful of English (as the textbooks do) is very limited indeed. But since a number of the conclusions jumped to tend to be wrong anyway, that turns out to be and advantage in some respects. I suppose I am a lucky accident in having the machine logic that just clunks on with the task of analyzing language without worrying about what the "received view" is, while having a sentient side that is able to put it into intuitive/visual terms that are human (and sentient-me) graspable. I think you will find the lesson on the "Passive conjugation" ( th-cam.com/video/cvV6d-RETs8/w-d-xo.html ) helpful. The two things that turn it into a mares-nest are presenting it as a "conjugation" and presenting it as "passive". It is neither. Both are flawed attempts to liken it to English/European languages which both complicate and falsify it. Seen as it is, it is really not very complicated at all. Thank you again for your kindness, and if there is anything I can help you with please do not hesitate to ask.
You are being very kind! I studied a few other languages, two of them very different from English, such as Hebrew and Arabic. There wasn't the compulsion, however, to try to fit the Semitic constructions to English grammar, which itself derives much from Latin, which I also studied in high school. Though I am not brilliant in languages, I rather work hard at them, still I could not understand why I had such a difficult time with Japanese. I really would like to tie up loose ends by going through your entire grammar series, even if it means having to relearn certain concepts. I like this approach and appreciate as a music teacher myself, the process of building on previous knowledge in an orderly manner. Arigato!
It is very interesting to know that teaching of Semitic languages doesn't have the same strange approach of trying to cobble everything into pseudo-English. I wonder why. Possibly because Hebrew has been studied for much longer and as part of traditional Biblical studies whereas Japanese is a relatively new area of Western study. I don't know if it's fair to suggest this or not, but it was possibly taken less seriously because it wasn't a part of the Western "cultural network" and therefore could "only" be interpreted in terms of "superior" Western languages. Then again I have to say that in a few areas conventional teaching mistreats Spanish as badly as Japanese. Though it isn't so disastrous because Spanish is so much closer to English that it is much more possible to "muddle through". If you studied Latin you will probably start to notice, that so long as we keep their meanings straight, what I call the logical particles (Japanese 格助詞) correspond very closely to the Latin case system. が is nominative, を is accusative etc, の is genitive etc. We "declline" every noun by attaching the same particle in the same way every time. It's the case system done right!
Also, written Japanese is much younger. I don't know when its spoken language became systemized, may be an interesting field of study. Hebrew grammar was already developed 3000 years ago., surprisingly modular, based on mainly three letter roots, Classical Arabic having similar features. This article shows some of its common features: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages I was already interested in morphology as a kid, being fascinated by the charts of script development in the back of encyclopedias.
It is surprising how little is really known about the origins of Japanese. There are mutually contradictory theories linking it to various language families and also those who believe it to be a language isolate. So different from the massive and well-attested Indo-European family. I find the whole phenomenon of language quite fascinating. It really is a remarkable information system.
I dont really hear a robot voice. I hear a sweet older british sounding lady... and it brings tears to my eyes... I've been learning Japanese for around 6 months and have acquired a decent vocabulary and kanji databank, I come to learn and now... depression +8. sigh...
After about two years of self study and reading japanese daily I suddenly lost motivation and gave up a few month ago. I'd seen some of your videos, but always out of order, and never followed any other grammar guide because your way of looking at things seemed to be the best. I think it's time to watch this entire series seriously, and get back into reading.
That's a good idea. Taking the series in order (at least the first 50 or so) is good because they build on each other. And reading actual Japanese is really the best thing you can do.
Japanese structure is so precise and elegant. The only hard thing with Japanese is the Chinese, aka Kanji. But the grammar is just magnificent. As somebody that's done a fair amount of computer programming, I can appreciate how predictable and formulaic it is. I also appreciate how it drops 'understood' things. Less repetition.
I've long been disillusioned by formal Japanese teaching, and have learned most of what I learned from dedicated self-study. My God, watching this video is like gospel
Thank you! Thank you! Thanks you! In just one video you took my Japanese to another level. I finally know how to use ga ( this used to trip me up constantly) and now it's full steam ahead. I'm going out now and buy your book Alice in Kanji land. Your amazing!!!
I'm so glad that I've come across this channel! You explain things so well, and your content has cleared up so much confusion that I'd had with Japanese in the past. 本当にありがとうございます！ I really wish your website had some practice tests that reflected upon your lessons, though. Or, if you know any good test sites, it would really be a big help for me, since I can't seem to find any. But, I'm not complaining! I'm really grateful for your videos, your website, the fact that you go out of your way to communicate with your students, and your awesome teaching skills! Please, never stop teaching!
I did a few worksheets early in the course - you'll come to them fairly soon. But I'm afraid I'm not a class teacher and this sort of thing isn't my long suit.
Got recommended this resource and excited to watch all the videos. I have been studying Japanese since Jan 2021 and plan to get to fluency within 3 to 5 years. Thanks in advance for being a part of my Japanese education! Homework: こめ が おいしい たま が あかい いぬ が はしる
All correct. Glad the channel is helping you. I'm not currently producing videos, but you'll find my current work here: learnjapaneseonline.info/ - it isn't all advanced, and it is free, of course.
I appreciate this video. I feel bad for coming to the conclusion Japanese was a bad language, simply because the way it was being taught to me was confusing. I realize now the flaw was not in the language but the teaching method. This was really helpful! RIP
Oh. My. God! You are a hell of a teacher! Seriously! You could be lecturing for any college in the world, in my opinion. Thank you so much for making these vids. I took really long to find this channel lmao I’ll recommend it to everyone I know.
God bless TH-cam algorithm for bringing up your most recent video about Tae Kim in my recommendations, I think it just introduced me to something amazing. I started learning Japanese like ten years ago or even more because of anime, I've learnt some basic grammar, a few kanji, some vocabulary and left it at that. After that my vocabulary has been growing bit by bit thanks to watching anime with subtitles, but nothing more. Recently I've got into Japanese vtubers, because of that I became interested in learning Japanese again, started using wanikani and tried to look for some sources to learn grammar and vocabulary. Actually I wanted to use Tae Kim's guide because it's really advised a lot everywhere, but your channel is something else. I like when everything is structured properly, I always try to structurize and organize everything neatly as much as possible when learning something, that's why I was ok with learning English (which is not my native language) but was frustrated with Japanese textbooks because they made it seem like Japanese is very ambiguous with lot of exceptions in every aspect etc. And here you are saying that it actually is very logical and structured, I watched some of your other videos and they prove that in a very easy to understand way. Idk, I might just cry tears of joy at this point, it just makes Japanese so much more accessible to me. Thank you for everything you do, I hope more people discover this channel!
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It is being able to help people in this way that makes it all worth while. Japanese is a very logical and very economical language with very few exceptions when rightly understood, and very few unnecessary rules. I will be doing part 2 of the Tae Kim pair next week.
Thanks very much for providing this content :) I'm really excited to embark on my JP learning journey. Practice sentences: レイがうたう (A does B) レイがにほんじんだ (A is B - noun) たくしーがおいしい (A is B - adjective)
As a beginning learner of the Japanese language, I don't know if this method of Cure Dolly is going to work for me. I have Tae Kim's book and a few other (expensive) books. And a few apps as well. But still, I am a little confused and stuck. I hope In a few months I come back here to edit this comment and let everyone know how Cure Dolly Sensei's method worked for me!
This video has hand-made subtitles (English, Spanish, Italian and Portuguese) - so if you find my slightly non-human voice difficult, please turn them on from the settings at the bottom of the video window.
(Well all right completely non-human. But not a bad imitation, I thought). Thanks to Yanna-san for adding the Portuguese subtitles.
Hello, I made a spanish (latin american) translation, It helps me whit my englis it helps me whit my japanese, im a genius! (no im not ) j aja hope its ok, i had to shortend the title because it was too long for youtube. お休み
I only just now found the channel from someone mentioning it on WaniKani forums. Can I ask why is the voice the way it is?
@@DajJednego I guess I was programmed that way. Why is your voice the way it is?
PS - I don't mean any criticism of your voice (I haven't even heard it) - but why is any being's voice the way it is? Presumably because it is that being and not another.
@archbishop of pride natsuki subaru I don't think TTS engines know what they are saying enough to put the kind of contextual stress/emphasis I do into words even if I still don't sound quite natural/human.
Man, this is the first video I'm watching and I scroll down to the comment sections, just to find that the creator has passed. I hope the people close to her are well and I feel sad I never discovered this channel earlier. Thank you.
I've just done exactly the same
There’s no official confirmation. Only that this persona is retired but the person behind it is most likely still around.
@@RealSkyDiver2 read description on the latest channel video. She has passed.
That is truly heart breaking.... I really enjoyed this first video and now i know there is a finite amount and that this wonderful teacher is lost forever....
@@flashguard1949 At least she has had the chance to share her gift with the world
Some years ago I came across this channel and never really tried that much.
Today I decided to finally do it and learned she passed away.
I'll make her proud.
@fbimoe not that guy, but I started with this channel 2.5 years ago. I passed N3 last year, know 14k words, can understand most Japanese (including holding basic conversations with most people), and I'm moving to Japan in 32 days to teach :)
Just don't ever stop. Keep that listening and reading grind going, and youll be Jyouzu before you know it.
Good luck.
@@Consum98 I know there's tons of resources, but I'd like to learn how you personally learned; did you follow many grammar resources and study a lot? Or did you mostly let it come naturally with input?
@canaldecasta How far did you get?
My God, someone who actually explains the structure. THANK YOU SO MUCH
And thank you for taking the time to comment೭੧(❛▿❛✿)੭೨
exactly
right? Not just because it is what it is because IT JUST IS!
Edited: Oct 9, 2021. After the devastating news of Cure Dolly's demise.
I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart, for discovering you and for this wonderful knowledge that you have brought. Thank you so much, I really can't thank you enough! You have taught me more than just Japanese. I will cherish it for the rest of my life. How regretful that I wish I had said these words a little earlier. I am truly sorry.
Goodbye, Cure Dolly. You will be missed.
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A timestamp for future aid since I often come back to rewatch some lesson
00:00 Introduction to the Organic Japanese Course
00:58 Who will benefit from this course
01:20 Basic Japanese core sentence in train carriages and engine terms
03:05 Introduction to う engine as the engine of verbs (The B-part)
03:23 Introduction to が particle as the main carriage (The A-part)
04:57 Introduction to だ copula as the engine of nouns
05:54 Introduction to い engine as the engine of adjectives
06:59 Summary of the lesson
07:31 Little exercise for new learners of Japanese
08:07 Basic kanji book recommendation
Please point out if there are any typos or other errors
誤字、間違え等ありましたら
指摘お願いします
Much appreciated
thank you mate
Thank you!!
not all heroes wears capes, some mark timestamps on youtube.
i just found this channel a few days ago...and this comment made me really really sad...have been working on japanese a little bit but was struggling when and how to use stuff like ga, wa, da, etc. etc. and this was an absolute blessing....genuinely feel like crying :(....may her soul rest in peace...
Rest in Peace wonderful アンドロイド先生. We will never forget you. I discovered this video by TH-cam recommendations long time ago and since then I was hooked. I have watched many of your videos up to 5 times for sure and I am pretty sure without you, I would have given up on Japanese. But now I actually speak usable Japanese and have so much fun doing it. To everyone new here: if you have an analytic mind, stay here and watch her videos. It’s unlike anything you will find anywhere else. It will change EVERYthing and you will be speaking Japanese AND having the confidence to make your own sentences because you will finally UNDERSTAND what you are doing. No other source will get you there like this channel. You left us way too early. I can just say a million thanks and love to you - and we shall meet again one day, in the Japanese studying section of the next world.
what! I new she was sick but I was not aware she'd passed away, is that true?
She's dead? How? When? Where'd this information come from?
@@otaking3582 After doing some checking, it was announced on her Patreon page on 8th October 2021.
I...I literally just found her today, and saw that her last video was dated several months ago noting that she had to take some time off. I was all, "I'll be happy to say hello when you return!"
Now I feel sad I never got to know her.
For the longest time I always procrastinate learning japanese and finally I got hooked by this video. No BS and all straight helpful and I have fun knowing these interesting structure and all. Felt extremely happy finally I have a determination to learn. But then, this happen.. Goddammit. Better off not reading these comment. T_T
@@ally9624 Yes, I know how you feel.
Watching her videos right now makes me feel sad because in the back of my head is the thought, "she sounds so happy and cheerful, and yet in only a year later..."
In time the sadness will fade, but for now...
"I expect this channel to grow rather large" Damn she knew
I only found this channel today (06/01/2022) and thought, "Oh, this will be good for my Japanese school club! The explanations are pretty simple to follow!" and so subscribed.
Then I noticed her last posted video mentioned being unable to post videos for a time and I thought, "Ah, at this time that's understandable. That's okay. I'll greet and thank her properly when she returns."
Then I learned I'll never have that chance.
From one teacher to another, rest in peace, Dolly. I promise you your lessons will continue to help students, and you'll live on that way.
Damn. I thought I finally found a channel that could teach me properly :(
I just found this gem of a channel today and thought the exact same thing. Good luck learning Japanese.
Is she dead? :(
Another comment said that the person behind the channel and avatar is alive but retired from making videos due to health reasons?
@@MybeautifulandamazingPrincess she's dead
Without these lessons I would have given up learning Japanese years ago. To dedicate yourself so studiously to teaching outside the box is truly noble. Rest in peace, sensei.
I can't believe it, the original vtuber!
It's bittersweet that I'm starting this series posthumously. I hope she rests well and knows she left a legacy. Thanks Dolly.
For you, Cure Dolly Sensei, I'll learn Japanese. I'll learn it through and through, and I'll never put it down. Even when it seems like I've mastered the language and have nothing left to learn, I won't stop. This one goes it to you, you beautiful soul.
How is your journey going brother?
are ya winning son?
@@jomalomal He already did
@@SHADOW-rb1md
I've started playing my favorite RPGs in Japanese and have begun to read manga. I'd say it's all going well.
@@darius1695 dope, wish I can reach to that level.
Thank you for everything, Cure Dolly.
What aheppwns
Dear Cure Dolly Sensei,
Quite recently I took the JLPT N4 on a whim and passed it rather well, and I just want to say it wouldn't have been possible without your channel. Your posts and replies have done so much for my understanding of Japanese. I still think it's the clearest channel out there.
本当にありがとうございます
おめでとうございます！I am very happy to hear that you passed and super-happy to hear that I was able to help!
I'm glad she doesn't explain what it is but explains what it does, makes things easier to understand. like が only explained what it does.
Many thanks for teaching Japanese so very clearly! Here are my practice sentences:
The bird flies.
とりがとぶ
The girl sings.
おんなのこがうたう
The woman is Japanese.
おんなのひとがにほんじんだ
Sakura is a girl.
さくらがおんなのこだ
Ice cream is tasty!
あいすくりむがおいしいね
The pen is blue.
ぺんがあおい
PS: I'm really enjoying "Alice in Kanjiland". It's a brilliant teaching method!
Perfect! 6/6. Note that あいすくりーむ needs to have that long dash because it indicates the long pronunciation (kreem, not krim). Actually it isn't usually used in hiragana, but ice cream is usually written in katakana (アイスクリーム). However there's no law against writing it in hiragana and material written for young Japanese children does. I used this form for beginners who only know hiragana. But we still need the lengthening dash. Just a piece of information. You don't lose any points - your answers were perfect.
PS - So happy you are enjoying Alice in Kanji Land. And very happy to be able to help.
I'm sad to hear of your passing, upon just finding your Channel. It really is promising and I think I will learn a lot from these courses you made. You seemed like a wonderful teacher and probably have helped a lot of people and soon I might also find this very helpful. The work and all of your efforts to teach everyone Japanese, are deeply appreaciated. Thank you! R.I.P. Cure Doly.
How did she die?
@@xenoblad this. I just found her in recommended, and finished this wonderful lesson, then decided to leave a comment... only to hear that she is dead. I can't exactly leave the comment I would like to anymore
This channel deserves more subscribers! Such great content.
Thank you!
This just blew my mind. I've been studying off and on for about a year. Sentence structure has been the most frustrating part. THANK YOU!!
Ga be sounding like an urban legend here. "In some sentences we're not able to see ga, but it's always there, and It's always doing the same job"
More like something taken from a religious book ;)
がd bless you
@@Giraffinator ご*
@@Giraffinator stop
The Holy がrail... :)
I was trying to learn Japanese but it seemed complicated af. This video literally explained a whole book worth of knowledge in 8:40 minutes and it's really easy to understand. Thank you.
wow, did i just... understand a video on japanese grammar? wtf. this was so easy to understand. i've been struggling to find a grammar resource that was comprehensible, and it looks like i have. hope the rest of the series is like this. thanks cure dolly :)
i wish i could thank her......... i met someone a week ago who was fluent from her videos and using anki in tandem as well
i too am now doing the same and hope she knows that she dropped one of the most sensible and actionable JP learning resources ive ever seen
THANK YOU CureDolly
I was having such issues with sentence structure; it's such a blessing that I found your videos! I hope you rest well knowing your videos are still helping students even if you're no longer with us. ❤️
I recently began learning Japanese, I am about to start Lesson 10 and so far Dolly's lessons were extremely helpful. I am so thankful for the content she has left behind, and I am also sorry that I cannot express my gratitude toward her. RIP
Wow this channel is the best thing I've come across since I picked up Japanese. Everything I've come across up to this point has felt so strange and messy, so up to this point I've just been grinding kanji and vocab and jumping into immersion with absolutely no firm knowledge of the grammar. Just wanted to thank you for this!! :)
I sincerely thank the Lord that this android was able to drop all her knowledge on us before going out of commission. I've haven't finished the series yet but I've begun immersing in "simple" reading material and my word, the sheer power that comes from just understanding how ga works within the core Japanese sentences structure as presented by Dolly is amazing. I cannot stress enough how valuable this information is when beginning to immerse.
Yeah this channel is a gold mine☺️
Hi Dolly-sensei. I added Portuguese subtitles to this video, I don't know if you got the notification. A friend of mine (Leh) translated another video (the second one I guess). I'm saying so just to let you know.
Your work is amazing
Yanna.
Thank you so much! I'll change the pinned comment to reflect this. I didn't get any notification (or if I did I must have missed it), so this is the first time I knew about this. Thank you so much for helping my work to be available to more people!
PS Thank also you for letting me know. I'll check out the second one too. It's helpful to keep me informed of anything like this. TH-cam's new creator interface is sometimes a bit confusing.
I couldn't see them at first - I think I needed to enable them - they are there now. If you ever add subtitles and they don't appear, please contact me and I will try to get it working. I'm not very good at these things!
Is it possible to add Bengali subtitles? Thanks!
After trying out Japanese grammar lessons from many sources, your channel is by far the easiest to understand for me. Thank you sensei, I will follow your lessons.
Welcome to the channel. I hope you will progress rapidly!
Terrible
Terribly underrated
This channel is gold
lmao baited
They had us in the first half not gonna lie
May you rest in peace. Thank you for the legacy you left with these videos to help many Japanese learners overcome some obstacles that have hindered our learning process. I will forever appreciate your contribution each time I speak and make progress with my learning.
After spending 6 minutes reading comments i can't help but think she was assassinated for teaching the secrets of Japanese language
For all of the millions out there who have expressed interest in learning Japanese, the fact that so many of your structure videos have less than 10K views ought to be considered criminal.
キュアドリー先生が一番の先生だ。
Thank you! I keep trying!
Hey, Cure Dolly! I'm progressing in japanese almost everyday and I am so proud of my progress, And so I wanted to share a website that also helped my further understanding of the structure of Japanese, and It definetly helped since I got this information from your channel about the japanese language structure, plus a more detailed explanation on this website, I was able to think in japanese quickly without translating every word I said. Here's the name of the website: 80/20 japanese. I really am even more motivated to keep learning. Have a wonderful day.
P.s. I hope you get better sooner than later, we really need you♡
You haven't lost me. Here are my latest lessons: www.patreon.com/user?filters[tag]=Lessons
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@@dappershinx9234 I know, unfortunately she passed on October 8 2021. We all miss her so much😔
RIP Cure Dolly Thank you for everything
ありがとうございました for this video and your series. I've been trying to bruteforce grammar using traditional textbooks/bunpro and nothing was really clicking. I know a few hundred kanji and vocab words but have been completely failing grammar. After this video, I went from having no real clue how to structure a sentence to suddenly having hundreds of different sentence ideas pop up. I'll definitely be watching the rest of this series.
Great video! Liked the scheme very much. Thank u for your work!
A does B:
うさぎ がとぶ
A is B(noun):
おんなのこ がふらんすじんだ
A is B(adjective):
ぱんがおいしい
I consider myself intermediate level but somehow I am still gaining a lot of knowledge from these videos, which I only recently discovered. What a shame Cure Dolly isn't around any more, but I'm grateful for the content she left behind.
It's so sad that Cure Dolly died before I discovered her work... You can tell that she was such a pure soul and had such a brilliant mind. This lady has left behind the English speaking Japanese learning community a great gift!
Cure Dolly Sensei, wherever your spirit has decided to adventure next, I hope you find much fulfilment on your journey. I will forever be grateful that you choose to share your incredible gift of knowledge and wisdom with us all!
I just discovered your channel today, and read the news. I'm really really sad for been unable to interact with you, to thank you properly for the things you already teached me. I and most of the people here will carry your will, we can learn japanese because of your execelent videos, and we will reach the fluency. I hope that, wherever you're looking after us, you can be proud of us and your work, because we really love you and all your content, thank you.
Same. I'm sad to only come across this now and never be able to say 'thank you'. I'll have to honor her memory properly by studying the work she produced diligently.
I am sorry to hear of Cure Dolly's passing. I will watch all the videos and make good use of the lessons.
I´ve been learning japanese for almost 3 months and your way of explaining made more sense than all explanations I´ve already seen.
Dang this whole playlist is gifted! I was so confused about japanese grammar i kept finding explanations which would make my doubts clear but couldnt find one. Luckily i found ur channel and this makes a lot more sense!! ありがとう先生！
Heres the practice sentence:
スミス がフランス人だ (Smith is a French)
and
エミリアがうたう (Emilia sings)
Yes, both right. You're off to a good start.
As a visual learner who struggled so much with those clunky textbook explanations, I'm utterly gobsmacked at the brilliant simplicity of the train representation.
ありがとうございます、ドリー先生！本当に勉強になりました！
コメントをしてくれてありがとうございます。お役に立てて嬉しいです。
コメントをしてくれてありがとうございます。お役に立てて嬉しいです。
Cure Dolly has such a clear way of explaining things. Thank you!
you are angel cure dolly! thank you thank you thank you! i appreciate your hard work on this life. thank you again.
This is the best channel ive ever discovered when learning japanese. An Absolute chad.
Rest in peace Cure Dolly.
Having been studying Japanese on and off for 15 years, your lesson is very useful and easy to understand. I am grateful that I have been introduced to your channel and the knowledge sharing. Thank you.
I've been studying Japanese on and off for over a decade, and I live in Japan now, and I would just like to say that this way of teaching the language is by far the most logical and easy to comprehend that I've ever seen. I attended a Japanese language school for 8 months in Tokyo, and I wish they would have taught us this, and other things from your lesson series. I hope to pass the JLPT N2 level someday and I'll be watching the rest of your series to help with this. Thank you for breaking it down so well.
Thank you for commenting and good luck with JLPT N2.
I think in her honor we can make an exception to the Japanese people are Sakura phrase. A person who learned Japanese (from Cure Dolly) is Cure Dolly.
She, her memory, and her lessons will forever live on inside us, in our hearts.
Rest in Peace, you wonderful soul.
Just found the channel and it's super useful. I hope your videos help many more people to learn japanese , RIP Sensei
life saver, i am struggling in memorizing tons of grammar structure and now u made me understand its core, it all makes sense T_T thank you
This channel just appeared in recommended, RIP Cure Dolly.
Arigato ❤️ I just found you channel tonight and i’m very happy to hear your voice and practice your teachings. Thank you for your everlasting help for us all. Rest in Paradise, until we meet again ❤️
This video was a great wakeup call for me. Japanese is SO MUCH EASIER than people make it out to be.
I have been learning Japanese for a little over 2 years now and I knew sentence structure and everything, I knew how a sentence can end, but I did not know that -い adjectives have the だ built in. I didn't think about this because I have seen sentences like ”ペンが赤いです” and thought it just didn't matter if I included the です or not. Very helpful, gonna continue watching this series! Rest in peace Cure Dolly, I know you've helped a lot of Japanese learners, so thank you so much for these videos!
Why didn't my teacher introduce structures this way? It's like she intentionally made it more difficult. Thank you, you're a life saver!
Most teachers don't know most of this because they were taught the way you were and they just pass it on.
Just have to say this. This course helped me a lot. I think I have attained certain level of fluency in Japanese after studying for a year and half. You are a big reason why. I still remember this lesson. It totally changed my understanding of Japanese. Thanks a lot.
Thank you so much for commenting. I am very happy that I have been able to help you.
This looks like the start of a really exciting series! I know a lot of vocab, but the grammar has always been tricky for me. Looking forward to watching more; thanks for your hard work.
Thank you so much! Lesson 6 is out tomorrow. I hope you'll like it.
I already know some basic kanji and I know hiragana and katakana, glad to see your lessons since I'm ignorant at grammar for now. You're helping me a lot, thank you!
STRUCTURE 1
おんなのこ が うたう
とり が とぶ
STRUCTURE 2
ひと が にほんじん だ
ぺん が どいつ だ
STRUCTURE 3
ひと が おもしろい
こ が うれしい
Structurally all are correct. Congratulations.
However, ぺん が どいつ だ means "pen is Germany", which is structurally possible but does not seem to mean very much. The others are fully functional sentences, so again congratulations.
@@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 Thank you!
To imply they're german, is there any way similar to the use of "jin", like in "nihonjin"? I suppose "jin" only applies to people.
@@LixeiraDoFrost You would be more likely to say that the pens were made in Germany rather than that they were German.
@@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 Oooh alright! Thank you! It makes sense!
Thank you so much for this channel! I've been studying Japanese for few years, and I can already tell that your videos will be invaluable in understanding complex sentence structures.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. I hope the course will help you and please feel free to ask questions if you need to.
I feel a little sad as I have just heard about her passing. I've seen this video a few years ago when I was studying Japanese with my friends for fun. I wanted to come back to it so I could study seriously, but I always put it off because I was distracted by other things, as well as not actually having the time to do so. I suppose I feel a little guilty about it.
Thank you for your efforts to teach us, Sensei. May you rest in peace.
This channel got recommended to me and wow, your videos have been SO helpful! I’m finally starting to understand how Japanese grammar and sentence structure works. ありがとうございます
SENSEII! This is why I love you because you REALLY help me out thank you so so much 😍💘
Thank YOU೭੧(❛▿❛✿)੭೨
It absolutely baffles me how you are so insightful and excellent at teaching but have so few views. I literally felt like indiana jones finding the holy grail when I found you videos. Can't wait for your book to arrive! ❤❤❤
Thank you so much and I hope you'll like it! It baffles me a little too. I think I have always sensed a bit of a communication barrier with humans. I believe I have learned to express ideas clearly but perhaps in some sense I am not quite speaking "their language". I don't know. Maybe it's something else altogether.
Very new to japanese just found this. That 3rd sense structure about descriptive sentences just made a light bulb pop! Tyvm
Wow, I've studied about nearly 200 words in Anki and about 100 days of Duolingo plus just some random other stuff over the years and this told me SO much and it's only the first lesson. :D
You will be missed, Cure Dolly :(
I'm looking forward to this series! :D
Thank you! I will try to make it as good as possible!
Nobody ever told me that about い adjectives..
I never felt comfortable dropping the だ with them and was confused when told how weird it sounds to native speakers but this explanation was beautiful to say the least
Your series is an astonishing discovery. I am starting from the first lesson to finally get a grip on Japanese constructions that evaded me for so long, so much I thought something was wrong with me. My first intro to Japanese started on the wrong foot, a well-meaning textbook for university students which gave the formal language right away, while complicating it with intonation patterns that one could barely remember at that beginning stage. It would have been so much easier to learn the plain form of the verbs first and then stick on the endings.
I filed in the back of my mind different ways of remembering the passive, for instance, but there were too many steps for me to get from Japanese to English and back again. It is far better not to go through that stage or added complication just to satisfy a need to relate it to English grammar.
I cannot help but wonder how you yourself figured all this out. You seem to have a very penetrating and logical mind that questions received wisdom, and be brave enough to figure out something better.
Thank you so much for your kind words. I am very happy to be able to help you. Actually I have some very serious weaknesses in understanding human language and for that very reason it was necessary for me to find ways to put it in a rational form. My ability to "jump to conclusions" after having a handful of Japanese likened to a handful of English (as the textbooks do) is very limited indeed. But since a number of the conclusions jumped to tend to be wrong anyway, that turns out to be and advantage in some respects. I suppose I am a lucky accident in having the machine logic that just clunks on with the task of analyzing language without worrying about what the "received view" is, while having a sentient side that is able to put it into intuitive/visual terms that are human (and sentient-me) graspable.
I think you will find the lesson on the "Passive conjugation" ( th-cam.com/video/cvV6d-RETs8/w-d-xo.html ) helpful. The two things that turn it into a mares-nest are presenting it as a "conjugation" and presenting it as "passive". It is neither. Both are flawed attempts to liken it to English/European languages which both complicate and falsify it. Seen as it is, it is really not very complicated at all.
Thank you again for your kindness, and if there is anything I can help you with please do not hesitate to ask.
You are being very kind! I studied a few other languages, two of them very different from English, such as Hebrew and Arabic. There wasn't the compulsion, however, to try to fit the Semitic constructions to English grammar, which itself derives much from Latin, which I also studied in high school.
Though I am not brilliant in languages, I rather work hard at them, still I could not understand why I had such a difficult time with Japanese. I really would like to tie up loose ends by going through your entire grammar series, even if it means having to relearn certain concepts. I like this approach and appreciate as a music teacher myself, the process of building on previous knowledge in an orderly manner. Arigato!
It is very interesting to know that teaching of Semitic languages doesn't have the same strange approach of trying to cobble everything into pseudo-English. I wonder why. Possibly because Hebrew has been studied for much longer and as part of traditional Biblical studies whereas Japanese is a relatively new area of Western study. I don't know if it's fair to suggest this or not, but it was possibly taken less seriously because it wasn't a part of the Western "cultural network" and therefore could "only" be interpreted in terms of "superior" Western languages. Then again I have to say that in a few areas conventional teaching mistreats Spanish as badly as Japanese. Though it isn't so disastrous because Spanish is so much closer to English that it is much more possible to "muddle through". If you studied Latin you will probably start to notice, that so long as we keep their meanings straight, what I call the logical particles (Japanese 格助詞) correspond very closely to the Latin case system. が is nominative, を is accusative etc, の is genitive etc. We "declline" every noun by attaching the same particle in the same way every time. It's the case system done right!
Also, written Japanese is much younger. I don't know when its spoken language became systemized, may be an interesting field of study. Hebrew grammar was already developed 3000 years ago., surprisingly modular, based on mainly three letter roots, Classical Arabic having similar features. This article shows some of its common features:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Semitic_languages
I was already interested in morphology as a kid, being fascinated by the charts of script development in the back of encyclopedias.
It is surprising how little is really known about the origins of Japanese. There are mutually contradictory theories linking it to various language families and also those who believe it to be a language isolate. So different from the massive and well-attested Indo-European family. I find the whole phenomenon of language quite fascinating. It really is a remarkable information system.
Rest in peace I didn't know she passed I will keep watching the video and make her proud
I dont really hear a robot voice. I hear a sweet older british sounding lady... and it brings tears to my eyes... I've been learning Japanese for around 6 months and have acquired a decent vocabulary and kanji databank, I come to learn and now... depression +8. sigh...
After about two years of self study and reading japanese daily I suddenly lost motivation and gave up a few month ago. I'd seen some of your videos, but always out of order, and never followed any other grammar guide because your way of looking at things seemed to be the best. I think it's time to watch this entire series seriously, and get back into reading.
That's a good idea. Taking the series in order (at least the first 50 or so) is good because they build on each other. And reading actual Japanese is really the best thing you can do.
Japanese structure is so precise and elegant.
The only hard thing with Japanese is the Chinese, aka Kanji.
But the grammar is just magnificent. As somebody that's done a fair amount of computer programming, I can appreciate how predictable and formulaic it is. I also appreciate how it drops 'understood' things. Less repetition.
finally, i've been searching for the organic way, until i saw this
thank you very much!
I've long been disillusioned by formal Japanese teaching, and have learned most of what I learned from dedicated self-study. My God, watching this video is like gospel
I found this channel only today, it is sad that she is no around us anymore. Rest in peace.
Thank you Cure Dolly!
I hope she passed the torch to someone. And I also hope she inspired mandarin, cantonese, korean and thai teachers to follow her steps as well
New subscriber here :)
Aside from the fact that you make learning japanese so easy, I really love your sense of humor. It is fun learning from you :)
Thank you so much and welcome to the channel!
Cure Dolly , you are heaven-sent. Thank you. Thank you.
Thank you! Thank you! Thanks you! In just one video you took my Japanese to another level. I finally know how to use ga ( this used to trip me up constantly) and now it's full steam ahead. I'm going out now and buy your book Alice in Kanji land. Your amazing!!!
Thank you! I hope you like the book!
i've been practicing japanese for months now and this is probably the most helpful thing ive come across for grammar
Ayyy it started!! Im so happy! Thank you, cure dolly sensei :')
Omatase shimashita! I'm sorry for the long wait. I'll try to keep it coming every week now!
Thank you so much. I have been stuck for like a month not knowing what I have been missing and I finally get it
I'm so glad that I've come across this channel! You explain things so well, and your content has cleared up so much confusion that I'd had with Japanese in the past. 本当にありがとうございます！
I really wish your website had some practice tests that reflected upon your lessons, though. Or, if you know any good test sites, it would really be a big help for me, since I can't seem to find any.
But, I'm not complaining! I'm really grateful for your videos, your website, the fact that you go out of your way to communicate with your students, and your awesome teaching skills! Please, never stop teaching!
I did a few worksheets early in the course - you'll come to them fairly soon. But I'm afraid I'm not a class teacher and this sort of thing isn't my long suit.
@@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 Okay, thank you so much!
Got recommended this resource and excited to watch all the videos. I have been studying Japanese since Jan 2021 and plan to get to fluency within 3 to 5 years. Thanks in advance for being a part of my Japanese education!
Homework:
こめ が おいしい
たま が あかい
いぬ が はしる
All correct. Glad the channel is helping you. I'm not currently producing videos, but you'll find my current work here: learnjapaneseonline.info/ - it isn't all advanced, and it is free, of course.
I appreciate this video. I feel bad for coming to the conclusion Japanese was a bad language, simply because the way it was being taught to me was confusing. I realize now the flaw was not in the language but the teaching method. This was really helpful!
RIP
Oh. My. God! You are a hell of a teacher! Seriously! You could be lecturing for any college in the world, in my opinion. Thank you so much for making these vids. I took really long to find this channel lmao
I’ll recommend it to everyone I know.
Thank you so much! Sorry for the late reply.
love your videos, they’re so helpful and clear up confusion!!
God bless TH-cam algorithm for bringing up your most recent video about Tae Kim in my recommendations, I think it just introduced me to something amazing.
I started learning Japanese like ten years ago or even more because of anime, I've learnt some basic grammar, a few kanji, some vocabulary and left it at that. After that my vocabulary has been growing bit by bit thanks to watching anime with subtitles, but nothing more. Recently I've got into Japanese vtubers, because of that I became interested in learning Japanese again, started using wanikani and tried to look for some sources to learn grammar and vocabulary. Actually I wanted to use Tae Kim's guide because it's really advised a lot everywhere, but your channel is something else. I like when everything is structured properly, I always try to structurize and organize everything neatly as much as possible when learning something, that's why I was ok with learning English (which is not my native language) but was frustrated with Japanese textbooks because they made it seem like Japanese is very ambiguous with lot of exceptions in every aspect etc. And here you are saying that it actually is very logical and structured, I watched some of your other videos and they prove that in a very easy to understand way. Idk, I might just cry tears of joy at this point, it just makes Japanese so much more accessible to me. Thank you for everything you do, I hope more people discover this channel!
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment. It is being able to help people in this way that makes it all worth while. Japanese is a very logical and very economical language with very few exceptions when rightly understood, and very few unnecessary rules. I will be doing part 2 of the Tae Kim pair next week.
The original vtuber
Thanks very much for providing this content :) I'm really excited to embark on my JP learning journey.
Practice sentences:
レイがうたう (A does B)
レイがにほんじんだ (A is B - noun)
たくしーがおいしい (A is B - adjective)
All correct. A good start to your journey! Let's keep going!
A delicious taxi though.....
@@organicjapanesewithcuredol49 :') I figured a weird example like that would help me remember the sentence structure a bit more.
As a beginning learner of the Japanese language, I don't know if this method of Cure Dolly is going to work for me. I have Tae Kim's book and a few other (expensive) books. And a few apps as well. But still, I am a little confused and stuck. I hope In a few months I come back here to edit this comment and let everyone know how Cure Dolly Sensei's method worked for me!
Howie mandel? More like, howie doin?
Don't forget to come back here.
I'm so glad I saw someone on reddit talking about your videos because they're amazing!!!
キュアドリーが優しい。
♪ありがとうございます♪
恥ずかしい！I am so sorry! I took this as a compliment when it is a very kind example sentence! How embarrassing. Thank you so much. And yes it is perfect.
KawaJapa CureDolly It was both!
Thank you!
finally trying to watch some cure dolly again. RIP Sensei
the OG vtuber
This is the first video I watch from you, and it won't be the last. ありがとうございます、先生！