You are so right! I used to have evening classes back in 2014 and made progress now that I am on my own it is difficult. There is a Japanese teacher in my town so I guess I’ll take classes with her.
Found your YT and Insta content this year and it has been great for learning and improving, as well as understanding the language better. Absolutely love the content and the variety of the content. Keep up the great work in the year to come! I will definitely be there to learn from your wisdom and teachings! Mochi-sensei, thanks for a fantastic 2024! :)
全部やりたいです! You make a great point though. Consistency is key to success, but can be hard to achieve especially when adding learning Japanese to a life full of other commitments! I like your point on goals and motivation, with the sports analogy and the desire to be great at something. Championship mentality! I can still give it my all even if I am unable to dedicate all my time to it, is what this made me realize today. I also like your video making analogy (making videos is hard work!), because I really think it is important to be able to push through discomfort. たとえば、今しゅうまつはからだがいたくて、雨がふってさむかったんけど、それでもきょうのあさラグビーをしにいったんだ。けっか、とてもたのしかったし、雨のじょうけんでのプレーに自信がついたよ。
Happy New Year Sensei, and Thank you for the Wonderful Learning Experience. Keep up the good work, see you next year :) (sorry, can't write in Japanese due to hangover)
1. 私の目標は自分の人生を変えて幸せになりたい。 2. 多分JLPT N2ぐらいが要ります。 3. 時すでに遅しです. Thank You for all the videos and for making a positive change in life of so many people. You are doing great work! 良いお年を!
I am learning from scratch with TH-cam, Google, ChatGPT, etc. I started with kana in August 2024. Now, at the end of December 2024, even though I haven't taken the JLPT, I am surely at the N5 level (I took some mock tests and passed them). My target is N4 in July 2025 and N3 in December 2025. However, I don't just want to pass the JLPT. I want to be able to read, write, speak, and listen to Japanese at the same level as my JLPT or higher. My target is going to Japan, and dating Mochi Sensei 😂🤣
I’ve found that, because I don’t understand fully, either the language or the natural parsing of sentences (pausing etc) that shadowing is both embarrassingly slow, difficult, and physically exhausting (concentration + out of breath) 🥺
I subscribed to your channel because I think your videos are really great to practice and keep up with the practice. But I haven't even started yet. I think this video is the sign that I really should be starting my journey now and actually study :D I hope you'll have an even better year in 2025! :)
My goals are simple: hiragana katakana read and write. 365 kanji read write and what mean. deadline is one year. I want see how I can do it. in next year I will see how % I did
I started learning how to speak Japanese with a desire to watch anime in sub, but then as I continue to study the language you became more and more interesting I later on felt in love with Japanese, so I wanted to study more. I then set a goal that if I'm ever good at speaking this language.. I'll visit Japan one day. Even with that said there's not a single day i don't practice
After studying Japanese for almost two years I am comfortable putting sentences together and speaking, but I still have a difficult time processing and understanding when spoken to in Japanese unless they speak slow and stay around N4 or N5 level. There are so many different styles of Japanese as well. Do you have any tips on how I can get my brain to better process. I am old and not in my 20s anymore :)
I want to be able to follow Japanese movies, lyrics from some musics and read interviews (to listen interviews is something a little bit difficult). I do not know which level I must be. I studied Japanese for 2 years now, but I am still in the basics. I want to be at least on N5 level by the end of 2025 or a good amount of N4.
I've done a test for N5 recently and i made it well i understand but i'm lost at some parts でも、私はビデオを分かりました! (Tell me if i made some errors on japanese part, i'm only N5 and i'd be open to corrections)
I have a problem. I've been getting jozued in real life and on the internet by tutors,etc. Still can't have conversations thats isn't asking people questions.
1年間一生懸命勉強したのに、私は日本語を学ぶ意欲を失い始めています。頭に浮かぶ疑問は、「一生必要ないのに、なぜ日本語が必要なのか?」ということです。😪 I just don’t know why I need it, before I wanted to go live in Japan for a while, but now I know that it’s almost unrealistic and I don’t really want it anymore
I am too realistic to think that if my Japanese is good enough, I should be able to date a kawaii Japanese woman. But I do want to improve my Japanese for me to communicate to the Japanese when I am vacationing in Japan. It's not like I am starting at zero I do have some foundations with Nihongo, but like she said, I need some consistency when studying the language.
If you want fluency, just try to do random sentences in japanese frequently if you struggle with "R" or "double consonnant" reading, try simple sentences like "私は食べません。" (i don't eat) and after complexify them like "私はエビを食べません持っているから海の果物アレルギー。" (i don't eat shrimp because i have an allergy to seafruit.). Just do it frequently and you'll see you'll go far. The Romaji for the sentences in japanese: 1rst: "Watashi wa tabemasen" 2nd: "Watashi wa ebi o tabemasen motte irukara umi no kudamono arerugii."
I want to go to a Manga school in 2026. and even though it is international the language requirement is passing a JLPTN 2 test. I an at level 4 right now, wish me luck.
@bestactress1658 While I do think one can gain a solid working knowledge of the language, it's just that becoming truly fluent may be very, very difficult, probably impossible.
@@gsr4535 I just don’t know why I need it, before I wanted to go live in Japan for a while, but now I know that it’s almost unrealistic and I don’t really want it anymore
@bestactress1658 No one can answer that but you. I've been there a few times. Interesting place. I like it but remember Japan is very inward looking. They don't allow many immigrants, don't want many. It's their right. I respect that. But learning any language is a wonderful thing and exercises your brain. 👍
@@gsr4535 Yes, the brain has developed amazingly this year, considering the fact that Japanese is one of the five most difficult languages in the world. I think it's time to stop before it's too late😂
Don't worry, just try to speak japanese frequently and diversify your manners of studying, when i've started learning japanese i wasn't also progressing but i've started to do some little sentences, by writting and speaking, and after made longer ones. Basically you'll need vocabulary, basic grammar and particles, and you'll need reading, just do it and you'll see you will make progress. I'll recomand you some apps: Vocabulary: Japanese Linduo (totally free) Grammar: Bunpo (free if i remember) Reading: YomuYomu (Not free but you get free texts everyday) Kanji learning comes later don't worry about it. That's all the apps that i use, add TH-cam videos and that'll do it. あなたならできる
@@bendysstudiosanimations7984 Thank you for the advice and encouragement! I'll definitely try to incorporate those suggestions into my study routine! ありがとうございます!
WHY do you make the English subs almost UN-READABLE ?? Have you even bothered to look at them yourself ?? They are microscopic and they appear s grey/on grey !....NOT black on white ! Isn't this arrogant bad manners????? I'm sure if they were Japanese subs you would have made them read-able !
@@wave8359 まず自分の態度を確認するべきだと思っていますからね。 After that, check the settings in your TH-cam app. You’ve probably got a bad configuration somewhere that’s clashing
the thumbnail looks like: lets be real you will never be fluent lol give up dude" 🤣
Mochi sensei knows I clicked on this video after not practicing for a month
I wish you the best next year Mochi Sensei
もち先生、来年もよい年になるように
I tried without CC. ! and I was able to understand 😅 but just a little 😅 , gotta start somewhere😅
Same lol I tried it at first but hen I was like nope XD
Happy New Year to you, Mochi Sensei! From Russia- with love(from: Far East, Khabarovsk)!
Your videos have helped me greatly. Thank you!
この動画はありがとう。私はもっと頑張らなきゃ。
You are so right! I used to have evening classes back in 2014 and made progress now that I am on my own it is difficult. There is a Japanese teacher in my town so I guess I’ll take classes with her.
Found your YT and Insta content this year and it has been great for learning and improving, as well as understanding the language better. Absolutely love the content and the variety of the content. Keep up the great work in the year to come! I will definitely be there to learn from your wisdom and teachings!
Mochi-sensei, thanks for a fantastic 2024! :)
どうもありがとうございます先生❤
全部やりたいです!
You make a great point though. Consistency is key to success, but can be hard to achieve especially when adding learning Japanese to a life full of other commitments! I like your point on goals and motivation, with the sports analogy and the desire to be great at something. Championship mentality! I can still give it my all even if I am unable to dedicate all my time to it, is what this made me realize today. I also like your video making analogy (making videos is hard work!), because I really think it is important to be able to push through discomfort.
たとえば、今しゅうまつはからだがいたくて、雨がふってさむかったんけど、それでもきょうのあさラグビーをしにいったんだ。けっか、とてもたのしかったし、雨のじょうけんでのプレーに自信がついたよ。
Thank you for your advice, Mochi Sensei 😊
Happy New Year Sensei, and Thank you for the Wonderful Learning Experience. Keep up the good work, see you next year :) (sorry, can't write in Japanese due to hangover)
ありがとうには全ての動画です、もち先生!
僕は特に目標じゃないです。日本語を勉強してために楽しくっておもしろおいいです!
1. 私の目標は自分の人生を変えて幸せになりたい。
2. 多分JLPT N2ぐらいが要ります。
3. 時すでに遅しです.
Thank You for all the videos and for making a positive change in life of so many people. You are doing great work!
良いお年を!
きょうはきみとてもきれい❤❤❤
I am learning from scratch with TH-cam, Google, ChatGPT, etc. I started with kana in August 2024. Now, at the end of December 2024, even though I haven't taken the JLPT, I am surely at the N5 level (I took some mock tests and passed them). My target is N4 in July 2025 and N3 in December 2025. However, I don't just want to pass the JLPT. I want to be able to read, write, speak, and listen to Japanese at the same level as my JLPT or higher.
My target is going to Japan, and dating Mochi Sensei
😂🤣
Thank you 💚
I’ve found that, because I don’t understand fully, either the language or the natural parsing of sentences (pausing etc) that shadowing is both embarrassingly slow, difficult, and physically exhausting (concentration + out of breath) 🥺
1. 東京大学の大学院生の哲学者になりたいんだよ
2. そのために日本語能力試験レベルN1は足りないかもしれない
3. 今、イギリスの大学生はもうすぐ始まるので、これから5年間で日本語を勉強し終わると思っているんだよ
こんなに面白い動画をいつもありがとう先生
I subscribed to your channel because I think your videos are really great to practice and keep up with the practice. But I haven't even started yet. I think this video is the sign that I really should be starting my journey now and actually study :D
I hope you'll have an even better year in 2025! :)
My goals are simple: hiragana katakana read and write. 365 kanji read write and what mean. deadline is one year. I want see how I can do it. in next year I will see how % I did
I started learning how to speak Japanese with a desire to watch anime in sub, but then as I continue to study the language you became more and more interesting I later on felt in love with Japanese, so I wanted to study more. I then set a goal that if I'm ever good at speaking this language.. I'll visit Japan one day. Even with that said there's not a single day i don't practice
私はブラジル日系人です。 日常会話の70~80%を理解できる
🥰aww my sensei san teacher you’re so beautiful and you’re the best teacher thank you 🙏 for everything may god bless you always
🥳 HAPPY NEW YEAR🥳
After studying Japanese for almost two years I am comfortable putting sentences together and speaking, but I still have a difficult time processing and understanding when spoken to in Japanese unless they speak slow and stay around N4 or N5 level. There are so many different styles of Japanese as well. Do you have any tips on how I can get my brain to better process. I am old and not in my 20s anymore :)
for me the hardest part is practice speaking in japanese, cause i learn all by myself with books or youtube. there is no one i can really talk to.
Sensei 🤩
私の目標は、会う人全員と気軽に話せるようになることです。友達にもち先生は世界一の先生だと伝えています。
僕の目標はないんですが、日本語をよく分かって話したい。だから、必要な日本語のレベルは最もできるとだろう。出来上がる時は、出来あがない。
モチベーションはなりにくい!ビデオをありがとうございます!
にほんがいきたいです😢
n2がありたい。
デッドラインは2026🎉
I want to be able to follow Japanese movies, lyrics from some musics and read interviews (to listen interviews is something a little bit difficult). I do not know which level I must be. I studied Japanese for 2 years now, but I am still in the basics. I want to be at least on N5 level by the end of 2025 or a good amount of N4.
また素晴らしいビデオをありがとうございます。
My beautiful nihongo no sensei
lmao
My reason to learn japanese is to be able make some proper daily conversation with japanese people
Within 3 months I hope i can do it XD
I understand like 70% now without cc but need to pause to process some of the longer sentences 😅
Same😁
Moooo Nihongo Muzukashi.
来年N3を通りたい。だからN3の漢字と文法がもっと勉強しなければならない。毎日少しずつを勉強してこの夢を果たしなす。4月まで練習してN3の練習と上手になりたい。頑張りますよ。
1。アニメ、マンガやゲームを字幕なしで分かることです。
2。アニメの設定が高校だったら、JLPT3ぐらいの日本語力が必要っと思います。わかんないんだけど。
3。まず、もっときちんと勉強しないとですが、ちゃんと勉強するとしたら、多分半年ぐらいかかりそうです。
もち先生、来年もよろしくお願いします!
最近油を売っていたんですけど2025年に頑張ります!モチ先生がおしえてくれるかも笑
I've done a test for N5 recently and i made it well i understand but i'm lost at some parts でも、私はビデオを分かりました!
(Tell me if i made some errors on japanese part, i'm only N5 and i'd be open to corrections)
Can anybody tell me what the name Dominique (male) would be in Japanese (in english and in Japanese text), please. ありがとう
ドミニク (Dominiku) in katakana
No need to thank me 👍
I wrote few goals to 2025.. I hope I in 2025 will be more study japanese language.
I have a problem. I've been getting jozued in real life and on the internet by tutors,etc. Still can't have conversations thats isn't asking people questions.
1年間一生懸命勉強したのに、私は日本語を学ぶ意欲を失い始めています。頭に浮かぶ疑問は、「一生必要ないのに、なぜ日本語が必要なのか?」ということです。😪
I just don’t know why I need it, before I wanted to go live in Japan for a while, but now I know that it’s almost unrealistic and I don’t really want it anymore
I am too realistic to think that if my Japanese is good enough, I should be able to date a kawaii Japanese woman. But I do want to improve my Japanese for me to communicate to the Japanese when I am vacationing in Japan. It's not like I am starting at zero I do have some foundations with Nihongo, but like she said, I need some consistency when studying the language.
If you want fluency, just try to do random sentences in japanese frequently if you struggle with "R" or "double consonnant" reading, try simple sentences like "私は食べません。" (i don't eat) and after complexify them like "私はエビを食べません持っているから海の果物アレルギー。" (i don't eat shrimp because i have an allergy to seafruit.). Just do it frequently and you'll see you'll go far.
The Romaji for the sentences in japanese:
1rst: "Watashi wa tabemasen"
2nd: "Watashi wa ebi o tabemasen motte irukara umi no kudamono arerugii."
You can train with this and do your own examples
🙇🙇🙇
I want to go to a Manga school in 2026. and even though it is international the language requirement is passing a JLPTN 2 test. I an at level 4 right now, wish me luck.
Good luck me i'm going to do medecine at japan when we'll finish our cycle and i'm N5 。
頑張って👍
HNY🎉 iam in japan I watch daily your video but still can't speak what I do please help me
Very difficult unless you are exposed daily and study for hours daily. Very few people can do that
I agree completely, throughout the whole year I studied every day for 3 hours and now I give up(
@bestactress1658 While I do think one can gain a solid working knowledge of the language, it's just that becoming truly fluent may be very, very difficult, probably impossible.
@@gsr4535 I just don’t know why I need it, before I wanted to go live in Japan for a while, but now I know that it’s almost unrealistic and I don’t really want it anymore
@bestactress1658 No one can answer that but you. I've been there a few times. Interesting place. I like it but remember Japan is very inward looking. They don't allow many immigrants, don't want many. It's their right. I respect that. But learning any language is a wonderful thing and exercises your brain. 👍
@@gsr4535 Yes, the brain has developed amazingly this year, considering the fact that Japanese is one of the five most difficult languages in the world. I think it's time to stop before it's too late😂
来年日本できます。
日本語のJLPT N5
2025年7月 ベルギーでN5
すみません Sensei Mochi, I'm so confused.. 😞
My Japanese is not improving and it makes me sad.. 😞
Don't worry, you'll get there eventually. Keep practicing! がんばって!
Don't worry, just try to speak japanese frequently and diversify your manners of studying, when i've started learning japanese i wasn't also progressing but i've started to do some little sentences, by writting and speaking, and after made longer ones. Basically you'll need vocabulary, basic grammar and particles, and you'll need reading, just do it and you'll see you will make progress. I'll recomand you some apps:
Vocabulary: Japanese Linduo (totally free)
Grammar: Bunpo (free if i remember)
Reading: YomuYomu (Not free but you get free texts everyday)
Kanji learning comes later don't worry about it.
That's all the apps that i use, add TH-cam videos and that'll do it. あなたならできる
@scrambledmc3772 Thank you for the support! I’ll keep practicing and doing my best. がんばります!
@@bendysstudiosanimations7984 Thank you for the advice and encouragement! I'll definitely try to incorporate those suggestions into my study routine!
ありがとうございます!
4:50 N3 to watch anime? Arienai. N3 is like
WHY do you make the English subs almost UN-READABLE ??
Have you even bothered to look at them yourself ??
They are microscopic and they appear s grey/on grey !....NOT black on white !
Isn't this arrogant bad manners?????
I'm sure if they were Japanese subs you would have made them read-able !
That's not her fault, it's the TH-cam UI lol
mines not like that lol.
also your manners are bad. this is a free video. reflect on your own actions and how you speak towards people
Subtitles are good, white letters on black.
@@wave8359 まず自分の態度を確認するべきだと思っていますからね。
After that, check the settings in your TH-cam app. You’ve probably got a bad configuration somewhere that’s clashing