Did you notice that I'm uploading videos more often? I'm also spending more time at home, and it gives me more time to make videos. So, that's my "lemonade". And you can make your "lemonade" too! If you want to learn Japanese with me, I can send you some Japanese lessons where I teach you the kind of Japanese that Japanese people actually speak. Click here and subscribe bit.ly/35odWwn
Hey Yuta. I was supposed to go to Japan now, in April, for study reasons. They are still making Visas here in Brazil, but we havn't had any news from the Japanese Embassy if the boarders are going to close for Students with Study and Work Visa. Have you had any news about it? Could you help me with this info? I didn't find it anywhere either.
As Lithuanian my school forces us learn languages like after 6th and 10th grade you have to choose the language you want to learn and only gives French German and Russian where I live because there are not enough teachers of other languages but maybe in capital you can also learn Japanese. Well if school lets me learn Japanese after 10th grade I will definitely choose it.
DO NOT WORRY ABOUT KANJI, jesus christ everyones making such a huge deal about it. Just focus on your kanas for now and then move into basic sentence structures. I recommend Japaneseammo as she introduces kanji with the structures. Once you start to feel the need and relize for your self of why kanji is important start learning radicals. Try and use japanese everyday in your day to day life like talking to your self about your day or to someone else, have fun and do not stress over the little things
In order for you to memorize them properly you need to do quizzes by downloading kana quiz apps. This will make you memorize them and keep it in long term memory.
The first college I went to didn't have Japanese as a Language but had Mandarin Chinese. While I'm struggling with Katakana I'm seeing that the Mandarin that I haven't practiced in 15 years is kicking in for Kanji.
Just like what he said you must learn hiragana and katakana first. So yeah I learned hiragana and katakana in three days. That was a piece of cake. Then what I'm doing now is I listen to Japanese songs with hiragana or katakana translations to practice reading
What a coincidence Yuta, I started learning Japanese this morning since there's nothing to de now, because my government closed schools and everything else, and advised everyone to stay home, and it's believed they will launch military in cities. Love your content from Morocco.
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…
I've been learning Japaneses for about a year and I can say that I made a little bit of progress. For example my vocabulary has increased and I'm starting to get the hang of identifying and pronouncing Hiragana characters. I've already immerse myself in Japanese media thorough anime, games, and pro-wrestling(NJPW). It has been a fun experience so far piecing together what I learn while immersing in Japanese media. I still have a long way to go and I believe anyone can learn a new language as long as they stay consistent.
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…
@@Sakura-zu4rz There are times when I don't feel like learning Japanese because learning a new language on a regular basis can be overwhelming. That's why I take a few days off and come back to it later.
I signed up for your online classes, I'm LOVING IT. I'm brazilian and I live in a small town, so you can fine likke, 2 people who can speak SOMETHING in japanese, and that's pretty much it. Its amazing how much we can learn online
I have to say that making friends is one of my biggest goals when learning japanese and hopefully travelling to Japan. To have the chance to meet new people and especially people from a different country with a different culture is in my opinion just a wonderful thing. And to exchange about the differences between one another is interesting as hell to me so I will use this time to make progress :D Edit: One thing that I think is pretty useful too is to get a japanese keyboard input like I have with "Google Japanese Input" because you can check right away if you've read japanese things correct. And as a guy from germany I think it's pretty funny when I typed just the Katakana-symbol for "shi" in Google every single time the first search query was something german like "Stuttgart", "Schnitzel" or "Schalke".
you don't need stupid classes to learn japanese. go online, learn hiragana and katakana, download vocabulary decks, a japanese dictionary app and start reading and listening to japanese.
I want to learn Japanese too, and so does the algorithm apparently, since this was recommended despite not trying to learn Japanese in the last 6 years.
This is basically what happened to me last 9 months ago, I still look forward to the lessons you give! I signed up for the free lessons you give and the first video helped me, Thank you!
I wanted to use Anime to learn Japanese. But then I thought, what if a Japanese person learned English through Family guy? We're going to know something's up.
oh The humor hearing them 10 years later and they are up on stage and start off with "when i first learned english, I turned to Family Guy" "Just like anyone who would want to drive would choose a racing game or GRAND THEFT AUTO" crowd bursts out laughing
I started your Japanese lessons and it's really great. That is everything it's missing in typical Japanese textbooks. It cleared all my doubts about using Japanese. Thank you!
When I first got to Japan, I tried to learn Japanese from the Berlitz language course. Gave that up after a few days, and just learned by working with Japanese and watching tv. Learned enough to get by!
Konnichiwa, Yuta-sensei, I subscribed to your free Japanese lessons, and yes, learning Japanese is basically how I am passing the time productively during this pandemic! I 100% agree with your video!
Yuta. I have noticed that Sumo is one of the only sporting events in the world still taking place during the Corona crisis. I am an American who has never watched before but I have become very interested, especially with the ceremonial aspects of the competition. I would love a video explaining the role and popularity of Sumo in modern Japanese culture. Thank you for your awesome videos!
Shamefully, I have been sitting on the fence for quite a long time , perhaps due to intimidation/ confidence in the crapper... but you started English without all the help that we have nowadays = That is amazing! I think I finally got the kick I needed so Thank You!
Thank you so much for still making videos during the pandemic 🤗 I've often gotten way to ahead of myself and try to learn everything all at once. The order thats best to learn in helps.
ゆたさんのメールから、日本語にもっと興味があった！ 今、僕は日本語の語彙では本当に下手ですから、やる気がない。全然です。 早く語彙を上達させたいんだけどね。 ゆたさん、本当にありがとうございました！頑張りまーす！ You made me start learning Japanese. Now i can talk more fluently and more naturally. I can't thank you enough. I will be going to Japan as an exchange student next year. It wouldn't be possible without your videos! Thanks again! ❤😊
@@edgardcruz9295 Honestly speaking, I started learning since september. You can do it in 6 months, but you need lots and lots of motivation. I pretty much motivated myself by speaking more with native speakers, turning languages of some of my apps to japanese, so that i can see some new words or kanjis maybe. Well, It is possible, not gonna lie! Do your best👍 P. S. :I never went to a Japanese language school nor did i use any kind of books! Everything, i mean every single thing i know now, is all from youtube, LEGIT!!
My brother and I planned to go this fall, but we will have to reconsider. I may know a handful of phrases through self-learning and programs, but I'm always open for learning more.
Can't agree more on learning kana! It certainly is tough but totally worth it. As you said, using romaji will only be useful for people wanting to learn a few sentences to use while visiting Japan, but that's not learning the language. Being able to read kana alone can help you find a ramen or soba restaurant in the street. And that's the first step to a good day!
You can learn hiragana and katakana in a day or two (if you have nothing else to do, and you're really diligent/enthusiastic). Of course, in the following couple weeks you have to reinforce that knowledge daily, otherwise you will forget it. But it is a big win for a beginner and motivates you tremendously.
Yuta: I learned English without apps, without speaking to native English speakers. Honestly this just shows his discipline, dedication & perseverance which are amazing. I have utmost respect for his person. While Japanese is one of the more popular non English language to learn (say compared to Norwegian), thanks to Japanese tutors like Yuta, who makes it easier for us non Japanese speakers to learn their language.
I totally agree hiragana and katakana is where people should start. Watching anime will really help you with あいうえお pronunciation and you'll hear a lot of common vocabulary pronounced too. You can also be the only one in class who knows what 魔法使い is and your teacher will be like how tf do you even know that but you forget that 生 is used in 先生 but also 生まれ.
Good to know you're doing well, Yuuta. I'm supposed to be subscribed to your free lessons. I mean, I am. And I used to get them quite often, but the last one I got was like in November, I think. So, I was wondering if maybe there were not more free lessons available, if you got pretty busy or I just wasn't receiving them anymore. And although I get a lot of spam in my email, your lessons always came straight to inbox, so I never had problems with that.
It's 2021 but it's never too late. I'm 15 and currently on day 5 of learning. The fact that I don't have adult responsibilities makes it so that I can learn for over 12 hours a day. Rn I can read only single words written in hiragana or katakana (ofc at this current stage I can't figure out the beginning and the end of a word in a japanese sentence) WML 🤎
@@luffynho8526 perfect writing skill. No grammar/spelling mistake found. Only the use of commas and periods are off but tbh no one really gives jack all about those while typing lol. English has been my second language since my existence and I still suck at using them. Ofc I try harder if I HAVE to but when normal chatting? Idc
Honestly guys, just don't overthink about motivation. I feel like that, along with not learning for too long without breaks, is the best method to learn anything. Don't think about motivation, don't have any self-conversations with yourself. Doing that may work for some people, but it definitely doesn't work for me. If this is your 3-4th+ attempt at learning Japanese or any language, I think you know what I mean
Hi Yuta. Thank you for the video (and all other videos). I have a Bachelor's degree in Chinese studies and my specialization is Chinese character etymology. A long time ago I did a Chinese character frequency and Chinese word frequency study of characters and words appearing in online news articles in the span of one month. I just wanted to point out one small thing. It's not criticism at all, just an observation, because I originally used the same slightly incorrect wording as you have: At 5:28 you said: "If you learn 20% of the words, you will understand 80% of daily conversations." This is not entirely correct. When you learn 20% of all words, you are able to recognize words which build up 80% of what people tell you, but not understand 80% of what is said. When you think about it, it is a big difference. You are not going to automatically understand 80% of what is said just because you know 20% of all words in Japanese. It will help a lot, but it will not give you such results. In case of Chinese this is much more prominent when you study the frequency of Chinese characters (Chinese characters in Chinese appearing in different words often have different meanings, so even if you know a certain character, you might not know the meaning of a lot of words it appears in, cutting your overall understanding by a lot), but it also relates to Chinese words or words in general: grammar, word combinations, collocations, lack of context etc. all influence understanding. Given the high frequency of words from the top 20% most frequently used words group, you'll see and hear words from this group seemingly everywhere, and this 'seemingly' roughly 80% of 'everywhere', but it doesn't mean you understand 80% of 'everywhere'. Sorry for choosing only a small detail of your video to talk about, my intention really wasn't to nitpick. I just remembered this particular thing from my study which I thought was just a small wording problem but turned out to be a much bigger issue. And... indeed vocabulary is power:)
I Was supposed to fly to japan the 31 of March, but since the situation in my country, well, everywhere, I can't. Sooo this is exactly what I'm doing, I started learning japanese like 2 weeks ago, and at least, I feel less bad about it.
*Actually when you watch watching movie/anime , you enjoying it which means you learn from, what you like. And you need also, English subtitles so you know what they’re saying.* *If don’t watch anime at all,* *And you like, studying then you need to, use sticks notes and hang up on wall therefore you are enabled to look at the Japanese alphabet and repeat it* *if you have trouble with study and you don’t watch anime Escher, you can always try and learn while you sleeping it’s work at few days you have, to repeat it every single time 1-3 months, so your memory can understand far sooner.*
The Japanese instructor at my community college has a way to get around the whole thing about textbooks using old and outdated words, grammar, etc by having an assistant from Japan. The current one is a graduate from a nearby college for Japanese girls and she even lived in Australia for some time
I took the lesson it was very helpful! I've learned a lot, with the proper construction of sentences in Japanese and the proper way how to use keigos. Thank you so much Yuta. :)
I visited Japan last year in August, I visited Kyoto, mostly staying within the area around Kyoto Station, and going as far as I could on the subway without missing the train home to get back to my hotel. I took a 2 week 'boot camp' on japanese language, in my home town, so I could point at things and say ”これ一つください” and asking if something came in Large, was about the extent of my ability. And still is, as personal reasons have interrupted my studies. But while in kyoto I had a lovely, lengthly, broken conversation with an older woman and the store owner. They couldn't speak english too well, and I couldn't really speak japanese. But we managed to tell eachother our favourite foods, things we liked about eachothers countries, hobbies, and just generally have a pleasant conversation. So I can vouch for how enjoyable it is to try and learn, and use a language that you're not comfortable with. Another fun moment I had, was on my last day. I bought some Sake to share with my classmate in our hotel room, but realized my bottle opener had broken. So armed with my overconfidence, and rudimentary japanese, I went downstairs to the bar, with my Sake, and attempted to explain 'It's my last day in japan, could you help me open this? My bottle opener broke.' My probelm is, I don't know how to say bottle opener, and i definitely can't figure out more than one sentence. So I managed to mime that I needed help opening the bottle, while saying 'help me.' which I think i said in more of the connotation of 'save me.' since they started laughing. Which, then I followed with what I thought was 'It's my last day in japan.' but then I later realized I said, 'Japans final day has come.', they laughed nervously, and I learned belatedly to not improvise language too much while blushing in my hotel room realizing what I had actually said.
I've been reviewing my lessons during this as well. I got a,i,u,e,o,ka,ki,ku,ke,ko,sa,shi, su, se & so under my belt; but the rest I am struggling with. Thanks for reading my mind about my Japanese practice.
@@ShinRaChamploo I see a few "Learn Japanese" podcast, which one in particular? I took a brief look at Kanji. The first college I went to didn't have Japanese as a language but had Mandarin Chinese. While I'm struggling with the rest of the a,i,u,e,o; I'm seeing that the Mandarin that I haven't practiced in 15 years is kicking in for Kanji.
Thank you for the videos, they have been very informative as I'm planning on trying out your course. I would love to learn Japanese, ive always been entranced by the language and culture and like you said this is a great time to start, i hope to at least get a start on learning so when the quarantine is finally over i might be able to speak a little and maybe in a year I could even plan a vacation to Japan but well see, thanks again!
I was supposed to start Japanese Language school in Tokyo on April 7th but due to the Corona outbreak and Entry bans I wasn't able to get my Japanese Visa issued on time. Now my studies are delayed till July. This situation really sucks, but like you said at the beginning, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Have been studying by myself at home in the mean time hoping to get a good foundation before heading to school in July.
I am intermediate in Japanese and I have been so interested in furthering my studies for a long time! But it's hard to find a good method to learn... Thank you for the advice on what I should focus on :)
I really want to learn Japanese, but I've been apprehensive because I am not very good at learning languages. Regardless, I signed up for your lessons today. You are very good at explaining things on this channel, and you seem really intelligent, so I figured "why not give it a try?!"
This dude just literally described what i’m doing, thirty seconds into the video. I was gonna go to japan this summer but knew little to no japanese, since we had to cancel i decided “i might as well learn more japanese for when we finally go to japan!l
@@trunchqin4292 the website splits them up per 1000 words by beginner to advanced so you dont have to learn them all. I thought it would be good to know ... but you definitely need the first 3000
I like your optimism about: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" and your attempt to bridge cultures. When I lived in Japan many people wanted to be my friend to practice their English 'for free'
Truth though, I'm doing all the stuff I didn't have the time to because of work, learning Japanese is one of them I say this yet I'll likely just sleep
been wanting to learn Japanese for a while but I've been waiting till i finished my school's mandatory language classes, which sense I have online I don't care about now, so i started a few days ago and I've finished memorizing hiragana and katakana now I can finally start learning vocab and grammar.
It's funny you tube's algorithm recommends me your video just when i decided to learn to read hiragana and katakana. I'm glad I took the right decision. I'm having my first babysteps, but i can read hiragana now (like a preschooler tho, lol, gotta practice my fluency). I found out flashcards are the best way to learn these (in my case it took around 30 min ~ 1 hour of practice for 3 days). Don't learn all at once, but do it by chunks and adding more when you memorize them until you start having some trouble remembering the new kanas. If you get to that point, stop and try again next day. Still gotta learn katakana and how to write both kanas tho, but so far so good! ...Also i'm scared about how Kyuubei glares at me, i don't want to be a magical girl D:
I went to Japan twice and I speak no Japanese, it was very easy to get around and order food either way. I do agree it would have been better if I knew Japanese. I bought your course yuta but I was not motivated enough I guess.
I've been learning Japanese for about half a year, and a month ago I started using Anki everyday for vocab and it's amazing how much easier it is to remember words when using spaced repetition. I really wish I'd started using it earlier. So for anyone trying to remember vocab please give it a try! (This comment is not sponsored I promise :P)
Thanks again Yuta San. By the way I've found that anime usually tend to over exaggerate and use words and phrases that aren't normally used in everyday communication, however it's been really useful to me for learning simple phrases, pronunciation, and even differentiating the dialects. Also just a fun way of listening to Japanese 😉
I decided to try it out, ive only been using it for a few hours and im learning pretty quickly, Unlike learning on apps or in real life, i can just pause the video and take notes whenever i want to. Ive tried a bunch of apps and i didn't remember anything, as far as i can see these videos really help a lot. Im planning on moving to japan someday, and although i probably wont be able to for a while, at least i will have time to learn. And besides, all my friends want to learn Japanese and i can make them jealous XD.
Did you notice that I'm uploading videos more often? I'm also spending more time at home, and it gives me more time to make videos. So, that's my "lemonade".
And you can make your "lemonade" too! If you want to learn Japanese with me, I can send you some Japanese lessons where I teach you the kind of Japanese that Japanese people actually speak. Click here and subscribe bit.ly/35odWwn
Love your lemonade
Hey Yuta. I was supposed to go to Japan now, in April, for study reasons. They are still making Visas here in Brazil, but we havn't had any news from the Japanese Embassy if the boarders are going to close for Students with Study and Work Visa. Have you had any news about it? Could you help me with this info? I didn't find it anywhere either.
If you want to overwhelm yourself you can go to imabi.net and look at the lessons there and then open a Duolingo course at the same time.
As Lithuanian my school forces us learn languages like after 6th and 10th grade you have to choose the language you want to learn and only gives French German and Russian where I live because there are not enough teachers of other languages but maybe in capital you can also learn Japanese. Well if school lets me learn Japanese after 10th grade I will definitely choose it.
Hi! How do I know if I subscribe correctly?
Yuta: "You can also have a girlfriend!"
Me: "Don't do that, don't give me that hope."
Just try.
@@Cugastratos "Trying" and "Succeeding" are two different things.
Is ok buddy, I belive in ya, you can find a girlfriend some day 🤗
Fuck you
@@StandXGamma Better to try and fail than to not try at all and be left wondering, what if?
quarantine: starts
weebs: our time has come
damn! nmy whole family is always home, I can't even see least lewd stuff most of the time...QuQ
@@artemisDev 👌👌👌
What about Nintendo fans
If we learn Japanese we don’t gotta look at the subtitles anymore
@@imrhythmhi thats my main reason for learning にほんご to.
0:34 “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade. And in your case, your lemonade might be..learning Japanese!” *magically changes his t-shirt*
He may had shot intro differently
I didn’t notice it at all😂
@@aaliyahn7244 me either! hahaha
Kai B.K I’m the least observant person in the world and this proves it
i actually started learing japanese 4 days ago as my collage is closed i have learned most of the hiragana characters
everything easy until kanji. try poro study kanji app at phone
You're doing great, only 2000 kanjis left, keep going.
DO NOT WORRY ABOUT KANJI, jesus christ everyones making such a huge deal about it. Just focus on your kanas for now and then move into basic sentence structures. I recommend Japaneseammo as she introduces kanji with the structures.
Once you start to feel the need and relize for your self of why kanji is important start learning radicals.
Try and use japanese everyday in your day to day life like talking to your self about your day or to someone else, have fun and do not stress over the little things
In order for you to memorize them properly you need to do quizzes by downloading kana quiz apps. This will make you memorize them and keep it in long term memory.
Atem Yak is that free?
Everyone: kanji is so hard to learn
Native Chinese: *AMATEURS*
The first college I went to didn't have Japanese as a Language but had Mandarin Chinese. While I'm struggling with Katakana I'm seeing that the Mandarin that I haven't practiced in 15 years is kicking in for Kanji.
Learning kanji isn't the hard part. Knowing that 生 can be used in like 23 different ways is the hard part.
@@zomgpeoplestolemname haha, oh shit
so true
zomgpeoplestolemname exactly that and the huge amount of readings! XD
@@zomgpeoplestolemname Yup its the kun and on that makes kanji difficult to read for me, there are so many readings
Me: About to learn japanese
Hiragana: ...
Katakana: ...
Kanji: Allow me to introduce myself
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just.... learn words. you don't have to "learn kanji' thats a myth
@@babygorl9541 alright dude i didnt learn japanese and am not right now but i dont think so.
@@babygorl9541 true
@@notpedrot vey,usa "lol" ou "lmao" vey kkkkkk a
Everyone: stuck inside their homes
Yuta: *STONKS*
Noice
Me: Start to learn japanese
Kanji: i'm about to end this man's whole career
Sheer willpower can overcome Kanji... *DATTEBAYO!* 😜🔥
I thought your Profile picture was a...
@@clydexmation4583 fuckin schlong
All the words are freaking unique, with some of them a combination of kanjis. It gets confusing.
@@clydexmation4583 lmfao
From my experience, watching anime doesn't help too much when learning Japanese, but this surely will
yay
Anime teaches the very basics
B A K A
Yamete
ZA WARUDO!
Just like what he said you must learn hiragana and katakana first. So yeah I learned hiragana and katakana in three days. That was a piece of cake. Then what I'm doing now is I listen to Japanese songs with hiragana or katakana translations to practice reading
Thought it was hard but once who familiarized yourself with hiragana at katakana everything will fall into place
Love your profile pic man!
World's alright? Learn Japanese.
Global pandemic? Learn Japanese.
WWIII? Learn Japanese.
Apocalypse? _Omae wa mou shindeiru._
why not Learn To Use 刀
NANI?!
@@artemisDev カタナ
何？！
Hotel? Trivago
What a coincidence Yuta, I started learning Japanese this morning since there's nothing to de now, because my government closed schools and everything else, and advised everyone to stay home, and it's believed they will launch military in cities.
Love your content from Morocco.
頑張ってね
@@maotse1709 Thank you ♡
same here, i just thought lying around is a waste of time.
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…
So hows it going?
I've been learning Japaneses for about a year and I can say that I made a little bit of progress. For example my vocabulary has increased and I'm starting to get the hang of identifying and pronouncing Hiragana characters. I've already immerse myself in Japanese media thorough anime, games, and pro-wrestling(NJPW). It has been a fun experience so far piecing together what I learn while immersing in Japanese media. I still have a long way to go and I believe anyone can learn a new language as long as they stay consistent.
I have a frustrating experience. Not knowing where to begin or hitting a plateau can feel demoralizing and make it hard to hit the books and study like you know you should…
@@Sakura-zu4rz There are times when I don't feel like learning Japanese because learning a new language on a regular basis can be overwhelming. That's why I take a few days off and come back to it later.
@@AddaeAkono I like to call it the four Ps;🤗
Practice,
Perseverance,
Patience,
Passion,
Yuta: You could even talk to a non-human like Kyubey.
Kyubey: If you were an adolesant girl I'd literally eat your soul
OH SHIT I AM AN ADOLESCENT GIR-
*Yuta is turning around in the beginning* always make me laugh and smile. This is exactly what we need.
When life gives you lemons, make a contact and become a magical girl!
／人◕‿‿◕人＼
Nani!?
I have a Japanese online friend that I talk to some time in Japanese and it helps me alot
Kayla Evans lucky 🥺
Same! I too have an online Japanese friend. I teach her English and learn Japanese in return.
@@meooowww3672 oh no you can be friends with them to for sure. But you have to join amino app.
@@astral2048 also yeah that's how it is for me too hehe.
@@kaylaevans6542
Amino?
I signed up for your online classes, I'm LOVING IT. I'm brazilian and I live in a small town, so you can fine likke, 2 people who can speak SOMETHING in japanese, and that's pretty much it. Its amazing how much we can learn online
I have to say that making friends is one of my biggest goals when learning japanese and hopefully travelling to Japan. To have the chance to meet new people and especially people from a different country with a different culture is in my opinion just a wonderful thing. And to exchange about the differences between one another is interesting as hell to me so I will use this time to make progress :D
Edit: One thing that I think is pretty useful too is to get a japanese keyboard input like I have with "Google Japanese Input" because you can check right away if you've read japanese things correct. And as a guy from germany I think it's pretty funny when I typed just the Katakana-symbol for "shi" in Google every single time the first search query was something german like "Stuttgart", "Schnitzel" or "Schalke".
練習としてコメントを日本語で書きます。
面白い動画ありがとうございました！今のウイルスの状況で少し落ち込んでいましたが、Yutaさんの言葉を聞いてやる気が出ました。
Yutaさんもいっぱいレモネードを作ってください。
次の動画をお楽しみにしています。
ありがとうございます。
Too bad, my college does not offer Japanese language🥺 When I’m done with my bachelors degree, I’m thinking of teaching English there in Japan. 🙏
you don't need stupid classes to learn japanese. go online, learn hiragana and katakana, download vocabulary decks, a japanese dictionary app and start reading and listening to japanese.
"Too bad, my college does not offer cooking. I guess I won't ever learn how to cook then"
Get duolingo and get bilingual manga
@@babygorl9541 You know your stuff lol
Apart from watching anime everyday, i really want to learn japanese.
Then commit lol
Same
I want to learn Japanese too, and so does the algorithm apparently, since this was recommended despite not trying to learn Japanese in the last 6 years.
I made some progress though. I learn basic katakana writings. I also learn to speak some greetings like oyasumi nasai as good night and etc..
@@lm908 Don't know if you are still learning, but wish you luck. Start with remembering the kanji and anki. It's useful.
Exactly what I'm doing, great advice!
This is basically what happened to me last 9 months ago, I still look forward to the lessons you give! I signed up for the free lessons you give and the first video helped me, Thank you!
I'm glad I found this channel. It's helpful, since I'm trying to learn Japanese. ありがとうございます。
Hello Yuta-Sensei! I’ve been taking up your courses before watching this video and I’m loving it! It’s really helping me keep my downtime productive!
Yuta I just found your Channel yesterday. You are such likeable person!
I wanted to use Anime to learn Japanese.
But then I thought, what if a Japanese person learned English through Family guy? We're going to know something's up.
Qualified Idiots
Lmfao that would be amazing just farting on all the Meg’s you come across in life. It is the only proper way to address them.
yare yare daze
😂😂😂😂
oh The humor
hearing them 10 years later
and they are up on stage
and start off with
"when i first learned english, I turned to Family Guy"
"Just like anyone who would want to drive would choose a racing game or GRAND THEFT AUTO"
crowd bursts out laughing
....giggity.
I started your Japanese lessons and it's really great. That is everything it's missing in typical Japanese textbooks. It cleared all my doubts about using Japanese. Thank you!
When I first got to Japan, I tried to learn Japanese from the Berlitz language course. Gave that up after a few days, and just learned by working with Japanese and watching tv. Learned enough to get by!
I watched 1 video of Yuta, and now I'm binge watching all of it.
Ps. I regret nothing.
Konnichiwa, Yuta-sensei, I subscribed to your free Japanese lessons, and yes, learning Japanese is basically how I am passing the time productively during this pandemic! I 100% agree with your video!
I wasn't expecting to here the 80/20 rule here lol. Yuta is pretty knowledgeable.
hey I heard that putting anime as your profile picture ,is considered low standard in Japan and the west ,is that statement is true
13/53
@@markvigo1747 100% of racists are inbred
@@voltgaming2213 who cares?
@@Philson those who watch anime are losers
Yuta. I have noticed that Sumo is one of the only sporting events in the world still taking place during the Corona crisis. I am an American who has never watched before but I have become very interested, especially with the ceremonial aspects of the competition. I would love a video explaining the role and popularity of Sumo in modern Japanese culture. Thank you for your awesome videos!
Shamefully, I have been sitting on the fence for quite a long time , perhaps due to intimidation/ confidence in the crapper... but you started English without all the help that we have nowadays = That is amazing! I think I finally got the kick I needed so Thank You!
Right said thanks for making my time more valuable.
Thank you so much for still making videos during the pandemic 🤗
I've often gotten way to ahead of myself and try to learn everything all at once. The order thats best to learn in helps.
What's helping me the most is the Mass Immersion Approach. You can find lots of into on their website and here on TH-cam
ゆたさんのメールから、日本語にもっと興味があった！
今、僕は日本語の語彙では本当に下手ですから、やる気がない。全然です。
早く語彙を上達させたいんだけどね。
ゆたさん、本当にありがとうございました！頑張りまーす！
You made me start learning Japanese. Now i can talk more fluently and more naturally. I can't thank you enough. I will be going to Japan as an exchange student next year. It wouldn't be possible without your videos! Thanks again! ❤😊
Tapi Niichi I have to ask, how long did it take to you learn Japanese? Is easy to read japanese within 6 months?
@@edgardcruz9295 Honestly speaking, I started learning since september. You can do it in 6 months, but you need lots and lots of motivation. I pretty much motivated myself by speaking more with native speakers, turning languages of some of my apps to japanese, so that i can see some new words or kanjis maybe. Well, It is possible, not gonna lie! Do your best👍
P. S. :I never went to a Japanese language school nor did i use any kind of books! Everything, i mean every single thing i know now, is all from youtube, LEGIT!!
How insightful! 👍 Your video made me push more into not giving up learning Japanese. Thank you!
5:04 Has Yuta been reading FBI crime statistics? xD
LMAO
@@r_se Maybe we can get Yuta to weigh in on group IQ differences? ;)
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@@chloroplast8611 LOL!!! Thank you. I'm glad you understood the joke. I wasn't sure if people would get the joke I was making.
You just earned a new subscriber, thank you!
My brother and I planned to go this fall, but we will have to reconsider. I may know a handful of phrases through self-learning and programs, but I'm always open for learning more.
I don't know why but i got so proud when i read the title and actually understood
I have been stuck at home since Feb and started to pick up Spanish learning. thanks a lot for your encouragement
Can't agree more on learning kana! It certainly is tough but totally worth it. As you said, using romaji will only be useful for people wanting to learn a few sentences to use while visiting Japan, but that's not learning the language.
Being able to read kana alone can help you find a ramen or soba restaurant in the street. And that's the first step to a good day!
Hiragana = ok
katakana = much better
hiragana and katakana combined = I can deal with this
kanji = why are we still here just to suffer? WHY!?
FRFR
You can learn hiragana and katakana in a day or two (if you have nothing else to do, and you're really diligent/enthusiastic). Of course, in the following couple weeks you have to reinforce that knowledge daily, otherwise you will forget it. But it is a big win for a beginner and motivates you tremendously.
Yuta: I learned English without apps, without speaking to native English speakers. Honestly this just shows his discipline, dedication & perseverance which are amazing. I have utmost respect for his person. While Japanese is one of the more popular non English language to learn (say compared to Norwegian), thanks to Japanese tutors like Yuta, who makes it easier for us non Japanese speakers to learn their language.
I totally agree hiragana and katakana is where people should start. Watching anime will really help you with あいうえお pronunciation and you'll hear a lot of common vocabulary pronounced too. You can also be the only one in class who knows what 魔法使い is and your teacher will be like how tf do you even know that but you forget that 生 is used in 先生 but also 生まれ.
Thank you yuta! School got canceled for me along with my japanese class but now I got Yuta Sensei! Stay safe.
Good to know you're doing well, Yuuta.
I'm supposed to be subscribed to your free lessons. I mean, I am. And I used to get them quite often, but the last one I got was like in November, I think. So, I was wondering if maybe there were not more free lessons available, if you got pretty busy or I just wasn't receiving them anymore.
And although I get a lot of spam in my email, your lessons always came straight to inbox, so I never had problems with that.
Thanks you so much for the inspiration to learn more.
It's 2021 but it's never too late. I'm 15 and currently on day 5 of learning. The fact that I don't have adult responsibilities makes it so that I can learn for over 12 hours a day. Rn I can read only single words written in hiragana or katakana (ofc at this current stage I can't figure out the beginning and the end of a word in a japanese sentence) WML 🤎
@@luffynho8526 perfect writing skill. No grammar/spelling mistake found. Only the use of commas and periods are off but tbh no one really gives jack all about those while typing lol. English has been my second language since my existence and I still suck at using them. Ofc I try harder if I HAVE to but when normal chatting? Idc
Thank you for inspiring me
Honestly guys, just don't overthink about motivation. I feel like that, along with not learning for too long without breaks, is the best method to learn anything. Don't think about motivation, don't have any self-conversations with yourself. Doing that may work for some people, but it definitely doesn't work for me. If this is your 3-4th+ attempt at learning Japanese or any language, I think you know what I mean
I want Yuta to be my teacher. His explanation is very easy to understand.
Arigato gozaimasu! Your English is great by the way.
Hi Yuta. Thank you for the video (and all other videos). I have a Bachelor's degree in Chinese studies and my specialization is Chinese character etymology. A long time ago I did a Chinese character frequency and Chinese word frequency study of characters and words appearing in online news articles in the span of one month. I just wanted to point out one small thing. It's not criticism at all, just an observation, because I originally used the same slightly incorrect wording as you have: At 5:28 you said: "If you learn 20% of the words, you will understand 80% of daily conversations." This is not entirely correct. When you learn 20% of all words, you are able to recognize words which build up 80% of what people tell you, but not understand 80% of what is said. When you think about it, it is a big difference. You are not going to automatically understand 80% of what is said just because you know 20% of all words in Japanese. It will help a lot, but it will not give you such results. In case of Chinese this is much more prominent when you study the frequency of Chinese characters (Chinese characters in Chinese appearing in different words often have different meanings, so even if you know a certain character, you might not know the meaning of a lot of words it appears in, cutting your overall understanding by a lot), but it also relates to Chinese words or words in general: grammar, word combinations, collocations, lack of context etc. all influence understanding. Given the high frequency of words from the top 20% most frequently used words group, you'll see and hear words from this group seemingly everywhere, and this 'seemingly' roughly 80% of 'everywhere', but it doesn't mean you understand 80% of 'everywhere'. Sorry for choosing only a small detail of your video to talk about, my intention really wasn't to nitpick. I just remembered this particular thing from my study which I thought was just a small wording problem but turned out to be a much bigger issue. And... indeed vocabulary is power:)
I Was supposed to fly to japan the 31 of March, but since the situation in my country, well, everywhere, I can't.
Sooo this is exactly what I'm doing, I started learning japanese like 2 weeks ago, and at least, I feel less bad about it.
This is literally what I’m trying to do right now
*Actually when you watch watching movie/anime , you enjoying it which means you learn from, what you like. And you need also, English subtitles so you know what they’re saying.*
*If don’t watch anime at all,*
*And you like, studying then you need to, use sticks notes and hang up on wall therefore you are enabled to look at the Japanese alphabet and repeat it*
*if you have trouble with study and you don’t watch anime Escher, you can always try and learn while you sleeping it’s work at few days you have, to repeat it every single time 1-3 months, so your memory can understand far sooner.*
In France, we are ALL stuck in our houses, and I'm bored...
You mean you're bored?
C'est "it's boring" mais "I'm bored"! Bon courage! On est tous dans le même cas!
@@Dadiddy97 Je me suis trompé, mon anglais n'est pas parfait non plus ^^
Merci et bon courage à toi aussi.
Jean Cule Unlapin same in South Africa, stay safe
Same in italy
The Japanese instructor at my community college has a way to get around the whole thing about textbooks using old and outdated words, grammar, etc by having an assistant from Japan. The current one is a graduate from a nearby college for Japanese girls and she even lived in Australia for some time
Good advice, thank you.
I took the lesson it was very helpful! I've learned a lot, with the proper construction of sentences in Japanese and the proper way how to use keigos. Thank you so much Yuta. :)
I visited Japan last year in August, I visited Kyoto, mostly staying within the area around Kyoto Station, and going as far as I could on the subway without missing the train home to get back to my hotel.
I took a 2 week 'boot camp' on japanese language, in my home town, so I could point at things and say ”これ一つください” and asking if something came in Large, was about the extent of my ability. And still is, as personal reasons have interrupted my studies.
But while in kyoto I had a lovely, lengthly, broken conversation with an older woman and the store owner. They couldn't speak english too well, and I couldn't really speak japanese. But we managed to tell eachother our favourite foods, things we liked about eachothers countries, hobbies, and just generally have a pleasant conversation. So I can vouch for how enjoyable it is to try and learn, and use a language that you're not comfortable with.
Another fun moment I had, was on my last day. I bought some Sake to share with my classmate in our hotel room, but realized my bottle opener had broken. So armed with my overconfidence, and rudimentary japanese, I went downstairs to the bar, with my Sake, and attempted to explain 'It's my last day in japan, could you help me open this? My bottle opener broke.'
My probelm is, I don't know how to say bottle opener, and i definitely can't figure out more than one sentence. So I managed to mime that I needed help opening the bottle, while saying 'help me.' which I think i said in more of the connotation of 'save me.' since they started laughing. Which, then I followed with what I thought was 'It's my last day in japan.' but then I later realized I said, 'Japans final day has come.', they laughed nervously, and I learned belatedly to not improvise language too much while blushing in my hotel room realizing what I had actually said.
I've been reviewing my lessons during this as well. I got a,i,u,e,o,ka,ki,ku,ke,ko,sa,shi, su, se & so under my belt; but the rest I am struggling with. Thanks for reading my mind about my Japanese practice.
scw2007 try the learn Japanese pod podcast they have a discord group as well (the one with the dinosaur icon) good luck man
@@ShinRaChamploo I see a few "Learn Japanese" podcast, which one in particular? I took a brief look at Kanji. The first college I went to didn't have Japanese as a language but had Mandarin Chinese. While I'm struggling with the rest of the a,i,u,e,o; I'm seeing that the Mandarin that I haven't practiced in 15 years is kicking in for Kanji.
scw2007 learnjapanesepod.com/ not to take away from Yuta my philosophy is always grab from everywhere both are currently helping me
Thank you for the videos, they have been very informative as I'm planning on trying out your course. I would love to learn Japanese, ive always been entranced by the language and culture and like you said this is a great time to start, i hope to at least get a start on learning so when the quarantine is finally over i might be able to speak a little and maybe in a year I could even plan a vacation to Japan but well see, thanks again!
I like how he changed his shirt a little over 30 seconds in.
I was supposed to start Japanese Language school in Tokyo on April 7th but due to the Corona outbreak and Entry bans I wasn't able to get my Japanese Visa issued on time. Now my studies are delayed till July. This situation really sucks, but like you said at the beginning, when life gives you lemons, you make lemonade. Have been studying by myself at home in the mean time hoping to get a good foundation before heading to school in July.
totally agree with you
I am using this time to learn Japanese because it brings me a bit of happiness to think how I will use it in the future.
I am intermediate in Japanese and I have been so interested in furthering my studies for a long time! But it's hard to find a good method to learn... Thank you for the advice on what I should focus on :)
I really want to learn Japanese, but I've been apprehensive because I am not very good at learning languages. Regardless, I signed up for your lessons today. You are very good at explaining things on this channel, and you seem really intelligent, so I figured "why not give it a try?!"
Hi , thank u so much
This is very interesting.
4 time a year I go to Japan but can't speak nihonggo
Thank u so much
Stay safe always
This dude just literally described what i’m doing, thirty seconds into the video. I was gonna go to japan this summer but knew little to no japanese, since we had to cancel i decided “i might as well learn more japanese for when we finally go to japan!l
"You could even talk to a non human like Kyuuebey"
*Me, who just finished watching Madoka Mágica:* _oh god pls no_
Oof
thank u yuta ur the best
Here is a link to the core 6000 Japanese words we need to know. They give you sentences too.
iknow.jp/courses/566921
@@trunchqin4292 the website splits them up per 1000 words by beginner to advanced so you dont have to learn them all. I thought it would be good to know ... but you definitely need the first 3000
I like your optimism about: "When life gives you lemons, make lemonade" and your attempt to bridge cultures. When I lived in Japan many people wanted to be my friend to practice their English 'for free'
Truth though, I'm doing all the stuff I didn't have the time to because of work, learning Japanese is one of them
I say this yet I'll likely just sleep
Me: *about to buy a japanese textbook*
Quarantine: _allow me to introduce myself_
been wanting to learn Japanese for a while but I've been waiting till i finished my school's mandatory language classes, which sense I have online I don't care about now, so i started a few days ago and I've finished memorizing hiragana and katakana now I can finally start learning vocab and grammar.
It's funny you tube's algorithm recommends me your video just when i decided to learn to read hiragana and katakana. I'm glad I took the right decision. I'm having my first babysteps, but i can read hiragana now (like a preschooler tho, lol, gotta practice my fluency). I found out flashcards are the best way to learn these (in my case it took around 30 min ~ 1 hour of practice for 3 days). Don't learn all at once, but do it by chunks and adding more when you memorize them until you start having some trouble remembering the new kanas. If you get to that point, stop and try again next day. Still gotta learn katakana and how to write both kanas tho, but so far so good!
...Also i'm scared about how Kyuubei glares at me, i don't want to be a magical girl D:
Today was my first day of using Genki, and I like this Takeshi guy
Thank you💓💓
I was literally thinking to myself, I could learn some more Japanese while at home yesterday.
"When life gives you lemons, make lemonade"
I'd rather make life take the lemons back.
you right
I got everything save for 制限, a word I already knew, but had forgotten... the upper-intermediate plateau sucks.
Your English is great!
I went to Japan twice and I speak no Japanese, it was very easy to get around and order food either way. I do agree it would have been better if I knew Japanese. I bought your course yuta but I was not motivated enough I guess.
If life hands you lemons throw them away and eat a pizza. Domo arigato Yuta. I'll be watching.
どもありがと
I've been learning Japanese for about half a year, and a month ago I started using Anki everyday for vocab and it's amazing how much easier it is to remember words when using spaced repetition. I really wish I'd started using it earlier. So for anyone trying to remember vocab please give it a try! (This comment is not sponsored I promise :P)
good advice
thank you so much Yuta!! :D
7:37 i really like yuruyuri so half of the time i watch it with subtitles and half of the time i watch it without
Thanks again Yuta San. By the way I've found that anime usually tend to over exaggerate and use words and phrases that aren't normally used in everyday communication, however it's been really useful to me for learning simple phrases, pronunciation, and even differentiating the dialects. Also just a fun way of listening to Japanese 😉
Conichiwa! I'm learning so this is great for me ☺️ arigato 👍❤️
I decided to try it out, ive only been using it for a few hours and im learning pretty quickly, Unlike learning on apps or in real life, i can just pause the video and take notes whenever i want to. Ive tried a bunch of apps and i didn't remember anything, as far as i can see these videos really help a lot. Im planning on moving to japan someday, and although i probably wont be able to for a while, at least i will have time to learn. And besides, all my friends want to learn Japanese and i can make them jealous XD.