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I've been watching your videos for a while now, and as a cashier who is eager to try to speak Japanese to Japanese customers, this is certainly one of the most useful ones you've done. Thank you so much for distilling the information in such a straightforward manner.
Great information again :) this is perfect for us learners to hear because we are all taught お元気ですか from the textbooks and various internet sources in the beginning - but hearing how it is supposed to be used is so much more valuable! I think this is an English language thing (or maybe North American?) to use "How are you?" as a greeting phrase. Some Americans who visits Sweden get surprised when we tell them how we are and start talking about our health when they ask "How are you?" instead of just repeating the phrase back :P And I also think that is why there's such a focus on お元気ですか for beginners, because it's often a huge focus on learners from North America in the textbooks.
Nowadays, I feel like I want to ask students, "おげんきですか？" at the beginning of a Japanese lesson because that's a natural way when I speak in English. So I wanted to make this point clear even for me too😅 And Japanese people tend to answer how our health is when we're asked "how are you" as well. So, I have a question, don't you say "How are you?" in Swedish like in English language way?
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally we all get influenced by the English language these days! 😊 No, we would ask "hur mår du?" which means more like "how are you feeling?", and we would answer about our health. But we can say "hur är läget?" which means something like "what is the status?" (But figuratively "what's up?") And we would mostly just answer "good! And you?" 😄 The last one is close to the English "how are you", but we still answer it, and if something isn't good, we'll say it. 😅
Interesting! Thank you for sharing this information! I finally learned to say just “good,” to the question, how are you?, but it took me while to be able to do it because I wanted to explain how I was feeling😂 I’m glad to know there are people other than Japanese who want to answer how they feel to “how are you.” I didn’t know that😂
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Oh, it's the same here in Lithuania! It's not common to ask "How are you?" only as a greeting. When people ask that, we reply to it. It took me some time to get over the idea that I need to share how I really am when English speakers ask me that 😁 Such things are so interesting, right?! 😁
They may have been puzzled, but they must have been happier that you asked them how they were, which meant, you cared about them, so it must have been been ok! 😊
Fumi-Sensei, first of all, thank you for your videos! They're amazing and surely helping me. I saw your name series briefly and I wanted to ask about my name... So, I've been self-studying japanese for over three years now and I also study it as a University major since last year, I'm also planning to go to Japan in an exchange program, so my name is a very important matter, still, I'm quite unhappy with the ideas I've came up with. My first name is Isabel, but as I'm Brazilian, in PT-BR we always say the L in the end of the words as an U. So instead of イザベル , it would be イザベウ, which isn't... that pretty. As if it wasn't troubling enough, I have a middle name and two surnames (preeeetty common here, some people have even more than that), which I'll try my best to spell in English. So, my names are "Isabel Caroline" and my surnames are "Hack Machado". Caroline is pretty much like english, but the i sounds like the i from "in", while in English it usually sounds like "a". The H from Hack is mute, so you only say "ack", and also it's a very open A sound, not E. And the CHA in Machado is said like SHA. So I've came up with イザベル・カロリネ・アック・マシャド, but I still have the feeling I should work more on it. Thank you so much and I wish you gain more subscribers from now own! I shared your channel link with my classmates :)
Wow, you think a lot. I think your name in Japanese is good though. Based on your explanation, I don’t come up with another way of writing it. Or maybe you can just write first name and one surname ... 🤔
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Wow! Alarmed global student fumi sense has! I really really wish to know in Japanese how to be my name Jo mo-gyeong (both my country's and Japanese order same right? After last name and come left over name.) ^ _ ^ Followed all pronunciations from sense this time RUclips.
Conversational Japanese is definitely a challenge after you have used up all the set phrases. I think my Japanese friends are getting fed up with me saying もう一度おねがいします or ごめん、分からなかった。So I definitely need some tips to keep the conversation flowing.
When you're showing that you really want to understand, I think your friends want to help you. Other important tips are smile and "ありがとうございます、とても助かります," which means "Thank you, you help me a lot." がんばってください。応援してます👍😄
Thank you sensei for explaining it. But since I am still learning Japanese and haven't enriched my vocabulary much, I couldn't understand most of the things... But still I understood some parts of it and during my exams, was motivated to continue with japanese 😃 Thank you soo much ❤️
Thank you! You'll get to a higher level when you have a lot of vocabulary. おうえんしています😀 And thank you for always leaving comments. It encourages me a lot and I really appreciate it☺️
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally teacher, I wanted to ask that how to learn more and more words quickly? As whenever I learn a word, I forget it and that demotivates me a little bit and I get frustrated at that sometimes .... So pls suggest a way to learn more words quickly 😃
Hi, I'm sorry to say this, but I'm also struggling to learn new words when I learn Korean! Like you said, I forget what I learn. But I've heard, whether we remember something depends on how many times we encounter the thing, which means, the possibility to acquire a word rises if you have more opportunities to see the word. So, repetition is the key, and also, it's important to review what you learn before go to bed, and do the review again in the morning. Still, it's hard to learn new words, and I believe it's the same to most people. So, いっしょにがんばりましょうね🤗
@@rianshisingaal8171 Get ready for a long comment! :P You can try to make flashcards out of new words that you learn. Either you can make them on paper, by writing it in Japanese on one side, and English (or whatever your native language is) on the other side. After a while you will have a deck of cards that you can pick up to look at the Japanese word and try to remember the meaning, or you can flip it over and read the English word and try to remember the Japanese one :) If you want to use your computer and apps instead, there's something called Anki. It's the same thing, but it's digital and you can make it very simple or very advanced depending on your interests. Some people add images, some add voice clips, and example sentences... It uses "Spaced Repetition" (SRS) and that will help with learning better, because it "knows" when is the best time to show the card to you again. The more you succeed in remembering the longer it will take to show the card again, and the more you fail / forget, the more often it will show up for you :) There are a lot of premade flashcard decks for Anki, which includes JLPT level vocabulary and kanji, vocabulary from different textbooks, and so many different collections of cards with different styles and information. Some people love using those, while some people learn better by creating vocabulary cards themselves. One benefit with premade decks is that it is very convenient, and many have cool features like audio clips and images. One benefit with making your own deck is that you can add new vocabulary as you learn / see them in real life. And that the vocabulary you learn comes from sources you actually have seen. Let me give an exaggerated example: If you make your own cards from words you learn from anime, it will help you understand anime in the future. But if you use a deck someone else made, and they got the vocabulary from a textbook on medicine for example... then the vocabulary wouldn't be useful for you if you only want to watch anime. So that's the main benefit of making your own cards ;) Now, of course you can use a deck someone else made AND add your own cards as well, or just use two different decks. Anki is very versatile like that :)
I guess they don't say that to their Japanese friends. They are just translating "how are you?" into Japanese. I do that too especially when I greet to my students.
Good advice for anyone trying to have a conversation with someone you know very well, or someone you only see occasionally. It is hard for westerners to stop using pronouns like "you" or "we", though. With conversations, I guess you'll have to "read the room" to see how interested the other party is about continuing the conversation.. Good short video about daylight savings time, It's very nice to have an extra hour of daylight in the early evening..
I sometimes think speaking in English is easier i terms of that I don’t have to change the way I talk depending on who I’m talking to. The word “You” makes it easier 😁
Funny! For some reason many Japanese people like to point out that they have 4 seasons in Japan! As if that wasn't true for many other countries, too! What's up with this weird obsession? We also have 4 seasons in my country! And no, I don't live in Japan!
I used how we talked about weather as an example to start a conversation because weather is a subject that won't offend anyone, but apparently it offended you😅 Sorry about that
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I was not offended! It just seems odd to me that Japanese people often seem to mention that Japan has four seasons. It makes it seem as if they think that's somehow worth mentioning even though, to me, it's seems quite ordinary.
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Yes it is. By the way thank you so much for this content. I am also learning Japanese i know 23 kanjis right now. And basic conversations. Sometimes i lost in the characters and words that i should memorize. Learning how to speak encourages me and cheers me up. ^^ much love!!
Basically the same thing in English (in American culture). We don't say "how are you" to co-workers or someone else we see everyday. We talk about the weather! 😊👍
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally If you see the other person everyday, no, not usually, unless done in a funny/sarcastic way. Usually just say "good morning" and then talk about the weather or last night's baseball game. But no formal "how are you?" or "Are you well?", which I think "o genki desu ka" means. Bye Fumi, you are my favorite sensei! 😉
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I've been watching your videos for a while now, and as a cashier who is eager to try to speak Japanese to Japanese customers, this is certainly one of the most useful ones you've done. Thank you so much for distilling the information in such a straightforward manner.
Thank you! I’m glad my videos are of some help. Your Japanese customers must be happy to be spoken to by you in Japanese 😊
先生とクロちゃんのことが大好きです❤
Great information again :) this is perfect for us learners to hear because we are all taught お元気ですか from the textbooks and various internet sources in the beginning - but hearing how it is supposed to be used is so much more valuable!
I think this is an English language thing (or maybe North American?) to use "How are you?" as a greeting phrase. Some Americans who visits Sweden get surprised when we tell them how we are and start talking about our health when they ask "How are you?" instead of just repeating the phrase back :P
And I also think that is why there's such a focus on お元気ですか for beginners, because it's often a huge focus on learners from North America in the textbooks.
Nowadays, I feel like I want to ask students, "おげんきですか？" at the beginning of a Japanese lesson because that's a natural way when I speak in English. So I wanted to make this point clear even for me too😅
And Japanese people tend to answer how our health is when we're asked "how are you" as well. So, I have a question, don't you say "How are you?" in Swedish like in English language way?
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally we all get influenced by the English language these days! 😊
No, we would ask "hur mår du?" which means more like "how are you feeling?", and we would answer about our health. But we can say "hur är läget?" which means something like "what is the status?" (But figuratively "what's up?") And we would mostly just answer "good! And you?" 😄
The last one is close to the English "how are you", but we still answer it, and if something isn't good, we'll say it. 😅
Interesting! Thank you for sharing this information!
I finally learned to say just “good,” to the question, how are you?, but it took me while to be able to do it because I wanted to explain how I was feeling😂
I’m glad to know there are people other than Japanese who want to answer how they feel to “how are you.” I didn’t know that😂
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Oh, it's the same here in Lithuania! It's not common to ask "How are you?" only as a greeting. When people ask that, we reply to it. It took me some time to get over the idea that I need to share how I really am when English speakers ask me that 😁 Such things are so interesting, right?! 😁
thank you I have been saying お元気ですか to coworkers I see every day 😭 this makes their semi puzzled response make sense
They may have been puzzled, but they must have been happier that you asked them how they were, which meant, you cared about them, so it must have been been ok! 😊
Thx for ur vids!
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That fluffy angel who's nesting in your arms
HE/SHE'S SUCH A BEAUTIFUL BEING 😮😮😮💕💕💕💕
すごくありがとうございます
ありがとう😆💕✨
どういたしまして✨😊
Fumi-Sensei, first of all, thank you for your videos! They're amazing and surely helping me. I saw your name series briefly and I wanted to ask about my name... So, I've been self-studying japanese for over three years now and I also study it as a University major since last year, I'm also planning to go to Japan in an exchange program, so my name is a very important matter, still, I'm quite unhappy with the ideas I've came up with. My first name is Isabel, but as I'm Brazilian, in PT-BR we always say the L in the end of the words as an U. So instead of イザベル , it would be イザベウ, which isn't... that pretty. As if it wasn't troubling enough, I have a middle name and two surnames (preeeetty common here, some people have even more than that), which I'll try my best to spell in English. So, my names are "Isabel Caroline" and my surnames are "Hack Machado". Caroline is pretty much like english, but the i sounds like the i from "in", while in English it usually sounds like "a". The H from Hack is mute, so you only say "ack", and also it's a very open A sound, not E. And the CHA in Machado is said like SHA. So I've came up with イザベル・カロリネ・アック・マシャド, but I still have the feeling I should work more on it. Thank you so much and I wish you gain more subscribers from now own! I shared your channel link with my classmates :)
Wow, you think a lot.
I think your name in Japanese is good though. Based on your explanation, I don’t come up with another way of writing it. Or maybe you can just write first name and one surname ... 🤔
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Thank you so much!
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally
Wow! Alarmed global student fumi sense has! I really really wish to know in Japanese how to be my name Jo mo-gyeong (both my country's and Japanese order same right? After last name and come left over name.)
^ _ ^ Followed all pronunciations from sense this time RUclips.
Your videos keep me motivated to learn Japanese.
I'm so glad to hear it. Thank you☺️
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally You’re welcome! ☺️
ビデオをたのしんだ。Shadowingがすきです。
よかったです！！😊🙌
This is wonderful! Thank you! I love your voice and it's so great to be able to copy you.
I'm glad to hear that. Thank you😊✨
Conversational Japanese is definitely a challenge after you have used up all the set phrases. I think my Japanese friends are getting fed up with me saying もう一度おねがいします or ごめん、分からなかった。So I definitely need some tips to keep the conversation flowing.
When you're showing that you really want to understand, I think your friends want to help you. Other important tips are smile and "ありがとうございます、とても助かります," which means "Thank you, you help me a lot." がんばってください。応援してます👍😄
ふみ先生、こんにちは。
今日もたくさんのことを学びました。そして、楽しい時間ですね☺️
動画を作り続けてくれて、本当にありがとうございます🙏
スティーブンさん、楽しんでいただけでよかったです。
今回は、クロも出せたので、編集していても楽しかったです✨😊
いつもコメント、ありがとうございます🙌
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally
そうですね。クロはとても可愛いんです😃
Great videos. Glad that I found your channel.
Glad you found my channel😄
thank you soooo much
Thank you sensei for explaining it. But since I am still learning Japanese and haven't enriched my vocabulary much, I couldn't understand most of the things... But still I understood some parts of it and during my exams, was motivated to continue with japanese 😃 Thank you soo much ❤️
Thank you! You'll get to a higher level when you have a lot of vocabulary. おうえんしています😀 And thank you for always leaving comments. It encourages me a lot and I really appreciate it☺️
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally teacher, I wanted to ask that how to learn more and more words quickly? As whenever I learn a word, I forget it and that demotivates me a little bit and I get frustrated at that sometimes .... So pls suggest a way to learn more words quickly 😃
Hi, I'm sorry to say this, but I'm also struggling to learn new words when I learn Korean! Like you said, I forget what I learn. But I've heard, whether we remember something depends on how many times we encounter the thing, which means, the possibility to acquire a word rises if you have more opportunities to see the word. So, repetition is the key, and also, it's important to review what you learn before go to bed, and do the review again in the morning.
Still, it's hard to learn new words, and I believe it's the same to most people. So, いっしょにがんばりましょうね🤗
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally はい先生 😄! ありがとうございます 😊
@@rianshisingaal8171 Get ready for a long comment! :P
You can try to make flashcards out of new words that you learn. Either you can make them on paper, by writing it in Japanese on one side, and English (or whatever your native language is) on the other side. After a while you will have a deck of cards that you can pick up to look at the Japanese word and try to remember the meaning, or you can flip it over and read the English word and try to remember the Japanese one :)
If you want to use your computer and apps instead, there's something called Anki. It's the same thing, but it's digital and you can make it very simple or very advanced depending on your interests. Some people add images, some add voice clips, and example sentences... It uses "Spaced Repetition" (SRS) and that will help with learning better, because it "knows" when is the best time to show the card to you again. The more you succeed in remembering the longer it will take to show the card again, and the more you fail / forget, the more often it will show up for you :)
There are a lot of premade flashcard decks for Anki, which includes JLPT level vocabulary and kanji, vocabulary from different textbooks, and so many different collections of cards with different styles and information. Some people love using those, while some people learn better by creating vocabulary cards themselves.
One benefit with premade decks is that it is very convenient, and many have cool features like audio clips and images.
One benefit with making your own deck is that you can add new vocabulary as you learn / see them in real life. And that the vocabulary you learn comes from sources you actually have seen.
Let me give an exaggerated example: If you make your own cards from words you learn from anime, it will help you understand anime in the future. But if you use a deck someone else made, and they got the vocabulary from a textbook on medicine for example... then the vocabulary wouldn't be useful for you if you only want to watch anime. So that's the main benefit of making your own cards ;)
Now, of course you can use a deck someone else made AND add your own cards as well, or just use two different decks. Anki is very versatile like that :)
Most Japanese people I talk to start out with this phrase
I guess they don't say that to their Japanese friends. They are just translating "how are you?" into Japanese. I do that too especially when I greet to my students.
Good advice for anyone trying to have a conversation with someone you know very well, or someone you only see occasionally. It is hard for westerners to stop using pronouns like "you" or "we", though. With conversations, I guess you'll have to "read the room" to see how interested the other party is about continuing the conversation..
Good short video about daylight savings time, It's very nice to have an extra hour of daylight in the early evening..
I sometimes think speaking in English is easier i terms of that I don’t have to change the way I talk depending on who I’m talking to. The word “You” makes it easier 😁
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is there a taifun outside? 😮😅
Hello Fumi-Sensei. I just found your channel thanks to the recommendations. Can we still send you an audio of the exercice ? Thank you.
Yes, you can😊
Please upload the audio and send me the link 🙌✨
Kuro chan looks like he's up to no good
Right, I forced him to be in my arm😅
It Was nice video 😍
Thank you so much 😀
Funny! For some reason many Japanese people like to point out that they have 4 seasons in Japan! As if that wasn't true for many other countries, too! What's up with this weird obsession? We also have 4 seasons in my country! And no, I don't live in Japan!
I used how we talked about weather as an example to start a conversation because weather is a subject that won't offend anyone, but apparently it offended you😅 Sorry about that
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally I was not offended! It just seems odd to me that Japanese people often seem to mention that Japan has four seasons. It makes it seem as if they think that's somehow worth mentioning even though, to me, it's seems quite ordinary.
I use ご機嫌いかがですか？and usually get a giggle or two in response !
My name is Hridoy. Please help me to write my name in japanese.
親戚とかしばらく会っていない人となら、電話で「お元気ですか。」「うん、元気だよ」みたいな会話は自然ですか。相手が年上なら「おかげさまで」と言わなくていいかなと思って。違いますか。よろしくお願いします
いい質問ですね！
電話なら使えますが、やっぱり、お元気でしたか、の方が自然な気がします。
「おかげさまで」は年上の人に対しては言います。年下の人には言わないかもしれません。
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally お返事、ありがとうございます! m(_ _)m
どういたしまして☺️
Kuro-chan is so cute also my cat's name is Shiro :D
Thank you! So, your cat's fur is white? ☺️
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Yes it is. By the way thank you so much for this content. I am also learning Japanese i know 23 kanjis right now. And basic conversations. Sometimes i lost in the characters and words that i should memorize. Learning how to speak encourages me and cheers me up. ^^ much love!!
やっぱり！（←"I knew it!" , I mean, about the color of your cat.）And I'm glad that my videos are being of some help. Thank you for letting me know that☺️
Basically the same thing in English (in American culture). We don't say "how are you" to co-workers or someone else we see everyday. We talk about the weather! 😊👍
You don't say how are you to co-workers?! I didn't know that. Thank you ☺️
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally If you see the other person everyday, no, not usually, unless done in a funny/sarcastic way. Usually just say "good morning" and then talk about the weather or last night's baseball game. But no formal "how are you?" or "Are you well?", which I think "o genki desu ka" means. Bye Fumi, you are my favorite sensei! 😉
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Maybe it depends on the place, we say "how are you" in America where I live, it's pretty typical. "How are you" "I'm good."
Fumi-sensei, my cat is an exact copy of yours. Greetings from Moscow
Oh, they must be so cute then!!!😁
フミ先生友達は元気ですか当てるよ？
I love the neko 🐱
Thank you 😊😊
Nyenengkeh. Muantep tenan.
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