I tried studying and self-learning Japanese a few years ago. Stopped because i just lost motivation. After watching this video and listening to the beautiful accent and wanting to learn more about the beautiful culture just brought me back the feeling and motivation. Will definitely take a look at preply. Thanks for sharing ❤ doumo arigatou gozaimasu
As someone learning the language, thank you for this video. I would love to see a video of Japanese individuals born and raised in Japan of different ages judging the quality of different fluency levels of non Japanese individuals. I'm very concerned about the accuracy and quality of my pronunciation and I wonder if that will affect making different types of friendships and general relationships in the community...once I move to Japan I mean. 😅😅
Motivation isn't something to rely on. You must make a schedule, and stick to it. Waiting for motivation is like waiting to be happy on a Monday morning at 6:00AM in winter.
Here’s the red pill - motivation never lasts. What we need is discipline. Discipline allows us to do what must be done regardless of how we feel, whether we are motivated or not
Motivation is important, an excellent reason and willpower to do what you need to do. After this, you need to plan how you are going to do to got your objective. And that's it. If you got yourself without pleasure to study, just take the tasks in parts and continue, and remember for what you're doing that. Visualize yourself getting your goal, how good it will be, and how you'll fell if you just stop and give up, it's a good way to maintain yourself in the right path.
I don't know, I feel like it really helps to find a thing or a reason to give you passion for learning. I grew up always wanting to learn Japanese. Of course, back then the internet wasn't nearly as developed and access to learning was much more difficult. I convinced my dad to buy me a language learning CD, but it felt like a lot of work and I always struggled with that kind of structured learning so I gave up pretty quick. But within the past year or so, I really got into music and that has tremendously incentivized me to regularly approach Japanese input more. It's still going slow, I've had a lot more important things in my life that I've been needing to focus on, but I have noticed a huge improvement in basic understanding, vocabulary and overall appreciation of the language and culture. That said, it still is important to put a focus on that structure if you can dedicate the time in your life for it. I still have basically no knowledge of grammar and can't read or write. I can recognize a few kanji and that's it. But if the passion is there, it should be much easier to find that motivation and discipline. It's never been easier to learn. Also, try not to put too much pressure on yourself to learn within a certain amount of time. It'll come when it comes, the deadlines just make it more stressful and less fun.
Keyword = "Trying to learn". There are a lot of people who watch anime all day in Japanese dubs and still can't understand 99% of what's being said because they aren't actively trying to learn and make sense of it and will always rely on subs like the degenerate weebs that they are.
@@inquisitvem6723 true, but living in the country is on another level. You can completely get rid of other languages and focus on the language you want to learn in your daily life
I would say that nothing helps more than a willingness to practice and study. I’ve lived in japan 10 years- lots of Japanese friends- we almost always slip into 50/50 Japanese English because I’ve been so lazy about learning. Immersion alone won’t work.
The girl at 5:00 has unreal japanese. I was so impressed I decided to show my japanese friends and they said that were they not able to see her face, they would think she was japanese
And notice how she said it's because she listened so much (to Japanese music). I'm a pronunciation teacher, and active (and passive) listening to pick up on pronunciation, the rhythm and intonation (ie the music) of a language is extremely important. Everyone who gets excellent pronunciation will say that listening is more important than speaking. Hence why it's important to train both our mouths and ears when studying a language. It's easiest for those with a background in music as they've already spent time training their ear, but with a few months of practice recording yourself and shadowing native speakers, anyone can make huge improvements. We need to train our ears to correct our own mistakes, and not just rely on feedback from others, which is admittedly a bit daunting at first for many.
@@hiking1388 couldn't agree more. There are a few others in this video that also have, in my opinion, a very close to native level of japanese, and they all mention input and listening as their main learning method
Yeah, I was listening on the train and the she came up and and I had to look at my screen cause I thought she was Japanese. Her Japanese is absolutely INSANE.
Everyone is really REALLY good at Japanese, but the utmost respect for the last girl who doesn't even live in Japan and doesn't use Japanese in her home country. I'm in the same boat as her. I've never lived in Japan but I got my skills up to a conversational level...especially when some drinks are involved.
I'm in the same boat, I live in Australia and don't know any Japanese people. I love manga and anime and love travelling to Japan, (going again in October, can't wait!). I have just started classes last week, Beginner 1 LOL. I hope I can become fluent in the future. I have never learned another language other than a couple of years of Italian at High School, so far it feels quite overwhelming, but hopefully I'll get there.
@@PunkologistThat’s awesome! I commend you for putting forth effort towards learning and respecting the native language. As an English speaker, it’d be a really good idea for you to master Spanish as well but I’m sure you can get by well enough. Cheers! And good luck to you
I love how everyone learned Japanese in their own way. How one can learn a language most efficiently is something that entirely depends on the person. It's just something that everyone has to find out for themselves
I think that is the point. There is no right way to learn a new language and there are certainly many ways to learn a new language. My first secondary language is Korean. It should've been Spanish, but I look Asian anyway so, whatever.
Yes exactly, for both fitness and language learning so many people are obsessed with efficiency when they should be more concerned with consistency. Whatever helps you keep at it is what you should do. Which for a lot of people can mean changing tactics from time to time. Perhaps a structured class if you need a bit of motivation from a teacher and to see improvement from test results. Then time with an exchange partner, playing games etc, whatever keeps you interested and helps you have fun is what you should do.
Not one of them said that they learned Japanese in three months, can't believe it since they have some many RUclips videos on the subject. Glad people are finding out that requires years of study before you get anywhere.
@@UnknownUser-eb1lk Bad way to look at since you time to digest the language, learning is not simply a numerical value you brain needs time to process all that new information in the form of new connections.
Took Japanese for 2 years at a college level...asked sensei what our language level was at the end of 2 years, was told we were probably at a 1st grade level.
@@avann2006 Hence why Japanese people who start learning English in elementary school are really good but will probably never get close to "fluency" and/or mask an accent simply because it takes a lifetime to master a native language. So if my above math is anywhere near accurate, then you really can only master 1 grade of Japanese per 1000 hours studying. And the common phrase to master something takes 10,000 hours rings pretty true here. That's equivalent to watching all 1000 episodes of OnePiece 23 times.
Speaking a language is just a matter of copying what you hear people say. I've met Japanese people who learned my language in university or formal classes. They couldn't compete with a girl who spent a year in my country as an exchange student in high school hearing other kids talk in real life. I myself spent years in the US but my English didn't improve as fast as a female RUclips who married an American and lived in a household with her husband and his dad and brother talking to each other all the time.
if you want to be like them, walk don't run. trust Japanese language. japan has over 20000years history. so, japanese is so smart and simple. it is definitely easy to learn for beginners. japanese grammar has easy patterns. in english, when you say '' she sleep'', you need to say SleepS. but, japanese, you don't change. like this. there are many reasons why I say japanese is super easy. many foreigners learn firstly adult completed text. for example, 「watashi wa gakkou ni ikimasu」. but, normal japanese children say「gakkou iku」. the step is important and it's enough to talk with japanese people. so, you have to just learn verb and noun. like this. even if you don't study grammar, if you watch Japanese TV show(easy Anime is good too. for example crayon shinchan) after studying easy words, you can naturally learn japanese and then will be a fluent japanese speaker.
When my company relocated me to Tokyo years ago (from Switzerland) I realized that I had to mastered the language if I wanted to live independently. So I hired a language tutor, and joined several community clubs. It really forced me to practiced. I also watched TV news and dramas, and read newspapers everyday even though at that time, I probably understood around 10% of it. It really paid off.
I am from Tokyo and have been in Osaka for almost 20 years, but what the first person says is exactly what I feel as a Japanese person. I think Osaka is a better place to practice speaking because the people in Osaka are more lively and speak very well. However, I think it will be with a Kansai accent, not the standard one.
That first lady was so cool, she still had the expressive "hand talking" from her own culture and combined that with fluent authentic japanese language :D
4:559:16 Almost all foreigners speak unnatural Japanese with an accent, no matter how many decades they have lived in Japan. But the pronunciation of these two women is exactly the same as the Japanese pronunciation, and it doesn't sound like a foreigner at all. When I close my eyes and listen, it sounds like a young Japanese girl speaking. I wonder how they mastered such perfect pronunciation.
Sometimes the explanation is simple, some people are just naturally gifted when it comes to learning languages, just like some other are naturally good at math.
Fluency is NOT easy, yeah you can reach a so so level by putting in the effort, but to be truly fluent, that takes real dedication and hard work and a huge amount of hours, don't let anyone tell you different.
Correction, I will never let anybody tell me the only way to accomplish/reach desires is by hard work, but if somebody tells me I can do it with enjoyable/easy work and get every bit of satisfaction out of it, then that's worth a 100% listening to.
Way to go about putting people off. I am learning purely for the fun of it and to be able to watch videos and movies in Japanese. Once it is no longer fun I will likely give up. I have only learned 500 words so far in two weeks and lots of katakana and hiragana and a few kanji but I can’t get enough! Work needn’t be work if you enjoy it.
Yes, it does involve thousands of hours for that level of fluency, but most people don't need such fluency or anywhere near it to develop relationships and understand a good deal...fortunately.
@@crisbio mais facil em qual sentido? A gramatica da lingua portuguesa e espanhol eh bem mais complicada se comparar com a gramatica basica da lingua japonesa. dependendo do subject (esqueci o termo em portugues), o mesmo verbo tem 6 formas differentes no presente. exemplo: (eu como /tu comes/ele come/nos comemos /vos comeis/eles comem). portugues usa 3 tipos de acentos: o acento agudo (´), o acento circunflexo (^) e o acento grave (`). aparentemente as pessoas tem dificuldade em pronunicar palavras com tilde ~. exemplos: exceção, inspiração, gratidão, etc.
The more I watch, the more I want to talk to Takashii on his channel. Really like to share my opinion about Japan. I'm a mongolian who lived in Tokyo for 8 years. Now been in Los Angeles for 8 years.
To me, as someone who known zero japanese, all their accents are the same. When potentially in a few years I have learned japanese, I may come back to this video and actually hear the different accents.
Awesome video, thx Takashii! This inspired me to push to the next level (N2 and more fluent speech). I was able to listen to the video without subtitles - made me realize I'm not too far away from this level of fluency. Great advice from all of these people, too!
I have been 'learning' since I was 12 (27 now) and its embarrassing how little I understand. I studied for 2 weeks in Japan when I was 16 and this did help but I fell out of it for several years on and off until Jan this year. I am using duolingo and listening to J-pop. I feel like I am progressing where I was not before as I am doing a little bit everyday. Thank you for your video, I realise that becoming fluent with what I am doing is not likely to happen, but I don't want to give up! Slowly slowly I might get there one day in life and I will be a fluent obaasan!
In summary, techniques include: - Start learning via school, the earlier the better - Move to Japan It was nice to hear at 11:52 someone who started as an adult and only did 3 months schooling (nowhere near as much as some of the others) but hammered in self-study to the max ... again, as an adult. That is so difficult. Reflection here being, if you're an adult, adding on an adult with work/family who will unlikely move to Japan, learning a language from scratch is so hard. Don't be discouraged. c:
this is actually quite helpful advice, i have ADHD and have some trouble learning, I've only been able to pick up on a few small basic phrases and I'm hoping to meet a friend in person who might be able to help me along abit however i practice what i know as much as i can
Excellent video, thank you for producing it. I am in Tokyo this week on holiday and I love the culture and people. It feels very peaceful and balanced with a great combination of advanced tech and traditional values in many areas. An unusual combination but a very effective one I think
studyin it now in my own. consistency and going at my own pace really works for me. i don't have the pressure of grades. I care about the substance and getting it right
What many people don't understand and what hasn't been mentioned here is the fact that if English isn't your first language, you'll be simultaneously learning both English and the language you actually want to learn, because English is the bridge connecting all the languages 😂
@@solarydays you're the one responding to my comment so i would assume you're the one not understanding what I was talking about? If you don't agree, no need to be a dick. If you're talking about completely different thing(alphabet and origin) then why are you responding to me and quoting me
@@solarydays ? I'm not from English speaking country, thats why I'm saying English is a bridge to other languages because it has helped me. Why are you so rude
she has a point its not hard if youre motivated and sometimes you dont need to study. sometimes shadowing and observing the situation eventually helps you pick up the way locals speak. i learned my 1st language by listening to my parents since birth i only took language class in high school because it was basically free but still learned 0 from school. can even say the same for english as i never really payed attention to school
I don’t have anyone to speak Japanese with, so it has really held me back. I’ve been studying Japanese for about 10 years casually, but I still don’t feel I could hold a conversation and I don’t know many kanji.
Bless those who have a school where they teach japanese and got guided. Learning on your own for me is extremly boring and motivation is quickly drained.
I find everybody in this video inspiring and also envy-inducing. Their language proficiency, their self-propulsion, clever methodology and ultimate achievement is really fantastic to behold. Not everybody finds learning an entirely foreign language easy and certainly most people never get past 'conversational/beginner intermediate' when it comes to many Far East Asian languages. Great video, thanks so much to all involved.
this is really cool, i live in toronto Canada, and we have a big mix of people from all over the world, its wonderful to hear their mother tongue slipping out - or the cadence of their mother tongue slipping out. amazing video
The point about learing about the culture, as the man from Jordan mentioned, is so true. When learning a language you usually just learn grammar, words, listening, speaking etc but how to use the language in a cultural context is so important. I see this all the time from speaking to and hearing middle eastern immigrants in Sweden. If they have lived here long enough they can make them self understood but as most of them have no interest in learning about Scandinavian culture and how to interact with us they often times come off as very rude and sometimes don't make sense at all in certain types of situations while interacting with native speaker. Similar to Japanese the Scandinavian languages is , or at least used to be, very polite and you should speak more formally in some situations and more casual in other situations depending on who you speak to.
I’m studying Japanese as I hope to be an exchange student next year. The most consistent advice I always find is to constantly listen and read Japanese media without translation or subtitles. Once you recognize the patterns, you can really start to learn
Japan has always been my dreamland. I've watched anime since Gr4, and then two years ago, I started listening to J-pop (I'm so happy someone mentioned it in the video). I'm trying to learn Japanese by practicing hiragana first, just practicing papers. Maybe I should practice more on Duolingo, but I'm planning to do a student exchange at university so I can learn more, but I should be at a specific level to do that. My school offers an international trip, but it's expensive, so I'm not totally sure about going there. Thanks for the video though! It's really inspiring seeing all these people being fluent (at least to me) and still reacting after all these years. Hopefully one day I can become a utaite after I am fluent in Japanese well, so I can write my own songs and become like my fav artists (like Mafumafu)
Very helpful. Reinforces what the learning community as a whole represents as best practices. My biggest takeaway is that I need to spend a lot more time studying listening, etc. . It's been frustrating that I don't seem to be progressing much after just a few months. And this despite a good understanding of Japanese culture and living with a native Japanese speaker (who has little patience for teaching but will be a good sounding board once I get better at the basics). We live and breath the Japanese culture in this house, I just wish I'd been more motivated to speak years ago.
Advice for learners. Shadowing and mirroring is a good way to learn if you don't have anyone to speak to or if you are just too shy and have social anxiety speaking to strangers. When I learned, I literally said out loud what I am going to do. Per example, during dinner, I would say I am eating dinner and start describing dinner before I eat. Pretty much do that to everything. Or you can listen to a ton of shit after learning grammar and then repeat what they are saying in the video.
The first person gesticulates a lot to help communicate. I find it easier to be understood when I do that too. Learning sign language to communicate with a toddler made me realize how important hand gestures can be.
These learners' personalities were essential to their language proficiency. They all have outgoing, energetic, enthusiastic personalities. They like being with new people and so, others like being with them. They also enjoy expressing themselves and learning about Japaese culture. These personality/character traits provide the real fuel for successful language/cross cultural learning. おめでとう !
This selection of speakers are very impressive. I spent a week in Osaka and the foreigners who were seemingly fluent still had an American, Brazilian, or British accent coming through.
The hardest thing for me is that one word can mean a lot of different things and also the way you translate English to Swedish are word for word but translating Japanese is completely different. I´m having a really hard time understanding how to build sentences correct because of this but I´m still trying 😊
English and Swedish are both Germanic languages, all of which share many common words. So it's relatively easy picking up another one. Personally, I've been studying Chinese for years and when I first dabbled in Japanese I was shocked at how "easy" it seemed because it shares some common words with Chinese and has similar sentence structures which I'm familiar with. The language families are pretty fascinating. I think it's pretty neat how once you know a language (or at least the bones of one) from one family you can more easily pick up another.
And for the same reason you've mentioned, a European language (including English) is difficult for Japanese people too. We cannot translate word for word, thus we have to memorize an entire expression or phrase. There is a famous Swedish lady on Japanese public broadcasting (johannainjapan). Her Japanese is near-native. So I don't think it's impossible for a Swede to master Japanese. I would highly recommend following the advice from the Austrian lady in this video. Just listen to music, watch TV, RUclips, movies in Japanese in your free time as part of entertainment. Grammar is pattern recognition. The more you're exposed to it, the more it will make sense. Just based on my personal experience, Europeans seem to be able to master Japanese far better than Americans. There are French, Germans, Romanians, Bulgarians, Italians, Hungarians, Brits, Ukrainians, and Russians who have near-native fluency in Japanese. And I think those from former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have one of the best language abilities. We have witnessed some Ukrainian refugees without any Japanese training reaching N2-JLPT in just 2 years in Japan. Just looking back in how much I struggled learning English, I cannot imagine myself mastering Ukrainian/Russian in just 2 years.
Thanks for the video, it's so motivating when you see how other people learn in such different ways. 今私は日本語を一か月勉強しました ひらがなとカタカナは簡単だけど、漢字と語彙を覚えるのはちょっと難しいです Coincido en que hablar español hace que aprender la pronunciacion sea mas facil, pero bueno, en mi caso me falta muchisimo por aprender.👌
If you know how, you can reach N5 fairly easily: 1. Learn Kana intensively with the Kana app so that you can read the characters 2. Learn all the vocabulary. The book 'your first 840 words in Japanese' helped me a lot. After 21 weeks, I knew all 840 words. 3. After that, you can book a few hours with a Japanese teacher and learn the rest. After less than half a year, you will have N5 and from then on everything else is much easier because you have mastered the difficult basics.
All right, I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna start tomorrow. I have started before and I actually had a pretty good routine and I got decently far into the textbook I was using. Now, I can’t remember a single thing from that textbook because I didn’t continue long enough and continue to study, But what I’m sure of is that not only will I be able to get at least that far again because I know I did it before, but it should be slightly easier this time since I did do it before. If I can get back to that part again, I really think I can keep going! I wanna be able to have basic conversations with people when I visit Japan, I don’t need to be completely fluent for that. My goal is not that big..
A few years ago, I learned hirigana/katakana and learned to write both and learned a few words. Then I didn't have the time to put into studying and developed a wrist issue and was no longer able to focus on writing. I took a few years off and just started again last month. I currently use the app Kanji Study to learn new words, their kanji as well as multiple readings for each kanji. I'm finding it much "easier" to absorb the info now. Another thing that helps and has been rewarding (as someone who is shy and wont converse with anyone) is "walking" videos around different areas in Japan and seeing what I can read or at least sound out via hirigana/katakana. I can now spot "karaoke" just as easily as any word in English. Obviously, taking in movies/shows/music helps a lot with listening and being able to identify individual words, even if you don't know that specific word. That alone has made my recent studies worth it 😁. It's both comforting and worrisome that these people mention how it takes years to get good at speaking. It kind of lets me know that it's ok to get frustrated that it's not coming to me immediately.
It should be noted that Japanese is one the top languages for westerners to learn who don’t speak it natively.. For Americans specifically, you’d generally learn English as your first language while simultaneously being taught or picking up Spanish as your second language. These are the most important languages in America. However, many people seem to prefer learning some Japanese nowadays because of Japan’s influential nature. There’s a lot of Japanese media, history, music, films, etc in not only America but many parts of Europe as well. While I don’t plan on using Japanese language in the future, I’d like to know some more phrases and conversation over time. If I ever decide to go to Japan itself, I’ll likely spend a year or two to learn as much as I can before going.
Minus the Hungarian (though my best friend somewhat speaks it) you just described me. Maybe Learning basic conversational Chinese on a character-meaning basis can help you too. It sure did for me. Yes, this is dog in Chinese (pronunciation behind): 狗[gǒu] and in Japanese it's 犬[Inu], but if you just say it out loud and learn its shape mnemonically then we just got "something big" or 大[dà] for whatever reason. For me personally this works perfectly and lead me to a point I literally learned い to be 'i' forever just as it's used behind the word for 'cute' that's otherwise written identical to Chinese. Can't remember any other Kana out of context. In that sense I hate that usually pronunciation hints (=small print above traditional Chinese Kanji) aren't given were appropriate (or if we're helping foreigners at least in Romaji).
I still have a lot to learn, but I’ll try to make a comment in Japanese. 3年前、プレプリを見つけました。あそこで私の先生に会いました。毎週、レッスンがあります。たくさん習いました。私の先生は優しくて気が長いですから。先生、ありがとうございます。
The problem here that is understated is how economically fortunate these people are. Yeah its easy to learn and get good when you have enough money to attend schools/colleges and then the additional opportunity to go and live in Japan. The advantage here CANNOT be understated. If you are not lucky like these people it will be much much harder. Do not get discouraged because you are not progressing at the same rate as those who just got lucky enough to have the money facilitate rapid growth.
not just the money, but also, and especially, the time. there's a massive difference between having 1 to 2 hours of free time a day to learn some Japanese versus having all the time in the world to learn the language.
Since starting learning Japanese in 2011 I definitely think its really important to find something to motivate you. Its definitely a lot easier to bring yourself to study or learn passively if you can find hobbies that other Japanese people also like. It also helps to put yourself in an environment or situation where you need to speak Japanese. If you find Japanese friends who speak really good English already, its gonna be quite demotivating if you guys lean on English because its just easier to communicate that way. So finding Japanese friends who don't speak very much English or are around the same level as your Japanese will keep that interaction to benefit your learning.
i’ll be going there for my birthday in january and would love to meet you! i’m just starting to learn. so it would be around a year of learning. i’m not sure if i’ll be able to speak clearly enough for an interview but i would love a picture! have you done a meetup before?
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These grifts are so terrible..
I tried studying and self-learning Japanese a few years ago. Stopped because i just lost motivation. After watching this video and listening to the beautiful accent and wanting to learn more about the beautiful culture just brought me back the feeling and motivation. Will definitely take a look at preply. Thanks for sharing ❤ doumo arigatou gozaimasu
As someone learning the language, thank you for this video. I would love to see a video of Japanese individuals born and raised in Japan of different ages judging the quality of different fluency levels of non Japanese individuals. I'm very concerned about the accuracy and quality of my pronunciation and I wonder if that will affect making different types of friendships and general relationships in the community...once I move to Japan I mean. 😅😅
@@OMundodaTutu douhita shimouste... LOL
I need to become fluent in being motivated first
Motivation isn't something to rely on. You must make a schedule, and stick to it. Waiting for motivation is like waiting to be happy on a Monday morning at 6:00AM in winter.
Here’s the red pill - motivation never lasts. What we need is discipline. Discipline allows us to do what must be done regardless of how we feel, whether we are motivated or not
Motivation is important, an excellent reason and willpower to do what you need to do. After this, you need to plan how you are going to do to got your objective. And that's it. If you got yourself without pleasure to study, just take the tasks in parts and continue, and remember for what you're doing that. Visualize yourself getting your goal, how good it will be, and how you'll fell if you just stop and give up, it's a good way to maintain yourself in the right path.
I don't know, I feel like it really helps to find a thing or a reason to give you passion for learning. I grew up always wanting to learn Japanese. Of course, back then the internet wasn't nearly as developed and access to learning was much more difficult. I convinced my dad to buy me a language learning CD, but it felt like a lot of work and I always struggled with that kind of structured learning so I gave up pretty quick. But within the past year or so, I really got into music and that has tremendously incentivized me to regularly approach Japanese input more. It's still going slow, I've had a lot more important things in my life that I've been needing to focus on, but I have noticed a huge improvement in basic understanding, vocabulary and overall appreciation of the language and culture.
That said, it still is important to put a focus on that structure if you can dedicate the time in your life for it. I still have basically no knowledge of grammar and can't read or write. I can recognize a few kanji and that's it. But if the passion is there, it should be much easier to find that motivation and discipline. It's never been easier to learn. Also, try not to put too much pressure on yourself to learn within a certain amount of time. It'll come when it comes, the deadlines just make it more stressful and less fun.
people talking about discipline like it's some magic that doesn't require motivation or something
Nothing helps you learn better than being around people who speak the language you’re trying to learn.
Keyword = "Trying to learn". There are a lot of people who watch anime all day in Japanese dubs and still can't understand 99% of what's being said because they aren't actively trying to learn and make sense of it and will always rely on subs like the degenerate weebs that they are.
Or go online to do FaceTimes with people. In this day and age, you don’t need to be living in that country to learn its language.
@@inquisitvem6723 true, but living in the country is on another level. You can completely get rid of other languages and focus on the language you want to learn in your daily life
I would say that nothing helps more than a willingness to practice and study. I’ve lived in japan 10 years- lots of Japanese friends- we almost always slip into 50/50 Japanese English because I’ve been so lazy about learning. Immersion alone won’t work.
@@GoemonLovesFujiko Truth bomb. 👍👍
The girl at 5:00 has unreal japanese. I was so impressed I decided to show my japanese friends and they said that were they not able to see her face, they would think she was japanese
cuz she is youtuber based in Japan haha
And notice how she said it's because she listened so much (to Japanese music). I'm a pronunciation teacher, and active (and passive) listening to pick up on pronunciation, the rhythm and intonation (ie the music) of a language is extremely important. Everyone who gets excellent pronunciation will say that listening is more important than speaking. Hence why it's important to train both our mouths and ears when studying a language.
It's easiest for those with a background in music as they've already spent time training their ear, but with a few months of practice recording yourself and shadowing native speakers, anyone can make huge improvements. We need to train our ears to correct our own mistakes, and not just rely on feedback from others, which is admittedly a bit daunting at first for many.
@@hiking1388 couldn't agree more. There are a few others in this video that also have, in my opinion, a very close to native level of japanese, and they all mention input and listening as their main learning method
Yeah, I was listening on the train and the she came up and and I had to look at my screen cause I thought she was Japanese. Her Japanese is absolutely INSANE.
@@SwordmasterChanneling that is NOT a reliable indicator of fluency, trust me
Everyone is really REALLY good at Japanese, but the utmost respect for the last girl who doesn't even live in Japan and doesn't use Japanese in her home country. I'm in the same boat as her. I've never lived in Japan but I got my skills up to a conversational level...especially when some drinks are involved.
Kanpai!!!!
She was amazing! Great job
that's cuz she had online language exchange partners
I'm in the same boat, I live in Australia and don't know any Japanese people. I love manga and anime and love travelling to Japan, (going again in October, can't wait!). I have just started classes last week, Beginner 1 LOL. I hope I can become fluent in the future. I have never learned another language other than a couple of years of Italian at High School, so far it feels quite overwhelming, but hopefully I'll get there.
@@PunkologistThat’s awesome! I commend you for putting forth effort towards learning and respecting the native language. As an English speaker, it’d be a really good idea for you to master Spanish as well but I’m sure you can get by well enough. Cheers! And good luck to you
I love how everyone learned Japanese in their own way. How one can learn a language most efficiently is something that entirely depends on the person. It's just something that everyone has to find out for themselves
That’s what they all say… until they quit a few months later.
@@Reforming_LL I get why. Language learning takes time, patience, effort and the right motivation. Most aren't aware enough of these factors
I think that is the point. There is no right way to learn a new language and there are certainly many ways to learn a new language. My first secondary language is Korean. It should've been Spanish, but I look Asian anyway so, whatever.
But ultimately what made them better all of them had to interact with Japanese people
Yes exactly, for both fitness and language learning so many people are obsessed with efficiency when they should be more concerned with consistency. Whatever helps you keep at it is what you should do. Which for a lot of people can mean changing tactics from time to time. Perhaps a structured class if you need a bit of motivation from a teacher and to see improvement from test results. Then time with an exchange partner, playing games etc, whatever keeps you interested and helps you have fun is what you should do.
Not one of them said that they learned Japanese in three months, can't believe it since they have some many RUclips videos on the subject. Glad people are finding out that requires years of study before you get anywhere.
If you are studying 16 hours a day you can do it in 6 months. 180 days x 16 hours = 2880 hours. So at 1 hour per day it takes 8 years.
@@UnknownUser-eb1lk Bad way to look at since you time to digest the language, learning is not simply a numerical value you brain needs time to process all that new information in the form of new connections.
@@southcoastinventors6583 Can confirm. Sometimes it just takes a month or two or five years for that one odd bit of grammar to just "click".
Took Japanese for 2 years at a college level...asked sensei what our language level was at the end of 2 years, was told we were probably at a 1st grade level.
@@avann2006 Hence why Japanese people who start learning English in elementary school are really good but will probably never get close to "fluency" and/or mask an accent simply because it takes a lifetime to master a native language. So if my above math is anywhere near accurate, then you really can only master 1 grade of Japanese per 1000 hours studying. And the common phrase to master something takes 10,000 hours rings pretty true here. That's equivalent to watching all 1000 episodes of OnePiece 23 times.
Im so envious of them all right now😭
What's your biggest gripe? Mine's pitch accent. Make the language tonal for all I care and remove at least one set of Kana.
signed, a Chinese enjoyer
Envious*
@@Midori_Hoshi that’s right! thanks for the correction
Speaking a language is just a matter of copying what you hear people say. I've met Japanese people who learned my language in university or formal classes. They couldn't compete with a girl who spent a year in my country as an exchange student in high school hearing other kids talk in real life.
I myself spent years in the US but my English didn't improve as fast as a female RUclips who married an American and lived in a household with her husband and his dad and brother talking to each other all the time.
if you want to be like them,
walk don't run.
trust Japanese language.
japan has over 20000years history.
so, japanese is so smart and simple.
it is definitely easy to learn for beginners.
japanese grammar has easy patterns.
in english, when you say '' she sleep'', you need to say SleepS.
but, japanese, you don't change.
like this. there are many reasons why I say japanese is super easy.
many foreigners learn firstly adult completed text.
for example, 「watashi wa gakkou ni ikimasu」.
but, normal japanese children say「gakkou iku」.
the step is important
and it's enough to talk with japanese people.
so, you have to just learn verb and noun. like this.
even if you don't study grammar, if you watch Japanese TV show(easy Anime is good too. for example crayon shinchan) after studying easy words, you can naturally learn japanese and then will be a fluent japanese speaker.
When my company relocated me to Tokyo years ago (from Switzerland) I realized that I had to mastered the language if I wanted to live independently. So I hired a language tutor, and joined several community clubs. It really forced me to practiced. I also watched TV news and dramas, and read newspapers everyday even though at that time, I probably understood around 10% of it. It really paid off.
How long did it take you to get to a solid lebel
I'm assuming you still don't speak fluent Nihongo... right?
Wrong @@atom069
@userTook me almost 3 years -ig1fo2vv7w
@@atom069WRONG
I am from Tokyo and have been in Osaka for almost 20 years, but what the first person says is exactly what I feel as a Japanese person. I think Osaka is a better place to practice speaking because the people in Osaka are more lively and speak very well. However, I think it will be with a Kansai accent, not the standard one.
Fr fr I would love to go to Osaka bc they say that Kansai people are friendly and loud but I wish I could learn standard japanese first
みんな めちゃくちゃ 日本語上手。
おいらもめちゃくちゃ 英語が上手くなるように頑張るぞ。
頑張ってください
This is a pen.
頑張ってください !
がんばろう！！
同じ
That first lady was so cool, she still had the expressive "hand talking" from her own culture and combined that with fluent authentic japanese language :D
4:55 9:16 Almost all foreigners speak unnatural Japanese with an accent, no matter how many decades they have lived in Japan. But the pronunciation of these two women is exactly the same as the Japanese pronunciation, and it doesn't sound like a foreigner at all. When I close my eyes and listen, it sounds like a young Japanese girl speaking.
I wonder how they mastered such perfect pronunciation.
Probably a combination of starting early and immersion. Nothing beats your ability to learn when you’re young and speaking day-to-day with locals.
Sometimes the explanation is simple, some people are just naturally gifted when it comes to learning languages, just like some other are naturally good at math.
Muscle memory I guess or Japanese boyfriends.
@@PierreJeanPierreNo, it's how much and how well you study.
Study pitch accent, do shadowing. Only the blonde girl sounded remotely natural to me…
Maaaaaaan, Takashi, your English has become SOOOO good! Congratulations!
It seems very weak to me..
@@atom069 we all know LOL
Fluency is NOT easy, yeah you can reach a so so level by putting in the effort, but to be truly fluent, that takes real dedication and hard work and a huge amount of hours, don't let anyone tell you different.
Correction, I will never let anybody tell me the only way to accomplish/reach desires is by hard work, but if somebody tells me I can do it with enjoyable/easy work and get every bit of satisfaction out of it, then that's worth a 100% listening to.
You need about 1200 kanji characters to read the newspaper with good degree of understanding.
It takes work people, believe me.
Way to go about putting people off. I am learning purely for the fun of it and to be able to watch videos and movies in Japanese. Once it is no longer fun I will likely give up. I have only learned 500 words so far in two weeks and lots of katakana and hiragana and a few kanji but I can’t get enough! Work needn’t be work if you enjoy it.
Yes, it does involve thousands of hours for that level of fluency, but most people don't need such fluency or anywhere near it to develop relationships and understand a good deal...fortunately.
@@plan4life 500 words in two weeks is amazing. How are you learning?
this video has given me the motivation I needed to become fluent in Portuguese
Mais fácil que japonês 😂
@@crisbio mais facil em qual sentido? A gramatica da lingua portuguesa e espanhol eh bem mais complicada se comparar com a gramatica basica da lingua japonesa. dependendo do subject (esqueci o termo em portugues), o mesmo verbo tem 6 formas differentes no presente. exemplo: (eu como /tu comes/ele come/nos comemos /vos comeis/eles comem). portugues usa 3 tipos de acentos: o acento agudo (´), o acento circunflexo (^) e o acento grave (`). aparentemente as pessoas tem dificuldade em pronunicar palavras com tilde ~. exemplos: exceção, inspiração, gratidão, etc.
@@mapl3mage eu digo no sentido das letras e palavras de origem latina. São mais amigáveis que os caracteres chineses/japoneses 😉
Boa sorte
So why do you want to become fluent in Portuguese?
This is one of my favorite videos on your channel so far! Thank you for making it!
みんながすごい努力をして日本語を会得しているのが伝わってきて感動した😭💖
The more I watch, the more I want to talk to Takashii on his channel. Really like to share my opinion about Japan.
I'm a mongolian who lived in Tokyo for 8 years. Now been in Los Angeles for 8 years.
Why’d you move from Tokyo to LA?
It's fascinating listening to all the different accents. They can all be proud of themselves!
To me, as someone who known zero japanese, all their accents are the same. When potentially in a few years I have learned japanese, I may come back to this video and actually hear the different accents.
@@pseudoplotinusyes you will
@@rin0108_ haha nice you reminded me, but it's still only 3 weeks old.
Are they speaking well?
@@decembersveryown5935 No idea, I don't speak Japanese.
Awesome video, thx Takashii! This inspired me to push to the next level (N2 and more fluent speech). I was able to listen to the video without subtitles - made me realize I'm not too far away from this level of fluency. Great advice from all of these people, too!
I have been 'learning' since I was 12 (27 now) and its embarrassing how little I understand. I studied for 2 weeks in Japan when I was 16 and this did help but I fell out of it for several years on and off until Jan this year. I am using duolingo and listening to J-pop. I feel like I am progressing where I was not before as I am doing a little bit everyday. Thank you for your video, I realise that becoming fluent with what I am doing is not likely to happen, but I don't want to give up! Slowly slowly I might get there one day in life and I will be a fluent obaasan!
This compilation of people learning Japanese, hearing their journey is inspiring. Subarashī!!!!!
4:55 この人上手すぎでしょ
ヤナっちだよ
日本人の私より上手い
やなちゃんの話す日本語は本当にすごい！
In summary, techniques include:
- Start learning via school, the earlier the better
- Move to Japan
It was nice to hear at 11:52 someone who started as an adult and only did 3 months schooling (nowhere near as much as some of the others) but hammered in self-study to the max ... again, as an adult. That is so difficult.
Reflection here being, if you're an adult, adding on an adult with work/family who will unlikely move to Japan, learning a language from scratch is so hard. Don't be discouraged. c:
ヤナちゃんの日本語はレベチですね。ほんと今時の若い子がキャッキャしてる話し方で訛ってないし。日本語ある程度話せるような外国人でも聞いてるとまだちょっと違和感あったりするけど彼女のはほんとネイティブと変わらない。
なんか、女の方はあまり難しくないと思うです。ぼくの大学先生たちが女の人ので、ぼくの日本語は「とても女っぽい」ってよく言われてるんです。ぼくはぼくの男の友達の話し方を真似したら結構難しいと思ってるですが。
@@aizakkurhoads7527そういう観点もあるんだ。確かに女性言葉、男性言葉あるね。
I use Preply and if you are interested in learning Japanese I would recommend my tutor. Her name is Sena and she is incredible with how she teaches.
What is the price per lesson? And how many lessons a week?
BRO the pride I feel understanding most of this after repeating Japanese over and over again for months like a total lunatic in parks.
KINDA SAME, i repeat words on my walk home from school in Portuguese because its the language im learning.
Congratulations on the subscribers!!! Thank you for your your amazing content!!!
This was amazing. So many people that started learning on their own without even having any contact with Japanese people. Very inspiring.
this is actually quite helpful advice, i have ADHD and have some trouble learning, I've only been able to pick up on a few small basic phrases and I'm hoping to meet a friend in person who might be able to help me along abit however i practice what i know as much as i can
Dude this really motivates me man thank you!! Please more of this!!
Such inspiring stories. Thanks to you for your great work and for sharing Japanese culture. おつかれさまでした
Congratulations on 2M subs 🎉❤!!! Mr Cool! 😊
You're going amazing and always rooting for you ✨
It’s really just a matter of putting in the time, like learning any other skill.
まるで日本人！日本を好きでいてくれて嬉しい
Their Japanese was impressive but your English is just as amazing!
Excellent video, thank you for producing it. I am in Tokyo this week on holiday and I love the culture and people. It feels very peaceful and balanced with a great combination of advanced tech and traditional values in many areas. An unusual combination but a very effective one I think
Thanks!
Very good ! I used to speak Japanese as a child but after becoming an adult and moving away from family sadly I have lost so much.
I love the different accent levels as well. You can tell how much time people put into a language when they adapt the accent.
I love how your English is getting better from video to video! :D
studyin it now in my own. consistency and going at my own pace really works for me.
i don't have the pressure of grades. I care about the substance and getting it right
What many people don't understand and what hasn't been mentioned here is the fact that if English isn't your first language, you'll be simultaneously learning both English and the language you actually want to learn, because English is the bridge connecting all the languages 😂
It's actually Latin.
@@solarydays most languages have english subtitles and the other way around. That's how
@@solarydays you're the one responding to my comment so i would assume you're the one not understanding what I was talking about? If you don't agree, no need to be a dick. If you're talking about completely different thing(alphabet and origin) then why are you responding to me and quoting me
@@solarydays ? I'm not from English speaking country, thats why I'm saying English is a bridge to other languages because it has helped me. Why are you so rude
@@solarydays lol okay
she has a point its not hard if youre motivated and sometimes you dont need to study. sometimes shadowing and observing the situation eventually helps you pick up the way locals speak. i learned my 1st language by listening to my parents since birth i only took language class in high school because it was basically free but still learned 0 from school. can even say the same for english as i never really payed attention to school
日本在住者のインタビュー大好きです！
色んな国の方が日本に住んでくれてるのを知れる良いチャンネル笑🎉
I don’t have anyone to speak Japanese with, so it has really held me back. I’ve been studying Japanese for about 10 years casually, but I still don’t feel I could hold a conversation and I don’t know many kanji.
Bless those who have a school where they teach japanese and got guided. Learning on your own for me is extremly boring and motivation is quickly drained.
2:25 just by hearing her, I can tell she’s a native Portuguese speaker
1:52 That a Dap Up, if I’ve ever seen one.
I find everybody in this video inspiring and also envy-inducing. Their language proficiency, their self-propulsion, clever methodology and ultimate achievement is really fantastic to behold. Not everybody finds learning an entirely foreign language easy and certainly most people never get past 'conversational/beginner intermediate' when it comes to many Far East Asian languages. Great video, thanks so much to all involved.
I wanna be fluent in Spanish first then Japanese cause not a lot of Japanese ppl are around here but I’ll still subscribe for when the time is right
How old are you?
That’s what I did lol
At least we all speak English. I know people that don’t, and can’t imagine how limiting it is not knowing a universal language.
Omg same here I wanna be fluent in both spanish and japanese
Same, im learning spanish and then i will start with japanese
this is really cool, i live in toronto Canada, and we have a big mix of people from all over the world, its wonderful to hear their mother tongue slipping out - or the cadence of their mother tongue slipping out.
amazing video
その人の雰囲気も何となく日本人ぽくなるのが面白い
TAKASHii, this was the best video. Many thanks for the enjoyable conversations in Japanese with English subtitles.
The point about learing about the culture, as the man from Jordan mentioned, is so true. When learning a language you usually just learn grammar, words, listening, speaking etc but how to use the language in a cultural context is so important. I see this all the time from speaking to and hearing middle eastern immigrants in Sweden. If they have lived here long enough they can make them self understood but as most of them have no interest in learning about Scandinavian culture and how to interact with us they often times come off as very rude and sometimes don't make sense at all in certain types of situations while interacting with native speaker. Similar to Japanese the Scandinavian languages is , or at least used to be, very polite and you should speak more formally in some situations and more casual in other situations depending on who you speak to.
I’m studying Japanese as I hope to be an exchange student next year. The most consistent advice I always find is to constantly listen and read Japanese media without translation or subtitles. Once you recognize the patterns, you can really start to learn
Japan has always been my dreamland. I've watched anime since Gr4, and then two years ago, I started listening to J-pop (I'm so happy someone mentioned it in the video). I'm trying to learn Japanese by practicing hiragana first, just practicing papers. Maybe I should practice more on Duolingo, but I'm planning to do a student exchange at university so I can learn more, but I should be at a specific level to do that. My school offers an international trip, but it's expensive, so I'm not totally sure about going there.
Thanks for the video though! It's really inspiring seeing all these people being fluent (at least to me) and still reacting after all these years.
Hopefully one day I can become a utaite after I am fluent in Japanese well, so I can write my own songs and become like my fav artists (like Mafumafu)
Very helpful. Reinforces what the learning community as a whole represents as best practices. My biggest takeaway is that I need to spend a lot more time studying listening, etc. . It's been frustrating that I don't seem to be progressing much after just a few months. And this despite a good understanding of Japanese culture and living with a native Japanese speaker (who has little patience for teaching but will be a good sounding board once I get better at the basics). We live and breath the Japanese culture in this house, I just wish I'd been more motivated to speak years ago.
Amazing!! I wish I could speak English like them. うらやましい
Advice for learners. Shadowing and mirroring is a good way to learn if you don't have anyone to speak to or if you are just too shy and have social anxiety speaking to strangers. When I learned, I literally said out loud what I am going to do. Per example, during dinner, I would say I am eating dinner and start describing dinner before I eat. Pretty much do that to everything. Or you can listen to a ton of shit after learning grammar and then repeat what they are saying in the video.
girl on 5:00 is just whole another level lol, really impressive!
She sounds like 100% native Japanese
100% agree! What's crazy is on FB/IG, you got foreigner's saying she's not that good...but actual Japanese people saying she speaks native level.
@@roro2k I'm Japanese. If I close my eyes I can't tell she's a foreigner. She speaks even better than me😅
I'm Spanish-Japanese, that girl's pronunciation is absolutely spot on just wow
Do you have her ig?
サムネのヤナちゃん見てきました😊
はぁ〜きゃわいい💕
First girl's voice sounds so cool in japanese
The first person gesticulates a lot to help communicate. I find it easier to be understood when I do that too. Learning sign language to communicate with a toddler made me realize how important hand gestures can be.
Greetings from Venezuela, South America. 🇻🇪👌
It's great to see so many people take up the Japanese language. Love for the language will go a long way.
These learners' personalities were essential to their language proficiency. They all have outgoing, energetic, enthusiastic personalities. They like being with new people and so, others like being with them. They also enjoy expressing themselves and learning about Japaese culture. These personality/character traits provide the real fuel for successful
language/cross cultural learning.
おめでとう !
LOVE these videos as an American planing to travel to Japan for a few years
ヤナちゃんは音声だけ聞いてたらもう日本語ネイティブですわ！
This selection of speakers are very impressive. I spent a week in Osaka and the foreigners who were seemingly fluent still had an American, Brazilian, or British accent coming through.
The hardest thing for me is that one word can mean a lot of different things and also the way you translate English to Swedish are word for word but translating Japanese is completely different. I´m having a really hard time understanding how to build sentences correct because of this but I´m still trying 😊
English and Swedish are both Germanic languages, all of which share many common words. So it's relatively easy picking up another one. Personally, I've been studying Chinese for years and when I first dabbled in Japanese I was shocked at how "easy" it seemed because it shares some common words with Chinese and has similar sentence structures which I'm familiar with. The language families are pretty fascinating. I think it's pretty neat how once you know a language (or at least the bones of one) from one family you can more easily pick up another.
And for the same reason you've mentioned, a European language (including English) is difficult for Japanese people too. We cannot translate word for word, thus we have to memorize an entire expression or phrase. There is a famous Swedish lady on Japanese public broadcasting (johannainjapan). Her Japanese is near-native. So I don't think it's impossible for a Swede to master Japanese.
I would highly recommend following the advice from the Austrian lady in this video. Just listen to music, watch TV, RUclips, movies in Japanese in your free time as part of entertainment. Grammar is pattern recognition. The more you're exposed to it, the more it will make sense.
Just based on my personal experience, Europeans seem to be able to master Japanese far better than Americans. There are French, Germans, Romanians, Bulgarians, Italians, Hungarians, Brits, Ukrainians, and Russians who have near-native fluency in Japanese.
And I think those from former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe have one of the best language abilities. We have witnessed some Ukrainian refugees without any Japanese training reaching N2-JLPT in just 2 years in Japan. Just looking back in how much I struggled learning English, I cannot imagine myself mastering Ukrainian/Russian in just 2 years.
I'm Brazilian and it's the same with Portuguese, the grammar has absolutely nothing to do with Portuguese 😢
Thank you! This is my preferred type of content from you.
Always good content thanks Takashi!
Super cool video, well done Takashii
4:55 この方ほんまにエグいな。完璧すぎて逆に怖い😂
Congratulations on 2 million subscribers.
Thanks for the video, it's so motivating when you see how other people learn in such different ways.
今私は日本語を一か月勉強しました
ひらがなとカタカナは簡単だけど、漢字と語彙を覚えるのはちょっと難しいです
Coincido en que hablar español hace que aprender la pronunciacion sea mas facil, pero bueno, en mi caso me falta muchisimo por aprender.👌
thank you takashi good tips for learning practical japanese domo arigato gozaimashita
If you know how, you can reach N5 fairly easily:
1. Learn Kana intensively with the Kana app so that you can read the characters
2. Learn all the vocabulary. The book 'your first 840 words in Japanese' helped me a lot. After 21 weeks, I knew all 840 words.
3. After that, you can book a few hours with a Japanese teacher and learn the rest.
After less than half a year, you will have N5 and from then on everything else is much easier because you have mastered the difficult basics.
I've subscribed for a long time but it's the first time I found your video in the homepage
All right, I’m gonna do it. I’m gonna start tomorrow. I have started before and I actually had a pretty good routine and I got decently far into the textbook I was using. Now, I can’t remember a single thing from that textbook because I didn’t continue long enough and continue to study, But what I’m sure of is that not only will I be able to get at least that far again because I know I did it before, but it should be slightly easier this time since I did do it before. If I can get back to that part again, I really think I can keep going! I wanna be able to have basic conversations with people when I visit Japan, I don’t need to be completely fluent for that. My goal is not that big..
u got this!
@@chikakento I forgot, I’ll start tomorrow lol
A few years ago, I learned hirigana/katakana and learned to write both and learned a few words. Then I didn't have the time to put into studying and developed a wrist issue and was no longer able to focus on writing. I took a few years off and just started again last month. I currently use the app Kanji Study to learn new words, their kanji as well as multiple readings for each kanji. I'm finding it much "easier" to absorb the info now. Another thing that helps and has been rewarding (as someone who is shy and wont converse with anyone) is "walking" videos around different areas in Japan and seeing what I can read or at least sound out via hirigana/katakana. I can now spot "karaoke" just as easily as any word in English. Obviously, taking in movies/shows/music helps a lot with listening and being able to identify individual words, even if you don't know that specific word. That alone has made my recent studies worth it 😁. It's both comforting and worrisome that these people mention how it takes years to get good at speaking. It kind of lets me know that it's ok to get frustrated that it's not coming to me immediately.
Congratulations on 2m subscribers ❤😊
It should be noted that Japanese is one the top languages for westerners to learn who don’t speak it natively.. For Americans specifically, you’d generally learn English as your first language while simultaneously being taught or picking up Spanish as your second language. These are the most important languages in America. However, many people seem to prefer learning some Japanese nowadays because of Japan’s influential nature. There’s a lot of Japanese media, history, music, films, etc in not only America but many parts of Europe as well. While I don’t plan on using Japanese language in the future, I’d like to know some more phrases and conversation over time. If I ever decide to go to Japan itself, I’ll likely spend a year or two to learn as much as I can before going.
I speak Hungarian as my native language, am fluent in English, and know a lot of German, but man, Japanese sounds crazy hard.
Minus the Hungarian (though my best friend somewhat speaks it) you just described me. Maybe Learning basic conversational Chinese on a character-meaning basis can help you too. It sure did for me.
Yes, this is dog in Chinese (pronunciation behind): 狗[gǒu] and in Japanese it's 犬[Inu], but if you just say it out loud and learn its shape mnemonically then we just got "something big" or 大[dà] for whatever reason. For me personally this works perfectly and lead me to a point I literally learned い to be 'i' forever just as it's used behind the word for 'cute' that's otherwise written identical to Chinese. Can't remember any other Kana out of context.
In that sense I hate that usually pronunciation hints (=small print above traditional Chinese Kanji) aren't given were appropriate (or if we're helping foreigners at least in Romaji).
Hope you got my other reply; how hard would you estimate it to be for me to learn Hungarian off the other two if I'm somewhat language talented?
Learning Japanese would probably be much more intuitive for a Hungarian than other Europeans...because the original Magyars are from Siberia.
I still have a lot to learn, but I’ll try to make a comment in Japanese.
3年前、プレプリを見つけました。あそこで私の先生に会いました。毎週、レッスンがあります。たくさん習いました。私の先生は優しくて気が長いですから。先生、ありがとうございます。
Msm, minha aula na português é mt bom! Preply é mt bom.
Msm - mesmo (same)
3年間でそれだけ書けたら凄いと思いますよ。外国語を学ぶ際に、子供向けのテレビ番組を観たり、子供向けの本を読むことから始めるのが有効かなと自分は感じてます。そうやってネイティブ・スピーカーの子供が辿るプロセスを真似るとスムーズに吸収できるように思います。ご興味のある分野の動画を観たり、小説を読んだり、音楽を聴くのもを有効かなと思います。日本語のRUclips番組も多いですし、色々な方法があると思います。日本のテレビやRUclipsを『日本語字幕』で見るのも良いと思います。
オーストリアとヨルダンの人は完全にネイティブレベルですね。
凄くいい動画有難うございます。言語は私にとってやっぱ耳から入ってくるのでインプットはよくしていましたねえ。特にに滞在した8年間間に。そして、失敗しても話すことも挑戦していなかったら、あまり勉強にならなかったと思います。漢字は覚えるしかないのでとにかくできるだけ多くに使うようにしました。それぐらいかな。誰かに役に立つといいねえ。
The problem here that is understated is how economically fortunate these people are.
Yeah its easy to learn and get good when you have enough money to attend schools/colleges and then the additional opportunity to go and live in Japan.
The advantage here CANNOT be understated. If you are not lucky like these people it will be much much harder. Do not get discouraged because you are not progressing at the same rate as those who just got lucky enough to have the money facilitate rapid growth.
not just the money, but also, and especially, the time. there's a massive difference between having 1 to 2 hours of free time a day to learn some Japanese versus having all the time in the world to learn the language.
Since starting learning Japanese in 2011 I definitely think its really important to find something to motivate you. Its definitely a lot easier to bring yourself to study or learn passively if you can find hobbies that other Japanese people also like. It also helps to put yourself in an environment or situation where you need to speak Japanese. If you find Japanese friends who speak really good English already, its gonna be quite demotivating if you guys lean on English because its just easier to communicate that way. So finding Japanese friends who don't speak very much English or are around the same level as your Japanese will keep that interaction to benefit your learning.
私がまだまだ日本に行きたいので日本語を練習しています．高校時によく日本語の音楽を聞いて、大学で勉強しました。そして、２回日本に行った事があります。 :)
i’ll be going there for my birthday in january and would love to meet you! i’m just starting to learn. so it would be around a year of learning. i’m not sure if i’ll be able to speak clearly enough for an interview but i would love a picture! have you done a meetup before?
ヤナちゃん！ナタリア！
ここでもお二人に会えるとはMr.Fujiファンとして嬉しすぎる😆
This video was amazing to watch it! Thank you, Takashii!
That Mexican guy looked like he had been waiting his whole life for this moment to show his Japanese ability 😆
Very good! Japanese learning has changed with tech. Bravo Takashii.
I lived in Japan in 2011. I don't remember all the Japanese I learned. Is there any reason I cringed here? 1:02
Awesome video as always Takashii.
メキシコ人の人とヨルダン人の人の日本語はめちゃ上手い