I feel exactly the same, although I've only been learning Japanese since 5 months ago, but I was as well confused because I thought it only meant on going action like the ing form in English.
Best part of Kaname's video's for real. So many other Japanese youtube teachers just do the very basics because that's what gets the most views (it's no secret that most Japanese learners quit after they learn the basics, probably like all languages). Kaname is AMAZING for people who are trying to break through to the intermediate levels of Japanese learning. Actually since watching him starting from a couple months ago, my listening comprehension has been getting so much better. I'm at the point where I'm watching non-subtitled Japanese shows (not anime) and I'm mostly able to follow along throughout the whole thing. All thanks to Kaname who actually goes into the REAL usage of these grammar points, rather than the typical "here is the one basic way to use it and that's it because that's all we think your English brain can handle :pleading_face:" approach that even most intermediate textbooks use. I still suck at speaking LOL but I'm enrolling in Japanese 102 at my uni soon and I expect that to get way better now that I can actually use it with people at a place/level I'm comfortable with
Your explanation is crystal clear, amazingly organised and so comprehensive that you made me, a native speaker, realise the grammatical asymmetry of 知っている and 知らない!!! That was a thrilling moment. I will definitely recommend your channel to my foreign friends as grammar references and there's no doubt every Japanese learners subscribe it. 身体に気をつけて頑張ってください！応援しています！
As a Chinese native speaker, I feel like that it's so interesting to learn Japanese by English. Right now I'm focus on learning English, but I don't want to forget Japanese from what I have learned before. This is funny way to know the interpretation between this two languages.👏
I would like to help you with a grammar error you made. You said “between this two languages”, when it’s correct to say “between these two languages”. The word “this” can only describe one thing. For example: “I am trying to learn Chinese, this is a very interesting language.” The word “this cannot be used for more than one thing. Instead you would use “these”. For example: “I am trying my best to learn the verb difference in Danish and Japanese, but these languages are very different.” You should also say “This is a funny way” rather than “This is funny way” because the second one does not sound right with the word/letter “a” that connects some words together. “I’m focus on learning” should be “I’m focusing on learning”. The “ing” makes the verb something that you are doing right now or are going to do. There isn’t many other mistakes in your sentence but if you have any questions I can help.
@@Honda_Kiku Thank you for your help.I have just learned these languages by watching many videos on youtube since this year.I think I shoud write some comments below instead of only watching them.Maybe it could help me to express myself more. And it is so kind of you that you are willing to correct my mistakes by writing so many interpretations.すごく勉強になりました。ありがとうございます。
This also explains why a Japanese speaker might say something in English like, "I am studying English for three years." I knew that Japanese used what we'd call "present progressive" in ways that do not coincide with English, but I was always mystified by what the difference could be. You explained it so well!
And furthermore, I've been studying Japanese for so long...spinning my wheels to be honest, and this is the first time I've heard this point explained! Mind blown.
I think it's not just the Japanese, I hear it a lot among Slavic people. It's so much more challenging for a foreigner to learn English if their native language is from a different family. The nuances of when to use which form/tense when you don't have something to compare it to is really difficult if nobody points it out like Naito does for Japanese! And don't even get me started on the spelling/pronunciation.
I love using the small mistakes people make when speaking a foreign language to better understand the differences in the grammar usage between the two languages I (spanish first language, but raised in the US so my english is stronger) have these kinds of conversation with my mom (native spanish speaker, adult english learner) a lot. In order to help her improve her english, I'll try to identify what it is that she's trying to translate into english from spanish and oftentimes it's that she's trying to use a spanish grammar rule/way of saying in English. For example saying "I have cold" instead of "I am cold" since in spanish it would be "Tengo frio" (literally "have cold"). Breaking down the reason why that doesn't work in english (you can't "have" intangible things in english) but does in spanish is the fun part and helps us both get a better understanding of each other's languages :D
@@misslovedog8177 Mmm. That's not quite it. You certainly can have intangible things in English: "He has tremendous courage." "I have an idea." "We have pride in our organization." "They have insidious intentions." These are all examples of perfectly possessable intangible things in English. I think what's really going on here is that you can't have adjectives ("cold", in this context, is an adjective.): "I have tremendous." "They have insidious." "She has great." "We have circular." "He has generous." These are all examples of having adjectives, which is illegal in English. Though, there are special circumstances where this might initially appear to be untrue. However, upon closer inspection, I think it still holds up. Like, for example, if you're playing a card game, and there's a card called "Cold", and you have this card in your hand, you could say "I have Cold". So that might look at first like possessing an adjective. But, in this context, "Cold" is really a proper noun (hence the capitalization), and not an adjective at all. And, in the very common case of "I have a cold", which, of course, is also legal, the word "cold" is a noun (not a proper noun, but just a regular noun), and still not an adjective. Another common example is with colours. One might say something like, "I have so much green!" They could be talking about, say, money, or weed. In any case, there's an unspoken noun being omitted: "I have so much green [paper]", or "I have so much green [herbs]". It could be reduced to just "I have so much green [stuff]." So, depending on how you analyze something like that, "green" could be an adjective describing an unspoken noun (and that noun is actually the possessed thing), or "green" could have been upgraded into just being used AS a noun in its own right, thereby losing its adjectival status. The latter conceptualization is very slangy, however, but doable. In theory, you could say "I have cold skin", which would be technically legal-if very unnatural-English. From that, one might surmise that they could then say "I have cold", with the noun "skin" simply being omitted. However, omitting the noun like that can only be done if 1) the omitted noun is widely and immediately understood without any ambiguity or confusion, and 2) the intended context of the statement remains intact. The first criteria is not met because your average English speaker will say, "... cold what?" They won't immediately and reliably know what the unspoken noun is. The second criteria is also not met because we're trying to use this in place of "I'm cold", which has a "right now, in this particular moment" connotation, but "I have cold skin" is going to be interpreted in English as a general statement that's true most of the time. In order to turn that into a "right now" statement, one would have to say "My skin is cold", which, again, is legal, but somewhat unnatural English.
I've been studying Japanese for 9 years, but mostly paused my study for a few years and have not made much progress since. Your channel is amazing-you explain things so clearly and use such good examples which also helps with my vocabulary! You're helping me get back into learning Japanese, thank you so much!
Imagine how much better your Japanese would be if you hadn't stopped. That's what I tell myself everyday after seen how long ago I started trying to learn this language
This is something that I suspected but never confirmed. Because my teachers only speak Japanese, it's hard to get clarification when the explanations are in Japanese. Thanks for the video.
He's a great teacher and explains really well, but his set up and the way he shoots his videos are so clean and aesthetically pleasing as well his change in tone and voice during examples. His set up seems to be a simple one but the outcome is absolutely brilliant.
Perfect explanation. Now i wonder why textbooks dont give a shit and breeze over such important topics dedicating a couple of very dry explanations and hardly comprehensible examples usually without translation. It has been 5 years of japanese learning for me and i am getting how profound that て form is only now.
I use Duolingo which I know, is not great. But one of the things it’s the worst at is explaining why certain words go in certain places. Just throwing it at you and punishing you for getting it wrong. This video helped me to understand the why of something that’s confused me for a long time. So helpful.
Each Duolingo unit has a guidebook that usually explains what you're meant to learn in that unit. It's not bad to use other resources to understand better though, since learning a language is that something that use can easily do with only one source.
I've been studying japanese on and off for years. I love your videos. They are perfect for people like me who have a general understanding but want to learn in a more natural way. You're like a friend teaching me how to say things correctly, more than an academic teacher. That's very cool and useful.
I’ve been studying Japanese for a few years, but mostly through conversation and work. This guy does an amazing job explaining the nuisances that go over my head when talking to people. I know that just this video alone is gonna give me immediate applicable use.
How can this video just has 650 views? The content is so clearly and easily to understand. This ている is a very important thing you have to understand when learning Japanese. And his instruction is perfect!
well, his channel only recently started getting exposure, and this video was released two hours ago, so it's about right, but hopefully soon he will get thousands of views in the first hour of posting :))
man, i feel like there's just so much nuances and subtlety that ている can take up that most teachers don't bother explaining all of them since it's hard even for them to remember and know every single use case, so they just teach the most common and easy to understand one which is the state of an action taking place (-ing). but you've taken your time to explain even the subtlest use case to help us understand ている completely. thank you very much as you've just cleared a fog in my understanding of Japanese, which i didn't even know the source of. 🙇🙇
5 stars, 10/10 explanation the "resultative state" has helped connect the missing piece I needed. If u already know ている, I urge u to give the last part of the vid a quick look! Finally!!...... 全く分かっている!
I feel compelled to leave a comment on every video. They're all so good. It's been 10 years since I last actively learned Japanese, but Kaname-sensei makes me want to start again!
Incredible. Just, brilliant. Kaname you are one of the best Japanese teaching youtubers out there. You understand what we DON'T understand, when learning Japanese. Thank you
i'm studying japanese at my college and was working on my some exercises. this concept literally went through my head again after encountering a practice problem that made me wonder, "should i use ている form or nah?" i'm glad yt algorithm reached my mind and suggested me this video. extremely helpful, thank u ♥︎
I love all your videos. Seriously the way you explain things in English about what exactly the Japanese is when directly translated is EXTREMELY helpful.
Even though I thought I already pretty much understood everything there is to know about ～ている form, I clicked on the video anyway, knowing you would still find a way to provide info I didn't know yet. I was right to assume that. I'm glad your channel is getting the exposure it deserves! It's crazy how you gained 12,000 subscribers in one week! さすがかなめさん！
I started learning Japanese 12 years ago, and have done so on and off since then. I wish I'd had a video like this back when I started. I've found a lot of RUclipsrs making videos trying to explain the Japanese language, but the way you do it is special and something we really needed. This is one of the more confusing verb forms, and you made the best explanation I've seen for it yet. Just hit subscribe!
A very helpful guide! I was just thinking that "te iru" form was "verb+ing" kind of thing, that's why a lot of senteces didn't make sense to me. But no more!
Thank you Kaname-san. Please make more videos. I like Kaname-san’s videos because he is clearly explaining the difference between English grammar and Japanese grammar. Which is actually not being explained by others. Seems like he also teaches English too.
Kaname-sensei, thank you so much!!! I was a little confused on how teiru form worked in terms of past tense and this video helped me completely. Thank you for being so good at explaining.
I've been learning Japanese on and off for 15 years at this point. I hyper fixate for a few months then drop off again. One of the side-effects of my attempts is that I can 'know' how something works grammatically but I can't explain it or articulate it. I'm glad you changed my intuitive understanding to actual understanding. Thank you so much for the crystal clear and organized videos that are quite entertaining. I hope you keep producing content. All your videos are such treats!
This is one of the best Japanese lessons I have seen! I have learned Japanese through immersion, no classes or direct tutoring. Therefore, my understanding of Japanese is limited at this time. This video has clarified the many uses of ~ている. Also, Kaname-san has clearly explained many components of Japanese grammar. Indeed, Kaname-san’s channel is one of the best on RUclips for learning Japanese!
It's similar to how english uses the past participle form of verbs as adjectives From what I understand, it can also be used like the english present continuous, present perfect continuous and past perfect continuous. Sounds so versatile Thank you for the explanation. I was having trouble trying to figure out how to use this ている form, but you made it crystal clear!
I thought I knew all about this form before I clicked on the video, but I am so glad I came here and learned more about it!! Absolutely smashing explanation. Thank you!
I love this channel! I've watched so many different Japanese language-learning channels since I started self-study over a year ago (many are good) but for some reason the videos on this channel consistently nail the details I'm looking for, really concisely with perfect examples. Awesome!
The 〜ている/ 〜ています form of a verb allows it to describe a STATE of something just like an adjective Example: My shirt is dry. verb: 乾きます (かわきます) ➡️ 乾いています ❌ 私のシャーツは乾きます。 My shirt dries. My shirt is going to get dry. ⭕️ 私のシャツは乾いています。 My shirt is dry. (1) PROGRESSIVE STATE (1a) current or present situation I’m currently writing now. 今 私は書いています。 It’s raining at this moment. 今 雨が降っています。 I’m studying Japanese online. オンラインで日本語を勉強しています。 (1b) continuous activity or event I have been studying Japanese for 1 month now. 1ヶ月間 日本語を勉強しています。 It has been raining for three days straight now. 三日間 雨がずっと降っています。 (1c) habitual action My dad drinks wine every day. / My dad has been drinking wine every day. 毎日 父はワインを飲んでいます。
Half an hour ago, I didn’t understand this at all. Within a few minutes, I had more understanding than I’ve ever had, and now I’ve finished the video, it makes complete sense. There’s no other way to say this than you have a gift for explaining. ありがとうございました、今分かっています！
Screw classes, all I need is Kaname-san and Misa-sensei. This channel will explode, your videos are packed with info using realistic and simple examples.
I love how clear and concise your explanations are! I'm currently studying Japanese right now and this is super helpful for my understanding. One minor thing to note about the second "progressive state" usage: from what I could tell, it might make a little more sense to emphasize the periodic/consistently-occurring aspect of the phenomena instead of "for a period of time", since that could also apply for the first "progressive state" usage, too. This way of thinking helped me to understand it better.
I experienced great improvement after watching this excellent because of the useful illustrations given for each situation. Solved most of my queries or doubts over the Japanese grammar in self-learning. Really great lesson. A video lasting for about 20 minutes is the best duration for studying! Japanese is a very unique language. Interesting! Thanks a lot for your efforts.
As someone taking classes for Japanese, this video was incredibly helpful for refreshing my memory of the ~ている form now that it has been a few weeks since I last used it. Thank you for the amazing videos! Please keep up the amazing work!
I've been binging a lot your content lately and I have to say, your lessons are nothing less than a gift from the heavens Keep up the great work dude 👍
This is so incredibly helpful. I often get tripped up with trying to find how to describe something when I have the verb in Japanese but I need to use it as an adjective in English the way I'm trying to convey.
I hope you see this, because there's actually a perfect English sentence for the second 言っています. In English we would say "Tanaka IS SAYING he is off of work today" or "Tanaka IS SAYING he wants to come." and it has the exact same nuance. He's saying it but that's all, and it's still undecided. Hope that helps someone else understand! Edit: I did notice you said it a little bit into your explanation, but honestly that would work well enough on it's own. We use that sentence structure a lot as English speakers and its immediately intuitive to us.
I don't think this is quite the same. "is saying" does put emphases on the ongoing nature of the request, whereas "said" only reports the request, but what actually decides whether or not the request is ongoing is the tense of "want". "John said he wants to go on holliday" and "John is saying he wants to go on holliday" both imply that John has not yet received an answer, but the latter makes the issue more immediate - it means John has been repeating his desire to people recently. If John had received an answer, you could equally use "John said he wanted to go on holliday", or "John is saying he wanted to go on holliday". Both imply that the matter has been decided.
Thank you! I speak Japanese a lot at work and the usage of ている from 16:30 to 17:50 really caused quite a bit of confusion. While I know that it can be used to describe an ongoing action or a resultive state, there's way too much nuance and sometimes it's hard to tell which one they are using. I've also had colleagues use やっています as a substitute for 今からやります which confuses me.
I really like your format of teaching. It’s simple and easier to digest. Other channels have too many interactive elements, that I find it very distracting.
You are the best. I've been following other channels to help with my self-study and I am able to connect with your teaching style a lot better. Thank you 🥰
Also an explanation of the use of passed tense and the difference between 〜ている and 〜た could be very useful (maybe you did, I'm at the beginning of the video). I think it's also correct to say シャツが濡れた but there would be a different nuance. I'm amazed by how great your videos are. I wished I had such explanations long ago.
I love your videos, and your English is great! Especially considering how different the structure and pronunciation is compared to Japanese. Keep up the amazing work.
Your explainations are awesome! I learned that grammar point from Genki 1 and had a really hard time understanding their explanation. You make it so simple and clear.
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Yeah, a couple of zeros on the left
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Can I just say thank you?
Years of confusion solved in 22 minutes. Same for every videos you publish.
This is seriously changing my life.
Thank you.
I feel exactly the same, although I've only been learning Japanese since 5 months ago, but I was as well confused because I thought it only meant on going action like the ing form in English.
@@fromgames3123 exactly some grammar resources kinda skip over this iru form to describe a state and just say its like -ing form in english
I agree. This explanation has solved years of confusion caused by textbooks that think it's obvious and just gloss over it. Thank you, Kaname!
Best part of Kaname's video's for real. So many other Japanese youtube teachers just do the very basics because that's what gets the most views (it's no secret that most Japanese learners quit after they learn the basics, probably like all languages). Kaname is AMAZING for people who are trying to break through to the intermediate levels of Japanese learning. Actually since watching him starting from a couple months ago, my listening comprehension has been getting so much better. I'm at the point where I'm watching non-subtitled Japanese shows (not anime) and I'm mostly able to follow along throughout the whole thing. All thanks to Kaname who actually goes into the REAL usage of these grammar points, rather than the typical "here is the one basic way to use it and that's it because that's all we think your English brain can handle :pleading_face:" approach that even most intermediate textbooks use.
I still suck at speaking LOL but I'm enrolling in Japanese 102 at my uni soon and I expect that to get way better now that I can actually use it with people at a place/level I'm comfortable with
Considering the people I have as coworkers, I petition to make "Are you currently in the state of fully understanding?" a valid english sentence. ❤
it is valid english
Your explanation is crystal clear, amazingly organised and so comprehensive that you made me, a native speaker, realise the grammatical asymmetry of 知っている and 知らない!!! That was a thrilling moment. I will definitely recommend your channel to my foreign friends as grammar references and there's no doubt every Japanese learners subscribe it.
身体に気をつけて頑張ってください！応援しています！
As a Chinese native speaker, I feel like that it's so interesting to learn Japanese by English. Right now I'm focus on learning English, but I don't want to forget Japanese from what I have learned before. This is funny way to know the interpretation between this two languages.👏
As a chinese, would you say that the state restricts your freedom? I am brazilian and it is very hard to know unbiased information about this subject.
I would like to help you with a grammar error you made. You said “between this two languages”, when it’s correct to say “between these two languages”. The word “this” can only describe one thing. For example: “I am trying to learn Chinese, this is a very interesting language.” The word “this cannot be used for more than one thing. Instead you would use “these”. For example: “I am trying my best to learn the verb difference in Danish and Japanese, but these languages are very different.”
You should also say “This is a funny way” rather than “This is funny way” because the second one does not sound right with the word/letter “a” that connects some words together.
“I’m focus on learning” should be “I’m focusing on learning”. The “ing” makes the verb something that you are doing right now or are going to do.
There isn’t many other mistakes in your sentence but if you have any questions I can help.
@@Honda_Kiku Thank you for your help.I have just learned these languages by watching many videos on youtube since this year.I think I shoud write some comments below instead of only watching them.Maybe it could help me to express myself more. And it is so kind of you that you are willing to correct my mistakes by writing so many interpretations.すごく勉強になりました。ありがとうございます。
@@Honda_Kiku ~ Super nice of you to step in and provide a suggestion!
@@C_Lena Writing comments would definitely help you with language learning. Good luck with 日本語 and English.
中国人でございます。英語専攻ですので、無意識のうちに英語の仕組みに拘り、英語語学に基づいて日本語を勉強していたんです。カナメさんのおけで、救われるって感じがします。ありがとう😭
This also explains why a Japanese speaker might say something in English like, "I am studying English for three years." I knew that Japanese used what we'd call "present progressive" in ways that do not coincide with English, but I was always mystified by what the difference could be. You explained it so well!
And furthermore, I've been studying Japanese for so long...spinning my wheels to be honest, and this is the first time I've heard this point explained! Mind blown.
I think it's not just the Japanese, I hear it a lot among Slavic people. It's so much more challenging for a foreigner to learn English if their native language is from a different family. The nuances of when to use which form/tense when you don't have something to compare it to is really difficult if nobody points it out like Naito does for Japanese! And don't even get me started on the spelling/pronunciation.
I love using the small mistakes people make when speaking a foreign language to better understand the differences in the grammar usage between the two languages
I (spanish first language, but raised in the US so my english is stronger) have these kinds of conversation with my mom (native spanish speaker, adult english learner) a lot. In order to help her improve her english, I'll try to identify what it is that she's trying to translate into english from spanish and oftentimes it's that she's trying to use a spanish grammar rule/way of saying in English.
For example saying "I have cold" instead of "I am cold" since in spanish it would be "Tengo frio" (literally "have cold"). Breaking down the reason why that doesn't work in english (you can't "have" intangible things in english) but does in spanish is the fun part and helps us both get a better understanding of each other's languages :D
@@misslovedog8177 Mmm. That's not quite it. You certainly can have intangible things in English: "He has tremendous courage." "I have an idea." "We have pride in our organization." "They have insidious intentions." These are all examples of perfectly possessable intangible things in English. I think what's really going on here is that you can't have adjectives ("cold", in this context, is an adjective.): "I have tremendous." "They have insidious." "She has great." "We have circular." "He has generous." These are all examples of having adjectives, which is illegal in English. Though, there are special circumstances where this might initially appear to be untrue. However, upon closer inspection, I think it still holds up. Like, for example, if you're playing a card game, and there's a card called "Cold", and you have this card in your hand, you could say "I have Cold". So that might look at first like possessing an adjective. But, in this context, "Cold" is really a proper noun (hence the capitalization), and not an adjective at all. And, in the very common case of "I have a cold", which, of course, is also legal, the word "cold" is a noun (not a proper noun, but just a regular noun), and still not an adjective. Another common example is with colours. One might say something like, "I have so much green!" They could be talking about, say, money, or weed. In any case, there's an unspoken noun being omitted: "I have so much green [paper]", or "I have so much green [herbs]". It could be reduced to just "I have so much green [stuff]." So, depending on how you analyze something like that, "green" could be an adjective describing an unspoken noun (and that noun is actually the possessed thing), or "green" could have been upgraded into just being used AS a noun in its own right, thereby losing its adjectival status. The latter conceptualization is very slangy, however, but doable. In theory, you could say "I have cold skin", which would be technically legal-if very unnatural-English. From that, one might surmise that they could then say "I have cold", with the noun "skin" simply being omitted. However, omitting the noun like that can only be done if 1) the omitted noun is widely and immediately understood without any ambiguity or confusion, and 2) the intended context of the statement remains intact. The first criteria is not met because your average English speaker will say, "... cold what?" They won't immediately and reliably know what the unspoken noun is. The second criteria is also not met because we're trying to use this in place of "I'm cold", which has a "right now, in this particular moment" connotation, but "I have cold skin" is going to be interpreted in English as a general statement that's true most of the time. In order to turn that into a "right now" statement, one would have to say "My skin is cold", which, again, is legal, but somewhat unnatural English.
Still don't follow why they would say that could ya explain
I've been studying Japanese for 9 years, but mostly paused my study for a few years and have not made much progress since. Your channel is amazing-you explain things so clearly and use such good examples which also helps with my vocabulary! You're helping me get back into learning Japanese, thank you so much!
Imagine how much better your Japanese would be if you hadn't stopped. That's what I tell myself everyday after seen how long ago I started trying to learn this language
This is something that I suspected but never confirmed. Because my teachers only speak Japanese, it's hard to get clarification when the explanations are in Japanese. Thanks for the video.
He's a great teacher and explains really well, but his set up and the way he shoots his videos are so clean and aesthetically pleasing as well his change in tone and voice during examples. His set up seems to be a simple one but the outcome is absolutely brilliant.
Perfect explanation. Now i wonder why textbooks dont give a shit and breeze over such important topics dedicating a couple of very dry explanations and hardly comprehensible examples usually without translation. It has been 5 years of japanese learning for me and i am getting how profound that て form is only now.
I use Duolingo which I know, is not great. But one of the things it’s the worst at is explaining why certain words go in certain places. Just throwing it at you and punishing you for getting it wrong. This video helped me to understand the why of something that’s confused me for a long time. So helpful.
Each Duolingo unit has a guidebook that usually explains what you're meant to learn in that unit. It's not bad to use other resources to understand better though, since learning a language is that something that use can easily do with only one source.
I've been studying japanese on and off for years.
I love your videos. They are perfect for people like me who have a general understanding but want to learn in a more natural way. You're like a friend teaching me how to say things correctly, more than an academic teacher. That's very cool and useful.
This is exactly what I’m looking for after so many years. Now, I’m crystal clear on 「ている」 form already. Thanks a lot.
I rarely applaud a video on Japanese learning, but this is one of them. Incredibly well explained.
I’ve been studying Japanese for a few years, but mostly through conversation and work. This guy does an amazing job explaining the nuisances that go over my head when talking to people. I know that just this video alone is gonna give me immediate applicable use.
How can this video just has 650 views? The content is so clearly and easily to understand. This ている is a very important thing you have to understand when learning Japanese. And his instruction is perfect!
well, his channel only recently started getting exposure, and this video was released two hours ago, so it's about right, but hopefully soon he will get thousands of views in the first hour of posting :))
Kaname-san's channel is a diamond in the rough.
Lets spread his channel xD
It seems ている and ました are simple but this VDO tells me the sense of using them. Thank you.
man, i feel like there's just so much nuances and subtlety that ている can take up that most teachers don't bother explaining all of them since it's hard even for them to remember and know every single use case, so they just teach the most common and easy to understand one which is the state of an action taking place (-ing). but you've taken your time to explain even the subtlest use case to help us understand ている completely. thank you very much as you've just cleared a fog in my understanding of Japanese, which i didn't even know the source of. 🙇🙇
5 stars, 10/10 explanation the "resultative state" has helped connect the missing piece I needed.
If u already know ている, I urge u to give the last part of the vid a quick look!
Finally!!...... 全く分かっている!
I feel compelled to leave a comment on every video. They're all so good. It's been 10 years since I last actively learned Japanese, but Kaname-sensei makes me want to start again!
You can "wet" something in English, also. It is both an adjective and a verb, which is which depends on context. Just like "dry."
Incredible. Just, brilliant. Kaname you are one of the best Japanese teaching youtubers out there. You understand what we DON'T understand, when learning Japanese. Thank you
You have the ability to explain difficult grammar forms in a simple no nonsense way. Thank you.
i'm studying japanese at my college and was working on my some exercises. this concept literally went through my head again after encountering a practice problem that made me wonder, "should i use ている form or nah?" i'm glad yt algorithm reached my mind and suggested me this video. extremely helpful, thank u ♥︎
I love all your videos.
Seriously the way you explain things in English about what exactly the Japanese is when directly translated is EXTREMELY helpful.
I can definitely feel that subtle meaning in those harder ones, but they can still definitely be a challenge. Very helpful video
This channel is underrated asf ngl
10年日本に住んでいる僕でもはっきり区別できなかったのに、この動画1本で分かりました。勉強になりました！ありがとうございます！
Super interesting! I have been struggling with this issue, but your take really helped me.
Even though I thought I already pretty much understood everything there is to know about ～ている form, I clicked on the video anyway, knowing you would still find a way to provide info I didn't know yet. I was right to assume that. I'm glad your channel is getting the exposure it deserves! It's crazy how you gained 12,000 subscribers in one week! さすがかなめさん！
Same!
Yup. Exactly that.
I am not really good at japanese though...
And this comment is mostly to feed the algorithm :D
@@johanneswerner1140 you'll get there soon, just keep going 💪
wooow! your channel is growing quick! when I subscribed days ago it’s only like 139+! Congratulations!! Keep up the good work! 🎉
I started learning Japanese 12 years ago, and have done so on and off since then. I wish I'd had a video like this back when I started. I've found a lot of RUclipsrs making videos trying to explain the Japanese language, but the way you do it is special and something we really needed. This is one of the more confusing verb forms, and you made the best explanation I've seen for it yet. Just hit subscribe!
Please never stop uploading videos! They are so clear and insightful, the best on RUclips atm.
A very helpful guide! I was just thinking that "te iru" form was "verb+ing" kind of thing, that's why a lot of senteces didn't make sense to me.
But no more!
Oh god thank you so much. They explained some of it to me but I've never seen someone lay out the types so clearly
Im glad you're uploading these. They're incredibly handy
I've studied Japanese for many years and live in Japan. Your explanations are excellent. Thank you.
Thank you Kaname-san. Please make more videos. I like Kaname-san’s videos because he is clearly explaining the difference between English grammar and Japanese grammar. Which is actually not being explained by others. Seems like he also teaches English too.
Kaname-sensei, thank you so much!!! I was a little confused on how teiru form worked in terms of past tense and this video helped me completely. Thank you for being so good at explaining.
language,
it feels obvious but when you try to explain it is so difficult
and you explain very well.
very clear.
So grateful for your videos! Just got back from 5 weeks in Japan and had a blast, felt motivated to study japanese harder again. Thank you sir
This is one of the most brilliant explanation I have come across about this grammar. Thank you so much.
I love your explanations, please don't stop recording videos, you are a light for us who want to learn. Thanks for everything!😊
2:52 In English, we say it's "stative". So, "-te(i)ru" is changing something into a stative state or a stative verb.
I've been learning Japanese on and off for 15 years at this point. I hyper fixate for a few months then drop off again. One of the side-effects of my attempts is that I can 'know' how something works grammatically but I can't explain it or articulate it. I'm glad you changed my intuitive understanding to actual understanding.
Thank you so much for the crystal clear and organized videos that are quite entertaining.
I hope you keep producing content. All your videos are such treats!
This is one of the best Japanese lessons I have seen! I have learned Japanese through immersion, no classes or direct tutoring. Therefore, my understanding of Japanese is limited at this time. This video has clarified the many uses of ~ている. Also, Kaname-san has clearly explained many components of Japanese grammar. Indeed, Kaname-san’s channel is one of the best on RUclips for learning Japanese!
this was so helpful!!! thank you so much
It's similar to how english uses the past participle form of verbs as adjectives
From what I understand, it can also be used like the english present continuous, present perfect continuous and past perfect continuous. Sounds so versatile
Thank you for the explanation. I was having trouble trying to figure out how to use this ている form, but you made it crystal clear!
Bro I love you videos, keep them coming.
I thought I knew all about this form before I clicked on the video, but I am so glad I came here and learned more about it!! Absolutely smashing explanation. Thank you!
Yeah, absolutely the best Japanese grammar teacher on the platform right now, up there with miku real Japanese
Thank you!! The many examples helped me understand much better!
ahh since u understood. can u please help me understand im struggiling :(
I love this channel! I've watched so many different Japanese language-learning channels since I started self-study over a year ago (many are good) but for some reason the videos on this channel consistently nail the details I'm looking for, really concisely with perfect examples. Awesome!
I agree with everyone, this is the best explanation on youtube, and english is not his first language which is very impressive
The 〜ている/ 〜ています form of a verb allows it to describe a STATE of something just like an adjective
Example: My shirt is dry.
verb: 乾きます (かわきます)
➡️ 乾いています
❌ 私のシャーツは乾きます。
My shirt dries.
My shirt is going to get dry.
⭕️ 私のシャツは乾いています。
My shirt is dry.
(1) PROGRESSIVE STATE
(1a) current or present situation
I’m currently writing now.
今 私は書いています。
It’s raining at this moment.
今 雨が降っています。
I’m studying Japanese online.
オンラインで日本語を勉強しています。
(1b) continuous activity or event
I have been studying Japanese for 1 month now.
1ヶ月間 日本語を勉強しています。
It has been raining for three days straight now.
三日間 雨がずっと降っています。
(1c) habitual action
My dad drinks wine every day. / My dad has been drinking wine every day.
毎日 父はワインを飲んでいます。
Thank you so much, Years of learning Japanese and all your vids has solved almost all my confusion..
I really appreciate that you explained this tiny bit in such great detail. Your video worths every Japanese learner to watch. ❤
All of the examples made this very helpful. Thank you!
Also, it's good to know that 知りません is the correct form since this is what I have learned.
Half an hour ago, I didn’t understand this at all. Within a few minutes, I had more understanding than I’ve ever had, and now I’ve finished the video, it makes complete sense. There’s no other way to say this than you have a gift for explaining. ありがとうございました、今分かっています！
Screw classes, all I need is Kaname-san and Misa-sensei. This channel will explode, your videos are packed with info using realistic and simple examples.
I love how clear and concise your explanations are! I'm currently studying Japanese right now and this is super helpful for my understanding. One minor thing to note about the second "progressive state" usage: from what I could tell, it might make a little more sense to emphasize the periodic/consistently-occurring aspect of the phenomena instead of "for a period of time", since that could also apply for the first "progressive state" usage, too. This way of thinking helped me to understand it better.
You are a legend my guy, you solved my eternal confusion in just 22 minutes... ありがとうございます！
Please keep making these, you are an awesome teacher. Your channel is going to grow incredibly fast.
I experienced great improvement after watching this excellent because of the useful illustrations given for each situation. Solved most of my queries or doubts over the Japanese grammar in self-learning. Really great lesson. A video lasting for about 20 minutes is the best duration for studying! Japanese is a very unique language. Interesting! Thanks a lot for your efforts.
BRO YOU EXPLAINS SO WELL!! THX FOR SO MANY VIDEOS TEACHING JAPANESE TO US! 😩😩🙏🙏
You are teaching these very well. Even better than the paid programs. Just wow and thank you so much!
As someone taking classes for Japanese, this video was incredibly helpful for refreshing my memory of the ~ている form now that it has been a few weeks since I last used it. Thank you for the amazing videos! Please keep up the amazing work!
I've been binging a lot your content lately and I have to say, your lessons are nothing less than a gift from the heavens
Keep up the great work dude 👍
10:55
Thank you so much for clarifying the difference between the two, I was just about to look them up…
This video is sublime.
I asked my Japanese teacher if the ~ている form was also the habitual aspect, and she said no. I knew it! It was habitual aspect!
This is so incredibly helpful. I often get tripped up with trying to find how to describe something when I have the verb in Japanese but I need to use it as an adjective in English the way I'm trying to convey.
This explanation changed my world! Thank you very much!
You definitely are the best master I ever virtually have met 🙏🏻🌞
I hope you see this, because there's actually a perfect English sentence for the second 言っています. In English we would say "Tanaka IS SAYING he is off of work today" or "Tanaka IS SAYING he wants to come." and it has the exact same nuance. He's saying it but that's all, and it's still undecided. Hope that helps someone else understand!
Edit: I did notice you said it a little bit into your explanation, but honestly that would work well enough on it's own. We use that sentence structure a lot as English speakers and its immediately intuitive to us.
I don't think this is quite the same. "is saying" does put emphases on the ongoing nature of the request, whereas "said" only reports the request, but what actually decides whether or not the request is ongoing is the tense of "want". "John said he wants to go on holliday" and "John is saying he wants to go on holliday" both imply that John has not yet received an answer, but the latter makes the issue more immediate - it means John has been repeating his desire to people recently. If John had received an answer, you could equally use "John said he wanted to go on holliday", or "John is saying he wanted to go on holliday". Both imply that the matter has been decided.
@@Aethid Wll said. Similar but different in subtle but important ways.
You are the best Japanese teacher ever.
Really incredible work! Your videos are not too long, but are still packed with information 👌
Thank you! I speak Japanese a lot at work and the usage of ている from 16:30 to 17:50 really caused quite a bit of confusion. While I know that it can be used to describe an ongoing action or a resultive state, there's way too much nuance and sometimes it's hard to tell which one they are using. I've also had colleagues use やっています as a substitute for 今からやります which confuses me.
These are uniquely helpful Japanese lessons. ありがとう、要先生！今ついにわかっています。
genuinely the most helpful japanese content on youtube
omg this guy is a genuius. The presentation and teaching skills are outstanding!!!!
ずっと不思議に思っていました。 Kaname Naitoのおかげで、はっきり理解しています！
Thank you for your clear explanations!
This content is great!! These videos helping me understand things ive noticed for years!! Really appreciate these videos!
I love your channel! It’s awesome for intermediate to advanced learners trying to finally achieve fluency.
You are excellent, You speak very well English and explain very clearly. Very Good Teacher, Thanks a lot.
Amazing video, I finally have a clearer understanding of this rule, thanks so much.
I really like your format of teaching. It’s simple and easier to digest. Other channels have too many interactive elements, that I find it very distracting.
Great video! I’m staying in a smaller town in Japan for a couple of months, and your explanations are really helpful.
This makes so many things clearer for me!
ありがとうございました
Insanely good explanation. Love your content.
Every video is so instructive and well organized, it blows my mind. Great Video!
Dude, this is the BEST lecture on ている! Thanks man!
You are the best.
I've been following other channels to help with my self-study and I am able to connect with your teaching style a lot better.
Thank you 🥰
Also an explanation of the use of passed tense and the difference between 〜ている and 〜た could be very useful (maybe you did, I'm at the beginning of the video). I think it's also correct to say シャツが濡れた but there would be a different nuance.
I'm amazed by how great your videos are. I wished I had such explanations long ago.
Aaaaand... You explained it right after I wrote my message. 😂
This was very helpful- and all your examples made things extra clear. Thank you so much!
I love your videos, and your English is great! Especially considering how different the structure and pronunciation is compared to Japanese. Keep up the amazing work.
Your explainations are awesome! I learned that grammar point from Genki 1 and had a really hard time understanding their explanation. You make it so simple and clear.
かなめさんの教え方で全部わかりやすくなりますね
ありがとうございます！
よく説明したんですねーわかる
I'm glad that your channel is blowing up recently. Anyways, these videos are really easy to understand, thank you, sir