I love how he never pulls the "I am Japanese" card, as not to discorage the students. He instead says that he studied for 28 years, the funny thing is he is 28. Anyone can do it, and you'll never stop making mistakes because you'll never stop learning.
I know, when I discovered his channel I thought he was a foreigner and learned Japanese from scratch to a decent level. I felt motivated to study and practice more. When I found out that he was actually half Japanese I was a bit disappointed, but that didn't stop my passion to learn the language.
The teacher’s feedback is very interesting to note because Joey’s “one-sided” teaching approach is probably influenced by his experience as a RUclipsr who’d be more used to talking to a camera and reading comments rather than a continuous interaction with a live audience.
@@mrpotato7734 even in Twitch you are still talking to your computer and can choose to read comments or not. Engaging with a live audience is a whole different beast.
@@RadenWA Yeah, and when you're a relatively small streamer you can ignore some comments, meanwhile as a teacher you basically have to answer/react to all questions or remarks, because otherwise you'd lose respect and ppl might take you less seriously in a lesson. Which is pretty vital when learning another language. Edit: Actually it might not be "vital" depending on person to person, but I think it's pretty important if you're like the type of person to ask questions or just be engaged in the lesson in general which can be influenced with how you're seen. But Joey could probably pick it up given this is like the first time we've seen him teach this like formally-formally, tie and everything ya know?
@@Zen-zt4uk I think big streamers are more inclined to not reading comments because they get a _lot_ of them at great speed, that’s like teaching a full room where everyone’s saying something at the same time so you only respond to the student that gives you money 😏
That's TRUE we had one substitute first aid teacher who dress like Gothic girl and teach so fabulous I was in love with her in a single class. She never teacher us again but that single class was gorgeous and absolutely informatic.
The teacher got so impressed that he actually graded/regarded joey as an "Actual" teacher ready to teach students anytime which is why he gave actual pointers where he could improve. This made me realize that maybe, if a person likes what he's doing, it'll just go smoothly/naturally as if the job was meant for that person. Also, I hope to see more of these videos in the future.
I have taught a fair number of people, from young children to adults who were older than me by 20 or more years. I feel it helps alot if what you are teaching them is something you understand fairly well, and have an interest in, compared to when you have to teach them something young don't understand that well, or are not interested in. But the student also plays a part in this, I find trying to teach younger children boring and difficult, because they can't understand very well, and they have very short attention spans, and I don't have the patience to deal with them thoroughly.
teaching english in japan is very fulfilling emotionally. however it pays nothing, so if you can avoid it i dont suggest doing it for very long, and moving on with your life.
@@MemeKing44 It may have slowed down now that RUclips has become more profitable, but for awhile, there was quite the pipeline of people coming to Japan to teach and then after a few years, stopping to do RUclips or start their own business. Teaching was just the easy foot in the door to get to Japan and learn the language/culture until they got their bearings. And given Japanese bureaucracy and work culture, I dont fault them one iota, lol. Now though, you can just touch down in Japan and pretty much instantly make a RUclips channel based on that.
If I recall isn't Joey so good at Japanese that during the trash podcast where everyone was like saying he literally amazed some old citizens of his knowledge in Kanji cause they didn't even know as much as Joey does
As someone who wanted to be a proper teacher growing up, there are so many bullet points, guidelines by government, policies, and rules you have to follow that temp teachers don't. There's less room to be that teacher, unless you're respected well enough at the school to go outside of the standard model. It's way more fun being a temp teacher, In my honest opinion (obviously you don't get paid nearly as much). That's my experience anyway.
@@raet6375 I mean, I can read and understand Japanese (nowhere close to Joey's level obviously, but I'm starting to get a pretty good handle of it) and Joey's explanations here are about basic things in Japanese, but he makes them overly complicated. For example, his way of translating "kamoshirenai" as "I don't think / I don't know" is pretty far from how japanese people use it. Japanese dictionary definition for it is "Describing something you know is probable, but of which you can't assess the probability", aka it means "maybe". Simple as that. The whole part about the way to say "must" in Japanese is the same, really. Japanese just don't say you must, they say "if you don't, i'll kick your ass" (obviously not litteral, but you get the idea lol). In a more litteral way, it means "if you don't, it will not be forgiven", which is indeed a bit different from our western way of saying it, but is in no way as hard as he makes it seem in this class. Obviously he's not a teacher, and I am the first to get stupidly peculiar when trying to teach "a bit of japanese" to my friends, but you get the idea, this is in no way the good way to teach to people who most likely want a practical understanding of Japanese
@@Cookieofdoom imagine getting annoyed by students who actually want to learn and ask questions... you can study alone if you don't like it. As a really shy person, I appreciate those who ask a lot of questions in class, so that I don't have to ask, especially because they sometimes ask really good questions that I would have never thought of. It's you who can decide what to do with the situation, use it as a learning opportunity or let jealousy take over with negative feelings...
@@SentiNel090 he could try to teach English to Japanese people I guess, but I'm never gonna forget that one trash taste after dark where they were trying to spell out words.
I had a teacher with the last name Bell during school, so it was always "the bell doesn't dismiss you the Bell dismisses you." I won't lie. It's a stupid joke, but it always made me laugh.
As a Japanese teacher in Australia for the last 20 years, I can confidently say Joey did much better than most of the student teachers I have mentored.
Joey has alot experience with talking at an audience and that definitely helps him not stumble on his words and since he knows alot about what he's teaching he knows exactly where to start and that makes him a pretty good teacher
I love that he taught kanji theory and had a more practical approach to it. The only reason he didn’t get the 10 out of 10 was the absence of prep work that actual teachers have before class.
Meanwhile I, an actual teacher (I teach Engish in Spain's public school system, besides other subjects), cocks his head wondering... "Prepwork? Ain't nobody got time fo' that!" I'm kidding, but Joey is quite a natural. A good portion of being a teacher is to be an entertainer, and he definitely is. Another very important part is to know the subject you teach. If you don't know anything about geology, it doesn't matter how good the book is, your class is going to be boring and confusing. He knows the subject and is an entertainer; he's basically ready to teach, as long as he brushes up on the theory behind teaching and the legal details. And gets a university degree for it. So if YT fails, he has an out! LUL. BTW, speaking of textbooks, I have yet to see a textbook that serves its purpose, isn't full of mistakes or outright makes it even harder to learn. Most are counterproductive. Specially teaching English; they are quite literally tools that seem designed to prevent most kids from learning anything useful about the language, and discourage them from using it or putting any effort into it.
@@jhondidfool the Genki 3rd edition textbook I use in my 1st year Japanese class is actually very useful. It's paired with a workbook from the same company, and all of our learning comes from it. It teaches you everything you need to know for basic Japanese conversation.
@@laxmansaravanakumar8480 I said I have not seen them, not that they don't exist ;) . Then again, the use of an actually useful book requires for the teachers to know how to use it and have knowledge beyond the book when it comes to the subject matter. My fellow teachers are very nice people, but they would probably not pass their own exams, most of the time. It's not that they are unwilling to know the subject, though (in most cases!), but rather the demands of the education system on teachers leave us with so little time, actually studying and learning is a physical imposibility.
@@jhondidfool You make a fair point. It seems like I got very lucky with my prof, as she's very passionate about teaching, and always throws in extra knowledge of her own.
@@laxmansaravanakumar8480 You are! Squeeze every second you have with them! I still remember lessons from my best teachers from more than 2 decades ago, when I was a wee little lad.
My Japanese professor was the one that wrote those books I see the students with. When she was teaching kanji, she said exactly what Joey said. Knowing the meaning will save you so much down the road via context. I use Kanji to help me learn Korean. Once I hear the word, I can say, oh, that's this kanji (hanja in Korean) and guess what that person said. It has saved my life in so many conversations and tests, both Japanese and Korean.
Im doing the same, polish books teaching japanese are basically non existent so i need to use english to learn japanese. But its nice because it improves skill in both languages
As a Japanese I just wanna tell you that, this is not something anyone can do. Even normal native Japanese will struggle with teaching like this. He is very precise and good at teaching.
@@earlysda To be fair, this is an edited video. The class itself may have been about an hour long. He may have given more of an explanation to the class on that sentence, but it may have been cut to keep the video shorter.
@@maraque16 Good point, Laura. But I doubt it, as the main point should be to take the phrase as a whole, not as a word for word translation. In this video, he says it is a negative, when the meaning is not really negative at all. 例：「明日雨かも。」has nothing at all to do with a negative.
@@earlysda it’s really not that complicated かも means “maybe” and 知れない means like don’t know. Together it just means maybe, I don’t know/maybe. You just use it when something is uncertain.
Japanese native here. Your class was very interesting. I never thought of "間に合わないかもしれない" as a double negative at all, but that interpretation is pretty understandable and so now I can imagine non-native speakers are confusing with these sentences. Good to know that.
I believe the woman who asked about that is from a non-English speaking background because of her accent but also because double negatives have different effects in different languages. In my mind this further validates the question that she asked, because native English speakers don’t think about double negatives much aside from the general rule of “don’t use them if you want to be clear.”
As a Japanese American, I approve of his teachings. Just because we know English doesn't mean we know every single English word. Exactly the same with Kanji, that's what I tell my friends too. His teachings of Kanji is spot on. If you don't know how to read it, as long as you know what it's used for, you'll have a general idea what it means or sentence is saying.
That's true even as an autodidactic linguist words are not all known asking countryman about unknown words are easier than researching it in Google, rikai goi vs tsukai goi
I love how Joey always stresses the importance of fun when learning Japanese. Japanese is hard, and the second you think of it as a chore, it becomes hell. But if you just think of it as a game or puzzle that you need to learn to figure out and you hone your skills over the course of years, it becomes much easier.
That’s one of the main reasons I switched from Spanish to Japanese in college, despite living in California. Me and my friends tried to make Spanish fun and interesting and we’d try to speak to each other in it, but we just never “felt” right. Japanese became that “fun puzzle” and I loved it.
The only difficult part of Japanese is memorizing kanji and vocabulary. It has one of the simplest grammar systems, right in line with Spanish... Spoken Japanese is definitely no harder than that. It's true that making it a chore makes it harder... But so does all the hype around it being hard in the first place. Way easier than other Asian languages, far easier than Russian or German. Probably the hardest part is figuring out the culture, and how it informs communication in certain contexts (humor and sarcasm can be tricky), rather than the language itself.
My math teacher in HS always said the same thing, she is really love math to the point she always thinking it like a games or something. While her lesson is really fun and entertaining, I can't to this day thinking about math like a games lol, always stressed me out.
I think cdawd connor also has someone translating gfrom japanese into english .Dunno i that a clas thou. Wow he is is good at giving lessons, dr jelly :P
@@marocat4749 connor has a 2-hour japanese class he goes to once a week when he's not traveling if i remember correctly. and when he makes videos i'm pretty sure he has a geex+ staff member with him that can speak at least better japanese than he can so that the recording can go smoothly
i love the fact that you can tell joey didn't just "oh this is a fun video, I'll just wing it" but prepared something and actually gave them info to learn from that is very useful. you can tell because at the start the student were just "oh he's just a youtube" just by how they look at their notes and study on their own instead of listening (apart from that one girl that took an opportunity to ask that burning question she has) even the guy asked to go out take a bathroom break but when he returned and saw he's giving them this kanji lesson they were all attentive and want to learn that info.
As a Japanese learner, this video genuinely taught me stuff I haven’t learned yet even after 9 months. I would LOVE to be taught by Joey. This is nuts.
I think knowledge is fun when we have an interest and persue that interest. I have an interest in learning Japanese, but I've yet to start because finals for my semester are coming up. But I would like to try self learning during semester break
Joey's teaching style reminds me of one of my language teachers. Q and A style, very relaxed, very playful, she would let us drive the discussions, discuss the speaking and sentence structure and then dissect each part of it, and is willing to go beyond the textbook if he wanted to, Joey would make an amazing Japanese language teacher
I majored in Japanese language and my mother tongue teachers never said ANYTHING of what Joey explained about kanji. I had to figure it out by myself and it was really hard, it took me like 5 years, because I saw all my classmates writing kanji over and over, one by one, and I simply couldn't do it, it wasn't making any sense to me and it looked like a big waste of time. After many trials, I found my method and it includes everything Joey said, especially the last part about learning words instead of one kanji alone. It's so much more useful and faster! So yeah, this video is pure gold for every student, I actually cheered and clapped in front of my computer watching this. Take notes, guys!
How long did it take for you to learn these kanji 憂鬱 I feel like if had to practice these you would end up in the same state. Which is why technology is better.
Congrats, you just found the route to complete the Japanese language quest with the happiest ending, it's through hardship and alot of confusion like a lot of people before anybody else. Seriously though, I think the beauty of learning Japanese is, you might understand the essence of thing you learned in your first year 5-7 years later. And it's okay
@@southcoastinventors6583 for this kind of kanji I'd use the same strategy as the others but at the same time I'd try to focus on their radicals or parts that stand out to me. Because I noticed that if I remember at least a half of it, then my manual memory does help me to complete it. I hope it makes sense hahaha
Joey, I teach 7th graders in America and I will say that you killed it man. The teacher had great feedback for you, but the one that I would say is that you had hella confidence! And from my experience that is key to teaching. You did something that is super intimidating and scary and you looked like a natural. Cheers!
I was kind of tricked into an internship as a senior in high school to teach 7th and 8th graders nutrition (I am NOT the body type you would expect a nutrition lesson to come from 😅), and confidence is definitely key. It's why the students ran circles around my partner with equal parts rudeness and apathy (the school also wasn't....great. Many of the teachers often left the room when we entered, leaving us to fend for ourselves, lol). I am absolutely not confident either, I just tried to teach from the point of view that I'm still learning about better nutrition, too (17 years later, I don't think I can say that with a straight face 😅). In short, you're right and Joey was really a natural. As one who's struggling with just Rosetta Stone's Japanese courses, I'd love for Joey to be my instructor.
I know Joey isn’t really big on teaching Japanese but I really wish he had a slow drip side channel for it because his insights into learning the language are soooooo useful, like knowing how to explain concepts to someone who doesn’t understand is a really important skill
13:53 Student: Why your Japanese so good? Joey: My Japanese is so good because I studied for 28 years. I genuinely love the fact that I didn't bring up the fact that his mom is the major reason why he began the journey of learning in the first place.
@@PTBHPTBH Yeah, but he "studied" it for 28 years because his mother is japanese, that's literally his native language, just like English is... He was raised bilingual. That's much easier then learning as an adult.
@@FredMaverik uhh yes he did lmfao. you ever seen his sister? shes nowhere as fluent in japanese as he is. and joey literally read kanji books for years when he was little memorizing a ton of them, something that even japanese kids dont often do. and furthermore, his love for manga and anime further fueled his study as well. you dont know anything about the person dont act like youre a know it all
It is true that children who grow up in isolation, even with a mother who is a native speaker, will rarely progress beyond an intermediate level in the language without significant effort on their part. When a parent speaks with a child from birth, the child may not necessarily engage with the wider culture or encounter a full range of topics and situations. As a result, they may not be exposed to a well-rounded understanding of how the language is used. While media can help, it is not a substitute for school education, which is also very important. Therefore, if a child misses out on so much of the language, they will require a lot of effort to actually become fluent. However, children in Joey's situation have a significant advantage in pronunciation and language intuition, as their brains are engaged with the sounds and structure of the language, shaping how their brains develop. Leading to life long advantages in language acquisition compared to those starting as an a adult.
Joey is that guy who's just somehow good at everything...first he impressed a Michelin star chef enough for him to wanna hire Joey...and now being a teacher
**Remembering how Joey didn't use his expensive dedicated graphics card for years because he plugged his monitor into the mainboard hdmi slot** Well... maybe not at EVERYTHING xD
Man that Kun’yomi and On’yomi rule Joey just showed the class actually helped a lot. I wish Joey would have a Japanese course online. I would take the class for sure because I’m just learning tons of radicals, kanji, and vocabulary. I would love to learn Japanese.
Same here. I never realised that if there is a hiragana at the end of it it usually becomes a kunyomi and if there is a kanji after or before it becomes a onyomi. I actually sat here and took notes myself
God, why was this video not there when I struggled with A1 Japanese at uni? Joey is such a great teacher, to be honest, and the tip about onyomi and kunyomi and how the two pronounciations differ based on what is surrounding the kanji itself - blew my mind. No one in our uni ever bothered to even mention this! Joey saying that this explanation sounds a bit difficult or confusing actually isn't true for me. It cleared up so much confusion for me, in actuality. Also, the biggest moment of "WHY JAPAN?!??" was when Joey said that most Japanese people have to constantly take educated guesses as to what a kanji means or how to pronounce it, rather than just simply knowing. This is your native language. Your mother tongue. How to read/pronounce something is a part of the language that a native speaker should just know from the get-go. And yet, Japanese defies all expectations. It is so crazy for me to think that Japanese people have to guess at their own language almost on a daily basis. I have mad respect for them for this, honestly. I couldn't even imagine having to live with that additional "problem" every day.
well I can only say language is kind of a living document of the society... just like in english we constantly change words, add words, discard words to the yonder. hell, there's entire sections of english designated as old english because the general pop. don't even know how to read and understand it. That and lots of foreign loan words... like Emoji, Kimchi, Entrepreneur
If you see an English word you have never seen before, you can guess how the word is pronounced, but you don't actually know for sure without looking it up because some words are pronounced in weird or unexpected ways, so in that sense English is the same. I guess its just worse in Japanese. Especially for names.
Isn't that also for any language in a certain level though. Whenever I found a new English word I have to guess what the meaning is based on my existing knowledge. Especially slangs and memes
Your explanation on 音読みと訓読み confirmed what I always suspected and assumed but could find no information on to confirm those thoughts. Thanks for putting that so simply! That really helped!
It’s so cool seeing where Joey come from, mans was just makin videos bout different anime and now he’s out here teaching college students bout jp and I’m loving the new branches of content so proud of this manz
Never have I felt more encouraged to learn Japanese until now. In a way it’s reassuring to know that after 28 years of study, you can’t be ‘perfect’ in Japanese. I think everyone should be proud of how far they’ve come, no matter how basic or advanced your Japanese is.
Oh wow, Joey is actually a great teachee wtf. I can't believe he made me voluntarily sits through a 20 minutes lecture and i didn't even feel time pass.
Joey's like Gojo for Japanese to us the audience, he's the strongest we know of until Heian era freaks like Sukuna start popping up with barrierless domains and multiple cursed techniques.
Joey, you were actually a REALLY good teacher for a first-time teacher. You were phenomenal. I thought you'd be awkward but I guess doing public speaking for panels and the tour really helped you a lot. The most important skill a teacher should have(after the knowledge of course) is confidence. And you were EXUDING confidence there. Good Job!!
Teacher feedback, metalinguistic awareness, and language experience are three skills that I would consider the "make-or-break" experience for language learners. As a linguist teacher and an expert in second language acquisition, I would say that Joey did a phenomenal job teaching the class despite that he didn't know a lick of teaching. The charm in Joey's teaching style is due to his fluency in both Japanese and English (grammatically and pragmatically). To come across a teacher who understands the language s/he is teaching AND is able to communicate in a language that the students use is an invaluable experience--this is easily reflected in how the students react and interact with Joey in this video. I also wanted to add to what Joey said in his speech at @16:16 -- all languages are experiencing change and inventions of new words. Any language learner, fluent or not, will never reach the ceiling because of this constant change. Even as I say this as an expert, knowing everything about a language can only be close to the ceiling but I'll never be able to reach it because new words are invented every year; and there are also words that are far too outdated that have no purpose to be taught, let alone learn myself. All in all, once a language learner is always a language learner (even if you are a teacher/language expert)! Awesome job, Joey! I hope you will consider making another video where you can teach Japanese. I'm definitely sure that you left a huge impact on these students' Japanese acquisition! I wouldn't be surprised if they asked you to be their teacher too! 🤭
I think that Joey would make a really good Japanese teacher for foreign learners like these guys because he has the personal experience of learning the language outside of Japan so knows some different techniques for learning from natives. Also, because he is bilingual and highly proficient in both languages, he is able to understand the Japanese students may be confused about as well as be able to explain the issue clearly in English from somewhat of a similar perspective to the students.
As someone currently starting to study Japanese, the On'Yomi and Kun'Yomi explanation and trying to read into context clues is actually a massive help. Joey seems like he would make an awesome teacher!
Personally, I already had a hunch Joey would be good at teaching, judging from how well he presents his metaphors and arguments on Trash Taste. What I didn't expect is how articulate he can present ideas as well. His interpersonal and linguistic intelligence are really good.
For someone with no teaching experience, he really makes the explanation really easy to understand and grasp it. Including, his method on how to understand the kanji problem scenario. Thats what a good teacher is all about.
As someone currently studying Japanese in Japan, I literally told myself before I came to Japan "You need to make friends with as many non-English speakers as you can so that you're forced to use your Japanese."
As someone who did about half the in classroom work of becoming a highschool teacher, i have to say im very jelous of a college professor being able to actually teach something that people want to learn, rather than being forced to take as part of the cirriculum. Also being able to just answer general questions and go in depth about a specific topic to help them seems very fun, you get to prove you have applicable knowledge rather than simply memoriezed understanding. Great video!
I agree with the other replies; there are elements that suck about teaching a required subject. However, part of the best teachers' skill set is being able to seduce the student into turning on to that required subject. That can require the guile of a snake-oil huckster. But if the teacher has a deep passion for the subject, and a genuine concern for the students, along with a measure of creativity; that's not as impossible as it might sound. I recall a 17 year-old football player whose university scholarship (already in the bag) depended on his English grade which had never been higher than a D because he could not write essays. He certainly didn't want anything to do with English. However, by reaching out to him, offering step-by-step support, and encouraging him to write (first)about football which he understood deeply, he gained the insight and the formatting needed to write about characters as they appeared in novels or plays. He got an A on his final exam. The highest score he'd ever received in the subject. Such success stories for a subject that people initially detest aren't as isolated as they might seem. And the teachers who make them happen are largely unrecognized and underappreciated for what they do.
Omg this is actually helpful wtf, I’m doing a Japanese studies degree rn and joeys actually more use of than my teacher lol petition for joey to start a Japanese class
It sounds kind of crazy but Joey being a RUclipsr actually makes him such a great teacher in a sense that he has amazing speaking skills; from having to explain so much info to an audience. I feel like loads of teachers know the material but they have to build up their speech.
He makes such a good point saying that kanji itself isnt important but its application is more so. When i was studying for N3, whenever i saw a new kanji, i always looked at some of the words in which it is used. Helped me remember so much more and also makes you revise the other kanji you read together. Big brain trick right here.
as someone taking Japanese 1 this semester, this is actually awesome. a lot of what they are talking about are things I haven't learned yet but I still feel like I'm understanding enough about to get value out of this. this is soo cool.
This is exceptional material for studying Japanese Kanji in general. Great explanation on how to read into the context and the flow of the language. I'll definitely like to see Joey partner with YDC in an annual stream on how to engage in the language a lot more (and for the audience overseas) and learn the culture and intricacies of how to go about in Japan. Maybe do an annual checkup on the audience that he's built a following with, as he's been teaching his mates over in Trash Taste and his SO Aki how to go about in Japan.
I'll be frank, you did a pretty good job with these students. You explained in simple terms that made the intricacies of Japanese grammar and syntax a lot easier to understand.
I’m not sure if English is a second language for you; but the phrase “I’ll be frank” is usually deployed as a negative feedback precursor. To “prepare” the recipient of your honest feedback, if you will; which is normally in some part critical of the subject matter. Parsing your statement to Joey, there doesn’t appear to be any criticisms levied at him regarding his performance. I hope this helped!
To add (from another ESL speaker): Instead of "I'll be frank" which carries a negative connotation ("I'll be blunt/straight with you"), I find that using phrases like "honestly," or "frankly," is more of a neutral and heartfelt gesture towards the listener. Reading your comment made me do a double take honestly ngl and I had to reword it in my head
It’s interesting and helpful to hear language learning tips from someone who is multilingual. You know all the short cuts and have a good view of where the pitfalls of learning are for non-native speakers.
As a teacher, hearing the feedback about "little quizzes" to check/reaffirm what students know while you are doing the lesson makes me happy. It's such a small thing that can carry your instruction and solidify concepts for students!.
I think Joey’s stream where he went over Japanese w chat definitely helped with this! He did so well and I think I’d actually be really engaged in this class
I'm actually learning Japanese. I was supposed to listen to it in the background while eating, but it was soooooo interesting. I stopped eating and even started to answer your questions and think with the students. You know how to capture students' attention, and the way you explained things were really easy to understand. You would be an excellent teacher, I think. Thank you for this video, Joey. 💜 PS : You will never be a master at any language. I'm French, lived in France since the day I was born, but I still discover new things. Thus, for anyone that learn another language, don't feel bad if you make mistakes. The truth is, even natives make mistakes. Sometimes, you have a better understanding of the language you're learning than them. Don't feel bad. 💜
I have no plans to learn Japanese, but I found your statement about there being no ceiling to be very inspirational. I feel like it applies to almost everything in life - you will never be a 100% complete master at a single subject. There will always be more knowledgeable in certain aspects of it, or the subject can continue to expand over time. Made me feel a lot better about my self-esteem issues. Thank you.
This was the video where I though omg, he's actually god at teaching kanji. He's not just a speaker, he's a legit master at it. Also liked how the actual teacher was himself taking notes. Shows the humility and willingness to learn.
You know, I did it after I graduated. It was an experience. I wouldn’t give up a difficult one but a good experience really forces you out of your comfort zone.
If i were to be joey’s japanese mom, this video is the one that i’m going to show my friends when they ask “what you’re son doing on youtube?” It went well until they open the channel and see joey read henti 😂
it's all gone down hill from there... at least his fiance was not Sydney... that's gonna be awkward for visits if they decided to move back to start family (yes, sydney is grant's wife...)
I was an English teacher for 10 years, and I'll say not everyone has the knack to be a language teacher. Joey has got it, and he should make more teaching videos. He's strong out the gate, and he'd only get better over time. :)
Watching this video and reading some of the comments made me appreciate my Japanese Language teacher more. She taught us the onyomi/kunyomi rule on day 1 of teaching us basic kanji and it definitely helped us read and contextualize it quicker. I’m gonna go thank her after our next class lol
Wow so, I’m really lost in life right now. Today’s been kinda a bad day as far as feeling aimless and hopeless, but seriously Joey. Just watching you teach this class (and actually learning from you! Like, I’m getting out my old Japanese notebook to take notes!) sparked my curiosity and desire in me to learn Japanese again! I JUST finished this video and am about to rewatch it to take notes. We’ll see where this goes!
Coming from a teacher here - you nailed it. Creating quizzes is something that is usually pepped ahead of time, so no shame in not having that ready to go. You definitely fulfilled that small part of you that wanted to be a teacher.
I love this video so much Joey! You break down learning Japanese to make it feel like a conversation. It's so easy to learn! Please make this a new video series! I've watched this video over and over as I learn more to see my progress in studies! Please make more Japanese learning language videos, you're so great at teaching!
As someone who has been studying Japanese for the last 15 years, I learned something from this too! You're absolutely right about how textbooks, and even instructors teach certain phrases or grammar points as well as kanji. I always associated かもしれない as more negative because of the ない and previous professors usually kinda skip over a grammar point that sounds negative but can be translated as a positive or neutral. Also, that was a good way to explain kanji that I hadn't thought of before. All of my professors in college just had us memorize them as they were, rather than context and how to tell the difference in reading it. I will have to remember that as I continue learning kanji on my own.
Joey looks like he'd put children in giant robots and force them to fight “angels”
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is that an eva reference
Bokurano moment.
I love how he never pulls the "I am Japanese" card, as not to discorage the students. He instead says that he studied for 28 years, the funny thing is he is 28. Anyone can do it, and you'll never stop making mistakes because you'll never stop learning.
Ever since he was in the womb he was studying
I mean, if you live in Japan that is literally true. Such a convenient truth.
@@Bobbershlon the asian way
You will make mistakes, everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to learn from mistakes.
I've learned a lot.
I know, when I discovered his channel I thought he was a foreigner and learned Japanese from scratch to a decent level. I felt motivated to study and practice more. When I found out that he was actually half Japanese I was a bit disappointed, but that didn't stop my passion to learn the language.
The teacher’s feedback is very interesting to note because Joey’s “one-sided” teaching approach is probably influenced by his experience as a RUclipsr who’d be more used to talking to a camera and reading comments rather than a continuous interaction with a live audience.
RUclipsr vs Twitch streamer basically
@@mrpotato7734 even in Twitch you are still talking to your computer and can choose to read comments or not. Engaging with a live audience is a whole different beast.
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@@RadenWA Yeah, and when you're a relatively small streamer you can ignore some comments, meanwhile as a teacher you basically have to answer/react to all questions or remarks, because otherwise you'd lose respect and ppl might take you less seriously in a lesson. Which is pretty vital when learning another language.
Edit: Actually it might not be "vital" depending on person to person, but I think it's pretty important if you're like the type of person to ask questions or just be engaged in the lesson in general which can be influenced with how you're seen. But Joey could probably pick it up given this is like the first time we've seen him teach this like formally-formally, tie and everything ya know?
@@Zen-zt4uk I think big streamers are more inclined to not reading comments because they get a _lot_ of them at great speed, that’s like teaching a full room where everyone’s saying something at the same time so you only respond to the student that gives you money 😏
Joey is like that substitute teacher you had in highschool that only taught a single lesson, but you remember for the rest of your life
True.
Like “Today I’m going teach you how to strike a Jojo pose.”
Mine teached me how swear and order 3 beers in spanish, good times
been there
That's TRUE we had one substitute first aid teacher who dress like Gothic girl and teach so fabulous I was in love with her in a single class. She never teacher us again but that single class was gorgeous and absolutely informatic.
Joey walking in with a Jojo tie, a camera crew and just writing the name “Joey” on the whiteboard just exudes substitute teacher energy
Killer Queen!😺 Bites the Dust
I don't think that's a tie. Look closely, it appears to be part of the shirt's design.
its not a tie its the button seam design
Just what kind of subs have you had?
Ah yes. Our substitute teachers also had a camera crew
The teacher got so impressed that he actually graded/regarded joey as an "Actual" teacher ready to teach students anytime which is why he gave actual pointers where he could improve. This made me realize that maybe, if a person likes what he's doing, it'll just go smoothly/naturally as if the job was meant for that person.
Also, I hope to see more of these videos in the future.
I have taught a fair number of people, from young children to adults who were older than me by 20 or more years. I feel it helps alot if what you are teaching them is something you understand fairly well, and have an interest in, compared to when you have to teach them something young don't understand that well, or are not interested in. But the student also plays a part in this, I find trying to teach younger children boring and difficult, because they can't understand very well, and they have very short attention spans, and I don't have the patience to deal with them thoroughly.
teaching english in japan is very fulfilling emotionally. however it pays nothing, so if you can avoid it i dont suggest doing it for very long, and moving on with your life.
@@MemeKing44 It may have slowed down now that RUclips has become more profitable, but for awhile, there was quite the pipeline of people coming to Japan to teach and then after a few years, stopping to do RUclips or start their own business. Teaching was just the easy foot in the door to get to Japan and learn the language/culture until they got their bearings. And given Japanese bureaucracy and work culture, I dont fault them one iota, lol. Now though, you can just touch down in Japan and pretty much instantly make a RUclips channel based on that.
If I recall isn't Joey so good at Japanese that during the trash podcast where everyone was like saying he literally amazed some old citizens of his knowledge in Kanji cause they didn't even know as much as Joey does
Joey actually did a live stream teaching Japanese to his viewers from numbers, kanji, how to read it, and so forth. He actually got the skill for it.
Joey would be the substitute teacher everyone loves in school
exactly lol
"No shot my new sub teacher is a famous youtuber Josh the manga lad!"
@@22515362 yooooo, wtf lol
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Even the guys be like "oh no he's hooot"
The “Im not a teacher” guys always make for great lectures
As someone who wanted to be a proper teacher growing up, there are so many bullet points, guidelines by government, policies, and rules you have to follow that temp teachers don't. There's less room to be that teacher, unless you're respected well enough at the school to go outside of the standard model. It's way more fun being a temp teacher, In my honest opinion (obviously you don't get paid nearly as much). That's my experience anyway.
Honestly, I feel like his explanations are more confusing than anything else
@@thepierre396 Really???
@@raet6375 I mean, I can read and understand Japanese (nowhere close to Joey's level obviously, but I'm starting to get a pretty good handle of it) and Joey's explanations here are about basic things in Japanese, but he makes them overly complicated.
For example, his way of translating "kamoshirenai" as "I don't think / I don't know" is pretty far from how japanese people use it. Japanese dictionary definition for it is "Describing something you know is probable, but of which you can't assess the probability", aka it means "maybe". Simple as that.
The whole part about the way to say "must" in Japanese is the same, really. Japanese just don't say you must, they say "if you don't, i'll kick your ass" (obviously not litteral, but you get the idea lol). In a more litteral way, it means "if you don't, it will not be forgiven", which is indeed a bit different from our western way of saying it, but is in no way as hard as he makes it seem in this class.
Obviously he's not a teacher, and I am the first to get stupidly peculiar when trying to teach "a bit of japanese" to my friends, but you get the idea, this is in no way the good way to teach to people who most likely want a practical understanding of Japanese
@@thepierre396 That sounds about Joey lol
I love how every class is usually carried by 2 talkative students
Squeaky wheel gets the grease.
That’s pretty much how it goes haha. Everyone has the opportunity to talk at the very least
@@southcoastinventors6583 the nail that sticks out gets hammered 🤺
I frigging hate those who does that. Yeah, we know wanna do the teacher to get better grades but jeeeesus, shut the heck up....
@@Cookieofdoom imagine getting annoyed by students who actually want to learn and ask questions... you can study alone if you don't like it. As a really shy person, I appreciate those who ask a lot of questions in class, so that I don't have to ask, especially because they sometimes ask really good questions that I would have never thought of. It's you who can decide what to do with the situation, use it as a learning opportunity or let jealousy take over with negative feelings...
If Joey ever quits RUclips he could honestly become an incredible japanese teacher
Agreed. He's very skilled and intelligent guy.
Or, and hear me out on this. An even greater English teacher! Break the stigma of Engrish!
@@SentiNel090 he could try to teach English to Japanese people I guess, but I'm never gonna forget that one trash taste after dark where they were trying to spell out words.
Teacher? I don't know. But a substitute teacher. Probably. Giving a class is a thing but giving a course is another game entirely
@@totem95 he can be a sub at first sure
Joey looks like the type to say "Class is over when I say it's over. The bell doesn't dismiss you, I dismiss you."
you mean, karen
You mean literally all my teachers in high school.
Literally. All of them. 🥲
then he ends class before the bell anyway
I had a teacher with the last name Bell during school, so it was always "the bell doesn't dismiss you the Bell dismisses you." I won't lie. It's a stupid joke, but it always made me laugh.
“I haven’t even taught you half of today’s lesson”
“what…”
As a Japanese teacher in Australia for the last 20 years, I can confidently say Joey did much better than most of the student teachers I have mentored.
Teaching is very, very, very hard.
@@aw2031zap oh
Joey has alot experience with talking at an audience and that definitely helps him not stumble on his words and since he knows alot about what he's teaching he knows exactly where to start and that makes him a pretty good teacher
being in the profession myself in Japan i would say Joey is good in engaging the students having received no formal training.
I love that he taught kanji theory and had a more practical approach to it. The only reason he didn’t get the 10 out of 10 was the absence of prep work that actual teachers have before class.
Meanwhile I, an actual teacher (I teach Engish in Spain's public school system, besides other subjects), cocks his head wondering... "Prepwork? Ain't nobody got time fo' that!" I'm kidding, but Joey is quite a natural. A good portion of being a teacher is to be an entertainer, and he definitely is.
Another very important part is to know the subject you teach. If you don't know anything about geology, it doesn't matter how good the book is, your class is going to be boring and confusing. He knows the subject and is an entertainer; he's basically ready to teach, as long as he brushes up on the theory behind teaching and the legal details. And gets a university degree for it. So if YT fails, he has an out! LUL.
BTW, speaking of textbooks, I have yet to see a textbook that serves its purpose, isn't full of mistakes or outright makes it even harder to learn. Most are counterproductive. Specially teaching English; they are quite literally tools that seem designed to prevent most kids from learning anything useful about the language, and discourage them from using it or putting any effort into it.
@@jhondidfool the Genki 3rd edition textbook I use in my 1st year Japanese class is actually very useful. It's paired with a workbook from the same company, and all of our learning comes from it. It teaches you everything you need to know for basic Japanese conversation.
@@laxmansaravanakumar8480 I said I have not seen them, not that they don't exist ;) .
Then again, the use of an actually useful book requires for the teachers to know how to use it and have knowledge beyond the book when it comes to the subject matter. My fellow teachers are very nice people, but they would probably not pass their own exams, most of the time.
It's not that they are unwilling to know the subject, though (in most cases!), but rather the demands of the education system on teachers leave us with so little time, actually studying and learning is a physical imposibility.
@@jhondidfool You make a fair point. It seems like I got very lucky with my prof, as she's very passionate about teaching, and always throws in extra knowledge of her own.
@@laxmansaravanakumar8480 You are! Squeeze every second you have with them! I still remember lessons from my best teachers from more than 2 decades ago, when I was a wee little lad.
My Japanese professor was the one that wrote those books I see the students with. When she was teaching kanji, she said exactly what Joey said. Knowing the meaning will save you so much down the road via context. I use Kanji to help me learn Korean. Once I hear the word, I can say, oh, that's this kanji (hanja in Korean) and guess what that person said. It has saved my life in so many conversations and tests, both Japanese and Korean.
what book is it?
@@kaze2827 the Genki Series. That is the genki kanji book series coauthored by Chikako Shinagawa
yesss - while ive barely learned any hanja characters at all, being able to recognize them in sentences is soo helpful to learning
Joey as a teacher is so down to earth, the students can really relate
LOOOOL props to the students using their second languages to learn their third 😂
Right?!! Very impressive
Im doing the same, polish books teaching japanese are basically non existent so i need to use english to learn japanese. But its nice because it improves skill in both languages
Its pretty easy.
From Spanish to English and now Japanese 😅
Honestly, I find it easier to learn other languages through english than my native tongue. (portuguese)
As someone who has to study Japanese as part of my uni degree, this was unironically a really informative video
Dude same man I started unconsciously take out my notebook and took notes when he started explaining about the onmyoumi and kunyoumi
Check out Dogen. He is in Japan too and is friends with Joey.
As a Japanese I just wanna tell you that, this is not something anyone can do. Even normal native Japanese will struggle with teaching like this. He is very precise and good at teaching.
Except his 「かも知れない」explanation was lacking.
@@earlysda To be fair, this is an edited video. The class itself may have been about an hour long. He may have given more of an explanation to the class on that sentence, but it may have been cut to keep the video shorter.
@@maraque16 Good point, Laura.
But I doubt it, as the main point should be to take the phrase as a whole, not as a word for word translation. In this video, he says it is a negative, when the meaning is not really negative at all. 例：「明日雨かも。」has nothing at all to do with a negative.
@@earlysda it’s really not that complicated かも means “maybe” and 知れない means like don’t know. Together it just means maybe, I don’t know/maybe. You just use it when something is uncertain.
@@sato1707 I've already said that, 天。Your comment now contradicts the first one you wrote tho...
Joey needs to make a separate channel for teaching Japanese
I vouch for this!
I too would like that a lot 🥹💖
I would love to learn japanese from him! I thought he did well teaching.
Yesss
I’d sign up for that!
Japanese native here. Your class was very interesting. I never thought of "間に合わないかもしれない" as a double negative at all, but that interpretation is pretty understandable and so now I can imagine non-native speakers are confusing with these sentences. Good to know that.
Sign of a good class is when the student and the teacher still be able to learn new things/perspective...
I believe the woman who asked about that is from a non-English speaking background because of her accent but also because double negatives have different effects in different languages. In my mind this further validates the question that she asked, because native English speakers don’t think about double negatives much aside from the general rule of “don’t use them if you want to be clear.”
As a Japanese American, I approve of his teachings.
Just because we know English doesn't mean we know every single English word. Exactly the same with Kanji, that's what I tell my friends too.
His teachings of Kanji is spot on.
If you don't know how to read it, as long as you know what it's used for, you'll have a general idea what it means or sentence is saying.
sometimes
That's true even as an autodidactic linguist words are not all known asking countryman about unknown words are easier than researching it in Google, rikai goi vs tsukai goi
I love how Joey always stresses the importance of fun when learning Japanese. Japanese is hard, and the second you think of it as a chore, it becomes hell. But if you just think of it as a game or puzzle that you need to learn to figure out and you hone your skills over the course of years, it becomes much easier.
That’s one of the main reasons I switched from Spanish to Japanese in college, despite living in California. Me and my friends tried to make Spanish fun and interesting and we’d try to speak to each other in it, but we just never “felt” right. Japanese became that “fun puzzle” and I loved it.
The only difficult part of Japanese is memorizing kanji and vocabulary. It has one of the simplest grammar systems, right in line with Spanish... Spoken Japanese is definitely no harder than that.
It's true that making it a chore makes it harder... But so does all the hype around it being hard in the first place. Way easier than other Asian languages, far easier than Russian or German. Probably the hardest part is figuring out the culture, and how it informs communication in certain contexts (humor and sarcasm can be tricky), rather than the language itself.
My math teacher in HS always said the same thing, she is really love math to the point she always thinking it like a games or something.
While her lesson is really fun and entertaining, I can't to this day thinking about math like a games lol, always stressed me out.
@@deano1699 perfectly said (although I struggle with grammar😂)
Literally this applies for any subject, you won’t learn anything unless you have fun
His japanese language teaching stream is actually pretty good.
Made for a good supplementary material while Im learning Japanese myself
where are these streams?
@@deffranca3396 on his twitch channel, I guess he does some "classes" from time to time
I think cdawd connor also has someone translating gfrom japanese into english .Dunno i that a clas thou.
Wow he is is good at giving lessons, dr jelly :P
@@marocat4749 connor has a 2-hour japanese class he goes to once a week when he's not traveling if i remember correctly. and when he makes videos i'm pretty sure he has a geex+ staff member with him that can speak at least better japanese than he can so that the recording can go smoothly
@@ZainKaneko Oh that person translating, mant that.
i love the fact that you can tell joey didn't just "oh this is a fun video, I'll just wing it" but prepared something and actually gave them info to learn from that is very useful.
you can tell because at the start the student were just "oh he's just a youtube" just by how they look at their notes and study on their own instead of listening (apart from that one girl that took an opportunity to ask that burning question she has) even the guy asked to go out take a bathroom break but when he returned and saw he's giving them this kanji lesson they were all attentive and want to learn that info.
As a Japanese learner, this video genuinely taught me stuff I haven’t learned yet even after 9 months. I would LOVE to be taught by Joey. This is nuts.
Ikr? There's something he explained that I haven't gotten to lessons. If he can leave some N5/N4 level that'd be great xD
9 months is a very short time
Did…did I just voluntarily watched a 21 minutes Japanese lesson?
yes you did
and so did we all
I don’t even speak a word of Japanese but I couldn’t stop watching 😭
I think knowledge is fun when we have an interest and persue that interest. I have an interest in learning Japanese, but I've yet to start because finals for my semester are coming up. But I would like to try self learning during semester break
Even for a moment but I learned a lot of new things compared to when I was learning on my own. Joey really has the talent to be a good teacher
we've been bamboozled
I like how Joey even dressed fashionably for the occasion. He was also very affable (approachable) which is important for one to be a good teacher.
I like how you explained affable just in case people of this channel don't follow trash taste
@@tpsam Certified Chris Broad approved
That kira tie be drippy tho 😤👌
I love how affable is just a normal part of the Trash Taste community's vocabulary now.
@@geraldushimawan8269 Is it a tie? looks like part of the shirt's design to me.
Joey's teaching style reminds me of one of my language teachers. Q and A style, very relaxed, very playful, she would let us drive the discussions, discuss the speaking and sentence structure and then dissect each part of it, and is willing to go beyond the textbook
if he wanted to, Joey would make an amazing Japanese language teacher
I am fluent in Japanese but Joey got me hooked with his lesson for 21 minutes!
I'm not fluent in English or Japanese and he got me too
I love when joey said "get in the fucking robot shinji! " truly one of the anime man moments.
@💊 Diatom 💊 Dang dude, what did I do to you? 😂
@@charlesesmer9528 the internet has broken this man
@LinguoButterremember when supaa said it’s one shot build time and shot on everyone?!”1?!”
Joey says he can't teach. Proceeds to teach the most insightful class I've heard in a while
Bro literally this was amazing the way he broke everything down and explained super important points was super helpful
You know that one guy in class who says they didn't study before the exams and actually passed the test? Yeah, he's definitely one of them.
@@jahsehdwayne9525 he's actually really good at Japanese. Better than the average Japanese and he studied hard to get there
I majored in Japanese language and my mother tongue teachers never said ANYTHING of what Joey explained about kanji. I had to figure it out by myself and it was really hard, it took me like 5 years, because I saw all my classmates writing kanji over and over, one by one, and I simply couldn't do it, it wasn't making any sense to me and it looked like a big waste of time. After many trials, I found my method and it includes everything Joey said, especially the last part about learning words instead of one kanji alone. It's so much more useful and faster!
So yeah, this video is pure gold for every student, I actually cheered and clapped in front of my computer watching this. Take notes, guys!
So sorry for you, Alessia. I was taught in the first few weeks of kanji training to look at how they each interact with other kanji to form words.
How long did it take for you to learn these kanji 憂鬱 I feel like if had to practice these you would end up in the same state. Which is why technology is better.
すばらしい！
Congrats, you just found the route to complete the Japanese language quest with the happiest ending, it's through hardship and alot of confusion like a lot of people before anybody else. Seriously though, I think the beauty of learning Japanese is, you might understand the essence of thing you learned in your first year 5-7 years later. And it's okay
@@southcoastinventors6583 for this kind of kanji I'd use the same strategy as the others but at the same time I'd try to focus on their radicals or parts that stand out to me. Because I noticed that if I remember at least a half of it, then my manual memory does help me to complete it. I hope it makes sense hahaha
Joey, I teach 7th graders in America and I will say that you killed it man. The teacher had great feedback for you, but the one that I would say is that you had hella confidence! And from my experience that is key to teaching. You did something that is super intimidating and scary and you looked like a natural. Cheers!
I was kind of tricked into an internship as a senior in high school to teach 7th and 8th graders nutrition (I am NOT the body type you would expect a nutrition lesson to come from 😅), and confidence is definitely key. It's why the students ran circles around my partner with equal parts rudeness and apathy (the school also wasn't....great. Many of the teachers often left the room when we entered, leaving us to fend for ourselves, lol).
I am absolutely not confident either, I just tried to teach from the point of view that I'm still learning about better nutrition, too (17 years later, I don't think I can say that with a straight face 😅). In short, you're right and Joey was really a natural. As one who's struggling with just Rosetta Stone's Japanese courses, I'd love for Joey to be my instructor.
@@BewareTheLilyOfTheValley same
Except the content wasn't so great.
I know Joey isn’t really big on teaching Japanese but I really wish he had a slow drip side channel for it because his insights into learning the language are soooooo useful, like knowing how to explain concepts to someone who doesn’t understand is a really important skill
Joey’s side channel already have some video about Japanese learning. You can check those out.
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Student: Why your Japanese so good?
Joey: My Japanese is so good because I studied for 28 years.
I genuinely love the fact that I didn't bring up the fact that his mom is the major reason why he began the journey of learning in the first place.
Same, I mean everyone has a "why" but Joey legit studied his ass off his whole life. Crazy.
@@PTBHPTBH Yeah, but he "studied" it for 28 years because his mother is japanese, that's literally his native language, just like English is... He was raised bilingual. That's much easier then learning as an adult.
@@PTBHPTBH No he did not.
@@FredMaverik uhh yes he did lmfao. you ever seen his sister? shes nowhere as fluent in japanese as he is. and joey literally read kanji books for years when he was little memorizing a ton of them, something that even japanese kids dont often do. and furthermore, his love for manga and anime further fueled his study as well. you dont know anything about the person dont act like youre a know it all
It is true that children who grow up in isolation, even with a mother who is a native speaker, will rarely progress beyond an intermediate level in the language without significant effort on their part. When a parent speaks with a child from birth, the child may not necessarily engage with the wider culture or encounter a full range of topics and situations. As a result, they may not be exposed to a well-rounded understanding of how the language is used. While media can help, it is not a substitute for school education, which is also very important. Therefore, if a child misses out on so much of the language, they will require a lot of effort to actually become fluent. However, children in Joey's situation have a significant advantage in pronunciation and language intuition, as their brains are engaged with the sounds and structure of the language, shaping how their brains develop. Leading to life long advantages in language acquisition compared to those starting as an a adult.
Joey is that guy who's just somehow good at everything...first he impressed a Michelin star chef enough for him to wanna hire Joey...and now being a teacher
The Jack of All Trades :)
can you tell me where the "impressed a Michellin star chef" came from? is it from a stream or a video?
@@theomiller623 it's from a reaction video by the chefs who helped them in the cooking special
@@levisamom5069 i see, thanks
**Remembering how Joey didn't use his expensive dedicated graphics card for years because he plugged his monitor into the mainboard hdmi slot**
Well... maybe not at EVERYTHING xD
Man that Kun’yomi and On’yomi rule Joey just showed the class actually helped a lot. I wish Joey would have a Japanese course online. I would take the class for sure because I’m just learning tons of radicals, kanji, and vocabulary. I would love to learn Japanese.
That ON and KUN advice is something most students learn the first couple of weeks when starting Kanji...
@@earlysda would be nice if I was in a Japanese class. So that’s why I didn’t know about it. 🤷♂️😂
Do wanikani
@@juicycs I actually do use WaniKani. Haha
@@Drousy1870 don't they tell you that rule in like level one? I only did the first few levels and I recall them explaining that.
As a Japanese language student myself, this was very informative! The tips on Onyomi vs Kunyomi helped clarify a bunch of things in my head.
Same here. I never realised that if there is a hiragana at the end of it it usually becomes a kunyomi and if there is a kanji after or before it becomes a onyomi. I actually sat here and took notes myself
@@majestic5683 yes, this is absolutely informative and you don't really get this info at school
@@hannya_little glad that Joey put this video out then :)
God, why was this video not there when I struggled with A1 Japanese at uni? Joey is such a great teacher, to be honest, and the tip about onyomi and kunyomi and how the two pronounciations differ based on what is surrounding the kanji itself - blew my mind. No one in our uni ever bothered to even mention this! Joey saying that this explanation sounds a bit difficult or confusing actually isn't true for me. It cleared up so much confusion for me, in actuality.
Also, the biggest moment of "WHY JAPAN?!??" was when Joey said that most Japanese people have to constantly take educated guesses as to what a kanji means or how to pronounce it, rather than just simply knowing. This is your native language. Your mother tongue. How to read/pronounce something is a part of the language that a native speaker should just know from the get-go. And yet, Japanese defies all expectations. It is so crazy for me to think that Japanese people have to guess at their own language almost on a daily basis. I have mad respect for them for this, honestly. I couldn't even imagine having to live with that additional "problem" every day.
well I can only say language is kind of a living document of the society... just like in english we constantly change words, add words, discard words to the yonder. hell, there's entire sections of english designated as old english because the general pop. don't even know how to read and understand it. That and lots of foreign loan words... like Emoji, Kimchi, Entrepreneur
The English language is a fucking hoarder language. It sees something it likes and drags it home with it
If you see an English word you have never seen before, you can guess how the word is pronounced, but you don't actually know for sure without looking it up because some words are pronounced in weird or unexpected ways, so in that sense English is the same. I guess its just worse in Japanese. Especially for names.
Isn't that also for any language in a certain level though. Whenever I found a new English word I have to guess what the meaning is based on my existing knowledge. Especially slangs and memes
That's because most of the Kanji is borrowed from mandarin words of chinese. They have many meanings to each word hence the confusion.
Your explanation on 音読みと訓読み confirmed what I always suspected and assumed but could find no information on to confirm those thoughts. Thanks for putting that so simply! That really helped!
Literally it’s crazy when you’re listening ,then it clicks :D
At the start Joey was basically the one student that was left in charge of the class while the teacher stepped out of the room
100th like!
@@pinkie5963CP 🎉🎉
Actually they didn’t
It’s so cool seeing where Joey come from, mans was just makin videos bout different anime and now he’s out here teaching college students bout jp and I’m loving the new branches of content so proud of this manz
Never have I felt more encouraged to learn Japanese until now. In a way it’s reassuring to know that after 28 years of study, you can’t be ‘perfect’ in Japanese. I think everyone should be proud of how far they’ve come, no matter how basic or advanced your Japanese is.
I like how calm he is when he was being a japanese teacher's for a day
Oh wow, Joey is actually a great teachee wtf. I can't believe he made me voluntarily sits through a 20 minutes lecture and i didn't even feel time pass.
Joey is oozing "ima teach you something real good , in and after class" , my man looking classy
Sounds like the old teacher/student story in anime... 😏
me when a teacher blackmails a highschool girl with a boyfriend in anime
@@sdzxpa 😐 my man...
Joey: Becomes Japanese Teacher
The Japanese Language: Finally, a worthy opponent.
Japanese language already lost, he knows a lot more than most native speakers
Joey's like Gojo for Japanese to us the audience, he's the strongest we know of until Heian era freaks like Sukuna start popping up with barrierless domains and multiple cursed techniques.
"Our fight will be legendary"
Japanese language, 2022
Joey, you were actually a REALLY good teacher for a first-time teacher. You were phenomenal. I thought you'd be awkward but I guess doing public speaking for panels and the tour really helped you a lot. The most important skill a teacher should have(after the knowledge of course) is confidence. And you were EXUDING confidence there.
Good Job!!
Teacher feedback, metalinguistic awareness, and language experience are three skills that I would consider the "make-or-break" experience for language learners. As a linguist teacher and an expert in second language acquisition, I would say that Joey did a phenomenal job teaching the class despite that he didn't know a lick of teaching. The charm in Joey's teaching style is due to his fluency in both Japanese and English (grammatically and pragmatically). To come across a teacher who understands the language s/he is teaching AND is able to communicate in a language that the students use is an invaluable experience--this is easily reflected in how the students react and interact with Joey in this video.
I also wanted to add to what Joey said in his speech at @16:16 -- all languages are experiencing change and inventions of new words. Any language learner, fluent or not, will never reach the ceiling because of this constant change. Even as I say this as an expert, knowing everything about a language can only be close to the ceiling but I'll never be able to reach it because new words are invented every year; and there are also words that are far too outdated that have no purpose to be taught, let alone learn myself. All in all, once a language learner is always a language learner (even if you are a teacher/language expert)!
Awesome job, Joey! I hope you will consider making another video where you can teach Japanese. I'm definitely sure that you left a huge impact on these students' Japanese acquisition! I wouldn't be surprised if they asked you to be their teacher too! 🤭
Not gonna lie, Joey’s really rockin’ the whole Teacher look
I think everyone would want Joey to be our teacher.
Honestly I'd prefer Garnt as a social studies or philosophy teacher
hell nah brother
Garnt can get into some really deep stuff and I enjoy the way he articulates on certain more serious topics.
straight👆
wtf he likes loli tag he can't be a teacher
Holy shit Joey is such a good teacher. I came for the lols and hahas and left learning more than I did at school
I think that Joey would make a really good Japanese teacher for foreign learners like these guys because he has the personal experience of learning the language outside of Japan so knows some different techniques for learning from natives. Also, because he is bilingual and highly proficient in both languages, he is able to understand the Japanese students may be confused about as well as be able to explain the issue clearly in English from somewhat of a similar perspective to the students.
As someone currently starting to study Japanese, the On'Yomi and Kun'Yomi explanation and trying to read into context clues is actually a massive help. Joey seems like he would make an awesome teacher!
Personally, I already had a hunch Joey would be good at teaching, judging from how well he presents his metaphors and arguments on Trash Taste. What I didn't expect is how articulate he can present ideas as well. His interpersonal and linguistic intelligence are really good.
For someone with no teaching experience, he really makes the explanation really easy to understand and grasp it. Including, his method on how to understand the kanji problem scenario.
Thats what a good teacher is all about.
As someone currently studying Japanese in Japan, I literally told myself before I came to Japan "You need to make friends with as many non-English speakers as you can so that you're forced to use your Japanese."
As someone majoring in Japanese being in my last year, Joey's lesson really gave me a bigger insight on Kanji words, damn good job!
Japanese is a complicated or difficult language to some people especially the writing system
I just love how versatile joey can be, in different kinds of professions.
As someone who did about half the in classroom work of becoming a highschool teacher, i have to say im very jelous of a college professor being able to actually teach something that people want to learn, rather than being forced to take as part of the cirriculum. Also being able to just answer general questions and go in depth about a specific topic to help them seems very fun, you get to prove you have applicable knowledge rather than simply memoriezed understanding. Great video!
Being forced a curriculum sucks
For us teaching but I think it sucks harder for the poor children
@@tpsam Yea agree
I agree with the other replies; there are elements that suck about teaching a required subject. However, part of the best teachers' skill set is being able to seduce the student into turning on to that required subject. That can require the guile of a snake-oil huckster. But if the teacher has a deep passion for the subject, and a genuine concern for the students, along with a measure of creativity; that's not as impossible as it might sound.
I recall a 17 year-old football player whose university scholarship (already in the bag) depended on his English grade which had never been higher than a D because he could not write essays. He certainly didn't want anything to do with English. However, by reaching out to him, offering step-by-step support, and encouraging him to write (first)about football which he understood deeply, he gained the insight and the formatting needed to write about characters as they appeared in novels or plays. He got an A on his final exam. The highest score he'd ever received in the subject. Such success stories for a subject that people initially detest aren't as isolated as they might seem. And the teachers who make them happen are largely unrecognized and underappreciated for what they do.
Omg this is actually helpful wtf, I’m doing a Japanese studies degree rn and joeys actually more use of than my teacher lol petition for joey to start a Japanese class
his got japanese learning streams
It sounds kind of crazy but Joey being a RUclipsr actually makes him such a great teacher in a sense that he has amazing speaking skills; from having to explain so much info to an audience. I feel like loads of teachers know the material but they have to build up their speech.
He makes such a good point saying that kanji itself isnt important but its application is more so. When i was studying for N3, whenever i saw a new kanji, i always looked at some of the words in which it is used. Helped me remember so much more and also makes you revise the other kanji you read together. Big brain trick right here.
I am shocked that Joey isn’t an actual Japanese teacher, he is excellent!
as someone taking Japanese 1 this semester, this is actually awesome. a lot of what they are talking about are things I haven't learned yet but I still feel like I'm understanding enough about to get value out of this. this is soo cool.
This is exceptional material for studying Japanese Kanji in general. Great explanation on how to read into the context and the flow of the language. I'll definitely like to see Joey partner with YDC in an annual stream on how to engage in the language a lot more (and for the audience overseas) and learn the culture and intricacies of how to go about in Japan. Maybe do an annual checkup on the audience that he's built a following with, as he's been teaching his mates over in Trash Taste and his SO Aki how to go about in Japan.
Has Joey just tricked us all into watching a Japanese lesson?
He's conditioned you into thinking learning Japanese is fun.
(Which it is, but some people may not think so.)
No trick here. I choose to watch the video knowing it was about a Nihongo lesson.
We happen to be interested in Japanese-related topics and interests, hobbies, plus we're comfy with him, so that probably goes a long way. 😌
I'll be frank, you did a pretty good job with these students. You explained in simple terms that made the intricacies of Japanese grammar and syntax a lot easier to understand.
I’m not sure if English is a second language for you; but the phrase “I’ll be frank” is usually deployed as a negative feedback precursor.
To “prepare” the recipient of your honest feedback, if you will; which is normally in some part critical of the subject matter.
Parsing your statement to Joey, there doesn’t appear to be any criticisms levied at him regarding his performance.
I hope this helped!
To add (from another ESL speaker):
Instead of "I'll be frank" which carries a negative connotation ("I'll be blunt/straight with you"), I find that using phrases like "honestly," or "frankly," is more of a neutral and heartfelt gesture towards the listener.
Reading your comment made me do a double take honestly ngl and I had to reword it in my head
It’s interesting and helpful to hear language learning tips from someone who is multilingual. You know all the short cuts and have a good view of where the pitfalls of learning are for non-native speakers.
As a teacher, hearing the feedback about "little quizzes" to check/reaffirm what students know while you are doing the lesson makes me happy. It's such a small thing that can carry your instruction and solidify concepts for students!.
Is it just me or is Joey oozing with charisma when teaching Japanese?
I think Joey’s stream where he went over Japanese w chat definitely helped with this! He did so well and I think I’d actually be really engaged in this class
I can see Joey genuinely becoming a teacher if RUclips and such fell through...… He has the charisma to make a class fun
Lol
授業の初めと終わりで挨拶が変化してる🥲💗あんま英語よくわかんないけどめちゃいい授業だったと思います！！
感じの覚え方とか日本人と全く同じ！！
I'm actually learning Japanese. I was supposed to listen to it in the background while eating, but it was soooooo interesting. I stopped eating and even started to answer your questions and think with the students.
You know how to capture students' attention, and the way you explained things were really easy to understand.
You would be an excellent teacher, I think. Thank you for this video, Joey. 💜
PS : You will never be a master at any language. I'm French, lived in France since the day I was born, but I still discover new things. Thus, for anyone that learn another language, don't feel bad if you make mistakes. The truth is, even natives make mistakes. Sometimes, you have a better understanding of the language you're learning than them. Don't feel bad. 💜
Joey is the best teacher so far already 😂👍
If his RUclips career dies out at least we know Joey can make it as a teacher. He's extremely good at this!
That Kira tie shirt is 🔥🔥🔥
Teaching in style
I agree! JoJo is awesome!
@@thunderstorm86239 I know, right?!?!?! Hahaha!!!!
*HAYATO*
Didn't notice it
I have no plans to learn Japanese, but I found your statement about there being no ceiling to be very inspirational. I feel like it applies to almost everything in life - you will never be a 100% complete master at a single subject. There will always be more knowledgeable in certain aspects of it, or the subject can continue to expand over time. Made me feel a lot better about my self-esteem issues. Thank you.
5:07 "I will try to answer to the best of YOUR abilities" a funny misspoke of the phrase, would be weirdly narcisistic xD
He is that one substitute teachers that everyone becomes friends with even outside of school
I actually like the way you're teaching. I like the breakdown of the sentences.
Watching this is so cool, Joey is such a natural teacher!
I remember commenting before that Joey is really good at teaching japanese. Everything he teach/said really make sense and so easy to understand.
This was the video where I though omg, he's actually god at teaching kanji. He's not just a speaker, he's a legit master at it.
Also liked how the actual teacher was himself taking notes. Shows the humility and willingness to learn.
You know, I did it after I graduated. It was an experience. I wouldn’t give up a difficult one but a good experience really forces you out of your comfort zone.
Imagine going to Japan and wanting to learn the language, so you go to japanese classes, and fucking Joey rocks up..
If i were to be joey’s japanese mom, this video is the one that i’m going to show my friends when they ask “what you’re son doing on youtube?” It went well until they open the channel and see joey read henti 😂
it's all gone down hill from there...
at least his fiance was not Sydney... that's gonna be awkward for visits if they decided to move back to start family
(yes, sydney is grant's wife...)
As a teacher myself, it's really interesting to see how different teaching is in other countries. Honestly you made teaching look so easy!
you have a natural talent for engaging the students and teaching in general , great video joey ... thanks from 🇦🇺 Melbourne
Joey is literally better than every teacher I have :)
he literally just made everything more confusing lol
@@dennisreynolds1341 as someone who learning japanese, joey's explanation is way more informative than my teacher
@@dennisreynolds1341 he encouraged us ,because it confuses you doesent mean it's negative
I was an English teacher for 10 years, and I'll say not everyone has the knack to be a language teacher. Joey has got it, and he should make more teaching videos. He's strong out the gate, and he'd only get better over time. :)
I’m studying Japanese at university right now and the rule about how to know which way to read kanji was super helpful!! Joey killed it as a teacher 😁
Watching this video and reading some of the comments made me appreciate my Japanese Language teacher more. She taught us the onyomi/kunyomi rule on day 1 of teaching us basic kanji and it definitely helped us read and contextualize it quicker. I’m gonna go thank her after our next class lol
Wow so, I’m really lost in life right now. Today’s been kinda a bad day as far as feeling aimless and hopeless, but seriously Joey. Just watching you teach this class (and actually learning from you! Like, I’m getting out my old Japanese notebook to take notes!) sparked my curiosity and desire in me to learn Japanese again!
I JUST finished this video and am about to rewatch it to take notes. We’ll see where this goes!
I taught myself Japanese and I’m happy that I knew all of that.
Coming from a teacher here - you nailed it. Creating quizzes is something that is usually pepped ahead of time, so no shame in not having that ready to go. You definitely fulfilled that small part of you that wanted to be a teacher.
Being a Japanese learner myself I think Joey did amazing teaching.. it was very interesting and I was genuinely listening so carefully.
日本人です。日本語めっちゃ上手ですね。この間はうちの子が秋葉原であなたに会って喜んでましたよ。私はその後から動画を観るようになりました。
I love this video so much Joey! You break down learning Japanese to make it feel like a conversation. It's so easy to learn! Please make this a new video series! I've watched this video over and over as I learn more to see my progress in studies! Please make more Japanese learning language videos, you're so great at teaching!
As someone who has been studying Japanese for the last 15 years, I learned something from this too! You're absolutely right about how textbooks, and even instructors teach certain phrases or grammar points as well as kanji. I always associated かもしれない as more negative because of the ない and previous professors usually kinda skip over a grammar point that sounds negative but can be translated as a positive or neutral. Also, that was a good way to explain kanji that I hadn't thought of before. All of my professors in college just had us memorize them as they were, rather than context and how to tell the difference in reading it. I will have to remember that as I continue learning kanji on my own.
Never thot of 「かも知れない」as a negative, because it just means "Maybe".