Game Gengo, you are making incredibly useful and understandable videos. I cant imagine how hard are u working with each one and also make them so interesting af. All I want to say is - THANK YOU VERY MUCH for creating this channel. I love you all.
Thank you so much for enjoying the videos! I really do love making all these videos for everyone and trying to help make learning Japanese more fun! I feel so happy and lucky everyday to be able to do this. Thank you so much for enjoying the videos
How in the world did you find each of these words in so many games at the same time? You must be remembering dialogues by heart or having an entire game's transcription in a text file. This is insanity
As in the expression "山ほどある" = "There is (as much as) a mountain [of it]." This is the real connection in the etymology of the word. "沢" also kind of means "plenty" in 潤沢, 贅沢.
I have already learned all the N5 kanji, yet I keep watching these videos because they give so much more. Till the day I can play a full game in Japanese, thank you for all your help.
Many games can be played without fully understanding them, in fact I played pikmin 4 for the first time in japanese (never played that one before. Did play the previous and knew about ochi and the other basic changes from watching challenge runs) and completed without difficulty. I didn't understand half of what I was doing, but makes it replayable once I do. I'm currently doing a vrgame called legendary tales this way as well. If I run into something I think I'll need to know I look it up using my methods. Games like legendary tales is especially fun because I swear it's like reading an ancient text sometimes, since it's a looter style game (borderlands). I seriously recommend looter games like this, because while it's extremely benefical to know what tool you are using, it's not strictly necessary. The visuals are often enough to tell you without trouble, and sometimes you may pick up on a new kanji or word. I recommend playing through a game that doesn't require great knowledge of it, and then on round two go through and really try to read and understand.
沢山 in kanji you can probably relate it to a mountain of something, hence giving the nuance of a pile or lot - many. (Also the first kanji 沢 means swamp, so in English if you're swamped with something it gives the nuance of being overwhelmed by the quantity)
Hello, I just want to let you know how much the N5 - N3 complete grammar videos have helped me a ton in my Japanese learning journey! Will you possibly do N2 and N1 in the future?
Meanwhile, in 大山 we find not "yama", not "san", not "zan", but SEN. Mount Daisen, that is Mount Great Mountain. Yeah, readings are really qirky at times in Japanese... The sooner you get used to it, the better. Otherwise, you'll be shedding lots of tears in no time 🤭
3:29 Are the pronunciation for 音読み (onyomi) readings typically presented in Katakana rather than Hiragana? Or is it more correct to write them in Katakana since it comes from Chinese?
Yes. Usually, kunyomi readings are written in hiragana and onyomi in katakana. Incredibly useful when learning the readings of kanji. WARNING: this is ONLY applied to writing the readings of a kanji. When writing actual words, hiragana and katakana follow rules that have nothing to do with how the word is read. Example: 沢山 is read with onyomi, but it is actually written in hiragana, not in katakana, when written in syllabary. This is a general rule for all words with an onyomi reading that are written in syllabary instead of kanji.
I sure do! Lately ive been a bit busy with the last few big projects so I haven't been able to get any of the latest games, but can't wait to collect more footage for them all! So many great games to enjoy Japanese with :)
@@SoaringKiyo Haha nope, this channel is pretty much 100% just me, except my wife helps voice act sometimes and also helps find clips for the occasional video :)
Game Gengo, you are making incredibly useful and understandable videos. I cant imagine how hard are u working with each one and also make them so interesting af. All I want to say is - THANK YOU VERY MUCH for creating this channel. I love you all.
Couldn't agree more!!
Thank you so much for enjoying the videos! I really do love making all these videos for everyone and trying to help make learning Japanese more fun! I feel so happy and lucky everyday to be able to do this. Thank you so much for enjoying the videos
His videos are so good that even me, a non-native speaker can understand him quite well than other youtubers in my mother language.
I thought “Fuji-san” was just a cute nickname for the mountain. Like “Mr Fuji” 😂
Thanks Matt for enlightening me 😂
It's both! People sometimes tend to refer to Mt. Fuji as its own entity like Fuji-San as a sort of wordplay
@@Akispark thanks for the info, I love that 😆
and here I was thinking it was cute thay they called it Mr. Fuji
Nawww that's a very cute way of looking at it yeah haha, I guess there's always 富士山さん hahah (Mr Mt.Fuji)
I literally just commented this lmao
How in the world did you find each of these words in so many games at the same time? You must be remembering dialogues by heart or having an entire game's transcription in a text file. This is insanity
To me, 沢山 does have something to do with "mountain". Though, not in the literal way.. more like "I've got a mountain of..."!
As in the expression "山ほどある" = "There is (as much as) a mountain [of it]."
This is the real connection in the etymology of the word. "沢" also kind of means "plenty" in 潤沢, 贅沢.
Yeeeeeeeaaaaaaahhhhhhh!!! Kanji and Vocab!
I have already learned all the N5 kanji, yet I keep watching these videos because they give so much more. Till the day I can play a full game in Japanese, thank you for all your help.
saame ^^
Many games can be played without fully understanding them, in fact I played pikmin 4 for the first time in japanese (never played that one before. Did play the previous and knew about ochi and the other basic changes from watching challenge runs) and completed without difficulty. I didn't understand half of what I was doing, but makes it replayable once I do. I'm currently doing a vrgame called legendary tales this way as well. If I run into something I think I'll need to know I look it up using my methods. Games like legendary tales is especially fun because I swear it's like reading an ancient text sometimes, since it's a looter style game (borderlands).
I seriously recommend looter games like this, because while it's extremely benefical to know what tool you are using, it's not strictly necessary. The visuals are often enough to tell you without trouble, and sometimes you may pick up on a new kanji or word. I recommend playing through a game that doesn't require great knowledge of it, and then on round two go through and really try to read and understand.
You just keep leveling up with these videos, man. Thank you so much!
沢山 in kanji you can probably relate it to a mountain of something, hence giving the nuance of a pile or lot - many.
(Also the first kanji 沢 means swamp, so in English if you're swamped with something it gives the nuance of being overwhelmed by the quantity)
This is so helpful!! It's way easier looking at examples in practice, thanks a lot!!
日本語をまなぶことは"山登り"にいているね~
I really enjoyed this video! As someone who is starting her kanji journey this was absolutely fantastically helpful
Thank you! This series is so helpful and makes learning kanji actually entertaining
Hello, I just want to let you know how much the N5 - N3 complete grammar videos have helped me a ton in my Japanese learning journey! Will you possibly do N2 and N1 in the future?
Thank a lot for the video and the practice. Going deeper into each Kanji helps a lot.
I’m gonna go hiking in the mountains tomorrow so this is pretty convenient timing for this video haha. Thanks :D
You’re the best! Thank you for making kanji and grammar videos ❤ What’s the best way to support your channel monetarily?
Thanks so much
The best youtuber!
Please make a video about covering all adjectival-verbs like suki and kirai. Thanks!
Is there kanji and vocab for N4 ??
Definitely something id like to make :) will maybe try to finish N5 first?
@@GameGengohow much n5 kanji is left? Thanks for the vids!
Nice video!!
I love your videos ❤️🔥❤️🔥
Thank you so much!
Meanwhile, in 大山 we find not "yama", not "san", not "zan", but SEN. Mount Daisen, that is Mount Great Mountain.
Yeah, readings are really qirky at times in Japanese... The sooner you get used to it, the better. Otherwise, you'll be shedding lots of tears in no time 🤭
とうろくしゃのみなさん、
こんなに にほんごを あいしてくれて ありがとうございます！！
3:29 Are the pronunciation for 音読み (onyomi) readings typically presented in Katakana rather than Hiragana? Or is it more correct to write them in Katakana since it comes from Chinese?
Yes. Usually, kunyomi readings are written in hiragana and onyomi in katakana. Incredibly useful when learning the readings of kanji. WARNING: this is ONLY applied to writing the readings of a kanji. When writing actual words, hiragana and katakana follow rules that have nothing to do with how the word is read.
Example: 沢山 is read with onyomi, but it is actually written in hiragana, not in katakana, when written in syllabary. This is a general rule for all words with an onyomi reading that are written in syllabary instead of kanji.
@@shishinonaito Ah, good to know!! Thank you, this is very helpful!
Keep it up 👍
Have you played all these games just to get the reference for the video? I'm curious on this great feat!
I sure do! Lately ive been a bit busy with the last few big projects so I haven't been able to get any of the latest games, but can't wait to collect more footage for them all! So many great games to enjoy Japanese with :)
@@GameGengo Wow, that's impressive. Here I was thinking you had an editor play these games for you hahaha.
@@SoaringKiyo Haha nope, this channel is pretty much 100% just me, except my wife helps voice act sometimes and also helps find clips for the occasional video :)