Its funny because i was literally trying to figure out what "There are 5 chairs" would be in Japanese and decided an explanation video would be best. Thank you for helping me cheat on one Duolingo question and be prepared to figure out how it all works when i can fully wrap my head around it. Enough trying and it will stick someday soon lol. Just gotta keep at it. 先生、ありがとうございます！
2 women were drinking (2) cups of coffee. After they put 2 cubes of sugar in they each had 2 pancakes. Suddenly 2 books fell from the book shelf. Correct?
George thank god you did this. Since you were done with your Book 3 videos and the notes I took, I was gonna review Japanese counters and some others while using your book 3 before Book 4 and those videos come out. Thanks George for putting this and your new analysis videos are great. Keep it up
2 women were drinking 2 cups of coffee. After adding 2 cubes of sugar to the coffees, they ate 2 pancakes each. Suddenly/all of a sudden, two books fell off of the bookshelf.
two ladies were drinking two cups of coffee. after they added two piecs of sugar into the coffee, they ate 2 pieces of pancake. suddenly 2 books fell from the book shelve.
Translation: Two women drank two cups (?) of coffee. After putting two cubes of sugar into the coffee, each one ate two pancakes. Suddenly, two books fell from the shelf. Correct me if I'm wrong please
how can you understand 😭😭 i study for 2 years i cant understand songs, kanjis or hold conversations I think thats *nondeimashita* which is *nondeiru* form. i guess it would be *two women were drinking* rather than *two women drank* but idk i cant even understand complex conversations/ sentences *or write this comment in JP* 😭😭😭😭😭😭
Hi George先生. Thank you for useful video. 4:31 冊 isn't used for ALL PRINTED MATERIAL. For example , 枚(まい) is used for Posters , it's printed. And If you bind billion blank papers for memo pad , It' will be called "1冊".perhaps , perhaps .... maybe ? I think , 冊 is used for objects which is filed and has pages. I'm wating next videos.
2人の女性が2杯のコーヒーを飲んでいました。コーヒーに砂糖を二個入れてからパンケーキを2枚ずつ食べました。突然本棚から本が2冊落ちました、Two women were drinking 2 cups of coffee. After putting two cubes of sugar in their coffee, they each ate two pancakes. Suddenly two books fell from the bookshelf.
2 women drank 2 cups of coffee. They both put 2 sugars in their coffee and each of them ate 2 pancakes. Suddenly, 2 books from the bookshelf fell down.
Hey, I have a question. I am using a Japanese course book right now, but it only goes up to N5 level. I am thinking of what to do afterwards and thought I´d give your books a try. Do you have a recommendation on which book to purchase after having reached N5?
2 females were drinking two cups of coffee. 2 blocks (or spoons?) of sugar were added to the coffee, then each of them ate 2 pancakes. Suddenly from the bookshelf 2 books fell down.
I think I get the "shoe wordplay" Shoe is kutsu「くつ」靴 And 9 is kokonotsu「九つ」but also may be pronounced kutsu with a mistake... Not really confident about that, but i don't see another explanation !
Hey speaking of cards does anyone know what exactly is that card game you always see people playing in anime shows? I don't know the rules exactly but you have to blindly pick cards out of your opponent's hand and if you pick like a joker then that's bad
This type of set, just like the hitokoto, in my opinion is the absolute best. The words are nice and big and he uses kanji. I wish the japanese from zero series would've been done in this exact same way :( :(
From book 4 I will do this. Unfortunately once I changed to a 4k camera this style got more technically difficult. It required purchasing more equipment. Now again I have the setup to do it.
Oh I see. Damn 4K lol. Since my internet (along with everyone else's here in Venezuela, and most people don't have 4k screens) is so slow, the quality in 720, or even 480 looks excellent; I can't imagine how much better it'd look on 4K....
+Learn Japanese From Zero! George do you plan on making Japanese from Zero in 5 again? It's super useful for anyone reviewing lessons and can catch up as a refresher to remember them in the long run. Thanks George for the videos and lessons. Been reviewing all your lessons since you finished Book 3 videos and because of you, I'm intermediate/advanced and can speak in a conversation while knowing new vocab/verbs. You're the best sensei!
two girl students had drank 2 coffees. Because two sugars entered the coffee, they had eaten 2 pancakes. Last part havent learned the kanji yet for the last sentence.
Do these counters are the only counters that used in Japanese? Cause I hear 巻 in book counting from a Japanese person! If 巻 is used to count books so, what's the difference between ~さつ and ~巻?
Hi Baraa Abbadiさん. What situation did you hear 巻 ? Do you ask the reason for the Japanese person ? Okay, I think , 巻 means a part of series , and 冊 is counter for physical books. Keep it up.
I would also add the "TOU" counter. That's not true that HIKI is the classifier for almost all the animals. If I were to generalize like that, I would mention both of them - HIKI and TOU.
Two women were drinking two cups of coffee. After they added two sugars to their coffees, they ate two pancakes. Suddenly, two books fell from the bookshelf. I think that's how I would translate it to sound as natural as possible with the information given.
Two women were drinking two cups of coffee. After putting two pieces of sugar in the coffee, they ate two pancakes each. Suddenly two books fell from a bookshelf.
２人の女性が２杯のコーヒーを飲んでいました。コーヒーに砂糖を２個入れてから、パンケーキを２枚つず食べました。突然本棚から本が２冊落ちました。 TWO GIRLS WERE DRINKING TWO CUPS OF COFFEE. AFTER PUTTING TWO SUGARS IN THEIR COFFEES, THEY ATE TWO PIECES OF PANCAKES. SUDDENLY TWO BOOKS FELL OUT OF A BOOKSHELF. Correct?
2 females were drinking 2 cups coffee. they added 2 spoons of sugar in their coffee and ate not more than 2 pancakes. Suddenly,2 books fell down from the bookshelf.
I wonder if long/cylindrical things use hon because books used to be scrolls? And videotapes use hon because they spool like a scroll, and modern books don't use hon because they don't scroll... Probably wrong but aargh.
Johan Öberg Counters are confusing, but English counters can get messy, too. I just had a lesson on them last night, and I remembered how we basically throw away counter rules when ordering food. "I need to buy a bottle of water." "I'll take a water, please!"
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Its funny because i was literally trying to figure out what "There are 5 chairs" would be in Japanese and decided an explanation video would be best. Thank you for helping me cheat on one Duolingo question and be prepared to figure out how it all works when i can fully wrap my head around it. Enough trying and it will stick someday soon lol. Just gotta keep at it. 先生、ありがとうございます！
Thank you very much for teaching japanese and share your videos!
This is one of the reasons why I'm proud of all the Japanese learners!!
So nice to see you, George!
actually, we use 羽(わ) for rabbits. This is usually used for birds.
but many japanese make mistake and use ひき like many other animals.
2 women were drinking (2) cups of coffee. After they put 2 cubes of sugar in they each had 2 pancakes. Suddenly 2 books fell from the book shelf.
Correct?
George thank god you did this. Since you were done with your Book 3 videos and the notes I took, I was gonna review Japanese counters and some others while using your book 3 before Book 4 and those videos come out. Thanks George for putting this and your new analysis videos are great. Keep it up
Two ladies drank two cups of coffee. They put two sugars in the coffee, then ate two pancakes. Two books dropped from the bookshelf by themselves.
2 women were drinking 2 cups of coffee. After adding 2 cubes of sugar to the coffees, they ate 2 pancakes each. Suddenly/all of a sudden, two books fell off of the bookshelf.
two ladies were drinking two cups of coffee.
after they added two piecs of sugar into the coffee, they ate 2 pieces of pancake.
suddenly 2 books fell from the book shelve.
your video always useful and interesting.
Translation:
Two women drank two cups (?) of coffee. After putting two cubes of sugar into the coffee, each one ate two pancakes. Suddenly, two books fell from the shelf.
Correct me if I'm wrong please
how can you understand 😭😭 i study for 2 years i cant understand songs, kanjis or hold conversations
I think thats *nondeimashita* which is *nondeiru* form. i guess it would be *two women were drinking* rather than *two women drank* but idk
i cant even understand complex conversations/ sentences *or write this comment in JP* 😭😭😭😭😭😭
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Hi George先生.
Thank you for useful video.
4:31 冊 isn't used for ALL PRINTED MATERIAL.
For example , 枚(まい) is used for Posters , it's printed.
And If you bind billion blank papers for memo pad , It' will be called "1冊".perhaps , perhaps .... maybe ?
I think , 冊 is used for objects which is filed and has pages.
I'm wating next videos.
日本人でも数詞は難しい
たんすcabinet…1竿(さお)、2さお
箸chopsticks…2本＝1膳(ぜん)、4本＝2膳
兎rabbit…1羽(わ)、2羽
2人の女性が2杯のコーヒーを飲んでいました。コーヒーに砂糖を二個入れてからパンケーキを2枚ずつ食べました。突然本棚から本が2冊落ちました、Two women were drinking 2 cups of coffee. After putting two cubes of sugar in their coffee, they each ate two pancakes. Suddenly two books fell from the bookshelf.
2 women drank 2 cups of coffee. They both put 2 sugars in their coffee and each of them ate 2 pancakes. Suddenly, 2 books from the bookshelf fell down.
I don't understand! You said you don't put a particle between the noun and the counter but the sentence does exactly that.
THANK YOU SO MUCH THIS WAS SO HELPFUL!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hey, I have a question. I am using a Japanese course book right now, but it only goes up to N5 level. I am thinking of what to do afterwards and thought I´d give your books a try.
Do you have a recommendation on which book to purchase after having reached N5?
I've completed N5 recently and it's around book 4/5 in level. There's some different stuff in his books that I didn't learn in my courses.
Hi, do you have any plans on putting up advanced lessons ? thank you for reading my question!
For counting people, the "10 little indians" song that was in the lesson is still stuck in my head after a year, I both love and hate it 😅
2 females were drinking two cups of coffee. 2 blocks (or spoons?) of sugar were added to the coffee, then each of them ate 2 pancakes. Suddenly from the bookshelf 2 books fell down.
I think I get the "shoe wordplay"
Shoe is kutsu「くつ」靴
And 9 is kokonotsu「九つ」but also may be pronounced kutsu with a mistake...
Not really confident about that, but i don't see another explanation !
Hey speaking of cards does anyone know what exactly is that card game you always see people playing in anime shows? I don't know the rules exactly but you have to blindly pick cards out of your opponent's hand and if you pick like a joker then that's bad
I think
This type of set, just like the hitokoto, in my opinion is the absolute best. The words are nice and big and he uses kanji. I wish the japanese from zero series would've been done in this exact same way :( :(
From book 4 I will do this. Unfortunately once I changed to a 4k camera this style got more technically difficult. It required purchasing more equipment. Now again I have the setup to do it.
Oh I see. Damn 4K lol. Since my internet (along with everyone else's here in Venezuela, and most people don't have 4k screens) is so slow, the quality in 720, or even 480 looks excellent; I can't imagine how much better it'd look on 4K....
Learn Japanese From Zero! When will you do book 4? Because I've just started it.
+Learn Japanese From Zero! George do you plan on making Japanese from Zero in 5 again? It's super useful for anyone reviewing lessons and can catch up as a refresher to remember them in the long run.
Thanks George for the videos and lessons. Been reviewing all your lessons since you finished Book 3 videos and because of you, I'm intermediate/advanced and can speak in a conversation while knowing new vocab/verbs. You're the best sensei!
two girl students had drank 2 coffees. Because two sugars entered the coffee, they had eaten 2 pancakes. Last part havent learned the kanji yet for the last sentence.
Do these counters are the only counters that used in Japanese?
Cause I hear 巻 in book counting from a Japanese person!
If 巻 is used to count books so, what's the difference between ~さつ and ~巻?
Hi Baraa Abbadiさん.
What situation did you hear 巻 ?
Do you ask the reason for the Japanese person ?
Okay, I think , 巻 means a part of series ,
and 冊 is counter for physical books.
Keep it up.
I see, thanks a lot ^_^
Yes, a new Japanese in 5!! ^^ Totally awesome.
I would also add the "TOU" counter. That's not true that HIKI is the classifier for almost all the animals. If I were to generalize like that, I would mention both of them - HIKI and TOU.
What is the linguistic term for counter in Japanese?
The term that you are looking for is "classifier" or 助数詞, I believe.
thank you!
バナナ日本
Am I doing it right?
lol
XakeR バナナ二本
@「0'イチゴ」 yeah i dont like that 2 cylindrical objects is NiHon. Context is everything 😅
Thank u so much 😍
Two women were drinking two cups of coffee. After they added two sugars to their coffees, they ate two pancakes. Suddenly, two books fell from the bookshelf.
I think that's how I would translate it to sound as natural as possible with the information given.
ありがとうございます
so if I wanna say "There are 24 wards in Ho Chi Minh City". ホーチミン市の中に地区が２４つあります. "24つ" or "24こ"?
Hi That Guy さん.
"24こ" is correct.
6:41 he said about it.
Keep it Up.
ohh Thank you so much.
something something coffee something pancake something something two printed material.
Two women were drinking two cups of coffee. After putting two pieces of sugar in the coffee, they ate two pancakes each. Suddenly two books fell from a bookshelf.
Brains 🧠 explodes!!! 💣
２人の女性が２杯のコーヒーを飲んでいました。コーヒーに砂糖を２個入れてから、パンケーキを２枚つず食べました。突然本棚から本が２冊落ちました。
TWO GIRLS WERE DRINKING TWO CUPS OF COFFEE. AFTER PUTTING TWO SUGARS IN THEIR COFFEES, THEY ATE TWO PIECES OF PANCAKES. SUDDENLY TWO BOOKS FELL OUT OF A BOOKSHELF.
Correct?
Aloha
靴もあったようです…
Those buttons keep opening lower, and lower hah.
Shoe is そく
Soku is actually sock. Kutsu is shoes/sneakers.
足(そく) is the counter for pairs(of) such as socks, shoes, etc
束(そく) counter for large bundles
則(そく) counter for rules
2 females were drinking 2 cups coffee. they added 2 spoons of sugar in their coffee and ate not more than 2 pancakes. Suddenly,2 books fell down from the bookshelf.
5:20 between the candy and the baseball: you really like putting in these dirty references, don't you ;-)
Open mouth ends with hon...closed mouth is pon
George accept the challenge. Learn the polish language :]
I wonder if long/cylindrical things use hon because books used to be scrolls? And videotapes use hon because they spool like a scroll, and modern books don't use hon because they don't scroll... Probably wrong but aargh.
This is almost 10 minutes though...
Double episode!
Wow, your accent really changed when you were learning korean :O But now it's back to normal again... weird.
Hendy24 this video can be from an other time period.
+You Poop. It's an old video from his Japanese in 5 videos. He doesn't do them anymore so he's uploading old clips.
Melbester9 yeah.
Notification squad
カラス Was that necessary?
Yeah but can you say 9 coconuts?
kokonotsu no Kokonattsu 🤣🤦♂️
Two women two cups of coffee drink. Coffee with two sugars put in had. Since two pancakes eaten. Suddenly from the bookshelf two books fall down.
When you say 2 本のペン, won't you get the reading confused with 日本のペン? It sounds the same.
Darren Ong I think you're supposed to put extra emphasis on the 2 when saying the counter as opposed to the country
Well, as you can see, they're written completely differently and context means you'll never confuse the two in speech.
Pitch accent
I hate counters, if I was dictator of Japan I would replace them all with just numbers or possibly -tsu or -kko.
Johan Öberg
Counters are confusing, but English counters can get messy, too. I just had a lesson on them last night, and I remembered how we basically throw away counter rules when ordering food.
"I need to buy a bottle of water."
"I'll take a water, please!"
Yeah... I give up \o/
"Small and round objects" *Shows a die*
Because it's small OR round objects.