yayayaayay!! me 2! after learning basic kanji and hiragana and katakana. with 20 minutes of talking from my teacher i completely understand that your username informs me that you are a cat!!!
wow you made this real simple. Most Japanese teachers online like japanesepod101 kind of over-complicate things sometimes. you put basic sentence structure in the simplest way possible. thanks
@@iscreamanimation yeah, idk. for an average english speaker, they likely wouldn't have any prior experience with a sound like that, because it's just not present in english. I'm not sure if "a fusion of D and L" is the best way to put it, but it's a completely understandable explanation. Just showing exactly what it sounds like and what the tongue movement is would probably be a lot easier to follow that "between D and L" though...
You are literally the best teacher i've ever taken lessons from, i mean yea i want to learn japanese and i came here for that so i should be happy i am learning, but it's not only about learning, you make it look very easy and you have structured your lessons very well, but you also joke a few times and say things off script to make us feel like we are learning from a human and not a robot that only reads scripts and shows stuff on screen, you have a type of charisma to you that just makes almost anybody feel comfortable when taking these lessons compared to school where as most teachers just don't really care and want to get the lesson over with and i mean why are you there if you don't want to teach people stuff, teachers in schools are mostly un-charismatic or robot-like and it makes you feel like you are in a medication of some sort, just taking your dose and ending it there with nothing more to it, it's so weird that i feel better learning with some dude i found online than my supposed "teachers" in school.
Thanks for the comment! I honestly love teaching, but more than that I love talking. My goal is always to teach Japanese to a friend on a bus. It shouldn’t be too complicated and should not make my friend frustrated.
Every time you say "be verb" I keep thinking you're saying "beaver" and I get thrown off, lmao. But...I've been binge watching your video lessons for the past 3+ hours and I'm having a blast.
@El Malakh Feo It actually couldn't. Learning a language really well isn't about the more the better. It's the other way around, the brain needs tons of time to memorize stuff, especially a language like this. And also, the muscles of the mouth needs tons of practice to learn how to pronounce the sounds of the language well. The fact is, rushing is the antidote to overwhelming, failing and so on. Though I'm not against intensive approaches, don't get me wrong, it depends on the individual.
2:00 according to RUclips auto captions, he said: A major concept this is called death. Not death even though it's written as a decimal, it's going to be pronounced like death.
Would you ever consider a podcast? I think it would be interesting if you also talked about culture. Thank you for your lessons! Informative and engaging.
Hi...I'm writing just to compliment you for your videos. I'm italian and I live in Italy and recently started the task to learn Japanese through English. You just became my guru, my official 先生 😅 after a few videos on your channel I decided to start the Japanese from zero course...and I can't wait to receive your books! ありがとうございます
ジョジさんはすごいのせんせいですね。 I'm re-watching all of the vids for Book 1, because I tend to forget stuff easily. Thank you for your videos and ample teachings Joji-san! Best teacher! When I can afford it, I'll be sure to buy the books as well!
A great tip for when to use of 何 nani or nan is when the word following it starts with the letters t,n,or d you will always use nan. Any others you use nani.
This man is a legend!!! Been in Japan for six months and thanks to these videos, everything is fitting into place. THANK YOU for making this all make sense and fun!
Just opened my package from Amazon, cracked open books 1 and 2. I am SO excited to start going through them with my daughter (16 yrs) who asked me if I would start studying Japanese with her 😊 Thank you George!
Thoughts while watching this video: たなかさんですか?私はだれですか?私のなまえはなんですか? These are pretty informative videos. I've studied Japanese at college but I've lost a lot. These are nice refreshers for me.
I've been using this book for about a month or so, and have learned more in that time than the entire physical class I took for a whole year. You're a very good teacher, thank you for making learning japanese so much easier and accessible
bought the japanese from zero book's a couple of days ago and i am so gratefull for the way you break everything down..i have learning difficulties and you manage to make everything so easy for me to understand so i really wanna say thank you :)
I think I've found a useful instance where "Tanaka-san desu ka" would mean "Am I Tanaka?", that i think most people could relate to. OK, so you've just woken up in the middle of the night and decide to head downstairs to get something to drink, but sleepy as you are you get lost along the way and end up in an alternate dimension. You're standing in front of a giant obelisk. You lean forward looking at your reflection, but you don't see yourself, you see Mr. Tanaka... "Tanaka-san desu ka".
Interesting theory Snoop. But in this scenario you are looking into a reflection ASSUMING it is another person, and this of course is why you are using SAN. But you forget that in this case you most likely would say "Dare desu ka" instead. I am sure though there is an alternate dimension where putting SAN on someone's name is a considerable insult.
I've been trying all kinds of learning materials and bouncing all over the place for about 12 months. These videos are absolutely brilliant, at least for my preferred way of learning. I'm moving to Japan in a week, and I am going to sit here and watch as many of your videos as is physically possible until I leave - and then watch the rest when I arrive. Thank you, thank you, thank you. They're rehashing things I've already learnt since I have been at it for 12 months, but it's consolidating the information into a much stronger base for going into more advanced study - but still total amaze-balls. Now I can not sound like an idiot talking to Japanese friends on line. I will buy your books when I get to Japan and sign up to your Patreon, that still doesn't feel like thank you enough!!
this is so amazing honestly! a fridn told me about you, and im from germany and i was afraid that learning japanese based of another language might be difficult but its actually very easy soo THANK YOU
The way he teaches is like talking to another person. And as an Autistic adult it makes it much easier to follow! Love the books and I'm learning so much! Thanks!! Love from 2021
Hello ジョ-ジ先生. I finally bought a set of your books and am taking the chance to go back through the basics. Kinda crazy to see how far I've come since these early days, especially as I've been struggling a bit in my intermediate level. Keep up the great work!
man, your teaching method is extremely simple and powerful! I'm learning a lot with your videos, when I start learning watching your videos I forget the time, it's all fun and new things❤🇯🇵⛩ I'm Brazilian and I'm acquiring the Japanese language as a third language 🇧🇷🇯🇵
George, I have gone through the pre-lessons on line and just ordered the first book. I'm really enjoying the approach you take. You present Japanese in a very practical way. I'm loving it. Unfortunately my brain takes forever to absorb things like this but I intend to be persistent. My wife and were recently in Japan for the first time and intend to go back in two years (my wife is half Japanese and this is her first visit) . I have challenged myself to learn as much as I can before going back. Your teaching style motivates me and I know I won't give up. Dan
“I’m sometimes called a perfectionist” and yet book 2 has vebs instead of verbs printed on multiple pages (no hate, just found it funny) Still awesome books/videos
english is my second language, and i'm kinda happy that plural, pronouns is not a problem in japanese just like my first language, it leaves a space in my brain to learn another monster in learning nihonggo, the kanji. And japanese is also 99% of the time phonetical, spelling and pronounciation is also not a problem, but then there is the pitch accent to think about.
@@Melvinb7 Tsukue (つくえ) --- *DESK* あれは机ですか --- Is that a desk? You probably already figured it out by now. I guess it can be for anyone else that wonders the same thing.
Hello from Canada. Thanks for posting these lessons. Your explanations are fun to listen to and your side stories actually make the lessons stick to my memory. Keep doing what your doing because your approach is definitely working plus I was compelled to purchase your book even though I was already working on Genki 1.
You're a really good teacher! I enjoy watching your lessons, and I've been learning a lot! English is my second language, but I can understand you perfectly. Thanks for your amazing work!
Astoundingly great teaching! Thank you! These videos are still informative and entertaining after watching several times. Your presentation allows focus on the main points, while still rich enough to learn more deeply on subsequent viewing. The books are beautifully packaged too - video + book + website a terrific combo.
Fun fact :in Arabic you can tell everything about who is being spoken to just from a verb, so when I learned English I was so surprised how little information a verb gives. Now when I saw desu: " oh s***, here we go again ".
I like to review for atkeast 3 days, revisiting lessons and making a notebook while also using the books to review and watch the videos. It is alot of repeat, but it helps to make it easier to understand everytime
I started learning first from Rosetta Stone before my nephew turned me onto your books. I had to come up wtih my own theories on why you did not pronounce su in desu. I came up with the idea that they are saying desu but the "oo" portion was spoken as a trail off of the des part and the u/oo sounds was the trail off of the S sound in des. Not sure if this is the case but this is how it made sense to me in learning the pronunciation on my own.
So I can speak English and Afrikaans fluently already and because I know Afrikaans it makes learning Japanese so much easier. For example the pronunciation and SVO are the same. Even though South Africa and Japan are worlds apart
the funniest teacher ever I love Japanese from Anime and Akidio training and now I love it more coz of George If you visit Egypt anytime please contact me you are my teacher now and I never forget good teachers Thank you Jo-ji Sense
Thanks for doing these videos which coincide with the book. I just recently bought the eBook (sadly the print version is crazy expensive in Thailand as it's an imported book...but I converted the Amazon format to PDF and printed it out) it's really useful to be able to have a video tutorial to accompany the book.
Learning japanese for spanish language speakers is easier. Because in Spanish we don't use the subject either if it's already established. For example, when in English you would say "This is my sister, she is a doctor", we in spanish would say "Esta es mi hermana, ES DOCTORA" ... without saying "ella = she" because we already stablished we're talking about MY SISTER. And we would keep talking about her without saying again "ella = she" unless we change the subject of the conversation.
Power up your Japanese on FromZero.com (lessons, quizzes, games, ask-a-teacher)
I think I found my perfect teacher.
he mean he has cat
are you translated from google?
齊藤真明 lmao
SkyrimSoldier i don't
yayayaayay!! me 2! after learning basic kanji and hiragana and katakana.
with 20 minutes of talking from my teacher i completely understand that your username informs me that you are a cat!!!
I'm using my second language (English) to learn my third language...
+BB1CC666 As I Am)
Same
Me too
I've been browsing youtube using english so much it's probably my first language now.
Ditto
Who's watching in 2020? I'm so glad for you, George. You made learning Japanese easier
End of 2020, end i bought book too.
oops haha im in 2021
@@samiracain same
I'll do you one better
2021
I love how passionate he is. He is defs who i choose to teach me Japanese!
best teacher!
wow you made this real simple.
Most Japanese teachers online like japanesepod101 kind of over-complicate things sometimes.
you put basic sentence structure in the simplest way possible. thanks
@@iscreamanimation It kind of is.
@@iscreamanimation yeah, idk. for an average english speaker, they likely wouldn't have any prior experience with a sound like that, because it's just not present in english. I'm not sure if "a fusion of D and L" is the best way to put it, but it's a completely understandable explanation. Just showing exactly what it sounds like and what the tongue movement is would probably be a lot easier to follow that "between D and L" though...
I Found The Best Teacher On RUclips
You are literally the best teacher i've ever taken lessons from, i mean yea i want to learn japanese and i came here for that so i should be happy i am learning, but it's not only about learning, you make it look very easy and you have structured your lessons very well, but you also joke a few times and say things off script to make us feel like we are learning from a human and not a robot that only reads scripts and shows stuff on screen, you have a type of charisma to you that just makes almost anybody feel comfortable when taking these lessons compared to school where as most teachers just don't really care and want to get the lesson over with and i mean why are you there if you don't want to teach people stuff, teachers in schools are mostly un-charismatic or robot-like and it makes you feel like you are in a medication of some sort, just taking your dose and ending it there with nothing more to it, it's so weird that i feel better learning with some dude i found online than my supposed "teachers" in school.
Thanks for the comment! I honestly love teaching, but more than that I love talking. My goal is always to teach Japanese to a friend on a bus. It shouldn’t be too complicated and should not make my friend frustrated.
I'm so agree!
Definition of perfect teacher
Every time you say "be verb" I keep thinking you're saying "beaver" and I get thrown off, lmao. But...I've been binge watching your video lessons for the past 3+ hours and I'm having a blast.
@El Malakh Feo watch me
@@ashie06 How has it been so far?
@El Malakh Feo It actually couldn't. Learning a language really well isn't about the more the better. It's the other way around, the brain needs tons of time to memorize stuff, especially a language like this. And also, the muscles of the mouth needs tons of practice to learn how to pronounce the sounds of the language well. The fact is, rushing is the antidote to overwhelming, failing and so on. Though I'm not against intensive approaches, don't get me wrong, it depends on the individual.
Just ordered your book!
When you were talking about the "be verb", I was all like, "huh? A beaver?" 🇯🇵
2:00 according to RUclips auto captions, he said: A major concept this is called death. Not death even though it's written as a decimal, it's going to be pronounced like death.
Would you ever consider a podcast? I think it would be interesting if you also talked about culture. Thank you for your lessons! Informative and engaging.
Hi...I'm writing just to compliment you for your videos. I'm italian and I live in Italy and recently started the task to learn Japanese through English. You just became my guru, my official 先生 😅 after a few videos on your channel I decided to start the Japanese from zero course...and I can't wait to receive your books! ありがとうございます
At first, I thought the cat was a dog. Then later, he starts saying, "It's obviously a cat".
I'm up to lesson 10 in the first book and found out about these videos. They helped clarify some things for me. ありがとう!
ジョジさんはすごいのせんせいですね。 I'm re-watching all of the vids for Book 1, because I tend to forget stuff easily.
Thank you for your videos and ample teachings Joji-san! Best teacher! When I can afford it, I'll be sure to buy the books as well!
The の is not needed correct? You can put an adjective right before a noun without a particle I believe.
A great tip for when to use of 何 nani or nan is when the word following it starts with the letters t,n,or d you will always use nan. Any others you use nani.
George is literally the type who would become my favorite teacher in school.
This man is a legend!!! Been in Japan for six months and thanks to these videos, everything is fitting into place. THANK YOU for making this all make sense and fun!
XD that cute girl voice had me laughing so hard XD
Mugiwara kawaiidesu ka? or to be cringe "Kawaii desu ne"
Just opened my package from Amazon, cracked open books 1 and 2. I am SO excited to start going through them with my daughter (16 yrs) who asked me if I would start studying Japanese with her 😊
Thank you George!
I swear. I could sit through a full length lecture with you! You make learning fun.
That's deep - learning a language is harder than using a language.
Thoughts while watching this video:
たなかさんですか?私はだれですか?私のなまえはなんですか?
These are pretty informative videos. I've studied Japanese at college but I've lost a lot. These are nice refreshers for me.
ahhh this is the real beginning of me learning Japanese!! it's so exciting to start understanding the structure of the language!
I appreciate the fact that you take your time. Other videos rush and hardly give real life examples.
I like how the subtitles autocorrect "desu" for "death", giving Dekomori Sanae vibe
I've been using this book for about a month or so, and have learned more in that time than the entire physical class I took for a whole year. You're a very good teacher, thank you for making learning japanese so much easier and accessible
The best teacher is a genuine one.
bought the japanese from zero book's a couple of days ago and i am so gratefull for the way you break everything down..i have learning difficulties and you manage to make everything so easy for me to understand so i really wanna say thank you :)
I think I've found a useful instance where "Tanaka-san desu ka" would mean "Am I Tanaka?", that i think most people could relate to. OK, so you've just woken up in the middle of the night and decide to head downstairs to get something to drink, but sleepy as you are you get lost along the way and end up in an alternate dimension. You're standing in front of a giant obelisk. You lean forward looking at your reflection, but you don't see yourself, you see Mr. Tanaka...
"Tanaka-san desu ka".
Interesting theory Snoop. But in this scenario you are looking into a reflection ASSUMING it is another person, and this of course is why you are using SAN. But you forget that in this case you most likely would say "Dare desu ka" instead. I am sure though there is an alternate dimension where putting SAN on someone's name is a considerable insult.
Itte kimasu - Ill be back... so whats the one before you eat???
Thanks George great lessons
jaston chron the one before you eat is "いただきまーす" itadakimasu
Meaning, thank you for the meal, let's eat, etc.
I've been trying all kinds of learning materials and bouncing all over the place for about 12 months. These videos are absolutely brilliant, at least for my preferred way of learning. I'm moving to Japan in a week, and I am going to sit here and watch as many of your videos as is physically possible until I leave - and then watch the rest when I arrive. Thank you, thank you, thank you. They're rehashing things I've already learnt since I have been at it for 12 months, but it's consolidating the information into a much stronger base for going into more advanced study - but still total amaze-balls. Now I can not sound like an idiot talking to Japanese friends on line. I will buy your books when I get to Japan and sign up to your Patreon, that still doesn't feel like thank you enough!!
this is so amazing honestly! a fridn told me about you, and im from germany and i was afraid that learning japanese based of another language might be difficult but its actually very easy soo THANK YOU
The way he teaches is like talking to another person. And as an Autistic adult it makes it much easier to follow! Love the books and I'm learning so much! Thanks!! Love from 2021
I'm so happy that I was able to answer the simple questions without hesitating! Baby steps! Thanks
been trying on and off for 2 years to learn this language .....This video..freaking amazing
These are extremely helpful lessons. The unedited, single take creates a really good atmosphere.
He is incredibly good!! I learned so much from this video!! Thanks you!!!
Thank you so much for uploading this video because I have looking for this book review and I finally found it . 😊😉
Hello ジョ-ジ先生. I finally bought a set of your books and am taking the chance to go back through the basics. Kinda crazy to see how far I've come since these early days, especially as I've been struggling a bit in my intermediate level. Keep up the great work!
I been looking for someone like you who can teach me japanese 😊😊 Thank you for the lesson
Very nice video! I'm looking forward for more lessons from you. Thank you
man, your teaching method is extremely simple and powerful! I'm learning a lot with your videos, when I start learning watching your videos I forget the time, it's all fun and new things❤🇯🇵⛩ I'm Brazilian and I'm acquiring the Japanese language as a third language 🇧🇷🇯🇵
you are such a great teacher
I don't mean to worry you, but your cat has been bodysnatched and replaced with a fox.
Yes it has
きつね
George, I have gone through the pre-lessons on line and just ordered the first book. I'm really enjoying the approach you take. You present Japanese in a very practical way. I'm loving it. Unfortunately my brain takes forever to absorb things like this but I intend to be persistent. My wife and were recently in Japan for the first time and intend to go back in two years (my wife is half Japanese and this is her first visit) . I have challenged myself to learn as much as I can before going back. Your teaching style motivates me and I know I won't give up. Dan
Same im gnna order the first book haha
So how did ur learning go?
Jo-Ji Sensei is the best japanese teacher that I have seen so far!
The best learning Japanese videos and books out there!! Deff recommended and love the community❤
“I’m sometimes called a perfectionist” and yet book 2 has vebs instead of verbs printed on multiple pages (no hate, just found it funny)
Still awesome books/videos
Ugh.... typos...........
english is my second language, and i'm kinda happy that plural, pronouns is not a problem in japanese just like my first language, it leaves a space in my brain to learn another monster in learning nihonggo, the kanji. And japanese is also 99% of the time phonetical, spelling and pronounciation is also not a problem, but then there is the pitch accent to think about.
This is one of the most epic Thumbnails made
One of the Best japanese teacher in youtube.
you are such a good teacher, you make learning really become a fun thing to do. thank you
you are the best Japanese teacher ever.
I like thinking of "desu/desuka" as "identity/identify?". It helps me understand the difference between "desu" and "imasu/arimasu".
Thank you very much. My Japanese classes have gotten a lot easier thanks to your videos.
Studying in the cafe
19:34 made me spit my drink out lmao
Does Yoda say "desu inu?"
No, yoda actually speaks in japanese
Reverie.blade exactly lol いぬ です translated literally is like dog it is
あれは机ですか
@@jonathanlusk4564 what's the meaning of this Kanji Character?
@@Melvinb7 Tsukue (つくえ) --- *DESK*
あれは机ですか --- Is that a desk?
You probably already figured it out by now. I guess it can be for anyone else that wonders the same thing.
Hello from Canada. Thanks for posting these lessons. Your explanations are fun to listen to and your side stories actually make the lessons stick to my memory. Keep doing what your doing because your approach is definitely working plus I was compelled to purchase your book even though I was already working on Genki 1.
Very enjoyable. I feel like I pick up something new with each video.
"you wanna go get icecream?"
" *house* "
Hahahhaha
XD
の
@@CarlosGarcia-uz6fyいいえ
Why would you say no tho?😂
You're a really good teacher! I enjoy watching your lessons, and I've been learning a lot! English is my second language, but I can understand you perfectly. Thanks for your amazing work!
Chinese here learning Japanese with a English speaker. Your videos are just awesome.
你的视频很棒
Astoundingly great teaching! Thank you! These videos are still informative and entertaining after watching several times. Your presentation allows focus on the main points, while still rich enough to learn more deeply on subsequent viewing. The books are beautifully packaged too - video + book + website a terrific combo.
Fun fact :in Arabic you can tell everything about who is being spoken to just from a verb, so when I learned English I was so surprised how little information a verb gives.
Now when I saw desu: " oh s***, here we go again ".
I like your small mistakes in presentations. It keeps me concentrated / in attention.
+Learn Japanese From Zero! OMFG YOUR BOOK IS FREAKING AMAZING MATE!!!!!
George, you are great. This was simple yes, but it all made sense & easier to remember & understand!!!
Your brain is very smart!! I like the contextual approach when learning, it makes it much easier!!
I like to review for atkeast 3 days, revisiting lessons and making a notebook while also using the books to review and watch the videos. It is alot of repeat, but it helps to make it easier to understand everytime
Thanks for some good building blocks!
this is it i used to wstch your videos but i stopped after 4-5 videos cuz some reasons and now this is in my recommendations
Omg you are a great teacher. Your videos teach sooo much. Way better than the other videos. Please don't stop teaching us. :)
your lessons are so much fun
I really enjoy learning from your videos thank you!
Dude, I just found your channel. It's really helpful.
We just booked our 3 week backpacking trip to see ifnwe want to buy a vacation home in Japan ❤ Thanks for the course!
That sounds awesome! It’s my understanding that if you’re willing to put in the effort you can get a great deal on an older home in Japan.
Thank you for teaching us!
Your lesson is really good man, explanation is clear, thank you very much. keep it up
Lol I laughed out loud at the super cutesy *haaaiii~, Americajin desssuu♡*. Thank you these lessons are soo helpful!
Thanks for the lessons sir 😀
I started learning first from Rosetta Stone before my nephew turned me onto your books. I had to come up wtih my own theories on why you did not pronounce su in desu. I came up with the idea that they are saying desu but the "oo" portion was spoken as a trail off of the des part and the u/oo sounds was the trail off of the S sound in des. Not sure if this is the case but this is how it made sense to me in learning the pronunciation on my own.
Sensei thank you so much for the lessons!
Thanks I can now really understand how to use desk and how to ask and answer a question
You mean "desu"?
Thanks George for the useful content, as always.
Tanoshikatta desu.
"I just hate having little mistakes.... although man, they are frequent" made me LOL
another great video, George sensei arigato gozaimasu
So I can speak English and Afrikaans fluently already and because I know Afrikaans it makes learning Japanese so much easier. For example the pronunciation and SVO are the same. Even though South Africa and Japan are worlds apart
RUclips's automatic chapter maker has identified "desu" as "deaths".
Hell as f-
the funniest teacher ever
I love Japanese from Anime and Akidio training and now I love it more coz of George
If you visit Egypt anytime please contact me
you are my teacher now and I never forget good teachers
Thank you Jo-ji Sense
What helped me with the grammar is ASL is similar. The verb is last. Henry apple eat. “Henry eats(ate) an apple.”
Thanks for doing these videos which coincide with the book. I just recently bought the eBook (sadly the print version is crazy expensive in Thailand as it's an imported book...but I converted the Amazon format to PDF and printed it out) it's really useful to be able to have a video tutorial to accompany the book.
Learning japanese for spanish language speakers is easier. Because in Spanish we don't use the subject either if it's already established. For example, when in English you would say "This is my sister, she is a doctor", we in spanish would say "Esta es mi hermana, ES DOCTORA" ... without saying "ella = she" because we already stablished we're talking about MY SISTER. And we would keep talking about her without saying again "ella = she" unless we change the subject of the conversation.
You're a fantastic teacher!
I really learn at fast pace because of you... I'm new here I hope I could enroll in your class if you have one..😅😅
This has been the best set of videos I've ever seen :)
This is but a humble comment from the past. This video really helped me get through book one, though!
Great, helpful lessons. Love your channel.
I’m lost!!! You found me, thank you so much 😢❤
You make me so excited to learn Japanese. I need to get your books asap.
ScubaTal Bowling did you get book?