There is more than just Japanese education in these videos. Georgey is one of my life coach's whose influence is farther reaching than ever he may know
Thats the way I feel with german.. I pity everyone who learns it, because there are so many rules, that I just never think about, that have to be learned.. English feels easy in comparison
I learned a lot of English through playing videogames, practicing in chatrooms and watching videos in internet when I was young. I have taught English, and for people who aren't so familiar to the language, it's a big pain, the pronunciation is got damn hard.
Okay, so I have been following this series since the beginning. I feel like I have never really struggled with any of the topics, I just have to watch the videos multiple times and make sure I do the exercises in the book. But counters? Holy cow, that stuff is hard to grasp…
I purchased Japanese from Zero 1 a few months ago. I am on book 3 now! The books, along with your great personality and teaching style have motivated me to keep learning when nothing else could. Thanks George!
Seriously! I've been studying japanese using a variety of rosetta stone, duolingo, Lingodeer (VASTLY underrated!), and others, but this... buying the book and using it with the website's lessons created a structure that made progress up-reaching instead of just sprawling.
Helpful tip for the "なんぼん" counter: "ぼん" is only used in the question and on 3's, "ぽん" is used when you're cutting out a character (Ex: for いち you cut out the ち add a stressor [small tsu] and it becomes いっぽん). If you've already memorized the なんこ counter, you'll use ぽん in all the same places you use っこ. Everywhere else, you use ほん.
George missed one vital point about counters that I think a lot of people should know. From my own experience in Japan, if you are ordering beers for you and your mates use the Ikutsu counter if you want pints as the Nanbon counter seems to get you bottles instead. :p
Haha yeah that's true but I'm sure many of your viewers do and may hold this advice in good stead. It was more of a joke comment to be fair but yeah, it's also true so maybe it'll settle any confusion if people keep getting bottles instead of pints when asking for a good brew. haha. Just trying to be helpful. :)
Drinking in Tokyo has taught me to use the ippai 一杯 counter for pints of beer. But that's the great thing about ikutsu it gets you of trouble 99/100 times!
19:01 I know these are really basic words, however I impressed myself on how quick I could understand the word. This just shows how we are progressing without even realising it. 👍
I just wish I could of had such amazing resources when I was younger. Having always wanted to learn Japanese. It just wasn't available when I was young. The internet wasn't around. Then it was in it's infancy. In High School we only had German, Spanish, and French. I only wanted to learn Japanese so I didn't really get into learning any of those languages. Today's youth have so many amazing resources because of the maturity of the internet. That's an amazing thing.
+Jack M. Moore. Ahh that's awesome. Well I'm bilingual so I speak English and Spanish. I started getting interested in Japanese at 13 yrs old because of the culture, anime,manga and how pronounciation of wovels in Japanese and Spanish are the same, so speaking Japanese was a smooth transition from Spanish and I wish I had found George's content sooner. I would have gotten very far. I wasted over $300 for a month of private Japanese lessons and a Genki Textbook and George's books cost less than $30 and explains everything better short and clear than a Japanese textbook. I'm going to buy his books but I want to wait for Book 3 for Kanji.
Anyone having trouble remembering whether to use H, B or P on the long/cylindrical counter - the modified H sound mimics the hundreds - sanByaku, roPPhaku, haPPyaku.
This lesson took me the longest out of the lessons so far to go through in the book. Not because it is a hard concept to understand but because it is a lot of new vocabulary learning these counters. So excited to be approaching the end of book 1 and nearly at book 2 already. Thank you for being a great teacher george
Hi George, This is an old video so you might not see this comment... but this video made me feel really positive about my progress!! When you talked about words that I already know and don't need to think about and continued to say list them, I couldn't stop smiling! Thanks for all the videos, I love the books!
Progress feels nice doesn’t it? Once you know something the burden of trying recall it is gone. This is how you build fluency. Make sure to not only watch videos about learning but also make sure you listen and watch native sources of Japanese to give your brain even more input. It will find patterns that you eventually will learn even though you might be lost now. Keep going!
You make Japanese almost too easy to understand, im so amazed at how well you explain things. It's honestly so much more logical than I thought when I decided to learn and I get stumped sometimes, like dang I must be doing something wrong for it to make so much sense😂 thank you so so much for the awesome content. I feel so solid in the basics because of you, my understanding would definitely not be where is it without your books!
It took me an hour to learn all the counters in this lesson and I honestly find that amazing. That it only took that long to learn something that looked so big. The nanbon counter was kinda scary but when it came down to it, it was pretty easy.
Personally if you said just "1 pizza please", i would think you meant an entire pizza. Only if you said piece or slice would i think you meant just a slice 🤷🏽♀️
I just wanted to say thank you !! You are helping me a lot with Japanese and English. I am french and I am so happy to improve my listening skills while listening to your videos and to study Japanese with such an amazing teacher 😄
あめ being rain/candy reminded me of a song that my mom sung to us (my brothers and me) a lot when we were younger. I'm going to have to watch this video a few times to help memorize it. (:
Before the widespread use of paper, the Chinese used to write on narrow strips of wood or bamboo. That explains why the word for book is used as a counter for narrow objects. Also, it explains why the kanji for book is so similar to the kanji for tree.
You know what? I really appreciate this video because I’ve being trying to learn Japanese for a few years and gave up for a bit as I was getting frustrated that I couldn’t understand when I hear it. I think George is honestly the best language teacher. These books and videos have been my best source of learning second being my Nintendo ds game for the memorising of words. I’ve also started using Tueida for listening to conversations.
What a difference this video made for learning the counters. Looking at the lesson was intimidating at first, but I knew coming to this video would be the right move to lessen my confusion. Thanks as always, ジョージせんせい！
Just a comment from the future to let you know you've rekindled my interest in Japanese to the point where it is not just mere interest anymore, but genuine passion and drive to become better at it. I won't give up.
Wow This is by far the most confusing thing in the Japanese language. I've been living in Japan now for 7 months and I love everything about it except the counting. Even Kanji has been easier to learn. Aside from that, George, your lessons have been very useful and I've learned more from them than any other source.
when he tested our fluency by spitting out japanese words i was so GIDDY it made me feel so great and like i’ve gotten far that i could understand those words without thinking
Hey George, I just wanna say thank you for all of these videos. I’ve been watching these videos religiously and I also have your book. I know I still have a lot to learn but I’m honestly so proud of myself for the knowledge I’ve gained, and that’s thanks to you and your amazing teaching techniques. I can now say I know all of the hiragana, my writing has improved and to me, that’s super awesome! Before I picked up your book I had no idea how I was going to learn Japanese. But now I’m on a structured schedule. My dream is to be fluent in Japanese, and with your help, it’s possible to make a reality. I absolutely plan on finishing all of your books! Thanks again! Much love (:
If you want to make long cylinder objects counters easier to remember, you can apply this rule everything with a small つ has ぽｎ after it 😊 and general objects have a similar name to the days of the month so if you learn that you will have little problem
I’m still going to watch these lessons as they are amazing, I just don’t have the book, when I can afford it I will buy it. But this lesson was so hard to watch without the book I got all confused!! Edit: I realised that you can get course 1 on yes japan, so I might if it’s cheaper but course 2,3 and 4!! The website was extremely helpful! And I understand now!! Thank you George 😭
Today in my japanese lesson we diskussed about the hon-counter for zylindrial object. Maybe hon was used to mean scroll, which is a zylindrial object. Don't know if it's true but it could be a good reminder
I wanna point out that the nanbon count with ho bo and po has a similar structure as with normal counting in the 100s (except for the first and last: ippon an juuppon). sanbon = sanbyaku, roppon = roppyaku, happon = happyaku. This way it is easier to remember
Excellent, i'm french and i understood almost all! In japonese and english lol. Please continue teaching us the marvelous language that is Japanese! (NihonGo)
Ah this lesson is sooo good!😀 You explained it so well and I like the mini tests you do👌 So helpful! Also, it helps that you're an entertaining host because I enjoy rewatching the video hahaha 😎
English is not my firs t language, when I was little I saw English as something really impossible, now look at me... I'm learning Japanese with an American guy who speaks English :) any language is hard and sometimes you feel like its not working and is better to give up, but keep pushing, one day you will find yourself saying japanese words without even trying or forcing. Thank you :D
@DownFromTheSky89 - Weeaboo!! cylindrical, wow!! The largest word you know and you learn it in grade 2.... *Thumbs up kid!* Each comment you make is exponentially worse than the last. A plethora of idiotic acknowledgements and low-brow comments. How purportless.... -_-
@@Twitch_Moderator Apparently Scrotum suffers from the Dunning Kruger Effect. People like that only feel good insulting other people and trying to appear superior. Its truly fascinating to see it in person.
It seems to me that the "general counter" shares some similarities with the counting for days of the week that we discussed previously... I can't believe I never saw that till now... *DOH* There are some differences still between them (notably "tsuitachi" and "hitotsu" and the differences between seven and eight could confusing), but the similarity in beginning hiragana and "nine" and "ten" is enough to be useful!
I am Chinese. The line on the T-shirt is : Serve the people. It is a very famous sentence created during the time of Chairman Mao. It is still kind of popular. :)
jo-ji: go to page # and look and look look at the counte list, or on website (rough of what he said) me:(following on the vid dont have book and not able to get on website, and have been writing down in a journal since the start) me:crap cant look at it
If I remember correctly from a Cure Dolly video, the Kanji 本 (hon) which is used as a counter for long cylindrical things used to mean scroll. But since scrolls are not used anymore, it's used for books these days. Not sure if this is the correct etymology, but maybe a good mnemonic.
here is something i thought of if it would help anyone: 3, 6, and 8 all have ば and ぽ respectively, like the regular 100s. example: 300 is さんびゃく, it has び, like 3 has ぼ. 600 is ろっぴゃく, it has ぴ, like 6 has ぽ. and the same goes for 8, with ぽ. i tried to have this make sense best i can. apologies if it doesnt to anyone else lol
What you said about certain counters in english, like grains of sand in no way compares to japanese counters, 'cause you can just put a number before pretty much everything, which makes it very easy to number stuff, while in japanese you need to know lots of counters to do that, I know that when it comes to language learning we can't be lazy, but c'mon it IS hard, lol, great video though
Melissa 2005 You can’t just say one sand , two sands , three sands etc. You need to use the counter for sand which is “grain”. One grain of sand , two grains of sand , three grains of sand , etc.
He already said it, english has these counters too. We just don't think about them, it's like counting in objects. You don't think about "glass" of water as a specific grammar thing you have to remember to say things correctly.
Great long video. I understand the numbers but I'm lost with counters. So the four counters represent how to count different types of objects? I was really lost
It's a strange feeling to hear about the "English fluency" explanation when I remember exactly what it was like to not be fluent in Enlish, thought it was more than 15 years ago from now 😂
I lived in China for a while and I can confirm that they sound and bargain exactly like that 12:30 go to a market and experience it (silk/pearl market are good)
so...the counter used for beer would be the nanhon counter? What about for coffee? I guess i could use the ikutsu counter but...i want to know for real. This is crucial information. I'm leaving for Japan in 5 days!! lol
Happy Birthday for today George - 29th October (it's 10am AWST in Perth Australia, might still be 28th where you are) Hope you have a great day today :)
Where does the と go when listing/asking for multiple items in different quantities? For example, ハンバーガーと プチポテトとコーラをおねがいします - what if I want 2 burgers and 3 fries and a coke? Does it become Option 1: ハンバーガーと 2つプチポテトと3つコーラをおねがいします Option 2: ハンバーガー2つと プチポテト3つとコーラをおねがいします Option 3: ハンバーガーを2つと プチポテトを3つとコーラをおねがいします or something else entirely?
been looking for a pattern for the whole language for a while now, because I'm scared if I spoke in a different pattern it'll sound wrong, then you said : patterns in japanese gets flipped at times. I'm like (゜゜)なるほど…
fun fact ほん means book and that counter use book kanji, why then count cilider objects insted of books? because in the past in asia in general insted of books they write text on scrolls and scrools with text would also use that counter
Ok you say english has different words for groups and stuff, but that's totally different from counters. Yeah, with something like pizza, you would say one "slice" of pizza, but you can use the word "slice" for any number of pieces. You could also just say "a piece" for pretty much everything. With the counters though, you need to learn a new word for each number just in that category, so you have to learn 50 different words(plus the normal numbers that aren't counters) just to count to ten, rather than having maybe one word that you can just put pre-existing numbers next to.
If you were a store owner for example, how would you ask: "how many apples would you like?" Like could I ask: 紙は何枚が欲しいですか。 And secondly, can I just drop the "noun wa" before this statement, like if some one asks, オレンジは何個ですか, can I simply say ３個です。 ？
George I know this was an early lesson and people know very little Hiragana let alone Kanji, but I think the Counter's Kanji should have been shown as their the entire identity of it and even if you haven't remember each of the individual 1-10 annunciations, at least you can identify the object/thing buy the counter Kanji.
I literally just skipped the counter stuff in the book because I couldn't even be bothered. I did learn the 一つ、二つ、三つ and so on in Wanikani. :3 I don't absorb tables of a butch of gerhailcgfeiluahoiegfibj. For that, I prefer the videos, so I appreciate this. (Also, for context, I'm on book 3 soon, and I know 500~ kanji, so... not a noob. I'm here because I'm subscribed, and very very bored.)
A murder of crows reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock 'The Birds' and don't forget before you eat your coconut soup say; "eat a duck and mouse". carrots 'hon' but are cut carrots the same as they are cut in different ways, length ways, sliced (circles) and chunks (diamondish shape)?
One suggestion for teaching would be teach the most polite form first, then the less polite next - that way the default in our language learner brains is the most polite first..
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There is more than just Japanese education in these videos. Georgey is one of my life coach's whose influence is farther reaching than ever he may know
Yea same here...
Woah...... Thank guys. I am a blow hard. I can never stop trying to give advice. It's nice to know that some people find it worthy of a listen.
So true.
gracias maestro
obrigado professor Gerogey ;)
George is making me realise how hard English is. Bare respect to anyone that learnt it without it being their first language.
Not to say it is easy but compared to French, mandarin and Russian, English is probably the easiest to learn.
Thats the way I feel with german.. I pity everyone who learns it, because there are so many rules, that I just never think about, that have to be learned.. English feels easy in comparison
@@danielkeilaus I am from Germany and learned english since the third grade I think.😂
yup. im 19 and my english is near native level i would say
I learned a lot of English through playing videogames, practicing in chatrooms and watching videos in internet when I was young. I have taught English, and for people who aren't so familiar to the language, it's a big pain, the pronunciation is got damn hard.
Okay, so I have been following this series since the beginning. I feel like I have never really struggled with any of the topics, I just have to watch the videos multiple times and make sure I do the exercises in the book. But counters? Holy cow, that stuff is hard to grasp…
I purchased Japanese from Zero 1 a few months ago. I am on book 3 now! The books, along with your great personality and teaching style have motivated me to keep learning when nothing else could. Thanks George!
Good for you man! This will have positive ripple effects on your future. Learning Japanese is just ONE step in a huge row of steps! Good job!
how is your japanese journey coming along?
Seriously! I've been studying japanese using a variety of rosetta stone, duolingo, Lingodeer (VASTLY underrated!), and others, but this... buying the book and using it with the website's lessons created a structure that made progress up-reaching instead of just sprawling.
Same for me!
Forgot I had this comment haha. I’ve been living in japan for about 2 and a half years now. Done the whole teaching deal and am now working in IT!
Helpful tip for the "なんぼん" counter: "ぼん" is only used in the question and on 3's, "ぽん" is used when you're cutting out a character (Ex: for いち you cut out the ち add a stressor [small tsu] and it becomes いっぽん). If you've already memorized the なんこ counter, you'll use ぽん in all the same places you use っこ. Everywhere else, you use ほん.
George missed one vital point about counters that I think a lot of people should know. From my own experience in Japan, if you are ordering beers for you and your mates use the Ikutsu counter if you want pints as the Nanbon counter seems to get you bottles instead. :p
Rob Jeremy - I don't drink beer so I think your advice is golden!
Haha yeah that's true but I'm sure many of your viewers do and may hold this advice in good stead. It was more of a joke comment to be fair but yeah, it's also true so maybe it'll settle any confusion if people keep getting bottles instead of pints when asking for a good brew. haha. Just trying to be helpful. :)
Drinking in Tokyo has taught me to use the ippai 一杯 counter for pints of beer. But that's the great thing about ikutsu it gets you of trouble 99/100 times!
19:01 I know these are really basic words, however I impressed myself on how quick I could understand the word. This just shows how we are progressing without even realising it. 👍
I just wish I could of had such amazing resources when I was younger. Having always wanted to learn Japanese. It just wasn't available when I was young. The internet wasn't around. Then it was in it's infancy. In High School we only had German, Spanish, and French. I only wanted to learn Japanese so I didn't really get into learning any of those languages. Today's youth have so many amazing resources because of the maturity of the internet. That's an amazing thing.
It's never too late.
+Melbester9 I began at 2 years ago at 26. I have conversations in Japanese now everyday.
+Jack M. Moore. Ahh that's awesome. Well I'm bilingual so I speak English and Spanish. I started getting interested in Japanese at 13 yrs old because of the culture, anime,manga and how pronounciation of wovels in Japanese and Spanish are the same, so speaking Japanese was a smooth transition from Spanish and I wish I had found George's content sooner. I would have gotten very far.
I wasted over $300 for a month of private Japanese lessons and a Genki Textbook and George's books cost less than $30 and explains everything better short and clear than a Japanese textbook. I'm going to buy his books but I want to wait for Book 3 for Kanji.
@@Melbester9 Same except that I'm 16 though.
You can still learn. I am starting at 50.
The Chinese on your shirt is 為人民服务, which means "serving the people".
LOL, now that's funny. Our Chinese friends have a sly sense of humor :)
@@Fredjoe5 wait. There is still people who watch this in 2021 !!!
@@othmanbajunaid9762 Yes and we keep moving forward
@@liambuchan4162 until the language is learned👁👁🎇⚡️
@@othmanbajunaid9762 はい！
This is the best course I've come across so far, I feel like I'm progressing real fast! Can't wait for book 2 and 3 to arrive in the mail
Anyone having trouble remembering whether to use H, B or P on the long/cylindrical counter - the modified H sound mimics the hundreds - sanByaku, roPPhaku, haPPyaku.
This lesson took me the longest out of the lessons so far to go through in the book. Not because it is a hard concept to understand but because it is a lot of new vocabulary learning these counters. So excited to be approaching the end of book 1 and nearly at book 2 already. Thank you for being a great teacher george
"Nanko" is the counter for "small", "round" things, and it just so happens to sound like "Manko".
Sorry George, I was dying to point that out.
KawaiiJoaco lmao, thank you for this comment!!!
Anything that helps you remember... manko is a great memory device... IF YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN!
Very effective mnemonic!
ありがとうございます。
You mean how many manko you want? Geez what a player
Yeah mango is round and somewhat small
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Hi George, This is an old video so you might not see this comment... but this video made me feel really positive about my progress!! When you talked about words that I already know and don't need to think about and continued to say list them, I couldn't stop smiling! Thanks for all the videos, I love the books!
Progress feels nice doesn’t it? Once you know something the burden of trying recall it is gone. This is how you build fluency. Make sure to not only watch videos about learning but also make sure you listen and watch native sources of Japanese to give your brain even more input. It will find patterns that you eventually will learn even though you might be lost now. Keep going!
Great to have online teachers like you! The book in itself is already great but these videos is going that extra mile. Thank you!
You make Japanese almost too easy to understand, im so amazed at how well you explain things. It's honestly so much more logical than I thought when I decided to learn and I get stumped sometimes, like dang I must be doing something wrong for it to make so much sense😂 thank you so so much for the awesome content. I feel so solid in the basics because of you, my understanding would definitely not be where is it without your books!
It took me an hour to learn all the counters in this lesson and I honestly find that amazing. That it only took that long to learn something that looked so big. The nanbon counter was kinda scary but when it came down to it, it was pretty easy.
I love that when you are in doubt, Engrish can be your best friend.
"1 pizza" can either mean one slice or the whole pie. Food for thought. *Badum tss~*
Personally if you said just "1 pizza please", i would think you meant an entire pizza. Only if you said piece or slice would i think you meant just a slice 🤷🏽♀️
I just wanted to say thank you !! You are helping me a lot with Japanese and English. I am french and I am so happy to improve my listening skills while listening to your videos and to study Japanese with such an amazing teacher 😄
I WISH I KNOW YOU EARLIER! YOU TEACH IT SO WELL AND I UNDERSTAND IT SO WELL! THANK YOU SO MUCH! YOU’RE THE BEST
あめ being rain/candy reminded me of a song that my mom sung to us (my brothers and me) a lot when we were younger.
I'm going to have to watch this video a few times to help memorize it. (:
23:42 Ok, you use なんこ for the little ほし that go ぴかぴか in the night sky. So which one would you use when talking about the enormous balls of plasma?
Thank you for this George, counting systems and different counters was the first wall I hit with my learning!
You explain everything so clearly and easily. In definitely thinking about getting your books after watching your videos. Amazing work!
Before the widespread use of paper, the Chinese used to write on narrow strips of wood or bamboo. That explains why the word for book is used as a counter for narrow objects. Also, it explains why the kanji for book is so similar to the kanji for tree.
You know what? I really appreciate this video because I’ve being trying to learn Japanese for a few years and gave up for a bit as I was getting frustrated that I couldn’t understand when I hear it. I think George is honestly the best language teacher. These books and videos have been my best source of learning second being my Nintendo ds game for the memorising of words. I’ve also started using Tueida for listening to conversations.
"We're gonna do every lesson in every book ..."
Hellz ya! Keep em coming love 2 watch these every day or so : )
What a difference this video made for learning the counters. Looking at the lesson was intimidating at first, but I knew coming to this video would be the right move to lessen my confusion. Thanks as always, ジョージせんせい！
Thank you, George, for training oyr brains.
Eternally grateful,
M, aka Ulyana 😊
Just a comment from the future to let you know you've rekindled my interest in Japanese to the point where it is not just mere interest anymore, but genuine passion and drive to become better at it. I won't give up.
Wow This is by far the most confusing thing in the Japanese language. I've been living in Japan now for 7 months and I love everything about it except the counting. Even Kanji has been easier to learn.
Aside from that, George, your lessons have been very useful and I've learned more from them than any other source.
Thanks for the videos George! I only just caught up watching all the old ones.
when he tested our fluency by spitting out japanese words i was so GIDDY it made me feel so great and like i’ve gotten far that i could understand those words without thinking
Hey George, I just wanna say thank you for all of these videos. I’ve been watching these videos religiously and I also have your book. I know I still have a lot to learn but I’m honestly so proud of myself for the knowledge I’ve gained, and that’s thanks to you and your amazing teaching techniques. I can now say I know all of the hiragana, my writing has improved and to me, that’s super awesome! Before I picked up your book I had no idea how I was going to learn Japanese.
But now I’m on a structured schedule. My dream is to be fluent in Japanese, and with your help, it’s possible to make a reality.
I absolutely plan on finishing all of your books!
Thanks again! Much love (:
That's great, best of luck! How far have you come since this comment was posted?
If you want to make long cylinder objects counters easier to remember, you can apply this rule everything with a small つ has ぽｎ after it 😊 and general objects have a similar name to the days of the month so if you learn that you will have little problem
I’m still going to watch these lessons as they are amazing, I just don’t have the book, when I can afford it I will buy it. But this lesson was so hard to watch without the book I got all confused!!
Edit: I realised that you can get course 1 on yes japan, so I might if it’s cheaper but course 2,3 and 4!! The website was extremely helpful! And I understand now!! Thank you George 😭
I had to give this episode a like because of how you explained that English has counters as well-"cup" of coffee, "murder" of crows, etc. :)
This was such an enjoyable video to watch. Thankyou for all the info and thoughts.
Yoy are the best, George!! So much passion in all the videos. It is contageous...
Today in my japanese lesson we diskussed about the hon-counter for zylindrial object. Maybe hon was used to mean scroll, which is a zylindrial object. Don't know if it's true but it could be a good reminder
I wanna point out that the nanbon count with ho bo and po has a similar structure as with normal counting in the 100s (except for the first and last: ippon an juuppon). sanbon = sanbyaku, roppon = roppyaku, happon = happyaku. This way it is easier to remember
I didn't actually understand this lesson for the first time. Maybe I should give another shot.
Excellent, i'm french and i understood almost all! In japonese and english lol.
Please continue teaching us the marvelous language that is Japanese! (NihonGo)
Ah this lesson is sooo good!😀 You explained it so well and I like the mini tests you do👌 So helpful! Also, it helps that you're an entertaining host because I enjoy rewatching the video hahaha 😎
English is not my firs t language, when I was little I saw English as something really impossible, now look at me... I'm learning Japanese with an American guy who speaks English :) any language is hard and sometimes you feel like its not working and is better to give up, but keep pushing, one day you will find yourself saying japanese words without even trying or forcing. Thank you :D
27:50 Conversation in Japanese: "It's a miracle! There's candy falling from the sky!" "Yeah, what's so special about that?"
I'm totally one of the babies that complained about the counters...I immediately feel foolish.
"We are gonna do every lesson in every book" An announcement of hope
Book 4 videos are almost done
Loved the part where you talked about being fluent!
Bones are long and cylindrical. That's how I remember Bon.
thanks
@DownFromTheSky89 - Weeaboo!! cylindrical, wow!! The largest word you know and you learn it in grade 2.... *Thumbs up kid!* Each comment you make is exponentially worse than the last. A plethora of idiotic acknowledgements and low-brow comments. How purportless.... -_-
@@Twitch_Moderator whats your problem? He just mentioned a mnemonic to help remeber a counter.
@@Twitch_Moderator Apparently Scrotum suffers from the Dunning Kruger Effect. People like that only feel good insulting other people and trying to appear superior. Its truly fascinating to see it in person.
does anyone else see the things floating in the room in the beginning and towards the end? also, thank you for the videos they are extremely helpful.
It seems to me that the "general counter" shares some similarities with the counting for days of the week that we discussed previously... I can't believe I never saw that till now... *DOH* There are some differences still between them (notably "tsuitachi" and "hitotsu" and the differences between seven and eight could confusing), but the similarity in beginning hiragana and "nine" and "ten" is enough to be useful!
Thank you for the interlude about your Obama shirt! My brain was starting to melt
1:57 - I think what they're referring to is the fact that the word for the number doesn't change in English.
wow u made this way easier for me. Thanks so much
That T-shirt. Lol. Nice lesson!
I am Chinese. The line on the T-shirt is : Serve the people. It is a very famous sentence created during the time of Chairman Mao. It is still kind of popular. :)
jo-ji: go to page # and look and look look at the counte list, or on website (rough of what he said)
me:(following on the vid dont have book and not able to get on website, and have been writing down in a journal since the start)
me:crap cant look at it
I need to watch this lesson again it was a bit confusing
"we do have the same thing in English... grains of sand, school of fish..."
It blew my mind a little
Great video, really like this series.
Could you maybe explain your usage of そなんですよ around 2:30 ?
So far I only heard it when asking about something.
George got me with the "throwing" japanese at me... the brain just undrstood it withouth "searching the brain dictionary"...
The way you teach 😍❤️
If I remember correctly from a Cure Dolly video, the Kanji 本 (hon) which is used as a counter for long cylindrical things used to mean scroll.
But since scrolls are not used anymore, it's used for books these days.
Not sure if this is the correct etymology, but maybe a good mnemonic.
here is something i thought of if it would help anyone:
3, 6, and 8 all have ば and ぽ respectively, like the regular 100s.
example: 300 is さんびゃく, it has び, like 3 has ぼ.
600 is ろっぴゃく, it has ぴ, like 6 has ぽ.
and the same goes for 8, with ぽ.
i tried to have this make sense best i can. apologies if it doesnt to anyone else lol
Lol Maobama lol. You gonna get in trouble. XD
What you said about certain counters in english, like grains of sand in no way compares to japanese counters, 'cause you can just put a number before pretty much everything, which makes it very easy to number stuff, while in japanese you need to know lots of counters to do that, I know that when it comes to language learning we can't be lazy, but c'mon it IS hard, lol, great video though
Melissa 2005 You can’t just say one sand , two sands , three sands etc. You need to use the counter for sand which is “grain”. One grain of sand , two grains of sand , three grains of sand , etc.
He already said it, english has these counters too. We just don't think about them, it's like counting in objects. You don't think about "glass" of water as a specific grammar thing you have to remember to say things correctly.
This was the hardest lesson for me!
Great long video. I understand the numbers but I'm lost with counters. So the four counters represent how to count different types of objects? I was really lost
Hi there! You said: かみを1まいください。but it was かみを５まいください。It makes me know. Hey i'm learning. =) You're great teacher George. (I'm from Brazil)
It's a strange feeling to hear about the "English fluency" explanation when I remember exactly what it was like to not be fluent in Enlish, thought it was more than 15 years ago from now
😂
I lived in China for a while and I can confirm that they sound and bargain exactly like that 12:30 go to a market and experience it (silk/pearl market are good)
so...the counter used for beer would be the nanhon counter? What about for coffee? I guess i could use the ikutsu counter but...i want to know for real. This is crucial information. I'm leaving for Japan in 5 days!! lol
Quite interesting how the „hon“ counter is named like „book“ and uses the same Kanji, but books are counted with „satsu“.
Alright it's a good thing you referred me back to this video! Thanks. & I've always wanted to tell you, you look a lot like Adam Sandler 😭 lol!
Happy Birthday for today George - 29th October
(it's 10am AWST in Perth Australia, might still be 28th where you are)
Hope you have a great day today :)
Where does the と go when listing/asking for multiple items in different quantities? For example, ハンバーガーと プチポテトとコーラをおねがいします - what if I want 2 burgers and 3 fries and a coke? Does it become
Option 1: ハンバーガーと 2つプチポテトと3つコーラをおねがいします
Option 2: ハンバーガー2つと プチポテト3つとコーラをおねがいします
Option 3: ハンバーガーを2つと プチポテトを3つとコーラをおねがいします
or something else entirely?
been looking for a pattern for the whole language for a while now, because I'm scared if I spoke in a different pattern it'll sound wrong, then you said : patterns in japanese gets flipped at times. I'm like (゜゜)なるほど…
Any tricks to remembering the hon counters?
Cool story, bro~ the way I usually hear it pronounced, it sounds like like "shturey"
fun fact ほん means book and that counter use book kanji, why then count cilider objects insted of books? because in the past in asia in general insted of books they write text on scrolls and scrools with text would also use that counter
Yyou msut haev been thyping really fasst!
@11:55 Great pun! A two and a ツー (tsuu) lol
Ok you say english has different words for groups and stuff, but that's totally different from counters. Yeah, with something like pizza, you would say one "slice" of pizza, but you can use the word "slice" for any number of pieces. You could also just say "a piece" for pretty much everything. With the counters though, you need to learn a new word for each number just in that category, so you have to learn 50 different words(plus the normal numbers that aren't counters) just to count to ten, rather than having maybe one word that you can just put pre-existing numbers next to.
I learn English so passively that even I didnt realize that we do that in english jesssss
If you were a store owner for example, how would you ask: "how many apples would you like?"
Like could I ask:
紙は何枚が欲しいですか。
And secondly, can I just drop the "noun wa" before this statement, like if some one asks, オレンジは何個ですか, can I simply say ３個です。
？
Question: for counters, should i be writing using kanji numbers like "二つ" or is it more common to use "2つ"?
I'm gonna have to rewatch this a billion times cuz I don't get this at all
Do you understand it yet? I'm struggling to understand it too.
I learned caterpillar trough your book xD
I'm Austrian, btw.
I was grinning like an idiot at 18:20. Ur a great teacher george :)
ありがとう先生。
George I know this was an early lesson and people know very little Hiragana let alone Kanji, but I think the Counter's Kanji should have been shown as their the entire identity of it and even if you haven't remember each of the individual 1-10 annunciations, at least you can identify the object/thing buy the counter Kanji.
I literally bought that same shirt at the Great Wall when I was in China in 2011. 😂
I literally just skipped the counter stuff in the book because I couldn't even be bothered.
I did learn the 一つ、二つ、三つ and so on in Wanikani. :3
I don't absorb tables of a butch of gerhailcgfeiluahoiegfibj.
For that, I prefer the videos, so I appreciate this.
(Also, for context, I'm on book 3 soon, and I know 500~ kanji, so... not a noob.
I'm here because I'm subscribed, and very very bored.)
Also, because I know a lot already, I feel a lot smarter than I am. :3
It feels nice to know the answer to every question. :D
thanks! now every time I come across "shitsureishimasu" or hear it, I'd probably laugh xD
A murder of crows reminds me of Alfred Hitchcock 'The Birds' and don't forget before you eat your coconut soup say; "eat a duck and mouse". carrots 'hon' but are cut carrots the same as they are cut in different ways, length ways, sliced (circles) and chunks (diamondish shape)?
One suggestion for teaching would be teach the most polite form first, then the less polite next - that way the default in our language learner brains is the most polite first..
coconut soup is amazing
Thanks a lot.