How to Learn Japanese From Scratch
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- Опубликовано: 3 авг 2022
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Learn Japanese with Yuta: bit.ly/3oZGyoR
So hard 😭😭😭😭😭
@@Littlefish1239 gross
@@christopherluke9658 what?
こんにちはユタ先生！あなたのシャネルをよく見ています。教えてくれてありがとうございました！まだ日本語が上手ではないんですけど、英語で続けます. . . I really appreciate your approach to learning language, and I love how you encourage your viewers to learn in so many different ways. As a big anime fan myself I really enjoy videos where you recommend anime that is good for learning, while pointing out the pitfalls and dangers in learning strictly from anime (like characters speaking in usual or silly ways for example). I’ve been watching a new-ish anime on Netflix called “Komi Can’t Communicate” (「古見さんは、コミュ症です」). Since the main character has trouble speaking she doesn’t say much in the anime, she has to write everything down. I really like this anime for learning because I can listen to the Japanese, see the writing, put on subtitles and pause when I need to, to take my time reading the Japanese. It’s kind of a high-school romance/ slice of life anime. If you have not seen it yet I recommend you check it out! Im hoping there are others out there learning Japanese that will benefit from this anime as I have ☺️✌️
YUTA
Being excited about learning Japanese REALLY super-charged my first 3 months of learning.
I got to a conversational level within 3-4 months, and I was able to stop focusing on Grammar and 'school style' learning.
Now I'm mostly just consuming material for fun, and I'm already pushing into the N3 level, with very minimal studying, after just a couple of years. (I know maybe 500 kanji now too)
I got here mostly by reading, speaking, texting my girlfriend daily, and absorbing content in my spare time through Anime and J-dramas. I also recommend you to get graded readers.
where to go for free vocabulary
It would be amazing if Yuta-sensei could recommend some RUclips channels in Japanese with varied subjects.
@@Ice_2228 I don't mean channels for Japanese learners though, I mean normal channels Japanese people like about different topics. Like Veritasium or PewDiePie or Game Theory.
Thank you though!
@@petrelli231 oops my mistake, sorry about that!
Why would he want to, he just wants to sell his products.
First step: make a youtube channel change location to Japan and only sub Japanese channels. You will have tons of content.
@@lastninjaitachi to what channels?
@@petrelli231 whatever ones you want
I think listening to your favorite japanese songs while reading the lyrics in japanese helps a lot to learn and remember hiragana, katakana
And remembering phrases like "aishteru" 🤣🍻
Hello! Where can I find Japanese lyrics with Japanese subs, please can you tell me?
@@user-jm1yv8zh1z I recommend you utaten, it has lyrics with furigana but it's mostly in japanese, so it might be hard to look around but if you put the song's name followed by "utaten" it should be there
@@user-mx1rb2vz3v thank you very much!
dr slump intro song helped me with hiragana and some words
I honestly found learning song lyrics to be really helpful, both for vocabulary and pronunciation. You get a solid reference, and singing can be language agnostic, so you actually end up more familiar with Japanese sounds because you're less prone to projecting a foreign accent onto it.
yess ! i learned a japanese song for fun and it helped me with my pronunciations throughout my lessons
yeah it also helps a lot with being able to speak faster and getting the feel of rhythm for complex words
I’m struggling on how to actually learn it, first I wanted to learn kanji and just read the haruhi novel but I just realised that probably won’t be a very productive way of learning it, so now I’m struggling to figure out what to do
@@jackster10101 One month later but I'm learning as well and I have finished hiragana already and if you know hiragana and katakana you should probably start with kanji, im learning Chinese as well and kanji does look quite similar to Chinese symbols so I sometimes mix them up, but really it's up to you.
@@wozwald0107 well I feel like i don’t have enough discipline but I’ve been trying to follow the Japanese from zero book and I’ve learned more than just hiragana like I’ve learned a few words some are hard to keep continuously using so i do need to go over them or just keep going to learn more sentences to make it easier to remember i do need to read through it on a more consistent basis but i feel like this is more helpful than jumping full force into kanji especially since with that wanikani site I found it hard plus it’s kinda useless if i don’t know what the words are,
I know yuta says textbooks aren’t great but I’ve slowly learned a little of Japanese I learned a little about the word janai and daisuki but I think i can do it if I just read it on a more regular basis,
so it’s more structured which is nice
"Hen.." I see what you did there sir 🤣
One of the best outlets to learn certain types of Japanese words.
"Or you can go outside and talk to real life people like a normal human being." As someone with severe social anxiety, that hurt a little lol.
Good
@@jrosse12 How kind ☺
Not to mention there are NO 日本語 speakers in my neighborhood that I know of for sure. .. 😒
@@AMadd3RHatt3R Same here
SAME
I live in Quebec, and I remember when I was little my step-brother did a special project that was offered by the school. It was called "The immersion project" and for 6 months every class was done completely in English because for a brief moment in time the French Government realized the importance English would have in students' lives and the opportunities it would afford them. During the 6 months of English schooling, they were encouraged to consume media in English as much as they could with French subtitles if available and/or needed.
I was already bilingual because of my mother, so for 6 months, I promised to speak nothing but English to him. Of course, we switched to French from time to time when he didn't know a word or didn't understand something.
I think immersion like this is the perfect way to learn a language, but learning English for a francophone or vice versa is easier since both languages share an alphabet. The actual alphabets have always been the major hurdle for me in learning Japanese. I've picked up some phrases that I can say and can recognize words pretty ok when in Romaji, but the kanji and hiragana are really tough.
Hiragana at least is actually pretty easy. It requires a bit of memorizing but once you memorize it you know it. Flash cards are also really good for it since they have a very direct correlation
I love Quebec and Montreal! I kind of did the opposite. I wanted to learn French, so I tried immersing myself there for a few days for vacation. The people were so friendly and a secretary at my hostel even taught me French in the mornings when I saw here. Anyways, congrats on learning English and best wishes with your Japanese!
WAAA THE WORLD IS SO SMALL!!
I too live in Quebec and we did the exact same thing in my school but like you I was already bilingual!! I learn English thanks to a game I used to play so much before and one day POOF I started to understand little by little.
It was magical frl. It shows that immersion is the best and most efficace way to learn any language.
Good luck and stay motivated!!
I'm from bc and we had something similar but for French and I took it for 6 years.
@@chiragmathias771 6 YEARS?!?!
I've been watching your videos for years; thanks for all the great content. I finally decided to take learning japanese seriously and this helps alot.
Currently binging language learning videos, this is a huge help!
This video is the best and most clear guide out there! ! Great job dude, thank you so much :)
You're incredible! Found you today and i'm hooked as a beginner. Informative and hilarious, thank you!
Amazing video, thank you so much! Just what I needed!
this was very helpful! I've been learning Japanese for half a year now and this will totally help!
Watching your videos always inspire me to learn more
now i have another excuse to rewatch the entirety of Takagi-san all over again.
Really great teachings thanks a lot!
Nicely explained as always. These anime were a very nice suggestions, thanks
Thank you Yuta, very informal. 😊
Being able to instinctively understand the subtitles at 11:36 even though it’s a simple sentence feels great
I am Chinese, I can only know kanji in Japanese.
But some worlds produciation in Chinese are similar to Japanese.
Such as Min nan Dialect(A dialect from Fujian),先生(In Minnan Dialect pronunced Sensei too)
oh chinese
Yes this is an important point
Ditto, but sometimes the Japanese meaning does not fit with the Chinese meaning.
Like 大丈夫 (Daijoubu) means “everything will be okay” in Japanese while in Chinese it literally just means big husband or “the man of the house that provides for the family”.
The first time I listened to the music of 五月天 (Mayday) and 茄子蛋 (EggplantEgg)I thought they were speaking Japanese until I realised it was Minnan
this is great! I know a bunch of verbs and nouns and recognize them during conversations, but I always had questions with verbs like what does "te" imply, and why can u use it with negative form, but this clears up everything! I probably need to learn those inflections
Thank you. This will be a great video to send to people.
I got all sorts of terrible advice about learning Japanese, but all of my progress has been made on authentic input in regular script.
I read your comment as "Thank you. This will be a great video to send to people. It's got all sorts of terrible advice about learning Japanese" and I was very confused lol
Thank you Sir. I subscribed to your channel.
Will definitely check out your other Japanese language videos
Very cool. When I was a kid I got a book at the library to learn Japanese but unfortunately I never stuck with it.
ありがとうございます。🙏🏻☺️❤️
非常に役立つビデオ！
I like that you explicitly state that learning a language is not a linear experience. In my experience, which I'm right in the middle of, it's a lot more like watching a polaroid picture develop. I would like to offer the advice to anyone learning Japanese: To solidify hiragana and katakana, I highly recommend writing them, and often, because each time your brain needs to recall a character it reinforces the neural/memory pathway. I agree with what you've said about kanji, and I'm not recommending this as a strategy for learning kanji (there are too many, and the lack of consistency with the readings makes it too much for this to be effective), but for hiragana and katakana, I think that for me it really helped. I'm posting this comment because for anyone reading, I think if you're trying to learn hiragana and katakana, it really really helped me to write them a lot. Also if you're coming here, definitely learn to write your own name in katakana before coming.
Question: How would Paul be written in Hiragana/Katakana. Cause I neither know P (or pa) nor l. For L I'd use る though. And yes, I know my Name 'd be written in Katakana, but let's start with Hiragana, cause that's what I'm learning atm
@@paulusapfel In hiragana you'd have to think about the characters ぽ (po), ぱ (pa), and る (ru). In katakana, which as you pointed out it would be written, they use the dash to extend the vowel, so it'd be either po or pa, dash, ru... but in hiragana I think you'd just have to add the vowel あ (a) or お (o). I think it'd be Po-o-ru, which also sounds like the loan word "pole" when converted, but Pa-a-ru, Pa-ru, and Po-ru don't seem quite right. So, I think it would be ぽおる (po-o-ru) in hiragana. That or ぱある (pa-a-ru), but I think you're gonna find that with the way 'a' is pronounced, 'po' might work better than 'pa'.
@@thecleeze6359 Thx a lot, i knew the ha (ho) hiragana, and some extensions like ka->ga, but the little circle was new to me.
my name is pronounced a little bit different cause im not from an english speaking country so I think I'd go with sth like Pa-u-ru, Pa-a-u-ru or Pa-o-u-ru. maybe i have to watch an anime or a tv show like mushoku tensei with a person called Paul with jpn subtitles.
The Hanekawa / Monogatari reference @ 3:17 make me chuckle. Good one Yuta-sensei!
the tip for learning the alphabets is something i've been doing using song titles for a while (initially out of necessity to understand whats going on in spotify playlists, then i started activelly trying to associate letters w sounds instead of just "that one song has a title that looks like this")
it's been going a lot better than my previous attempt at just memorizing (though that attempt was when i was very young so that could also be a factor lol), the main downside is i'm not entirely sure about certain ones being hiragana or katakana since song titles don't exclusively use one or the other, but i'm sure i'll figure it out with time/studying
"or you can go outside and talk to people-"
yeah lemme just go out into the middle of Arizona and find me a Japanese person to talk to......
my neighbor is Chinese...so close.
Thank you so much :)
Thanks for helpfully video
My effort in learning the language is to click on entries on a certain one-winged letter website that has the 🇯🇵 flag instead of the 🇬🇧 flag. I stumble a lot with the kanji but I won't let them hinder my progress in finishing the material.
What’s the website?
Can you tell me what website that is?
I think I know what website is it
bruh
@@Ace-vu1bw what is it?
This is extremely useful, I’m currently starting to learn Japanese and then German and then I might learn something else like mandarin
With learning langugages, I love the Easy Language series on RUclips. There's Easy Japanese, Easy Spanish, etc. What's cool is that in each episode, they interview people on the street on a specific topic. Because of this, many words and phrases are repeated, which helps with memorization. Also, because these are random people from the cities and villages, the language is more authentic and the people speak at a regular pace (which is freakishly fast for a beginner, LOL). Also, many of these questions asked are questions people usually ask each other (What's your favorite... Where do you like to...), so you are more prepared in real life when people ask you these.
Best wishes in learning Japanese!
Now, this is what I want , straight to the point
Good tips.
It really goes kind of easy with the hen..... with the manga of your choise. One day I may even finish it.
I think what intimidates me as I learn japanese is the true translation. Many common ordinary sentences are translated very different than a dictionary would.
Good news! Kyubey said he knows a way to get me to learn Japanese fast!
0:23 ok I will try and learn from those Mr Yuta, thank you very much kind sir.
I’ve watched your channel for a years but I never actually started to try and learn Japanese for some reason. I recently started learning it on the same day this video was released. Hopefully this can help me go into the right direction on learning the language.
How's it going now?
0:22 that was a good one, I love this type of humor ( although, some might say it is not humor...). And yeah I agree that learning hiragana that way is pretty good and cool, I just memorised everything with the hiragana and katakana chart. At the end both ways reach the same result but I would say now that I ve studied for a year that you will get more immersion the way Yuta said
I’ve reached so far in Hiragana that I could at least read your name 😋 Naniittenno
なにいってんの
@@ummtulip っ*
@@user-vf2sq6pt7p yep that but I didn't know how to get the small tsu on keyboard
A really good way I practiced hiragana and katakana writing was by finding japanese songs that I liked, and then I would find the romaji lyrics, and then write then out in katakana or hiragana to practice, right from start to finish.
This way I was interested in what I was doing, and it got me to use all of it at once.
(do correct me if there is a better way of doing it, or if there are errors in this method)
When I'm watching reality shows to learn, I feel like I'm more reading the English subtitles rather than learning anything, even if I do understand some of what's being said . Any advice? 難しい . 手伝ってください
Yuta's 5 o-clock shadow is enviable - he looks damn good with the stubble! Share your beard genes 😭😭
11:08 LMAO
Yuta thanks a lot for this helpful video!!
1:54
Man, Yuta's roasting skills are on a different level right now. He knows exactly where his viewers come from🤣
I often have fun taking words I vaguely remember and trying to add random inflections based on intuition and then checking if it actually means anything. One time I had a dream that was in full Japanese and I understood everything even tho I've never been fluent :')
Learning particles are very important and useful for learning Japanese via assimilation
Oh, watching shows with Japanese subtitles is a good idea!
I learned hiragana in a week using only two phone apps, katakana took me two weeks but that was because I was a bit tired. For two more weeks I mastered all the possible combinations. It took me like an hour of studying a day and I was very enthusiastic at that time so it didn't seem a bore at all.
I’m at that stage and I have no idea what’s the next step.
I feel like if I put on Japanese stuff it won’t help because i won’t get anything
@@primecreator5257 Try learning basic grammatical structure before moving on to simpler kanji
油田さん、ありがとうございました。
Can you do an in depth video on how you learned English for the very first time and what steps you took to learn English?
good video
Yuta avoiding copyright by adding online in the title
lmao i was thinking the same haha
sneaky sneaky
Learning hiragana and katakana is super easy imo. It's like collecting some magical runes except they are actually used in real life. Learning how to write them is also fun, although not that vital. Kanji is the same, there's just way more so it feels way more intimidating.
I know right, when I see things in Japanese and can actually recognize some of them I feel like a wizard.
ありがとございます、豊か！;)
Do a video on pitch accents please!! They’re gonna be the death of me
He's done some already. Search the channel.
Kimagure Cook is a really good youtuber for high intermediate levels. You get to learn the names of different fish and foods, and how to prepare them
I realised that I can recognise the the kanji in their names 西方(Nishikata) and 高木(Takagi). Guess that's progress. I also realised I can read the title of the anime からかい上手の高木さん(surprisingly my keyboard knew what I wanted to type), 高 being the kanji of Height or tall, 木 being tree, hence 高木(Takagi)being the name. And 日本語上手 is a meme at these point so I won't forget these few 漢字 s at this point 笑...!
Edit: Then again I have already cleared N5 and preparing for N4 , so I am not exactly a beginner either.
Good great Buddy 😀
that's sick! I also know around N4 kanji cause like 2 years ago I studied mandarin for like 6 months, and obviously they both use Chinese characters.
Ive only just noticed the kyubey plush - its so cute tho lol
Yuta 1:48: go outside and speak to people like a normal person
Japanese: stares at their phones with earbuds on all the way from work to home.
Doujins & Henti are actually a decent source of vocabulary and kanji, especially the ones that have furigana included.
nice information. THANKS!
Lmao
3:55 to 4:02 lol
if u can understand Japanese you'll know
I had no idea such a reality show existed in Japan! As for the characters, Hiragana is much easier for me to read. I don't use Katakana much, which is why I have trouble remembering them all.
"Hen... family friendly manga" LOL!
It really helps when you watch some j-drama , or even tokusatsu shows like kamen rider (recommended), super sentai or ultraman
Yuta, I love different japanese musicians and idols: can I use japanese songs to practice? Or are some songs such as idol music not as useful for practicing japanese?
One of my favorite shows I use to learn is Terrace House.
Same, but well it will never come back. Poor Hana :(
about learning hirigana and katakana, idk how effective your method here is (i mean i could imagine it being pretty good because you get authentic audio input for letters which i imagine sticks even moreso at first) but i was able to memorise all of those letters in about a week just by seeing them all and saying them out loud a lot, so to anyone who wants to just learn it that way (all though probably more tedious) and just see them so much that they stick in your head thats still perfectly viable, i literally just wrote them all down and looked at all of them to see what i didnt remember and referred to the alphabet tables for help
I've been watching anime for years and started watching Japanese youtuber for a year and i could understand lil bit of Japanese now. next i learn to read and write 90% of hiragana but reading is still child like. now after watching this vid i know my next step is to watch with japanese subtitles.👍
Yuta's outro always makes me laugh
I CANT BELIEVE this video is free and not behind a paywall this is so helpful
My one question is how do you guys do sentences? I’m so confused because do you guys do it like,putting certain symbols and having it like English for example 何日(what day) or do you flip the symbols?
確かに、JLPT日本語を勉強するだけじゃ、かならずしも他人と話せる訳はないね
I originally used duolingo to learn hiragana and then i learned katakana by reading japanese tweets and twitch chat, looking up the character if i could not think of what it was. But thats just the easy part of learning japanese
Out of the many channels I've seen to learn japanese, I'm sticking to this guy.
“Hen,,,,,, family friendly manga” a man of culture I see 😂😅
great video as always. Sometimes it is hard to find resources that have japanese subtitles (it's more common to find them with only english subtitles or no subtitles at all). Can you make a video of your top 5 resources with Japanese subtitles (preferably free!)?
kitsunekko has a bunch of japanese titles for anime and j dramas but youll have to set up them up yourself in your media player of choice
Netflix is full of Japanese Series with Japanese Subtitles, that’s why it was in the thumbnail. Also during the last year they added a lot of RL-series, from J-dramas to films
@@seanlennart4740 that's why i said 'preferably free' in my comment!
@@jinjurbreadman I’m so stupid lol
I second kitsunekko
次の夏休み、日本に来ている(≧∀≦)
3:48 please tell me I'm not the only one that found this hilarious
ゆうたさん、こんにちは。ちょっと気になるんだけど、甚平はどこで買った？よさそうですね
that "like a normal human being" 😂
There's a huge opportunity cost to spending your time on learning a language that's not spoken anywhere outside the borders of one country. So make sure you really want to do it before you take the plunge.
quick question I have once tried to find a reliable source for anime (edit: or TV shows) with Japanese subtitles but had no luck in the past.
what places do you (or anyone reading this comment) know that might help me there?
"Or you can go outside, and talk to people like a normal human being." Unfortunately, I don't live in Japan, Hawaii, or California, so practicing on my neighbors will result in a lot of strange looks. But I like a challenge. Also, you've sinpired me to sign up for your lessons.
i got the same idea with you about how to learn from anime.
Yuru camp is the anime that i selected
i wanted to choose doraemon or detective Conan but i can't find any source that contains Japanese subtitles 😅
there's this "Japanese From Zero" Book + video series that I can highly recommend for people looking to learn japanese
Yuta be like: Get outside and talk to some real people
💀
It doesn't get any more family friendly than Yotsuba&! ❤
Men start watching this makes me want to go back learning Japanese. I used the know and memorize hiragana and katana characters.
Just a question,
Any reason why you havent been doing much street interviews?
I love your content Yuta!
Did you get makeover recently? Looks nice
6:30 - I've noticed that Japanese people have this cadence on reality TV, interviews, etc. but never in anime or movies. It's like she emphasizes certain words and it sounds kinda tonal. But when Yuuta repeats the sentences, his cadence is completely different, much closer to a character's in a movie or show.
Can anyone here explain this?
emotional weight is my guess. It takes guts to cause conflict in Japanese culture. Questioning surely has the potential to do so. So hesitation or emphasis. Same way in English right?
@@MorgurEdits - I think it's content-independent. There's a rhythm with pauses and points of emphasis (and maybe rise and fall in pitch) that I simply never hear in anime/movies. The way she says, "koko NI ... nan no mokuteki DE". "Normal" people on TV often speak like regardless of the topic, but movie characters never do.
Goku Goku drinking San is absolute Chad haha
This intonation you're talking about, in this particular instance, indicates consideration. However this can happen for a number of reasons, like trying to seem more "reserved" to being contemplative or emotional.
But this actually isn't foreign and happens in English too. When someone is explaining something slowly a longer sentence can break into smaller logical pieces, as the speaker thinks about what to say next. There is no great shift in pitch because that is how English is not a tonal language. The most we get is a comma to denote a short pause when it's written text, but for a pitch language the pitch pattern actually changes depending on the speed and grouping of ideas.
Also, this does happen occasionally in anime/movies, but to a far lesser extent. Why? Because the dialogue is scripted, so even when it does happen, it is artificially constructed.
In general though, intonation varies quite a bit from TV/pro narration to casual Tokyo dialect despite them both being considered 標準語/standard Japanese. This is where the "this person sounds like an anime character" idea comes from. The good news though, most people will have no trouble understanding either style as long as the pronunciation is clear.
@@user-mm7bs6vl2u - Thank you for the explanation!
I wish I had a 1 on 1 teacher.
I'm lost on things and have questions
I find that the channel Japanese Ammo With Misa helps quite a bit with clarification about most questions. It’s definitely helpful if you’re using apps/textbooks like me.
Get a tutor ig
Kare no Uta is a Fun Drama
“Hen….family friendly manga…” 😂
'family friendly manga' a very important qualification there :)