I can't physically understand why this video only has a few thousand views. He deserves so much more recognition. Thank you so much bro! I'm sharing this.
He clearly does the thing he is trying to teach very well. Expert you might say. Experts are VERY often the worst kind of teacher. He also speaks very quickly. There, are you now able to "physically" able to understand.
I spent tens of thousands of dollars on formal Japanese education in college and they didn’t teach it this way and now I’m sad......haha! This makes so much more sense!!!
20 years ago when I started studying Japanese seriously, my instructor taught this method and called it “The Elevator”. Until then I was struggling with conjugations and this blew my mind at how simple it suddenly all became! I know this video is old but it only just popped up in my feed and though I use this method I had to watch! Good one!
Another thing that's made my life learning Japanese so much easier is learning Kanji radicals. People keep telling me it's useless to learn then, but I can at least memorize a new Kanji so much easier than before I learned the small amount of radicals I know that consists of the ones marked as important on Kanji alive.
Who ever is telling you it's useless definitely does not know what they are talking about. Even Japanese people learn kanji through radicals. It makes life SOOOO much easier.
This has to be the most perfect form of teaching I've ever seen! Perfect organization, perfect delivery, perfect images, perfect audio, perfect tone. Fun, easy to understand and you also gave us practice! I'm eternally thankful for this!!
ありがとうございます！ Verb conjugation has scared me away from learning Japanese. This video makes it so much easier to understand! 買う 買わない 買います、買いません、買いました、買いませんでした 買え 買えば 買える 買おう 飲む 飲まない 飲みます、飲みません、飲みました、飲みませんでした 飲め 飲めば 飲める 飲もう
I have watched so many tutorials without understanding or remembering anything about japanese conjugation, but this one and the ichidan verb conjugation made it crystal clear. I will definitely follow this channel, thank you so much!
3 years late to this but on my Japanese learning journey. Through myself in the deep end with verbs yesterday and went to bed feeling demotivated. Found this video just now and I have to agree with the other comments, your ability to teach is incredible! Thank you for this video.
Dude nice. I'm still trudging through my first 500 or so Kanji and I've been postponing learning Godan verbs because I thought it would be harder than you've made me realize. It's actually super easy and I'm going to start practicing full conjugations of every verb I learn! You've just made my Japanese learning journey significantly simpler and more fun!
Recently found your channel through twitter and this is amazing, non of my Japanese teachers mentioned this! I think somebody who had to learn a language is often better at explaining grammar, thank you for this great content. I think I will just watch all lessons to brush up on my basics which is definitely necessary
Having someone who learned the language point out things they struggled with can be very helpful! Sometimes it is difficult for natives of a language to recognize what is difficult for learners. =) I hope you find the videos helpful!
My gooosh, you helped me so much.. this is the reason why I stopped learning Japanese because no one explain it to me why the verb in Japanese is changing on different type of sentences.. now I truly understand
One of the things I like best about your approach to verb conjugation is you group the conjugations by verbs and not the other way around, which is how most other resources teach conjugation. For example, other learning resources might exclusively focus on the volitional form and give a bunch of u/ru verbs to illustrate. I find the challenge with that approach is the conjugations are essentially now compartmentalized in my brain, which is not an efficient means of recall. When trying to figure out the proper tense, I first recall the dictionary form and THEN try to conjugate it, but if I learn the conjugations in isolation, recall (for me anyway) is less efficient. In this approach, all conjugations are related to the dictionary form of the verb, making recall a bit more efficient.
Man i was confuse about godan and ichidan verb,and now i found a light,cuz sometime some word in japanese keep changing, lol u r channel deserve more sub ありがとう御座います先生
Was feeling so down about struggling with conjugation today and coming across your video changed everything and gave me hope! Thank you for your videos and explaining things so well!! :D
Wow! This is what I call an eye opener! Giving the scary verb conjugation a system like makes it so much easier for me. I love the way you teach us Japanese.
I greatly appreciate your video, you've singlehandedly made me understand how japanese works tremendously! The way other people explain was way more complicated, and you've made it in a more digestible format. Ive been studying strickly the alphabet and studying kanji, but ive never really tried to learn the conjugation because kt seemed so complicated. Thank you once again, please continue making videos!
Excellent video, which I learned a lot from and got me thinking. There were a couple more conjugations (just that I was immediately aware of) て form (飲んで) and past (飲んだ). Tokini Andy covers them both in separate videos (Genki 1 lesson 6 and Genki 1 lesson 9). There are many more verb conjugations, and if you want to make your head spin, you can search (japanese verb conjugator) in your favorite search engine.
wow...I really needed this video! wonderfully done, thank you! the simplicity and excellence of this lesson has given me the confidence and knowledge I need to further my studies and really be able to grab Japanese learning by the horns!!! have a good one! :)
The feeling I got when I realised that I knew half of the conjugations from just listening a lot to Japanese... It's so nice to be affirmed on what I knew, and to have it explained this well is amazing
Thank you!!! This has made everything so much clearer, I'm now getting back into learning Japanese again after an extended break because life got in the way, but now I've also got a native tutor who is helping me once a week too so i'm even more ready to get back into it. Also JET applications open next month and I've almost got everything I need for my application, most organised I've been in my life ahahaha. Hopefully I'll catch up on the genki lessons and be able to join in the live streams soon!
thanks homie this rules. out of everything when learning this language I struggle with verb conjugation the most, and this has made it a lot easier lol
Thank you. I paired this with a hiragana chart that only shows ru mu bu nu tsu su gu ku and u, along with the appropriate forms going up and down on the chart such as sa shi su se so for the s column. It made following along with this video a lot easier.
This was so helpful, thank you. I've heard a bunch of explanations for the basic conjugations, but watching you move the verb up and down the chart finally made it click. Definitely sharing this around!
this video has helped me overcome my anxiety in learning japanese, i thought that there's SO much to learn that I'd never reach level anywhere near N3 which i need for my future trip, thank you so SO much
Why doesn't the textbooks teach it this way, this video makes it so much easier to understand I swear some textbooks are deliberately confusing which is why is so important to have a good teacher and you sir are fantastic! ありがとうございます
Omg, this is amazing!!! I have no idea about it. Why books that teaches English don’t explain it??? It’s so much easier to understand the conjugation. THANK TOU!!!!
I have encountered a great deal of difficulty in verb conjugation. Most textbooks designed for foreign learners force us to start by learning the polite masu form of verbs. As far as I can tell, plain form is the base for verb conjugation. Without further saying, you know I fail miserably in transforming masu form to te form, ta form, volitional form and nai form. I feel like I have not learnt anything before. I have determined to start all over again. Your videos give me great hope. Thanks, Sensei.
this is exactly what i needed. I've been having trouble remembering conjugation and the way they are teaching is so confusing. on my own i realized that the ba form is just the ru moved up to re and ba added. the way i am being taught uses the pre mas form and makes it an extra unnecessary step.
Super informative. His encouragement to master this particular language skill is extremely persuasive. I know that soon I too will be conjugating the Godan verbs with ease. Thank you!
This blows my mind!!! Conjugation has always been my weak point in Japanese (ironic because I’m Polish and we have a way more complicated conjugation here lol but to be fair I had trouble learning this at school too). Like, they didn’t even teach this at my Japanese learning school and I’d say that school was very good at teaching Japanese otherwise. Now this makes so much more sense to me!
This would have been so useful when first starting out. I find the lack of a basic grammatical overview from textbooks to be really weird and disorientating. Having this as a resource to refer back to is going to be really helpful.
I've been learning with 5 different textbooks and none of them mentioned this! It literally changed my life forever, lol 😭❣️ Quick q.: are u still correcting the conjugations on the comments? Ig not since it's been 2yrs but I wanted to ask anyways lol.
Yes. I'm aware that I said, "column" instead of "row" about 50 times.
in the Netherlands we have a proverb.
even the best horse will sometimes stumble
Is the ~Te form a kind of conjugation too?
yes it is!
Lol I didn’t even notice
Knowing a language and being able to teach it are two different things. You really are a very good teacher.
I do my best! Thank you for watching this one too. =)
@@ToKiniAndy yeah, learning japanese is one thing but teaching it is another, thank you for this video!
I can't physically understand why this video only has a few thousand views. He deserves so much more recognition. Thank you so much bro! I'm sharing this.
Thank you!
I think it's the thumbnail. I need to make a better one. Heh
yes , Teacher has made much effort to do it , it deserve much more views , I hope it will come soon
He clearly does the thing he is trying to teach very well. Expert you might say. Experts are VERY often the worst kind of teacher. He also speaks very quickly. There, are you now able to "physically" able to understand.
I spent tens of thousands of dollars on formal Japanese education in college and they didn’t teach it this way and now I’m sad......haha! This makes so much more sense!!!
It worked out in the end at least!
But yeah, I don't get why we aren't taught this way.
Thanks for watching!
20 years ago when I started studying Japanese seriously, my instructor taught this method and called it “The Elevator”. Until then I was struggling with conjugations and this blew my mind at how simple it suddenly all became!
I know this video is old but it only just popped up in my feed and though I use this method I had to watch!
Good one!
Passed my N5 and now studying for N4 and this is the most useful video I have seen in the four years of me studying Japanese. I’m going to try conjugating. Please correct me. 🙏🙏🙏
聞く
あ - 聞かない
い - 聞きます／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 聞く+noun
う - 聞く
え - 聞け
え - 聞けば
え - 聞ける
お - 聞こう
泳ぐ
あ - 泳がない
い - 泳ぎます／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 泳ぐ+noun
う - 泳ぐ
え - 泳げる
え - 泳げ
え - 泳げば
お - 泳ごう
遊ぶ
あ - 遊ばない
い - 遊びます／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 遊ぶ+noun
う - 遊ぶ
え - 遊べ
え - 遊べば
え - 遊べる
お - 遊ぼそう
待つ
あ - 待たない
い - 待ちます／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 待つ+noun
う - 待つ
え - 待て
え - 待てば
え - 待てる
お - 待とう
飲む
あ - 飲まない
い - 飲みます／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 飲む+noun
う -飲む
え - 飲め
え -飲めば
え -飲める
お - 飲もう
買う
あ - 買わない
い - 買います／ません／ました／ませんでした
う - 買う+noun
う -買う
え - 買え
え -買えば
え -買える
お -買おう
Done!! ✅
This was life changing. The textbooks made it seem so complicated, but you really simplified it for me. Thank you!
先生さん、ありがとうございます！
I'm a native Japanese speaker, but I've learnt so much from your explanation. you are really a great presenter.
Another thing that's made my life learning Japanese so much easier is learning Kanji radicals. People keep telling me it's useless to learn then, but I can at least memorize a new Kanji so much easier than before I learned the small amount of radicals I know that consists of the ones marked as important on Kanji alive.
Who ever is telling you it's useless definitely does not know what they are talking about. Even Japanese people learn kanji through radicals. It makes life SOOOO much easier.
This has to be the most perfect form of teaching I've ever seen! Perfect organization, perfect delivery, perfect images, perfect audio, perfect tone. Fun, easy to understand and you also gave us practice! I'm eternally thankful for this!!
This needs all the viewｓ. This is simply the best explanation for how to do these verbs out there.
ありがとうございました！
ありがとうございます！ Verb conjugation has scared me away from learning Japanese. This video makes it so much easier to understand!
買う
買わない
買います、買いません、買いました、買いませんでした
買え
買えば
買える
買おう
飲む
飲まない
飲みます、飲みません、飲みました、飲みませんでした
飲め
飲めば
飲める
飲もう
I have watched so many tutorials without understanding or remembering anything about japanese conjugation, but this one and the ichidan verb conjugation made it crystal clear. I will definitely follow this channel, thank you so much!
3 years late to this but on my Japanese learning journey. Through myself in the deep end with verbs yesterday and went to bed feeling demotivated. Found this video just now and I have to agree with the other comments, your ability to teach is incredible! Thank you for this video.
Same page club
Dude nice. I'm still trudging through my first 500 or so Kanji and I've been postponing learning Godan verbs because I thought it would be harder than you've made me realize. It's actually super easy and I'm going to start practicing full conjugations of every verb I learn! You've just made my Japanese learning journey significantly simpler and more fun!
This is video is an absolute goldmine! Thank you so much for making this and self-study so fun and manageable :) :)
Recently found your channel through twitter and this is amazing, non of my Japanese teachers mentioned this!
I think somebody who had to learn a language is often better at explaining grammar, thank you for this great content.
I think I will just watch all lessons to brush up on my basics which is definitely necessary
Having someone who learned the language point out things they struggled with can be very helpful! Sometimes it is difficult for natives of a language to recognize what is difficult for learners. =)
I hope you find the videos helpful!
Hello ^^ I am a Japanese studies student. I love your videos! I use them to restudy what we already learned. :D
Nicely presented!
Thank you sir! I'm worried I may have moved to fast, but I hope it all gets across!
@@ToKiniAndy People can watch it at half speed I guess haha
Just the way you talk, Andy Sensei! You make me remember way more easier. So fluid and emphasizing.
Its amazing how you fit all these useful info in a short video. ありがとう！
I'm glad you found it useful!
Thank you for watching! =)
My gooosh, you helped me so much.. this is the reason why I stopped learning Japanese because no one explain it to me why the verb in Japanese is changing on different type of sentences.. now I truly understand
Extremely helpful, you explained it very clearly. Thank you for this video!
This is actually kind of mind blowing. Definitely saving this for later, and I will do the conjugations you suggested for practice!
One of the things I like best about your approach to verb conjugation is you group the conjugations by verbs and not the other way around, which is how most other resources teach conjugation. For example, other learning resources might exclusively focus on the volitional form and give a bunch of u/ru verbs to illustrate. I find the challenge with that approach is the conjugations are essentially now compartmentalized in my brain, which is not an efficient means of recall. When trying to figure out the proper tense, I first recall the dictionary form and THEN try to conjugate it, but if I learn the conjugations in isolation, recall (for me anyway) is less efficient. In this approach, all conjugations are related to the dictionary form of the verb, making recall a bit more efficient.
Man i was confuse about godan and ichidan verb,and now i found a light,cuz sometime some word in japanese keep changing, lol u r channel deserve more sub
ありがとう御座います先生
Was feeling so down about struggling with conjugation today and coming across your video changed everything and gave me hope! Thank you for your videos and explaining things so well!! :D
Wow! This is what I call an eye opener! Giving the scary verb conjugation a system like makes it so much easier for me. I love the way you teach us Japanese.
You saved me. Best verbs guide on YT for sure ive seen so many. Thanks. For real :)
I’m glad it helped! 😊
ビデオはいちばん五段活用習う. Trying to say, this is the best video to learn Godan Verbs! Thanks for posting it. Super good.
I had to rewatch this video 3 times to understand how this works, but once it clicked it became so simple! Thanks for this!!
I greatly appreciate your video, you've singlehandedly made me understand how japanese works tremendously! The way other people explain was way more complicated, and you've made it in a more digestible format. Ive been studying strickly the alphabet and studying kanji, but ive never really tried to learn the conjugation because kt seemed so complicated. Thank you once again, please continue making videos!
Excellent video, which I learned a lot from and got me thinking.
There were a couple more conjugations (just that I was immediately aware of) て form (飲んで) and past (飲んだ). Tokini Andy covers them both in separate videos (Genki 1 lesson 6 and Genki 1 lesson 9).
There are many more verb conjugations, and if you want to make your head spin, you can search (japanese verb conjugator) in your favorite search engine.
This was mindblowing! I am studying the Genki book since months but I didn't even remotely realised these rules, Thank you so much!!
DUUUUUUUUDE, I was looking for a way to learn verb conjugation, and this was litterally the only logical one I could find! You're amazing bro!!!
YOu just made this easier than I thought it was going to be. Mind was blown after first 5 minutes haha thank youuuu
This Godan conjugation video is super helpful! It really helps me with my conjugation! Thank you so much!
You are really great teacher, Turns out, conjugation of godan verbs is really easy. THANK YOU
Amazing revelation! Have seen varied explanations on this but never this clear and worthwhile.
どうもありがとうございます!
After resolving my latest struggles, he goes further and even add some homework. A true teacher. Thankyou so much.
Thank you for this! I'm a visual learner so this helped a ton!!
I'm happy to hear that! Thank you for watching!
wow...I really needed this video! wonderfully done, thank you! the simplicity and excellence of this lesson has given me the confidence and knowledge I need to further my studies and really be able to grab Japanese learning by the horns!!! have a good one! :)
The feeling I got when I realised that I knew half of the conjugations from just listening a lot to Japanese... It's so nice to be affirmed on what I knew, and to have it explained this well is amazing
This might be the most useful single video I've watched in my years of trying and failing of leaning japanese! Thank you!
This was veeery difficult for me until I watched this video, ありがとうございました Andy せんせい!
Thank you!!! This has made everything so much clearer, I'm now getting back into learning Japanese again after an extended break because life got in the way, but now I've also got a native tutor who is helping me once a week too so i'm even more ready to get back into it. Also JET applications open next month and I've almost got everything I need for my application, most organised I've been in my life ahahaha. Hopefully I'll catch up on the genki lessons and be able to join in the live streams soon!
Happy to hear that you found it useful!
Good luck with the JET application!!
Amazing when a genius is also humble and puts his mind towards teaching
Thanks!
Thank YOU! I really appreciate the support! =)
So underrated, this was the clearest and most complete comprised teaching
thanks homie this rules. out of everything when learning this language I struggle with verb conjugation the most, and this has made it a lot easier lol
This is the first explanation that clicked with me, thank you!
Thank you. I paired this with a hiragana chart that only shows ru mu bu nu tsu su gu ku and u, along with the appropriate forms going up and down on the chart such as sa shi su se so for the s column. It made following along with this video a lot easier.
Thanks for making learning Japanese easier!
This was so helpful, thank you. I've heard a bunch of explanations for the basic conjugations, but watching you move the verb up and down the chart finally made it click. Definitely sharing this around!
this video has helped me overcome my anxiety in learning japanese, i thought that there's SO much to learn that I'd never reach level anywhere near N3 which i need for my future trip, thank you so SO much
That was so useful, you made conjugating verbs fun. Thank you so much.
Finally a video that explains straightforward conjugations! Thanks a lot!
Why doesn't the textbooks teach it this way, this video makes it so much easier to understand I swear some textbooks are deliberately confusing which is why is so important to have a good teacher and you sir are fantastic! ありがとうございます
this made my life way easier none of the textbooks or any of my professors ever taught anything like this 20/10
I'm a self learner and this is mighty helpful. Cheers for that :)
I've watched several videos on this and your explanation is the absolute best one. Thank you very much for sharing your knowledge.
Awesome video Andy!
Thanks Kevin! And thanks for watching!
How did you just sum up all that in 10 minutes?! Domo domo domo arigato, sensei!
Bruh...time to watch every single one of your vids now. Its like a cloudy area in my head was just hit with sunlight and cleared up.
I'm so glad to hear that it helped!!! And hope I can help clear up any other cloudy areas. ☺️
I felt I had a good understanding of this but holy this was eye opening! ありがとうございます！
Oh, you explained it all in such a clear and simple way! Thank you, it was very helpful
I'm happy to hear that you found it useful! Thank you for watching!
Thanks alot this is the most clear guide I have ever seen. Gonna throw all old guides out of the window, this way is so intuitive
Thank you! I'm happy to hear that you found it useful.
god damn that was amazing. I've been struggling with this for a while now. Thank you so much!
I’m glad to hear that it helped! =)
OMG definatlye agree why have I not seen this before..studying for the last day before my N5 and this video is brillaint. Thank you nice one !!!
Great explanation!! Thank you!
Oh my god.... this is the best video ever. Thank you so much 🙏
You are very welcome! ☺️
Omg, this is amazing!!! I have no idea about it. Why books that teaches English don’t explain it??? It’s so much easier to understand the conjugation. THANK TOU!!!!
I have encountered a great deal of difficulty in verb conjugation. Most textbooks designed for foreign learners force us to start by learning the polite masu form of verbs. As far as I can tell, plain form is the base for verb conjugation. Without further saying, you know I fail miserably in transforming masu form to te form, ta form, volitional form and nai form. I feel like I have not learnt anything before. I have determined to start all over again. Your videos give me great hope. Thanks, Sensei.
I'm happy to hear that it helped a bit!
I agree that starting from masu is... Questionable.
Keep it up, and thanks for watching!
this is exactly what i needed. I've been having trouble remembering conjugation and the way they are teaching is so confusing. on my own i realized that the ba form is just the ru moved up to re and ba added. the way i am being taught uses the pre mas form and makes it an extra unnecessary step.
Super informative. His encouragement to master this particular language skill is extremely persuasive. I know that soon I too will be conjugating the Godan verbs with ease. Thank you!
you made it easier to understand sensei! thank you so muuuuch
Very nicely done. I ha e been struggling with conjugations.ill watch all your videos
Thank you Chase! I hope this helped a bit!
I feel like I found gold! Great lesson!
This blows my mind!!! Conjugation has always been my weak point in Japanese (ironic because I’m Polish and we have a way more complicated conjugation here lol but to be fair I had trouble learning this at school too). Like, they didn’t even teach this at my Japanese learning school and I’d say that school was very good at teaching Japanese otherwise. Now this makes so much more sense to me!
このレッスンをありがとう！
dude i tip my hat to you, your vids are awesome much
Makes life a lot easier, THANK YOU!
realization kicks in after 6 minutes* oh my god...
This was a GREAT lesson! Thank tou so much
this is literally the most useful video
This is very clear. Thanks! I actually learned katsuyou this way. Once you learn hiragana, this is a very easy way to understand it.
Thank you! I'm happy you found it easy to understand.
Me too!!!
This would have been so useful when first starting out. I find the lack of a basic grammatical overview from textbooks to be really weird and disorientating. Having this as a resource to refer back to is going to be really helpful.
oh my gosh! this is absolutely amazing! thank you so much for this!
Thanks a lot now it's all clear hope you make alot like these helpful videos
I hope I can make more too. I'm happy to hear that you found it useful!
Thank you for watching!
I've been learning with 5 different textbooks and none of them mentioned this! It literally changed my life forever, lol 😭❣️ Quick q.: are u still correcting the conjugations on the comments? Ig not since it's been 2yrs but I wanted to ask anyways lol.
this was so helpful!
thank you for explainig godan verbs!
thanks you so much for simplifying this!
Thank you so now i can use verbs without worrying on how to use it
This is very helpful thank you so much 😭😭😭😭😭
My god, you made this make so much sense
聞かない
聞きます/聞きません/聞きました/聞きませんでした
聞く
聞く
聞け
聞けば
聞ける
聞こう
@@kensecondary1999 Excellent! You got everything right. Good job! ☺️
And thank you for watching!
Thanks!! An amazing video, as always 👏
Best teacher !!!
最近日本語教育の学習を始めたばかりで、まさにこの五段活用で混乱していたところです。
動画での説明、すごくわかりやすくて、これから参考にさせて頂こうと思います😳✨✨
"し"の発音がとてもキレイですね！
"ち"と"し"の聞き分けが難しい人が多いと思いますが、どのように聞き分け、また発音の練習をしましたか？
もしよければ教えてください。
よろしくお願いします！