Beginner Japanese: drop the subject from the sentence Advanced Japanese: drop the verb too Elite Japanese: drop every word and just silently glare at the other person as if about to initiate an anime samurai duel
It's shocking that what you're doing is legal. I've seen paid courses which weren't nearly as good as everything you can find on your chanel for free. Thank you very much for all of this!
The only problem is that Misa can't correct you unlike in the courses. Unless she reads the comment section every time and try to answer our questions.
Don't give up guys, we can do this! Learn a new language is beautiful. I'm still learning English for a long term now, and recently I decided to start to learn japanese, not just because I love anime culture but I want to know more about japanese people and their manners, how their country actually is etc... I know that learning a new language is terrifying and you might give up but please think about on how many people you could meet and their culture or how many many amazing things you can live by expending your knowledge! I hope you guys don't give up, me myself I won't cause I have a dream and to keep this fire burning I have to work hard and patiently. ( Btw I speak portuguese Wich is my native language).
I just remember to foods "cookie" and "sushi" for conjugations. In Japanese they will sound like "kuki" and "sushi". KU -> KI SU -> SHI This made it so much easier to remember this change for verbs in Japanese.
If you learn hiragana, you'll know there's no si sound in Japanese. So you are only changing the hiragana from 'u' row to 'i' row for all letters. Just saying, no need for tricks or mnemonics.
@@fractalflash7 what? We all know there’s no si sound, that’s why the OP wrote it as s h i smh. Also this was just their way of remembering? I don’t see why they shouldn’t use it if it helps them.
The ending really hit me. I've taken mini-hiatuses from Japanese due to not grasping a topic no matter how long I studied or trying to learn a bunch of topics too quickly. I heavily appreciate the pep talk, and I'll remember it (if not even anything from the actual lesson lol). どうもありがとう、 みさ先生。
I'm definitely improving, and staying motivated to continue learning. Yeah there's still roadblocks, but I think I handle them a bit better than I did 1 year ago. Thanks for asking. 👌
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I hope you like the new intro and the lesson ^_^ The animated intro is by the talented people from Mozmene - mozmene.com/ Also if you want more detailed explanation on each forms, please watch my lessons from my Absolute Beginner series.
I know this post is 2 years old but I just want to say(from an early subscriber) you are awesome! Now, if you can only get my wife to get a 2nd house in Japan and learn Japanese with me.
I’m not learning Japanese but I heard the grammar was very similar to my native language, Turkish. And it seems they were absolutely right about that because aside from vocabulary the only difference is that we add the subject to the verb as well. This really made me want to learn Japanese, the alphabet is hard but I think the easiness of grammar is enough for me.
I learned Katakana playing Japanese video games. If there is an English word it will be in Katakana. So I was just reading English words in a different alphabet. Like 'Highscore' would be in Katakana. Hi a su ko ru. Takes some imagination.
@semekiizuio Katakana is part of Japanese writing too. It's not only Kanji. Katakana is used mostly for foreign words. It's phonetic. So highscore is written ハイスコル I think my Katakana has gotten bad. But that should correspond to Ha I Su Ko Ru. Katakana is really nice because 99 percent of the time it's an English word. It's super helpful to immediately know it's English not some unknown Japanese word.
"You've just watched a long video" It wasn't that long: it was just *checks the time* holy crap it really was long! I legit didn't realise it! On a more serious note: I found this video simply great for learning verbs: it explains them in an easy and entertaining way, while still being efficient. Top quality video, I'll see the others too :D
Since you mentioned writing, I must say that using Duolingo and actually putting an effort it shouldn’t take much more than a week to learn hiragana. Same goes for katakana. It took me about a week to learn hiragana with a moderate effort while it took me 5 days to learn katakana since they share enough in order to make some associations. After that I had about 60-75% proficiency on both, now imagine if I had fully dedicated myself to it like an actual student. Japanese is only difficult once kanji starts being used because it is a third writing system without a limited character list and it pretty much serves as a second language in comparison.
I got Hiragana in 9 days. I haven’t begun Katakana yet, but I have already started on Kanji. I felt like I would never get Hiragana, but like anything, when you practice and put in the effort, you get it. I cannot read it at pace yet, I can read short words quickly (phonetically, but with no understanding, as I don’t know Japanese yet.) But anything with more than 4 characters, I have to really sound each character out. I feel like I am 5 again. Haha.
I'm continuing my Japanese language learning via several online classes. By far, yours is the most comprehensive and easiest to digest. I also appreciate everything being segmented into pretty pastels!
So glad I found your channel. As others have said, your ability to tell us the "Why" while teaching Japanese sets you apart from so many other teachers; and it makes learning more intuitive. Using an analogy: If a person knew nothing about how electricity or lights worked, someone could tell them to flip "that" switch to turn on the lights. Now if that same person took the time to explain how a light switch works and also how electricity works a "student" could then workout how to turn on a washing machine, TV, start a car, etc; they would just have to locate the switch. SOOOO thankful that you are taking the time and have the patience for making these videos for us!
Thanks! A great video again. I would have never have expected to learn that fast! 💖 So, all verbs in Japanese end in (-u) There are two types of verbs: U and Ru. • Ru is verbs with suffix (-iru/eru) • U is all the other verbs + some exceptions of (-iru/eru) When conjugating. • In Ru-verbs the (-ru) is replaced/erased. • In U-verbs the last syllable with U is transformed into A, E, I or O form - Like く(ku) --> か (ka) Then, there are formal and informal ways to say things. ます belongs to the more formal speech. Verbs can be conjugated into: • past and non-past forms • (normal) and negative form • Have to form • command/request form • Let's (action) form. • (I) want to form
Great lesson! Just a linguistic tip for how to know which is U which is RU verb. If it is in the form of "KANJI+hiragana+RU", and the middle hiragana is E or I vowel, is it most likely to be a RU verb. If it is in the form of "KANJI+RU", it is most likely to be a U verb. Exceptions: 見る、出る、寝る、得る、居る、etc. Because the KANJI itself has E or I vowel. Hope this is helpful.
Ngl...I feel like I just got a new pair of glasses. I made notes for this lesson, did some practice then went back to my really old notes. There are so many things I couldn't see before. "ga hoshi desu" isn't an expression. IT IS AN INCOMPLETE SENTENCE. There are so many things I've just memorized, now I can go back and understand them. Thank You Misa-sensei
The positivity in your videos is so invigorating. Thanks for the mental boost. You have been a huge part of me not quitting. Thanks for continuing to make these videos. A lot of people I'm sure really appreciate the time and effort.
I read somewhere about why "切る" and "着る" are different verb types despite having similar pronunciation "kiru" (but not similar accenting), and one person mentioned that the way of thinking about it was reversed. They said, "it is only happenstance that the verbs dictionary form is similar in pronunciation. when looking at the big picture, the verbs in essence are very different." Another person gave a slightly more in depth explanation, saying how 切る "kir-u" is in the same verb classification as its "sister" words, 刈る "kar-u" and きこる kikor-u, which all are related in that they involve cutting something. Notice the stems of these words, "kar" "kir" "kikor". It is thought that 切る is one word produced by a kir/kor/kar vowel shift. 生み出された単語の一つだと思われます Again as you see, all stems end in a consonant. (characteristic of -u verbs). Whichever came first i don't think is known, but 切る・刈る and きこる certainly are words with deep connection to the action of cutting. 着る ki-ru just ends in a vowel, ki-, so its a -ru verb. 切る kir-u ends in a consonant, kir-, making it an -u verb. I would argue that this is where ro-maji can be actually helpful, in making the classification of verbs in japanese easier to understand visually. Let's look at the similarities of the two, just so we get a clear understanding of how different they actually are. -u verb -ru verb 切ら（ない）着（ない）(different) (imperfect form) 切り（ます）着（ます）・ 切っ（て/た）着（て/た）(different) (conjunctive form) 切る。 着る。(similar) (dictionary form, ends with a maru 。) 切るコト 着るコト (similar) (attributive form, basically dictionary form but attached to a noun) 切れ（ば） 着れ（ば）(similar) (hypothetical form) 切れ。 着よ/着ろ。(different) (imperative or command form) 切ろ（う） 着よ（う）。(different) (also imperfect form) Someone else mentioned, it is similar in English to "break" and "brake". Same sound, different word, different meaning, different conjugations. break, broke, broken brake, braked, braked They just happen to be similar sounding in the dictionary form, similar to 切る and 着る, but are obviously different in every other way. If I made any mistakes, please let me know and I will correct them.
It was my new years resolution to learn Japanese and I've been going at it nonstop for 10 days. Took 2 days to get Hiragana, 2 days to get Katakana, and the past 5 days I been struggling understanding things on Lingq but this one video just made so much click that I wasn't quite understanding . I absolutely loved how you explained things, and the color coding of the words to signify sentence structure. Now I have to watch all your videos.
I already learned the verb conjugations in this video but the way you explained it by going through each vowel clarified things even further. I've been studying abroad in Japan and been feeling frustrated by my lack of progress in Japanese and I needed some encouragement. Thank you for your amazing lessons and inspiring words!
Thank you. I was only ever introduced to the masu form, the polite form of verb conjugation, but I saw dictionary forms and casual conjugations from time to time and was confused. Your video helped clarify that confusion. Many thanks again.
I'm still doing the Absolute Beginners playlist, and I go back and review over and over, so I'm taking a long time to get through. But this was helpful to me as well and it'll be here whenever I need it! Thanks Misa sensei
это правда!! лично я буквально все полезные материалы на английском нашел. :D миса - пример невероятно приятной персоны, которая снимает невероятно полезный и понятный контент. прекрасная! ^-^
This video is like unlocking cheat codes for all beginner conjugation this amazing, thank you so much Misa, after literal years struggling I am finally being consistent and studying almost every night before sleeping with your videos, it´s amazing to feel progress and learning new things after so many times having to start over and review after stopping. ありがとうございます本当、みさ先生のおかげでまた勉強する自信ができました。ずっと頑張ります！
Maybe I have an unpopular opinion but I have always appreciated and loved your grammar for beginners playlist as it is. It is so easy to understand and when I went back to re-watch it and saw this one I have to say please don't change them too much, they are very simple and so helpful. I think only the audio is the main issue for them but the content is amazing and has been my main way of learning Japanese these past years. 🙏🏼 Thank you for your videos, Misa 先生❣️ (Accidentally posted this as a reply to someone else's comment)
Misa: "This is Shine, it is an ancient word of Force from the mist shrouded legends of yore - I am now giving you knowledge of this power, as my sensei did to me. But know that with it, comes great responsibility. You must never ever use it but for self defense!" Filthy Frank: "The most savage way to end a conversation is called Shine. You're welcome."
Sugoi! What an amazing video. Your explanations and production quality are top notch. The color-coded kanji/hiragana/katakana are *perfect* - this video also improved my understanding of hiragana. You integrate explanations for things like formality and rudeness into the discussion. You switch seamlessly between the languages and your English is more clear than usual. And to top it off, the background and your shirt are just so darn cute that I couldn't help smiling the whole time I'm watching the video (and tbh I'm having a bad day today so I needed that)
I'm learning French, and fortunately it's similar to Catalán and Spanish (my native languages) so it's easier for me but it's still hard.. I feel bad just imagining an English speaker learning it haha Btw I have French exam on Friday 😅
This was a really good video. Breaking up the verbs to "iru/eru" is a lot easier to remember than just "ru." Also, thank you for the pep talk in the end. I definitely feel like I hit walls all the time with Japanese-learning. Still very, very hard to talk to Japanese people, but I know if I keep sticking with it then eventually I will be better.
Don't think of them as "walls", but rather, as plateaus, or resting places, for your brain to process the info you've just learned. Go back to repetitive exercises (no thinking). When you come back, you will be on another (higher) level...
You are so good teaching japanese, you make it simple and it seems very easy to understand coz of the subtitle i appreciate the different color font, same color same meaning :) i learned so much, i went to many channels watching different videos related on learning japnese but you’re the best so far. thanks a lot! keep it up misa san ❤️
As a beginner, find your way of teaching and content as effective. Thank you for your effort and also for making this free. Just posting my comment for appreciation even though this has been a year already.
I've actually been studying japanese for a little while now, but even so this video helped to better define and categorise some concepts in my mind. What a fantastic video! Your way of explaining and the quality of the editing is all really top notch. I'm always impressed by how you explain at just the right pace and so smoothly in one go I.e. no jump cuts. Thank you Misa sensei!
I love your teaching style, Misa- you explain so clearly and methodically, but without being dull at all!! I really like how you explain the different verb conjugations for different registers, depending on who you're speaking to. That's one of the things I like most about all of your lessons- so important when you're trying your best not to look like an idiot out and about in Japan! And thank you for the motivation at the end. I needed that so badly- you pitched it just right! Please keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you for these great videos. As someone who has always loved the Japanese language, it’s so cool and interesting to be able to learn more in depth items like verbs and conjugation. It’s really hard to find formal education for Japanese where I live and things like duolingo are great for writing and reading but it helps to know how things fit together and the sense behind the different forms of verbs and other elements. I also love that you include formal and informal examples since most other classic ways of studying only present the formal speech.
Great intro, Misa! Love all your videos! Thanks for going over the basics. Reviewing the fundamentals can give a learner a much better understanding and a stronger grasp on grammar. I've been studying by myself for about 8 months now and your channel has been my main source for learning Japanese. You are truly an amazing teacher and don't leave even the smallest detail out. I appreciate all your hard work and the unyielding dedication to your videos. Blessings.
Honestly this is the most helpful thing I've found for beginner Japanese verbs. Kudos! Thank you for your work! I truly appreciate it as a Japanese learner.
I don’t know why I’m watching this video, even though I’m Japanese 😂 But that’s really interesting because I’ve never thought about Japanese grammar, especially conjugation😊 I like your video!
Sayo San They do! But we more focus on how to write kanji, how to understand the people’s mind in the stories or authors... stuff like that. What we do focus on for grammar is just ancient Japanese literatures because they are totally different from current Japanese.
@Sayo San We aren't taught these grammatical rules, so we can't explain these Japanese grammar excepting those who majored linguistics or Japanese language education even though we grammatically speak correct Japanese I thought all people aren't taught these grammars of their first language in the world
@@中山健太郎-o5k Oddly enough, we actually do. I can't speak for every English-speaking country or even every state, but in my school in the US, we learned parts of speech and word order in English. We learned words like gerund, preposition, conjunction, contraction, and we had to practice those until we always got all the answers right. We learned all other parts of speech but those ones stand out to me because those were the ones we were tested on the most
@@ReadyRed15 in portuguese too, we spend all of our years in school studying grammar, and then in high scholl we study literature too, along with the grammar
@@youritake8618 I don't wanna correct it, because she said it was bad and as I'm learning the language I like to respect it, but the fact that you got it wrong made me kinda mad (lol I get triggered easily, ok), so I'mma try to explain "shinde" is already on the "Te-form", the offensive way would be without the "d".
When i came to japan a few months ago, i had to give a self introduction for my new job. In my introduction i said 日本語を話さない, and everyone started to laugh a little bit, and was told i should say 話せない because what i said means "i don't want to speak japanese." it upsets me that japanese lessons don't explain this implication, i think it's pretty important. I felt betrayed, like formal lessons are setting people up to say rude things by teaching that ない makes a verb negative.
And this is exactly what the problem is with all of formal learning. As someone who is borderline fluent now, you'll struggle with that to the point where you'll just wanna give up. A lot of people actually do get to a decent level of Japanese but drop the language anyway because they say they can't fully express themselves in Japanese. This is because no matter what level of Japanese you study, on all fronts (grammar, vocab, kanji etc), textbooks and like 99% of Japanese teachers will not really teach you implications or are too diplomatic with the way they teach everything. Language is grim and dirty sometimes and we need to know exactly when to use what and not so much the mere theory. I might as well make my own channel explaining the differences between formal (JLPT N3~N1) and informal (what should be JLPT N6; I joke and N5~N4) Japanese. Here's a hint should you continue Japanese: We're not gonna be able to make it [anyway]! Among friends and familiar people:どうせ Among superiors and in formal settings: 所詮 I guess many may say this is obvious but I guess I'm stupid and I took forever to figure stuff like this out. Like.... why am I learning しなければならない instead of しなきゃ as Misa used in the video? Why なになにをせずにはいられない instead of just やっちゃう? If Misa ever gets into any of these differences, a ton of intermediate and advanced learners will actually start getting to that fluent point.
You know what shelvin when I watched your vlog I can see that you have a power to earn money but then of course I will be the one of your fans nothing to worry hehehe
You really helped me, there's a lot of long videos and apps that takes a lot of time and even help you to learn the language, this helped me so much ありがとうございます
I have to say, you are one among few youtubers where I feel captivated and really pay attention to what you're saying. I always get several "aha" moments when I listen to you. Thank you Misa!
This is gold ! I have been studying Japanese for a few months, but never really got into the conjugations. This video just opened a huge door to a next dimension, very clear explanation and examples! Watching the rest of your videos the upcoming week!
Her English pronunciation is so good, there's no japanese influence in it To Japanese people it is so hard to learn english so she must have worked a lot
This is my first time on your channel and I was bit hesitant to watch this video because of how long it is, but as soon as I pressed play I took my notebook and the whole video I kept writing notes. This video is amazing and so informative! It actually makes so much sense now. I can't thank you enough for explaining all this
i actually think learning verb conjugations is really fun, strangely. also to me, it’s much easier than italian conjugations which are dependent on the subject (honestly i don’t even know how i learnt english, watching this video really shows how english overcomplicates things). i also love how japanese in comparison to other languages for example russian (which i did for a couple months but quit) has short conjugations and words in general, it is so much easier to memorise and learn. russian just has so many cases and the words are so long, it’s crazy!
I think the same, I’m a native Spanish speaker and English it’s kinda easy to me, but when I started with Italian I realized how hard it’s to learn a Romance language. Japanese it’s easier because they have like 6 or 7 forms of conjugation, whether in Spanish for example we have like 65!
What a wonderful overview of japanese verbs... I feel so smart, my first Japanese class in college didn't even touch on this, but everything makes so much more sense now. Thank you!
I just can't express my gratitude to you sensei. This gave me so much motivation to keep continuing learning such a beautiful language. I also love your message at the end which encouraged me to learn more. Arigato gozaimasu sensei!
this video helped me a lot and thank you so much, i got lost at first and i thought it was so long harsh and difficult to conjugate verbs in Japanese but you made it easy by classifying the verbs into two groups, amazing thank you ! i'm Arabian from Egypt i speak Arabic, English fluently and i'm looking forward to speaking Japanese as well.
Doesnt matter if its for beginners, you still get a huge like from me! Thanks for your hard work Misa-san! Also, your new intro is just incredible! Will you ever one day do a lesson only speaking Japanese for intermediate+? Or perhaps just something for listening practice?
It was such a nice explanation, a couple of years ago I was studying Japanese at a local university and I remember thinking that it was nice we had native speakers as teachers, but unfortunately none of them were actually teachers so the lessons were based on the book's index and not on ways to anchor our thinking process in order to actually build structures. I don't know if you intentionally gathered the vowels into a group to explain the topic but for me, it worked very nicely instead of going from topic to topic, now it's just a matter of practicing with lists of verbs. Thanks and congratulations!
this really helps me a lot, because i don't have any problem when it comes to understanding the language/sentence, what's hard for me is to form a sentence on my own, so that i can reply or other stuff.
先生、ありがとうございます! たくさん習いました。 I understand these conjugations more. You explained them very well. I didn't even realize the a, i, u, e, o endings has different uses. Thank you so much!
I heard Japanese is much easier to learn for Turkish speakers than any other European or West Asian language speakers due to many similarities in grammar and syntax. Is that true?
@@elimalinsky7069 I think it's true. As a native Turkish speaker, I can say it's way easier to learn Japanese than English. Also Japanese is easier to pronounce for a Turkish speaking person. Hope you understand, as I mentioned, I'm not a native English speaker, so I really hope what I said makes sense^^
@@momo1643 Japanese is easier to pronounce for the majority of other language speakers around the world in my opinion. In fact, Japanese phonology is so simple and basic, it is quite astonishing when you compare it to the more complex phonology of Korean and the far more complex phonology of Chinese.
I already thougt about giving up learning Japanese. When you follow all the Books st's soooo difficult. And you explain it in a way I think little child would learn it. ありがとうございます。先生さようなら。
The problem with learning Japanese is you're presented with 2 types of sensei: those that teach the formal textbook style and those that teach "native" or very informal style. As a foreigner visiting this beautiful country and its people I would rather be seen as being odd or a beginner than come across as being rude or impolite. And forget anime, that will only get you into trouble lol.
My first few times in Japan my friends scolded me for speaking too formally. Natives don’t expect your Japanese to be perfect so if you speak casually when you’re not supposed to it’s usually overlooked. Most foreigners don’t speak any Japanese so it’s better than most to speak casually
This video definitely isn't for people who literally just started learning Japanese or just want to use travel phrases. Imagine going from "konnichiwa, arigato and sumimasen" to learning past, negative, formal and informal verbs with all their different (overlapping) conjugations. I would literally cry.
Beginner Japanese: drop the subject from the sentence
Advanced Japanese: drop the verb too
Elite Japanese: drop every word and just silently glare at the other person as if about to initiate an anime samurai duel
haha
はは
ハハ
母
Dang, that means I'm a master already! :)
Important timestamps:
A sound - 12:59
I sound - 19:15
U sound - dictionary form, mentioned throughout the video
E sound - 26:21
O sound - 29:50
ありがとうございました やさしいひと 🙏😊
@@sinharakshit Use 人
@@Prem-j9l3s it goes even further
有難う御座います、優しい人
If you wanna go ultimate overkill
@@adude6568 that’s just overkill lol no one talks like that I didn’t even learn the Kanji for that lol
@@Prem-j9l3s here's the thing, I'm not even sure if the gozaimasu is correct, I just used what the japanese keyboard autofill gave me
It's shocking that what you're doing is legal. I've seen paid courses which weren't nearly as good as everything you can find on your chanel for free. Thank you very much for all of this!
The only problem is that Misa can't correct you unlike in the courses.
Unless she reads the comment section every time and try to answer our questions.
legal?
Agreed and Im grateful
I like how she goes so in depth and delivers this stuff for free, she truly cares about the language and teaching it.
she gets youtube ad revenue and patreon support
Don't give up guys, we can do this! Learn a new language is beautiful. I'm still learning English for a long term now, and recently I decided to start to learn japanese, not just because I love anime culture but I want to know more about japanese people and their manners, how their country actually is etc... I know that learning a new language is terrifying and you might give up but please think about on how many people you could meet and their culture or how many many amazing things you can live by expending your knowledge!
I hope you guys don't give up, me myself I won't cause I have a dream and to keep this fire burning I have to work hard and patiently. ( Btw I speak portuguese Wich is my native language).
You are right, and your English is very good too! Well said.
After two years, did you learn Japanese?
Jocimar is a brazilian name
Are you brazilian?
mesma coisa kkkkkkk
THANKS BRO!!!! 13:12
I just remember to foods "cookie" and "sushi" for conjugations. In Japanese they will sound like "kuki" and "sushi".
KU -> KI
SU -> SHI
This made it so much easier to remember this change for verbs in Japanese.
wow! thanks for the tip! :D
Thank you Taylor!
If you learn hiragana, you'll know there's no si sound in Japanese. So you are only changing the hiragana from 'u' row to 'i' row for all letters. Just saying, no need for tricks or mnemonics.
@@fractalflash7
what? We all know there’s no si sound, that’s why the OP wrote it as s h i smh.
Also this was just their way of remembering? I don’t see why they shouldn’t use it if it helps them.
@@fractalflash7 pomao romanization variant go brrrrr
This is the most concise, clear, and genuinely enjoyable language video series I've ever seen. Thank you!
The ending really hit me. I've taken mini-hiatuses from Japanese due to not grasping a topic no matter how long I studied or trying to learn a bunch of topics too quickly. I heavily appreciate the pep talk, and I'll remember it (if not even anything from the actual lesson lol).
どうもありがとう、 みさ先生。
Agreed on all counts :)
幸運を 🙏
So how are you doing a year later?
I'm definitely improving, and staying motivated to continue learning. Yeah there's still roadblocks, but I think I handle them a bit better than I did 1 year ago. Thanks for asking. 👌
@@VoluXian wow!! keep working hard!!
it’s easy to understand, most japanese teachers here in youtube are usually very fast, she teaches at a moderate pace, many thanks
Love the new intro! And thanks for the video. Its basic but soo important
sugoi desune :-)
Loved your video! Thank you very much! it helped a lot!!!
Right?
There are several components to speaking Japanese easily . A plan I discovered that successfully combines these is the Japanese Magic Method (look for it on google) without a doubt the most helpful remedy i've found. Look at the amazing info .
Can anyone send the link of the yo lesson she said in 27:40
“When I learned Russian.” OMG... Knowing Misa-sensei it probably took her a whole week before she was fluent...
Oh my goodness a whole week! But now she can make Russian videos as well!
I hope you like the new intro and the lesson ^_^
The animated intro is by the talented people from Mozmene
- mozmene.com/
Also if you want more detailed explanation on each forms, please watch my lessons from my Absolute Beginner series.
大好きです。とてもすごいアニメですから。
Ik this is late but you should pin this so others can see! :D
I know this post is 2 years old but I just want to say(from an early subscriber) you are awesome! Now, if you can only get my wife to get a 2nd house in Japan and learn Japanese with me.
I’m not learning Japanese but I heard the grammar was very similar to my native language, Turkish. And it seems they were absolutely right about that because aside from vocabulary the only difference is that we add the subject to the verb as well. This really made me want to learn Japanese, the alphabet is hard but I think the easiness of grammar is enough for me.
I learned Katakana playing Japanese video games. If there is an English word it will be in Katakana. So I was just reading English words in a different alphabet. Like 'Highscore' would be in Katakana. Hi a su ko ru. Takes some imagination.
@@Jordan-Ramses *Ha- i Su Ko- Ru
@@Fastskull lol yeah
@@Jordan-Ramsesthats suprising the video games were in Romaji when they are nornally Kanji
@semekiizuio Katakana is part of Japanese writing too. It's not only Kanji. Katakana is used mostly for foreign words. It's phonetic. So highscore is written ハイスコル I think my Katakana has gotten bad. But that should correspond to Ha I Su Ko Ru. Katakana is really nice because 99 percent of the time it's an English word. It's super helpful to immediately know it's English not some unknown Japanese word.
"You've just watched a long video"
It wasn't that long: it was just *checks the time* holy crap it really was long! I legit didn't realise it!
On a more serious note: I found this video simply great for learning verbs: it explains them in an easy and entertaining way, while still being efficient.
Top quality video, I'll see the others too :D
Since you mentioned writing, I must say that using Duolingo and actually putting an effort it shouldn’t take much more than a week to learn hiragana. Same goes for katakana. It took me about a week to learn hiragana with a moderate effort while it took me 5 days to learn katakana since they share enough in order to make some associations. After that I had about 60-75% proficiency on both, now imagine if I had fully dedicated myself to it like an actual student. Japanese is only difficult once kanji starts being used because it is a third writing system without a limited character list and it pretty much serves as a second language in comparison.
I got Hiragana in 9 days. I haven’t begun Katakana yet, but I have already started on Kanji. I felt like I would never get Hiragana, but like anything, when you practice and put in the effort, you get it. I cannot read it at pace yet, I can read short words quickly (phonetically, but with no understanding, as I don’t know Japanese yet.) But anything with more than 4 characters, I have to really sound each character out. I feel like I am 5 again. Haha.
I'm continuing my Japanese language learning via several online classes. By far, yours is the most comprehensive and easiest to digest. I also appreciate everything being segmented into pretty pastels!
How is going your japanese?
So glad I found your channel. As others have said, your ability to tell us the "Why" while teaching Japanese sets you apart from so many other teachers; and it makes learning more intuitive.
Using an analogy: If a person knew nothing about how electricity or lights worked, someone could tell them to flip "that" switch to turn on the lights. Now if that same person took the time to explain how a light switch works and also how electricity works a "student" could then workout how to turn on a washing machine, TV, start a car, etc; they would just have to locate the switch.
SOOOO thankful that you are taking the time and have the patience for making these videos for us!
Thanks
Thanks! A great video again. I would have never have expected to learn that fast! 💖
So, all verbs in Japanese end in (-u)
There are two types of verbs: U and Ru.
• Ru is verbs with suffix (-iru/eru)
• U is all the other verbs + some exceptions of (-iru/eru)
When conjugating.
• In Ru-verbs the (-ru) is replaced/erased.
• In U-verbs the last syllable with U is transformed into A, E, I or O form
- Like く(ku) --> か (ka)
Then, there are formal and informal ways to say things. ます belongs to the more formal speech.
Verbs can be conjugated into:
• past and non-past forms
• (normal) and negative form
• Have to form
• command/request form
• Let's (action) form.
• (I) want to form
If you are a beginner you are really lucky, you have found the best teacher to begin.
These color coded subtitles are really helpful.
Great lesson! Just a linguistic tip for how to know which is U which is RU verb. If it is in the form of "KANJI+hiragana+RU", and the middle hiragana is E or I vowel, is it most likely to be a RU verb. If it is in the form of "KANJI+RU", it is most likely to be a U verb. Exceptions: 見る、出る、寝る、得る、居る、etc. Because the KANJI itself has E or I vowel. Hope this is helpful.
Ngl...I feel like I just got a new pair of glasses. I made notes for this lesson, did some practice then went back to my really old notes. There are so many things I couldn't see before. "ga hoshi desu" isn't an expression. IT IS AN INCOMPLETE SENTENCE. There are so many things I've just memorized, now I can go back and understand them.
Thank You Misa-sensei
The positivity in your videos is so invigorating. Thanks for the mental boost. You have been a huge part of me not quitting. Thanks for continuing to make these videos. A lot of people I'm sure really appreciate the time and effort.
She made me cry with her motivational message at the end
I read somewhere about why "切る" and "着る" are different verb types despite having similar pronunciation "kiru" (but not similar accenting), and one person mentioned that the way of thinking about it was reversed.
They said, "it is only happenstance that the verbs dictionary form is similar in pronunciation. when looking at the big picture, the verbs in essence are very different."
Another person gave a slightly more in depth explanation, saying how 切る "kir-u" is in the same verb classification as its "sister" words, 刈る "kar-u" and きこる kikor-u, which all are related in that they involve cutting something. Notice the stems of these words, "kar" "kir" "kikor". It is thought that 切る is one word produced by a kir/kor/kar vowel shift. 生み出された単語の一つだと思われます Again as you see, all stems end in a consonant. (characteristic of -u verbs). Whichever came first i don't think is known, but 切る・刈る and きこる certainly are words with deep connection to the action of cutting.
着る ki-ru just ends in a vowel, ki-, so its a -ru verb. 切る kir-u ends in a consonant, kir-, making it an -u verb. I would argue that this is where ro-maji can be actually helpful, in making the classification of verbs in japanese easier to understand visually.
Let's look at the similarities of the two, just so we get a clear understanding of how different they actually are.
-u verb -ru verb
切ら（ない）着（ない）(different) (imperfect form)
切り（ます）着（ます）・ 切っ（て/た）着（て/た）(different) (conjunctive form)
切る。 着る。(similar) (dictionary form, ends with a maru 。)
切るコト 着るコト (similar) (attributive form, basically dictionary form but attached to a noun)
切れ（ば） 着れ（ば）(similar) (hypothetical form)
切れ。 着よ/着ろ。(different) (imperative or command form)
切ろ（う） 着よ（う）。(different) (also imperfect form)
Someone else mentioned, it is similar in English to "break" and "brake".
Same sound, different word, different meaning, different conjugations.
break, broke, broken
brake, braked, braked
They just happen to be similar sounding in the dictionary form, similar to 切る and 着る, but are obviously different in every other way.
If I made any mistakes, please let me know and I will correct them.
It was my new years resolution to learn Japanese and I've been going at it nonstop for 10 days. Took 2 days to get Hiragana, 2 days to get Katakana, and the past 5 days I been struggling understanding things on Lingq but this one video just made so much click that I wasn't quite understanding . I absolutely loved how you explained things, and the color coding of the words to signify sentence structure. Now I have to watch all your videos.
I already learned the verb conjugations in this video but the way you explained it by going through each vowel clarified things even further. I've been studying abroad in Japan and been feeling frustrated by my lack of progress in Japanese and I needed some encouragement. Thank you for your amazing lessons and inspiring words!
The words of encouragement and appreciation for those who are trying to learn Japanese is just amazing 💕
Thank you. I was only ever introduced to the masu form, the polite form of verb conjugation, but I saw dictionary forms and casual conjugations from time to time and was confused. Your video helped clarify that confusion. Many thanks again.
Thanks for cheering us in the end
I'm still doing the Absolute Beginners playlist, and I go back and review over and over, so I'm taking a long time to get through. But this was helpful to me as well and it'll be here whenever I need it! Thanks Misa sensei
Спасибо огромное, Миса 🙏
Хорошо учить японский после английского, в интернете столько невероятно качественных уроков по теме 💖💖
ありがとうございます、みさ先生!!!
это правда!! лично я буквально все полезные материалы на английском нашел. :D
миса - пример невероятно приятной персоны, которая снимает невероятно полезный и понятный контент. прекрасная! ^-^
This video is like unlocking cheat codes for all beginner conjugation this amazing, thank you so much Misa, after literal years struggling I am finally being consistent and studying almost every night before sleeping with your videos, it´s amazing to feel progress and learning new things after so many times having to start over and review after stopping. ありがとうございます本当、みさ先生のおかげでまた勉強する自信ができました。ずっと頑張ります！
Maybe I have an unpopular opinion but I have always appreciated and loved your grammar for beginners playlist as it is. It is so easy to understand and when I went back to re-watch it and saw this one I have to say please don't change them too much, they are very simple and so helpful.
I think only the audio is the main issue for them but the content is amazing and has been my main way of learning Japanese these past years. 🙏🏼 Thank you for your videos, Misa 先生❣️
(Accidentally posted this as a reply to someone else's comment)
Misa: "This is Shine, it is an ancient word of Force from the mist shrouded legends of yore - I am now giving you knowledge of this power, as my sensei did to me. But know that with it, comes great responsibility. You must never ever use it but for self defense!"
Filthy Frank: "The most savage way to end a conversation is called Shine. You're welcome."
Exactly, he's the first thing that came to mind after hearing "shine" and his japanese 101 videos
Sugoi! What an amazing video. Your explanations and production quality are top notch. The color-coded kanji/hiragana/katakana are *perfect* - this video also improved my understanding of hiragana. You integrate explanations for things like formality and rudeness into the discussion. You switch seamlessly between the languages and your English is more clear than usual. And to top it off, the background and your shirt are just so darn cute that I couldn't help smiling the whole time I'm watching the video (and tbh I'm having a bad day today so I needed that)
Well I'm French, the conjugation is a whole other level xD
At least conjugating isn't the hardest thing in Japanese~
Thanks for this video !
I'm brazilian and i thought japanese very easy because verbs in Portuguese have a lot more conjugations
@@cyanuurei so you know speak "brazilian"? unfortunately that language does'nt exist xD
Cyann Vaillant brazilian doesnt exist my love
I'm learning French, and fortunately it's similar to Catalán and Spanish (my native languages) so it's easier for me but it's still hard.. I feel bad just imagining an English speaker learning it haha
Btw I have French exam on Friday 😅
True there's a lot, and for me , it's confusing
I'm really impressed she's speaking English really really good,knowing she is Japanese and she's pronouncing the R/L so good.thank you for this video
This was a really good video. Breaking up the verbs to "iru/eru" is a lot easier to remember than just "ru." Also, thank you for the pep talk in the end. I definitely feel like I hit walls all the time with Japanese-learning. Still very, very hard to talk to Japanese people, but I know if I keep sticking with it then eventually I will be better.
Don't think of them as "walls", but rather, as plateaus, or resting places, for your brain to process the info you've just learned. Go back to repetitive exercises (no thinking). When you come back, you will be on another (higher) level...
I'm not only impressed by your clean explanations, but also the excellent detail in your subtitles.
You are so good teaching japanese, you make it simple and it seems very easy to understand coz of the subtitle i appreciate the different color font, same color same meaning :) i learned so much, i went to many channels watching different videos related on learning japnese but you’re the best so far. thanks a lot! keep it up misa san ❤️
As a beginner, find your way of teaching and content as effective. Thank you for your effort and also for making this free. Just posting my comment for appreciation even though this has been a year already.
Thank you so much for having this be free, this really makes learning Japanese way easier
I've actually been studying japanese for a little while now, but even so this video helped to better define and categorise some concepts in my mind. What a fantastic video! Your way of explaining and the quality of the editing is all really top notch. I'm always impressed by how you explain at just the right pace and so smoothly in one go I.e. no jump cuts. Thank you Misa sensei!
That motivation at the end is all we need
This is the most helpful Japanese source I've found on RUclips ty
I forget about the "I have to" because I never use it.
I have to practice saying 行かなきゃ。😂
Thanks for the video!
Would you say you 勉強さなきゃ？
its been one year were are you at now
'行かなきゃ'のを覚えています。洗濯しながら'洗濯しなきゃ'と言いました。
まだ日本語を勉強しています。日本語がペラペラになりたいといいな。
@@chatrmant4609 hope that this gave you some motivation
:v IKANAKEREBA IKEMASEN/NARANAI
I love your teaching style, Misa- you explain so clearly and methodically, but without being dull at all!! I really like how you explain the different verb conjugations for different registers, depending on who you're speaking to. That's one of the things I like most about all of your lessons- so important when you're trying your best not to look like an idiot out and about in Japan! And thank you for the motivation at the end. I needed that so badly- you pitched it just right! Please keep doing what you're doing.
Thank you for these great videos. As someone who has always loved the Japanese language, it’s so cool and interesting to be able to learn more in depth items like verbs and conjugation. It’s really hard to find formal education for Japanese where I live and things like duolingo are great for writing and reading but it helps to know how things fit together and the sense behind the different forms of verbs and other elements. I also love that you include formal and informal examples since most other classic ways of studying only present the formal speech.
Great concise and helpful video! どうもありがとうございます!
Great intro, Misa! Love all your videos! Thanks for going over the basics. Reviewing the fundamentals can give a learner a much better understanding and a stronger grasp on grammar. I've been studying by myself for about 8 months now and your channel has been my main source for learning Japanese. You are truly an amazing teacher and don't leave even the smallest detail out. I appreciate all your hard work and the unyielding dedication to your videos.
Blessings.
Misa, thank you very much for giving support and motivation at the end of the videos!! It rely helps to keep going!!😭❤🔥
I love the little motivation speech at the end. We could all use that kind of uplifting words from Misa-sensei! よしゃ！勉強しよう！
Honestly this is the most helpful thing I've found for beginner Japanese verbs. Kudos! Thank you for your work! I truly appreciate it as a Japanese learner.
The intro is cool and this lesson is really important, it's amazing how talented, pretty and nice is you! You're a great teacher!!
I had a professor lived in Japan that explained about slangs and informal mode a bit.
You Misa, opened my mind. You explained Very well . Arigatou.
Привет из России! Спасибо, за Ваши видео. You explain very clearly so everyone can understand. Thanks for your work and please, keep going!
Thank you so much. This is so useful ! I’ll be checking your other videos! ありがとうございます😊
I don’t know why I’m watching this video, even though I’m Japanese 😂
But that’s really interesting because I’ve never thought about Japanese grammar, especially conjugation😊
I like your video!
とも。/Tomo wait!
Don’t they teach these in your classes? (Like Isn’t there a “Japanese literature” class in school?)
Sayo San They do!
But we more focus on how to write kanji, how to understand the people’s mind in the stories or authors... stuff like that.
What we do focus on for grammar is just ancient Japanese literatures because they are totally different from current Japanese.
@Sayo San We aren't taught these grammatical rules, so we can't explain these Japanese grammar excepting those who majored linguistics or Japanese language education even though we grammatically speak correct Japanese
I thought all people aren't taught these grammars of their first language in the world
@@中山健太郎-o5k Oddly enough, we actually do. I can't speak for every English-speaking country or even every state, but in my school in the US, we learned parts of speech and word order in English. We learned words like gerund, preposition, conjunction, contraction, and we had to practice those until we always got all the answers right. We learned all other parts of speech but those ones stand out to me because those were the ones we were tested on the most
@@ReadyRed15 in portuguese too, we spend all of our years in school studying grammar, and then in high scholl we study literature too, along with the grammar
25:49 Piza Mosarera. Thanks for this video, verbs are way easier than i thought.
Misa: "Don't use 'shine', it is quite rude"
Me: Too bad I can never say the only sentence I know: Omae wa...
Omae is also rude. it's like a patronising way of saying you.
@@shridharbiju7370 he just said "the only sentence i know". Clearly being rude or not isnt the topic at hand
mou... shindeiru
Omae wa mo shindeirumasu” is it formal now? Lol
@@youritake8618 I don't wanna correct it, because she said it was bad and as I'm learning the language I like to respect it, but the fact that you got it wrong made me kinda mad (lol I get triggered easily, ok), so I'mma try to explain "shinde" is already on the "Te-form", the offensive way would be without the "d".
this is such an informative video! ありがとうございます！
I really love learning japanese with you ❤
Watching your videos reignited my passion in studying Japanese again. ほんとうにありがとうございます!!!
When i came to japan a few months ago, i had to give a self introduction for my new job. In my introduction i said 日本語を話さない, and everyone started to laugh a little bit, and was told i should say 話せない because what i said means "i don't want to speak japanese." it upsets me that japanese lessons don't explain this implication, i think it's pretty important. I felt betrayed, like formal lessons are setting people up to say rude things by teaching that ない makes a verb negative.
And this is exactly what the problem is with all of formal learning. As someone who is borderline fluent now, you'll struggle with that to the point where you'll just wanna give up. A lot of people actually do get to a decent level of Japanese but drop the language anyway because they say they can't fully express themselves in Japanese.
This is because no matter what level of Japanese you study, on all fronts (grammar, vocab, kanji etc), textbooks and like 99% of Japanese teachers will not really teach you implications or are too diplomatic with the way they teach everything. Language is grim and dirty sometimes and we need to know exactly when to use what and not so much the mere theory.
I might as well make my own channel explaining the differences between formal (JLPT N3~N1) and informal (what should be JLPT N6; I joke and N5~N4) Japanese.
Here's a hint should you continue Japanese:
We're not gonna be able to make it [anyway]!
Among friends and familiar people:どうせ
Among superiors and in formal settings: 所詮
I guess many may say this is obvious but I guess I'm stupid and I took forever to figure stuff like this out. Like.... why am I learning しなければならない instead of しなきゃ as Misa used in the video?
Why なになにをせずにはいられない instead of just やっちゃう?
If Misa ever gets into any of these differences, a ton of intermediate and advanced learners will actually start getting to that fluent point.
Okay but Misa actually mentioned it in the potantial form lesson.
I left Japan about 16 years ago - forgotten so much - this is really appreciated!
Aside the intro I also love the content of this video I learned a lot hopefully I can go to japan someday
I agree with you Shelvin
You know what shelvin when I watched your vlog I can see that you have a power to earn money but then of course I will be the one of your fans nothing to worry hehehe
Well, Aside your face Shelvin..
Am just starting. Thank you.
Arigato gozaimasu , I was about to give up on japanese in class, however seeing Ur video, feels like I can do it , thx a tonnn
How is it
You really helped me, there's a lot of long videos and apps that takes a lot of time and even help you to learn the language, this helped me so much ありがとうございます
I have to say, you are one among few youtubers where I feel captivated and really pay attention to what you're saying. I always get several "aha" moments when I listen to you. Thank you Misa!
This is gold ! I have been studying Japanese for a few months, but never really got into the conjugations. This video just opened a huge door to a next dimension, very clear explanation and examples! Watching the rest of your videos the upcoming week!
Maarrr gggertje
Thanks for the good motivation at the end 😀❤
This is really a very intelligent and helpful breakdown of Nihongo. No excuses for not making any progress.
Her English pronunciation is so good, there's no japanese influence in it
To Japanese people it is so hard to learn english so she must have worked a lot
This is my first time on your channel and I was bit hesitant to watch this video because of how long it is, but as soon as I pressed play I took my notebook and the whole video I kept writing notes. This video is amazing and so informative! It actually makes so much sense now. I can't thank you enough for explaining all this
i actually think learning verb conjugations is really fun, strangely. also to me, it’s much easier than italian conjugations which are dependent on the subject (honestly i don’t even know how i learnt english, watching this video really shows how english overcomplicates things). i also love how japanese in comparison to other languages for example russian (which i did for a couple months but quit) has short conjugations and words in general, it is so much easier to memorise and learn. russian just has so many cases and the words are so long, it’s crazy!
I think the same, I’m a native Spanish speaker and English it’s kinda easy to me, but when I started with Italian I realized how hard it’s to learn a Romance language. Japanese it’s easier because they have like 6 or 7 forms of conjugation, whether in Spanish for example we have like 65!
Thank you for this video. Currently studying japanese. This helps a lot.
Thank you Misa-san.
You are a good teacher.
The colors in the subtitles are so helpful. I can't imagine how long this video must have taken to edit. Thank you very much!
Now I want to hear you speak Russian.
cyka blyat
thank me later
@@thesorrow96 I see the you did there. やんちゃ
Водка, матрёшка, балалайка. Хуй, пизда и джигурда.
Are you glad?
zdrasvitye tavarisch
@@thesorrow96 smh. 💀
What a wonderful overview of japanese verbs... I feel so smart, my first Japanese class in college didn't even touch on this, but everything makes so much more sense now. Thank you!
I just can't express my gratitude to you sensei. This gave me so much motivation to keep continuing learning such a beautiful language. I also love your message at the end which encouraged me to learn more. Arigato gozaimasu sensei!
this video helped me a lot and thank you so much, i got lost at first and i thought it was so long harsh and difficult to conjugate verbs in Japanese but you made it easy by classifying the verbs into two groups, amazing thank you ! i'm Arabian from Egypt i speak Arabic, English fluently and i'm looking forward to speaking Japanese as well.
Doesnt matter if its for beginners, you still get a huge like from me! Thanks for your hard work Misa-san!
Also, your new intro is just incredible! Will you ever one day do a lesson only speaking Japanese for intermediate+? Or perhaps just something for listening practice?
It was such a nice explanation, a couple of years ago I was studying Japanese at a local university and I remember thinking that it was nice we had native speakers as teachers, but unfortunately none of them were actually teachers so the lessons were based on the book's index and not on ways to anchor our thinking process in order to actually build structures. I don't know if you intentionally gathered the vowels into a group to explain the topic but for me, it worked very nicely instead of going from topic to topic, now it's just a matter of practicing with lists of verbs. Thanks and congratulations!
this really helps me a lot, because i don't have any problem when it comes to understanding the language/sentence, what's hard for me is to form a sentence on my own, so that i can reply or other stuff.
23:40 me: "You make it really easy to understand"
you: "... so what do you have to do?"
me: [blushing in awkward silence]
先生、ありがとうございます! たくさん習いました。
I understand these conjugations more. You explained them very well. I didn't even realize the a, i, u, e, o endings has different uses. Thank you so much!
2022(almost 2023) and this Queen helps me since 2020 thank you so much for everything you did... 🤧🤧🤧 nobody does it like you Misa💐
Misa: Shine is really rude you shoul say that to anyone.
Bakugo: SHINEEEEEEE!
Thank you! How you explain verbs make so much more sense that anything else I've read.
Love the new intro
I heard Japanese is much easier to learn for Turkish speakers than any other European or West Asian language speakers due to many similarities in grammar and syntax. Is that true?
@@elimalinsky7069 I think it's true. As a native Turkish speaker, I can say it's way easier to learn Japanese than English. Also Japanese is easier to pronounce for a Turkish speaking person. Hope you understand, as I mentioned, I'm not a native English speaker, so I really hope what I said makes sense^^
@@momo1643 Japanese is easier to pronounce for the majority of other language speakers around the world in my opinion. In fact, Japanese phonology is so simple and basic, it is quite astonishing when you compare it to the more complex phonology of Korean and the far more complex phonology of Chinese.
@@elimalinsky7069 What is your native language? English?
@@momo1643 Russian
Great explanation and motivation. Really well done 👍 ありがとうございます
Nice. I like the classification of "Ru-verbs" and "U-verbs". Never heard anyone classify it that way.
Is this a joke or are you serious? :D
I already thougt about giving up learning Japanese. When you follow all the Books st's soooo difficult. And you explain it in a way I think little child would learn it.
ありがとうございます。先生さようなら。
The problem with learning Japanese is you're presented with 2 types of sensei: those that teach the formal textbook style and those that teach "native" or very informal style. As a foreigner visiting this beautiful country and its people I would rather be seen as being odd or a beginner than come across as being rude or impolite. And forget anime, that will only get you into trouble lol.
My first few times in Japan my friends scolded me for speaking too formally. Natives don’t expect your Japanese to be perfect so if you speak casually when you’re not supposed to it’s usually overlooked. Most foreigners don’t speak any Japanese so it’s better than most to speak casually
I learnt Japanese last year and didn't practice it since covid. This vid is good summary on verb. Thank you Misa!
Wow, what a cute intro! Love it. このイントロはとてもかわいいです(*^-^*)
かわいいですね～
Another way to write cute:
可愛い
Same pronunciation.
@フライクライFlykryy yup
Finally something I can read lol
@@OrangeC7 p
First video I watch from this channel. Wow it's so good!
This video definitely isn't for people who literally just started learning Japanese or just want to use travel phrases. Imagine going from "konnichiwa, arigato and sumimasen" to learning past, negative, formal and informal verbs with all their different (overlapping) conjugations. I would literally cry.