It is VERY rare that someone attacks me in any way. So far I think there have been 3 at most. I am more bothered by comments that try to push to hard in teaching Japanese beyond the goal of the lesson. I feel like a broken record now, but learning is a delicate process. You have to deal with people's emotions as they easily get discouraged. One of the best ways to keep someone moving forward is to make sure they FEEL like they got a concept. So many users think they are helping by posting "ALSO you can do this" or "this is good but also consider this", which isn't bad to know, but sometimes the timing can actually hurt a new student. BEYOND that 98% of comments have been great.
+Learn Japanese From Zero! You're videos are great! Every time I watch one and learn something now, I go straight to HelloTalk to try it out, I've even had my Japanese described as beautiful which I have you to thank for. As soon as I can afford it, I'll be buying your books over Genki1/2. おつかれさまです。
I agree. I'm glad I taught myself english as a child which I also improved in time. English is so useful compared to my native language. George is making one of my biggest dreams come true, which is to learn how to speak and read japanese in a fluent way. I'm still trying to understand how to put sentences together and memorize the Hiragana characters. It's not easy for me unfortunately even with constant repetition and recaps from the books and the videos. I had to move a bit forward because as George mentioned in one of the earlier videos, sometimes it's better to move forward to be able to learn.
@@ryuk6461 lol it's been 2 years. i stopped learning after half learning the alphabetics because im not dreaming of going to japan anymore. i am happy here in lebanon and will always.
Here in 2022 absolutely adoring your personality and teaching style, quite literally I forget I'm actually learning a whole lot when it just feels like I'm hanging out with a buddy! You're def made for this and I'm so glad I found your book and channel, the way you explain is perfect, I'm never confused and everything is retained immediately! I've tried to self learn on and off my whole life and I've never gotten as far as I have with your lessons, and I'm not even into lesson 7 yet!
Hi Lunacorn! It won’t always be easy perhaps, but if you can get through the core basics keep adding Japanese to your brain you can get further than you might have even imagined. I’m glad a small part of what I built is giving some help! Just keep going! When you get stuck remember there is a big community of learners just like you on our Discord in case you get stuck.
Hey, so this is a random video to leave this comment on, but I thought you might like to hear it and this is the video I happened to be on. About 5 years ago I saw your book at a small shop in Little Tokyo, in Los Angeles. At the time my friends all had some sort of basic language they were studying, one German, one French, and one Korean. I always told myself I didnt have the capacity to learn another language so I never really tried. But I cracked your book open and I thought it was really interesting. As a bit of a challenge to myself, I bought it and studied what I could. I got the second book as a christmas present and bought the third book for myself when I saw it was available. I gave up the language for a while after that, but when my friend said he wanted to get into the language I bought him two of your revised textbooks, the newer ones with the nice anime drawings. Last year I picked the language back up. I have a tutor, phone apps, and I've developed some really cool study games and methods. I'm making a lot of progress really quickly, especially this year. I'm going to take the next 5 years and try to get on the path to being a translator. I'm also planning on making a video series of my own with some of the study methods I've made and some basic tips. Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that as melodramatic and cheesy as it might sound, picking up the first Japanese From Zero textbook and studying it really changed a huge part of my life, and I'm glad it got me where I am now. And no worries, I'll pick up your fourth book when I get some money. ;) ~Kudou
George, I don't know if people call you with some stupid names. But let me tell you that this is only one series i have been following. I have been through many. I don't have a Japanese teacher but still, I communicate better than a lot of japanese language students and that's because of you. :) Thank you very much :)
So I’m a pizza delivery driver and my favorite thing to do instead of playing music in the car at my job is listening to these videos as a review to what I learn in class. It makes working that much more fun! Especially because joji explains and motivates us a lot.
Sir, you are the best teacher I have ever seen in my life. I never remember I have studied a language four hours a day, thanks to you it is never boring, the way you teach is just so funny and effective. Please never mind the comments :)
I think this guy is such a great teacher because he is so strange the way hes so goofy and so animated makes permanent memories in your brain and makes the lessons stick because theres positive memories behind them
I’ve been studying Japanese for a few months now. I have your books level 1 and 2. I am so glad I found your RUclips channel-you are an awesome teacher!! I wish I could take classes with you in person! I’m really learning a lot. I speak a few other languages, but no Asian languages at all. You are definitely helping me to ‘get’ Japanese! Thank you!❤
Just hit this point in the lessons and I'm loving it joji sensei. This is the most fun I've had in learning anything in awhile. Can't wait to keep going. Thanks for the great lessons.
The way you teach is great. The videos are a great companion to the book and really help reinforce what's taught in each chapter. I started out on a whim learning hiragana/katakana for fun and while it was satisfying in its own way, by the end I still didn't really feel like I had learned anything that I could actually use - whereas every lesson you do, a new useful concept is introduced that builds on everything prior and expands the possibilities exponentially. Thanks! :)
OK, so I'm 3 or 4 years late, but just want to say 'No problem' about the rant! I'm a teacher and there are always students who think they know your job better than you do (even though they are in your lesson, so obviously don't know!). I lived in Japan for a few years a while back and just couldn't understand particles - until now! Love what you are doing George.
I just wanna pause and say that you've been a great Japanese teacher so far! I've learned so much already without feeling overwhelmed and while I'm on my day 32 of learning, I am still looking forward to learning more everyday and hopefully be able to speak sentences someday lol. I'm so glad I chose your channel as one of my learning sources in Japanese, you've been very helpful and I appreciate it so much :)
"Cockroaches attacked me!" I'm listening to the lesson in the background while reading the book and I literally laughed out loud and the book hit my face 😂
Thank you for being an awesome, effective, and entertaining teacher. I almost dont wanna stop watching your videos (as it is 2:30 am already) because it's so fun learning from you 😁
@@japanesefromzero Yes I make sure to take a break and have the lessons be ingrained in my mind before it gets to info overload and having the lessons scattered or forgotten. 🙂
Hi George. I just heard what you said on this video. Please don't let the internet trolls get you down. You're a great teacher and your books and videos are amazingly effective. You somehow make learning a foreign language self-motivating and fun while incorporating a solid foundation of grammar, unlike other apps which mainly focus on memorizing vocabulary in a game-like format. I took 6 years of Spanish (including AP classes) during Jr High and HS, and every minute of it was painful and an incredible waste of time. I just wish my teachers back then used your methodology to teach Spanish.
Thank you so much! I’m in my second year of Japanese study through university but I find your teaching method and order way more helpful and concise! 🥰
Its 2022 and I have been studying Japanese for about a month now. Your videos are still so amazing! It gives me motivation. Keep going my dude! ありがとうございます! 💕
Your videos are such a great suppliement to doing just the book work. I can't tell you how much the videos have taken the book work lessons to the next level of learning. Your presentation of the materials and making it conversational and esay to digest is very helpful. I appreciate all you have done and do to help the learning process.
I have been a language teacher for 20 years (not Japanese but I think it doesn't matter here) and my job has frequently been dealing with observing and assessing other teachers and training them in technical terms. I need to tell you that you are absolutely professional and inventive and I wouldn't change a thing in your lessons. If there's anyone calling you names, they may be quite possibly other teachers who are not as successful as you are and therefore green with envy.
Your stories and explanations are part of what make you such a good teacher, George. If people read those comments and skip the rest of the video they are missing out for sure.
Hey, George-san... Like! I just wanted to say how much I love your book and videos! They're really well done and I love the extra little stories in your videos and the Culture and Speaking Naturally sections in the book because they're always super interesting. It really gives that feeling you mentioned about wanting to teach "natural Japanese" and not the "foreigner-way of speaking Japanese". I've never thought learning a new language could be this fun. Thank you for your hard work!
Hi George, this is Miguel from Barcelona.I bought the first book last week and I find it very interesting, I'm enjoying it a lot. Thank you very much for your videos too, they are very helpful and fun.
2024, I have finally found the Sensai that I have been looking for , super grateful that I came across your channel 😍😍😍, learning a lot from you Mr George . Keep up the good work
Your videos and books are the absolute best. I was struggling to learn Japanese for a year until I discovered your books / programs. Thank you a lot for creating such a good company.
I really enjoy your video's & they are very helpful. Never let anyone get to you (and this goes for everyone). No one is worth getting worked up over...ever! Keep up the great work & can not wait to learn more from you.
I noticed, you put "sakana ga sukidesuka instead of just "desu" I thought you should know that :3 I love your videos! Thanks for helping me out. I've come a long way since I started watching your vids
I'm glad not everying gets taught straight away. I like how your videos and books break things down and take it slowly. Even with that method I keep forgetting. If I was trying to learn from another book that packed in loads of information I would be struggling. Your books are great for people who are learning by themselves. Other methods might work with a teacher or in a class but when you are learning yourself its good to have books that takes things slowly.
Thank you George-san! Thanks to you I am able to learn Japanese without any difficulties ! I live in Greece and no one teaches Japanese,so finding you was my salvation! Arigatou gozaimasu!!!
Joji, you are an amazing instructor and your course materials are top notch. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably saying more about themselves than they're saying about you.
I bought your book and i am watching your videos... I saw a lot others but your´s are the best. Thank you so much. I´m loving learning japanese. Arigato. Watashi wa nihonjin ga daisukidesu Or in my language (portuguese) - Obrigado. Adoro japones.
I'm taking a Japanese collage class with a native Japanese man as my teacher and I've been so lost during his classes. Supplementing my class with these videos have been helping so much!
You're the best George! I've tried from numerous sources to learn Japanese but those have just essentially been teaching me how to memorize Japanese, not give me the foundation of the language. Thoroughly enjoying your books and videos, just ordered book 2!
I know this was a while ago and nobody will probably see this comment, but i just wanted to say: "Cockroaches are attacking!" But for real, these videos are so helpful, man i trust you so much in teaching me Japanese so i can one day be fluent so i can actually talk when i go there. I'm am really into Japanese everything!!! And i really appreciate these videos being available for me to watch, seriously i can't thank you enough man, God bless you!!!
If someone randomly clicked this video and jumped to the 3:00 mark, I feel like they would have the wrong impression of this channel xD Edit: Just got to the part that you said that youtube comments are cancer :') I mean this as a joke. Really like your lessons and think that you are a good teacher and a fun guy u.u
I learned a lot watching you Sensei George! I think this really speeds up learning.Learning a language is not just by memorizing, context is very important and you really deserve an applause. Your humor is exceptional!!1 HEHEHE
These videos are so perfect for refreshing Japanese too! I took four semesters of Japanese in college but didn't touch it during law school. I'm trying to refresh to get back to where I was and your channel is great for this purpose too! Thanks for the awesome videos.
Thank you Sensie for your lessons! it help me a lot... i been in Japan for 3weeks now without knowing any Japanese words. as in Zero!. Many thanks from the bottom of my heart...
great videos, I came in learning all the Hiragana, Katakana and a few basics words... These videos are helping me understand and form sentences a lot better
I love your way of teaching! It's very easy-going, and you really gave thought to the content of your lessons. Before you, I bought a beginners course and the mentors were Japanese... I just have to say, I had a REALLY HARD TIME understanding what I was doing, or what I was studying. I was memorizing things, but I didn't know why or what for. Of course, it was easy for them since they're native, but since you're American, you already know what non-japanese people might have trouble with. Which honestly, it's spot-on
Thank you for your wonderful free youtube videos. Bought the book and will start writing soon. Your youtube lessons are great for beginners and I repeat each lesson a few times playing it often to remember it.
I really hope you read this. You’ve sparked a 🔥 in me for Japanese and wanted to say thanks! I’m buying all books and will learn Korean from Zero also!!
I fully agree with the order in which you're teaching, George. I encourage anyone who's watching these videos to get the JFZ books and / or utilize the YesJapan website. I just returned from Japan this week, and the methods really work. I have learned so much key grammar from George's videos, in an easily digested way. The thing that has taken me further than anything else is George's advice to "Use Japanese to help your Japanese." Ask questions in the language, about the language. And of course remember: 「塵も積もれば、山となる」
12:30 A better explanation would be... "In japanese, you don't always have to say "what do YOU like?" because we already know who we are talking to. The full sentence in japanese is... Anata wa nani ga suki desu ka? (this is in romaji because I promised to myself I would learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji after I learned how to speak the Japanese) However. you can drop the "anata wa" since we already know who we are talking about. Nani ga suki desu ka? Now, just because we dropped the "anata wa", that doesn't mean that the "anata wa" isn't there. The soft rule of no "wa's" twice still applies. You already used a "wa" on the word "Anata," so you can't use it again. Therefore Nani ga suki desu ka?" I hope that helped! Thanks for your amazing videos! This is also somewhat of an explanation as to why you say "Sushi ga suki des," and not "Sushi wa suki des"
haha, your lessens are really interesting and inspiring. As a Chinese student, I found it is much more easy to learn Japanese in English perspective. Thank you for your work! おっかれさまでした！
loving your videos and learning style. have to say, as a beginner, I had a "lightbulb" moment on course 1 lesson 4 when i actually was able to make sentences with to, no and wa. Woohoo. suki desu ne
Man I'm laughing my arse off in my apartment in Miyako up in Iwate as I am learning Japanese, I love these videos that accompany the book. Sorry, I mean I like them. ;)
It's 2024 and George is still the best to learn Japanese. Include the fact that I`m Russian and English is my second language, your lessons very easy to understand even for me. I don`t know anybody who could be better. Your books and lessons are good way to make a perfect base for beginers for further study.
Duuude, your videos are awsome. I have been studying with various programs and on my own and it's so helpful to have context and grammar support. Thank you!
It's very interesting to see your two personalities shifting back and forth when you speak Japanese and English. It really goes to show how the language, though indirectly, influences the manner in which one speaks it, most of the time subconsciously. I've found myself in a similar shift as well when I shift from my mother tongue, which is Vietnamese, to English and to Japanese.
you know, you kept apologising for your rant, but seriously, I think it just shows' that you love what you do. You're passionate about it because you put blood, sweat and tears into it. RANT AWAY!!!! and let the haters hate :) I love watching your videos - seems to be the only thing that makes me understand how Japanese works. WOOO
people always want to find something wrong no matter how good you do. I think I speak for a lot of other youtubers when I say, "Thanks, I appreciate all the work you put into teaching. You make learning Japanese easy! " ありがとうー！ジョウジは上手せんせい！(George is a skilled teacher!)
An important point that came up a couple times here, jouji sensei: languages are differentiated not by why they _can_ express, but by what they _must_.
Kocchi "こっち"at first it says つ Means "Tsu" but there is a small one っ this is usually placed before a consonant to indicate gemination. Gemination means Lengthening the consonant.
bro the sheer amount of times I've paused one of your videos to watch something else and come back to you saying something that breaks the 4th wall is hilarious. like I just came back and you were like: I'm sorry were we doing something? oh right Japanese.
6:52 george ...so far your channel is the best channel to learn the Japanese for me. the other is just focus on grammar and memorizing the vocab and kanji which is far too hard for complete beginner, but you can explain it simply and fun, your channel Is the only content that I can watch it and make my Japanese skill improve gradually, the other is like jumping too steep for each lesson they give.
Hello George, thank you for these videos. I have a question and I would like to hear your answer. one of the sentences you said was: "Nani iru ga suki desu ka" (15:23) but in another example in this video, you said: "nihon no tabemono nani ga suki desu ka" (16:34) I would like to know why in the first you started with "nani", but in the second you started with the subject"
I'm sorry someone was being rude to you, but I want you to know that my wife and I look forward to watching your videos (with textbooks in hand) every night. We're excited to learn Japanese and you do a phenomenal job teaching. Thanks for doing what you do!
Love the videos and using it in combination with the first book is helpful as well. I was even doing to hiragana reading practice recently (I've only just got to the next lesson so am very new) and actually found I could translate the sentence as well using the stuff covered so far (except for Imashita which I had to look up) おふろ の だいきらい な おじいさん と おばあさん が いました。 Which was a pleasant shock.
18:13 i just noticed that you typed sakana ga suki desu ka instead of just sakana ga suki desu. Love this series anyways. Thanks for making learning japanese so fun
It's amazing how our voices change when we speak different languages. Your japanese voice is pretty high while your English almost sounds like will arnett.
Power up your Japanese on FromZero.com (lessons, quizzes, games, ask-a-teacher)
shame that people call you names, you've been most helpful than anyone on youtube for learning japanese at beginner level
It is VERY rare that someone attacks me in any way. So far I think there have been 3 at most. I am more bothered by comments that try to push to hard in teaching Japanese beyond the goal of the lesson. I feel like a broken record now, but learning is a delicate process. You have to deal with people's emotions as they easily get discouraged. One of the best ways to keep someone moving forward is to make sure they FEEL like they got a concept. So many users think they are helping by posting "ALSO you can do this" or "this is good but also consider this", which isn't bad to know, but sometimes the timing can actually hurt a new student. BEYOND that 98% of comments have been great.
+Learn Japanese From Zero! You're videos are great! Every time I watch one and learn something now, I go straight to HelloTalk to try it out, I've even had my Japanese described as beautiful which I have you to thank for. As soon as I can afford it, I'll be buying your books over Genki1/2. おつかれさまです。
Your English is beautiful too. That last sentence makes me cry tears of joy it's so beautiful.
don't forget about namasensei, you bitch!
I would love you to do a Spanish from zero book/video series. I would enjoy it.
Having someone who is fluent in both English and Japanese makes it very easy to understand Japanese at a conceptual level. Great videos!
I agree. I'm glad I taught myself english as a child which I also improved in time. English is so useful compared to my native language. George is making one of my biggest dreams come true, which is to learn how to speak and read japanese in a fluent way.
I'm still trying to understand how to put sentences together and memorize the Hiragana characters. It's not easy for me unfortunately even with constant repetition and recaps from the books and the videos. I had to move a bit forward because as George mentioned in one of the earlier videos, sometimes it's better to move forward to be able to learn.
as me , im arabic , i learned frensh english and now japanese :)
@@ReachStudioPro just checking on you if you still learning and how you doing. I have been studying for 4 months now.
Saeed Almansoori
Hey man are you still studying
@@safir2241 yes I am and every day ;)
I trust George and don't worry if I am missing anything. I know that he is the expert for Japanese. Everything will be revealed at the proper time.
helloooo, this is after 5 years!!!! how your japanese going??
@@xxxtarnationnand this is after 2 years How's your learning going?
@@ryuk6461 lol it's been 2 years. i stopped learning after half learning the alphabetics because im not dreaming of going to japan anymore. i am happy here in lebanon and will always.
Here in 2022 absolutely adoring your personality and teaching style, quite literally I forget I'm actually learning a whole lot when it just feels like I'm hanging out with a buddy! You're def made for this and I'm so glad I found your book and channel, the way you explain is perfect, I'm never confused and everything is retained immediately! I've tried to self learn on and off my whole life and I've never gotten as far as I have with your lessons, and I'm not even into lesson 7 yet!
Hi Lunacorn! It won’t always be easy perhaps, but if you can get through the core basics keep adding Japanese to your brain you can get further than you might have even imagined. I’m glad a small part of what I built is giving some help! Just keep going! When you get stuck remember there is a big community of learners just like you on our Discord in case you get stuck.
As soon as you said the word "Food", I yelled out loud: "TABEMONO! TABEMONO! I REMEMBER IT!"
You must be hungry!
Boy I know that feeling. It's soooooo fulfilling to understand what you're learning. I scream things at the screen when I know them too lol
@@japanesefromzeroim not hungry im dad
@@Ash.M997 I see you😂
Hey, so this is a random video to leave this comment on, but I thought you might like to hear it and this is the video I happened to be on. About 5 years ago I saw your book at a small shop in Little Tokyo, in Los Angeles. At the time my friends all had some sort of basic language they were studying, one German, one French, and one Korean. I always told myself I didnt have the capacity to learn another language so I never really tried. But I cracked your book open and I thought it was really interesting. As a bit of a challenge to myself, I bought it and studied what I could. I got the second book as a christmas present and bought the third book for myself when I saw it was available. I gave up the language for a while after that, but when my friend said he wanted to get into the language I bought him two of your revised textbooks, the newer ones with the nice anime drawings.
Last year I picked the language back up. I have a tutor, phone apps, and I've developed some really cool study games and methods. I'm making a lot of progress really quickly, especially this year. I'm going to take the next 5 years and try to get on the path to being a translator. I'm also planning on making a video series of my own with some of the study methods I've made and some basic tips.
Anyways, I just wanted to let you know that as melodramatic and cheesy as it might sound, picking up the first Japanese From Zero textbook and studying it really changed a huge part of my life, and I'm glad it got me where I am now. And no worries, I'll pick up your fourth book when I get some money. ;)
~Kudou
Its been a year, how are you doin with that plan? Have you learned a lot?
It's been 2 years now...I wanna hear ur progress bc ot really catched me!!!
I'm curious too! 3 years.
So are you translator already?
@Flick No time is short if you are passionate. And five years is definitely not short:)
George, I don't know if people call you with some stupid names. But let me tell you that this is only one series i have been following. I have been through many. I don't have a Japanese teacher but still, I communicate better than a lot of japanese language students and that's because of you. :) Thank you very much :)
Thank you. I am honored to be a part of your success!
@@japanesefromzero Yeah and keep telling people to suck on those fish
So I’m a pizza delivery driver and my favorite thing to do instead of playing music in the car at my job is listening to these videos as a review to what I learn in class. It makes working that much more fun! Especially because joji explains and motivates us a lot.
I don't know if anyone in the comments pointed this out but in the last sentence you have an extra か making it a question. さかながすきですか.
Sir, you are the best teacher I have ever seen in my life. I never remember I have studied a language four hours a day, thanks to you it is never boring, the way you teach is just so funny and effective. Please never mind the comments :)
Thanks for the kind words. But I think I will always mind the comments. I’ve gotten better though!
@@japanesefromzero George sensei, Arigato gozaimasu🥰🥰
You're awesome !!! The most helpful thing EVER !!! I'm in Japan now and I'm saying you THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THOSE VIDEO YOU'RE AWESOME.
I think this guy is such a great teacher because he is so strange the way hes so goofy and so animated makes permanent memories in your brain and makes the lessons stick because theres positive memories behind them
I’ve been studying Japanese for a few months now. I have your books level 1 and 2. I am so glad I found your RUclips channel-you are an awesome teacher!! I wish I could take classes with you in person! I’m really learning a lot. I speak a few other languages, but no Asian languages at all. You are definitely helping me to ‘get’ Japanese! Thank you!❤
Just hit this point in the lessons and I'm loving it joji sensei. This is the most fun I've had in learning anything in awhile. Can't wait to keep going. Thanks for the great lessons.
The way you teach is great. The videos are a great companion to the book and really help reinforce what's taught in each chapter. I started out on a whim learning hiragana/katakana for fun and while it was satisfying in its own way, by the end I still didn't really feel like I had learned anything that I could actually use - whereas every lesson you do, a new useful concept is introduced that builds on everything prior and expands the possibilities exponentially.
Thanks! :)
OK, so I'm 3 or 4 years late, but just want to say 'No problem' about the rant! I'm a teacher and there are always students who think they know your job better than you do (even though they are in your lesson, so obviously don't know!). I lived in Japan for a few years a while back and just couldn't understand particles - until now! Love what you are doing George.
Been watching your videos for years George! Awesome series!
大好きです！
@「0'イチゴ」 We have an English word for you: Edgelord
@@victorchen5663 what.
@@qwqqis it looks like I was responding to someone who deleted their comment a year ago. I don't even remember what it was.
@@victorchen5663 Victor が大好きです！
I know this is an old video but I was recommended this series and the courses on yesjapan and it has been helping me a lot. You are a great teacher!
Isn't he the best? Glad to see some fresh commenters here 😂
I just wanna pause and say that you've been a great Japanese teacher so far! I've learned so much already without feeling overwhelmed and while I'm on my day 32 of learning, I am still looking forward to learning more everyday and hopefully be able to speak sentences someday lol. I'm so glad I chose your channel as one of my learning sources in Japanese, you've been very helpful and I appreciate it so much :)
"Cockroaches attacked me!" I'm listening to the lesson in the background while reading the book and I literally laughed out loud and the book hit my face 😂
i hope 5 years from now when im fluent i'll look back and say hmm i remember when i started learning how to say kore wa neko des with joji
same lmaooo
Bas how far are you with learning
How far are so if you in learning
Bas So, how's it going?
@@paulomachado7328 he must have quit already lol
12:25
"it's the thing that is verbed or liked...."
me: yes i get it...
"the like is on top of the ga"
me: yes...?
"that made no sense"
me: yes xD
Thank you for being an awesome, effective, and entertaining teacher. I almost dont wanna stop watching your videos (as it is 2:30 am already) because it's so fun learning from you 😁
Nothing wrong with excitement. Just don’t get burned out. Give yourself time to absorb the materials.
@@japanesefromzero Yes I make sure to take a break and have the lessons be ingrained in my mind before it gets to info overload and having the lessons scattered or forgotten. 🙂
Hi George. I just heard what you said on this video. Please don't let the internet trolls get you down. You're a great teacher and your books and videos are amazingly effective. You somehow make learning a foreign language self-motivating and fun while incorporating a solid foundation of grammar, unlike other apps which mainly focus on memorizing vocabulary in a game-like format. I took 6 years of Spanish (including AP classes) during Jr High and HS, and every minute of it was painful and an incredible waste of time. I just wish my teachers back then used your methodology to teach Spanish.
Thank you so much! I’m in my second year of Japanese study through university but I find your teaching method and order way more helpful and concise! 🥰
I love your videos, George! I use multiple resources for learning the language, but your courses are my favorite. :) ありがとうございます！
Its 2022 and I have been studying Japanese for about a month now. Your videos are still so amazing! It gives me motivation. Keep going my dude! ありがとうございます! 💕
Your videos are such a great suppliement to doing just the book work. I can't tell you how much the videos have taken the book work lessons to the next level of learning. Your presentation of the materials and making it conversational and esay to digest is very helpful. I appreciate all you have done and do to help the learning process.
I have been a language teacher for 20 years (not Japanese but I think it doesn't matter here) and my job has frequently been dealing with observing and assessing other teachers and training them in technical terms. I need to tell you that you are absolutely professional and inventive and I wouldn't change a thing in your lessons. If there's anyone calling you names, they may be quite possibly other teachers who are not as successful as you are and therefore green with envy.
Your stories and explanations are part of what make you such a good teacher, George. If people read those comments and skip the rest of the video they are missing out for sure.
YOU ARE AMAZING!!! Please continue George-san!! Don't let people fool you with their agressive ways.
Hey, George-san... Like!
I just wanted to say how much I love your book and videos! They're really well done and I love the extra little stories in your videos and the Culture and Speaking Naturally sections in the book because they're always super interesting. It really gives that feeling you mentioned about wanting to teach "natural Japanese" and not the "foreigner-way of speaking Japanese". I've never thought learning a new language could be this fun. Thank you for your hard work!
Awesome job George. I'm a portuguese tryin' to learn japanese, and it's being a pleasure to do it with you. ありがとうございます
Hi George, this is Miguel from Barcelona.I bought the first book last week and I find it very interesting, I'm enjoying it a lot. Thank you very much for your videos too, they are very helpful and fun.
you're an amazing teacher :)
Its been 4 years how are you doing in Japanese?
@@bakuski__7954 sadly i stopped learning like a month after i saw this video due to lack of free time
@@zawette oh sad
@@zawettehow about now
2024, I have finally found the Sensai that I have been looking for , super grateful that I came across your channel 😍😍😍, learning a lot from you Mr George . Keep up the good work
I bought the book just to show support. :) I've learned so much from the over 500 videos on your site. Thanks George for all the effort.
This feeling of power when you understand something in an Anime without subtitles. Thank you so much your lessons are helping so much!
I love this channel and your book. It has helped so much. Plus I really feel like I'm in a class with him. Thank you so much
George, ut is so nice to go back to basics. I do feel I have potential.
Thank you for sharing your joy and enthusiasm with the world.
Your videos and books are the absolute best. I was struggling to learn Japanese for a year until I discovered your books / programs. Thank you a lot for creating such a good company.
I really enjoy your video's & they are very helpful. Never let anyone get to you (and this goes for everyone). No one is worth getting worked up over...ever! Keep up the great work & can not wait to learn more from you.
thank you teacher george you make everything seem easy I was about to give up learning japanese then I saw this youtube channel thank you so much.
yOU ARE THE ABSOLUTE BEST TEACHER IVE EVER HAD thank you thank you thank you!! I learn so much :)
I noticed, you put "sakana ga sukidesuka instead of just "desu" I thought you should know that :3 I love your videos! Thanks for helping me out. I've come a long way since I started watching your vids
I'm glad not everying gets taught straight away. I like how your videos and books break things down and take it slowly. Even with that method I keep forgetting. If I was trying to learn from another book that packed in loads of information I would be struggling. Your books are great for people who are learning by themselves. Other methods might work with a teacher or in a class but when you are learning yourself its good to have books that takes things slowly.
Thank you George-san! Thanks to you I am able to learn Japanese without any difficulties ! I live in Greece and no one teaches Japanese,so finding you was my salvation! Arigatou gozaimasu!!!
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EDWARD!!?? AL!!??
Joji, you are an amazing instructor and your course materials are top notch. Anyone who tells you otherwise is probably saying more about themselves than they're saying about you.
I bought your book and i am watching your videos... I saw a lot others but your´s are the best.
Thank you so much. I´m loving learning japanese.
Arigato. Watashi wa nihonjin ga daisukidesu
Or in my language (portuguese) - Obrigado. Adoro japones.
I'm taking a Japanese collage class with a native Japanese man as my teacher and I've been so lost during his classes. Supplementing my class with these videos have been helping so much!
Thank you for all your videos. They're super helpful. Very kind of you.
This video was really helpful for the lesson. I seem to forget everything I learned from the previous chapter, but this time I remembered some things!
You're the best George! I've tried from numerous sources to learn Japanese but those have just essentially been teaching me how to memorize Japanese, not give me the foundation of the language. Thoroughly enjoying your books and videos, just ordered book 2!
I know this was a while ago and nobody will probably see this comment, but i just wanted to say:
"Cockroaches are attacking!"
But for real, these videos are so helpful, man i trust you so much in teaching me Japanese so i can one day be fluent so i can actually talk when i go there. I'm am really into Japanese everything!!! And i really appreciate these videos being available for me to watch, seriously i can't thank you enough man, God bless you!!!
If someone randomly clicked this video and jumped to the 3:00 mark, I feel like they would have the wrong impression of this channel xD
Edit: Just got to the part that you said that youtube comments are cancer :')
I mean this as a joke. Really like your lessons and think that you are a good teacher and a fun guy u.u
I learned a lot watching you Sensei George! I think this really speeds up learning.Learning a language is not just by memorizing, context is very important and you really deserve an applause. Your humor is exceptional!!1 HEHEHE
These videos are so perfect for refreshing Japanese too! I took four semesters of Japanese in college but didn't touch it during law school. I'm trying to refresh to get back to where I was and your channel is great for this purpose too! Thanks for the awesome videos.
Thanks for the nice words redxgrey. Welcome back to Japanese!
Thank you Sensie for your lessons! it help me a lot... i been in Japan for 3weeks now without knowing any Japanese words. as in Zero!. Many thanks from the bottom of my heart...
great videos, I came in learning all the Hiragana, Katakana and a few basics words... These videos are helping me understand and form sentences a lot better
I love your way of teaching! It's very easy-going, and you really gave thought to the content of your lessons. Before you, I bought a beginners course and the mentors were Japanese... I just have to say, I had a REALLY HARD TIME understanding what I was doing, or what I was studying. I was memorizing things, but I didn't know why or what for. Of course, it was easy for them since they're native, but since you're American, you already know what non-japanese people might have trouble with. Which honestly, it's spot-on
Thank you for your wonderful free youtube videos. Bought the book and will start writing soon. Your youtube lessons are great for beginners and I repeat each lesson a few times playing it often to remember it.
I'm taking the plunge. I just bought your book. Your videos are the best so I figured your book would be great too.
I really hope you read this.
You’ve sparked a 🔥 in me for Japanese and wanted to say thanks! I’m buying all books and will learn Korean from Zero also!!
Got the book about two weeks ago. Sooo good. Very worth it specially with these videos
I fully agree with the order in which you're teaching, George. I encourage anyone who's watching these videos to get the JFZ books and / or utilize the YesJapan website. I just returned from Japan this week, and the methods really work. I have learned so much key grammar from George's videos, in an easily digested way. The thing that has taken me further than anything else is George's advice to "Use Japanese to help your Japanese."
Ask questions in the language, about the language. And of course remember: 「塵も積もれば、山となる」
Source: George's second account
I totally would have made my fake account a Japanese person. A beautiful Japanese super idol would have been perfect.
12:30 A better explanation would be...
"In japanese, you don't always have to say "what do YOU like?" because we already know who we are talking to. The full sentence in japanese is...
Anata wa nani ga suki desu ka? (this is in romaji because I promised to myself I would learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji after I learned how to speak the Japanese)
However. you can drop the "anata wa" since we already know who we are talking about.
Nani ga suki desu ka?
Now, just because we dropped the "anata wa", that doesn't mean that the "anata wa" isn't there. The soft rule of no "wa's" twice still applies. You already used a "wa" on the word "Anata," so you can't use it again. Therefore
Nani ga suki desu ka?"
I hope that helped! Thanks for your amazing videos!
This is also somewhat of an explanation as to why you say "Sushi ga suki des," and not "Sushi wa suki des"
haha, your lessens are really interesting and inspiring. As a Chinese student, I found it is much more easy to learn Japanese in English perspective. Thank you for your work! おっかれさまでした！
loving your videos and learning style. have to say, as a beginner, I had a "lightbulb" moment on course 1 lesson 4 when i actually was able to make sentences with to, no and wa. Woohoo. suki desu ne
Don't mind the negative comments. You make everything easy to understand. Thank you sensei!
Man I'm laughing my arse off in my apartment in Miyako up in Iwate as I am learning Japanese, I love these videos that accompany the book. Sorry, I mean I like them. ;)
I think you're wonderful, and a great teacher! 😃 Thank you so much 😊
It's 2024 and George is still the best to learn Japanese. Include the fact that I`m Russian and English is my second language, your lessons very easy to understand even for me. I don`t know anybody who could be better. Your books and lessons are good way to make a perfect base for beginers for further study.
Duuude, your videos are awsome. I have been studying with various programs and on my own and it's so helpful to have context and grammar support. Thank you!
It's very interesting to see your two personalities shifting back and forth when you speak Japanese and English. It really goes to show how the language, though indirectly, influences the manner in which one speaks it, most of the time subconsciously. I've found myself in a similar shift as well when I shift from my mother tongue, which is Vietnamese, to English and to Japanese.
I だいすき this video! 👍🐙
you know, you kept apologising for your rant, but seriously, I think it just shows' that you love what you do. You're passionate about it because you put blood, sweat and tears into it. RANT AWAY!!!! and let the haters hate :) I love watching your videos - seems to be the only thing that makes me understand how Japanese works. WOOO
people always want to find something wrong no matter how good you do. I think I speak for a lot of other youtubers when I say, "Thanks, I appreciate all the work you put into teaching. You make learning Japanese easy! " ありがとうー！ジョウジは上手せんせい！(George is a skilled teacher!)
An important point that came up a couple times here, jouji sensei: languages are differentiated not by why they _can_ express, but by what they _must_.
And yet another one! You're spoiling us. I'm tempted to pause a while to let these video's catch up :)
0:12
We're going to "catch them all." Great shirt pun 😋
you are the best teacher i have found on youtube, thank you
Kocchi "こっち"at first it says つ Means "Tsu" but there is a small one っ this is usually placed before a consonant to indicate gemination.
Gemination means Lengthening the consonant.
George, ignore them, keep on teaching the way you want too!
bro the sheer amount of times I've paused one of your videos to watch something else and come back to you saying something that breaks the 4th wall is hilarious. like I just came back and you were like: I'm sorry were we doing something? oh right Japanese.
6:52 george ...so far your channel is the best channel to learn the Japanese for me. the other is just focus on grammar and memorizing the vocab and kanji which is far too hard for complete beginner, but you can explain it simply and fun, your channel Is the only content that I can watch it and make my Japanese skill improve gradually, the other is like jumping too steep for each lesson they give.
I love that you referenced Trueblood. When I first read すき I thought of her from the show until I heard it said as ski.
I thought は was missing in 17.40.
Love your videos! Your are a great teacher! Thank you
Hello George, thank you for these videos.
I have a question and I would like to hear your answer.
one of the sentences you said was: "Nani iru ga suki desu ka" (15:23)
but in another example in this video, you said: "nihon no tabemono nani ga suki desu ka" (16:34)
I would like to know why in the first you started with "nani", but in the second you started with the subject"
I have the same question
You're such a big help George! Thank you
You still manage to make me smile with your jokes till this day わたしわすきです
Your learning me. Really good i have rushed a little bit have learnt hananga and katakana already but am still following u
この先生はだいすき。I love your lessons Mr. George.
I'm sorry someone was being rude to you, but I want you to know that my wife and I look forward to watching your videos (with textbooks in hand) every night. We're excited to learn Japanese and you do a phenomenal job teaching. Thanks for doing what you do!
Love the videos and using it in combination with the first book is helpful as well. I was even doing to hiragana reading practice recently (I've only just got to the next lesson so am very new) and actually found I could translate the sentence as well using the stuff covered so far (except for Imashita which I had to look up) おふろ の だいきらい な おじいさん と おばあさん が いました。 Which was a pleasant shock.
18:13 i just noticed that you typed sakana ga suki desu ka instead of just sakana ga suki desu. Love this series anyways. Thanks for making learning japanese so fun
It's amazing how our voices change when we speak different languages. Your japanese voice is pretty high while your English almost sounds like will arnett.
I love your videos. It helped me a lot. Please keep on making such videos and shame on people who share such hate comments.
"hey momiko! like!" HAHAHA