How Japanese Kids Speak Japanese (4 to 6 y/o)

[@matzekatze7500]

It is SO SO interesting to see these cildren speak when you are a learner and already get the little nuances!

[@mato_fato_ma-ah-fala-falafel]

When I was a child, I attended Japanese public school during the summer of first and second grade. I made friends etc. When I hear this elementary level of speaking, it makes me feel I’m fluent in Japanese. Because this is where my Japanese language is capped. The following years I still visited my grandparents during the summer but never attended Japanese school again. And I continued to speak at this level 😂

[@TheStickCollector]

I suppose one step towards speaking it is to match a toddler's level

[@tabby7189]

Japanese is easy. Even four year olds speak it

[@TheStickCollector]

@@tabby7189 But that 4 more years of learning the language than I have, let alone a vast majority of people.
If it was that hard to learn, everyone there would either be speaking gibberish or another language entirely.

[@bradley8614]

I'm noticing a pattern with the plushies you choose to keep around. Cute but actually an eldritch nightmare 🤔

[@tyddlup]

Five years ago I began learning Korean, and I was tempted to buy some toddler books in Korean to start from scratch. It seemed the most logical thing to do to help. I never did, and a year ago I decided to stop trying to learn Korean because I have short-term memory issues, a poor attention span, and I can't remember what the words mean. All I learnt was how to read hangul, although some of the letters still confuse me, I guess like people can confuse 'd' with 'b'.
I thought if I couldn't get the hang(ul) of Korean, Japanese was never going to be a language I'd want to go anywhere near, but, a couple of months ago, I decided to try. The least I could attempt was to learn hiragana and katakana, which is going well so far, and from trying to learn Korean, I know the sentences are structured differently to how we structure them in English. I'm not expecting to become fluent, I'm just learning what I can for fun.
Another problem I have with learning languages is that I can't learn a lot by listening or reading, which is exactly how you learn a language. That is frustrating and takes some fun out of learning, but I'm trying.

[@icemuckbanggg]

so many kids. Yuta has been very busy lately during his absences. It must be rough on your partner. Congratulations on so many new family members! 😭😭🙏🙏

[@Kariforunia_Jin]

Fascinating video!
ありがとう！

[@me0101001000]

Me half the time: *closely trying to understand and analyze these children's speech patterns*
Me the other half of the time: God I really want kids

[@nicbentulan]

Merry Christmas Hanukkah Kwanzaa and New Year Yuta! Great series of how anime characters speak Japanese. Please do Itsuki Nakano from the quintessential quintuplets or any or all the 7 main characters in TQQ. How they speak Japanese I believe is very important to understanding the plot eg the honorifics, the lost in translation stuff (eg when they say things like zurui, hatsukoi, uso, tachi, fukuzatsu Vs taihen, mote etc that are removed from the dub). I compiled a lot of the lost in translation stuff in r/gotoubun
Something to consider about Itsuki:
The Quintessential Quintuplets' character types are:
Ichika - Onee-san / ara ara,
Nino - tsundere,
miku - kuudere / dandere,
Yotsuba - genki
Itsuki - ??
- Mayadere?
- Tsundere like Nino?
- Semi-tsundere or tsukkomi like Fuutarou?
- Protagonist like Fuutarou?
- Eat-suki w/c Fuutarou is a bit like?
- Imouto?
- Someone who speaks keigo to their siblings, to Fuutarou and to Raiha and to everyone basically?
Actually, the main thing I learned from Yuta's videos that keigo is basically just desu, masu & their variations.
I swear when I learned elementary Japanese in bachelor's (foreign language classes are required in universities in the Philippines) we were never even taught the word keigo.
All this time I had no idea Itsuki was the only quint and actually only main character who was talking keigo to EVERYONE.
Anyway, I have a theory as to what Itsuki's type is, but you're not gonna like it...
For more japanese stuff re TQQ, see r/gotoubun r/itsuesugi r/raitsuki etc
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[@trojan7133]

3 months without videos, please dont leave us alone for this long ❤

[@12Ger13]

The male child, a gentleman, decent already.

[@audiS4fan2009]

all 4 year old's act alike lol

[@etiennelj]

Didn’t she just mean “a place with good shade”? 4:32

[@speedclips_858]

Happy New Year Yuta!

[@KeroKeroKuraido]

I thought my Japanese was somewhere between 5yo and 10yo understanding, but that's been proven not true by this video. When I lived in Japan I spoke and understood more, but it's been almost 10 years since I lived there. :(

[@duane_313]

Wow interesting! And very cute kid

[@ayu_chan69]

面白い、敬語でも

[@eryk8813]

Sugoi ne

[@sonofsarek]

To me, Japanese sounds like a samurai sword mated with a machine gun. Swift strikes of a sword with a rhythmic pattern of a machine gun.