Wow, what a great lesson! Lots of great words to learn and thanks for the pronoun lesson. The verses really are strong and have a great meaning. Thanks for continuing the series.
Well, I am really impressed, how your followers know a lot about japanese lenguage. I'm stuck with a couple of simple things, jajajajajajajaja. But is ok, I'm not giving up. I'll try to study a little bit more. Thank you Duane Sensei. I had a great time watching and studying this video. If I don't learn that much japanese, at least I'll sing their songs in a karaoke, jajajajaja. Thank you.
Soooo... What does it make of us, girls who sing Baby Metal :p ? Well, metal girls are almost guys anyway x'D! It took me time enough, but I finally came across Metal Resistance and bought it 2 days ago. Already listened to it 3 times, the musics stick with me and I've remembered some lyrics. I was very surprised to see how much I actually understood, from both their song and the written lyrics... And still, I'm missing much, so thank you for explaining everything deeply, as always!
This pronouns stuff is very important to learn at the beginning! About 8 or 9 years, when I first tried to learn Japanese, I lived in Japan for about 1 year for work, and got to know some Japanese friends fairly well. I took lessons before going to Japan and in those days, they started by teaching formal Japanese without telling us about casual forms. I addressed every with anata, and referred to myself as watashi and using -desu form (I am a guy). After about 3 or 4 months, one of the female colleagues I got to know quite well couldn't stop laughing when I was speaking, and she mentioned that my language was excessively polite for friends, and she couldn't get over me addressing her as anata and calling myself watashi all the time! She said it was very feminine and maybe even gay, lol. Even after that I would often use anata and watashi when under pressure because they had become second nature and I couldn't form the sentences properly in casual form ...
Thank you for another lesson. I have not studied the personal pronouns yet but I also noticed " boku" in female lyrics. What's your favorite song on the new babymetal album? Amore and sis anger are some of my favorites
Well, right, boku is the standard way of boys referring to themselves. However, it is used by adults, too, and it doesn't sound childish at all. Especially, high-brow people, politicians, and fashionable people use it often in unofficial speeches.
Thank you again for your translation. I found the second part interesting when you were explaining pronouns. I did a little bit of Japanese self-studying and in the lessons I did, they stated that Watashi and Anata are the unisex common forms and, but that Boku and Atashi are the male and female forms of Watashi respectively. However, they didnt give an alternate for Anata though.
+Poliosis _ Yes, Watashi and Anata can be used both by male and female persons. They are polite and generic pronouns, and as you can imagine, women tend to be politer than men.
Hi Duane...Excellent lesson again.Could you possibly explain this; on a Sakura Gakuin film, I saw Moa writing on the blackboard in Japanese vertically, but in their classroom Mori sensei writes on his exam papers horizontally. Is there a difference between vertical and horizontal writing?
+Don “nummerfinfe” Yardley Classical Japanese, literature Japanese, calligraphy, and Japanese language lessons, adopt vertical writing, but horizontal writing is much more popular these days. Not much difference -- Japanese is a pretty flexible language.
A question that has for some reason never struck me before: So the second person pronoun is chosen according to the sex of the speaker, not that of the person being addressed? I'm still undecided whether I should find that strange. :-)
No, it's basically chosen based on the addressee, off course. However, Japanese has a variety of personal pronouns, and different pronouns are chosen by sex, age, situation, and relationship. It's so complicated that even Japanese people often avoid using personal pronouns and replace them with personal names or titles, like sensei or shacho-san.
Wow, what a great lesson! Lots of great words to learn and thanks for the pronoun lesson. The verses really are strong and have a great meaning. Thanks for continuing the series.
+Flastew Thank you, too!
As always thank you for your hard work! You are too good to us! I would be doomed without your in-depth explanations.
I just have to say: This is a great idea. Your execution of it (the idea) is terrific. And, you're great guy for doing it.
+eugene mccool Thank you!
You are a legend!! Please keep up the good work :)
+Matt Aldridge Ha ha ha...... please call me Mr. Legend. :-)
Legend-san. ;-P
Well, I am really impressed, how your followers know a lot about japanese lenguage. I'm stuck with a couple of simple things, jajajajajajajaja. But is ok, I'm not giving up. I'll try to study a little bit more. Thank you Duane Sensei. I had a great time watching and studying this video. If I don't learn that much japanese, at least I'll sing their songs in a karaoke, jajajajaja. Thank you.
That's good.
Soooo... What does it make of us, girls who sing Baby Metal :p ? Well, metal girls are almost guys anyway x'D! It took me time enough, but I finally came across Metal Resistance and bought it 2 days ago. Already listened to it 3 times, the musics stick with me and I've remembered some lyrics. I was very surprised to see how much I actually understood, from both their song and the written lyrics... And still, I'm missing much, so thank you for explaining everything deeply, as always!
My pleasure. I'm glad there are some people around the world who try to understand Japanese language and culture.
@@DuaneMetal and awesome people like you to teach us, thank you!!
I think 鋼鉄 is not steal but metal. 鋼鉄魂 is metal spirit. Because they are METAL singer.
This pronouns stuff is very important to learn at the beginning! About 8 or 9 years, when I first tried to learn Japanese, I lived in Japan for about 1 year for work, and got to know some Japanese friends fairly well. I took lessons before going to Japan and in those days, they started by teaching formal Japanese without telling us about casual forms.
I addressed every with anata, and referred to myself as watashi and using -desu form (I am a guy). After about 3 or 4 months, one of the female colleagues I got to know quite well couldn't stop laughing when I was speaking, and she mentioned that my language was excessively polite for friends, and she couldn't get over me addressing her as anata and calling myself watashi all the time! She said it was very feminine and maybe even gay, lol.
Even after that I would often use anata and watashi when under pressure because they had become second nature and I couldn't form the sentences properly in casual form ...
+slaine1 Yes, casual forms are often more important than formal forms in real communication. You will get to know more about them here.
Really appreciate the super useful lesson in personal pronouns, thank you Duane.
+0ptriX You‘re quite welcome!
Thank you for another lesson. I have not studied the personal pronouns yet but I also noticed " boku" in female lyrics. What's your favorite song on the new babymetal album? Amore and sis anger are some of my favorites
+Jesse Kirby Right now I'm hooked with Meta Taro.
こんにちは、いつも楽しみに見させてもらってます！
鋼鉄魂ですが、まさしくメタルスピリットということかと思います:)
+DigitalKingyo なるほど．
こんにちは、先生の動画を知ってから一週間かけてやっと追いつきました^^
今後も定期的に見返して楽しもうと思っています。そのうちに今よりも少しでも英語が理解できるようになれればいいなぁ。
次回も楽しみに待ってますね。
追伸。鋼鉄魂ww私もよく意味がわかりませんw
ヘビーメタルスピリットってこと？それも一体どんなものなのかわかりませんが(^^;;
+Taro Matsubayashi 有り難う御座います．これからもよろしくお願いします．不屈の魂ってことでしょうかね．
DigitalKingyo さんも指摘されてますが、紙芝居でも字幕では「鋼鉄」のところを「METAL」と読んでいますね。
+BingTiddleTiddleBong 然り．サンキュー！
My girlfriend, who is from Osaka, said that boku is only used by small boys. So is it that different regions in Japan use boku differently?
Well, right, boku is the standard way of boys referring to themselves. However, it is used by adults, too, and it doesn't sound childish at all. Especially, high-brow people, politicians, and fashionable people use it often in unofficial speeches.
Thank you again for your translation.
I found the second part interesting when you were explaining pronouns. I did a little bit of Japanese self-studying and in the lessons I did, they stated that Watashi and Anata are the unisex common forms and, but that Boku and Atashi are the male and female forms of Watashi respectively. However, they didnt give an alternate for Anata though.
+Poliosis _ Yes, Watashi and Anata can be used both by male and female persons. They are polite and generic pronouns, and as you can imagine, women tend to be politer than men.
+Duane Metal Lol. Id have to agree with you on that last part. Thank you for the explanation.
Hi Duane...Excellent lesson again.Could you possibly explain this; on a Sakura Gakuin film, I saw Moa writing on the blackboard in Japanese vertically, but in their classroom Mori sensei writes on his exam papers horizontally. Is there a difference between vertical and horizontal writing?
+Don “nummerfinfe” Yardley Classical Japanese, literature Japanese, calligraphy, and Japanese language lessons, adopt vertical writing, but horizontal writing is much more popular these days. Not much difference -- Japanese is a pretty flexible language.
A question that has for some reason never struck me before: So the second person pronoun is chosen according to the sex of the speaker, not that of the person being addressed? I'm still undecided whether I should find that strange. :-)
No, it's basically chosen based on the addressee, off course. However, Japanese has a variety of personal pronouns, and different pronouns are chosen by sex, age, situation, and relationship. It's so complicated that even Japanese people often avoid using personal pronouns and replace them with personal names or titles, like sensei or shacho-san.
OK, thanks for clearing that up!