I still have a long way to go, but here’s how my experience learning Japanese is going! 🌸 Are you learning Japanese or any other language right now too? ❤
Some english people don’t care whether if foreigners learn their language But I get really excited when they know it, I hide it because people think it's weird
As a Brazilian who speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish, I'm very happy for you Wolfy, I hope you can learn more languages in the future! Greetings from your fans from Brazil! 🇧🇷❤️
Vaya talento que demuestras en los comentarios. Saludos de un argentino que sabe español, inglés y actualmente quiere aprender japonés como su tercer idioma (el tema del video de Wolfychu) You're showing such a big talent at the comments. Greetings from an Argentinian who knows how to speak Spanish, English and actually I want to learn Japanese as my third language (topic of Wolfychu's video)
@@soda_xv2 muchas gracias hermano, saludos desde Brasil para usted. Español es un idioma muy fácil para lusofonos, todos los sonidos y las palabras son casi iguales, pero tenemos muchas diferencias. Abrazos! 🇧🇷❤️🇦🇷
@@theenderkirby I'm focusing in Arabic and Bosnian right now, but I'll try out russian and French later! I love how russian language just sounds funny and awfully broken, and French butchering of the romance words pronunciation is also amazing!
A mí también me sorprendió. Sigo a Wolfy desde hace años (aunque la veo de vez en cuando) y no tenía idea de que sabía hablar español, mucho menos a nivel bilingüe.
Japanese is literally on the opposite side of the language spectrum compared to English and Spanish. It's hard for most natural English and Spanish to actually learn it. It's quite impressive
As a filipino who speaks english and is currently learning i agree with this. It's VERY hard when trying to learn writing but for me i know a few japanese words
Good to keep in mind. I want to learn Japanese because I want to visit someday and I have a show I like watching that originates from Japan that's very hard to find legally where I live, so if I learn Japanese can simply just use a VPN or go to Japan and automatically know what they are saying when I watch!
The Irony is its actually harder to learn English for any non English native speaker cause of all the grammar even native speaker still get wrong nor matter bout how long Dey speaketh it(dont even get me started on the "spelling police" which is recent history)😹 2nd Hardest is Mandarin where changing the pitch of the word ding can make a whole sentence " ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding" being a newscasfer talking about how clear and blue the sky was today during the weather report with pitch and speed of the dings making the sentence (I blurted out "holy shit that was cool....he made a sentence out of dind")😹
I like how honest you were throughout this entire video. You didn’t say anything like “it gets easy when you get the hang of it.” You showed many different things you have to do in order to learn it. So thank you for making this and telling me how hard this actually is. (Side note: I think I’m just gonna stick with quoting Japanese words lol)
I recommend learning Hiragana. I learned enough to get by in one day and it looks cool. It looks like I know a lot more than I do. When I do duolingo with English off and Hiragana on it looks like I actually know Japanese. But I really don't. Sugoi desu ne? すごいですね
@tgil5958 there are 3 different kinds of writing. Kanji is the picture symbols that were imported from China. Kanji is by far the hardest. But Chinese characters don't work for Japanese super great. So they use Hiragana also. Each symbol represents a sound. Like か is ka. It's not hard. Then also they use Katakana for foreign words. It's similar to Hiragana. If they want to write Hotel its ホテル (ho te ru). They use Katakana for foreign words so you don't confuse it with a Japanese word that could sound similar.
@tgil5958 example. Water in Japanese is Mizu. In Hiragana it's みず. In Kanji it's 水. In Katakana it's ミズ. But 水 is the correct way. If you watch anime you will see 水 on water containers. Or if you were going to say 'Nani desu ka?' What is it? You use both Kanji and Hiragana. 何ですか
You all know and love the fact Wolfychu already made another phenomenal video after a week has been thrilling. Props for the dedication and gratitude for more and new videos you plan on making Wolfychu ma'am
Visual novels are also a good option for the Japanese immersion, especially if they have voice acted lines - the dialog is usually presented one to two sentences at a time, and you can have the characters repeat the line if there is a word you don't understand. Most Visual Novels that have an English translation patch, have the translation as a separate file, which can be removed easily - this is especially helpful for practicing reading comprehension, because you can play once with the English subtitles to get an understanding of the story and then a second time with everything being in Japanese.
is it me or is that Wolfy's video editing is becoming more like Gigguk's style of video editing ridden with overused memes rather than being her own thing? No offence, really? LOL
I think you speak Japanese very well, I'm impressed with that 502 streak on Duolingo you reached. Even though I watched various animes with Japanese Dub & English subtitles, I actually don't really speak & fully understand Japanese, despite my mother being Japanese and the fact I know several words. 😅 It also reminds me I once replayed Mega Man 11 with the Japanese Dub, and a few characters had different names compared to their English names, such as Mega Man who is called Rock / Rockman instead. Thank you for another interesting video ! Nice job and keep it up, Wolfy ! 😄
I wanted to learn Japanese in school, and me and my friends tried but my only problem is that the rest of my class did not care at all, and they wouldn’t ever listen to the teacher, they would never be quite, they only saw Japanese as a sit down a relax class, yeah it was not fun
When I was in the seventh grade, there was a week or two where the topic of my Social Studies class was basically Japan. We spent the first day of the topic talking about Japan's history and how American dominance over Japan began with the eradication of the Samurai, who previously made up the bulk of Imperial Japan's military until America came with their big guns and overpowered the Japanese army because, again, they had big cannons whereas the Japanese didn't. And then we spent the last half of that class watching only the first half of a movie called "The Last Samurai" which was a movie based on that part of Japanese history and then, the next day, we finished that movie and then we watched a documentary on the making of The Last Samurai which was about how the movie is *loosely* based on actual historical events and there were parts that didn't actually happen which, in retrospect, duh! Of course it's not *fully* based on what actually happened during that time. I'm pretty sure Charles or whatever his name was didn't actually have Christian Bale's face. Edit: Oh, and on the last day of that week or two, our class took a field trip to the Japanese Cultural Center right here, in Edmonton. We learned a little bit of Japanese martial arts and we learned how to write our names in kanji. By the way: when you translate my name into Japanese, you get "Nikorai". I think that's cool but my Mom says it's racist. I don't know why she thought that when it was an actual translation. It's like that whole "negro means black in Spanish" thing. I'm not the one who came up with the language, I'm just a messenger.
I honestly wish that I had the option to take japanese in school, probably would have actually tried in those classes. Though I would probably also get so annoyed at that.
Japanese school system are different than America's school. Japanese school system are 6 years elementary, 3 years junior high school, 3 years high school, and 2 or 3 years in junior college and 4 years college.
As a person who mostly speaks English and is trying to learn both Japanese and German and gonna be taking Spanish learning classes next year (2024). This is a huge burst of motivation for me and gives a broader view of how I can tackle learning languages efficiently without feeling exhausted at the end 😅. I'm gonna try using Wolfychu's language routine a try and see if it works out! 👍
As someone who speaks fluent in English and is almost fluent in German, you should actually find it fairly easy to learn. I started learning German 3 years ago thanks you my oma and opa, and you’d be surprised just how close the two languages are. Father - Vader Mother - Mutter Wine - Wein Words - Worte Those are only a few examples but I hope you have fun learning German, Japanese, and Spanish!
As an Autistic teenager who's recently been pulled out of school to do homeschooling, you have no idea how much this has helped me! Thankyou so much Wolfychu 😊😊
@@jackdaw_0685 Not too great. Because I was only recently pulled out we haven't had time to fully discuss things, but we have a rough plan in place. Thankyou for asking tho 😊
I think talking to others is one of the best was to learn a specific language. Good luck wolfy in your Japanese learning journey and become jozu in it ＼(^o^)／
I use Tandem for that, it's this app where you chat with people from all over the world in different languages which has been super useful to me learning Portuguese bc there aren't any speakers in my city smh. They also have this thing called language parties which is like a voice chat, that's how I listen to people speak 😁
Oh! A new video so soon!? That's awesome! I didn't know you learned Japanase! So that's why you sounded so good in your cover! This is a really interesting video and it gives a lot of great advice! I'd love to learn Japaneae and this gives me more reasons to do so! As always, the editing and the artworks/animation/illustrations are amazing, I can’t get over how good they are! I soecially love how the Red Panda and Luna looked in the beginning! I'm loving these new videos so far! It gives me the vibes of what you truly like to show us and I'm loving it! Great work and keep it up Wolfy!
Japanese is hard. I should know. I’m half Japanese 😅. Either way I am a big fan of yours and I am amazed of how much you know Japanese! Reading is very hard! 14 years of learning and still idk how to read much. So i hope you keep on practicing to speaking Japanese. 日本すごいじょうずです。これからもがんばってね！👍🏻
I can help you with that! There's a tip for you: Stop everything you do and meditate for 5 minutes straight without doing nothing. After that, you'll get determination to learn anything!
I’m already fluent in English and French, so, it should be a tiny bit easier to learn Japanese, but it’s going to be really hard for me! You are really good at this, by the way it’s very impressive!
I also learned Japanese by learning about hiragana and katakana via the iPod Touch's Japanese keyboard on top of watching Japanese commercials and anime openings. Eventually I learned proper phrases via Duolingo in order for to me to understand the language better.
A new video from you Wolfy never fails to cheer me up from a draining negative day.💙 Seeing and hearing you working hard and putting extra effort for your art and videos made me realized how much I need to stand back up and do my best, instead of just moping around sulking. Thank you Wolfychu for always being a big inspiration. No matter what other people around me say about you. Just know I'll always know and appreciate every effort you put in on your job. Do your best on your japanese studies, and I'll do my best to be like you too someday.
This is so great. I had the same epiphany of "wait, I can actually understand entire sentences of this??", but while listening an Hikaru Utada song (who I discovered through Eva, so it's still weeb related). After this, I began learning Japanese non-passively.
I admire your determination in learning kanji, as well as Japanese as a whole. I get burned out too easily. Though, I think I’ll give it another go trying your method this time.
@@allisonsroom Just after watching this video, I resubscribed to duolingo and subscribed to Hidive to watch anime in Japanese. Can’t hurt to try again, so long as the motivation is there, right? I wish you the best in trying again as well.
@@yuyoshida2076 I think learning a new language is better experienced with encouragement from friends. I’d say you’re helping things along in that case. I hope your friend keeps at it. I’ll do my best as well.
I once had a Japanese class, and i got relly confusing to diferent between katakana, hiragana, and kanji but in the end i manage to be kinda average-ish at my japanese test. And also wolfy amazing animation as always
That is about the same way I (and most of my family) learned to speak English My sisters just watched a lot of shows in English and that's how they've learned it (they learned some other languages in that way as well) My class in between the end of 1st grade to 4th grade was pretty bad in English, we needed to learn the abc over and over again because we would've forgotten it in the summer vacation, so in 4th grade we finally learned some other words in English which helped me understan my sisters words in English more, but then I've taken it a step further and caught on to a lot of different words which pushed further in understanding English, by 6th grade I've got my first phone which opened me to a lot of youtube videos and through the context of what people like Vanossgaming, Markiplier etc... I could my Vocabulary extended a lot I still had a few grammatical errors but I was able to speak really well for a 6th grader Then when 7th grade came around I fixed all of my mistakes and become really good in English (I was getting above 90 in every test) In 8th grade my vocabulary extended even further and I became even better in English (every one of my scores in 8th grade was above 95) to the point that in 9th grade I felt like I could already do my finals. (From that point farward I got 98 points in every test I had without even trying) Needless to say that I've never learned for any test in every subject (including English) and I still got very good scores on a lot of them. I only once in 12th grade got a lower score because I was lazy and didn't do a task that I was given (I think it was 75? Whatever) Now I'm Very good at English but I'm sure that I'm missing some words I plan to learn many languages in the future including japanese so this video might be helpful in the future for me Thank you Wolfychu!
Before video: Japanese Looks hard to learn... After video: WOW I learned a lot!!! Also your Japanese was AMAZING still probably won’t learn it but GREAT WORK ON THIS VIDEO Your animation is always SO GOOD!!! Great work🌟
i've been learning japanese for 5 years but i was never really consistent so im still on a intermediate level 😭 but this video is motivating me to continue learning CONSISTENTLY this time ;"))
Right now trying to learn 2 languages on duolingo it's really hard especially since I'm 11 I'm trying to Learn Japanese and Spanish because my Spanish teacher is slow and ain't doing nothing
Switching from dubbed to subbed was the best decision I have ever made in my life, and it just made me love Japanese voice acting and the language in general. It's such a beautiful and cool language.
Of course it will, you can't critique what you don't understand. So of course it will sound magical. It's the same reason why people are enthralled by Pop Science videos here on RUclips despite such videos only presenting a surface-level understanding of complicated topics such as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, etc.
Very proud to hear you worked so hard to learn to speak Japanese, I am currently working on learning German and it's very fun. Idk if I'll ever need to use it but I'm still happy learning 😊 Edit: I'm using Duolingo as well and I'm on a 69 day streak since last night. I'm very happy
I’m only fluent in English, I had so many Spanish classes (from Elementary to even High School) and I’ve passed every single one of them. But I have NOT picked up the language… probably because instead of actually “learning how to speak it” I just treated it like any other class. Go to class, do the work, do the homework, send it in, get an A and repeat until graduation. I don’t think I have any excuse tho, my mom is fluent in both Spanish and English and my grandmother can only speak Spanish. 😭
2:49 About you said in this part of this video, you reminded me of myself when i played Initial D : Street Stage, In the beginning of this game i have to type my name but in japanese
I've been seriously studying Japanese for the past 3 months after quitting my long streak in 2020 (Since April) and now I even am in japan, so I can really relate to conversation. Even just a convenience store worker asking me if I want a bag with my 3 packets of ice cream is already confusing, slowly but surely, I'm learning, and that's already good enough for me. がんばって、ウォルフィッチュー！！！
I have a friend who is fully fluent in 12 languages, including Japanese and Mandarin, and what you described as your current learning path is very similar to his. He grew up bilingual as you did and he stated to learn other languages by immersing himself in that particular language until he felt comfortable. He did say that both Japanese and Mandarin are very difficult to learn but he did it, as you did. I used to speak Spanish fluently but that was 36 years ago. Hoping to pick up Spanish again and learn Russian along the way somewhere. I'm no expert but your Japanese sounds good to me!
I’ve also really wanted to learn Japanese, it seems like such a cool language to learn. I could sing Renai Circulation in its original language, my family is thinking about taking a trip to Japan some day and being a human translator would be fun, and no more subtitles if I ever take another go at anime (I stopped watching it after I woke up one morning and my brother was watching Attack on Titan in our living room, I really wish I didn’t see that)
i've been trying to learn irish in school since i was five and you're completely right - learning a language that's nothing like your native one is extremely difficult, especially considering how different japanese is to english and spanish. great work!
I learned how to speak and write Japanese in college, and to this day when I’m reading subs I can sometimes realize that some things get a bit lost in translation. My Japanese teacher once asked me if I was learning Japanese because I liked anime 😅 I lied and told her no.
As someone who only watches Japanese dub... Hearing Wolfy speak fluent Japanese makes her so much cuter!! I mean she was already the cutest Vtuber I know... But damn did she just cause my heart to doki doki so much!! Keep up the great work Wolfy!!! I know you can get even better!!! ^_^
You did good work I'm So Proud of you Also I Made Reaction Because I work Hard I always React SMG4 Movie Trailer and Live Stream I finally Reacted YOU So Good Job Wolfychu
Been learning Japanese for 4-5 months now and I feel like quitting everyday, but then when I think about it, I can't quit cuz watching anime in english sub sucks ;~;. So I have to keep grinding until I get fluent....
I often get bullied for trying to learn Japanese, because I’m a different race. Thanks Wolfy for cheering me up and making me feel I can learn it and prove them wrong. It doesn’t matter what race you are, as long as you believe in yourself! ❤😊❤
Back in my childhood days when I learnd about Japanese thanks that help with like Super Sentai was the Japanese Tolusatsu Series that help adapting Power Rangers it wa sback then on RUclips the 2010 version when I thought it was chinese. Before I learning more from Japan
It was really interesting to hear how different Japanese sentence structure is compared to English by identifying certain words and paying attention to where in the sentence they are. Massive respect to you for taking on such a big task. A while back I was trying to learn German and Gaelic at the same time, and this video really motivated me to pick that back up. Probably just gonna focus on German for a while though. Once I get some more experience under my belt, I certainly intend to try and take on Japanese too! Thank you for sharing your progress and tips with us. Keep up the good work!
I could definitely see yourself speaking Japanese. I like anime too but I just tended to not listen to subbed. Only when I can’t find dubbed. But I will say that I do like both of them equally. And I don’t understand the letters. And I did try to learn Kanji. But you know what I did, give up!!!! Lol
I'm trying to learn Japanese, Gaelic, German, Russian, and French. I know a little bit of those languages, but I'm still trying to learn. Edit: I like both Dub and Sub. Some animes are great with the dub, and some are great with the sub. But that's just my opinion
I started Japanese on Duolingo 2 months ago, As a native Spanish speaker , is kind of hard but in a fun way to learn japanese on Duolingo, because the app does not have Japanese for Spanish speaker so i had to choose Japanese for English speakers, my head is going like the Brain Power song hahaha i have to translate 2 times in my brain but hey at least the phonetics are identical to spanish. Ps: Learning Katakana and Hiragana on Duolingo is really Easy i highly recommended, 2 weeks and you’re done
私は天の偉大な神々に呼びかけます、あなたにとって最高の日々と素晴らしい一日になることを祈ります お元気ですか？ 初めまして、イヴァンナです。 こんにちは、私はイヴァンナです ジ・ジョリ スタークランの悪魔たちにこのソールを呪わせろ」 Edit : (No this is not what I said in english, Those were some of my most used Japanese sentences/words ) Your japanese is great! I do duo lingo and translate. Duo lingo helps you learn the words meanings and how to say it. After that I translate a english sentence into a japanese one. This way I know what it means, what it says, how to read it, and how to say it.
Um actually @Wolfychu, of my fact is : the problem of kanji has an MUCH KANJIS, the kanjis is originaly the chineses and they give the japanese culture
I learned Japanese with Subbed Anime... then tried to take a class and it was sooo hard and too fast... I kinda gave up on it... I struggle with languages, alot. My pronunciation made the Japanese people in Portland think I was Gaijin, then I had to apologize and say I only speak a little, in Japanese, of course =oD I haven't watched subbed in a loooong time so I've lost a lot of what I knew. My toy poodle was just tooo demanding for my attention to pay attention to Subs. They are 6 now, and I might finally be able to turn on some Anime again =oD
That growing up bilingual thing is so true. In my country it is mandatory to learn atleast 2 languages in school so by the end of your school years you are fluent in 2 languages minimum and on a mid level in the third. Languages I'm talking about are Czech (Native), English (Fluent), German (Mid level like B) and sometimes Spanish. Personaly I'm learning spanish as my third outside school because I find mexican culture and music really interesting
Video so great and beautiful and cute Wolfychu💖😊👍!!! Wolfychu you great animatior bloger in youtube and your video animations so perfect and cute,my respect I respect you and your channel and keep your channel growing💖😊👍!!! God grant you health Wolfychu,I love you and I'm hugging you😊💖!!! We love you Wolfychu😊💖!!!
I started learning in College (Australian College, which is Year 11 and 12 and not University) and I was going pretty steady. Sadly once I started Uni I wasn't able to continue studying in a formal setting as I only had time for my actual classes. That also led me to just basically just forget about studying in my free time which has lead me to forget a lot of vocabulary. Knowing that this format of supplementing personal study with just immersing yourself with people speaking it has given me a little confidence that I may be able to pick it up again. Thanks for this video, even if it was 6 months ago that you posted it lol.
This is really encouraged I’m try to learn Japanese. I’m dyslexic and my fluent language is English so it’s a bit of a struggle but I’m trying as hard as I can and I won’t give up🥰🤗
My first thought when I saw tge title was that comment i saw on Twitter, "Imagine a Japanese person learning to speak English by watching family guy and speaking like Peter griffin". And I wish I have made oy my mission to find this theoretical person.
I still have a long way to go, but here’s how my experience learning Japanese is going! 🌸 Are you learning Japanese or any other language right now too? ❤
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I am planning to learn it once I get the rust down from my spanish but I think doulingo and google translate will do the job
Hi Wolfy!! I love your videos so much! You were (and still are) a huge inspiration for my art!
Japanese so like!! 😎👍
As a Japanese person it kinda makes me happy that people wanna learn the language and think its cool. :3 also your Japanese and art is amazing ❤
That actually cool because I’ve been dying to try learning all kinds of languages and emerging myself into the language
Some english people don’t care whether if foreigners learn their language
But I get really excited when they know it, I hide it because people think it's weird
日本語はほんとうにおもしろいです。でも、私は最近日本語をならいました。
@@HPMCCPooTis いいね
@@HPMCCPooTisいいじゃないか
As a Brazilian who speaks English, Portuguese and Spanish, I'm very happy for you Wolfy, I hope you can learn more languages in the future! Greetings from your fans from Brazil! 🇧🇷❤️
Vaya talento que demuestras en los comentarios. Saludos de un argentino que sabe español, inglés y actualmente quiere aprender japonés como su tercer idioma (el tema del video de Wolfychu)
You're showing such a big talent at the comments. Greetings from an Argentinian who knows how to speak Spanish, English and actually I want to learn Japanese as my third language (topic of Wolfychu's video)
@@soda_xv2 muchas gracias hermano, saludos desde Brasil para usted.
Español es un idioma muy fácil para lusofonos, todos los sonidos y las palabras son casi iguales, pero tenemos muchas diferencias. Abrazos! 🇧🇷❤️🇦🇷
@@ethandouro4334 Igualmente, vecino
Sound very intresting line up of languages I did learned french and russian 5 and 3 years ago respectively
@@theenderkirby I'm focusing in Arabic and Bosnian right now, but I'll try out russian and French later! I love how russian language just sounds funny and awfully broken, and French butchering of the romance words pronunciation is also amazing!
Today I learned that Wolfy is fluent in Spanish.
No me lo imaginaba. Qué bueno.
A mí también me sorprendió. Sigo a Wolfy desde hace años (aunque la veo de vez en cuando) y no tenía idea de que sabía hablar español, mucho menos a nivel bilingüe.
Yo soy nativa en español, por alguna razon me emocione cuando aprendi q ella habla español xd
Japanese is literally on the opposite side of the language spectrum compared to English and Spanish. It's hard for most natural English and Spanish to actually learn it. It's quite impressive
As a filipino who speaks english and is currently learning i agree with this. It's VERY hard when trying to learn writing but for me i know a few japanese words
Good to keep in mind. I want to learn Japanese because I want to visit someday and I have a show I like watching that originates from Japan that's very hard to find legally where I live, so if I learn Japanese can simply just use a VPN or go to Japan and automatically know what they are saying when I watch!
Life's annoying like that. The number one most common language is Mandarin Chinese, number two is all the way on the opposite side called English.
The Irony is its actually harder to learn English for any non English native speaker cause of all the grammar even native speaker still get wrong nor matter bout how long Dey speaketh it(dont even get me started on the "spelling police" which is recent history)😹
2nd Hardest is Mandarin where changing the pitch of the word ding can make a whole sentence " ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding ding" being a newscasfer talking about how clear and blue the sky was today during the weather report with pitch and speed of the dings making the sentence (I blurted out "holy shit that was cool....he made a sentence out of dind")😹
SOV language
I like how honest you were throughout this entire video. You didn’t say anything like “it gets easy when you get the hang of it.” You showed many different things you have to do in order to learn it.
So thank you for making this and telling me how hard this actually is. (Side note: I think I’m just gonna stick with quoting Japanese words lol)
I recommend learning Hiragana. I learned enough to get by in one day and it looks cool. It looks like I know a lot more than I do.
When I do duolingo with English off and Hiragana on it looks like I actually know Japanese. But I really don't. Sugoi desu ne? すごいですね
@@Jordan-Ramseswait there’s different languages to Japanese?
@tgil5958 there are 3 different kinds of writing. Kanji is the picture symbols that were imported from China. Kanji is by far the hardest. But Chinese characters don't work for Japanese super great. So they use Hiragana also. Each symbol represents a sound. Like か is ka. It's not hard. Then also they use Katakana for foreign words. It's similar to Hiragana. If they want to write Hotel its ホテル (ho te ru). They use Katakana for foreign words so you don't confuse it with a Japanese word that could sound similar.
@tgil5958 example. Water in Japanese is Mizu. In Hiragana it's みず. In Kanji it's 水. In Katakana it's ミズ. But 水 is the correct way. If you watch anime you will see 水 on water containers.
Or if you were going to say 'Nani desu ka?' What is it? You use both Kanji and Hiragana. 何ですか
@@qwertyuiopasdfghjk11111 honto desu. Romanji wa daisuki janai. Tabun daijobu dayo.
You all know and love the fact Wolfychu already made another phenomenal video after a week has been thrilling. Props for the dedication and gratitude for more and new videos you plan on making Wolfychu ma'am
Visual novels are also a good option for the Japanese immersion, especially if they have voice acted lines - the dialog is usually presented one to two sentences at a time, and you can have the characters repeat the line if there is a word you don't understand. Most Visual Novels that have an English translation patch, have the translation as a separate file, which can be removed easily - this is especially helpful for practicing reading comprehension, because you can play once with the English subtitles to get an understanding of the story and then a second time with everything being in Japanese.
Any VNs in particular you recommend? I suppose I should try Danganronpa since I already own it 😅
When they cry / Higurashi no naku koro ni
Your taste in anime is PEAK!
I'm so proud of you.
That's only 1% of MY peak 😅
is it me or is that Wolfy's video editing is becoming more like Gigguk's style of video editing ridden with overused memes rather than being her own thing? No offence, really? LOL
There's a lot of K-ON
same man, there even was Angel next door, which i didn't expect. Plus Bocchi the rock, everyone loves Bocchi.
I think you speak Japanese very well, I'm impressed with that 502 streak on Duolingo you reached.
Even though I watched various animes with Japanese Dub & English subtitles, I actually don't really speak & fully understand Japanese,
despite my mother being Japanese and the fact I know several words. 😅
It also reminds me I once replayed Mega Man 11 with the Japanese Dub, and a few characters had different names compared to their English names, such as Mega Man who is called Rock / Rockman instead.
Thank you for another interesting video !
Nice job and keep it up, Wolfy ! 😄
I love it!
Even Your Japanese Accent Is Cool!
Nice Animation Wolfy!
And Yes, What An Early Animation!
:)
once I binged the entire spy × family anime in one day and WHEN I WAS DONE MY THOUGHTS WERE IN JAPANESE FOR A LONG HOT MINUTE.
I wanted to learn Japanese in school, and me and my friends tried but my only problem is that the rest of my class did not care at all, and they wouldn’t ever listen to the teacher, they would never be quite, they only saw Japanese as a sit down a relax class, yeah it was not fun
When I was in the seventh grade, there was a week or two where the topic of my Social Studies class was basically Japan. We spent the first day of the topic talking about Japan's history and how American dominance over Japan began with the eradication of the Samurai, who previously made up the bulk of Imperial Japan's military until America came with their big guns and overpowered the Japanese army because, again, they had big cannons whereas the Japanese didn't.
And then we spent the last half of that class watching only the first half of a movie called "The Last Samurai" which was a movie based on that part of Japanese history and then, the next day, we finished that movie and then we watched a documentary on the making of The Last Samurai which was about how the movie is *loosely* based on actual historical events and there were parts that didn't actually happen which, in retrospect, duh! Of course it's not *fully* based on what actually happened during that time. I'm pretty sure Charles or whatever his name was didn't actually have Christian Bale's face.
Edit: Oh, and on the last day of that week or two, our class took a field trip to the Japanese Cultural Center right here, in Edmonton. We learned a little bit of Japanese martial arts and we learned how to write our names in kanji.
By the way: when you translate my name into Japanese, you get "Nikorai". I think that's cool but my Mom says it's racist. I don't know why she thought that when it was an actual translation. It's like that whole "negro means black in Spanish" thing. I'm not the one who came up with the language, I'm just a messenger.
I honestly wish that I had the option to take japanese in school, probably would have actually tried in those classes. Though I would probably also get so annoyed at that.
Japanese school system are different than America's school. Japanese school system are 6 years elementary, 3 years junior high school, 3 years high school, and 2 or 3 years in junior college and 4 years college.
@@Fires_Phoenix We only had the choice of German, needless to say, I didn't learn much German, not that I cared at the time.
As a person who mostly speaks English and is trying to learn both Japanese and German and gonna be taking Spanish learning classes next year (2024). This is a huge burst of motivation for me and gives a broader view of how I can tackle learning languages efficiently without feeling exhausted at the end 😅. I'm gonna try using Wolfychu's language routine a try and see if it works out! 👍
As someone who speaks fluent in English and is almost fluent in German, you should actually find it fairly easy to learn. I started learning German 3 years ago thanks you my oma and opa, and you’d be surprised just how close the two languages are.
Father - Vader
Mother - Mutter
Wine - Wein
Words - Worte
Those are only a few examples but I hope you have fun learning German, Japanese, and Spanish!
bro my stage of wanting to learn japanese was scary
As an Autistic teenager who's recently been pulled out of school to do homeschooling, you have no idea how much this has helped me! Thankyou so much Wolfychu 😊😊
As an autistic adult who didn't have a great school experience, may I ask you how's the homeschooling going on? Just curious
@@jackdaw_0685 Not too great. Because I was only recently pulled out we haven't had time to fully discuss things, but we have a rough plan in place. Thankyou for asking tho 😊
@@StitchHeart I wich you luck
I think talking to others is one of the best was to learn a specific language.
Good luck wolfy in your Japanese learning journey and become jozu in it ＼(^o^)／
I use Tandem for that, it's this app where you chat with people from all over the world in different languages which has been super useful to me learning Portuguese bc there aren't any speakers in my city smh. They also have this thing called language parties which is like a voice chat, that's how I listen to people speak 😁
めっちゃ日本語上手いですよ！発音も聞き取りやすい！
Well, what can I say? I am hereby proud of you for learning Japanese. 🇯🇵
4:47 Oh no Wolfy don't break that streak or duo will break your legs
Oh! A new video so soon!? That's awesome!
I didn't know you learned Japanase! So that's why you sounded so good in your cover!
This is a really interesting video and it gives a lot of great advice! I'd love to learn Japaneae and this gives me more reasons to do so!
As always, the editing and the artworks/animation/illustrations are amazing, I can’t get over how good they are! I soecially love how the Red Panda and Luna looked in the beginning!
I'm loving these new videos so far! It gives me the vibes of what you truly like to show us and I'm loving it!
Great work and keep it up Wolfy!
Thank you so much! ❤
@@Wolfychu what can be said wolfy look like you on a streak of breath of fresh aie vids that feel new and more than what you want ^^
@@Wolfychu❤ so is speaking Japanese really that hard
@@Wolfychu lol
@@Wolfychunice job
Japanese is hard. I should know. I’m half Japanese 😅. Either way I am a big fan of yours and I am amazed of how much you know Japanese! Reading is very hard! 14 years of learning and still idk how to read much. So i hope you keep on practicing to speaking Japanese. 日本すごいじょうずです。これからもがんばってね！👍🏻
I really want to learn Japanese, but my attention span sucks 😅
ONG
Keep the determination and thing will click well with the attention span
I can help you with that! There's a tip for you: Stop everything you do and meditate for 5 minutes straight without doing nothing. After that, you'll get determination to learn anything!
Please, get away from TikTok
@@martin_elguy48xd42 I don’t use it.
I’m already fluent in English and French, so, it should be a tiny bit easier to learn Japanese, but it’s going to be really hard for me! You are really good at this, by the way it’s very impressive!
I also learned Japanese by learning about hiragana and katakana via the iPod Touch's Japanese keyboard on top of watching Japanese commercials and anime openings. Eventually I learned proper phrases via Duolingo in order for to me to understand the language better.
A new video from you Wolfy never fails to cheer me up from a draining negative day.💙
Seeing and hearing you working hard and putting extra effort for your art and videos made me realized how much I need to stand back up and do my best, instead of just moping around sulking.
Thank you Wolfychu for always being a big inspiration. No matter what other people around me say about you. Just know I'll always know and appreciate every effort you put in on your job.
Do your best on your japanese studies, and I'll do my best to be like you too someday.
I love your videos! Keep up the good work! You bring smiles to so many people, don't ever forget how loved you are!
❤❤
@@Wolfychulove your stuff,
@@Wolfychuhaz un vídeo en españooooool, porfis!!!
@@WolfychuWolfychu do a video where you kiss Jordan Sweeto in real life please
This is so great. I had the same epiphany of "wait, I can actually understand entire sentences of this??", but while listening an Hikaru Utada song (who I discovered through Eva, so it's still weeb related).
After this, I began learning Japanese non-passively.
I admire your determination in learning kanji, as well as Japanese as a whole. I get burned out too easily. Though, I think I’ll give it another go trying your method this time.
I'm in the same boat as you. I stopped learning Japanese earlier this year because I was feeling burned out. I was thinking about trying again soon.
@@allisonsroom Just after watching this video, I resubscribed to duolingo and subscribed to Hidive to watch anime in Japanese. Can’t hurt to try again, so long as the motivation is there, right? I wish you the best in trying again as well.
@@yuyoshida2076 I think learning a new language is better experienced with encouragement from friends. I’d say you’re helping things along in that case. I hope your friend keeps at it. I’ll do my best as well.
TBH I know I've been lacking as well. I am burnt out in many different aspects that I haven't had time or motivation anymore.
@@yuyoshida2076I wish you the best of luck as well!
これからも応援させてください！
This is Literly Me But with Englisch Instead Of Japanese
This'll help me in my japanese classes during the vacation and the next school year, Thanks!
I also use Duolingo to learn Korean through I also want to learn Japanese and other languages when I get fluent so I'm learning slowly 🐌😌
I once had a Japanese class, and i got relly confusing to diferent between katakana, hiragana, and kanji but in the end i manage to be kinda average-ish at my japanese test. And also wolfy amazing animation as always
That is about the same way I (and most of my family) learned to speak English
My sisters just watched a lot of shows in English and that's how they've learned it (they learned some other languages in that way as well)
My class in between the end of 1st grade to 4th grade was pretty bad in English, we needed to learn the abc over and over again because we would've forgotten it in the summer vacation, so in 4th grade we finally learned some other words in English which helped me understan my sisters words in English more, but then I've taken it a step further and caught on to a lot of different words which pushed further in understanding English, by 6th grade I've got my first phone which opened me to a lot of youtube videos and through the context of what people like Vanossgaming, Markiplier etc... I could my Vocabulary extended a lot
I still had a few grammatical errors but I was able to speak really well for a 6th grader
Then when 7th grade came around I fixed all of my mistakes and become really good in English (I was getting above 90 in every test)
In 8th grade my vocabulary extended even further and I became even better in English (every one of my scores in 8th grade was above 95) to the point that in 9th grade I felt like I could already do my finals. (From that point farward I got 98 points in every test I had without even trying)
Needless to say that I've never learned for any test in every subject (including English) and I still got very good scores on a lot of them.
I only once in 12th grade got a lower score because I was lazy and didn't do a task that I was given (I think it was 75? Whatever)
Now I'm Very good at English but I'm sure that I'm missing some words
I plan to learn many languages in the future including japanese so this video might be helpful in the future for me
Thank you Wolfychu!
Before video: Japanese Looks hard to learn...
After video: WOW I learned a lot!!! Also your Japanese was AMAZING still probably won’t learn it but GREAT WORK ON THIS VIDEO Your animation is always SO GOOD!!! Great work🌟
This is really making me reconsider watching anime in dubbed 😂😂
Don’t :)
@@stupidity_lolzzzalright thanks for the advice LOL
It's pretty impressive that it all started when wolfy started learning Japanese just watching anime and then soonly started speaking it
i've been learning japanese for 5 years but i was never really consistent so im still on a intermediate level 😭 but this video is motivating me to continue learning CONSISTENTLY this time ;"))
Same, to be honest… aside from the fact that I have StPD.
Yeah Japanese isn’t easy, hope I can learn the language one day. Lovely video as always. ❤
Right now trying to learn 2 languages on duolingo it's really hard especially since I'm 11 I'm trying to Learn Japanese and Spanish because my Spanish teacher is slow and ain't doing nothing
Switching from dubbed to subbed was the best decision I have ever made in my life, and it just made me love Japanese voice acting and the language in general. It's such a beautiful and cool language.
Of course it will, you can't critique what you don't understand. So of course it will sound magical. It's the same reason why people are enthralled by Pop Science videos here on RUclips despite such videos only presenting a surface-level understanding of complicated topics such as astrophysics, quantum mechanics, etc.
Very proud to hear you worked so hard to learn to speak Japanese, I am currently working on learning German and it's very fun. Idk if I'll ever need to use it but I'm still happy learning 😊
Edit: I'm using Duolingo as well and I'm on a 69 day streak since last night. I'm very happy
@@megajirachi5226 ich bin froh, Danke mein Freund/Freundin
I'm learning welsh and also using Duolingo and have a 77 day streak
@@FlamesongsLemons nice I had to restart my mine unfortunately because too much was happening so I fell off but I'm back on it now
Hi was just on your channel!!!! I was about to go but then you posted :D!!!
Yay nice timing! 😄 I hope you like the video! ❤
I’m only fluent in English, I had so many Spanish classes (from Elementary to even High School) and I’ve passed every single one of them.
But I have NOT picked up the language… probably because instead of actually “learning how to speak it” I just treated it like any other class.
Go to class, do the work, do the homework, send it in, get an A and repeat until graduation.
I don’t think I have any excuse tho, my mom is fluent in both Spanish and English and my grandmother can only speak Spanish. 😭
2 vids in a row?! you already know it's good day
I'm learning japenese too
My only question about your self-education of Japanese:
*How long it took you?*
(some sources claim it can take 2 years at minimum)
Wooow 2 Videos in a week wolfy is on fire
2:49 About you said in this part of this video, you reminded me of myself when i played Initial D : Street Stage, In the beginning of this game i have to type my name but in japanese
8:00 完璧！perfect！すごく日本語上手ですよ！
やった！ありがとうございます！☺️
I've been seriously studying Japanese for the past 3 months after quitting my long streak in 2020 (Since April) and now I even am in japan, so I can really relate to conversation. Even just a convenience store worker asking me if I want a bag with my 3 packets of ice cream is already confusing, slowly but surely, I'm learning, and that's already good enough for me.
がんばって、ウォルフィッチュー！！！
wolfy is on fire 2 video in one weeks ❤️❣️
I have a friend who is fully fluent in 12 languages, including Japanese and Mandarin, and what you described as your current learning path is very similar to his. He grew up bilingual as you did and he stated to learn other languages by immersing himself in that particular language until he felt comfortable. He did say that both Japanese and Mandarin are very difficult to learn but he did it, as you did. I used to speak Spanish fluently but that was 36 years ago. Hoping to pick up Spanish again and learn Russian along the way somewhere. I'm no expert but your Japanese sounds good to me!
I wanna learn Japanese soo bad. It's cool how you learned it
7:41 「いつも私を応援してくれてありがとうございました。」の一節。
「～ありがとうございました。」というふううに過去形 past tense になってしまうと、もう二度と応援されることはないでしょう・・・のように聞こえてしまいます。永遠のお別れ、死に征くお別れ passing away のようにも聞こえてしまいますね。((^O^)) HA HA HA !!
ここは「いつも私を応援してくれてありがとうございます。」と、現在形 present tense にするのが一般的です。
これを聞いた側は、「これからも応援しますよ。」となるのです。
単に「時制」ではなく、過去形か現在形かでニュアンスが全く異なるところが言語の難しいところですよね。
今回の動画も楽しく見させていただきました。ありがとうございました。←ここは過去形にしても問題がないところが難しいですね。現在形でももちろん問題ありません。
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Awesome Video💙
Your animation style has gotten so much more detailed love it. So adorable 😍
I’ve also really wanted to learn Japanese, it seems like such a cool language to learn. I could sing Renai Circulation in its original language, my family is thinking about taking a trip to Japan some day and being a human translator would be fun, and no more subtitles if I ever take another go at anime (I stopped watching it after I woke up one morning and my brother was watching Attack on Titan in our living room, I really wish I didn’t see that)
You’re Japanese pronunciation is great and I think you do a great job
i've been trying to learn irish in school since i was five and you're completely right - learning a language that's nothing like your native one is extremely difficult, especially considering how different japanese is to english and spanish. great work!
The struggle is real, just finished my lc, and I want to keep it up but know I probably won't 😅
6:48 As a side sleeper who falls asleep with their headphones on often I feel called out.
Oh there’s nothing wrong with it!! I just think I personally wouldn’t like it haha
@@Wolfychu Yeah it's not really that comfortable, not to mention the small possibility of breaking them in your sleep.
@@WolfychuI saw Kiki's delivery service on my hbo max 5:17
I've been wanting to start learning Japanese for years, but this video was the final push I needed. So, thank you, Wolfy!
You still make great videos, even to this day.
Japanese is amazing!💙
I learned how to speak and write Japanese in college, and to this day when I’m reading subs I can sometimes realize that some things get a bit lost in translation. My Japanese teacher once asked me if I was learning Japanese because I liked anime 😅 I lied and told her no.
とても上手に日本語をしゃべれていましたよ
0:40
O MAH KERO I LUV THIS ANIME IM GONNA BE SAKURA FOR HALLOWEEN THIS YEAR (2023)!!!!!!!!!
Are you and Jordan still dating?
Was wondering this too
As someone who only watches Japanese dub... Hearing Wolfy speak fluent Japanese makes her so much cuter!!
I mean she was already the cutest Vtuber I know... But damn did she just cause my heart to doki doki so much!!
Keep up the great work Wolfy!!! I know you can get even better!!! ^_^
You did good work I'm So Proud of you Also I Made Reaction Because I work Hard I always React SMG4 Movie Trailer and Live Stream I finally Reacted YOU So Good Job Wolfychu
That's great wolfy watching that you learned Japanese is so cool, although I've tried and it was hard but I'm still willing to learn!
Been learning Japanese for 4-5 months now and I feel like quitting everyday, but then when I think about it, I can't quit cuz watching anime in english sub sucks ;~;. So I have to keep grinding until I get fluent....
I often get bullied for trying to learn Japanese, because I’m a different race. Thanks Wolfy for cheering me up and making me feel I can learn it and prove them wrong. It doesn’t matter what race you are, as long as you believe in yourself! ❤😊❤
Back in my childhood days when I learnd about Japanese thanks that help with like Super Sentai was the Japanese Tolusatsu Series that help adapting Power Rangers it wa sback then on RUclips the 2010 version when I thought it was chinese. Before I learning more from Japan
It was really interesting to hear how different Japanese sentence structure is compared to English by identifying certain words and paying attention to where in the sentence they are. Massive respect to you for taking on such a big task. A while back I was trying to learn German and Gaelic at the same time, and this video really motivated me to pick that back up. Probably just gonna focus on German for a while though. Once I get some more experience under my belt, I certainly intend to try and take on Japanese too! Thank you for sharing your progress and tips with us. Keep up the good work!
I could definitely see yourself speaking Japanese. I like anime too but I just tended to not listen to subbed. Only when I can’t find dubbed. But I will say that I do like both of them equally. And I don’t understand the letters. And I did try to learn Kanji. But you know what I did, give up!!!! Lol
0:13 narutochu
I'm trying to learn Japanese, Gaelic, German, Russian, and French. I know a little bit of those languages, but I'm still trying to learn.
Edit: I like both Dub and Sub. Some animes are great with the dub, and some are great with the sub. But that's just my opinion
日本人の私から見ても日本語が全く違和感なくてびっくりした！すごい！声もすごく可愛いですね🫶
I started Japanese on Duolingo 2 months ago, As a native Spanish speaker , is kind of hard but in a fun way to learn japanese on Duolingo, because the app does not have Japanese for Spanish speaker so i had to choose Japanese for English speakers, my head is going like the Brain Power song hahaha i have to translate 2 times in my brain but hey at least the phonetics are identical to spanish.
Ps: Learning Katakana and Hiragana on Duolingo is really Easy i highly recommended, 2 weeks and you’re done
I honestly want to learn Japanese, seems like an interesting language
私は天の偉大な神々に呼びかけます、あなたにとって最高の日々と素晴らしい一日になることを祈ります
お元気ですか？
初めまして、イヴァンナです。
こんにちは、私はイヴァンナです
ジ・ジョリ
スタークランの悪魔たちにこのソールを呪わせろ」
Edit : (No this is not what I said in english, Those were some of my most used Japanese sentences/words ) Your japanese is great! I do duo lingo and translate. Duo lingo helps you learn the words meanings and how to say it. After that I translate a english sentence into a japanese one. This way I know what it means, what it says, how to read it, and how to say it.
I don’t really know Japanese, but your progress definitely shows! Keep up the good work, Wolfy!😁👍
I'm Australian, and I'm getting trying my best! Wish me luck, Wofly!!(*^▽^*)
私もWolfychuさんの動画が好きなので英語を勉強してるところです！
I'm rooting for you!
Let's work together!🔥
Fun fact : this is the voice actor of melony (SMG4)
I already speak a Chinese lets goooooo. Learning still be after 7 years
Um actually @Wolfychu, of my fact is : the problem of kanji has an MUCH KANJIS, the kanjis is originaly the chineses and they give the japanese culture
I'm 200 days in learning Japanese & Spanish, it's so hard and I feel like I still barely know any japanese
OMG!! IS IT REALLY YOU WOLFCHU IM A BIG FAN I LOVE YOU GAHC CHARACTER SO MUCH I LOVE YOUR VIDS😻😻🐱🐱🐠🐠🐠🐠🎀🎀💖💖💖💓😋😋😋😝😝😝👑👑✅✅✅✅✅
I learned Japanese with Subbed Anime... then tried to take a class and it was sooo hard and too fast... I kinda gave up on it... I struggle with languages, alot.
My pronunciation made the Japanese people in Portland think I was Gaijin, then I had to apologize and say I only speak a little, in Japanese, of course =oD
I haven't watched subbed in a loooong time so I've lost a lot of what I knew. My toy poodle was just tooo demanding for my attention to pay attention to Subs. They are 6 now, and I might finally be able to turn on some Anime again =oD
That growing up bilingual thing is so true. In my country it is mandatory to learn atleast 2 languages in school so by the end of your school years you are fluent in 2 languages minimum and on a mid level in the third. Languages I'm talking about are Czech (Native), English (Fluent), German (Mid level like B) and sometimes Spanish. Personaly I'm learning spanish as my third outside school because I find mexican culture and music really interesting
Video so great and beautiful and cute Wolfychu💖😊👍!!!
Wolfychu you great animatior bloger in youtube and your video animations so perfect and cute,my respect I respect you and your channel and keep your channel growing💖😊👍!!!
God grant you health Wolfychu,I love you and I'm hugging you😊💖!!!
We love you Wolfychu😊💖!!!
I committed to learning spanish but never succeeded. Your video may have inspired me to go back!
When I was in Japan I was like
Shit. There are no subtitles.
Honestly speaking it wasn't too bad. Fuck kanji tho. Couldn't read anything
I started learning in College (Australian College, which is Year 11 and 12 and not University) and I was going pretty steady. Sadly once I started Uni I wasn't able to continue studying in a formal setting as I only had time for my actual classes. That also led me to just basically just forget about studying in my free time which has lead me to forget a lot of vocabulary. Knowing that this format of supplementing personal study with just immersing yourself with people speaking it has given me a little confidence that I may be able to pick it up again. Thanks for this video, even if it was 6 months ago that you posted it lol.
Wolfychu: mentions she grew up bilingual
Me a Mexican American:same
This is really encouraged I’m try to learn Japanese. I’m dyslexic and my fluent language is English so it’s a bit of a struggle but I’m trying as hard as I can and I won’t give up🥰🤗
Well, Wolfy, I always thought that Russian would be the easiest language to learn, but Japanese works, too. I mean, how hard can Russian be?
My first thought when I saw tge title was that comment i saw on Twitter, "Imagine a Japanese person learning to speak English by watching family guy and speaking like Peter griffin". And I wish I have made oy my mission to find this theoretical person.
For Kanji, I believe that you need to learn 1500-3000 Kanji at most. That's the Japanese High School level.
8:01 You are amazing!
Unless my body forces me to fall asleep i won't sleep listening to ANYTHING