Hello Yoshi! It is quite a challenge but it sounds so beautiful and also has great opportunities to travel there. You guys have such a great and Rich culture! I hope to visit soon in one day live there. 😍
Yes, you are very lucky to have such a beautiful language and beautiful country. I lived there for three years! I wish Japan and all the Japanese people the very best.
I still remember seeing this video two years ago and felt sorry for myself for barely understandung something to today where I can understand almost 90% of everything without seeing the subtitles.. Great job mate
I’ve been studying abroad in japan! I’ve finally hit my six month mark and I’m proud to say I am able to listen and understand these conversations without looking at the subtitles!!! A few words I wrote down for future reference, thank you so much for this video! It’s very helpful❤️
Can I ask what you used to study before going to Japan? I already know hiragana, katakana, and some Kanji. But understanding them speak is still hard for me.
@@fostinawhat4861 I didn’t study really at all… I learned the language upon arrival purely through immersion, it took about six months to pick up and then the last six months was spent perfecting it :,). While I was there I studied using books that the program provided us + GENKI books, though. Aside from that I already speak a few diff languages so picking up another wasn’t too tough. Sorry, hopefully that helps some🥺.
@@revyflores yes that was helpful, thank you! :) I'm just going to talk with japanese speakers, watch more videos like this, and listen to japanese podcasts . I feel thats the best immersion I can do without moving there directly. Again thanks for your input :)👍
Eat almonds,1 tea spoon of honey before sleep and daily spinach 100gm.little raw onion pieces,while eating food's,weekly once forest pig.walk 20mins in sun, don't use mobile or any electronic items while walking,walk alone.sleep 9 hrs a day.u will live upto 100yrs and most intellect.monthly 2 days go somewhere,don't stay at hometown
@@fostinawhat4861immersion immersion immersion. Refold has a good guide for it if ya want but I'm guessing you've either dropped it, found refold, or happy with whatever way ur learning by now :)
from this I learned two important words. omotenashi, and omoiyari. I think omotenashi is to perform hospitality, so as to have someone's fulfillment, and omoiyari is to feel something just from your thought, so as to have compassion or empathy. great great words from a most beautiful language.
People seem so cute and polite. I used to study Japanese when I was 13, now I am 30 but I still remember how to write hiragana and katakana. Kanji is just another world, I have the feeling my occidental brain is not ready for it. Love Japan 🇯🇵. Best from Spain 🇪🇸
Recently I learned how to read and write in Hiragana. It took couple of weeks. And now in this video I can read some sentences. It feels so great being able to read something in Japanese
Anthony Stringfellow I've read that you must study japanese for around 2 years for a decent understanding. It's hard, but worthy. Japanese makes fun to me and the studying itself keeps my braincells active :-)
People...please send me good vibes, Japanese is my 3rd language on the go. It's about 6 months now,barely getting some words here and there, Hira and Kata just fine, and writing being my best developed skill right now. 日本文化を愛する皆さん，ブラジルからこにちわ🍾🍀
I like it that this comes with proper transcription and even translations in the subtitles, otherwise I wouldn’t have a chance to understand this. Being a beginner, it took me more than 2hours to get through most of this, using both dictionary lookup and trial and error with google translate to analyse it in detail. It was really challenging as it was way above my level, especially when it comes to conversational Japanese. But it was well worth it - I think I learned a lot here.
This was great! Although as I think this is aimed for Japanese leaners I think it would be helpful to remove the romaji, and to use just the normal script but also Furigana above the kanji.
No, I think Romaji are way too helpful for phonetic articulations. It helps you quite well in pronouncing the words. Hiragana, Kenji can be learn independently.
I agree, the first thing you should do when learning Japanese is to learn hiragana followed by katakana, which should just take a couple of days, two for me personally. Avoid romaji at all cost.
I'm just saying that "Romaji" are helpful somehow in learning the phonetic aspect of the Japanese words that are translated in symbols namely Hiragana, Katakana and the intricate Kenji. So, in order to curiously know what lied behind any Japanese alphabet and how to translate it into a latin-based word you have to make some efforts to spell it correctly. So, for begginers, Romaji letters are very useful to help the learner to acquire the appropriate pronunciation of the Japanese alphabets and yet develop his visual recognition of letters. Personally, i've tried it with the Korean Hangul, i've learned how to pronounce them as well as the order of their placements in less than 30 mins with the help of latin alphabets that represent every single separated Hangul alphabet, and as you know the Korean alphabets are separated in 4 structures for one word or two or more. Therefore, I find that Romaji is the best way to acquire the phonetic pattern of the recognition of the Japanese sounds. These are some reasons why I firmly recommend Romaji as a basic part to start connect Japanese alphabets with their representative sound. Everyone has its own successful way of learning the spoken foreign language. narsplace that's really brilliant to hear that you've learned them without depending on using Romaji, maybe because you are studying it in another way, in a way where you may have to memorize every Japanese alphabet with its sound to rewrite it dependently and in this case you are using the visual method of acquiring the letters which is brilliant and advantageous
I don't get your point, James. I don't think you get everyone else's point either. We're not talking about methods to learn hiragana and katakana, we're learning about the overall language learning method. Once you learn hiragana and katakana, there is no need for romaji at all It should be less than 1% of your learning aid in Japanese and you should stop using it as soon as possible. Children in Japan learn Kanji readings based on furigana anyway, so should everyone else. Else why try to learn and immerse in Japanese and distance yourself from the entire writing system by learning words from romaji? It makes no sense. Same goes for Korean. It has it's own alphabet. Once you learn it, why do you need to use romanisation? The only language close to this where you may be more likely to use the romanisation is Chinese because it uses Pinyin, but again you wouldn't learn just the pinyin in Chinese as then you're just missing out on the whole reading side of the language. Considering most people who learn a language now is likely to use it predominantly online, the reading part to me is absolutely vital.
ありがとございました！私は日本語をべんきょうしています。 Thank you very much for making this video! I really like these series of video. You can learn so much about world cultures. I am especially grateful for this video because as a Japanese language learner I am provided with a lot of insight into the language and culture. And the best part is it real. Real people in real life in real Japanese. Looking forward to new videos! Thanks again!
During quarantine I discovered a japanese book at my house turns out it's a japanese language guide. I decided to start learning, everytime someone finds out I'm learning japanese they give me weird stares and I feel less. I really want to learn and this language , it's a challenge. Thank you for your videos! They help a lot!
this was soooo lovely!!! thanks :D I love that the older man said that compassion and being kind can manifest in choice of words. Such a beautiful reminder to use beautiful language to each other--native language or not.
I actually most of the time get the gist of what they are speaking about, lol. I think I could understand really easy conversations by now. And that's only because of the ungodly amount of fucking anime I've seen lmao
A lot of the songs have so much english it's hard to tell what's being said. There's songs I've listened to for years before realizing they were entirely in English or half English. You need to look up the lyrics and translations.
I'm finally dedicating myself to learn japanese, and this video give me such a positive and great vibes to learn more and become fluent. Thank you so much!
I've just started Japanese.. few months ago and I'm Loving every second of it.. i know it is very hard language but i love how it sounds, i love culture, i love people.. i even love Kanji and it's different pronouncing and even the stroke order lol! i hope in few years i will be Fluent enough to travel to japan and hopefully i'll make friends there! Wish me luck!
I am a Filipino and teaching English to Japanese professionals. This channel is very helpful to my job. I am a very big fan of Japan that's why I started collecting some Japanese staffs. And i decided to create my channel(beginner) to show how much i appreciate their food nature and stories.
Correct me if I'm wrong :- 0:00 to 0:15 Minasan : everyone (Minna means everyone, San is used as respect/or to say _dear_ everyone, I guess?) Konnichiwa : hello Kumagai Mona : (just her name) Desu : is (so basically she's saying I'm kumagai Mona) "Easy Japanese" wa : wa is just a particle used to signify that Easy Japanese is the object of this sentence. Sendai Kara : from Sendai (Sendai is a city in Japan on Honshu island) so basically, Kara means from. Ookuri : send (in this context, present) shimasu : will (So ookuri shimasu means will send/will present) Kyou: Today Machi : town Hitotachi : people [you can also say hitobito for people but hitobito is a bit bookish while hitotachi is more casual.] Machi no hitotachi: people of the town. (So "no" means of) Nihon : Japan Tsuite : About nihon ni tsuite : you add ni before saying tsuite. dou omotte iruka : what do you think kiite mitai : try asking to omoi masu : I would like (to is used as I would like *to* try asking) 0:25 to 0:40 Konnichiwa: hello Etto : well Kyou wa : today Desu ne : (I didn't understand why she said this here) Nihon ni tsuite: About Japan Nihon no ii tokoro :- Nihon : Japan No : of (remember "machi no hitotachi"? People OF town. So no means of!) ii : nice Tokoro : places (or more like points. As in good stuff about Japan) Ni tsuite: about Hai : yes Okikishite Run desu kedo : (didn't get what this means) Nihon no ii toko? : Good points in Japan? Hai : yes Omou : what's Ano : y'know Nippon no ii tokoro:- Nippon : Japan No : of ii : nice tokoro : points / features Sakana : fish Dattara : in that case Yappari ne : it's obvious! {Done for today, spent half an hour on researching and typing out. Hope this helps all Japanese beginners like me and feel free to add on in replies! If not, I'll continue adding later!}
What a great video! Now I'm in Korea and trying to learn Korean for my business trips, and I so wish someone had a video like this with 5 or 10 minutes of "street Korean"!
the best video ever 😭 with romaji, japanese subtitles and english sub 😭😭 hontoni arigatou. anyone knows other videos similar to these one. this is really helpful . thank you for translating everything 😘
What is your language learning level? Are you still learning vocabulary or just needing Japanese listening practice? I just discovered a 24-hour Japanese news Channel and also QVC Channel with random stuff that they talk about that they sell. That might be helpful to play in the background if you're just wanting to listen and if your level is up to par. Type in Japan live stream and you will get a couple of news channels and also the shopping channel.
私の国は もう カナダ だ でも、少しなすべての言語が 大好きに オンラヌで 学んでいます。English is always nice to have learned first so I have a good chance of having my questions answered when I get stuck though...
I am also Canadian, I failed french in school but I have been learning Japanese for almost two years and have been loving it and doing well at it. I think it's better to learn a language you like instead of what the schools want you to learn.
20 years ago, when I got my first English class at school, I said one day I will understand and speak this language so easily that even I will be surprised. I got 8 on ielts academic lately. Now , here I am ,33 years old mother. One day I will speak and read Japanese naturally. I hope it won't take 20 years this time 🤭
thats great to see so many people learn japanese ! ganbatte kudasai -ALL D BEST ! by d way , i also teach japanese at my channel ; you can check it out incase you need any help ; ILL BE GLAD !
I'm ramping myself up to start learning and this video really hit the spot! My favorite meal is fish and rice, I like woodworking, baseball, anime and old school social styles. I need to broaden my horizons and this will enrich my life and connect me to a whole different way of talking and relating and living and I'm ecstatic to commit to this... Such a good video!
I love this, I have been waiting for this for a long time. Ok, I'm lying, I wasn't waiting for this but it really really is a great idea to introduce Japanese. Obviously I like the language, culture, people and much more. Looking forward to more episodes of Easy Japanese. Keep up the good work! =D
Hi! Unfortunately, currently, we don't have any active co-producers to produce Easy Japanese episodes on a regular basis. Once we find a team, we will do our best to provide more Easy Japanese content and open a dedicated channel. :)
Great ! ^^ I started watching this channel mainly for "Easy Polish", then very recently started learning a bit of japanese just for fun, I was disappointed to see there was no "Easy Japanese" on this channel... And now here it is :D
This video is a great help in my language learning journey. I wish there was a transcript posted so that the vocabulary and kanji could be studied offline and then return to the video.
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential
This is a very attractive way to learn Japanese. I knew many people, myself included, who would watch TV with a dictionary in their hands and try to make sense of what was being said. It was, universally, a failure. There is an almost overwhelming drive to speak "real Japanese". That is, we all wanted to talk like the Japanese kids who were our friends. This is a MISTAKE ! Get a good solid book type course that has explanations of grammar, and comes with tapes. Study these books diligently for a year or two, and you will find that you can reliably understand almost half of what is said to you on the street, or that you hear on television. Now you're off to the races. Good Luck !!!
It's really not, the problem is that most people learn Japanese by learning grammar and relying on using their own native language for translations. Natives don't really talk that way, so it makes it hard to understand them. If you learned just by talking to Japanese people most of it would be really easy to understand. I'm not that good at Japanese, but I learned by talking to natives, and I can understand this whilst doing something else at the same time. I'm not trying to show off about my level, just at how simplistic the ideas are. The reason I can do something else at the same time is my brain can just recognize the sentence and feed me the relevant idea. I wouldn't be able to do this is it was something like a history lecture. If you want to get good at Japanese just watch loads of stuff aimed at kids, with no subtitles. language is all about learning basic phrases, then either substituting, or putting them together.
@@mavsworld1733 Yeah... I've been trying with MIA ( close to AJATT ) method for almost a year, and I have nothing to show for it. I understood like 10-15% of what they said. I'm back to textbooks now and programs that I can actually understand without subtitles ( very basic ). We'll see how it goes, but I'm done with learning threw immersion from the start.
@@kezako6783 I don't want to come across rude, but if you were only able to understand 15%, those seem like bad resources to be using. I don't know about Ajatt or MIA, but unless from the images you are able to achieve a much higher level of comprehension then I wouldn't expect to learn from that. That said, if that's adult content after a year, then you are doing better than most people I have seen using traditional study methods.
@@mavsworld1733 That's not rude, that's realistic ( although a bit arrogant ) and I came to the same conclusion, hence "I am back to textbooks". That being said, 1 year is a short time to learn Japanese, whatever the method you choose. Especially when you learn to read at the same time. I assumed you knew MIA ( massive immersion approach ) since you have the same approach ( and have similar alias ) as "MattVSJapan" ( you can look for his channel on RUclips if you're interested ). He has interesting insights, but his method is really time consuming compared to others when Japanese is already one the most time consuming language there is to learn as it is. But basically "just watch loads of stuff aimed at kids, with no subtitles" got me nowhere so far. It might work on some people, but certainly not me.
0:47 holy shit. After a month and a half of studying japanese, I can finally understand one full sentence in this video that isn't just "hey guys."!!!!
Hi! Unfortunately, currently, we don't have any active co-producers to produce Easy Japanese episodes on regular basis. Once we find a team in Japan, we will do our best to provide more Easy Japanese content and open a dedicated channel. 😀
I watched this video several years ago, a bit more than 3 and I couldn't understand anything. For the past 2 years, I decided to study Japanese every day and now I'm able to understand around 70% of the video without reading the English subs but using the Japanese subs as helper.
Very interesting - hearing from real people about their opinions and the way they say it. Great idea, great video. The man talking about snowfall and tattoos is such a gentleman! Would love to meet him and have a chat with him!
Fantastic idea; as a Japanese learner, I find this very helpful. :) One thing I would like to suggest to make it even better it to put the Hiragana over the more difficult Kanji in the subtitles. Otherwise it was very enjoyable and I look forward to more Easy Japanese in the future. :)
By knowing Kana. If a learner is advanced enough to want to tackle this type of video, Romaji acts as a crutch and can potentially hinder better pronunciation. One should already know the pronunciation of the Hiragana and Katakana.
***** Sorry for all the comments, but this link is good too allnihongo.com/why-using-romaji-is-bad-for-your-japanese-health/ Furigana is the way to go.
Very nice channel. I have subscribed and will recommend this channel to my students. This is the "real" Japan in conversation with ordinary Japanese people.
Please, keep making more Japanese videos because I find this video more helpful and especially when you put the Romaji that permits you to articulate and listen to the words accurately. Thank you and best of luck :)
とても便利ですよね！（＾－＾） Congratulations for selfstudying, it takes a lot of effort. Maybe this helps you with your studies too: I'm making kanji animations with mnemonics to remember them, and It'd be great to here some opinions. がんばってね！
thats great to see so many people learn japanese ! ganbatte kudasai -ALL D BEST ! by d way , i also teach japanese at my channel ; you can check it out incase you need any help ; ILL BE GLAD !
omg about the snow thing the person said, that's actually why i wanted to learn japanese - i feel like they have a lot of words related to describing feelings or moods and i find that so interesting!
Still learning.....maybe almost 4 month i able to write and read hiragana and katakana ...... actually iam admire with japanese peoples and their politeness and they hard work....
I commented this before and I'm pasting my comment here with the hope of you correcting me or telling me what I don't know hehe 😅. I would really appreciate if you can help 🙏🏻 I'm a beginner, please add to my knowledge if you can! Correct me if I'm wrong :- 0:00 to 0:15 Minasan : everyone (Minna means everyone, San is used as respect/or to say _dear_ everyone, I guess?) Konnichiwa : hello Kumagai Mona : (just her name) Desu : is (so basically she's saying I'm kumagai Mona) "Easy Japanese" wa : wa is just a particle used to signify that Easy Japanese is the object of this sentence. Sendai Kara : from Sendai (Sendai is a city in Japan on Honshu island) so basically, Kara means from. Ookuri : send (in this context, present) shimasu : will (So ookuri shimasu means will send/will present) Kyou: Today Machi : town Hitotachi : people [you can also say hitobito for people but hitobito is a bit bookish while hitotachi is more casual.] Machi no hitotachi: people of the town. (So "no" means of) Nihon : Japan Tsuite : About nihon ni tsuite : you add ni before saying tsuite. dou omotte iruka : what do you think kiite mitai : try asking to omoi masu : I would like (to is used as I would like *to* try asking) 0:25 to 0:40 Konnichiwa: hello Etto : well Kyou wa : today Desu ne : (I didn't understand why she said this here) Nihon ni tsuite: About Japan Nihon no ii tokoro :- Nihon : Japan No : of (remember "machi no hitotachi"? People OF town. So no means of!) ii : nice Tokoro : places (or more like points. As in good stuff about Japan) Ni tsuite: about Hai : yes Okikishite Run desu kedo : (didn't get what this means) Nihon no ii toko? : Good points in Japan? Hai : yes Omou : what's Ano : y'know Nippon no ii tokoro:- Nippon : Japan No : of ii : nice tokoro : points / features Sakana : fish Dattara : in that case Yappari ne : it's obvious! {Done for today, spent half an hour on researching and typing out. Hope this helps all Japanese beginners like me and feel free to add on in replies! If not, I'll continue adding later!}
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Wow. As a Japanese, I admire anybody who aspires to learn this difficult but very rewarding and beautiful language...
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Hello Yoshi! It is quite a challenge but it sounds so beautiful and also has great opportunities to travel there. You guys have such a great and Rich culture! I hope to visit soon in one day live there. 😍
Although I know all the kanji in 日本語，日本語 is still far more difficult than English or French for me.:(
私は6年間日本語を勉強しています。
Yes, you are very lucky to have such a beautiful language and beautiful country. I lived there for three years! I wish Japan and all the Japanese people the very best.
this video is so easy to understand that it took me only 2 years of constantly studying japanese to really understand them speaking
LOL. So i'll need almost two years to get there :)
I think this is too fast. German video (Easy German) is some 20 times slower than this.
Dammit. Your profile pic fooled me.
How's your Japanese now sensei?
@@sweeterman691 hoping that sensei didn't give up !
@@addictrogue516 That’s the ninja way!
I still remember seeing this video two years ago and felt sorry for myself for barely understandung something to today where I can understand almost 90% of everything without seeing the subtitles..
Great job mate
Yo... if i remember i will post a comment on this saying the same thing in 2 years... hopefully
@@meepomain good luck
Awesome wow
I hope I will post a similar comment in a year or 2 as well.😂
How did you learn words i just started and have learnt hirigana and most katakana but i only know small amounts when it comes to words
I find this language very attractive.
Cecilia Castro I find it adorable. lol
Mari Camino Me too, hehe.
Cecilia Castro I find this attractive very Japanese.
Because they say "eeeeeeeeee" ....
🉑愛い gengo desune
The old guy at 2:13 and 3:56 sounds the most pleasant to the ear, apart from the interviewer..
Right? I would love to listen to him telling a story.
@@Myrope 👏👏👏
guy's got a great voice
@@noahbarrong..and well-spoken.
Yeah, I don't study japanese and know absolutely nothing about it, but when he spoke it instantly sounded more beautiful
I completely forgot i was here for practice and had to watch it again to focus on the pronunciation, haha.
Same. Hahaha
I’ve been studying abroad in japan! I’ve finally hit my six month mark and I’m proud to say I am able to listen and understand these conversations without looking at the subtitles!!! A few words I wrote down for future reference, thank you so much for this video! It’s very helpful❤️
Can I ask what you used to study before going to Japan? I already know hiragana, katakana, and some Kanji. But understanding them speak is still hard for me.
@@fostinawhat4861 I didn’t study really at all… I learned the language upon arrival purely through immersion, it took about six months to pick up and then the last six months was spent perfecting it :,). While I was there I studied using books that the program provided us + GENKI books, though. Aside from that I already speak a few diff languages so picking up another wasn’t too tough. Sorry, hopefully that helps some🥺.
@@revyflores yes that was helpful, thank you! :) I'm just going to talk with japanese speakers, watch more videos like this, and listen to japanese podcasts . I feel thats the best immersion I can do without moving there directly. Again thanks for your input :)👍
Eat almonds,1 tea spoon of honey before sleep and daily spinach 100gm.little raw onion pieces,while eating food's,weekly once forest pig.walk 20mins in sun, don't use mobile or any electronic items while walking,walk alone.sleep 9 hrs a day.u will live upto 100yrs and most intellect.monthly 2 days go somewhere,don't stay at hometown
@@fostinawhat4861immersion immersion immersion. Refold has a good guide for it if ya want but I'm guessing you've either dropped it, found refold, or happy with whatever way ur learning by now :)
from this I learned two important words. omotenashi, and omoiyari. I think omotenashi is to perform hospitality, so as to have someone's fulfillment, and omoiyari is to feel something just from your thought, so as to have compassion or empathy. great great words from a most beautiful language.
People seem so cute and polite. I used to study Japanese when I was 13, now I am 30 but I still remember how to write hiragana and katakana. Kanji is just another world, I have the feeling my occidental brain is not ready for it. Love Japan 🇯🇵. Best from Spain 🇪🇸
how long did you study for?
its a fact
The guy talking about wabi sabi has the smoothest voice I've ever heard, he should have a radio show.
Recently I learned how to read and write in Hiragana. It took couple of weeks. And now in this video I can read some sentences. It feels so great being able to read something in Japanese
After 11 months of learning japanese, I'm finally able to understand 5%-10%. 日本語が むずがしい です ね。 :)
o.o ganbate bro!
It's because of the grammar. If you studied Chinese in this amount of time you would understand way more trust me.
Anthony Stringfellow
I've read that you must study japanese for around 2 years for a decent understanding. It's hard, but worthy. Japanese makes fun to me and the studying itself keeps my braincells active :-)
shit, i've been studying it for one week, i'm fucked up
Christopher Poblete
no, you just have a new hobby now :) a lot of people are studying japanese and are mastering it. がんばって！
People...please send me good vibes, Japanese is my 3rd language on the go. It's about 6 months now,barely getting some words here and there, Hira and Kata just fine, and writing being my best developed skill right now. 日本文化を愛する皆さん，ブラジルからこにちわ🍾🍀
My first visit to Japan first time last month for 2 weeks and I love everything about your country and the people very much!
I like it that this comes with proper transcription and even translations in the subtitles, otherwise I wouldn’t have a chance to understand this. Being a beginner, it took me more than 2hours to get through most of this, using both dictionary lookup and trial and error with google translate to analyse it in detail. It was really challenging as it was way above my level, especially when it comes to conversational Japanese. But it was well worth it - I think I learned a lot here.
This was great! Although as I think this is aimed for Japanese leaners I think it would be helpful to remove the romaji, and to use just the normal script but also Furigana above the kanji.
No, I think Romaji are way too helpful for phonetic articulations. It helps you quite well in pronouncing the words. Hiragana, Kenji can be learn independently.
james nayci As a Japanese learner for two years never use Romaji.
I agree, the first thing you should do when learning Japanese is to learn hiragana followed by katakana, which should just take a couple of days, two for me personally. Avoid romaji at all cost.
I'm just saying that "Romaji" are helpful somehow in learning the phonetic aspect of the Japanese words that are translated in symbols namely Hiragana, Katakana and the intricate Kenji. So, in order to curiously know what lied behind any Japanese alphabet and how to translate it into a latin-based word you have to make some efforts to spell it correctly. So, for begginers, Romaji letters are very useful to help the learner to acquire the appropriate pronunciation of the Japanese alphabets and yet develop his visual recognition of letters. Personally, i've tried it with the Korean Hangul, i've learned how to pronounce them as well as the order of their placements in less than 30 mins with the help of latin alphabets that represent every single separated Hangul alphabet, and as you know the Korean alphabets are separated in 4 structures for one word or two or more. Therefore, I find that Romaji is the best way to acquire the phonetic pattern of the recognition of the Japanese sounds. These are some reasons why I firmly recommend Romaji as a basic part to start connect Japanese alphabets with their representative sound. Everyone has its own successful way of learning the spoken foreign language. narsplace that's really brilliant to hear that you've learned them without depending on using Romaji, maybe because you are studying it in another way, in a way where you may have to memorize every Japanese alphabet with its sound to rewrite it dependently and in this case you are using the visual method of acquiring the letters which is brilliant and advantageous
I don't get your point, James. I don't think you get everyone else's point either. We're not talking about methods to learn hiragana and katakana, we're learning about the overall language learning method. Once you learn hiragana and katakana, there is no need for romaji at all It should be less than 1% of your learning aid in Japanese and you should stop using it as soon as possible. Children in Japan learn Kanji readings based on furigana anyway, so should everyone else. Else why try to learn and immerse in Japanese and distance yourself from the entire writing system by learning words from romaji? It makes no sense. Same goes for Korean. It has it's own alphabet. Once you learn it, why do you need to use romanisation? The only language close to this where you may be more likely to use the romanisation is Chinese because it uses Pinyin, but again you wouldn't learn just the pinyin in Chinese as then you're just missing out on the whole reading side of the language. Considering most people who learn a language now is likely to use it predominantly online, the reading part to me is absolutely vital.
So, finally, there's Easy Japanese.The people seems so nice, here. Keep making videos, please :) !
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ありがとございました！私は日本語をべんきょうしています。
Thank you very much for making this video! I really like these series of video. You can learn so much about world cultures. I am especially grateful for this video because as a Japanese language learner I am provided with a lot of insight into the language and culture. And the best part is it real. Real people in real life in real Japanese. Looking forward to new videos! Thanks again!
あなたは不信心者です。地獄はあなたの場所です。
During quarantine I discovered a japanese book at my house turns out it's a japanese language guide. I decided to start learning, everytime someone finds out I'm learning japanese they give me weird stares and I feel less.
I really want to learn and this language , it's a challenge.
Thank you for your videos! They help a lot!
Good luck!
Don't let people's weird stares discourage you!
Never let others discourge you from learning things you're interested about. As long as you're not doing harm, you do you!
this was soooo lovely!!! thanks :D I love that the older man said that compassion and being kind can manifest in choice of words. Such a beautiful reminder to use beautiful language to each other--native language or not.
これ、本当に勉強になりました！便利で楽しい練習ですね！
starting japanese here at 2024, will come back when I totally understand this video. Good luck to everyone practicing!!
Shit. I've been listening to Japanese music for almost 13 years and I thought that would give me an advantage in listening. Hell was I wrong
No, it helps a lot haha. It just gets harder when you get into conversation so it's a good idea to start with songs in my opinion :p
It's okay not to understand everything. at least u try
I actually most of the time get the gist of what they are speaking about, lol. I think I could understand really easy conversations by now.
And that's only because of the ungodly amount of fucking anime I've seen lmao
u shouldnt rely on jmusic, even on other languages, because composition is deep (idk how to say this, a bit formal since it's a form of poetry?)
A lot of the songs have so much english it's hard to tell what's being said. There's songs I've listened to for years before realizing they were entirely in English or half English. You need to look up the lyrics and translations.
I'm finally dedicating myself to learn japanese, and this video give me such a positive and great vibes to learn more and become fluent. Thank you so much!
I've just started Japanese.. few months ago and I'm Loving every second of it.. i know it is very hard language but i love how it sounds, i love culture, i love people.. i even love Kanji and it's different pronouncing and even the stroke order lol! i hope in few years i will be Fluent enough to travel to japan and hopefully i'll make friends there! Wish me luck!
good luck(●'◡'●)
I am so grateful to see there are now videos for Easy Japanese!!! Thankyou very much!!!
I am a Filipino and teaching English to Japanese professionals. This channel is very helpful to my job. I am a very big fan of Japan that's why I started collecting some Japanese staffs. And i decided to create my channel(beginner) to show how much i appreciate their food nature and stories.
i’m an english speaking filipino trying to learn japanese hahaha
Correct me if I'm wrong :-
0:00 to 0:15
Minasan : everyone (Minna means everyone, San is used as respect/or to say _dear_ everyone, I guess?)
Konnichiwa : hello
Kumagai Mona : (just her name)
Desu : is (so basically she's saying I'm kumagai Mona)
"Easy Japanese" wa : wa is just a particle used to signify that Easy Japanese is the object of this sentence.
Sendai Kara : from Sendai (Sendai is a city in Japan on Honshu island) so basically, Kara means from.
Ookuri : send (in this context, present)
shimasu : will
(So ookuri shimasu means will send/will present)
Kyou: Today
Machi : town
Hitotachi : people [you can also say hitobito for people but hitobito is a bit bookish while hitotachi is more casual.]
Machi no hitotachi: people of the town. (So "no" means of)
Nihon : Japan
Tsuite : About
nihon ni tsuite : you add ni before saying tsuite.
dou omotte iruka : what do you think
kiite mitai : try asking
to omoi masu : I would like (to is used as I would like *to* try asking)
0:25 to 0:40
Konnichiwa: hello
Etto : well
Kyou wa : today
Desu ne : (I didn't understand why she said this here)
Nihon ni tsuite: About Japan
Nihon no ii tokoro :-
Nihon : Japan
No : of (remember "machi no hitotachi"? People OF town. So no means of!)
ii : nice
Tokoro : places (or more like points. As in good stuff about Japan)
Ni tsuite: about
Hai : yes
Okikishite Run desu kedo : (didn't get what this means)
Nihon no ii toko? : Good points in Japan?
Hai : yes
Omou : what's
Ano : y'know
Nippon no ii tokoro:-
Nippon : Japan
No : of
ii : nice
tokoro : points / features
Sakana : fish
Dattara : in that case
Yappari ne : it's obvious!
{Done for today, spent half an hour on researching and typing out. Hope this helps all Japanese beginners like me and feel free to add on in replies! If not, I'll continue adding later!}
Underrated comment!!! ありがとう
I really hope they do more Easy Japanese , I really enjoyed it!
ありがとな
Rueben Knight ありがとう*
途中出ているお爺さんめちゃくちゃ優しそうな印象で見てる自分も笑顔になりました。。本当癒しますね。。
What a great video! Now I'm in Korea and trying to learn Korean for my business trips, and I so wish someone had a video like this with 5 or 10 minutes of "street Korean"!
the best video ever 😭 with romaji, japanese subtitles and english sub 😭😭 hontoni arigatou.
anyone knows other videos similar to these one. this is really helpful . thank you for translating everything 😘
日本に住んでいてもう一年以上になりましたが、僕的に日本の良いところの一つは日本は安全な国であることです。
逆に、良くないと思うところはありますか？
yeah from what ive heard japan is really safe
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@@narihira_ariwara 皆が真面目すぎ
I'm so happy I understood 90% of the conversation without looking at the translation/dialogue below.
I just found this channel 5 minutes ago and i love it so much already!
What is your language learning level? Are you still learning vocabulary or just needing Japanese listening practice? I just discovered a 24-hour Japanese news Channel and also QVC Channel with random stuff that they talk about that they sell. That might be helpful to play in the background if you're just wanting to listen and if your level is up to par. Type in Japan live stream and you will get a couple of news channels and also the shopping channel.
the lady at 1:50 seems so sweet haha :) and the lady who asks the questions (interviewer?) seems sweet too
vickie g she was just like the most adorable thing, honestly~
i could hug that obaasan for real haha she seems a nice person!
Yeah so lovely! And やった at the end :D
as a Canadian citizen, my objective is to learn French, but I love how cute Japanese sounds to the ears
I speak/ learn french!
Go french!
I am confused like you too.
who cares?
私の国は もう カナダ だ でも、少しなすべての言語が 大好きに オンラヌで 学んでいます。English is always nice to have learned first so I have a good chance of having my questions answered when I get stuck though...
I am also Canadian, I failed french in school but I have been learning Japanese for almost two years and have been loving it and doing well at it. I think it's better to learn a language you like instead of what the schools want you to learn.
20 years ago, when I got my first English class at school, I said one day I will understand and speak this language so easily that even I will be surprised. I got 8 on ielts academic lately. Now , here I am ,33 years old mother. One day I will speak and read Japanese naturally. I hope it won't take 20 years this time 🤭
thats great to see so many people learn japanese ! ganbatte kudasai -ALL D BEST !
by d way , i also teach japanese at my channel ;
you can check it out incase you need any help ;
ILL BE GLAD !
@@opdhaka Thank you so much 🙏 I am going to your channel right away
本当に心の底から感謝します
The kind of japanese course I've always dreamed of!!! Thank you!
+Paolo Tavano It's not a course though, it's just street interviews. You can find lots of those with English subs on RUclips.
Hey Phil! Can you suggest me some of them? Thanks in advance :)
I'm ramping myself up to start learning and this video really hit the spot! My favorite meal is fish and rice, I like woodworking, baseball, anime and old school social styles. I need to broaden my horizons and this will enrich my life and connect me to a whole different way of talking and relating and living and I'm ecstatic to commit to this... Such a good video!
I love this, I have been waiting for this for a long time. Ok, I'm lying, I wasn't waiting for this but it really really is a great idea to introduce Japanese. Obviously I like the language, culture, people and much more. Looking forward to more episodes of Easy Japanese. Keep up the good work! =D
This was awesome. I'm learning Japanese, and I'm happy I found this video. Very helpful. Thanks for posting.
Oh my god they actually have hair like in anime
They're so photogenic, these Japanese girls...
haha your a fool ha ha ha love it
They really do!
@@garrett8850 TYpical white boy and Japanese Ignorance :)
Good job
Hahahaah
I wish easy Japanese had their own yt channel like easy German and polish
Hi! Unfortunately, currently, we don't have any active co-producers to produce Easy Japanese episodes on a regular basis. Once we find a team, we will do our best to provide more Easy Japanese content and open a dedicated channel. :)
Great ! ^^ I started watching this channel mainly for "Easy Polish", then very recently started learning a bit of japanese just for fun, I was disappointed to see there was no "Easy Japanese" on this channel... And now here it is :D
This video is a great help in my language learning journey. I wish there was a transcript posted so that the vocabulary and kanji could be studied offline and then return to the video.
THIS is exactly what I was searching for to learn japanese, thanks a lot
My brother studied languages at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center in California. The pace of study was intense. Students had to master the language course in 36-64 weeks. Psychologically it was very difficult, but fortunately he was helped by Yuriy Ivantsiv's book "Polyglot Notes. Practical tips for learning foreign languages”. The book " Polyglot Notes" became a desk book for my brother, because it has answers to all the problems that any student of a foreign language has to face. Thanks to the author of the channel for this interesting video! Good luck to everyone who studies a foreign language and wants to realize their full potential
Thank you so much!!!
I will understand this 100% effortlessly one day
도전!
Day of Saint Never.
That's Hangul lmao
韓国語？ｗｗ
Maybe they used Hangul because Korean is their first language, dunno.
So, how’s the Japanese going today?
This is a very attractive way to learn Japanese. I knew many people, myself included, who would watch TV with a dictionary in their hands and try to make sense of what was being said. It was, universally, a failure. There is an almost overwhelming drive to speak "real Japanese". That is, we all wanted to talk like the Japanese kids who were our friends. This is a MISTAKE ! Get a good solid book type course that has explanations of grammar, and comes with tapes. Study these books diligently for a year or two, and you will find that you can reliably understand almost half of what is said to you on the street, or that you hear on television. Now you're off to the races. Good Luck !!!
I love this already!
Thank you so much! I can learn about the culture and the language at the same time!!! Tysm for putting the hiragana and translation 🤧
this is above and beyond "easy" lol wouldnt be able to understand without subtitles
優しいというか、じまくがなければ分かりません
The natural fluency could actually be regarded as quite hyper-advanced in a way... The word easy is just something to encourage people to learn I bet.
It's really not, the problem is that most people learn Japanese by learning grammar and relying on using their own native language for translations. Natives don't really talk that way, so it makes it hard to understand them. If you learned just by talking to Japanese people most of it would be really easy to understand. I'm not that good at Japanese, but I learned by talking to natives, and I can understand this whilst doing something else at the same time. I'm not trying to show off about my level, just at how simplistic the ideas are. The reason I can do something else at the same time is my brain can just recognize the sentence and feed me the relevant idea. I wouldn't be able to do this is it was something like a history lecture. If you want to get good at Japanese just watch loads of stuff aimed at kids, with no subtitles. language is all about learning basic phrases, then either substituting, or putting them together.
@@mavsworld1733 Yeah... I've been trying with MIA ( close to AJATT ) method for almost a year, and I have nothing to show for it. I understood like 10-15% of what they said. I'm back to textbooks now and programs that I can actually understand without subtitles ( very basic ). We'll see how it goes, but I'm done with learning threw immersion from the start.
@@kezako6783 I don't want to come across rude, but if you were only able to understand 15%, those seem like bad resources to be using. I don't know about Ajatt or MIA, but unless from the images you are able to achieve a much higher level of comprehension then I wouldn't expect to learn from that. That said, if that's adult content after a year, then you are doing better than most people I have seen using traditional study methods.
@@mavsworld1733 That's not rude, that's realistic ( although a bit arrogant ) and I came to the same conclusion, hence "I am back to textbooks". That being said, 1 year is a short time to learn Japanese, whatever the method you choose. Especially when you learn to read at the same time.
I assumed you knew MIA ( massive immersion approach ) since you have the same approach ( and have similar alias ) as "MattVSJapan" ( you can look for his channel on RUclips if you're interested ). He has interesting insights, but his method is really time consuming compared to others when Japanese is already one the most time consuming language there is to learn as it is. But basically "just watch loads of stuff aimed at kids, with no subtitles" got me nowhere so far. It might work on some people, but certainly not me.
It is excellent that you have chosen a wide range of people when you making the video.
0:47 holy shit.
After a month and a half of studying japanese, I can finally understand one full sentence in this video that isn't just "hey guys."!!!!
which one
the black hair line is easy to understand
I addopted the Easy Japanese method using romaji and english phrases bellow the japanese sentence to study my lessons..very good
Why there's no easy Japanese channel😔 even in the main channel there's barely any. I want moree😭😭
Hi! Unfortunately, currently, we don't have any active co-producers to produce Easy Japanese episodes on regular basis. Once we find a team in Japan, we will do our best to provide more Easy Japanese content and open a dedicated channel. 😀
This is completely perfect, thank you for existing.
I watched this video several years ago, a bit more than 3 and I couldn't understand anything. For the past 2 years, I decided to study Japanese every day and now I'm able to understand around 70% of the video without reading the English subs but using the Japanese subs as helper.
Very interesting - hearing from real people about their opinions and the way they say it. Great idea, great video.
The man talking about snowfall and tattoos is such a gentleman! Would love to meet him and have a chat with him!
日本語とても大変です。
私は日本のことが好きなので勉強して日本に馴染めるようになりたいです。
まぁ、日本人なんですけどね
草
I DON’T UNDERSTAND KANJI YET ARGHH
なんでやねん騙されたわ
Same....kanji is hard, I cant understand them
@@safir2241 今は？少し漢字分かるの？
Do you know some kanji now?
すごくエネルギーがあふれてる、元気を出すビデオです！！
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1:13 that confirms my theory that Japanese people have hair like in anime
zeth roodwood Fashion sense, too
Oh
KENMA
Sanji
It’s mostly the “gothic “ or “emo” or just guys who like rock (song genre) in Japan who have that type of hairstyle lol.
This video was 9 years ago
There still isn't an easy Japanese channel
This is amazing for learning japanese. Finally found someone who fully translates :D
I'm surprised how much I understand. I think learning a new language is really rewarding, and really helpful in understanding another culture.
Fantastic idea; as a Japanese learner, I find this very helpful. :) One thing I would like to suggest to make it even better it to put the Hiragana over the more difficult Kanji in the subtitles.
Otherwise it was very enjoyable and I look forward to more Easy Japanese in the future. :)
Yeah, and without romaji
By knowing Kana. If a learner is advanced enough to want to tackle this type of video, Romaji acts as a crutch and can potentially hinder better pronunciation. One should already know the pronunciation of the Hiragana and Katakana.
***** kanjidaisuki.com/learn/beginner/writing/3/
***** Sorry for all the comments, but this link is good too allnihongo.com/why-using-romaji-is-bad-for-your-japanese-health/ Furigana is the way to go.
I wish a lot of Japanese subtitles, not just in videos but also in media would use Furigana. Im good at Kana, but Kanji Im still not very good with
I love a voice of the old man on the fish market.I have understand a lot what he said even I am just beginner in Japanees language.
why are the japanese so polite so friendly so cheerful SO CUTE
うわぁぁぁぁぁぁー。仙台一年間に住んでいました。ちょう懐かしい！たくさん思い出てきました。
how cute in 2:10 when she says: hazukashii
Estudo Reverso 恥ずかしい means shy.
Very nice channel. I have subscribed and will recommend this channel to my students. This is the "real" Japan in conversation with ordinary Japanese people.
Here to learn Japanese hehe
this series is AMAZING for listening practice.
どうもありがとうございました！
Good idea! I don't understand anything but I find Japanese culture interesting :)
really really love this channel !! now, I can learn easy thankyou
2:12 there's something about his voice I really like wow.
Yeah man, the way he carries himself too
Exactly!
siiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiick!!! this is my new favorite video!!!
please don't stop making these!
Thanks! XD
Please, keep making more Japanese videos because I find this video more helpful and especially when you put the Romaji that permits you to articulate and listen to the words accurately. Thank you and best of luck :)
I need more videos in easy Japanese channel please
2:13 Why does this guy seem so cool? :D Haha, I've recently gotten to the point of studying these videos in Japanese. Thanks for this series!
好きなビデオだ、ありがと！
3:03 these guys are hilarious 😂
ohh so sweet 1:59 ... the way she is talking and her voice is relaxing just like a character in a studio Ghibli movie 😍❤
I've been learning japanese for a couple of months. Played the video at 75% speed. Understood nothing lol
This is fantastic. A great addition to my japanese self studies.
とても便利ですよね！（＾－＾） Congratulations for selfstudying, it takes a lot of effort. Maybe this helps you with your studies too: I'm making kanji animations with mnemonics to remember them, and It'd be great to here some opinions. がんばってね！
Imagined if we had subtitles that displayed over our chest so people could understand you.
thats great to see so many people learn japanese ! ganbatte kudasai -ALL D BEST !
by d way , i also teach japanese at my channel ;
you can check it out incase you need any help ;
ILL BE GLAD !
Great! You learn the japanese that people really use, which no book could show me yet and get to know the culture and way of thinking a bit, too.
Easyと言いながら、メチャメチャ応用から入るという手法（笑）。
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しかも仙台の訛りも入っているという。
omg about the snow thing the person said, that's actually why i wanted to learn japanese - i feel like they have a lot of words related to describing feelings or moods and i find that so interesting!
Started learning japanese today. Day1. What better motivation than watching this video..😀😀
Hows it going now?
@@xoalethea She/he quits it
What a great channel! I will definitely use this to practice
3:08 why they holding hand when doing a interview
I thought that was weird too
thank you!!! I love these everyday people interviews :) they are so nice...
Great first episode!!!
When I saw this I died of absolute excitement. Can't wait for Mandarin!
This as the first episode of a series called Easy Japanese is simply ludicrous.
why?
3:29 - Otaku kawaii desu 😊
Still learning.....maybe almost 4 month i able to write and read hiragana and katakana ...... actually iam admire with japanese peoples and their politeness and they hard work....
I commented this before and I'm pasting my comment here with the hope of you correcting me or telling me what I don't know hehe 😅. I would really appreciate if you can help 🙏🏻 I'm a beginner, please add to my knowledge if you can!
Correct me if I'm wrong :-
0:00 to 0:15
Minasan : everyone (Minna means everyone, San is used as respect/or to say _dear_ everyone, I guess?)
Konnichiwa : hello
Kumagai Mona : (just her name)
Desu : is (so basically she's saying I'm kumagai Mona)
"Easy Japanese" wa : wa is just a particle used to signify that Easy Japanese is the object of this sentence.
Sendai Kara : from Sendai (Sendai is a city in Japan on Honshu island) so basically, Kara means from.
Ookuri : send (in this context, present)
shimasu : will
(So ookuri shimasu means will send/will present)
Kyou: Today
Machi : town
Hitotachi : people [you can also say hitobito for people but hitobito is a bit bookish while hitotachi is more casual.]
Machi no hitotachi: people of the town. (So "no" means of)
Nihon : Japan
Tsuite : About
nihon ni tsuite : you add ni before saying tsuite.
dou omotte iruka : what do you think
kiite mitai : try asking
to omoi masu : I would like (to is used as I would like *to* try asking)
0:25 to 0:40
Konnichiwa: hello
Etto : well
Kyou wa : today
Desu ne : (I didn't understand why she said this here)
Nihon ni tsuite: About Japan
Nihon no ii tokoro :-
Nihon : Japan
No : of (remember "machi no hitotachi"? People OF town. So no means of!)
ii : nice
Tokoro : places (or more like points. As in good stuff about Japan)
Ni tsuite: about
Hai : yes
Okikishite Run desu kedo : (didn't get what this means)
Nihon no ii toko? : Good points in Japan?
Hai : yes
Omou : what's
Ano : y'know
Nippon no ii tokoro:-
Nippon : Japan
No : of
ii : nice
tokoro : points / features
Sakana : fish
Dattara : in that case
Yappari ne : it's obvious!
{Done for today, spent half an hour on researching and typing out. Hope this helps all Japanese beginners like me and feel free to add on in replies! If not, I'll continue adding later!}