As a person learning Japanese here are some things I wish I knew before starting: 1) There is more than just informal and formal. There is also semi formal and SUPER formal. I really wish I knew this because getting into japanese, i was only aware of formal and informal and was confused when I heard waiters and store clerks speak in super formal. 2) A lot of japanese people who teach japanese on youtube tend to baby the English speaking audience. Often times they won't include the kanji for a particular word and just write hiragana(if the kanji isn't in the level they are teaching). For example the word かわいい. So many japanese teachers only taught the hiragana and i went many months thinking it was just that. Learning that it had a kanji was so frustrating because i had to essentially learn the word twice. 3) Don't be scared to learn from non native japanese people. People who went through the process of learning japanese might notice things that native japanese people don't notice. They'll be able to walk you through the logic of the grammar in a way you'll understand. 4) A lot of translations for japanese sentences aren't 100% accurate only modified in the English translation to make sense in English connotation. 5) The sentence structure is S-O-V however the verb isn't ALWAYS at the end. its depends on what you are trying to say. This might seem obvious for some but I was told that the verb is always at the end and was confused when it wouldn't be. 6) A lot of words taught to you will be taught in a incredibly slow matter. We aren't aware of this because we aren't native japanese speakers. But natural japanese is insanely hard and fast to follow when you are used to such slow teachings. Which is why immersion and hearing natural Japanese is so important. 7) Kanji IS important. Grammar IS important. A lot of japanese learners on youtube try to skip steps or come up with reasons not to learn kanji or grammar. They are important if you want to be fluent. Going half way really isn't as great as some people think. You'll have the understanding of japanese equivalent to that of a child. 8) Japanese is an INSANELY hard language. People say learning japanese is hard but you don't see the velocity of the statement until you are deep into it 9) The beginning stages are the hardest only because your brain is so unused to japanese. Someone once described learning a language like going for a swim in the ocean. The beginning, getting past all the waves, is the hardest part. Once you make it into the ocean you start to see the velocity of the what the language really is. 10) Language learning can be incredibly depressing. Hearing a sentence you cant understand might be like a punch in the gut. Sometimes seeing better Japanese learners can make you feel terrible about yourself. It all gets better though!
Thank you for the tips, tbh Its not like im learning another whole language. I just want to learn more about my dads native language and so in particular I can pretty much understand Japanese people speaking. Its just I don't know how to write it since I can't speak it properly.🥲
@@ducktylus @Ducktylus onomappu and misa ammo are good! misa ammo's videos are super long but they provide a lot of context and throughfully explain grammar points. onomappu talks about some really good memorization methods and all of his videos are subbed with japanese and English subtitles. Learn Japanese from zero is also good
@@lovehearte if you're serious about learning japanese the faster you jettison romaji the faster you'll attain a more natural understanding of japanese
@@FutureBoyWonder this is a comment on a video aimed at beginners?? sure, you need to learn your kana, but i dont think anyones japanese is going to be permanently stunted because they typed out "arigatou" once.
@@rowan4301 lol yes you're absolutely right boss i needed to be less snotty about it. I just know from personal experience how much it helped forever doing romaji i should have totally said it different though
you make Japanese sound so easy! no verb conjugation, no distinction between singular and plural, super easy question structure, (almost) no irregular verbs... that's very motivating to hear :)
My native language is Arabic , and i can speak French and English fluently . I can't really expect learning Japanese to be so easy for me but i am surely so excited to start ! Thank you so much for your video
my native language is gaga, and i can speak googoo and booboo fluently. I can't really expect learning baabaa to be so easy for me but i am surely so excited to start ! Thank you so much for your video
It still helps me to this day to remember the words "cookie" and "sushi". For the two irregular verbs, you would change "ku" to "ki" and "su" to "shi".
@@beelzeburger5608 I’m still a learner so I might be wrong, but if you are putting one of the two into the て(te) form of a verb you would change it. For example, する(suru) in て form becomes して(shite). The same goes for くる(kuru) which would become きて. Hope this helps!
hearing people's experiences with languages is super fun. I learned French in school so Spanish came super easy for me, I picked up a lot of stuff from watching tv shows and I was able to talk to people with little issues, native speakers just don't care if you're using proper grammar or not.
Currently learning German at school so ive questions ! How long it took for you to learn french ??? I can't wait to be able to speak German T.T (I speak french so if you want to practice in the same time just send your reply in french so i will correct it for you and if you're too good then you don't have just i don't want to waste your time that's why i said that)
@@iwanttokillmyself206 J'appris Francais a l'ecole, il y avait plus de vingt ans. Maintenant je pense que je peux comprendre les Francais mais seulement s'ils parlent lent (?). Aussi, mon (ma?) vocabulaire n'est bein plus, desole :(
@@stormtrooperelite1453 the correction would be "j'ai appris" "il y a plus de vingt ans" "lentement" "n'est plus bon" but as you said in any language people tend to not care about grammar, only the formal speaking should have it thankfully :D I'm a native tunisian (you may call it arabic, even if it's not really the case), i grew up with french too, learnt english on my own and will hopefully finish my japanese studies this year (also on my own) so I can testify that in all of those, grammar can be omitted outside
@@stormtrooperelite1453 l'erreur c'était juste dans le "avait" x) we don't really say "il y avait plus de [date]" so instead it's "il y a plus de [date]"
I've been studying Japanese for a long time but still, whenever I learn something new, the old things I learned disappear even though I took notes about it and it's meaning and specially kanji is like killing me softly 😂 but I must go on and continue!!! Can't wait to visit Japan someday and walk around.
After this knowledge I'm really motivated to learn Japanese because I realize how easy the structure of the words and sentences are in japanese especially in comparison with other languages. So the biggest struggle in learning Japanese is probably learning all the hiragana and katagana (and some Kanji) characters and memoriesing the words.
Kana is not that hard. A weekend may be enough for hiragana. Writing it down and testing it with kana.pro worked well for me. It took me 1,5 days, katakana should take less, because knowing hiragana helps. I recommend the Refold way, it has a lot of free material and up to date methodology.
I didn't really struggle with hiragana. You just need to write it a bunch. I just did some excecises from the textbook to read and write hiragana, without understanding the meaning yet
As a former university tutor of Japanese who hold Master of Japanese Applied Linguistics, I highly recommend this video for those who are thinking of learning Japanese. This video is encouraging.
This actually made me feel a lot less stressed about learning Japanese, yes it will be difficult but I think after this video it will be a bit easier/less stressful that I was making it out to be. I am going to rewatch and take notes, it was very helpful, thank you!
Can we all just appreciate that if you're learning English, or if English is your second language, that you've worked hard, and studied greatly. English isn't an easy language. As English is my first language, I can confirm that. And I've known so many native English speakers who seem to not appreciate the amount of work people really do have to put into learning any language, including English.
If one is a native English speaker, reading books is the best way to improve grammar. The problem today is that many people, including those in the media often make grammatical mistakes. Such people don't read books. They stand out a mile.
I totally agree with you. I started learning English a few years ago by reading books, listening music and occasional duolingo lessons and at times is beyond confusing. Even though is not that hard to reach a level of English enough to communicate with friends on a casual basis, is easy to embarrass oneself when trying to write it or speak it on a more formal setting or with unfamiliar people.
@@nzjpzh yeah, I know what you mean. I learned most of my English through extensive reading. Its kind of shocking how reading books makes all the difference in fluency.
Ya, reading books hammers the structure of the English language into your subconscious. The brain is the most powerful computer, and we can’t control most of it, but with time and practice the subconscious can be trained. To people that read a lot, seeing a word spelled wrong triggers a subconscious response, maybe you didn’t actively know how to spell it, but your subconscious has absorbed the way it looked and you can tell if it looks weird. It’s the same with just grammar in general too! You’ll also hear people like chess players saying the same thing about positions in chess. They’ve played it long enough and from a young enough age, that their subconsciouses can tell when a position is wrong, even if they themselves don’t necessarily understand every step involved. I think I’ve even heard of programmers that can tell when lines of code don’t feel right. Practice practice practice!
Bruh now I think Japanese would be easier to learn than Spanish 😭 AND NOW THAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO LEARN HIRAGANA AND KATAKANA IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S TRUE-
After watching this video, I am starting to understand why english is so difficult to learn for the majority of Japanese. Having them to to deal with singular/plural and masculine/feminine, a lot irregular verbs and other “complicated” things, I can understand why it is such a chore for them. Very good video.
English does not have masculine/feminine. For example: if you want to call something cool you do not have to change the ending or spelling of cool depending on what you are describing. A TV, pencil sharpener, the weather, are all just cool. Whereas in Spanish if you want to describe something you have to change the adjective to reflect the gender of the object you're describing. For example: if you want to call something delicious the word in Spanish is Delicioso or Deliciosa. To call a taco delicious you would say: El taco es delicioso. This is because taco is masculine so you must use the -o ending. To say a drink is delicious you would say: La bebida es deliciosa. This is because bebida is feminine so you have to use the -a ending. Hope this makes sense!
@@thatnerdyadventurer Spanish isn't even the worst since the ending gives away the gender for the most part. In French you just have to know, there's nothing pointing in one way or the other. And then there are languages that add a third, neutral gender, as if that wasn't complicated enough already... I can't imagine learning these coming from a language that doesn't use any of that.
Well, Spanish has its own set of weird rules like having to use the masculine article on feminine words that start with an accent on an A sound. E.g. El agua, el hacha Which disappears for the plural form.
And I have some really, really, REALLY good news for Japanese students! The MEANING of the kanji actually can be the easiest thing you learn about Japanese! I happen to have had the greatest kanji teacher in the history of the language and he made it so easy that in the two-year intensive language course in Tokyo we would graduate with the ability to pass the JPLT2 (that’s the official Japanese language proficiency test), and in my class sitting next to me, she passed a JPLT1 and got accepted straight into TODAI UNIVERSITY, the #1 university in Japan!
Spanish and all of it's verb conjugations is harder to master than Japanese (speaking, not writing). Fight me. 😄 Harder than Mandarin too, even with it's tones.
I loved how you focused on the positive side of learning japanese. I started learning just a few months ago, It’s hard but one of the things that I love about it is that since my first language is Spanish, I can understand almost all the sounds.
今日、このチャンネルを発見しました。 これまでのところ非常に有益です。 私はドイツ人で、英語とフランス語も話します。 私は約6年間、日本全般、特に日本語に興味を持っています。 .日本語も3年ほど集中的に学んでいます。読み書きもかなりうまくいきますが、ここでは話す機会がありません。 最寄りの大きな日本人コミュニティはデュッセルドルフにあり、車で少なくとも 4 時間かかります。 話す練習ができる人はいますか？ 2025年の大阪万博のために日本に行きたい.. I discovered this channel today. Very informative so far. I am German and also speak English and French. I have been interested in Japan in general and the Japanese language in particular for about 6 years. I've also been studying Japanese intensively for about three years. I can read and write quite well, but I don't have a chance to speak here. The nearest major Japanese community is in Düsseldorf, at least a four-hour drive away. Is there someone you can practice speaking with? I want to go to Japan for Osaka Expo 2025..
I'm an English major secondary teacher course student. I had feelings that I regretted taking this major (originally I was supposed to take BSIT-computer programming but because of my mental health and my parents convincing me to take my college here in my home town because they worry about me, I agreed).I wanted to learn Japanese and want to go to Japan someday, I started to take it serious learning it and I noticed it was easier for me to understand unlike back then. I just remembered one of my subjects "Structure of English" that subject is hard and a lot of branches of information in the smallest detail that you can't forget. Because of that subject and being in an English education major, I think I don't regret it anymore.I'm able to study Japanese langauge easier and if I am able to talk, read, and understand Japanese,I will become qualified if I ever thought of becoming an English teacher in Japan ^^.
Most of the complexity of Japanese is hidden in kanji. I feel like learning all the kanjis with all their different pronunciations and stroke orders is equivalent to learning the dozens of conjugations for every single verb in Spanish or most Romance languages, or learning the correct pronunciation for every single word in English. I'm so glad that at least Japanese and Spanish are phonetically consistent languages unlike English, at least up to some extent.
It varies from person to person. If you're like me and are only learning Japanese to be a bigger weeb (to watch anime and read manga in Japanese), then stuff like stroke order is not very important, and can be omitted. That being said, I fully agree with your first sentence; the biggest make or break for most people when it comes to learning Japanese are the Kanji. Learning a bare minimum of 2136 Kanji isn't easy, and the only 2 things helping you are the radical kanji (Kanji that exist as part of every single Kanji) and the Kunyomi/Onyomi rule of thumb.
For most learners, as long as you get stroke order mostly in the ballpark I don’t think it’s that big of an issue, it is primarily useful for looking characters up in kanji dictionaries successfully and for reading stylized text (which you will passively memorize anyway). In the modern day, I don’t think a ton of learners are going to be hand writing letters in Japanese, and in that event you could just be careful to make your characters look good so they come out readable despite any stroke order errors.
Impressive!👍 I used to ask my colleagues (Japanese) about Nihonggo, but, they just didn't bother answering and, simply, gave up. I somehow felt some sort of their stress just by hearing me ask some questions.😅 You, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy helping and sharing your language and culture. I love your enthusiasm. Thank you for your time and stay safe.👍
Trying to give myself a crash course to learn the basics in the next four months. I have a feeling you and your channel will be my best friend this Spring.
Thank you so much, I was getting overwhelmed trying to learn Japanese because duolingo is now introducing kanjis, and I've read someone saying "your first year of learning Japanese you should learn 2000 kanjis" and I think if I learn, as in be able to write them from memory correctly, 3 of them, it would already be a miracle. So I really needed this, and knowing the grammar is so much easier than English, which to me is the easiest language I've learned (my first languages are French and Italian, and a bit of German which I'm trying to re-learn, and damn is it hard, same for Italian but thankfully I grew up to it, but Latin, old Greek, and Finnish, all languages I tried at one point to learn, are so much worse than those 3, so I just abandoned them, cause I also like to learn languages, but not if I feel like I'm going insane!), the kanji thing will still always be an issue but you've reassured me so much! I'm also learning Norwegian at this time, and I'm surprised by how easy it is, yet grammar wise, Japanese seems even easier. The tough part will be when I'll have to learn kanjis and all the various degrees of formality. I imagine that if and when I'll be able to visit Japan, people will give me a pass if I'm being too formal or not enough, and will just appreciate the effort, but I really want to learn it well, sooo... yikes! But for now I'll just focus on learning katakana (hiragana I've already memorised, so that's good) and then we'll see!
I’ve been learning Japanese for a few years, and while I may not have learned much because I suck at self discipline and lack proactive use, I was so happy when I could read the first sentence :D 毎朝フルーツを食べます I eat fruit every morning (Formal)
This video just gave me the confidence boost to try learning Japanese. I speak German, Bosnian and English pretty much fluently. I also learned French in school for 6 years (but I've forgotten the majority of what I learned, 12 years have passed pretty fast haha). And I really hate to differentiate masculine/feminine/neuter - To this day I mix them up because one word can be feminine in German, neuter in Bosnian and masculine in French ughhh. English is the most convenient out of those. Also no conjugation? Only two tenses? Sounds amazing :') Learning the characters will be hard though (I used to know how to read Cyrillic, but forgot that as well - it really takes practice and repeating it often to not forget it)
Yeah! The Romance languages can be a real chore with their "conjugations", albeit English is not so far off... there are as many tenses in English-just that most of them are spelt in the same way, leading to so much confusion when you study any Romance language with like 10+ tenses... don't get me started on Akkusativ, Nomative, Dativ and the rest in Deutsch, cannot correlate those in English... very perplexing... so instead of worrying my head 😒 with directives across languages, just learn the new language as is like the natives do!
Then it must have seemed strange hearing how English has "so many" irregular verbs. Relative to Japanese, yes. Relative to other European language? Not even close.
HIII SAYAKA I AM SO SUPER HAPPY THAT I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL THOSE FACTS ARE SO USEFUL AND ENHANCED MY JAPANESE SKILL AS IF I STUDIED IT FOR 2 YEARS TYSM YOU'RE THE BEST I SUBBED AND HAVE A GREAT DAY WISH ME LUCK ON LEARNING sorry for caps i am just too happy hehe!!! 😊😊😊
I started learning Japanese by myself recently and I was kinda scared to start studying grammar since I'm really struggling with my English grammar but your video gave me the motivation I needed ; ;❤ and based on your words it seems like Japanese grammar is actually similar to my first language's grammar [which is Farsi btw] and that makes me relieved ^^ ありがとうございますさやか先生！！とてもたすかりました！！
can I ask a question with Japanese katakana and hiragana is there just a couple to remember not like kanji there are so much hiragana and katakana is easy to remember right ?
@@lydiawang4481 i guess it depends on why you are learning Japanese and how/where you want to use it. If you just wanna be able to speak and write a little, then you only need to memorize the essential ones. But if writing is more import to you, then you should definitely study more kanji.
Idk Why am I watching this video ..I'm not learning japanese .. But still it's so satisfying and gives me some sort of calmness watching her videos...😍
Hi! Here a Spanish girl! Honestly even for me it's difficult, the grammar is really difficult not gonna lie, sometimes i can't talk correctly just because of the grammar but trust me, you can do it!
Now I'm motivated to learn Japanese again! Thanks for this video, you seem to be a really kind person :) I'm currently going through Hiragana and I've already learned 20 characters! 🇯🇵
Great video! As a native Spanish speaker leaning Japanese I guess we're even when it comes to suffering from learning these languages lol. Looking forward to your next videos! +1 sub :)
My mother tongue is German and English. And in German we have the exact same speech style for elders, strangers and authorities sort of. I think it's a respectful way of approaching people / a warm way of approaching loved ones. I started learning 14 days ago and I am almost done with the first section (10 Units in section 1) and I rarely make mistakes, even though I never even thought of learning Japanese up until 2 weeks ago, because I figured it would be waaaay too hard. BUT, I tried learning French the same way and dropped it after getting to "how to ask questions". Japanese is very intuitive in my opinion, clearly structured and even with just two weeks of learning, I feel like I could get around my neighborhood if I were in Japan. For food and simple tasks only of course. It's super rewarding to be able to read a non-latin language. Even if it's just the pronounciation. Vocabulary will fill itself up over time. I am planning on watchig kid's cartoons in Japanese to hear it more often around me. Germany and Japan are buddies, but unfortunately there aren't many Japanese here. Except for Düsseldorf (which is the enemy city of where I am from 😅). Maybe in a few years I will travel to Japan and be able to use my Japanese skills to buy train tickets, get hotel rooms and rent a motorcycle or something. Important stuff to not get lost as a tourist. Or maybe talk to a beautiful Geisha 😊
1:40 Katakana is also used for Kun'yomi (or On'yomi, I always forget which is which 😢, I'm talking about the sino-japanese reading), even though it's not loan words 😐. 3:21 "Watashi" tends to be used by women more than men. Men would use "boku" or "ore" (I think there's a third one, but I can't think of it right off the top of my head 😅). 6:03 Japanese does have genders (masculine/feminine), but not in the same way that languages like French or Spanish do. It's whole speech patterns that're associated with a gender instead of certain words. Basically, you can speak an impeccable Japanese and still sound completely off if you speak as the other gender. 8:54 There's also the verb "to be" (kinda): "da (だ)". And that's if you don't think of the 3rd verb group as irregular verbs altogether 🥲😅. Here's my #1 thing to know for learning proper Japanese: pitch matters. Just like Mandarin has 4 tones and Cantonese has 9, Japanese has 2 (high/low). Depending on how you pronounce a word, it can actually mean something different. Example: "hashi" can mean both "chopsticks" or "bridge". Iirc, low-high is chopsticks, high-low is bridge, but I might be wrong as it's been awhile 😅. The crux of the matter is that pitch accent definitely matters and shouldn't be neglected.
I found this video super helpful! I used to be so confused about the order of speech and why it sounded weird to me, then you explained that the verb comes before the object in English and vice versa in Japanese and it all mad sense!
ありがとうござます I am trying to learn Japanese to boost up my vocabulary in languages. I find it a tiny bit similar to hindi with the SOV-oriented and "です" at the end which can be compared to "हैं". Kanji seems a huge barrier that I can never conquer, however I'll be trying my best to get past the barrier and be able to compose and understand words and sentences in japanese.
bro its not sov order. You can do any order you want and even omit some of the parts of sentence, as long as context makes the sentence make sense. if you're making the sentence start and it doesn't make sense without context, just include everything. s, o, v. for example watashi ga tabemono wo tabeta = I ate food tabemono wo watashi ga tabeta = I ate food
@@starpeep5769 the same would be applied to hindi in that contextual sense. "Main paani se peeta hain" -I drink water. "Paani se main peeta hain" -Water (is what) I drink. Thanks for the suggestion though, it did give me some more of an insight towards Japanese grammar structure for sentence composition, and I'll keep that in mind. This did help in giving me a boost.
I'm not studying japanese, but as far as I'm fascinated by tour culture RUclips is usually showing me Japan related videos. You and this video are great. I'm neither english native and I'm usually having problems to understand english without subs, but I understood your whole speech (every single word!). I just wanted you to know that your video is great and easy understanding. I'll start following you, and who knows, maybe I'll start learning japanese too. Greetings from Spain!!
さやか様はとても良い先生です、ありがとうございます (i started learning Japanese about a year ago but the kanji seemed like some huge overwhelming labyrinth i could never conquer.... however i feel like i've finally broken the back of it, like i can see the light of at the end of the tunnel, thank you so so much for such an inspirational, educational video). Wish i could've seen your videos a year ago, then i would've been more inspired to learn Japanese :) Good luck with learning Spanish also, you remind me of my sister, she studies Spanish also, i'm sure you'll do great at it, you're so intelligent :D
A trick to learn kanji: just learn words written with kanjis. Yes, the meaning, kun and on-yomi are useful, and the stroke order is important, but you shouldn't focus on it as it just gets complicated and will not help you learn Japanese overall. Just learn the words! Start with easy ones, and try to learn them in batches (for example, numbers, time-related (day, month, etc.), etc.). You are going to remember them way more easily, and the more words you learn, the easier it will get because some simple kanjis will be present and help you memorize. And since kanjis are ideograms instead of phonetic characters, it will give you mnemotecnic tricks to remember words.
@@johncowen8798 Are you saying Japanese people told you that? I would be sad if that were the case, but not surprised... tolerance and open-mindedness culture-wise is not known to be their forte. And I would personally say the worst part in translation to Japanese or from Japanese is how omissions are common. When translating to Japanese, you basically have to strip your sentence of many things considered unecessary, eventhough they don't seem that way to you, and from Japanese, you basically have to guess the missing parts.
@@honey-chanhaninozuka506 Definitely not, it was english people who told me that. But I'm so lucky to have made amazing friends from Japan who appreciated my efforts more than the morons from my own douchebag country, I wouldn't even be able to sit here saying I feel like I know I can eventually reach fluency without my amazing Japanese friends, Thank You all so much
Muchas gracias! Mi primer idioma es español y inglés es mi segundo idioma. Espero aprender japonés y he comenzado en la app duolingo. Te deseo mucho éxito al aprender español que eatoy de acuerdo, es dificil aprenderlo y quiero darte las gracias por estos consejos que me han ayudado a mony se que a muchos en el futuro ^^
Una pequeña corrección: se utiliza la conjunción “e” en lugar de “y” cuando la siguiente palabra empieza con “i” o “hi”. En este caso sería “español e inglés”.
As a Taiwanese, it is so wierd to learn Japanese in English, but I like your videos. So I think that being a Chinese user, I think it is easier for me to read cause I basically understand all the kanjis' meaning ,and even though I don't know what it means in Japanese I can still infer from the original meaning. This helped a lot in my Japanese learning. I'll keep going~~
@@arseniix yes for example, 母 means mother in both languages but not all kanji means the same like 大丈夫 this means real man in Chinese but it means "it's ok" in Japanese
@@Imablåhaj I always thought that the Japanese, Chinese and Korean cultures are like completely different, even tho they're in close proximity to one another and share somewhat common history. For example, although here in Europe nations lived side by side for our whole history, we all have very different languages here and different cultures. However we do share some common words which came from ancient Greek or Latin. Hmmm... maybe this can be compared to kanji in some sense, I guess. Also, I do support Taiwan in your wish for independence! I hope everything will be ok in future.
Italian here started to study japanese recently. I learned more from this video than in many hours of study because this clarified many doubts to me 😆 Thank you!
You're smile just made my day! Super super useful video, ありがとうさやかさん💓 Out of context but can I ask you a thing? I have this doubt , when we say "4" we can say よん or し. What's the difference? We can use them as we want or there's a rules?? I always had this question 😹😹 Be ready, I'll ask you so many things in your videos' comments section . I'm so exited to improve my Japanese and by the way I love your teaching methods 💕
I am a Turkish and Japanese is very similar to Turkish and that makes me so happy because for two last years I have been learning Spanish and to learn all those masculine feminine words are so boring to me and verb conjugations are harder than Turkish and there are lots of stem changes,irregular verbs,etc. Because of that I really want to learn Japanese.I love your videos
Yep! I had been learning Turkish for some time and when I started Japanese, I really mentioned it's unexpectedly similar to Turkish. As far as I know, Japanese is in same language group with Japanese
@@TheAerialgreen turkic languages originate in far eastern and central eastern asia actually. the turkic are very wide spread and turkey turks is just one of them
As someone whose native language is german, I love the fact that japanese has such a little amount of irregular verbs and also only two tenses. While my native language has a verb form for every person and...oh wait, we have six tenses. So a verb in german has over 30 versions and a whole lot of irregular verbs.
We have like 12 articles all depending on the gender of the word, context its used in and the "case/kasus" the sentence is in (Nominativ,dativ,akkusativ,genitiv) I would assume german is pretty hard for people whos native language doesn't gender words
And then there are also some dialects like my own (rheinisches Platt) that add even more tenses as we use abundantly progressive forms (which don't exist in High German). Ich bin (am) essen. Ich war (am) essen. Ich werde (am) essen sein. ... Though in return we only have two Geni in our dialect (masculine and neutrum, so a man is e.g. "d'r Klinzens Jupp" while a woman is e.g. "et Klinzens Kääte") (we usually state the family name in its possessive form first, so "der Johannes Klinz" and "die Katharine Klinz" become the before mentioned names)
@@hmvollbanane1259 wait....ich bin am essen doesnt exist in hochdeutsch? Dang. I didnt know that. So, that means it basically only exists in NRW or elsewhere too?
@@Cloud-zq3cc it apparently only exists in the south and predominantly west with the rhineland having the highest acceptance for its use. Other regions either don't have any progressive at all or form them differently (e.g. "ich bin beim Essen"/ "im Essen" instead of "ich bin am essen"/ "ich bin essen")
I'm Spanish and struggling to learn Japanese by my own. Both share many things in common, like pronunciation or omitted subjects or questioning with pronunciation. Japanese grammar is a lot simpler than Spanish one, but learning kanji is very confusing. 頑張りましょう!
i think its wonderful how youre disguising the fact that we still need to learn 1000-2000 (depending on level) different kanji with all their kun and on readings and different readings overall. but other than that, yeah super easy language x) love your videos !
I started learning Japanese over a year ago and gave up. Returning to learning the language today using your videos and you've explained sooooo much to help me understand Japanese better. Arigatou
I think the hardest part of learning Japanese is memorizing the 3 literature specially kanji🤣. Japanese sentence structure isn't as complex as english. you just half to have more japanese words in your vocabulary.
I think mentioning pronunciatin is also great. In Japanese you always pronounce the letters the same, in syllables. Not like English where you change pronunciation of letter in every different word lol.
Thanks for this video I m Indian and currently learning Japanese. Now I know the best thing about Japanese that the people are soooooo sweet as their language
So happy found you. I start learning Japanese from you daily now😂. Love the simplicity way of your teaching which makes me feel I can actually speak Japanese some day❤
Thank you soo much I'm the beginner in studying Japanese, and discovering this video and your channel is the best thing that happen to me today ありがとうございます。😊
Finaly sigh of relief After watching so many videos about japnese learning on RUclips ,glad landed up on this video before starting japnese learning journey.
I just found this channel while searching for resources to learn Japanese and I'm very impressed with how clear and concise your videos are. You also deliver the information in an engaging way and in digestible portions for a beginner (not too much, not too little). I think it helps that your English is very strong and you understand how to properly relate Japanese words and concepts to their equivalents in English. Your courses also look rather interesting! Keep up the great work!
I totally agree! I'm half Cuban but raised in the Netherlands speaking Dutch with English as a second language. To this day I still struggle with Spanish and make more mistakes with it because of all those mad variations. But Japanese feels so logical and even though the words themselves are very different from what I grew up with all these factors that she mentions make a lot easier to learn.
Thank you! This was super helpful from the point of view of a beginner only just starting out. Also helpful to note all the many differences between Japanese and English grammar and sentence structures. Makes me realise how easy I have it not having to learn English again! Totally agree about the read- read-read thing too! aha!
Thank you so much, I always loved to learn japanese language but wasn't sure about it, but you encouraged me to start with your unique way in simplifying things in addition to your beautiful smile of course
In Russian that apple sketch could also be played with 1 single word, namely [boodesh?]. Literally this means "will you?" but given the context it's self evident to people that you're prompting to have a taste of something. It's also interesting that the word [boodesh] is a morphological form of the verb "to be", since in Russian there's plenty of ways to "agree" verbs with nouns and tenses. This really drives people learning Russian crazy, but we have what we have
As a person learning Japanese here are some things I wish I knew before starting:
1) There is more than just informal and formal. There is also semi formal and SUPER formal. I really wish I knew this because getting into japanese, i was only aware of formal and informal and was confused when I heard waiters and store clerks speak in super formal.
2) A lot of japanese people who teach japanese on youtube tend to baby the English speaking audience. Often times they won't include the kanji for a particular word and just write hiragana(if the kanji isn't in the level they are teaching). For example the word かわいい. So many japanese teachers only taught the hiragana and i went many months thinking it was just that. Learning that it had a kanji was so frustrating because i had to essentially learn the word twice.
3) Don't be scared to learn from non native japanese people. People who went through the process of learning japanese might notice things that native japanese people don't notice. They'll be able to walk you through the logic of the grammar in a way you'll understand.
4) A lot of translations for japanese sentences aren't 100% accurate only modified in the English translation to make sense in English connotation.
5) The sentence structure is S-O-V however the verb isn't ALWAYS at the end. its depends on what you are trying to say. This might seem obvious for some but I was told that the verb is always at the end and was confused when it wouldn't be.
6) A lot of words taught to you will be taught in a incredibly slow matter. We aren't aware of this because we aren't native japanese speakers. But natural japanese is insanely hard and fast to follow when you are used to such slow teachings. Which is why immersion and hearing natural Japanese is so important.
7) Kanji IS important. Grammar IS important. A lot of japanese learners on youtube try to skip steps or come up with reasons not to learn kanji or grammar. They are important if you want to be fluent. Going half way really isn't as great as some people think. You'll have the understanding of japanese equivalent to that of a child.
8) Japanese is an INSANELY hard language. People say learning japanese is hard but you don't see the velocity of the statement until you are deep into it
9) The beginning stages are the hardest only because your brain is so unused to japanese. Someone once described learning a language like going for a swim in the ocean. The beginning, getting past all the waves, is the hardest part. Once you make it into the ocean you start to see the velocity of the what the language really is.
10) Language learning can be incredibly depressing. Hearing a sentence you cant understand might be like a punch in the gut. Sometimes seeing better Japanese learners can make you feel terrible about yourself. It all gets better though!
Where did you learn Japanese and can you recommend some RUclipsrs who teach it well?
Thank you for the tips, tbh Its not like im learning another whole language. I just want to learn more about my dads native language and so in particular I can pretty much understand Japanese people speaking. Its just I don't know how to write it since I can't speak it properly.🥲
@@ducktylus search up tae Kim’s guide on Japanese online. I’m using that at the moment to learn and it’ll you grammar and the very basics of Japanese
@@ducktylus @Ducktylus onomappu and misa ammo are good! misa ammo's videos are super long but they provide a lot of context and throughfully explain grammar points. onomappu talks about some really good memorization methods and all of his videos are subbed with japanese and English subtitles. Learn Japanese from zero is also good
@@User-pn2yt thank you!
Mostly other people are like explaining Japanese to English translation but you explain like whole structure of it❤️ Arigatou 🤗
Oh God you used romaji
Don't ever use romaji when communicating.
In fact it should never be used learn hiragana etc and drop that other shit
@@FutureBoyWonder there are words in romaji that are in hiragana like "あく
@@lovehearte if you're serious about learning japanese the faster you jettison romaji the faster you'll attain a more natural understanding of japanese
@@FutureBoyWonder this is a comment on a video aimed at beginners?? sure, you need to learn your kana, but i dont think anyones japanese is going to be permanently stunted because they typed out "arigatou" once.
@@rowan4301 lol yes you're absolutely right boss i needed to be less snotty about it. I just know from personal experience how much it helped forever doing romaji i should have totally said it different though
I love that you don't edit out your little mistakes, makes it more friendly and inviting, like actually talking to someone :)
yea I agree
you make Japanese sound so easy! no verb conjugation, no distinction between singular and plural, super easy question structure, (almost) no irregular verbs...
that's very motivating to hear :)
there's the dark side as well
Ya I died when I found out numbers are different depending on how you’re using them, like if you’re counting people, telling the time, etc
@@sarenaa1307 but numbers are really easy to write and read tho
My native language is Arabic , and i can speak French and English fluently . I can't really expect learning Japanese to be so easy for me but i am surely so excited to start ! Thank you so much for your video
Oh same my native language is Arabic I can speak English fluently I learn french at school!
@@Rblx_rosee May I ask what country you're from?
@@stretchypants7140tunisia morocco algeria lebanon one of these countries
my native language is gaga, and i can speak googoo and booboo fluently. I can't really expect learning baabaa to be so easy for me but i am surely so excited to start ! Thank you so much for your video
It still helps me to this day to remember the words "cookie" and "sushi". For the two irregular verbs, you would change "ku" to "ki" and "su" to "shi".
Can you please illustrate with the help of example sentences?
@@beelzeburger5608 I’m still a learner so I might be wrong, but if you are putting one of the two into the て(te) form of a verb you would change it. For example, する(suru) in て form becomes して(shite). The same goes for くる(kuru) which would become きて. Hope this helps!
@Taylor this is most helpful! Thanks! Arigatou!
@@faymelp826Ohh, this makes a lot of sense! Thank you so much for explaining!
@@crimsoneclipse5677 no problem! Happy to help
hearing people's experiences with languages is super fun. I learned French in school so Spanish came super easy for me, I picked up a lot of stuff from watching tv shows and I was able to talk to people with little issues, native speakers just don't care if you're using proper grammar or not.
Currently learning German at school so ive questions ! How long it took for you to learn french ??? I can't wait to be able to speak German T.T (I speak french so if you want to practice in the same time just send your reply in french so i will correct it for you and if you're too good then you don't have just i don't want to waste your time that's why i said that)
@@iwanttokillmyself206 J'appris Francais a l'ecole, il y avait plus de vingt ans. Maintenant je pense que je peux comprendre les Francais mais seulement s'ils parlent lent (?). Aussi, mon (ma?) vocabulaire n'est bein plus, desole :(
@@stormtrooperelite1453 the correction would be "j'ai appris" "il y a plus de vingt ans" "lentement" "n'est plus bon"
but as you said in any language people tend to not care about grammar, only the formal speaking should have it thankfully :D I'm a native tunisian (you may call it arabic, even if it's not really the case), i grew up with french too, learnt english on my own and will hopefully finish my japanese studies this year (also on my own) so I can testify that in all of those, grammar can be omitted outside
@@the10creative-blinis46 c'est comme j'ai dit , vingt ans :)
@@stormtrooperelite1453 l'erreur c'était juste dans le "avait" x) we don't really say "il y avait plus de [date]" so instead it's "il y a plus de [date]"
さやかちゃんの動画、分かりやすくて、楽しいです❤️さすが！You’re great!!!! 💕
Hello miku sensei, it is awesome to see you here!!
みくさん、ありがとうございます🥺❤️もっと良くできるように頑張ります！
@@NihongoDekita No your accent is beautiful and Understanding .
はい! そうですよ! さやかさんのビデオは美しくてすごいですね! 頑張ってください!
まだ初心者ですけど、私もRUclips チャンネルで日本語を教えています。😄
Hi
when she talks in english she sounds friendly but in japanese it gives you a strict teacher like vibes.
To me it’s always so important to learn basic phonetics and grammar structure so you can put your own sentences together fairly early on
I've been studying Japanese for a long time but still, whenever I learn something new, the old things I learned disappear even though I took notes about it and it's meaning and specially kanji is like killing me softly 😂 but I must go on and continue!!! Can't wait to visit Japan someday and walk around.
頑張っ 日本語は難しいね。
@@Grux_ASG does the people who live in Japan know all the Kanji?
@@alekchris1457 no xd It's probably impossible
@@goodnight2344, I am watching a video right now, seems like most Japanese people don’t remember all of them, thank god. Hahah
@@goodnight2344, I am watching a video right now, seems like most Japanese people don’t remember all of them, thank god. Hahah
After this knowledge I'm really motivated to learn Japanese because I realize how easy the structure of the words and sentences are in japanese especially in comparison with other languages. So the biggest struggle in learning Japanese is probably learning all the hiragana and katagana (and some Kanji) characters and memoriesing the words.
Kana is not that hard. A weekend may be enough for hiragana. Writing it down and testing it with kana.pro worked well for me. It took me 1,5 days, katakana should take less, because knowing hiragana helps.
I recommend the Refold way, it has a lot of free material and up to date methodology.
I didn't really struggle with hiragana. You just need to write it a bunch. I just did some excecises from the textbook to read and write hiragana, without understanding the meaning yet
As a former university tutor of Japanese who hold Master of Japanese Applied Linguistics, I highly recommend this video for those who are thinking of learning Japanese. This video is encouraging.
This actually made me feel a lot less stressed about learning Japanese, yes it will be difficult but I think after this video it will be a bit easier/less stressful that I was making it out to be. I am going to rewatch and take notes, it was very helpful, thank you!
I like how clearly she speaks so its easier for me to pick up on the sounds of how some of the words are suppose to sound
Can we all just appreciate that if you're learning English, or if English is your second language, that you've worked hard, and studied greatly.
English isn't an easy language. As English is my first language, I can confirm that. And I've known so many native English speakers who seem to not appreciate the amount of work people really do have to put into learning any language, including English.
If one is a native English speaker, reading books is the best way to improve grammar. The problem today is that many people, including those in the media often make grammatical mistakes. Such people don't read books. They stand out a mile.
I totally agree with you. I started learning English a few years ago by reading books, listening music and occasional duolingo lessons and at times is beyond confusing.
Even though is not that hard to reach a level of English enough to communicate with friends on a casual basis, is easy to embarrass oneself when trying to write it or speak it on a more formal setting or with unfamiliar people.
@@nzjpzh yeah, I know what you mean. I learned most of my English through extensive reading. Its kind of shocking how reading books makes all the difference in fluency.
I'm pretty sure I just wanted to play videogames 😅
Ya, reading books hammers the structure of the English language into your subconscious. The brain is the most powerful computer, and we can’t control most of it, but with time and practice the subconscious can be trained. To people that read a lot, seeing a word spelled wrong triggers a subconscious response, maybe you didn’t actively know how to spell it, but your subconscious has absorbed the way it looked and you can tell if it looks weird. It’s the same with just grammar in general too! You’ll also hear people like chess players saying the same thing about positions in chess. They’ve played it long enough and from a young enough age, that their subconsciouses can tell when a position is wrong, even if they themselves don’t necessarily understand every step involved. I think I’ve even heard of programmers that can tell when lines of code don’t feel right. Practice practice practice!
Bruh now I think Japanese would be easier to learn than Spanish 😭 AND NOW THAT I'VE BEEN TRYING TO LEARN HIRAGANA AND KATAKANA IT SEEMS LIKE THAT'S TRUE-
Trust me Spanish is easy (I’m Spanish so don’t trust me)
Update?
I heard that if you know some Spanish, it is easier to learn Japanese since the rules a somewhat similar
@snowy_arcticfox9303 i heard that as well. Unfortunately i dont know spanish and have already committed to Japanese.
spanish is also a latin language so if you know english it shouldn't be that bad
After watching this video, I am starting to understand why english is so difficult to learn for the majority of Japanese. Having them to to deal with singular/plural and masculine/feminine, a lot irregular verbs and other “complicated” things, I can understand why it is such a chore for them. Very good video.
English does not have masculine/feminine. For example: if you want to call something cool you do not have to change the ending or spelling of cool depending on what you are describing. A TV, pencil sharpener, the weather, are all just cool. Whereas in Spanish if you want to describe something you have to change the adjective to reflect the gender of the object you're describing. For example: if you want to call something delicious the word in Spanish is Delicioso or Deliciosa. To call a taco delicious you would say: El taco es delicioso. This is because taco is masculine so you must use the -o ending. To say a drink is delicious you would say: La bebida es deliciosa. This is because bebida is feminine so you have to use the -a ending. Hope this makes sense!
@@thatnerdyadventurer Spanish isn't even the worst since the ending gives away the gender for the most part. In French you just have to know, there's nothing pointing in one way or the other. And then there are languages that add a third, neutral gender, as if that wasn't complicated enough already... I can't imagine learning these coming from a language that doesn't use any of that.
same with hindi lol@@FrankBrennosTheGreatest
Well, Spanish has its own set of weird rules like having to use the masculine article on feminine words that start with an accent on an A sound. E.g. El agua, el hacha
Which disappears for the plural form.
the entire thing about verbs is really encouraging because that’s where i struggle the most with learning spanish
And I have some really, really, REALLY good news for Japanese students! The MEANING of the kanji actually can be the easiest thing you learn about Japanese! I happen to have had the greatest kanji teacher in the history of the language and he made it so easy that in the two-year intensive language course in Tokyo we would graduate with the ability to pass the JPLT2 (that’s the official Japanese language proficiency test), and in my class sitting next to me, she passed a JPLT1 and got accepted straight into TODAI UNIVERSITY, the #1 university in Japan!
What is the name of the intensive course you took in Tokyo? Could you tell me, please?
Could you tell where was this course that you were doing?
Yes, count me in
It’s so interesting seeing other people’s perspective, I learnt Spanish in school and it was super easy because it has many similarities to English
True, but for me, it was moving too fast and because I hated homework I never studied at home so I suck at Spanish basically
I wish to learn it too .. in fact I like this language, there's some similarities in words between Spanish and my dialect language
Spanish and all of it's verb conjugations is harder to master than Japanese (speaking, not writing). Fight me. 😄
Harder than Mandarin too, even with it's tones.
@@DarkZone68256 May I know what dialect that is? Mucho Graçias!
@@TheEarthRealm 🙌 🙌 🙌 🙌 no dispute there bruv!
I loved how you focused on the positive side of learning japanese. I started learning just a few months ago, It’s hard but one of the things that I love about it is that since my first language is Spanish, I can understand almost all the sounds.
can you recommend me a youtube channel for learning japanese please ?
Thank you for this great video! I'm learning Japanese for 3 months and I found your explanations really useful and delighting! 💕💕💕 日本語が大好きです。
頑張りましょう！
OMG I COULD READ THIS!!! I LIKE JAPANESE VERRY MUCH. I am verry new to the language lol.
今日、このチャンネルを発見しました。
これまでのところ非常に有益です。
私はドイツ人で、英語とフランス語も話します。
私は約6年間、日本全般、特に日本語に興味を持っています。
.日本語も3年ほど集中的に学んでいます。読み書きもかなりうまくいきますが、ここでは話す機会がありません。
最寄りの大きな日本人コミュニティはデュッセルドルフにあり、車で少なくとも 4 時間かかります。
話す練習ができる人はいますか？
2025年の大阪万博のために日本に行きたい..
I discovered this channel today.
Very informative so far.
I am German and also speak English and French.
I have been interested in Japan in general and the Japanese language in particular for about 6 years.
I've also been studying Japanese intensively for about three years. I can read and write quite well, but I don't have a chance to speak here.
The nearest major Japanese community is in Düsseldorf, at least a four-hour drive away.
Is there someone you can practice speaking with?
I want to go to Japan for Osaka Expo 2025..
As a Spaniard living in Germany and preparing for a trip to Japan, I appreciate that you speak English and are learning Spanish 🙏🏻 Gambatte!
I'm an English major secondary teacher course student. I had feelings that I regretted taking this major (originally I was supposed to take BSIT-computer programming but because of my mental health and my parents convincing me to take my college here in my home town because they worry about me, I agreed).I wanted to learn Japanese and want to go to Japan someday, I started to take it serious learning it and I noticed it was easier for me to understand unlike back then. I just remembered one of my subjects "Structure of English" that subject is hard and a lot of branches of information in the smallest detail that you can't forget. Because of that subject and being in an English education major, I think I don't regret it anymore.I'm able to study Japanese langauge easier and if I am able to talk, read, and understand Japanese,I will become qualified if I ever thought of becoming an English teacher in Japan ^^.
0:38 Types of Characters.
2:13 Speech Style.
2:53 Sentence Structure.
3:33 Question Sentence.
4:31 Omitted Nouns.
5:13 No Singular Plural.
5:39 No Feminine Masculine.
6:07 No Noun Verb , Noun adjective Agreements.
6:53 Verb Tense.
8:04 Irregular Verbs.
When I saw on instagram that you’re starting a RUclips Channel i was really happy 😍 I love your content. It’s really helpful 😃❣️
Commenting from the future and wanted to say it’s amazing how well you’ve progressed your English!
Thanks Sayaka, your lessons might one day make me understand my in-laws! 😆
You got this! Thank you for learning Japanese with me ☺️
Most of the complexity of Japanese is hidden in kanji.
I feel like learning all the kanjis with all their different pronunciations and stroke orders is equivalent to learning the dozens of conjugations for every single verb in Spanish or most Romance languages, or learning the correct pronunciation for every single word in English.
I'm so glad that at least Japanese and Spanish are phonetically consistent languages unlike English, at least up to some extent.
It varies from person to person. If you're like me and are only learning Japanese to be a bigger weeb (to watch anime and read manga in Japanese), then stuff like stroke order is not very important, and can be omitted. That being said, I fully agree with your first sentence; the biggest make or break for most people when it comes to learning Japanese are the Kanji. Learning a bare minimum of 2136 Kanji isn't easy, and the only 2 things helping you are the radical kanji (Kanji that exist as part of every single Kanji) and the Kunyomi/Onyomi rule of thumb.
For most learners, as long as you get stroke order mostly in the ballpark I don’t think it’s that big of an issue, it is primarily useful for looking characters up in kanji dictionaries successfully and for reading stylized text (which you will passively memorize anyway). In the modern day, I don’t think a ton of learners are going to be hand writing letters in Japanese, and in that event you could just be careful to make your characters look good so they come out readable despite any stroke order errors.
Impressive!👍 I used to ask my colleagues (Japanese) about Nihonggo, but, they just didn't bother answering and, simply, gave up. I somehow felt some sort of their stress just by hearing me ask some questions.😅 You, on the other hand, seemed to enjoy helping and sharing your language and culture. I love your enthusiasm. Thank you for your time and stay safe.👍
Your style of explanation actually makes me want to learn Japanese
Your videos are so fun to watch, it's like speaking to a friend rather than listening to a lecture.
Trying to give myself a crash course to learn the basics in the next four months.
I have a feeling you and your channel will be my best friend this Spring.
Thank you so much, I was getting overwhelmed trying to learn Japanese because duolingo is now introducing kanjis, and I've read someone saying "your first year of learning Japanese you should learn 2000 kanjis" and I think if I learn, as in be able to write them from memory correctly, 3 of them, it would already be a miracle. So I really needed this, and knowing the grammar is so much easier than English, which to me is the easiest language I've learned (my first languages are French and Italian, and a bit of German which I'm trying to re-learn, and damn is it hard, same for Italian but thankfully I grew up to it, but Latin, old Greek, and Finnish, all languages I tried at one point to learn, are so much worse than those 3, so I just abandoned them, cause I also like to learn languages, but not if I feel like I'm going insane!), the kanji thing will still always be an issue but you've reassured me so much! I'm also learning Norwegian at this time, and I'm surprised by how easy it is, yet grammar wise, Japanese seems even easier. The tough part will be when I'll have to learn kanjis and all the various degrees of formality. I imagine that if and when I'll be able to visit Japan, people will give me a pass if I'm being too formal or not enough, and will just appreciate the effort, but I really want to learn it well, sooo... yikes! But for now I'll just focus on learning katakana (hiragana I've already memorised, so that's good) and then we'll see!
I’ve been learning Japanese for a few years, and while I may not have learned much because I suck at self discipline and lack proactive use, I was so happy when I could read the first sentence :D
毎朝フルーツを食べます
I eat fruit every morning
(Formal)
This video just gave me the confidence boost to try learning Japanese. I speak German, Bosnian and English pretty much fluently. I also learned French in school for 6 years (but I've forgotten the majority of what I learned, 12 years have passed pretty fast haha). And I really hate to differentiate masculine/feminine/neuter - To this day I mix them up because one word can be feminine in German, neuter in Bosnian and masculine in French ughhh. English is the most convenient out of those. Also no conjugation? Only two tenses? Sounds amazing :') Learning the characters will be hard though (I used to know how to read Cyrillic, but forgot that as well - it really takes practice and repeating it often to not forget it)
Yeah! The Romance languages can be a real chore with their "conjugations", albeit English is not so far off... there are as many tenses in English-just that most of them are spelt in the same way, leading to so much confusion when you study any Romance language with like 10+ tenses... don't get me started on Akkusativ, Nomative, Dativ and the rest in Deutsch, cannot correlate those in English... very perplexing... so instead of worrying my head 😒 with directives across languages, just learn the new language as is like the natives do!
There's also te form used for the imperative and continuous
Then it must have seemed strange hearing how English has "so many" irregular verbs. Relative to Japanese, yes. Relative to other European language? Not even close.
Sayaka-san... Your Dekita lessons (?fun-bits) are hontoni interesting!
HIII SAYAKA I AM SO SUPER HAPPY THAT I FOUND YOUR CHANNEL THOSE FACTS ARE SO USEFUL AND ENHANCED MY JAPANESE SKILL AS IF I STUDIED IT FOR 2 YEARS TYSM YOU'RE THE BEST I SUBBED AND HAVE A GREAT DAY WISH ME LUCK ON LEARNING sorry for caps i am just too happy hehe!!! 😊😊😊
I started learning Japanese by myself recently and I was kinda scared to start studying grammar since I'm really struggling with my English grammar but your video gave me the motivation I needed ; ;❤
and based on your words it seems like Japanese grammar is actually similar to my first language's grammar [which is Farsi btw] and that makes me relieved ^^
ありがとうございますさやか先生！！とてもたすかりました！！
can I ask a question with Japanese katakana and hiragana is there just a couple to remember not like kanji there are so much hiragana and katakana is easy to remember right ?
@@lydiawang4481 yep. Katakana and hiragana are like two sets of separate ABCDs (they are alphabets) and you can remember them by practicing ^_^
@@parparisa okay thank you lol I was worried that there would be a lot to remember what about kanji you just have to know a little right
@@lydiawang4481 i guess it depends on why you are learning Japanese and how/where you want to use it. If you just wanna be able to speak and write a little, then you only need to memorize the essential ones. But if writing is more import to you, then you should definitely study more kanji.
@@parparisa oh ok I get it now thank you
It was realy great ! Interesting, clear, natural ! All we want after this is to learn japanese with you !
I love this. simple, with examples and fun to watch. Looking forward for next videos. BTW : i gotta step up my editing skills lol
Thanks Abu! Well...editing is really difficult eh!😂 I also have a lot more to learn...
Idk Why am I watching this video ..I'm not learning japanese .. But still it's so satisfying and gives me some sort of calmness watching her videos...😍
Gallagher rants about English and it's hilarious. Thank you for making this informative video, helped so much!
Hi! Here a Spanish girl! Honestly even for me it's difficult, the grammar is really difficult not gonna lie, sometimes i can't talk correctly just because of the grammar but trust me, you can do it!
Now I'm motivated to learn Japanese again! Thanks for this video, you seem to be a really kind person :)
I'm currently going through Hiragana and I've already learned 20 characters! 🇯🇵
Great video! As a native Spanish speaker leaning Japanese I guess we're even when it comes to suffering from learning these languages lol. Looking forward to your next videos! +1 sub :)
My mother tongue is German and English. And in German we have the exact same speech style for elders, strangers and authorities sort of. I think it's a respectful way of approaching people / a warm way of approaching loved ones.
I started learning 14 days ago and I am almost done with the first section (10 Units in section 1) and I rarely make mistakes, even though I never even thought of learning Japanese up until 2 weeks ago, because I figured it would be waaaay too hard. BUT, I tried learning French the same way and dropped it after getting to "how to ask questions". Japanese is very intuitive in my opinion, clearly structured and even with just two weeks of learning, I feel like I could get around my neighborhood if I were in Japan. For food and simple tasks only of course. It's super rewarding to be able to read a non-latin language. Even if it's just the pronounciation. Vocabulary will fill itself up over time. I am planning on watchig kid's cartoons in Japanese to hear it more often around me. Germany and Japan are buddies, but unfortunately there aren't many Japanese here. Except for Düsseldorf (which is the enemy city of where I am from 😅).
Maybe in a few years I will travel to Japan and be able to use my Japanese skills to buy train tickets, get hotel rooms and rent a motorcycle or something. Important stuff to not get lost as a tourist.
Or maybe talk to a beautiful Geisha 😊
1:40 Katakana is also used for Kun'yomi (or On'yomi, I always forget which is which 😢, I'm talking about the sino-japanese reading), even though it's not loan words 😐.
3:21 "Watashi" tends to be used by women more than men. Men would use "boku" or "ore" (I think there's a third one, but I can't think of it right off the top of my head 😅).
6:03 Japanese does have genders (masculine/feminine), but not in the same way that languages like French or Spanish do. It's whole speech patterns that're associated with a gender instead of certain words. Basically, you can speak an impeccable Japanese and still sound completely off if you speak as the other gender.
8:54 There's also the verb "to be" (kinda): "da (だ)". And that's if you don't think of the 3rd verb group as irregular verbs altogether 🥲😅.
Here's my #1 thing to know for learning proper Japanese: pitch matters. Just like Mandarin has 4 tones and Cantonese has 9, Japanese has 2 (high/low). Depending on how you pronounce a word, it can actually mean something different.
Example: "hashi" can mean both "chopsticks" or "bridge". Iirc, low-high is chopsticks, high-low is bridge, but I might be wrong as it's been awhile 😅. The crux of the matter is that pitch accent definitely matters and shouldn't be neglected.
You make learning so enjoyable,
ありがとう!
I am really happy to be able to learn with you from the start. It will help me a lot, thank you! 🙌❤️
I found this video super helpful! I used to be so confused about the order of speech and why it sounded weird to me, then you explained that the verb comes before the object in English and vice versa in Japanese and it all mad sense!
Thanks! 👏
Thank you!
ありがとうござます
I am trying to learn Japanese to boost up my vocabulary in languages.
I find it a tiny bit similar to hindi with the SOV-oriented and "です" at the end which can be compared to "हैं".
Kanji seems a huge barrier that I can never conquer, however I'll be trying my best to get past the barrier and be able to compose and understand words and sentences in japanese.
ありがとうございます ‼️👋😃
That's right bro , but the Sov is same in Hindi
bro its not sov order.
You can do any order you want and even omit some of the parts of sentence, as long as context makes the sentence make sense. if you're making the sentence start and it doesn't make sense without context, just include everything. s, o, v. for example watashi ga tabemono wo tabeta = I ate food
tabemono wo watashi ga tabeta = I ate food
@@starpeep5769 the same would be applied to hindi in that contextual sense.
"Main paani se peeta hain"
-I drink water.
"Paani se main peeta hain"
-Water (is what) I drink.
Thanks for the suggestion though, it did give me some more of an insight towards Japanese grammar structure for sentence composition, and I'll keep that in mind. This did help in giving me a boost.
@@ky3532 also verbs can describe nouns
Thanks so much for the video, it motivated me to continue with my Japanese learning
This video is so helpful! 🤩
Also on another note, I volunteer as tribute to practice Spanish with you!
As someone who just started learning THIS GAVE ME SO MUCH MOTIVATION AND IT WAS SUPER USEFUL THANKS A LOT
I'm not studying japanese, but as far as I'm fascinated by tour culture RUclips is usually showing me Japan related videos.
You and this video are great. I'm neither english native and I'm usually having problems to understand english without subs, but I understood your whole speech (every single word!). I just wanted you to know that your video is great and easy understanding. I'll start following you, and who knows, maybe I'll start learning japanese too. Greetings from Spain!!
さやか様はとても良い先生です、ありがとうございます
(i started learning Japanese about a year ago but the kanji seemed like some huge overwhelming labyrinth i could never conquer.... however i feel like i've finally broken the back of it, like i can see the light of at the end of the tunnel, thank you so so much for such an inspirational, educational video).
Wish i could've seen your videos a year ago, then i would've been more inspired to learn Japanese :)
Good luck with learning Spanish also, you remind me of my sister, she studies Spanish also, i'm sure you'll do great at it, you're so intelligent :D
A trick to learn kanji: just learn words written with kanjis. Yes, the meaning, kun and on-yomi are useful, and the stroke order is important, but you shouldn't focus on it as it just gets complicated and will not help you learn Japanese overall. Just learn the words! Start with easy ones, and try to learn them in batches (for example, numbers, time-related (day, month, etc.), etc.). You are going to remember them way more easily, and the more words you learn, the easier it will get because some simple kanjis will be present and help you memorize. And since kanjis are ideograms instead of phonetic characters, it will give you mnemotecnic tricks to remember words.
@@honey-chanhaninozuka506 THANK YOU SO MUCH, THIS IS WHAT I REALISED, OF COURSE I'M STILL SO THANKFUL FOR YOUR GREAT ADVICE
@@johncowen8798 Are you saying Japanese people told you that? I would be sad if that were the case, but not surprised... tolerance and open-mindedness culture-wise is not known to be their forte. And I would personally say the worst part in translation to Japanese or from Japanese is how omissions are common. When translating to Japanese, you basically have to strip your sentence of many things considered unecessary, eventhough they don't seem that way to you, and from Japanese, you basically have to guess the missing parts.
@@honey-chanhaninozuka506 Definitely not, it was english people who told me that. But I'm so lucky to have made amazing friends from Japan who appreciated my efforts more than the morons from my own douchebag country, I wouldn't even be able to sit here saying I feel like I know I can eventually reach fluency without my amazing Japanese friends, Thank You all so much
@@johncowen8798 You're American I guess? No, wait... a**e instead of a**, I'm thinking British
Great content as always teacher 👩🏼🏫 💯!
Thank you so much 🥺
dame dame, “sensei “
日本語で?
Muchas gracias! Mi primer idioma es español y inglés es mi segundo idioma. Espero aprender japonés y he comenzado en la app duolingo. Te deseo mucho éxito al aprender español que eatoy de acuerdo, es dificil aprenderlo y quiero darte las gracias por estos consejos que me han ayudado a mony se que a muchos en el futuro ^^
Gracias ☺️ Perdón, te entiendo completamente pero todavía no se como responder en español😅
No worries xD it was a fun excercise thanks for the reply! ^^
Si logras aprender español podrías ampliar tu mercado. Punto para ti.
Mismo. Pero inglés es mi primer idioma y español es mi segundo idioma.
Una pequeña corrección: se utiliza la conjunción “e” en lugar de “y” cuando la siguiente palabra empieza con “i” o “hi”. En este caso sería “español e inglés”.
wow what a relief, apparently Japanese is a tad less complicated than I thought which is so encouraging, THANK YOU Sayaka
This is one of the most inspirational videos I’ve ever seen. Thank you!
As a Taiwanese, it is so wierd to learn Japanese in English, but I like your videos.
So I think that being a Chinese user, I think it is easier for me to read cause I basically understand all the kanjis' meaning ,and even though I don't know what it means in Japanese I can still infer from the original meaning. This helped a lot in my Japanese learning. I'll keep going~~
Wait, so there's some common meaning behind Kanjis that applicable to Chinese and Japanese?
@@arseniix yes
for example, 母 means mother in both languages
but not all kanji means the same
like 大丈夫
this means real man in Chinese
but it means "it's ok" in Japanese
@@Imablåhaj oooh, wow. I wonder where all these symbols came from if in both Chinese and Japanese they mean something
@@arseniix well the two cultures have very close and deep relationship
Even in Korean there's Chinese symbols, it's just Korean don't use it now
@@Imablåhaj I always thought that the Japanese, Chinese and Korean cultures are like completely different, even tho they're in close proximity to one another and share somewhat common history. For example, although here in Europe nations lived side by side for our whole history, we all have very different languages here and different cultures.
However we do share some common words which came from ancient Greek or Latin. Hmmm... maybe this can be compared to kanji in some sense, I guess.
Also, I do support Taiwan in your wish for independence! I hope everything will be ok in future.
Always wished to learn the Japanese language, thanks to you Sayaka for making it possible, arigatōgozaimashita Sensei ! ❤
00:22 真夜中のドアをたたき 🎵
Thanks
Thank you!
Italian here started to study japanese recently. I learned more from this video than in many hours of study because this clarified many doubts to me 😆
Thank you!
You're smile just made my day!
Super super useful video, ありがとうさやかさん💓 Out of context but can I ask you a thing? I have this doubt , when we say "4" we can say よん or し. What's the difference? We can use them as we want or there's a rules?? I always had this question 😹😹
Be ready, I'll ask you so many things in your videos' comments section . I'm so exited to improve my Japanese and by the way I love your teaching methods 💕
I am a Turkish and Japanese is very similar to Turkish and that makes me so happy because for two last years I have been learning Spanish and to learn all those masculine feminine words are so boring to me and verb conjugations are harder than Turkish and there are lots of stem changes,irregular verbs,etc. Because of that I really want to learn Japanese.I love your videos
Yep! I had been learning Turkish for some time and when I started Japanese, I really mentioned it's unexpectedly similar to Turkish.
As far as I know, Japanese is in same language group with Japanese
@@redline2225 yeah,they are in the same language group👍
@@redline2225 Yes, indeed- Japanese is in the same language group with Japanese.
It’s really wild how similar Japanese and Turkish are, considering how geographically and culturally apart the two countries are.
@@TheAerialgreen turkic languages originate in far eastern and central eastern asia actually. the turkic are very wide spread and turkey turks is just one of them
As someone whose native language is german, I love the fact that japanese has such a little amount of irregular verbs and also only two tenses. While my native language has a verb form for every person and...oh wait, we have six tenses. So a verb in german has over 30 versions and a whole lot of irregular verbs.
We have like 12 articles all depending on the gender of the word, context its used in and the "case/kasus" the sentence is in (Nominativ,dativ,akkusativ,genitiv)
I would assume german is pretty hard for people whos native language doesn't gender words
And then there are also some dialects like my own (rheinisches Platt) that add even more tenses as we use abundantly progressive forms (which don't exist in High German).
Ich bin (am) essen.
Ich war (am) essen.
Ich werde (am) essen sein.
...
Though in return we only have two Geni in our dialect (masculine and neutrum, so a man is e.g. "d'r Klinzens Jupp" while a woman is e.g. "et Klinzens Kääte")
(we usually state the family name in its possessive form first, so "der Johannes Klinz" and "die Katharine Klinz" become the before mentioned names)
@@hmvollbanane1259 wait....ich bin am essen doesnt exist in hochdeutsch? Dang. I didnt know that. So, that means it basically only exists in NRW or elsewhere too?
@@Cloud-zq3cc it apparently only exists in the south and predominantly west with the rhineland having the highest acceptance for its use. Other regions either don't have any progressive at all or form them differently (e.g. "ich bin beim Essen"/ "im Essen" instead of "ich bin am essen"/ "ich bin essen")
My age 85. Never listened a lecture so crisp, so scientific, so informative. Anatawa modified sentence syntax in respect to Japanese.
I look forward to learning Japanese now. Especially with such a delightfully and charming teacher.
Aaa you make learning so enjoyable & you’re giving me so much motivation!! Can’t wait to learn more from you >w
Shut up
Your my toy
Your my toy
I'm Spanish and struggling to learn Japanese by my own. Both share many things in common, like pronunciation or omitted subjects or questioning with pronunciation. Japanese grammar is a lot simpler than Spanish one, but learning kanji is very confusing. 頑張りましょう!
I'm also Spanish... Learning English for then to learn Japanese :'3
Esse video totalmente recarregou minhas energias, pareceu até fácil aprender esse idioma persistência guerreiros 💪, nos conseguiremos.
Como vai seu progresso?
@@kiuute Entrei na faculdade de SI, não deu mais pra estudar ;-;
i think its wonderful how youre disguising the fact that we still need to learn 1000-2000 (depending on level) different kanji with all their kun and on readings and different readings overall. but other than that, yeah super easy language x) love your videos !
I started learning Japanese over a year ago and gave up. Returning to learning the language today using your videos and you've explained sooooo much to help me understand Japanese better. Arigatou
I think the hardest part of learning Japanese is memorizing the 3 literature specially kanji🤣.
Japanese sentence structure isn't as complex as english. you just half to have more japanese words in your vocabulary.
I think mentioning pronunciatin is also great. In Japanese you always pronounce the letters the same, in syllables. Not like English where you change pronunciation of letter in every different word lol.
I bet 80% ppl here are here to learn Japanese to watch anime without english dubs
I watched a Japanese drama now i wish to learn atleast few phrases in Japanese 😊
For me I wanna learn it in time to study abroad 🙏 + JAPANESE IS SO COOOOOL
Yes, it is
Thanks for this video I m Indian and currently learning Japanese. Now I know the best thing about Japanese that the people are soooooo sweet as their language
さやかさん、ありがとございました！❤😮
Whoever you are, Jesus loves you
Youre explainations help me, there are a good complément of my japaneese learning.
Best regards from france and, またねありがとございます。
So happy found you. I start learning Japanese from you daily now😂. Love the simplicity way of your teaching which makes me feel I can actually speak Japanese some day❤
i would love to see longer, more in-depth videos like these!
I'm just watching to the end cause I like seeing Sayaka sensei's smile and happiness.
さやか先生笑顔が好き！
Thank you soo much
I'm the beginner in studying Japanese, and discovering this video and your channel is the best thing that happen to me today
ありがとうございます。😊
Finaly sigh of relief
After watching so many videos about japnese learning on RUclips ,glad landed up on this video before starting japnese learning journey.
Seriously watching the facts from 6 to 10 got me like "WOW I LOVE JAPANESE 10x MORE NOW". The verb tenses on different languages always got me...
I just found this channel while searching for resources to learn Japanese and I'm very impressed with how clear and concise your videos are. You also deliver the information in an engaging way and in digestible portions for a beginner (not too much, not too little). I think it helps that your English is very strong and you understand how to properly relate Japanese words and concepts to their equivalents in English. Your courses also look rather interesting! Keep up the great work!
I totally agree! I'm half Cuban but raised in the Netherlands speaking Dutch with English as a second language. To this day I still struggle with Spanish and make more mistakes with it because of all those mad variations. But Japanese feels so logical and even though the words themselves are very different from what I grew up with all these factors that she mentions make a lot easier to learn.
As a 2 month beginner of nippon language (duolagging), every time Sayaka did the joy jumping gesture, I was happier.
Excellent helpful lesson. Especially the relevance of the three letter types. Thanks.
Thank you! This was super helpful from the point of view of a beginner only just starting out. Also helpful to note all the many differences between Japanese and English grammar and sentence structures. Makes me realise how easy I have it not having to learn English again! Totally agree about the read- read-read thing too! aha!
Love you enthusiasm for languages, keep it up!
Thank you so much, I always loved to learn japanese language but wasn't sure about it, but you encouraged me to start with your unique way in simplifying things in addition to your beautiful smile of course
In Russian that apple sketch could also be played with 1 single word, namely [boodesh?]. Literally this means "will you?" but given the context it's self evident to people that you're prompting to have a taste of something.
It's also interesting that the word [boodesh] is a morphological form of the verb "to be", since in Russian there's plenty of ways to "agree" verbs with nouns and tenses. This really drives people learning Russian crazy, but we have what we have