I casually remembered watching these back in 2012. A dozen years have passed, and now I fondly smile as I understand everything so clearly. Thank you, Erin. In the end, yes, I can speak Japanese now.
THANK YOU!! Finally, a Japanese lesson that uses Japanese! Usually, you end up listening to the presenter practice English. These videos are great!! They actually respect our ability to understand the language! Thank you!!
this program is sure make lessons easy to study. it has repeating the most important many times. i hope it can continue showing all important parts of language.
I was surprised to notice how much I could understand! I've studied Japanese on my own for a year now, and in this video there were only a couple of words new to me! Yay I was so happy! Yokatta! :D
I know it's just an instructional series but i couldn't help chuckle: she isn't fooling anyone, her lack of accent and body language make it clear she's not English. Anyway i love the series nonetheless.
Was this video made for Japanese kids? Or is it actually trying to tach foreigners? I'm just wondering cus' dekimasu means 'you can' so I'm a little confused.
I have to say, this is an excellent video. I've been learning nihongo for some 3 years now and I was able to understand everything with some effort (though I never came across the phrase 着席 - I know what 到着 and 席 are but never came across this particular compound). But then they started this drill with 初めまして which was a bit odd because to understand what they're actually practising you have to know a lot more than what is practiced.
I don't know. It's something like: "And now we shall explore the topic of auxiliary verbs in English and their use for emphasis in the following drill: I am John. You are Jae. He is Patrick. She does the shopping." You know, the drill is simple but to understand the INSTRUCTIONS for it you have to know much more about the language. And if you do, there's no point in doing the drill, since it's just hopelessly easy and dull for you…
@NihongoScript Take me maybe three years before I can get those fully emblazoned in my my mind. But what I find strange is that the words you wanna remember are the one you never forget. You know, words that you actually use in daily life. the all the other words Im trying to learn are pretty hard (namely verbs) cause they alot sound alike and some have different pronunciation but the same meaning. Do you think Im on the right track? What other advise would you lend me???
@NihongoScript okay I will upload my voice on youtube. hopefully today. It will be a script (something that I wrote from heart). Its hard to japanese by heart and let things flow out fluently. By the way, my friend lived in japan for 2 years and he came back fluent. Most natives cant even distinguish him from one of theirs!!! Thanks.
There's something wrong with my translator. I can set the captions to English, English-English, and English-Japanese, but not Japanese-English. I know the first isn't right because the subtitles keep giving me random sentences such as "use home I'll be in cartoon number im" and "18 moving on the site" If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
If this is intended for beginners learning Japanese, and if it takes effort for a person who has been learning Japanese for *three years* to understand it, then of what use is it to a beginner? It is obviously well produced and has had a lot of effort put into it, and all that, but seen solely as a learning tool, what is it good for?
It shouldn't take you three years to understand what they are saying in this video. If you have a hard time understanding then read the subtitles. The Kanji is there to make it easier to know what words are being spoken in the video.
@@DreamyAbaddon Well, this is me, back at this video seven years later. My comment above was originally a reply to a comment by someone else, but RUclips made a clumsy reorganisation of how comments are displayed, several years ago, obscuring the relationships between comments. However, even with the context missing, I can tell that you have misunderstood my comment. I made no statement regarding many years it should take to understand this video. I was criticising its suitability as a learning tool for beginners. My comment doesn't mention kanji, but if you really think that kanji help beginners to know what words are being spoken, then reality is a stranger to you.
@@omp199 it really shouldn't take you three years to understand this video. The problem is that japanese is mostly being taught in a very backwards way, so much so that in three years you are only able to inderstand such a simple video
@@darkdwarf007 You have misread my comment in the same way that DreamyAbaddon did. Very strange that you have both made the same mistake. I never said that it took me three years to understand this video, or that it should take three years to understand the video, or anything of the sort!
@@darkdwarf007 Okay, I can see how you can interpret my comment in the way that you did. But as I said to DreamyAbaddon, my comment was a reply to someone else. Most likely they said something about having been learning Japanese for three years and being able to understand the video with effort. My reply was intended as an incredulous statement of the implication of this: that the video is clearly unsuitable as a resource for beginners. I have no idea how long it might take a learner to understand the video. I have made no comment about how long it should take a learner to understand the video. I am not really interested in the question of how long it should take a learner to understand the video. The question is beside the point. The point is that a video for beginners should be _immediately_ comprehensible. If it is not, then it is of no use as a resource for beginners.
I was just going around youtube, trying to find a J drama just to kinda live/alearn the Language, I saw this weird looking video and clicked, And then i realized its for learning Japanese. feels so weird understandi a good chunk of it though
@Lurvane its supposed to be ので. It's kind of like, because I want to learn a lot about japanese, please remember me/please treat me favorably. よろしくお願いしますis hard to translate.
@NihongoScript someday I plan on moving to japan permanently. I think living there will get me fluent if I work hard enough and study talk with people enough. By the time I live there I at-least want to be very conversational and half way fluent. I think Im making more progress than I think. I think its hard but Im keeping the faith. My grammer skills is good. But Im trying to memorize 1,000 verbs and ajective each along with about 50 onomonopia words and about 150 adverbs. I think it will...
For instance, someone who can't even introduce themselves probably won't know the meaning of the instruction 『初めまして』の後に自分の名前を呼んだ because it's way above the level of introducing yourself, so… :) But it's a nice vid anyway.
Yeah he told me that he talked to natives all the time and made used no english and after 3 months he could speak without translating to english first. Also I have another friend named bryan who went to japan and stayed there like a year and some months and he came back fluent too, where the natives in my school say they cant tell the difference. But you told me to watch japanese drama to get used to the way japanese talk. I found an anime called To Aru Majustu no Index. It is an adult...
NEliseKO Chan 確かに少し心配だろうけど、がんばって下さいね。うまくいくよう祈ってます。 Certainly,you're worried a little bit, But please try your best. I pray for you everything's going well.
I casually remembered watching these back in 2012. A dozen years have passed, and now I fondly smile as I understand everything so clearly. Thank you, Erin. In the end, yes, I can speak Japanese now.
THANK YOU!! Finally, a Japanese lesson that uses Japanese! Usually, you end up listening to the presenter practice English. These videos are great!! They actually respect our ability to understand the language! Thank you!!
this program is sure make lessons easy to study. it has repeating the most important many times. i hope it can continue showing all important parts of language.
It almost looks like she's about to get bullied for some reason.
これ何度も見た！日本語を勉強し始めた人々に関してすごく役に立つリソースと思います！
I was surprised to notice how much I could understand! I've studied Japanese on my own for a year now, and in this video there were only a couple of words new to me! Yay I was so happy!
Yokatta! :D
I know it's just an instructional series but i couldn't help chuckle: she isn't fooling anyone, her lack of accent and body language make it clear she's not English. Anyway i love the series nonetheless.
Unidentified User Just because she is meant to be from the UK it doesn't mean she has to be English.
Was this video made for Japanese kids? Or is it actually trying to tach foreigners? I'm just wondering cus' dekimasu means 'you can' so I'm a little confused.
doumo airgatou for the transcripts!! i'm learning a lot!!!!
I have to say, this is an excellent video. I've been learning nihongo for some 3 years now and I was able to understand everything with some effort (though I never came across the phrase 着席 - I know what 到着 and 席 are but never came across this particular compound). But then they started this drill with 初めまして which was a bit odd because to understand what they're actually practising you have to know a lot more than what is practiced.
Well, to be honest, that's what the subtitle is for. lol And it helps when they use Kanji cause reading without Kanji is harder.
I don't know. It's something like: "And now we shall explore the topic of auxiliary verbs in English and their use for emphasis in the following drill: I am John. You are Jae. He is Patrick. She does the shopping." You know, the drill is simple but to understand the INSTRUCTIONS for it you have to know much more about the language. And if you do, there's no point in doing the drill, since it's just hopelessly easy and dull for you…
本当にありがとうございます。
@NihongoScript Take me maybe three years before I can get those fully emblazoned in my my mind. But what I find strange is that the words you wanna remember are the one you never forget. You know, words that you actually use in daily life. the all the other words Im trying to learn are pretty hard (namely verbs) cause they alot sound alike and some have different pronunciation but the same meaning. Do you think Im on the right track? What other advise would you lend me???
wow this is so good.. sometimes you really have to deprive yourself in hearing english to be able to understand nihonggo quickly.
Thanks for the subtitles!
字幕をどうもありがとう！
@NihongoScript okay I will upload my voice on youtube. hopefully today. It will be a script (something that I wrote from heart). Its hard to japanese by heart and let things flow out fluently. By the way, my friend lived in japan for 2 years and he came back fluent. Most natives cant even distinguish him from one of theirs!!! Thanks.
There's something wrong with my translator. I can set the captions to English, English-English, and English-Japanese, but not Japanese-English. I know the first isn't right because the subtitles keep giving me random sentences such as "use home I'll be in cartoon number im" and "18 moving on the site" If anyone has any suggestions, please let me know.
這是你po的嗎? 那些日文很生疏該怎麼辦?
This is a good video for the foreign learners of Japanese. Kyou watashi kono bideo mite imasu. ureshii desu. indo kara asito saha.
Romaji is.. a pain to read. =/
thank you so much for subs!!
If this is intended for beginners learning Japanese, and if it takes effort for a person who has been learning Japanese for *three years* to understand it, then of what use is it to a beginner? It is obviously well produced and has had a lot of effort put into it, and all that, but seen solely as a learning tool, what is it good for?
It shouldn't take you three years to understand what they are saying in this video. If you have a hard time understanding then read the subtitles. The Kanji is there to make it easier to know what words are being spoken in the video.
@@DreamyAbaddon Well, this is me, back at this video seven years later.
My comment above was originally a reply to a comment by someone else, but RUclips made a clumsy reorganisation of how comments are displayed, several years ago, obscuring the relationships between comments.
However, even with the context missing, I can tell that you have misunderstood my comment. I made no statement regarding many years it should take to understand this video. I was criticising its suitability as a learning tool for beginners.
My comment doesn't mention kanji, but if you really think that kanji help beginners to know what words are being spoken, then reality is a stranger to you.
@@omp199 it really shouldn't take you three years to understand this video. The problem is that japanese is mostly being taught in a very backwards way, so much so that in three years you are only able to inderstand such a simple video
@@darkdwarf007 You have misread my comment in the same way that DreamyAbaddon did. Very strange that you have both made the same mistake. I never said that it took me three years to understand this video, or that it should take three years to understand the video, or anything of the sort!
@@darkdwarf007 Okay, I can see how you can interpret my comment in the way that you did. But as I said to DreamyAbaddon, my comment was a reply to someone else. Most likely they said something about having been learning Japanese for three years and being able to understand the video with effort. My reply was intended as an incredulous statement of the implication of this: that the video is clearly unsuitable as a resource for beginners.
I have no idea how long it might take a learner to understand the video. I have made no comment about how long it should take a learner to understand the video. I am not really interested in the question of how long it should take a learner to understand the video. The question is beside the point. The point is that a video for beginners should be _immediately_ comprehensible. If it is not, then it is of no use as a resource for beginners.
I was just going around youtube, trying to find a J drama just to kinda live/alearn the Language, I saw this weird looking video and clicked, And then i realized its for learning Japanese.
feels so weird understandi a good chunk of it though
Nice video....for learning Japanese.... :)
はじめまして
さ-ちゃんです、モロッコからきました。
よろしくお願いします
my god, why didn't I find this sooner??
Same, i searched for somehing like this my whole life..
+Hamtatiek Princess me too
@Lurvane its supposed to be ので. It's kind of like, because I want to learn a lot about japanese, please remember me/please treat me favorably. よろしくお願いしますis hard to translate.
It's not that hard to translate. It all depends on the context.
ありがとうございました!!
I remember we used this in Japanese class in high school
@NihongoScript someday I plan on moving to japan permanently. I think living there will get me fluent if I work hard enough and study talk with people enough. By the time I live there I at-least want to be very conversational and half way fluent. I think Im making more progress than I think. I think its hard but Im keeping the faith. My grammer skills is good. But Im trying to memorize 1,000 verbs and ajective each along with about 50 onomonopia words and about 150 adverbs. I think it will...
I try to understaind. thanks a lot
The actual lessons have subtitles using English and kana, so you can understand the lesson at any level.
ありがとう。
muito bom o video.
For instance, someone who can't even introduce themselves probably won't know the meaning of the instruction 『初めまして』の後に自分の名前を呼んだ because it's way above the level of introducing yourself, so… :) But it's a nice vid anyway.
it`s for everyone, they show these videos at my japanese classes
Yeah he told me that he talked to natives all the time and made used no english and after 3 months he could speak without translating to english first. Also I have another friend named bryan who went to japan and stayed there like a year and some months and he came back fluent too, where the natives in my school say they cant tell the difference. But you told me to watch japanese drama to get used to the way japanese talk. I found an anime called To Aru Majustu no Index. It is an adult...
すごい
Lol those guys.. "The easiest way to learn japanese is at.." BS !!! The easiest way to learn japanese it's only 1 ! Born in Japan
Japanese isn't hard. lol
Aww this is cute and easy
You're cute and easy
Koko ni watashi wa bengkyousitai
@NihongoScript ありがと。でも、あなたの手紙をわかりにくいです。
I'm sorry... Anyone knows Erin's real name?
Oshiete itadakitain desu.
Turn on the captions :P
エリンちゃん、どう見ても日本人なんだけどww
D.J. uax1883 ですよね！
I was so confused... Maybe cause I am sleepy and all...
私も留学生になります。I'm a bit scared but I hope that everything turns out fine :3
NEliseKO Chan
確かに少し心配だろうけど、がんばって下さいね。うまくいくよう祈ってます。
Certainly,you're worried a little bit,
But please try your best. I pray for you everything's going well.
onegaishimasu!
anyway i could find english subs on this too... i seriously need to learn japanese!!
Did you learn Japanese?
tadaima ! okaeri!
hajimemashte yoroshiku
I think shes part British part Japanese.
konnichiwa, konnichiwa, boku ROBOTTO desu =))
Minna or minasan
はじめましてはりそんです。
エリンさんが日本人でしょ！笑
Pancho ぞですね?
That's so true. She really is. lol There is no way she is an international student.
Exactly!
suteki desu ne!
Lakitu? Is that you?
ok
it makes perfect sense, you thinking to hard, lol.
今に日本語を勉強してとてもべにりです。
私は日本語が大好きです。私は日本語が上手になりたいですよ。私一日に二時間に連取していますよ。
You don't have to keep saying 私は。。It's kinda redundant.
@@DreamyAbaddon thanks for replying to a 10 year old comment. Lol
she sound kinda like orihime
あめりかからきました。
Oula,je n'ai pas compris grand chose...
She's cute....is she an av idol? Or
Better question is, are you an av idol?
@@jmoravek8 damn 8 years ago replied
@@moncimoov It's a blast from the past my man. Glad you're still alive
Konicewa
what does "batsuchiri" mean? °-°
Oh okay!! :) thanks a lot!
Oh okay, great! thank you :D I'l use it!
chua hoc
わたしがビデオをあいしましたよ！
わかりません
可以請問那個英國來的女學生叫甚麼名字嗎?
如果我五十音背不起來 該怎麼辦?
昨天聽彭蒙惠 聽到 aligator 鱷魚 只記得報紙上登鱷魚都拿出來祭拜好兄弟