I think in the decade+ of having a RUclips account, I've only left one or two comments. With that out of the way, I wanted to let you know that this video really spoke to me. At around the three minute mark you mention to get rid of the mindset that you need to be high level to use the language. I just kind of sat there and pondered that for a while. I know that everyone is different, but this is something in particular I struggled with. That I have to be at a certain proficiency before I could REALLY use it. On a whim I signed up for a native tutor and was surprised that while I did mess up quite a bit over the course of an hour, they were able to discern what I meant each time. I ended up knowing way more than I give myself credit for. I don't know if it is the fear of failure or what that makes us (me in particular) feel like we need to be so well versed in something (not even just Japanese) before we can apply it. Even so, embarrassment can also make a great teacher. Apologies for the paragraphs, but I just stumbled upon your channel and just wanted to say thank you so much. If you do continue to learn 日本語, I wish you the best of luck on your journey.
Thank you so much, I’m honoured to have received your comment and paragraphs of it too😭I also fly under the radar on RUclips as a viewer so I know how much this means. I’m so glad this video spoke to you, and that you took action and pleasantly surprised yourself💪💪It’s a strange feeling to use a newer language that you’re not 100% comfortable with when you’re used to be being confident and eloquent in your other languages. But the slight discomfort is really where growth happens🌱
Really interesting video with lots of valid and useful points. Thanks for creating and publishing this. 😀👍 I don't understand why people hold onto a clip on microphone in RUclips video's? It sounds worse in close proximity and looks quite strange. 🤔
Thank you for the kind comment! I hold the clip-on microphone because my hands feel more natural that way, and I don’t like the way it pulls down on my shirt when clipped on🫣
My concern is with the super large number of homophones. I cannot fathom that a word can have up to 20 meanings. How am I supposed to understand such kind of words in the spoken language?
I think the key is to always learn in context! Definitely don't start by learning all the different meanings a sound could have, otherwise it'd be mind-boggling :p
It's all context. "Kami" means god but it also means "paper." You'll know which one they mean because you'll know if you're talking about gods or paper.
@@sparkymularkey6970 You're talking about the easier part of Japanese, Yamato Kotoba whose homophones don't have too many different meanings. But Sino-Japanese vocabulary is a different story. Sino-Japanese words can easily have over ten meanings. Here you have the word "shikou". Tel me how context can work with all these meanings... 思考: thought; consideration; thinking 志向: intention; aim; preference (for); orientation (towards a goal) 歯垢: (dental) plaque 施行: putting in force (a law); putting into operation; putting into effect; enforcement. Verb: carrying out (a plan, policy, etc.); execution 嗜好: taste; liking; preference 試行: making an attempt; trial run 指向: being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directing (towards) 四更: fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)Archaic 詩稿: draft of a poem 伺候: waiting upon (someone) 至孝: supreme filial piety 私考: one's own thoughts; one's personal opinion; one's personal view 四劫: the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)Buddhism 四光: four 20-point cards (scoring combination)Hanafuda 私行: personal conduct 司寇: Minister of Justice (Zhou dynasty China)Historical term 至高: supreme; sublime; highest 視紅: visual purple; rhodopsin 至公: perfect fairness
I haven't had any fun lately, You bring me joy!I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.
Thank you for the support and the kind comment🌈 You made my day! I’m glad I brought you joy. It takes a lot of courage to be true to ourselves and I’m still working on it🥲(me after a ridiculously long day at work)
hey, your video was really helpful, i already learned hiragana and katakana, but don't know what to study next, i would appreciate if you give me some tips. thank you
Vocab and phrases maybe? I’m doing that by listening to podcasts, Ask Japanese RUclips channel, and songs - always writing down phrases that catch my ear (or eye). I’m finding it difficult (むずい) to string sentences together, and I want to learn general words like ‘pavement, grass, sky, trees, birds - natural things like ‘I’m going for a walk’ or ‘yesterday I went for a walk…’😢
Thanks very much! I agree it should be some combination of vocab and grammar, so that you can start building sentences. My goal was to start having Japanese conversations as soon as possible, and I started using Pimsleur together with a beginner grammar/vocab book by Inoue Kazuhiro, which is meant to be a companion textbook to his free courses on RUclips (N.B. they are in Chinese). Pimsleur is subscription-based but it's good value and you can share your subscription with three other people. I also tried an app called Mesh Class for vocab, taking only the free classes though. I recommend that you have a flip-through in the local bookstore to see if any learning material catches your eyes - any material that you will stick to is good learning material. For audio-visual input, you can find many great teachers on RUclips :D
To be honest, do what you find fun to do. Example: i dont like textbooks, so i dont use them. Only occasionaly i look into Genki for grammar, words etc. Sometime i use flashcards, when i am on public transport to kill time. But most of the time, i just listen and watch videos. RUclips: Comprehensible japanese, anime, drama, sometime podcasts. You will not understand in the beginning, but it will be better later. Right now after 7months doing this for some hours per week, i am at least able to understand topic or what people are talking about. I dont know some hard words, but it will become better. Imagine you are child again. Listen a lot, then try to speak a little, you will get better. Dont worry about forgetting. It is natural. If you cant remember some word, when you encounter it many times, it will stick :) It is fun for me and that is the most important thing for your brain when learning. Do what you like and find fun :) If you like reading, try learning some kanji, which is also nice to widen your vocab. You learn a word it represents and some others, where the kanji is used. Dont bother by learning numerous ways of reading it thought, just how the word is written. Like in 日、日本、月曜日 etc. 3 ways to say read it just from these words. Have fun and enjoy :)
I bought "Minna no Nihongo" off Amazon (the writing one) for practicing the characters after I finished my original workbook. It's been a fun supplement so far. Scratches that itch to pretend I'm back in grade school doing workbooks over summer break. I enjoyed them then, and apparently still do. It gives me something physical I can see progress in, I think. I've picked up some phrases just from spending hours watching and listening to Japanese media of various kinds. Your brain will just start absorbing it and connecting dots through association. It's built to learn how to communicate with others. It will naturally build vocabulary, as you look at a fridge and hear someone else in your head say "reizouko" because you heard it 20 times in real life when referencing the thing. You can build it through hard study. Or you can brute force it through many hours of not understanding most of what you hear. It's a trade off, and I think a good strategy is a melding of both types. I want to get to the point where I can read a kid's book without looking up every other word. Then I'll be all set to do what I did building English as a child: reading for hours a day. This is a goal. I don't have a clue how long it will take me to get there, but at 2 months of actually studying, i can nearly make simple sentences and could understand what you said in Japanese, even if I would struggle to construct those sentence, myself. So there's that to be proud of. I always recommend as much music as you can in your target language, cause it's good for building phrases and associations, especially with feelings involved. Watching a show you're interested in has a similar effect. I have an Anki deck (digital flashcards you can customize with sound clips and pictures) I wish I could get myself to add to and study more consistently, but I don't know if it works with my learning style, since it's a struggle to get myself to use it at all. Other people swear by them and use them religiously, tho, so that may be something you're interested in working building for vocabulary of your own.
日本人でもカレーを注文している時の男性がなんと言っているのかを聞き取りずらいです。
えっ、本当ですか。私にわはやすぎます。
I think in the decade+ of having a RUclips account, I've only left one or two comments. With that out of the way, I wanted to let you know that this video really spoke to me. At around the three minute mark you mention to get rid of the mindset that you need to be high level to use the language. I just kind of sat there and pondered that for a while. I know that everyone is different, but this is something in particular I struggled with. That I have to be at a certain proficiency before I could REALLY use it.
On a whim I signed up for a native tutor and was surprised that while I did mess up quite a bit over the course of an hour, they were able to discern what I meant each time. I ended up knowing way more than I give myself credit for. I don't know if it is the fear of failure or what that makes us (me in particular) feel like we need to be so well versed in something (not even just Japanese) before we can apply it. Even so, embarrassment can also make a great teacher.
Apologies for the paragraphs, but I just stumbled upon your channel and just wanted to say thank you so much. If you do continue to learn 日本語, I wish you the best of luck on your journey.
Thank you so much, I’m honoured to have received your comment and paragraphs of it too😭I also fly under the radar on RUclips as a viewer so I know how much this means. I’m so glad this video spoke to you, and that you took action and pleasantly surprised yourself💪💪It’s a strange feeling to use a newer language that you’re not 100% comfortable with when you’re used to be being confident and eloquent in your other languages. But the slight discomfort is really where growth happens🌱
Cool update and practical tips, Yuki-san.
The ordering in Japanese restaurant part is wholesome. Ganbatte kudasai!
Thanks very much :D Hai, Ganbarimasu!
Thank you, Yuki-sensei 🙏
You are so pretty. 💖
I Need to learn Japanese, Korean, and American-English. 💬
Not a sensei😭😭but thank you for your kind comments! Good luck with your language learning and let me know how it goes!
...You need to learn English, not "American-English"...!!
Really interesting video with lots of valid and useful points. Thanks for creating and publishing this. 😀👍
I don't understand why people hold onto a clip on microphone in RUclips video's? It sounds worse in close proximity and looks quite strange. 🤔
Thank you for the kind comment! I hold the clip-on microphone because my hands feel more natural that way, and I don’t like the way it pulls down on my shirt when clipped on🫣
@@YukiChiu852 Thanks for the reply and explanation. ☺
I totally got my first ever Pimsleur ad while watching this video haha
これはビデオいいです、ありがとうございます！😊
Maybe it’s happening🤣🤣thanks for being around 🙌🙌
Kirei 😍
Thank you so much!
*5:31**...lol. See Sea, Cy C, Ce Ci. (I couldn't hear the difference😥🤭🤐)*
🙈Tonal languages are amazing (and challenging)! But it is a whole new world🌈
My concern is with the super large number of homophones. I cannot fathom that a word can have up to 20 meanings. How am I supposed to understand such kind of words in the spoken language?
I think the key is to always learn in context! Definitely don't start by learning all the different meanings a sound could have, otherwise it'd be mind-boggling :p
It's all context. "Kami" means god but it also means "paper." You'll know which one they mean because you'll know if you're talking about gods or paper.
@@sparkymularkey6970 You're talking about the easier part of Japanese, Yamato Kotoba whose homophones don't have too many different meanings. But Sino-Japanese vocabulary is a different story. Sino-Japanese words can easily have over ten meanings. Here you have the word "shikou". Tel me how context can work with all these meanings...
思考: thought; consideration; thinking
志向: intention; aim; preference (for); orientation (towards a goal)
歯垢: (dental) plaque
施行: putting in force (a law); putting into operation; putting into effect; enforcement. Verb: carrying out (a plan, policy, etc.); execution
嗜好: taste; liking; preference
試行: making an attempt; trial run
指向: being orientated (towards); pointing (towards); directing (towards)
四更: fourth watch of the night (approx. 1am to 3am)Archaic
詩稿: draft of a poem
伺候: waiting upon (someone)
至孝: supreme filial piety
私考: one's own thoughts; one's personal opinion; one's personal view
四劫: the four kalpa (formation, existence, destruction, nothingness)Buddhism
四光: four 20-point cards (scoring combination)Hanafuda
私行: personal conduct
司寇: Minister of Justice (Zhou dynasty China)Historical term
至高: supreme; sublime; highest
視紅: visual purple; rhodopsin
至公: perfect fairness
I haven't had any fun lately, You bring me joy!I love the kind and generous heartwarming atmosphere that you create, your kind, easygoing, warm vibe. I like the essence how you live on. I need to be true to myself and find a job I am passionate about. I want to find a way to live as who I really am.
Thank you for the support and the kind comment🌈 You made my day! I’m glad I brought you joy. It takes a lot of courage to be true to ourselves and I’m still working on it🥲(me after a ridiculously long day at work)
I love the point and "これ" lol. thanks for video
Solid proof that you can get by with little to no skill🤣🤣
Awesome video, I have a trip coming up in 6 months and am gonna try to get as fluent as possible before then. Gonna give Pimsleur a try.
Glad you found it useful 🙌have lots of fun on your trip and let me know how it goes!
pimsleur is the goat
🙏 thank you
Thank you for your support :D
hey, your video was really helpful, i already learned hiragana and katakana, but don't know what to study next, i would appreciate if you give me some tips. thank you
Vocab and phrases maybe?
I’m doing that by listening to podcasts, Ask Japanese RUclips channel, and songs - always writing down phrases that catch my ear (or eye).
I’m finding it difficult (むずい) to string sentences together, and I want to learn general words like ‘pavement, grass, sky, trees, birds - natural things like ‘I’m going for a walk’ or ‘yesterday I went for a walk…’😢
Thanks very much! I agree it should be some combination of vocab and grammar, so that you can start building sentences. My goal was to start having Japanese conversations as soon as possible, and I started using Pimsleur together with a beginner grammar/vocab book by Inoue Kazuhiro, which is meant to be a companion textbook to his free courses on RUclips (N.B. they are in Chinese). Pimsleur is subscription-based but it's good value and you can share your subscription with three other people. I also tried an app called Mesh Class for vocab, taking only the free classes though. I recommend that you have a flip-through in the local bookstore to see if any learning material catches your eyes - any material that you will stick to is good learning material. For audio-visual input, you can find many great teachers on RUclips :D
To be honest, do what you find fun to do.
Example: i dont like textbooks, so i dont use them. Only occasionaly i look into Genki for grammar, words etc. Sometime i use flashcards, when i am on public transport to kill time. But most of the time, i just listen and watch videos. RUclips: Comprehensible japanese, anime, drama, sometime podcasts. You will not understand in the beginning, but it will be better later. Right now after 7months doing this for some hours per week, i am at least able to understand topic or what people are talking about. I dont know some hard words, but it will become better. Imagine you are child again. Listen a lot, then try to speak a little, you will get better. Dont worry about forgetting. It is natural. If you cant remember some word, when you encounter it many times, it will stick :)
It is fun for me and that is the most important thing for your brain when learning. Do what you like and find fun :)
If you like reading, try learning some kanji, which is also nice to widen your vocab. You learn a word it represents and some others, where the kanji is used. Dont bother by learning numerous ways of reading it thought, just how the word is written. Like in 日、日本、月曜日 etc. 3 ways to say read it just from these words.
Have fun and enjoy :)
I bought "Minna no Nihongo" off Amazon (the writing one) for practicing the characters after I finished my original workbook. It's been a fun supplement so far. Scratches that itch to pretend I'm back in grade school doing workbooks over summer break. I enjoyed them then, and apparently still do. It gives me something physical I can see progress in, I think. I've picked up some phrases just from spending hours watching and listening to Japanese media of various kinds. Your brain will just start absorbing it and connecting dots through association. It's built to learn how to communicate with others. It will naturally build vocabulary, as you look at a fridge and hear someone else in your head say "reizouko" because you heard it 20 times in real life when referencing the thing. You can build it through hard study. Or you can brute force it through many hours of not understanding most of what you hear. It's a trade off, and I think a good strategy is a melding of both types. I want to get to the point where I can read a kid's book without looking up every other word. Then I'll be all set to do what I did building English as a child: reading for hours a day. This is a goal. I don't have a clue how long it will take me to get there, but at 2 months of actually studying, i can nearly make simple sentences and could understand what you said in Japanese, even if I would struggle to construct those sentence, myself. So there's that to be proud of.
I always recommend as much music as you can in your target language, cause it's good for building phrases and associations, especially with feelings involved. Watching a show you're interested in has a similar effect. I have an Anki deck (digital flashcards you can customize with sound clips and pictures) I wish I could get myself to add to and study more consistently, but I don't know if it works with my learning style, since it's a struggle to get myself to use it at all. Other people swear by them and use them religiously, tho, so that may be something you're interested in working building for vocabulary of your own.
After studying a lot with Duolingo, Busuu, using the book Genki, I finally enrolled the online classes by Yuko Sensei. You won't be disappointed🎉
Thank you for this informative video!
Thank you for finding me ^ ^ Glad you found it helpful!
Soy el suscriptor número 500😁
Muchas gracias, mi suscriptor número 500 :D
ကျေးဇူးပါ❤❤
ရပါတယ် :D I used Google Translate, I hope this says "You're welcome"!