Japanese Counter Exercise! [人] (NIN) | Counting People

Let's practice the counter for people [人] (NIN) by counting ninja!
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[@canaldecasta]

You never know when counting ninja may save your life.

[@sebastiananminecraft]

ahahah

[@AChupacabra]

Fr..

[@freeopportunity042]

yes finally i can answer

[@garethrogue]

This is interesting. I'm slowly and clumsily working my way through Duolingo, and the lesson I'm on teaches you how to order food for a number of people. So ひとつ、ふたつ、みっつ、and よっつ for example. I half expected 3 ninjas to follow this logic and be みにん

[@Grondhammar]

I found this really frustrating when first learning... why mix two counting systems? I've slowly learned that there was a native (often referred to as Yamato) counting system which went ひい　ふう　みい　よお　いつ　むう　なな　やあ　こ　とお. Then later, Japanese people borrowed from Chinese culture いち　に　さん　し・よん etc. But counting one and two people was so ingrained in the language, they just stuck with the ancient/Yamato system for those (ひとり　ふたり） It's very fascinating to study, if you're into etymology!

[@Giozize]

You'll find before long that there's counters for a loooot of stuff, and they sometimes have different readings, particularly for 1 and 2

[@MuSicBlock5774]

I actually did think the same too 😅
But it being みたり

[@adrielfalcon8686]

Lol same. That's why counters are so trickyyyy I need more lessons like this video

[@potato1089]

いつもこいうどうがをアップロオドしてありがとうございます。さいきん日本語のべんきょうやるきがなくてしんぱいです。田中さんのどうがは分かりやすいとかわいいから本当にたすかります。

[@hebaabubakr1658]

Thank you soooo much 😍😍you make short and cute japanese lessons ❤keep going 😊

[@Aki-nh8cu]

lol ive never actually tried how much japanese i know and was so happy when i got half if the video right

[@rumikuzu]

love this video as always ✨ thx u tanaka san 💕

[@the.rest.is.confetti]

I love this video!! Perfect format! Thank you!

[@meemii791]

Love this! 💓

[@marioavila1768]

Thank for the video! ❤

[@archthiel]

thanks!

[@roshanilaudari645]

Very helpful ❤

[@EkataSamanta_aproudIndian]

かわくて面白い動画❤❤❤

[@hazelwitherspoon2721]

This was so cute and a great review tool. Arigatou.

[@zawoo3932]

Thank you

[@akshatmohan23]

ありがとうございます田中さん！！

[@CupNoodlees]

1:05 i was so confident and WRONG

[@sebastiananminecraft]

I didnt notice it was tanaka san LOL

[@ichiyama898]

せんせ〜　たなかさんがにんじゃはなんにんじゃ？って言ってます。

[@kerguelen_cabbage]

'nani yatteru no'
Ouch
Poor tanaka D':

[@Philson]

ninnin

[@TingBie]

❤

[@richardlim6436]

👍🏻🙏🏻❤

[@Crackalacking_Z]

忍者を数えるのはもっと難しいはずだ。w

[@arcanedarkling]

The ones I got wrong were because I counted the wrong number... how does this happen?!

[@Mein_zweiter_Kanal]

Nin

[@yuu_miran]

Hibarin subete sekai hitotsu desu🤣❤️
Summary: dont count ninjas before sleep youll gonna get into trouble🤗

[@SpyroTheEternalNight]

why are there 2 pronunciations for some of them?

[@Grondhammar]

Do you mean よ・し and なな・しち？ What I've heard from Japanese friends is that し/しち are pronounced the same as 死 (し, death) and it's unlucky. But 四月 is しがつ, and they have roughly the same problem in Chinese (sì = four, sǐwáng = death). So I don't think that's entirely the explanation.

[@Giozize]

4, 7 and 9 have two readings 4 - よん、し, 7 - なな、しち and 9 - きゅう、く. The story of the whole considered unlucky that the other person mentioned is also the explanation I've heard, but I'm not sure either. A lot of numbers just have different readings, particularly when counting things

[@SpyroTheEternalNight]

i knew about 4, but not the others. thanks guys!

[@adrielfalcon8686]

More of these bideo but with cats or dogs for 匹 pleaseee!