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Can we get some Japanese rizz
@tavonknight398
Bro *💀*
How do you feel about other youtubers like Asagi calling you and street interviewers scammers and accusing you of cherry picking the people you decide to show, suggesting you want to only show people who show a certain narrative you want to portray about Japan?
I find these accusations unfounded and ridiculous, especially since you are japanese as well.
Just was wondering if someone has brought this to your attention or if you are aware of this way of thinking about street interviews and what you would say to that.
Takashi your disinterest to the all interviewees is extremely noticeable. Your body language shows you do not actually care about what is being sad at all.
15:06 This effect happens in all countries with non native speakers of a language living in a foreign country, once they know enough to survive... they switch their brain off...they're too lazy to continue learning as they know enough to get by in daily life...
@@itsumotanoshimi
dafuq are you talking about?
He’s a native speaker, he’s japanese himself.
Stop smoking crack.🤦🏻♂️
I'm a simple man. I see Sayaka on the thumbnail, I click
Men of culture 😳
Well said, gentleman
It is a pleasure to greet you, gentleman. 🥂
😂 True me too
what did sayaka do for a living?
TAKASHii managed to get connections with all of these Japanese teachers and online content creators including Sayaka. They are collaborating. That’s neat.
CZcamsrs are big-time collaborators, in general.
Sensei avengers have assembled 😂 .
Thanks for the video description lol
Anyone reading this that's learning Japanese and is around an N5 to N4 level: Watching Terrace House is one of the best things you can do to level up your ability to understand and speak ACTUAL conversational Japanese. Watch a season once with English subtitles, then go back and watch it again with Japanese subtitles. Terrace House was the show that propelled me from N5/4 into the N3 zone.
Taking the N2 this summer in Fukuoka. 💪 Good luck to the other test takers.
I'll try this ty, by the way where did you watch it? Netflix?
@@576kg8 I found it on Netflix!
When she talked about Spanish & Japanese similarities in pronunciation, I absolutely agree. As a Spanish speaker, I was so surprised at how much of both languages sound similar when speaking!
Knowing nearly fluent Spanish in 1992 made my Japanese accent better. Sadly I forgot all my Spanish
I totally agree, As a Spanish speaking Nikkei, Japanese pronunciation was very easy to learn for me. But I can see native Spanish speakers having a little bit of difficulty with "Tsu","Za", "Zu","Zo". They make it sound all like "S".
It's the same for Italian too, pronunciation is really similar! It would be nice if it was like that for writing, vocabulary and grammar as well 🥲😅
I was watching anime in my room and then I went out of my room and my mom asked what novela u watching, I told her I’m watching anime. She was like Que 😮
I’ve said this for sooo long to people but could never really explain it the best. When I was learning Japanese in school all my Spanish speaking classmates had the BEST accent and pronunciation.
The different perspectives of everyone was really interesting:
Anannya had the anime-fan/solo learner perspective.
Sayaka's answers were really focused on the linguistic part of language learning and pronunciation as well as how the language actually sounds when spoken conversationally.
Kozy really focused on the sentence structure and used good grammatical examples.
and Risako had the experience of knowing a roman derived language to compare it directly to japanese.
So cool!
That also shows how there are multiple ways to learn/focus on depending upon the individual, yeah it's pretty cool.
Takashi-kun always knows how to pick his guests.
Shout out to Sayaka-sensei, miti kurete arigato!
"Mite kurete"
mite
@@DjMonak "みてくれて”
見てくれてありがとう！
"We (Japanese) live in a bubble without knowing we are."
This is so true. So many Japanese are not aware of that.
Honestly I think it is good given how the world out here is going, hahaha.
The point of a bubble si that it's transparent
Living in a bubble isnt necessarily good. This isnt 1990 with social media and internet we are more of a global society also Japan gain a lot of income nationally and businesses by exporting their culture. Economically no country is an island unless you wanna become north korea. But tourism is huge@TheDarthpsi
She is out of Matrix. Some japanese really need to travel
If only they knew how different things could be.
In another of Takashii's interviews, the guy he was interviewing said we live in a golden age of language learning: with the technology available to us today, there's never been a more ideal time in human history to learn another language. That has stuck with me ever since. I feel so lucky being able to hear from all these language teachers any time of the day or night.
I'd be more inclined to see we live in the age where learning languages is unnecessary and just a hobby, while many should keep disappearing into obscurity. I don't particularly like English, but I see no purpose in using anything but English worldwide and online. Once the non tech generations cease to exist it will also become easy to use it more frequently while traveling.... Learning languages is a hobby - I can use 4, and I'm aiming for 6 more but it becomes so hard to choose when in reality so many are minority languages even if they are "household names", take any nordic language (north germanic - swedish, danish, norwegian) or finnish as an example; each of them have around 9 million natives and most of those natives understand english better than their neighbouring countries languages... Rinse and repeat with most eastern european and asian languages. Only languages with soft international power are english, spanish, japanese, korean, mandarin, french, arab and maybe russian.
@Raindropv5wt I don't know what you are on about... I never claimed English was a universal language per se as far as I recall as I find both Universal language and lingua franca as stupid terms, and I certainly did not claim it is the most natively spoken language at all. I did also claim mandarin has relevance, unlike the many random hindu languages that not even them themselves use all that often due to how many they are in a small geographic area (to the utmost of my knowledge). The greek language thing is straight up a lie by the way, and back them there were many more languages than there are today. English is the most used language worldwide, as in through a wide geographic area while the likes of Mandarin are stuck to the China borders, likewise for Russia... So I fail to see any point on your reply to me, the resources are there? Sure, the need is the one that is no longer there and as time goes by this will be ever more true... Languages will disappear, those that are just niche like many Indian dialects, and serve no purpose beyond cultural emblems and allowing people that don't know any other one to communicate (which as I said, overtime will go away). If therer is no need to learn languages, even if the resources become more plentiful, then language learning becomes a hobby and not a necessity - which nowadays is the current state of things ONLINE beyond the key languages mentioned. Also, the only reason greeks had the influence they had in us was due to how many thinkers they had with access to written language and the ability to leave evidence of this while other nations were waging wars for survival, most people had not idea how to read or write most languages that existed back then and things like the library of Alexandria were so emblematic due to this - and this is representative now of how the world knowledge is now preserved digitally in ENGLISH, as every research paper is required to have an abstract in english even when the whole thing is in, for example, spanish.
this is SO true. I tried to learn Japanese in highschool in 1998, but bounced off how hard it was to learn kana with the available methods-- no podcasts, youtube didn't exist yet, decently translated Japanese media (if you tried to "learn from Anime" from some of those translations you would be learning from someone who knew barely more Japanese than you did!) no apps. Spaced Repetition was known as a learning technique but not taught and the tools available to assist were nonexistent. There were relatively few advances from the 1940s when wire recorders allowed "language labs" full of recorders and players for the first time until like almost literally 2005 or 6. Language learning until the smartphone era really took off in 2012 or so looked like studying a textbook at home speaking out loud to the wall and once or twice a week sitting in a row of cubicles with headphones repeating phrases and hoping you remembered them and perhaps a professor or two walking around listening for obvious errors and correcting you. It was the dark ages.
@@raizan5946 I cannot agree with this at all. In my field, IT, the gulf of language-speaking forums is immense. If you spend most time in the old "first world" (US allied nations of the cold war) you need only English really. But if you ever go to the "second world" (former soviet allies) Russian will avail you more and English will be more uncommon, though it's not like it was in the cold war where only military officers would speak English but they PREFER not to speak English in many areas, especially within Russia. If you're in a field where that matters, like IT Security, you will be far more effective if you learn Russian. Similarly there's a lot of fields where if you don't speak one of the languages of India you won't fit in.
@Raindropv5wt that's CZcams, not the youtuber. When a youtuber bans you, your comments simply are invisible to every other person except you.
Risako is a genius. She has to be, she can express her thoughts clearly and in depth in all 3 of the languages she speaks.
this video is proof that japanese shouldn't be shy about their "japanese accent". trying to sound "like a native" and that kind of perfectionism is foolish. instead the goal should be closer to "being understandable." even native english speakers have so many accents. your accent is part of your culture. be proud! :D
Not only Japanese, all Asians in general should be respected no matter what their accent is. I've seen some trolls online who specially quote accent whenever they wanna mock a whole country.
Asians are amazing...they should in fact be praised for being multilingual !
I personally speak 5 languages and it's annoying when people mock my English for having an Indian accent. 🤔🤔😑
That's a great point. I think sounding like a native is an unrealistic expectation. And as a language teacher, I think comprehensibility trumps pretty much everything else.
exactly. If you hear a native japanese speaking fluent english with an accent it doesn't mean their english is bad. Nobody really thinks about it because the important part is you can understand them
Right on. And within the community of people trying to learn Japanese for instance, they peddle the narrative that 'perfect/native' pronunciation trumps all else. If one's goal with a language is not to communicate, connect or consume native content from that language I can't imagine it being for many other reasons that feeding ego and bragging rights in line with one of those clickbait 'Person from x race SHOCKS natives with language abilities!'
People with various accents are everywhere and make the world more colourful because they offer glimpses into unique backgrounds, upbringings and cultures that shaped their cadence.
Can't agree more.
I saw Sayaka and I am here already...
To find Sayaka Sensei
0:43 Intro
1:45 To start from
5:50 Anime pros and cons
11:17 Common mistakes
14:21 Japanese on textbook
16:16 No matter where you are, speak!
17:22 Advice
Weird
@@kenjiii_ Thank you bro😁
That's kinda creepy 😅
@@valendis Yeah 💀
Simp level:100🤣
All this mention of Sayaka is great but seeing so little praise for an Indian girl speak fluent Japanese. She's very good for foreigner. Props to her.
Always heard south Indian languages have similar/identical grammar structure to Japanese so nice to hear confirmation from her.
i love herrr ive been following her for a while on instagram so it was a nice surprise to find her here
because japan is a racist country
Sayaka is the best. Her teaching is lively and makes we too can speak easily like her. I have often switched channels when i saw others as they look very fast making to feel very difficult to speak like a native. I like NATIVE Japanese teachers. I am an Indian and see only content by natives who inspire confidence. I watch Sayaka even though am doing my N1 as I like her pronunciation and her confidence inspiring style.
Completely agree with you. She's an inspiration.
So true! If I ever get to her level, I'll feel like I've died and gone to heaven. Life goals...
Your English has improved a lot brother. Thanks for these suggestions
He really has, in the last year he has made major improvements.
The guy in orange is such a traditional style teacher.
brings a good balance to the video :)
Yeah I want to have a teacher like that
Forgot to add the 3-5 years you need to spend in order to get anywhere with the language
He dropped some knowledge bombs and here I am watching this whole 20 min video because my brother is a weeb and i am a teacher
Yes I would love to be his student
I speak Spanish, and my Japanese teacher/sensei tells me my Japanese pronunciation is very good. So we do have that advantage because in Spanish, our r’s sound the same or similar to Japanese, as well as vowels, and the bilabial sounds like b, p, and also the t, d are the same. I began learning Japanese on Duolingo 2 yrs ago and began lessons also 2 yrs ago. I love it!
Because Spanish pronunciation is a bit similar to Japanese. But it is not the pronunciation that is important in Japanese, but the intonation or pitch. Because as long as the pitch is accurate, my daughter can often understand what I'm saying even if I have a toothbrush in my mouth. lol
I swear I knew I wasn’t crazy they both sounded similar in a way lol
@@TheMakoyou I’m sure! That pitch and intonation will come later for me. I wish I could learn it now. I’m just focusing on vocabulary and grammar for now. I am just beginning to understand putting sentences together and learning the verb conjugation for I, na, and te form verbs. I’ve got a lot to go!
Estoy de acuerdo 👍🏻 una pregunta¿cuál es tu método para memorizar Kanji? 😊
@@Taetae-ye8zb En el curso que estoy tomando, Kanji viene un poco mas luego. El profesor nos mando las notas por email y segun lo yo veo de kanji, hay que mirar a cada letra de kanji… y separarlas de sis partes. Ciertas características de las letras tienen algo en comun. Otras parecen a lo que quieren a representatar por ejemplo, agua.
Veo tambien que hay ejercios a donde tengo que distingir una letra kanji con otras que de presentan. ASI uno va poco a poco mirandolas y notando las Que son iguales.
Casi todas tienen partes diferentes y hay que mirar a esto. Yo tendria que escribirlas en cartas y escribir que significan al Otto lado de la carta. No mas de 5 o 6 a la vez.
Espero que esto le ayuda un poco.
It’s nice to see Sayaka here 🙌🏼 love here channel
Right!? I was super surprised when I saw her
@@cameraday9196 same
It s like the multiverse joined together 🎉
I love what Sakaya said about the most important thing just being able to communicate! I think the thing that holds people back from practicing is the fear of making mistakes, when it doesn’t even matter, and is just an opportunity to learn! It’s not like I care when people from other countries make mistakes in English so why would anyone else care?! Loved this video! Very inspirational as I finally embark on my Japanese learning journey!
I mean, it depends on your goal. For a lot of people, their entire goal is being able to consume content, which aside from getting a Japanese gf/bf or a perma tutor, it's probably the fastest way to actually get good at the language. For those people, talking isn't really all that important. Lucky for those people, the best part about that is that even if you don't speak, by merely learning Japanese and consuming tons of content, when they do decide on speaking, they'll be able to because simply immersing and consuming tons of content allows for your output potential to be so much more. After that, it's just refining, and getting comfortable with actually speaking.
That is what language pedagogy of the past 20-30 years says. A lot of teachers are out of date or some think they can teach because they are native lol
Your interviews are so full of varied perspectives. Such an excellent job. I always look forward to your videos.
I love your channel so much. It’s always insightful and your interviews have lots of meaning. I’m currently learning Japanese and I feel fortunate because I have several Japanese coworkers that have been so helpful in my learning. Immersion has been key to my learning.
Thank you for making this video, it's so cool to hear this information from them, such nice and good looking people too!
So great to see Sayaka! I've been watching her videos since a long time ago and is both fun and didactic! 😊😊
It makes me happy that I already follow most of them! Nice to see
Sayaka! Love her shorts, they're fantastic quick lessons.
These tips are very important, this video was incredible as always Takashi !!! 👏👏🔥
My Japanese partner helps me learn Japanese by having me do daily tasks in Japanese, and using/listening/reading practical Japanese every day. That plus going to Japanese school here in the US has helped me a lot and speaking Spanish helps with pronunciation
I second and confirm that speaking spanish does help a lot with pronunciation
Yupp my Japanese tutor was impressed with my pronounciation and she asked if I speak Spanish… how did she know 😮😮
@@doublebubblebarb7606 yep the phonetics and vowels are the same. The problem I have is, when I speak Spanish, I speak too fast. So when I speak and pronounce Japanese, I pronounce it the same speed and I make a mess.
Ive been thinking about that, i feel like my Spanish upbringing helped with my Japanese a ton, like im able to mentally tie vocabulary between the languages to remember definitions, and pronunciations (as previously commented) are also shared which helped a lot. Really interesting stuff
Dominican here so, likewise Spanish speaking speeds is fast!
Loved this video. So true the point about having the courage to try using what you're learning in new situations
So happy to see Sayaka in this interview. I'm one happy follower of hers and one of Takashi's followers as well.
Absolutely love Sayaka, she makes learning genuine non-textbook sounding japanese really entertaining. Her tiktoks are brilliant.
Great video!!
Thank you for the amazing video ❤
Takashi, you're the best 🙇🏻♀️✨
My Number One 🌟
Sayaka follower here writing from Brazil. I love the way that she teaches Japanese on CZcams. I'm a fan of her
Same here.
Bora focar nos estudos pra um dia a gente ser fluente em japonês.
頑張ってね
@@UiiMadonna Isso aí. 👍🏾👍🏾
I am so thankful to you for making this video. This is realllllly helpful and I am also self learning Japanese and Mandarin myself. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏
the way I've seen/heard of pretty much all of these people, this is a crazy collab!
I am a current student of Kouji sensei on preply and LOVE his teaching style and guidance. He always has answers for my questions and can always comment on the context in which to use certain Japanese words/grammar.
Well this just made my day! Thanks! ❤
Great content. Motivation is often overlooked as a factor. Interview successful learners of Japanese and ask them what motivated them to keep going.
Nice as usual Takashi. Love watching your videos alot. I don't know why but watching your video really make me feel relaxed and enjoyed.
This channel is amazing for learning about japanese culture
this was comforting. A lot of the recommendations and considerations were already part of my plans. Mainly using duolingo to get initial grasp of the characters. I have workbooks for learning to write, but mainly hoping it will assist with me recognizing them - just using them as another medium for learning them. That way I can progress to typing which will be my main learning tools apart from dramas/tv shows. I do enjoy anime/songs, but with the creative freedoms in both, I know they can't be completely relied on just like with related content in english. Thanks for this video
Kozy sensei is just a bundle of joy ! He is so funny! I’ve learned a lot from his comedy reels ❤🥰
Thank you Takashii, I watch your videos from time to time and leave you thumbs up.
Another great video Takashii. Nihongo is my joint.
When you say "Thank you for watching so far" it implies that there is more to the video because of the "so far" 😆
I think in this context it can be taken to refer to his videos overall? That's how I heard it.
It sounds like a word-for-word translation from how he would say it in Japanese: "ima made," or "up to now".
I took it to mean that he is thankful for all of the watching that I have done up until this point, but that he will no longer be thankful for any watching I do from this point forward.
great video Takashi very motivating! Thanks!
thank you so much Takashii. I always think your video is fun and great. From your videos, I always learn many things. I am hoping that I can watch your video as soon as possible.
Sayaka Follower here. Glad to see her here. :)
Thank you for this video! so interesting!
Thank you for posting this video, I'm learning Japanese and this was very informative to me.
I just started today and this is incredibly helpful 🎉 thank you !
Love Sayaka Sensei. Her mitekurete arigatou truly makes me speak after her. Her pronunciations seem its easy to learn
Thanks for this video Takashi san. 久しぶり！
Great video! This certainly will help many learners, including myself lol, thanks for sharing it!
This encourage me a lot to start my own journey.
great content, greetings from Colombia
I love Sayaka’s channel, even though I haven’t started studying japanese yet
Looking for such video... Arigato Takashi 🙏🏻
This is exactly what I was waiting for as I'm starting to learn Japanese!
I recognize these teachers! I love watching their videos ❤ Kozy-sensei and Sakaya-sensei are my favorites.
Took Sayaka-Sensei's classes all the way through, can attest that she is very good and my Japanese is better thanks to her instruction! Highly recommend!
Thank you 🙏🏽 very much, it was very helpful and informative ❤️😇
Thank you so much for this video. I'm currently learning Japanese and I think that these experiences and advices are pure gold. Greetings from Argentina! ありがとうございます。
Kozy sensei is my Preply tutor and it’s been the best way to increase my Japanese fluency! He’s the best!
Great vid and great tips, thank you! For me what helped in the beginning was associating certain Hiragana and Katakana letters with specific things. For example the N kana always resembled the let's say "n" in my native language so it was easy to memorize. And the "E" kana reminded me of a man just waving his hands in surprise like "eee" so got that down as well and so on. The disadvantage is that it obviously doesn't work for everything and since I use it while trying to learn other languages it can often get confusing.
16:54 very honest answer , cool person
I really loved this answer too.
Japonesa Poblana Is her chanel!
What a fantastic episode! Thank you!
Awesome! I was using Dueling to learn Japanese. I have not been consistent but this video has been motivating.
I have been studying Japanese for the last 5 months and this was so helpful! Thanks!
Nice keep up only 2 and half years left till you reach a decent level of fluency. Also AI tools help a lot don't forget to use them
Awesome!🫡
I loved all the teachers and Ananya (she made me look into my South Indian mother tongue to find similarities!). Kozy Sensei seemed such a patient and wonderful teacher. I follow him now. Thank you Takashi. I always learn something new from your channel.
this was such a helpful video thank you
Super helpful! This confirms my general strategy to learning Japanese. Thank you.
Main strategy is to keep consistent for 3-5 years until you reach a decent level of fluency
The girl at 0:54 was super relatable. Would be really interesting to hear more from her.
Their English is phenomenal! I wanna reach that level so bad!
Learn all of it, all together, at the same time. Thanks, got it!
I didn’t expect to see さやかさん here amazing!😆
Wow its so great and helpful
Love your vedios takashi onisan
What a valuable video, thanks a lot, very nice tips!
takashi its nice to see you use wireless mic for flawless conversation i love the conversation, and act like you are not in hurry, i love you take care
What a wonderful video!
It’s Sayaka! I always learn something new from her. 😊
Fascinating and informative. I'm still working on my Spanish and German but it's good to know how others learn other languages.
Sayaka!! I learn many japanese tips from her videos ❤️🔥❤️🔥
As someone who speaks 5 languages (🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇲🇽🇯🇵) fluently and some conversational, here are my observations that people reeeeally don’t talk about enough why na show people learn fast or not: (the same applies for Japanese people learned English)
1) western countries are low context, we speak directly “this tastes bad” vs Japan (eastern mostly) is high context “maaaaaaaaaaaa this is…… oooookay…..”
2) people don’t emphasize enough how the grammar structure is different
West: SVO vs Japan: SOV
I eat apples “(I) apple eat”
3) countries whose first language is not English but use the same Roman alphabet tend to learn faster, they don’t have to waste time learn yet a new set of letters (which is why Japanese English education should start in kindergarten, some junior high school students STILL switch “b” and “d”, even “p” or “q” sometimes…)
4) if you already speak a second language, your brain is already used to “learning languages”
5) if the language(s) you already speak are PHONETIC, that’s yet another advantage
6) if the language you already speak is part of a particular “family”, that’s another advantage, that’s how I learned French and Spanish, they’re both from Latin and there’s a lot of overlap in grammar, word roots, verb tenses, etc.
There’s nothing similar to japanese the same way Romance languages are to each but the closest would be Chinese and Korean. Chinese for the kanji (word order is like English, and they don’t have verb tenses) and Korean for the vocabulary similarity (many video’s online demonstration that)
Bonuses
1) a friend/bf/gf
2) time
3) drive/motivation (not really a bonus, that’s a given)
This comment should be pinned cause you only said FACTS 🎉
Really good video, I started to learn recently so the tips in the video help a lot.
I’m glad to know I’ve been doing it right so far. Started doubting if I was actually learning anything
Very informative arigato ❤
Kozysensei seems like he'd be an amazing teacher.
Man! this was a very useful video. Thanks a lot.
great video as always! very interesting
Good stuff!
oh I just clicked on the video the moment I saw my teacher❤ Nihongodekita🌹🌸She is amazing
it's interesting hearing the perspective of multiple japanese instructors
i was wondering if you were planning on making a video on tips/suggestions for intermediate speakers who already have been through the basics and can hold conversations
I am a big fan of the chanel and I was very happy to see so many sensei's in one video. Algo a big fan of Risako and Sayaka 🎉
I'm currently trying to learn Japanese, but I'm in the phase before being able to watch japanese content because I don't know enough vocabulary :( I am trying to learn vocabulary and Grammar everyday for multiple hours and I hope it won't take too long, until I can watch some Japanese Content even if it's a children tv show, because I learned english that way and for me it worked great. Thank you for the Video, it really motivates me to keep studying!
Try Totoro Hamturo without subtitles.
@@bighawkdz I'll try it thanks for the help!
I always give an example of two individuals speaking a language fluently, one with a heavy accent but with an immense vocabulary and another that has no accent but with a small vocabulary. Now, which would you rather work and or be friends with? Pretty easy. This is to say, being able to communicate effectively is a million times more important than sounding native. In many cases natives prefer a different accent and even the new, interesting and sometimes funny ways non native may say something. If you sound native you are just another one of 100s of millions.
very insightful, great video! Arigatou gozaimasu XD
"It's really exciting to hear words I learned" is so real as a language learner. This is one of the factors that motivates me to study more Japanese so that I can understand more Japanese sentences when watching dramas or anime even without subtitles.
Yeah, when you watch a move/series with subtitles and suddenly you go: "Wait a minute, there was a slight mistranslation there!" is priceless.
00:00 📚 Learning Japanese: Start by focusing on pronunciation, hiragana, and katakana.
01:07 📺 Watching anime aids Japanese learning: It helps with pronunciation, intonation, and vocabulary, but beware of informal language.
02:31 🌍 Language differences: Spanish shares pronunciation similarities with Japanese, aiding Spanish speakers in learning Japanese.
03:36 🎌 Language structure: Japanese learners face challenges with particles and sentence framework.
05:52 🚫 Pitfalls of anime learning: While helpful, learning solely from anime may lead to picking up uncommon phrases and rude expressions.
08:00 🧠 Effective learning strategies: Emphasize practical vocabulary over rote memorization, and balance kanji acquisition with vocabulary learning.
10:33 📝 Mistakes to avoid: Focus on pronunciation accuracy and practical vocabulary rather than exhaustive verb memorization.
11:59 🔤 Kanji importance: Recognizing kanji aids comprehension and reduces cognitive load, though writing proficiency may be less critical.
15:04 🛋 Immersion in Japanese culture: Living in Japan doesn't guarantee language fluency; active engagement and practice are essential.
16:34 🎉 Advice for beginners: Enjoy the learning process, embrace mistakes, and cultivate courage to immerse yourself in Japanese language and culture.
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@@dameanvil you generated that using AI…
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@@marxyy because I’ve used it. There’s a “GPT” (like an add-on) that’s called のyoutube which does a similar thing. Doesn’t matter if the youtube film is 10 seconds long or 10 hours, it’ll summarize it in seconds and you can even ask follow up question about what’s in it.
Forty years ago, we didn't have all these online resources although I wish we did. But when you're in a relationship with a Japanese girlfriend or boyfriend and especially if you live with them, you're on a steep learning curve. This helps too.
Thank you. This was helpful.
ありがとうございます
This is so relatable and helpful for Japanese learners! I speak English and Chinese in Singapore and our 'informal' national language Singlish has similar structure as Japanese. Thanks for publishing this video.
I've been studying Japanese for the last few years and I agree with most of the advice. My advice when learning new words in is to look for sentences in either video subtitles or written texts that have less than 3 words that you don't know yet, and make a review card for that sentence. That way you'll learn just a bit more than you already did. Trying to memorize entire sentences with 5+ words you don't know is way too much information to actually learn and remember quickly.