You're absolutely right. All the other channels are for like beginners I already know the basics I'm trying to get to almost fluency and I need the harder questions answered and just more demonstration and examples of natural speaking
I studied Japanese from 7th to 12th grade. I studied for four years in college. I lived in Japan for a year. And no one ever came close to explaining it to me to where I could understand. Now I actually feel like I understand it, so thank you for this!
It's similar to "the" and "a" in English. I actually used similar examples when I was teaching English in Japan. I bought a bike yesterday. The bike is red.
In English you have to point out the subject in every single sentence while in Japanese it’s not necessary. I struggle a lot with this as I have to guess the proper subject. There even times both subject and object are omitted which makes it even harder.
While Kaname didn't actually explain が, it's actually easier than a lot of learners perceive. We have the same idea in English, except instead of having a word (particle) we use stress/intonation. が is analogous to _THIS thing right here_ (as opposed to that other, similar thing), which we have in English by stressing the word which would've had が attached to it. は is more like putting the focus on what comes after the verb in active voice. _This_ is my dog (as opposed to that other dog, which isn't mine) would use が: この犬が僕の... This is _my dog_ (as opposed to this is my cat) would use は: この犬は僕の... が puts emphasis on the noun it's attached to, or what's before the particle, while は puts emphasis on what comes after the particle. That's why が is used a lot with phrases that highlight the subject, such as 好き, ある, 嫌い, いる, etc.
I've been learning Japanese for a while (four years), and I've honestly learned most of it from entertainment media of various forms (alongside vital assistance and supplementation from actual study.), so I understand a lot of these things on a vibe level and sort of automatically get them. But it's very helpfully to have them actually explained and to actually understand how & why they work the way they do. Your videos are very good for that, thank you.
That was an amazing explanation, far beyond anything one would find in a textbook, and also the type of thing that I think most native speakers of a language would just take for granted and never really think about. Thank you.
I'm currently studying japanese in evening classes (as well as on my own when I have time), and I really like your videos because I think they are a great complement and never fail to teach me something new. So here have a small something :)
I watch/listen to Kaname sensei's video to understand NUANCES and how real Japanese talk, things you just never learn on the textbook. Language can be overwhelming because it's so diverse and people use it differently in different context. But at the same time so interesting
Just saw the notification and I'm already recommending this to my friends, even before watching it, because your videos/lessons are always the best!! 😃 Greetings from Brazil ~
I started learning Japanese a few weeks ago, but I have been watching Kaname's videos a year or so prior, he teaches in such a clear way that even before I understood a word in Japanese, everything seemed very clear and easy, which is the mark of an amazing talent in teaching, anytime I see a new video on this channel, I'm glad. Thank you very much for your time and effort!
Hey, here’s a corrected version of your writing, thought it might help ya: かなめ先生の教え方は最高だと思います！上手な英語で説明してくれるしめっちゃ分かりやすいし、あと例文も個性的で面白いです。 この動画の最初の一分半だけでも「は」について知らなかったことをいっぱい学ぶことができたからびっくりしました！ Noteworthy changes: * 教えの方法 → 教え方: "教え方" is a more natural expression for "teaching method." * し → Combined some sentences for smoother flow while using し repeatedly. * いっぱい性格がある → 個性的だ: "性格" is more about personality in humans, while "個性" fits better for describing unique characteristics of things like example sentences. * 未だ doesn't fit the context here so I removed it and rephrased the sentence.
@@masatami Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time. I'll have to look over these changes and take note of them as best I can. Right now, I'm essentially pushing above my level to practice new things, 'cause you gotta use it to remember it, and start to figure out how things work. Building things in a way where you can succeed in expressing yourself, even if you don't have all the best pieces yet, etc. As my vocabulary and comprehension improves, I'll be able to shadow better and build a better intuition of what actually sounds right.
In a supermarket, for example, a customer might ask 人参はありますか？ or 人参はどこですか？ I've always wondered why は is used here instead of が, and now you've answered this for me. Thank you.
Was just outside with my cat having a snack thinking to myself "I've been studying Japanese for 2 years now. If I overthink it, I lose sense of how は and が behave in accordance to each other, as much as I FEEL like I understand it". Perfect timing. ありがとうございます！
Excellent lesson, the best one i have ever heard about wa and ga. For English speaking people particles are the hardest subject. Please lessons about all fourteen particles would be a huge plus. Thank you!
So you are talking about が as "subject," but one thing that greatly helped me was thinking of it as the "identifier" particle. So it's not in opposition to は, exactly, but is complementary and different in purpose. Any sentence where you need to identify something, が is used (even multiple times) to identify something specific. Consider お祭りではあんこが入ったお菓子を売ります -- Although red bean paste is being identified, the subject of the sentence sure isn't that, it's some anonymous seller(s), at least from an English perspective. "Some vendors at the festival sell red-bean-paste-filled sweets." Or, "They sell sweets at the festival that are full of red bean paste." Oh, by the way, your videos are amazing. Thank you.
This is alot like how in English. When referring to a person place or thing. You must refer to it by it's name, or describe it. But any sentences after, you can refer to it using words that don't need to describe it by name. Like this My sister loves the outdoors. She also loves dogs. I don't have to declare that is MY sister we're talking about any longer since I've already described her. Great video. I love how you break it down, and make it easy to understand.
Very helpful. Random sidenote, but I'm close to Sapporo (Iwamizawa). I moved here from Trinidad and Tobago. Your videos are always helpful in helping make my life here in Japan easier by being able to speak
Thank you very much! I had an inkling about the meaning of は, but I couldn't wrap my head around the difference to が and when to use which. This made it a lot clearer.
As a native English/Japanese speaker, this was also how I was taught the は/が concept, but still struggled with it as an adult. That was until someone made a great simplification which I wish was more widely taught-If the part that comes after is important, use は. If the part that comes before is important, use が. Using your examples: 田中さん、ご兄弟はいますか。 は is used here because whether the existence of siblings is what is important. はい、姉と弟がいます。 が is used here because that Tanakasan has both an older sister and younger brother is what is important. お姉さんは札幌にすんでるんですか。 は is used here because whether the older sister lives in Sapporo or not is what is important. いえ、姉は大阪に住んでいます。 は is used here because Osaka being where the older sister lives is what is important. Learning this little trick made it so much easier to understand the concept for me.
I am a proficient speaker and this helped me understand mistakes I make in formal writing better, even though I'm pretty sure I've read some of the linguistics research it's based on. I'll get corrected by my boss less now. Cheers.
I'd guess it's because in most situations, if you say "this exists", you're probably saying it to inform the other person of something they might not know. Otherwise, it's less likely you'd say the sentence in the first place, since the existence is already understood. Therefore, 「何々がある」is much more common to inform someone of that existence. Perhaps something like ”テーブルに七つサンドはあるんだけど、二人で全部を食べられないでしょう。” would work, because at a glance, anyone would know there are 7 sandwiches, therefore は can be used, but it still makes sense to mention their existence before saying that there's no way just 2 people can eat them all. TL;DR: 「何々はある」is probably uncommon simply because you're stating the existence of something you both already know exists, so it's usage is bound to be more limited.
Hey, 要先生！ Your videos have been incredibly helpful, especially since they touch on things that would take most of us who are not natives speakers, a very long time to figure out. It… shallows the learning curve, if you will. I have a few suggestions, if you are open to them. I don’t mean to impose, I’m sure you have plenty of ideas already and I think you have far, far more credibility than I do, but they’re here if you want them. 失礼します。 - Onomatopoeia in Japanese - Particles で vs. に vs. へ - Mid-sentence verbs - Miscellaneous sentence endings (such as 「なの」と「のさ」と「かな」) - Verb conjugations - How to use adverbs - Example jokes in Japanese - Common mistakes non-native speakers make (I once told my 日本語の先生 to 「おいで」, and she told me that’s only for kids. I was so embarrassed! 笑)
は = "as for the...." in English. After the は particle is the important detail of the sentence. が = "...is the one" in English. Before the が particle is the important detail of the sentence.
I really appreciate Kaname sensei’s lessons. It is unfortunate that you chose to use the word “focus” loosely to mean both the new thing you point out, and then that thing as it becomes the topic you make new comments about. The term ‘focus’ is used in general linguistics to refer to the new information. In English we mark focus with emphasis: louder, longer and higher pitch. In Japanese the particles が and も mark focus. The very opposite of ‘focus’ is the topic, also called presupposition or background. In Japanese ‘topic’ is marked with は. Kaname Sensei does a good job of showing that when you first point something out from the background, you focus on it, mark it が. Next you can make it the topic that you comment on: the は puts it in the background, and the new information you add becomes the new ‘focus.’ My explanation is not as clear as Kaname sensei’s. But it would have been better it he hadn’t used the word focus loosely to mean both ‘focus’ (new info), and its opposite, (topic/background/presupposition.)
It’s a nice explanation, but I think it’s important to also talk about “suki desu” when talking about “wa” versus “ga”. I believe if you follow the rule in this video you will use the wrong particle for this very common construction.
Hard for me to focus on such long videos, but は is such a big topic it deserves a number of smaller videos focused on various aspects. On thing that has always bothered me is にごり。I once had a pretty good one-page summary, but it still bugs me pretty often, especially in books where the markings are unclear (if ruby is present).
Just wanted to quickly pop in and point out that I believe there's a mistake at the 5:43 mark. The English translation says "On the right side of the TV tower" but the Japanese sentence says テレビ塔のちょっと左に. Really great video though. :) Oh perhaps there's also a mistake around 5:50. The English says "That statue is called 'Statue of Spring'" but the Japanese uses 泉, which is better translated as "fountain" instead of "spring" - because "Statue of Spring" in English means 春の像. Perhaps the English translation should say "Fountain Statue" instead to be more correct.
In these cases, が and は are similar to English indefinite and definite articles. 画像の右側には公衆トイレがあります。On the right hand of the picture there is a public toilet. トイレは古いけど、まあまあ綺麗です。The toilet is old but it's fairly clean.
I've always comapred は as being the title of a chapter in a book for some reason, so once I've said [topic]は I don't feel the need to mention it again unless the topic changes to something else.
THIS!! a criminally low amount of beginner learners understand that は does not correlate to "am/is/are" in English! The very concept of "sentence topic setup" is important but very rarely talked about and this causes many people to overuse は and just sound jarring
Yea I've always heard people that teach Japanese explain it by drawing a parralel with the way we put emphasis on words in english. As in "this is a TOILET" vs "THIS is a toilet." In Japanese, for the first one you would use wa, and for the second you would use ga, right?
can you use は in a sentence in which you use よ at the end of a sentence in the sentence that you are introducing material the other person does not know (as opposed to ね) ?
That looks like you're saying "I like that song and I'm beautiful" because the focus/topic of the sentence is yourself/僕は. Maybe この歌は美しくて大好き would be better.
I was going to ask what the point of the particle is if the subject may be straightforwardly implied by the sentence itself, but you kinda answered it by mentioning speakers regularly omit it for this reason
Examples transcript:
このペンはとても使いやすいんですよ。
このハサミはとても使いやすいんですよ。
今私の手にはハサミがあります。
今私はハサミを持っています。
このハサミは青いハサミで、とても使いやすいんですよ。
見てください。この動画の中央に赤い塔がありますよね。あれはさっぽろテレビ塔です。
真ん中に見える塔はさっぽろテレビ塔です。テレビ塔は札幌の中央にある電波塔で、1957年に建てられました。
みなさん、実はですね、あのトイレはとてもきれいです。
この動画の右側に写っていませんが、公衆トイレがあります。
この動画では見えませんが、右側に公衆トイレがあります。あのトイレはちょっと古いですが、まあまあきれいです。
見てください。テレビ塔のちょっと左に女の人が手を挙げている像がありますよね。
あの像は泉の像と言って、大通公園のシンボルの一つなんですよ。
あのー、すいません、この公園にトイレはありますか？
ありますよ。トイレはあそこです。
あのー、すいません。トイレって知っていますか？
え、トイレですか？当たり前じゃないですか。
え！本当に知ってるんですか！トイレってあのー、おしっこしたりうんちしたりする、あのトイレですよ？
知ってますよ。バカにしてるんですか？
あ、知ってるんだ！よかったー！あのーすいません、ここら辺にトイレはありますか？
いや、あなたに答えたくありません。
トイレって知っていますか？
うちの同僚に山口って人がいるんだけど
田中さん、ご兄弟はいますか？
はい、姉と弟がいます。
へえ、そうなんですか。お姉さんは札幌に住んでるんですか？
いえ、姉は今大阪に住んでいます。
じゃあ弟さんは？
弟は私と一緒に住んでいますよ。
このペンはとても使いやすいんですよ。
このペンはとても書きやすいんですよ。一年前に本屋で買ったんですけど、気に入っちゃって、それからずっと使っています。前使ってたペンよりもずっと書きやすくて、一度使ったらもうやめられないんですよ！
私の彼は、一見不真面目に見えるかもしれないけど、みんなが思っているより、そんなバカじゃないんだよ、大学卒業してるし。しかも私と一緒にいるときはとてもジェントルマンで、とても真面目で優しいの。まあちょっとはやんちゃなところもあるけど、でもすごく頼りになるっていうか、しかもハンサムだし背が高いし、いや自慢してるんじゃないけどね、でも、ほんとにみんが思っているよりいい人っていうかー、この前もわたしが疲れてるときに弁当作ってくれたしー、しかもマッサージまでしてくれてー、なんていうんだろ、もうほんとー、超ベリー素敵な男って感じ？
私の彼一見不真面目でバカみたいに見えるかもしれないけど。
私の彼は一見不真面目で
このペンすごく使いやすんだよ！
このペンはすごく使いやすいんですよ！
このペンめっちゃ使いやすい！
あの店のラーメンめっちゃうまいよ！
いやー、うちの大学の英語の先生めっちゃ美人でさ、俺毎回すごく行くの楽しみにしてるんだよね！
Do some video talking about the mama particle. like kono mama, sono mama, etc, i never understand the meaning of those sentences.
Kaname is the GOAT of intermediate / advanced Japanese language education on UA-cam and it's not even close.
You're absolutely right. All the other channels are for like beginners I already know the basics I'm trying to get to almost fluency and I need the harder questions answered and just more demonstration and examples of natural speaking
I studied Japanese from 7th to 12th grade. I studied for four years in college. I lived in Japan for a year. And no one ever came close to explaining it to me to where I could understand. Now I actually feel like I understand it, so thank you for this!
Bro goes above and beyond just to teach us Japanese for free. ありがとうございます
Well, as long as he's monetized it's not really "for free" if you catch my drift haha but yeah generally free classes
Free of charge
Are you stupid?
He gets ad revenue, people literally become millionaires just from that alone
@@wasps1yrjust like 100er oder youtubers
@@nolandderlugner1351 learn English before you learn Japanese jk
It's similar to "the" and "a" in English. I actually used similar examples when I was teaching English in Japan.
I bought a bike yesterday.
The bike is red.
In English you have to point out the subject in every single sentence while in Japanese it’s not necessary. I struggle a lot with this as I have to guess the proper subject. There even times both subject and object are omitted which makes it even harder.
Really appreciate the deeper understanding on "simple" concepts like は particle
One of the best explanations of は vsが I’ve come across in UA-cam.
While Kaname didn't actually explain が, it's actually easier than a lot of learners perceive. We have the same idea in English, except instead of having a word (particle) we use stress/intonation. が is analogous to _THIS thing right here_ (as opposed to that other, similar thing), which we have in English by stressing the word which would've had が attached to it. は is more like putting the focus on what comes after the verb in active voice.
_This_ is my dog (as opposed to that other dog, which isn't mine) would use が: この犬が僕の...
This is _my dog_ (as opposed to this is my cat) would use は: この犬は僕の...
が puts emphasis on the noun it's attached to, or what's before the particle, while は puts emphasis on what comes after the particle.
That's why が is used a lot with phrases that highlight the subject, such as 好き, ある, 嫌い, いる, etc.
I've been learning Japanese for a while (four years), and I've honestly learned most of it from entertainment media of various forms (alongside vital assistance and supplementation from actual study.), so I understand a lot of these things on a vibe level and sort of automatically get them. But it's very helpfully to have them actually explained and to actually understand how & why they work the way they do. Your videos are very good for that, thank you.
I have always been confused about “は“ and “が”. Thank you for explaining it so clearly. Your lessons are very helpful.
Thanks!
Everybody says は is a topic marker in japanese but few explain it clearly. Your explanations were very helpful. Thank you so much, Sir
I appreciate your contents! Thank you.
That was an amazing explanation, far beyond anything one would find in a textbook, and also the type of thing that I think most native speakers of a language would just take for granted and never really think about. Thank you.
This is a great explanation of the "wa"/"ga" differences. Thank you for covering this!
I'm currently studying japanese in evening classes (as well as on my own when I have time), and I really like your videos because I think they are a great complement and never fail to teach me something new. So here have a small something :)
this is the first time ive ever understood how は and が function and when it would be appropriate to use them. this is amazing, thank you so much
I watch/listen to Kaname sensei's video to understand NUANCES and how real Japanese talk, things you just never learn on the textbook. Language can be overwhelming because it's so diverse and people use it differently in different context. But at the same time so interesting
15 mins learning about particle は。 in the end Kaname sensei says “but japanese often omit it” 笑
Just saw the notification and I'm already recommending this to my friends, even before watching it, because your videos/lessons are always the best!! 😃
Greetings from Brazil ~
「は」と「が」の使い方や使い分けを教えるビデオを作ってくださって、大変感謝しますよ。適当な (appropriate) 考え方を説明して、本当にありがとうございます！！！！！
And here we have another very interesting video from かなめさん
I started learning Japanese a few weeks ago, but I have been watching Kaname's videos a year or so prior, he teaches in such a clear way that even before I understood a word in Japanese, everything seemed very clear and easy, which is the mark of an amazing talent in teaching, anytime I see a new video on this channel, I'm glad.
Thank you very much for your time and effort!
かなめ先生の教えの方法は最高と思います！めっちゃ分かりやすいし、上手な英語で教えてし、面白い例文はいっぱい性格があるし。
「は」について、未だ最初から一分半まで、この動画でもう新しいインフォメーションを学びました。す～ごい！
Hey, here’s a corrected version of your writing, thought it might help ya:
かなめ先生の教え方は最高だと思います！上手な英語で説明してくれるしめっちゃ分かりやすいし、あと例文も個性的で面白いです。
この動画の最初の一分半だけでも「は」について知らなかったことをいっぱい学ぶことができたからびっくりしました！
Noteworthy changes:
* 教えの方法 → 教え方: "教え方" is a more natural expression for "teaching method."
* し → Combined some sentences for smoother flow while using し repeatedly.
* いっぱい性格がある → 個性的だ: "性格" is more about personality in humans, while "個性" fits better for describing unique characteristics of things like example sentences.
* 未だ doesn't fit the context here so I removed it and rephrased the sentence.
@@masatami Thanks, I appreciate you taking the time. I'll have to look over these changes and take note of them as best I can.
Right now, I'm essentially pushing above my level to practice new things, 'cause you gotta use it to remember it, and start to figure out how things work. Building things in a way where you can succeed in expressing yourself, even if you don't have all the best pieces yet, etc.
As my vocabulary and comprehension improves, I'll be able to shadow better and build a better intuition of what actually sounds right.
In a supermarket, for example, a customer might ask 人参はありますか？ or 人参はどこですか？ I've always wondered why は is used here instead of が, and now you've answered this for me. Thank you.
Was just outside with my cat having a snack thinking to myself "I've been studying Japanese for 2 years now. If I overthink it, I lose sense of how は and が behave in accordance to each other, as much as I FEEL like I understand it".
Perfect timing. ありがとうございます！
Excellent lesson, the best one i have ever heard about wa and ga. For English speaking people particles are the hardest subject. Please lessons about all fourteen particles would be a huge plus. Thank you!
So you are talking about が as "subject," but one thing that greatly helped me was thinking of it as the "identifier" particle. So it's not in opposition to は, exactly, but is complementary and different in purpose. Any sentence where you need to identify something, が is used (even multiple times) to identify something specific.
Consider お祭りではあんこが入ったお菓子を売ります -- Although red bean paste is being identified, the subject of the sentence sure isn't that, it's some anonymous seller(s), at least from an English perspective. "Some vendors at the festival sell red-bean-paste-filled sweets." Or, "They sell sweets at the festival that are full of red bean paste."
Oh, by the way, your videos are amazing. Thank you.
In your example, あんこ is the subject of the verb 入った while the unnamed seller is the subject of 売ります
New video on my birthday yey, this was probably the best explanation about the two particle I have seen so far. Thank you!
かなめ先生、さすが! 勉強になった。ホントにありがとうございます
Best Japanese teacher on UA-cam. ありがとう ☺️
Best teacher ever!
ありがとうございます。
かなめ先生‼
This was very clear and easy to understand, thank you!
This came at the perfect time, Kaname sensei. I've just started learning about particles. Thank you!
Really really really good explanation. Thank you so much kanameさん
love the new format with the outdoor video. ありがとうございます。この動画はとても分かる安いです。
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Such great explanations that I watched the video twice in a row! Thanks Kaname sensei!
This is alot like how in English. When referring to a person place or thing. You must refer to it by it's name, or describe it. But any sentences after, you can refer to it using words that don't need to describe it by name.
Like this
My sister loves the outdoors.
She also loves dogs.
I don't have to declare that is MY sister we're talking about any longer since I've already described her.
Great video. I love how you break it down, and make it easy to understand.
Such a great explanation. This is always so confusing. I would love to see you break down when to use の vs な when describing something
Very helpful. Random sidenote, but I'm close to Sapporo (Iwamizawa). I moved here from Trinidad and Tobago. Your videos are always helpful in helping make my life here in Japan easier by being able to speak
Thank you very much! I had an inkling about the meaning of は, but I couldn't wrap my head around the difference to が and when to use which. This made it a lot clearer.
Another great subject! Thank you. Love that you are going over the basics. There's so many little things that are easy to miss when learning.
Kaname sensei, at 5:38 you mention the statues to the left of the tower, but the English subtitles say they're to the right.
Use your eyes. It is clearly on the left.
@@colinjames2469 He says 左 (left) in Japanese - both in speech and subtitles - but translates it as "right" in the English subs. @denpa-san is correct
Very helpful! ありがとうございました！This channel explains so much that Duolingo doesn’t bring up at all. Very grateful for the content ❤
As a native English/Japanese speaker, this was also how I was taught the は/が concept, but still struggled with it as an adult. That was until someone made a great simplification which I wish was more widely taught-If the part that comes after is important, use は. If the part that comes before is important, use が.
Using your examples:
田中さん、ご兄弟はいますか。 は is used here because whether the existence of siblings is what is important.
はい、姉と弟がいます。 が is used here because that Tanakasan has both an older sister and younger brother is what is important.
お姉さんは札幌にすんでるんですか。 は is used here because whether the older sister lives in Sapporo or not is what is important.
いえ、姉は大阪に住んでいます。 は is used here because Osaka being where the older sister lives is what is important.
Learning this little trick made it so much easier to understand the concept for me.
so like 'a' and 'the'
"It's going to take a while to explain it and I don't want to do it"
やはり日本語の文法ですよね。
Great introduction to は, かなめ先生！
この動画が好きです
Amazing language nerd content. I never knew は was so complex!
I am a proficient speaker and this helped me understand mistakes I make in formal writing better, even though I'm pretty sure I've read some of the linguistics research it's based on. I'll get corrected by my boss less now. Cheers.
I've heard you should introduce concepts with が but getting a detailed breakdown on why is great.
Wonderful as always
best japanese video i have watched in a while :>
I always thought you couldn't use は with いる or ある, this is really interesting. Thanks for the video my guy
I think that's yet another strange rule burned into our brains from Genki and the like... Kaname is the GOAT!
@@Sage-zs9qy they make a point that you're supposed to use が with those kinds of verbs not so you don't use は, it's so you don't use を
I'd guess it's because in most situations, if you say "this exists", you're probably saying it to inform the other person of something they might not know. Otherwise, it's less likely you'd say the sentence in the first place, since the existence is already understood. Therefore, 「何々がある」is much more common to inform someone of that existence.
Perhaps something like ”テーブルに七つサンドはあるんだけど、二人で全部を食べられないでしょう。” would work, because at a glance, anyone would know there are 7 sandwiches, therefore は can be used, but it still makes sense to mention their existence before saying that there's no way just 2 people can eat them all.
TL;DR: 「何々はある」is probably uncommon simply because you're stating the existence of something you both already know exists, so it's usage is bound to be more limited.
Another great video👏
えっとね〜、この説明は特別なんですね。他の日本語の先生はこんな説明していなくて本当に勉強になっていますがまだちょっと困ります。最初の説明によって、「は」は "the"という助詞のように見えて「が」は「a」という助詞の方に見えたけど、後半分のところでまるで逆になったみたい。多分この動画を何回も聞かなければ行けませんが絶対しっかりその違いを分かるようにします
Thanks Kaname you are awesome
Hey, 要先生！ Your videos have been incredibly helpful, especially since they touch on things that would take most of us who are not natives speakers, a very long time to figure out. It… shallows the learning curve, if you will.
I have a few suggestions, if you are open to them. I don’t mean to impose, I’m sure you have plenty of ideas already and I think you have far, far more credibility than I do, but they’re here if you want them. 失礼します。
- Onomatopoeia in Japanese
- Particles で vs. に vs. へ
- Mid-sentence verbs
- Miscellaneous sentence endings (such as 「なの」と「のさ」と「かな」)
- Verb conjugations
- How to use adverbs
- Example jokes in Japanese
- Common mistakes non-native speakers make (I once told my 日本語の先生 to 「おいで」, and she told me that’s only for kids. I was so embarrassed! 笑)
This is awesome. Can you please make a video on が as well?
よく説明できました。👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
は = "as for the...." in English. After the は particle is the important detail of the sentence.
が = "...is the one" in English. Before the が particle is the important detail of the sentence.
I have nothing to add. The algorithm better show this to as many people that are learning Japanese as it can tho. This was exceptional.
Very helpful. Thanks!
Really love your works but I just can't help my self.
4:35 "You cannot focus on the thing because you don't know "wa" I'm talking about"
Return of the king.
“as for” “regarding” “on the topic of” “what about?” (If used as a question 〜は？) are probably the closest English translations of は
You are a lifesaver
Kaname is the best
I really appreciate Kaname sensei’s lessons.
It is unfortunate that you chose to use the word “focus” loosely to mean both the new thing you point out, and then that thing as it becomes the topic you make new comments about.
The term ‘focus’ is used in general linguistics to refer to the new information. In English we mark focus with emphasis: louder, longer and higher pitch. In Japanese the particles が and も mark focus.
The very opposite of ‘focus’ is the topic, also called presupposition or background. In Japanese ‘topic’ is marked with は.
Kaname Sensei does a good job of showing that when you first point something out from the background, you focus on it, mark it が. Next you can make it the topic that you comment on: the は puts it in the background, and the new information you add becomes the new ‘focus.’
My explanation is not as clear as Kaname sensei’s. But it would have been better it he hadn’t used the word focus loosely to mean both ‘focus’ (new info), and its opposite, (topic/background/presupposition.)
2:30懐かしい😊
It’s a nice explanation, but I think it’s important to also talk about “suki desu” when talking about “wa” versus “ga”. I believe if you follow the rule in this video you will use the wrong particle for this very common construction.
Almost 2 years of Kaname sensei and we're only getting は vs が now
Want tte and ga explanation so much🥺
Fantastic video. Nice shirt too.
Hard for me to focus on such long videos, but は is such a big topic it deserves a number of smaller videos focused on various aspects.
On thing that has always bothered me is にごり。I once had a pretty good one-page summary, but it still bugs me pretty often, especially in books where the markings are unclear (if ruby is present).
Just wanted to quickly pop in and point out that I believe there's a mistake at the 5:43 mark. The English translation says "On the right side of the TV tower" but the Japanese sentence says テレビ塔のちょっと左に.
Really great video though. :)
Oh perhaps there's also a mistake around 5:50. The English says "That statue is called 'Statue of Spring'" but the Japanese uses 泉, which is better translated as "fountain" instead of "spring" - because "Statue of Spring" in English means 春の像. Perhaps the English translation should say "Fountain Statue" instead to be more correct.
In these cases, が and は are similar to English indefinite and definite articles. 画像の右側には公衆トイレがあります。On the right hand of the picture there is a public toilet. トイレは古いけど、まあまあ綺麗です。The toilet is old but it's fairly clean.
I hope next lesson, you can make a video for ば form v.s たらsensei😊
I've always comapred は as being the title of a chapter in a book for some reason, so once I've said [topic]は I don't feel the need to mention it again unless the topic changes to something else.
THIS!! a criminally low amount of beginner learners understand that は does not correlate to "am/is/are" in English! The very concept of "sentence topic setup" is important but very rarely talked about and this causes many people to overuse は and just sound jarring
Thank you!
In other words with は the new information is after the particle
with が the new information is before the particle
Yea I've always heard people that teach Japanese explain it by drawing a parralel with the way we put emphasis on words in english. As in "this is a TOILET" vs "THIS is a toilet."
In Japanese, for the first one you would use wa, and for the second you would use ga, right?
Can you do a video on the many uses of いただく sometime? 🙏
THANK YOU *BOW*
Love the examples.
Couldn't imagine a person who doesn't know what a toilet is, but now I can 🤣
So does Japanese not really care about run on sentences like we do? Just asking in reference to 12:10
Please show us the function of が next, 先生
can you use は in a sentence in which you use よ at the end of a sentence in the sentence that you are introducing material the other person does not know (as opposed to ね) ?
Ever since I started learning Japanese, I used は many times.
Example:この歌は美しくて大好き。
You can't use だ after 美しい because it's a "i-adjective"
@@matoikazamaki9522 Fixed.
@@matoikazamaki9522 I fixed that.
That looks like you're saying "I like that song and I'm beautiful" because the focus/topic of the sentence is yourself/僕は. Maybe この歌は美しくて大好き would be better.
@@masatami I was trying to say “I like the song and it’s beautiful.” In Japanese. Is there other way?
すみません、かなめさん、
「〜的」の機能が使い方を教えてください🙏🏻
Can you explain うえ and うち in one of your videos, please. These two words are hard to get. For example 上で and うちに
I now know more about this one particle than the rest of the Japanese language. Which isn't a high bar, ground level even, but it's still true.
I was going to ask what the point of the particle is if the subject may be straightforwardly implied by the sentence itself, but you kinda answered it by mentioning speakers regularly omit it for this reason
In more complex sentences (or formal ones) there's no way you're going to be able to get your point across without は
i thought the purpose of は was chewing
Underrated joke
"There's such a thing called a "bathroom", ever heard of it?" 😂
FINALLY
Can you make a video about ては/では?
Love the video, but did anyone else get bombarded with ads? I swear I was getting ad pairs every 20 seconds
How many people don't know what a toilet is?
Anyway, thanks for another great video.
動画ありがとうございます！ちなみに、「公衆トイレ」って言いましたが、その誰でも使っていい場合は「公共何とか」も言えますか？
「が」is New Information.「は」is Known or immaterial information.
この鍵は、この扉に合います。
この鍵で、この扉を開けられます。
この鍵を使うと、この扉を開けられます。
この鍵が、この扉を開けることができる鍵です。