This is the hardest type of content to upload on all of youtube. It's very rare for people to willingly post things that they are clearly nervous about/contain a lot of imperfections. Thank you.
トーマスさん動画見ました！レッスンの前にとても緊張していた事が改めて分かり、でもしっかりと日本語で自分の意見を言ったり質問も出来ていたと思います！ありがとうございました！ Thank you for taking my lesson! and choose me! see you next our lesson :)
Congratulations on doing this. It's admirable that you did it!! Although that being said, I'm SUPER shocked someone would study for 3 years and never speak Japanese. I understand some people's goals are different but for me talking to people is always a huge goal when learning a language so speaking is priority. But seriously I hope you keep speaking more and more. I promise it will get better!
I had my first real conversation with a Japanese native speaker after almost a year of exposure to the language, I remember how nervous I was that day. In fact, even though I have progressed so much since that time (2020~2021), I always feel some of that feeling every time I'm about to have a Japanese conversation. Only those who have gone through this experience know how intense it is and also pleasant (during and afterwards).
I am an English learner living in Japan and one of Final Fantasy XIV players too. I am so inspired by your effort and passion to speak Japanese. I have been more motivated to study English. So happy to see this video. Thanks!
Your ability to hear in the moment is surprising given the fact most of your immersion is reading. It's all about being able to communicate with others and this video shows excellent progress. Great job friend.
This video was recommended to me. This is awfully encouraging as a very reserved person learning Japanese as well. Thank you for taking this leap and showing the raw experience.
I remember feeling this way with my first japanese conversation, good job on taking this first step and having the confidence to speak, not only that but uploading it to youtube, it will be great to see your progression with conversation、頑張ってください！
23:00 What Senji said here is so true. I've been immersing hard core for about two years and have a friend I text and sometimes send voice messages to in japanese but I haven't had an outloud real time convo yet. I'm been kind of gearing myself up to do it lately, and this video definetly makes me excited to put myself out there and talk. It's great seeing someone nervous but doing their best and pushing through. Senji was also so kind in communicating well with you, great effort from both of y'all and great video 🤎✨
This is so relatable. Well done👏 Every time I take English lesson,I feel like I could speak more, or I should’ve said like this’ something like that. Your Japanese is so natural, keep up the good work! お疲れ様でした！😃
My man, I've been into Japanese for a decade now, kinda on and off, but still I haven't had such a long conversation because it's scary. I know how it feels to have the first kaiwa ever, I've lost all my vocab the instant I opened my mouth, haha. I will work on that trepidation in the face of a native. You did great, it's gonna get less kinchou from now on :)
As someone learning Japanese while living in Japan, I related to this too much and had to stop watching after a minute of the call lol. Mad props to you for not only doing this despite being nervous, but also uploading it to UA-cam.
I'm less than 100 words in and only a handful of grammar points. This video is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing such a vulnerable, yet amazing experience.
As someone who has been learning Japanese from mainly conversation using online video games (Final Fantasy XIV), I would say that your video is very fascinating to me. i find it very interesting to see the different benefits and downside of various learning methods and I am inspired by the effort you are putting into this. I will keep your video close so that I can share it whenever someone asks me how to practice Japanese, because I think that this video highlights the most important aspect of anything: getting out of one's comfort zone for improving one's self. Thank you! ＾＾
Honestly you did amazing for a first conversation, especially for someone with 0 shadowing and who immersed via reading. For the most part, the way you phrased things was not just correct but also pretty natural. Using filler words like なんか and そうそう already put you halfway to conversational fluency in Japanese.
Bro this inspired me to keep on keeping on. We've been studying for like the same amount and I still couldn't do this. My grammar ability is the pits! Thank you for uploading this.
Good joooob! its very cool to see someone showing the real journey of improving on a language, really makes me want to stop giving up all the time. Im certain you will improve faster being able to measure your progress too. Ganbare! 🙌🙌
I've just discovered this channel and it's so motivating to stick to learning Japanese language. And you're so wholesome, OMG. I believe we all fellows Japanese language learners will achieve our goals❤ *sorry for my English language. I'm still learning it and might be kind of awkward😅
Hey Thomas! I don’t wanna be that guy that brings it up as I’m sure it’s emotional and I did see you had a reveal video but this is my first video so I haven’t watched it. But, I just wanted to say that I thought your eye was really cool! I think the way the light hits it as it’s looking at the camera has a very cool effect! I also wanted to say that your japanese is very impressive! I’m sure you don’t feel the same and I understand as I’ve been self-learning German for 4 years and I know it can be hard to not only focus on the things you know you don’t know. I have been focusing more on audio immersion and I think it could be of use to you but you’re already doing quite well! I could tell you were nervous going into the meeting but it was cool to see you grow into the confidence and just watch the conversation. I don’t speak Japanese but you guys were obviously having a good time and that was enjoyable to watch. Good work dude keep it up!
i have no idea how i stumbled across this video but I admire your courage. i'd be shitting bricks! You did fantastic, and maybe if I study hard I can have a conversation like this one day. Subscribed
I've noticed that in a lot of Japanese TV shows people will wear shirts with rather specific American locales on them, such as St Simon's Island, GA. I think it's kinda neat.
I've been studying Japanese for almost 2 years, mostly on Duolingo, but other apps and books, too, and I still struggle. Even this conversation I had to pick apart to understand, and I didn't understand everything. Tough language.
I remember my first time speaking to a Japanese person. It was exciting! And yes, I had forgot some of my vocabulary and some grammar stuff ) However on the second time it was much better. Don't worry! You Japanese is good! I'd advice to work on formality consistancy since you keep jumping between colloqiual and polite forms.
I’m Japanese and a graduate student of international program in Japan in order to making many friends from foreign countries. But I’m a typical Japanese ,as you know, I’m shy. So getting along with foreigners is as difficult as studying English.
Cheer up, mate, you can do just great if you stop persuading yourself you're bad at it and just focus on the fun of heading for the goal you've set. You've never had a conversation yet so picturing yourself fail doesn't help and it's not fun, depressing and counterproductive. Wish you luck. I wrote it cause I feel like I know how you feel, and I was wrong on many accounts trying to give myself an appraisal whether I'm good at Japanese or whatever else. Actually I thought at one point I would never achieve decent level even in English, so don't waver and don't think you can predict how you'll do in the future. Well, I think my point is clear. Wish you luck end mental strength to overcame yourself and this language if you really want to.
i learned japanese for almost two years and then i went to japan some days ago, tried speaking japanese and found that i have the thickest accent in all the land that's why i don't speak japanese anymore
This just randomly got recommended to me and im super curious what does your 'immersion' entail Like did you listen to anything or was it purely just reading and writing Because i learned japanese from anime through osmosis and i find that if you listen to it a lot you will learn how to pronounce things more natively naturally Listening to you speak im assuming you either didnt listen to anything or not enough of it to grasp the nuances in pronunciation But i can tell that at the very least you have a pretty deep understanding of grammar, on top of normal speaking japanese, not just textbook Im sure if you listen more and work on your pronunciation you would sound native in no time
@@tokumei99 not trying to be rude im just saying as someone who also learnt japanese as a foreign language And also i dont know what kind of studies did he undertake to get here so im also wondering about that
Hey dude, I speak native English and semi-native Japanese and I want to congratulate you on your progress! What is most impressive is that your pronunciation is almost flawless! I think it's only a matter of time until you acquire the vocabulary and phrases to fill in the pauses in your speech. You almost speak Japanese better than my own sister haha!
Ahhhh, that heavy American accent. But hey, you pulled it off. Problem with language learning: you need a lot of exposure and a lot of getting it wrong, and people who are normally good at studying are often not great at language learning because of this. They're used to studying, getting a good grade and then moving on. With languages, you need to fail again and again and again, and keep trying. Keep going, and keep failing!
I learned Japanese for 1 week and started to talk to people on a daily basis, I have more knowledge of Japanese than someone who is studying for years. Watching 300+ anime also helped! So I recommend to study and speak with people and you’ll learn it way faster
@@mke_gal I wasn't trying to be rude, because I didn't know he has some kind of disorder. I'm sorry if you understood this as an insult or something simmilar.
This is the hardest type of content to upload on all of youtube. It's very rare for people to willingly post things that they are clearly nervous about/contain a lot of imperfections. Thank you.
Clearly, youve never seen Unus annus
@@jeffreytang7434 I wish I'd seen it 😭 I started watching mark after it was over
After 9 months of studying Japanese I can finally understand basic conversation including everything in this video.
ua-cam.com/video/tYzMYcUty6s/v-deo.html
dang youre fast. I have almost 3 years but not consistent. but at least 70% I understood
@@0zone247 same. Maybe alittle less than 70 and off and on study for about 4 years.
Wow, fast indeed. Congrats! I’ve been on it for about 8 months and understood about 60% of the video, which I think is pretty good 👍🏻 😊
how did you study
トーマスさん動画見ました！レッスンの前にとても緊張していた事が改めて分かり、でもしっかりと日本語で自分の意見を言ったり質問も出来ていたと思います！ありがとうございました！
Thank you for taking my lesson! and choose me! see you next our lesson :)
Congratulations on doing this. It's admirable that you did it!! Although that being said, I'm SUPER shocked someone would study for 3 years and never speak Japanese. I understand some people's goals are different but for me talking to people is always a huge goal when learning a language so speaking is priority. But seriously I hope you keep speaking more and more. I promise it will get better!
I had my first real conversation with a Japanese native speaker after almost a year of exposure to the language, I remember how nervous I was that day. In fact, even though I have progressed so much since that time (2020~2021), I always feel some of that feeling every time I'm about to have a Japanese conversation. Only those who have gone through this experience know how intense it is and also pleasant (during and afterwards).
I am an English learner living in Japan and one of Final Fantasy XIV players too.
I am so inspired by your effort and passion to speak Japanese. I have been more motivated to study English.
So happy to see this video. Thanks!
Very brave to post something so raw and candid. Proud of you.
"Kinchou shiteimasu" is definitely a useful phrase, lol. I totally lose it while trying to talk. I hope I can get over that with time and practice.
Your ability to hear in the moment is surprising given the fact most of your immersion is reading. It's all about being able to communicate with others and this video shows excellent progress. Great job friend.
This video was recommended to me. This is awfully encouraging as a very reserved person learning Japanese as well. Thank you for taking this leap and showing the raw experience.
I remember feeling this way with my first japanese conversation, good job on taking this first step and having the confidence to speak, not only that but uploading it to youtube, it will be great to see your progression with conversation、頑張ってください！
23:00
What Senji said here is so true. I've been immersing hard core for about two years and have a friend I text and sometimes send voice messages to in japanese but I haven't had an outloud real time convo yet. I'm been kind of gearing myself up to do it lately, and this video definetly makes me excited to put myself out there and talk. It's great seeing someone nervous but doing their best and pushing through. Senji was also so kind in communicating well with you, great effort from both of y'all and great video 🤎✨
This is so relatable. Well done👏
Every time I take English lesson,I feel like I could speak more, or I should’ve said like this’ something like that.
Your Japanese is so natural, keep up the good work!
お疲れ様でした！😃
Wow! That's really brave of you to share your journey with us. Amazing!
My man, I've been into Japanese for a decade now, kinda on and off, but still I haven't had such a long conversation because it's scary. I know how it feels to have the first kaiwa ever, I've lost all my vocab the instant I opened my mouth, haha. I will work on that trepidation in the face of a native. You did great, it's gonna get less kinchou from now on :)
This is great content and super realistic. Thanks for posting !
6:11
*has final fantasy poster in the background
*to describe final fantasy, grabs a stuffed duck
FINAL FANTASHI
**SHAKES DUCK INTENSELY**
As someone learning Japanese while living in Japan, I related to this too much and had to stop watching after a minute of the call lol. Mad props to you for not only doing this despite being nervous, but also uploading it to UA-cam.
I'm less than 100 words in and only a handful of grammar points. This video is so inspiring. Thank you for sharing such a vulnerable, yet amazing experience.
初めての会話でこんなに話せるのは凄いと思います！
そうだけど、彼のアクセントはちょっと強いんで、語句が少し分かりにくいんだと思う。でも日本語発音があまり難しい～
[日本語を４ヶ月間勉強するんで、日本語下手でごめん]
かなり上手いです！綺麗な敬語の話し方を覚えてるようなので安心して他の人と話せますね
Senjiman is really understanding and everything he says is a bit easier to understand. 👏 Goodjob
Very authentic and interesting to see the result after 3 years, I’m still too nervous
As someone who has been learning Japanese from mainly conversation using online video games (Final Fantasy XIV), I would say that your video is very fascinating to me.
i find it very interesting to see the different benefits and downside of various learning methods and I am inspired by the effort you are putting into this.
I will keep your video close so that I can share it whenever someone asks me how to practice Japanese, because I think that this video highlights the most important aspect of anything: getting out of one's comfort zone for improving one's self.
Thank you! ＾＾
Honestly you did amazing for a first conversation, especially for someone with 0 shadowing and who immersed via reading. For the most part, the way you phrased things was not just correct but also pretty natural. Using filler words like なんか and そうそう already put you halfway to conversational fluency in Japanese.
As a japanese learning FF14 player, I'm glad this video made it to my homepage
Bro this inspired me to keep on keeping on. We've been studying for like the same amount and I still couldn't do this. My grammar ability is the pits! Thank you for uploading this.
i feel like translations would’ve been really useful for the people that can’t understand but cool vid
Good joooob! its very cool to see someone showing the real journey of improving on a language, really makes me want to stop giving up all the time. Im certain you will improve faster being able to measure your progress too. Ganbare! 🙌🙌
Keep trying! You're doing well. Thank you for sharing your process!😊
You did it amazingly Thomas, be proud of you🥰
Awesome job, this is encouraging! I'm only 1k words into Japanese but seeing stuff like this always inspires me to keep going.
You're awesome man !!
man this is what I would define a quality content, I hope you will continue to make videos!!!
I've just discovered this channel and it's so motivating to stick to learning Japanese language. And you're so wholesome, OMG. I believe we all fellows Japanese language learners will achieve our goals❤
*sorry for my English language. I'm still learning it and might be kind of awkward😅
Hey Thomas! I don’t wanna be that guy that brings it up as I’m sure it’s emotional and I did see you had a reveal video but this is my first video so I haven’t watched it. But, I just wanted to say that I thought your eye was really cool! I think the way the light hits it as it’s looking at the camera has a very cool effect! I also wanted to say that your japanese is very impressive! I’m sure you don’t feel the same and I understand as I’ve been self-learning German for 4 years and I know it can be hard to not only focus on the things you know you don’t know. I have been focusing more on audio immersion and I think it could be of use to you but you’re already doing quite well! I could tell you were nervous going into the meeting but it was cool to see you grow into the confidence and just watch the conversation. I don’t speak Japanese but you guys were obviously having a good time and that was enjoyable to watch. Good work dude keep it up!
i have no idea how i stumbled across this video but I admire your courage. i'd be shitting bricks! You did fantastic, and maybe if I study hard I can have a conversation like this one day. Subscribed
that louisiana shirt is fire :))))))))
I've noticed that in a lot of Japanese TV shows people will wear shirts with rather specific American locales on them, such as St Simon's Island, GA. I think it's kinda neat.
I've been studying Japanese for almost 2 years, mostly on Duolingo, but other apps and books, too, and I still struggle. Even this conversation I had to pick apart to understand, and I didn't understand everything. Tough language.
Your eye and you ITS SO COOL
I know this is Gunna sounds really offensive but I want your eyes dude! That's frigging cool!
Good job dude!
This is amazing, if you truly have never uttered a word besides a greeting before.
素晴らしい
This is great! I'd love to see more!
トーマス殿へ、
本当によく出来ましたね！初めての会話おめでとうございます！そしてインプットを卒業おめでとう。これからも頑張ってください。応援しておりますよ
Bro you did soooo good
Very brave! I could never upload a vid like this
I remember my first time speaking to a Japanese person. It was exciting! And yes, I had forgot some of my vocabulary and some grammar stuff ) However on the second time it was much better.
Don't worry! You Japanese is good! I'd advice to work on formality consistancy since you keep jumping between colloqiual and polite forms.
I’m Japanese and a graduate student of international program in Japan in order to making many friends from foreign countries. But I’m a typical Japanese ,as you know, I’m shy. So getting along with foreigners is as difficult as studying English.
I'm also at the 3 year mark and have yet to actually speak to anybody, but I think you did better than I probably will.
Cheer up, mate, you can do just great if you stop persuading yourself you're bad at it and just focus on the fun of heading for the goal you've set. You've never had a conversation yet so picturing yourself fail doesn't help and it's not fun, depressing and counterproductive. Wish you luck. I wrote it cause I feel like I know how you feel, and I was wrong on many accounts trying to give myself an appraisal whether I'm good at Japanese or whatever else. Actually I thought at one point I would never achieve decent level even in English, so don't waver and don't think you can predict how you'll do in the future. Well, I think my point is clear. Wish you luck end mental strength to overcame yourself and this language if you really want to.
Damnn keep up the good work
Wow…Well that is a hard thing to do Well done man
Huge hurdle. The next one will be easier
i learned japanese for almost two years and then i went to japan some days ago, tried speaking japanese and found that i have the thickest accent in all the land
that's why i don't speak japanese anymore
Thank you for video
Woww I haven't study japanese at all recently and Im surprised how much I can understand this video haha.
こんにちは
僕も日本語を勉強しています。
自己啓発本しか読めないのでちょっと不安ですが、トーマスさんも自己啓発本読みますね、ちょっと安心になります。(笑)
皆小説を読むべきと述べたけどなかなか読む気がないですね。
"Nan-no hanashi o masu ka?", he asks. *sees the ffxiv goods* Well, I know what my topic of choice would have been. lol
This just randomly got recommended to me and im super curious what does your 'immersion' entail
Like did you listen to anything or was it purely just reading and writing
Because i learned japanese from anime through osmosis and i find that if you listen to it a lot you will learn how to pronounce things more natively naturally
Listening to you speak im assuming you either didnt listen to anything or not enough of it to grasp the nuances in pronunciation
But i can tell that at the very least you have a pretty deep understanding of grammar, on top of normal speaking japanese, not just textbook
Im sure if you listen more and work on your pronunciation you would sound native in no time
This is such a pointlessly rude comment. Not a chance you would have the courage to do the same thing this guy is doing.
@@tokumei99 not trying to be rude im just saying as someone who also learnt japanese as a foreign language
And also i dont know what kind of studies did he undertake to get here so im also wondering about that
@@tokumei99 He's right, he's lacking pronunciation skills, and that's fine he never talked in japanese after all
I think he said mostly reading immersion. Which is quite impressive.
He said he did 0 Shadowing. But in his 3 years i 'm pretty sure he listened a LOT of Japanese. I mean. How can you not.
He has a Louisiana hoodie on, wonder where its from (I'm from Louisiana)
You were fantastic! Well done!
I’d love you to help me to learn Japanese 🎉
what is this platform you using? is it like especially for foreign language practice? i would like to use it too
loved the vid!! new sub here
Hey dude, I speak native English and semi-native Japanese and I want to congratulate you on your progress!
What is most impressive is that your pronunciation is almost flawless! I think it's only a matter of time until you acquire the vocabulary and phrases to fill in
the pauses in your speech. You almost speak Japanese better than my own sister haha!
Damn u sound like Connor when speaking japanese 😮
Nice bruv
for anyone struggling with pronunciation; try karaoke
Hey Thomas it would be great if u can add translation to English, cuz the auto-translation is not so good. Thank you
Me who just learned how to read Kana and knows 15 kanji : “amateur”
Ahhhh, that heavy American accent. But hey, you pulled it off. Problem with language learning: you need a lot of exposure and a lot of getting it wrong, and people who are normally good at studying are often not great at language learning because of this. They're used to studying, getting a good grade and then moving on. With languages, you need to fail again and again and again, and keep trying. Keep going, and keep failing!
how did you get to this point
Why did you decide to not practice speaking while learning japanese and wait this long ?
I learned Japanese for 1 week and started to talk to people on a daily basis, I have more knowledge of Japanese than someone who is studying for years. Watching 300+ anime also helped! So I recommend to study and speak with people and you’ll learn it way faster
dude what is that eye
Nice try! (ただし、『絶望』という言葉はいささかきつい印象を受けますね。画面で目にした時、心臓に悪いです。『緊張』でよいのでは?)
You're using a lens? That quite strange, even hurts my eyes looking at it 🧐 But it's pretty awesome as well haha Looks like a secret 能力
Uhhhh i think your sharingan is expired bro. Might wanna get a new one
What's up with his eye? It's just contact lens right?
わからないけど、目がかっこいい
@@KNOWLEDGEREINGS 本当にかっこいい！！
I think it's a glass eye? Doesn't move when his other eyes move.
What's wrong with your left eye?
@@various_artists Oh, makes sense. My condolences.
That’s rude…
@@mke_gal I wasn't trying to be rude, because I didn't know he has some kind of disorder. I'm sorry if you understood this as an insult or something simmilar.
What's happened to his left eye?? Is this a concept?
he is a whole cyborg, welcome to the future
Whats up with your eye
どうして彼は話しますけど僕でも恥ずかしいんですか？
your eye is super distracting