Sorry for the wait guys! Been working VERY HARD working on the Complete N3 Grammar Video! Should be ready in the next few weeks! For now here is an episode of the vocab series courtesy of the folks over at SEGA for supplying a copy of Persona 3 Reload!
Go, Matt. I was always waiting for you to complete N3 back before I took the test in December 2022. Now it's spring of 2024, and I've taken the N2 this past December and passed. Please don't give up on the JLPT grammar videos. They really helped me back when I was learning. I know a lot of people don't really watch much past N4/N3, but I would love it if you finished the entire JLPT.
You know you're doing something special when people watch you more than TV. We appreciate your passion, information, and dedication bro! Thank you truly!
@@prezentoappr1171 He's a social link that's kinda hard to find. I forget how to start his specifically but he's a french transfer student that does fashion.
Why on earth did i take so much time to discover this channel. Clear explanations, generous content , cool guy, and great taste in video games ! Lets learn harder ! 🎉🎉🎉
My most sincere thanks for this video, I'm an intermediste japanese learner and I've just been getting into Persona 3 recently so this is nothing less than a godsend to me ahahah Also my mind is BLOWN, I would never have imagined that the な of な-adjectives is the shortened version of なる
This channel is really nice. I've played enough games with JP audio to generally understand a lot of words that get brought up, but it's really cool that you made a resource to study it formally.
Brilliant....just brilliant. I just came across your channel and just wanted to commend you for what this channel is all about. Learning Japanese through gaming is the way I started learning the language a few years ago from only knowing kana and have no regrets (of course, I since moved on to VNs and LNs for a bit to just solidify a lot of the knowledge..now I'm mostly just back to what I truly enjoy, story heavy gaming). Though I no longer watch learning content to learn the language itself (I usually watch language learning content just to offer my own personal opinion based on my own learning) I was intrigued when I came across your FF7 remake part 2 video from 4 years ago and thought the idea was GENIUS. Fast forward to more recent videos and can definitely see improvements and changes...but there are definitely a few things that didn't change like your enthusiasm, passion and just your love for teaching the language through games and obvious love for the language itself. Hats off to you, keep up this amazing work...definitely wish I knew you existed when I was learning the language (this may it will be 4 years of exposure to Japanese for me)...might have made grammar learning and possibly kanji a bit more entertaining (though I focused a lot on input at the beginning I also did countless anki for grammar, vocab and writing kanji from memory A LOT back in the day) Never change, it is VERY easy to see how passionate you are about this and that is a huge motivator for people. I hope you reach 100k, nay....1M subs soon...you definitely deserve it.
Thank you very much. I played the original ps2 back then and everyone knows going thru every each dialogue is overwhelming. Really salute you for explaining everything.
A few weeks ago this game dropped and I decided to create my own "game script" as I go, translating as I play. This video has been an amazing way to check my work, your explanations have been a HUGE help on my journey to learn Japanese and beat P3R! There anyway to convince you to do the whole game? LOL
Thank you very much for these lessons. Just finished persona 3 reload myself, great game the voice acting was amazing and the chatlog to repeat the sentences over and over again were so useful. Your videos are exactly that what I am looking for for learning japanese in the imo most fun way possible.
Thank you so much for this video! Persona series is one of my favourites and I’m currently playing this game 🥰 Since I have the past series in Switch I started playing them in Japanese because of your videos as well!
This is really cool because when you play jrps the "english subs" is the the english dub so many times you can hear them saying something and then the translation is completly diffirent
I'm doing this right now. Playing a game while learning to learn the language is so mentally exhausting. I am mentally tired after an hour of playing. But the good thing I do it before I sleep and makes me sleep faster.
ive just found your channel off this and this is so cool! i can re-enjoy the beautiful game that is p3r, but i can also learn some new words! currently in a japanese class as well, but this is gonna help alot with my vocab :D
Woahh!! i am just stumbled this channel.. love your style ..teaching and learning japanese language while playing game hehe subscribed~ 宜しくお願いします~ 日本語勉強しますよ~ムヘヘ
during the initial cutscene, the announcer says 「ダイヤが大幅に乱れ」and there doesn’t seem to be any sort of verb? i didn’t really understand that part, was it just omitted, or can the sentence really be said like that? i would think it’s supposed to be 「ダイヤが大幅に乱れを有りました。」 thanks for the great video, though!!
You should also try Super Mario RPG Remake since the japanese caption features furigana, and since its a Mario game, the dialogue is much simpler and easy to understand.
Amazing video as always Please try some Ys X: Nordics for the next episode, I promise you you'll love it! You can stop mid-scenes, and it has logs ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)
i think persona language/vocab are difficult due to the arcana stuff i love that 2 of my favorite thing join together, persona and japanese language i'll study until i can play persona/other game wihtout sub ;3
Oh man, I've been waiting for this Video! I'm a huge fan of the Persona Series, like seriously obsessed. But there's this one little thing about the new dictionary design/display that's bugging me. Honestly, those database numbers just don't fit with the whole look, and to be blunt I quite hate it. But hey, at least you can tweak it with some CSS if you know your way around it. Overall, awesome job, guys! Biggest thanks to you Matt for this blast of a video! お疲れ様でした
Hey Matt, thanks for doing this video! Do you happen to know if P3R can use Japanese text on the PS5? P3P and P4G allow you to change the game text language if you change the PS5 UI language to Japanese, but I'm not sure about Reload. Wanted to confirm before jumping in.
Thanks for enjoying the video! Sure the JPDB is the JPDB ranking number for both a work written in Kanji, or just in Kana represented by ㋕, JPDB is a resource that combines a bunch of resources together like visual novels/novels/anime etc together to create a nice 'media' frequency list
@@GameGengo All right, thank you! I was aware of JPDB but was used to the "top 1000" writing of the website instead of precise numbers and wasn't sure about the ㋕ usage. Very clear now :) Small detail, at 9:45 you're surprised that JPDB ranks 引金 as rare but it's actually Top 10500 when written as 引き金 :) in the game it even seems to be 引鉄 for some reason
I found another way of learning Japanese with regular games but should only be for intermediate or advanced learners, play regular rpgs like Skyrim, fallout, elden ring etc but change settings to Japanese and there you go
I just found your channel recently, I was thinking of making the step into playing games in Japanese for immersion. I started with animal crossing and now this game for the listening. I’m super excited and this is the perfect timing. I just feel like I had to say this because of just how perfect it is. I’m a few hours in to you’re going to review what I just went through and it’s so cool. Thanks a lot man.
Hey man I haven't watched your videos in a long time since I know enough Japanese to play games etc and learn from them on my own, but you were a great help when I was still a lot newer to learning. Keep up the good work :)
I started studying Japanese about 4 months ago and this is my very first game that I am playing in Japanese. Very Difficult but very fun. Your channel has helped me a lot so Thank you.
I was lacking my dose of new content HAHA , but I was fine with rewatching the old ones. damn I was all mindset hyped for the grammar big one to be the next , guess it's a good idea to send us a bit of an interlude before the grammy. enof talk DOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
Could you please do a review on Nekopara Cat's Boys Paradise? I think it's an a-we-so-me game for learners. It's short, it's fun. Each line is voiced. Not only there is a log, but there is a special button to repeat the line as many times as you need, without even going to Log! Plus there is NO text from main character, and the lines are just being said by other characters in a way of quote. Which means this text is also voiced. It's not very long, so it gives the satisfaction of "I have just finished my first game in Japanese". And since its cafe/restorant related, it's not as difficult as a detective or fantasy stories, plus there are tons of everyday life vocab. Ideal for N3 level, but even N4 could enjoy, I would say. Plus, even though it's supposed be an otome game, all the guys are actually cats, so no real sexual context is involved, its a PG game, which some guys also enjoy. It has Apple and Android versions. So please, please, we need more people to know about it and advance their Japanese 🥺❤️
Does closure/glottal-stop/‘okina have any rules in Japanese? Sometimes it appears in the final vowel, but sometimes not. It usually appears at the end of the sentence/phrase, but not always. The rest of the consonants, however, seem aspirated.
This video encouraged me to go and learn through this game. I've already played the original so I don't need to pay too much attention to the plot, so can focus on what's being said, plus I feel playing as a student will help feel immersed with the learning
They are both correct, with the game using a rarer kanji. When I typed the text the most common variant came out, but they are both correct. 引金 引き金 引鉄 引き鉄 are all ways it can be written
Im quite surprised! I read that the persona series was n1 heavy but this is one of the most n5/4 heavy videos. Perhaps it comes in a lil later when igor speaks more lol
Hey, this is amazing! I really like how you deep dive on the dialogues to properly explain things. I’m also doing some play through with the Japanese VA, but without English subs, I’m pretty sure I won’t understand a thing😂
At 20:00, 分寮 does not mean "partitioned dormatory". In fact it means "dormitory branch of 岩戸台“. You can see this type of language in words like 分店, meaning "branched store" as in one of many stores in a chain franchaise. 分寮 here suggests that besides in いわとだい，there are other dormitories that belong to the same school/brand in other places.
7:45 For those who might not know this, Mount Helicon is where the divine Muses reside in Greek mythology, with two springs said to be sources of poetic inspiration. By the way, I love these videos! They are super helpful to me trying to learn Japanese! The language is very well explained.
Sorry for the wait guys! Been working VERY HARD working on the Complete N3 Grammar Video! Should be ready in the next few weeks!
For now here is an episode of the vocab series courtesy of the folks over at SEGA for supplying a copy of Persona 3 Reload!
Go, Matt. I was always waiting for you to complete N3 back before I took the test in December 2022. Now it's spring of 2024, and I've taken the N2 this past December and passed. Please don't give up on the JLPT grammar videos. They really helped me back when I was learning. I know a lot of people don't really watch much past N4/N3, but I would love it if you finished the entire JLPT.
Keep up the good work, Matt! We are very grateful having you teaching us Japanese ;)
You sir are a god
You know you're doing something special when people watch you more than TV. We appreciate your passion, information, and dedication bro! Thank you truly!
Depends. I watch everything more than TV. But our bro is definitely doing a great job.
Huge shout out to the awesome members of the Game Gengo discord community for helping create/design the new dictionary display for the Vocab Series!
"I've been waiting for this" - Akihiko
No thanks, I learned enough Japanese through Bebe’s social link. Hontoni Katajikenai, GameGengo.
I’ll be back
faz
What's bebe? Tsietsi friend in ngk?
Nhk*
@@prezentoappr1171 He's a social link that's kinda hard to find. I forget how to start his specifically but he's a french transfer student that does fashion.
Thank you for making these videos! Your grammar explanations are the best I can find on the internet.
Why on earth did i take so much time to discover this channel. Clear explanations, generous content , cool guy, and great taste in video games ! Lets learn harder ! 🎉🎉🎉
My most sincere thanks for this video, I'm an intermediste japanese learner and I've just been getting into Persona 3 recently so this is nothing less than a godsend to me ahahah
Also my mind is BLOWN, I would never have imagined that the な of な-adjectives is the shortened version of なる
This channel is really nice. I've played enough games with JP audio to generally understand a lot of words that get brought up, but it's really cool that you made a resource to study it formally.
Brilliant....just brilliant. I just came across your channel and just wanted to commend you for what this channel is all about. Learning Japanese through gaming is the way I started learning the language a few years ago from only knowing kana and have no regrets (of course, I since moved on to VNs and LNs for a bit to just solidify a lot of the knowledge..now I'm mostly just back to what I truly enjoy, story heavy gaming).
Though I no longer watch learning content to learn the language itself (I usually watch language learning content just to offer my own personal opinion based on my own learning) I was intrigued when I came across your FF7 remake part 2 video from 4 years ago and thought the idea was GENIUS. Fast forward to more recent videos and can definitely see improvements and changes...but there are definitely a few things that didn't change like your enthusiasm, passion and just your love for teaching the language through games and obvious love for the language itself.
Hats off to you, keep up this amazing work...definitely wish I knew you existed when I was learning the language (this may it will be 4 years of exposure to Japanese for me)...might have made grammar learning and possibly kanji a bit more entertaining (though I focused a lot on input at the beginning I also did countless anki for grammar, vocab and writing kanji from memory A LOT back in the day)
Never change, it is VERY easy to see how passionate you are about this and that is a huge motivator for people. I hope you reach 100k, nay....1M subs soon...you definitely deserve it.
The amount of effort you put in your videos is insane. Thank you.
OMG that's STUNNING!!! I've been searching for a content like this for a long hahah thanks from Brazil
Sim, o canal dele é de longe o melhor pra quem gosta de aprenderJaponês com jogos
I do love how you hide what's actually going on in the opening. This way the impact isn't actually ruined.
I just found this channel and wow, this idea of teaching japanese using games is fantastic!
Thank you very much. I played the original ps2 back then and everyone knows going thru every each dialogue is overwhelming. Really salute you for explaining everything.
A few weeks ago this game dropped and I decided to create my own "game script" as I go, translating as I play. This video has been an amazing way to check my work, your explanations have been a HUGE help on my journey to learn Japanese and beat P3R! There anyway to convince you to do the whole game? LOL
22:29 "Let's take a look at some more Nintendo Switch headlines!"
本当にお疲れさま！
Warning if you play this game until the end you will cry and be depressed for a long time.
I am so happy I can translate some of the lines on my own 🤩 I'm progressing
There is simply nothing else like this in the JP learning community. Thanks for all you (and the patrons) do
Thank you very much for these lessons. Just finished persona 3 reload myself, great game the voice acting was amazing and the chatlog to repeat the sentences over and over again were so useful. Your videos are exactly that what I am looking for for learning japanese in the imo most fun way possible.
Thanks man, you're amazing and my favourite Japanese UA-camr
Thankyou gaming gengo I was just studying my Japanese on this game you just made it a lot easier
Didn’t know John Travolta could speak fluent Japanese and is a great teacher!
Thank you so much for this video! Persona series is one of my favourites and I’m currently playing this game 🥰 Since I have the past series in Switch I started playing them in Japanese because of your videos as well!
Thank you so much for all your work!
This is really cool because when you play jrps the "english subs" is the the english dub so many times you can hear them saying something and then the translation is completly diffirent
This channel is a damn national treasure
I believe at 7:53 it's 'halcyon days of repose'. Matt is forgetting his English. 😅
I was waiting so much for this!!!
I'm doing this right now. Playing a game while learning to learn the language is so mentally exhausting. I am mentally tired after an hour of playing. But the good thing I do it before I sleep and makes me sleep faster.
I totally understand! Hopefully these videos can help! :)
ive just found your channel off this and this is so cool! i can re-enjoy the beautiful game that is p3r, but i can also learn some new words! currently in a japanese class as well, but this is gonna help alot with my vocab :D
Woahh!! i am just stumbled this channel..
love your style ..teaching and learning japanese language while playing game hehe
subscribed~
宜しくお願いします~
日本語勉強しますよ~ムヘヘ
oh man all the new stuff looks amazing!
I like the look of the new game!
And your narrations are great as always :)
during the initial cutscene, the announcer says 「ダイヤが大幅に乱れ」and there doesn’t seem to be any sort of verb? i didn’t really understand that part, was it just omitted, or can the sentence really be said like that? i would think it’s supposed to be 「ダイヤが大幅に乱れを有りました。」
thanks for the great video, though!!
You should also try Super Mario RPG Remake since the japanese caption features furigana, and since its a Mario game, the dialogue is much simpler and easy to understand.
Amazing video as always
Please try some Ys X: Nordics for the next episode, I promise you you'll love it!
You can stop mid-scenes, and it has logs ♡(ӦｖӦ｡)
i think persona language/vocab are difficult due to the arcana stuff
i love that 2 of my favorite thing join together, persona and japanese language
i'll study until i can play persona/other game wihtout sub ;3
good work babe
Oh man, I've been waiting for this Video! I'm a huge fan of the Persona Series, like seriously obsessed. But there's this one little thing about the new dictionary design/display that's bugging me. Honestly, those database numbers just don't fit with the whole look, and to be blunt I quite hate it. But hey, at least you can tweak it with some CSS if you know your way around it. Overall, awesome job, guys! Biggest thanks to you Matt for this blast of a video! お疲れ様でした
Hey Matt, thanks for doing this video! Do you happen to know if P3R can use Japanese text on the PS5? P3P and P4G allow you to change the game text language if you change the PS5 UI language to Japanese, but I'm not sure about Reload. Wanted to confirm before jumping in.
I have the European PS5 version and it unfortunately won't let you play with Japanese text :/
@@JonasHimbert Thanks for the reply! Agh, of course not, god dammit ATLUS
What do the funny little dots and lines mean to the right of the definitions?
That's the pitch accent information, just in case anyone wanted to know :)
@@GameGengoAh interesting, thanks 🙂
Thanks for this great video as always! Could you or anyone explain what represent the JPDB numbers on the right of definitions? Thanks again :)
Thanks for enjoying the video! Sure the JPDB is the JPDB ranking number for both a work written in Kanji, or just in Kana represented by ㋕, JPDB is a resource that combines a bunch of resources together like visual novels/novels/anime etc together to create a nice 'media' frequency list
@@GameGengo All right, thank you! I was aware of JPDB but was used to the "top 1000" writing of the website instead of precise numbers and wasn't sure about the ㋕ usage. Very clear now :)
Small detail, at 9:45 you're surprised that JPDB ranks 引金 as rare but it's actually Top 10500 when written as 引き金 :) in the game it even seems to be 引鉄 for some reason
i'm struggling to identify and read proper names..
お疲れでした
Did you have to say "courtesy of Sega"?
I chose to because Sega supported the channel with a copy of the game, hence courtesy of Sega :)
@@GameGengo Hmmm, interesting :)
I found another way of learning Japanese with regular games but should only be for intermediate or advanced learners, play regular rpgs like Skyrim, fallout, elden ring etc but change settings to Japanese and there you go
this game really needs away to just put japanese text on and not just the audio
You can do that in steam just change the language in the steam settings should come up if you Google around
you can?
I’d rather learn Japanese with Persona 3 FES.
Censored version? Ew!
I just found your channel recently, I was thinking of making the step into playing games in Japanese for immersion. I started with animal crossing and now this game for the listening. I’m super excited and this is the perfect timing. I just feel like I had to say this because of just how perfect it is. I’m a few hours in to you’re going to review what I just went through and it’s so cool. Thanks a lot man.
Hey man I haven't watched your videos in a long time since I know enough Japanese to play games etc and learn from them on my own, but you were a great help when I was still a lot newer to learning. Keep up the good work :)
Matt you really outdid yourself here. I love the new word definitions. Cant wait for part 2 of this already!
8:00 - the word is probably 'Halcyon' /hăl′sē-ən/ which means serene or peaceful.
I started studying Japanese about 4 months ago and this is my very first game that I am playing in Japanese. Very Difficult but very fun. Your channel has helped me a lot so Thank you.
Keep it up!
I was lacking my dose of new content HAHA , but I was fine with rewatching the old ones.
damn I was all mindset hyped for the grammar big one to be the next , guess it's a good idea to send us a bit of an interlude before the grammy.
enof talk
DOSEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
you are a life saver that I am so glad hopping on your channel upon 3 weeks into learning japanese! please keep it going you are a hero man
Hello world
Ahhhh yessss!!! It's here!!!
6:50 learned about this from 完全なる黄金の回転エネルギ from スティールボールラン
Could you please do a review on Nekopara Cat's Boys Paradise?
I think it's an a-we-so-me game for learners. It's short, it's fun. Each line is voiced. Not only there is a log, but there is a special button to repeat the line as many times as you need, without even going to Log! Plus there is NO text from main character, and the lines are just being said by other characters in a way of quote. Which means this text is also voiced. It's not very long, so it gives the satisfaction of "I have just finished my first game in Japanese". And since its cafe/restorant related, it's not as difficult as a detective or fantasy stories, plus there are tons of everyday life vocab. Ideal for N3 level, but even N4 could enjoy, I would say. Plus, even though it's supposed be an otome game, all the guys are actually cats, so no real sexual context is involved, its a PG game, which some guys also enjoy.
It has Apple and Android versions. So please, please, we need more people to know about it and advance their Japanese 🥺❤️
Now it makes sense why I never understand what they are saying on the loud speaker in a train or at the airport
@GameGengo
any chance you would create a playlist for the JLPT N(5~1) Exam prep. Would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Does closure/glottal-stop/‘okina have any rules in Japanese? Sometimes it appears in the final vowel, but sometimes not. It usually appears at the end of the sentence/phrase, but not always. The rest of the consonants, however, seem aspirated.
This video encouraged me to go and learn through this game. I've already played the original so I don't need to pay too much attention to the plot, so can focus on what's being said, plus I feel playing as a student will help feel immersed with the learning
These videos are great! I'm only about 2 months into self learning and these are so helpful to me
Note for myself: 30:22
You know I do so love Persona 3. Looking forward to reviewing this one!
hope you do more p3r for this series
この動画はすごくて非常に立役くですよ！こんな動画は僕が難しい文法を分かるの利用します
yukarichi chan
Thank you so much for this! This channel is the best resource ever!
Thank you so much for all your work!
9:30 why the game writes 引鉄, but you wrote 引金 ? which one is correct ?
They are both correct, with the game using a rarer kanji. When I typed the text the most common variant came out, but they are both correct. 引金 引き金 引鉄 引き鉄 are all ways it can be written
love this!!! will you make a ffxv someday?
Absolutely! I'll make a video on anything the community votes for! :)
Love your videos!
Im quite surprised! I read that the persona series was n1 heavy but this is one of the most n5/4 heavy videos.
Perhaps it comes in a lil later when igor speaks more lol
This is how i learned that they took away the Burn My Dread ~ Last Battle from the opening cutscene and immediately made it less impactful
Hey, this is amazing! I really like how you deep dive on the dialogues to properly explain things. I’m also doing some play through with the Japanese VA, but without English subs, I’m pretty sure I won’t understand a thing😂
Hal-see-yon, is the pronunciation for halcyon I believe.
would love to see more p3!
this is really good
First time seeing your channel. This is awesome work!
amazing video! thanks for all your work!
OH THANK GOD! I HAVENT LEARNED ANY NEW WORDS IN WEEKS!
ありがとうございます
At 20:00, 分寮 does not mean "partitioned dormatory". In fact it means "dormitory branch of 岩戸台“. You can see this type of language in words like 分店, meaning "branched store" as in one of many stores in a chain franchaise. 分寮 here suggests that besides in いわとだい，there are other dormitories that belong to the same school/brand in other places.
Thanks for that info! Very interesting stuff!
thanks for your hard work! It allows those of us who doesn't game that much to also enjoy and learn from video games@@GameGengo
1:00:32 oh my god 😂
7:45 For those who might not know this, Mount Helicon is where the divine Muses reside in Greek mythology, with two springs said to be sources of poetic inspiration.
By the way, I love these videos! They are super helpful to me trying to learn Japanese! The language is very well explained.
ah, I believe the word that's actually being used is halcyon - meaning peaceful.
@@KeyToThePlanet Ah, that would also make sense.