Reading a Manga in Japanese for Beginners | Ep1
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- Опубліковано 5 чер 2024
- This manga is called "yotsuba to". This roughly means "with yotsuba", but it's also translated as "yotsuba and". I try to read the manga for you guys and explain the different grammar and vocabulary parts that we read through. I recommend you to check out the full Japanese basics for beginners course that I have on my channel, so that you know when I reference anything about the lessons. I hope reading mangas like this is helpful for you. This is intended as an exercise for beginner language learners. I am still studying as well, so if I did a mistake, please feel free to correct me in the comments. Thanks for watching!
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Hello everyone :3 Thanks for tuning in! 🙌
Wait you live in zurich?!?!?!?!?
I live in zug
@@franklinnh-vr5ks I do 😂😂 nice🙌🏻
@@GaijinQuest can you please provide us the link for this Manga
thannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnkk you a million,i was searching for a similar video forrr such a long time!!!1
1 request,please make on doraemon or konjikino gashh bell [also called zatchbell]pleaseeeeeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! its gonna be amazing
@@opdhaka Thanks for the feedback and for the ideas :D I need to also continue this series >.< but I'll think about making a doraemon one, as I haven't read too much of it yet :p
Dude, you're a lifesaver, I just started reading Yotsuba and 3 pages in I was like "well, this isn't going to work" and wondered if there were any videos like this on UA-cam and luckily there is! And a very thorough and didactic one at that!
Glad that this is helpful for you! :D I also struggled a long time with reading manga, so I know the feeling >.< Keep it up cause this world of written japanese opens up really nicely with time :D
@@GaijinQuest yeahhhh,the 'FEELING;!
@@GaijinQuest thank you
Omg I bought this 2 years ago and can’t read it, this is a life saver please do more!!1
I'll be back when I finished your "Japanese Basics for Beginners" playlist ^^
がんばって！😁💪
@@GaijinQuest ありがとうございます。 :D
Nerly pretend I said something in Japanese lol
@@bluebomber875 バカ :D
@@nerly5462 Le fishe au chocolat
You are definitely NOT reading too much into it!! You addressed all the questions I had actually, like the differences between formal and informal speech, the countryside accents, the "abrupt end" using tsu at the end... And you translated everything so well I didn't get lost once!! Thank you so much for this video and I really hope you make more of these!!
I am now heavily considering buying this manga and writing down some notes with the things you said (with a pencil ofc, I wouldn't want to ruin it) so I can learn more easily hehe
I'm glad you think so 😁 I think thats a great idea 👍🏼👍🏼 Theres 5 more episodes already on the channel and I will make more soon 😊 thanks for the nice comment :)
17:52「そういや」isn't a dialectical form of 「そうだ」here, it's a casual form of 「そう言えば」, which means "now that you mention it", or literally something like "if that is being said".
oh awesome I didnt know! thanks :)
Btw. The ...-chan and ...-kun usually are used for females and males respectively. But -chan can be used for people that are close to you and -kun can be used for people that are not as much or not at all. In that case -chan can be used for males like Otou-chan (like in 11:10) and -kun can be used for females like Lisa-kun (like in a very professional setting, such as a boss to their employ (however it can come of as a little rude))
-san is a more gender nature and polite appelitation.
I know nobody asked but. Here you go
perfect explanation. Thx! :D
@@GaijinQuest ( ≧∀≦)ノ ✨
Thx for the info!
thank you for this explanation! (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)
the facts we didnt know we needed thanks
This is seriously the most efficient way I found to learn japanese!
Thank you 🙏
Woah. I'm WAY late on finding this - how?? This is SO good! I bought Yotsuba to in preparation for N5 and man, the grammar, slang, and nuance is way past N5 even for this "beginner" book. This was sooo good to really dive in, thank you for all of this explanation!
pleasure my dude! 😁😁 thanks for the nice comment, i appreciate it!
man you are the best, i've never thought i would need this kind of video until i saw this one i feel like this will improve my japanese learning rate in a pretty big amount
I LOVED THIS, THANK YOU!!!
dude, you're amazing. I've been looking for something like this for years.
Oooh I love this!! Great idea!
I’m so happy I found your channel.
I rarely comment but I just wanted to say that your videos are just what I have been looking for (for a long time). I didn’t think anyone would bother doing this…and then boom, I found you.
I think i’ll be much more motivated to study the language now.
Thank you!
Thank you for the kind comment :) I'm glad you found me then 😁 enjoy your stay!
this is what i need to motivate myself studying japanese! i've been trying to memorise words from app but it just get boring and i don't even know how to use it and when to use it. hopefully after watching few chapters of this series i'd be gathering enough courage to read the rest of the manga myself. Thanks! you're doing marvelous job
it really helps when u use highlight while reading 🙏
I've heard that it is also possible for the "souiya" to be a truncation of "so ieba" (="if this is said"/"now that you mention it"). Great video btw!
This is really helpful, thank you so much!
Thank you! This is amazing to kind of figure out the slang and how the learned vocabulary changes. Sometimes it’s so different that one might not even realize that it is a vocab you already know :)
my pleasure! Glad you enjoy it :D
Thank you so so much for doing these videos - you are very generous!
I loved how you went about this!! I feel like I am back in elementary school listening to my teacher reading a book and trying to follow along (a good memory and feeling ^_^
Glad you enjoy these videos 😊 it's exactly the feel I'm going for 🙌🏻🎉
Wow! Your lessons are so useful! :o Can't wait for the next part, you're a really good teacher!
Thank youu! Glad that you like it :3
I'm only a few minutes in but I already love the way you are presenting this manga. I'm pretty confident I can follow "Yotsuba to" along with you. I've had wonderful native Japanese teachers but sometimes gaijins are just able to explain things better. Thank you.
I think having easy stories read is the way for me.😊Just listening with my eyes shut, you are going my speed and I'm understanding.
I've been learning Japanese for like 3 month and it still seems it will take me years to read some easy stuff haha. When I started learning English I could read and watch things after a short period of time but it doesn't work like that with Japanese
you're right, in 3 months i could read manga in english, but i will need more time to read manga in japanese, a lot of kanji, kana, kata, extremely confusing, english is a lot easier than any other lenguage i think, is like ¨Nivel 1 for polyglot¨
@@edgarmartin5474 English is my first language, not sure I've learnt it yet.😂
It's because you're learning wrong. You're using the wrong methods. Trying switching to an immersion based method like refold dot la
@@masa5300 it's my third foreign language and I'm learning it with a personal tutor. It's just an unusual language that's why I find it difficult that's all
@@masa5300 they are probably not learning wrong. It's a fact japanese will take a long time so it's understandable why in a short time they are still not reading.
That is really helpful! Thanks for your work!
My pleasure! :3
I remember reading this when I was a child. It was in my elemantary school library, so seeing it here is giving me strong nostalgia
Glad you’re feeling better! So excited for this one!
Thanks a lot! :D I've also wanted to do this for a long time now 😂😁 If you have any feedback, feel free to tell me! It would help a lot to improve on the concept in future videos :3 🙌
@@GaijinQuest Loved it! Great job on this episode! The edits were super helpful with explaining some of the nuances we haven't looked at yet too. Some people may find the slow pacing boring, but it really helped me understand every grammar point in the fist few pages. I looked into the pdf version and tried to read ahead a bit too, but I was completely lost when the adults began speaking to one another. So personally, I'd love to see an episode on it! I'd imagine that those are imperative to understanding the whole story and getting the full experience from the manga as well.
I was also curious if you had a discord or have ever thought about making one. We wouldn't want to eat up too much of your time answering additional questions on there, I just think it would be a cool place where students/enthusiasts could speak to one another about what we've learned so far and have elementary conversations with one another for practice. Once again, thanks so much! I'm telling all of my classmates and teachers about your channel and the amazing work you've done so far! Can't wait to see more from you!
@@mattsoto4329 Hey Matt, Your words mean a lot to me! This comment motivates me a great lot. Thanks. :3 The discord idea is genius!! Why didn't I think about something like that :D I'll make one asap. Also I will try to upload episodes where we read yotsubato regularly. (once a week for example). The part of the adults talking is rather short and after that it's a lot of yotsuba and another teenage girl talking, which is understandable for beginners as well! The next episode might be a bit harder tho, so I will try to take my time and really explain it as well as possible. Thanks again for the nice comment and for the amazing feedback!
@@GaijinQuest Awesome! I'll jump onboard right away! Till next time :D
Gracias @GaijinQuest! Im from Chile, Ive been studying japanese since 1year now, and this material is perfect to continue learning new stuff and at the same moment enjoying the story.
I bought the book and I'm following along. It's awesome, thank you so much!
Sério, MUITO obrigado! Você é um ótimo professor, eu consegui entender fácilmente tudo o que você ensinou nesse capítulo, o que eu não o seguinte em outros vídeos ou tentando sozinho!
Por favor, continue ensinando porque você ajuda muito! É ótimo e muito raro ter um conteúdo gratuito como o seu, sei que é difícil gastar seu tempo fazendo isso para nós, então obrigado pelo seu trabalho duro! THANKS FROM BRAZIL!
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This was super helpful-thank you so much!!
My pleasure!
Dude!! Thank you!!! 🤘🤘🤘🤘 this helps a lot!
dude i LOVED yotsuba when i was a kid. i can't wait to watch ur video and take notes!!!
Thank you so much for this video!! I was having a hard time trying to learn japanese grammar and this video helped me a ton! It is a really fun way to learn and you are a great teacher. Thanks!!
Glad you like it ! :D
Thanks so much for this! I've been studying Japanese off and on for a few years (just realized I started pre-pandemic, doesn't feel that long ago ha) and just recently decided to try out yotsuba and I'm surprised how much I'm liking it! The first time I read it I surprised myself being able to understand maybe 70-80% of it, but there were a handful of speech bubbles that really stumped me, so this frame by frame explanation is really helpful, glad I stumbled across this vid!
I read Yotsuba in french and I loved it, I'm happy that you made a video to learn a Japanese about it :)
This was worth the wait! 👌
I'll try to upload this series regularly :D Glad you enjoy it!
A big thankyou! Great explanations, fun details and your voice was really good!! Merci !!
Great to hear! It's my pleasure😁 thanks for watching
Thanks. I like it a lot. Hope you can do it more. I am following you and eagerly waiting for the next episode
Thank you mate... youre a life saver... ive been wondering how to start reading manga because it is too hard for me
Ya got a new subscriber today. 🌺❤️😇
Starts at 8:20
Thank you so much
This is exactly what I was looking for . Thanks a lot.
My pleasure!
This is so good!! Wunderschön! Vielen Dank :-)
Thank you so much for this! The detailed explanations were so helpful. ‘XD Hope you do lots more!
Glad it was helpful! I will definitely make more :D
Dude, thank you so much for this!!!!!
my pleasure! :D
Yotsuba is such a great manga to start with thank you
Absolutely underrated channel! Going to share this! Loving that you chose to read Yotsubato :-)
Thank you! Glad to hear that :)
I love this! Thank you so much. 🙏🏼😊
Glad you like it! :D
This is awesome!!! Thank you for making so much effort to make this video. I remember trying to translate comics when I was a teenager and missing so much because of the endings and inflections etc.
I really love Asari-Chan comics, if you can find any, they are funny and easy to read. I recommend them :-)
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll check it out :D Glad that you like the concept hehe I'll try to make further videos like this one from now on
I really appreciate this video. I have been looking for something exactly like this for days. I have just started learning Japanese a few weeks ago. I need something to sort of watch and/or listen to that tells a story but also explains in English exactly like this, that is easy going, simple (however difficult enough for a beginner)...just this!! Exactly this. My instructor told me to avoid anime because they are teaching me to be polite and modern. So the fact that you are advising what language is acceptable and what isn't is a big deal to me because it gives me both worlds and doesn't go against my instructor's wishes. Also, you are taking your time here. I hope you do more videos of explaining stories, exactly how you have done this one.
I'm glad you found this series 😁 I'm making it exactly for people like you! I was also at that point not too long ago and I was looking for something like this so that was my inspiration for doing these videos :) If you every have any feedback for me or suggestions feel free to let me know :))
@@GaijinQuest Awesome.
My instructor suggested podcasts and sites like HelloTalk and to avoid kid shows and anime. I see his point however for now, podcasts are just noise at this point except for a couple of words and at least with a kid show, I can still learn how to say the colour pink. I have found a show on Netflix called Samarai Cuisine. I turn off all of the English, turn on Japanese subtitles and I am getting quite a bit out of that because I can watch the story and see what is going on. There is a lot of passion for food in the show and the character is a likeable adult who is funny, in a charming way. So somehow I am understanding quite a bit. I can't tell if the show is great to a native speaker but it is great for someone like me.
Anyways, this particular series of yours feels like a bridge to where I need to be going. This story will probably last me a while but I hope you find another one that compells you to repeat the process. It needs to be fun for you too, right? Please consider it. Yoroshiku onegai shimasu. Arigatou gozaimasu!
@@zephyrsonzephyrson8618 sure thing! I have 6 videos of yotsubato up on my channel right now :) more to come. I will also start other manga series once I have more time. Good luck with your studies!
Very usefull ! Tx !
also, about showing your face, I believe in this series yea you shouldn't, because the viewer must focus on the illustration and the explanations, however in your regular series having someone to watch is much more engaging than just a series of slides. Cheers!
Great to hear! Thanks for the feedback, super helpful :))
Thank you so much 😭 it’s really helpful.
ありがとうございます せんせい.
that's was very helpfull! thank you a lot!
my pleasure :D
Thank you, my japanese level is too low to read myself (without looking up at least one word in every sentence) This is a lifesaver, educational and fun 🥰
I save this vdo for long time , today i watch this and feel motivation back . Thank you very much'
This is quite helpful and the speed is best for me if I say
very useful, thank you
Now only I found your Channel and really appreciate your こまかい teaching.
Hi! Welcome :D Glad you enjoy it
this was actually very helpful! it feels like im getting private tutoring
I love it :)
keep the series going broooooo
I definitely will! :D
Thank you!
More please 🎉
Thank you, it was a little bit slow, I am reading Manga right now and try to understand as much as possible especially that I learn only polite way at Japanese school.
You ever search for something knowing dam well it doesn't exist but you try anyway? That's what just happened with this video lol, thank you so much! It's helping me a lot wity my Japanese?
I love this video
Im glad 😄
ayo this is some good quality stuff!
tf Ludvix doing here
ay ludvix learning japanese? pog
Very helpful! I bought all the books overconfidently after getting my hiragana pretty good, but the vocabulary is still a barrier. ありがとう。
Thank for the video
my pleasure :D
Grateful
Thank youuuuu!
うますぎ
AYYY THANKS FOR THIS LOL
pleasure!😃
Wow, this is great! I don't have a lot of time, and I really want/need the exposure and saturation of reading and listening to Japanese, but I can't find any good manga that's easy enough to read to get started. This is awesome! Thank you for making this 😊
うちの台所は大きいです
Not sure if I spelled daidokoro lol. Kitchen is what I was going for 😆
Glad to hear 😁 台所 is correct 👍🏼😄
@@GaijinQuest Yay! Thanks for confirming! I really appreciate it!
My pleasure! I saw you commented a lot on my japanese for beginners series with your solutions to the questions. Today I'm quite busy so I wont get to reading them, but I'll read them as soon as possible. Thanks for watching 😊
@@GaijinQuest Awesome! I really appreciate it! I'm so excited! I can't wait to be able to start kinda speaking a little more smoothly and not have to think so much about it! Right now it's hard to learn every day because of work so I usually end up mostly just listening to UA-cam while I work. Your channel is great! I can't wait for more videos! Keep it up and thanks again!!!
thank u so much
great video, jumpscare at 28:11
UR VIDEO IS A GEM! ARIGATOU GOZAIMASHITA!!!!
my pleasure!!😁 thanks for watching
すげえ!
I read it myself and then came back to your video for extra.
Maybe a little faster would be better.
Looks like you have like 8 videos in this series so maybe it's different now.
Anyways, thank you so much for this!
This video is so funny!
Thank you ... You are a god send..
My pleasure! :D
I really love your videos they help so much♥️. do you mind telling me how to get the letters the same way you have them because the version i downloaded has a different variation of letters and it makes it really hard to recognize them😅.
This is great. I bought the first 2 books. But I am finding it difficult to see the script when I try to read it. I guess the printing is small to save space??
But reading it with you helps a bit more. I can see this i going to take very long. But It’s interesting that I recently bought it in Japan when I was there recently. I got an English Translation for Book 1 here in Canada to get me to the gist of the story. Then I can practice with Japanese understanding the meaning.
They should make this into an anime
Yes pleaseee
Incredible help!! How do you select text within a manga?
what app did you use to read this manga? it's super neat :0
Great stuff! How are younable to select text in the comic file?
Yo, this is effective learning thank you did basic app Japanese but didnt work well but if there a story, audio and explaining ill be able to understand some sentence and when im done ill go write some Japanese word for test
Thanks!!!!! ☆♡☆♡☆♡☆♡
Really? Yotsuba is one of my favorite 👏👏
And in theory there's not suppose to be any problem with the copyright.
But if there will be than just zoom on the individual panels. Comic dub readers often do that and it works for them.
Btw I'm blank blank, I just changed my name
Thanks for the idea! Hope everything goes well :3 I could also just reupload it, with zoomed pannels, if it comes to it :D The new name AJ blank is swaggyy :p Like it!
@@GaijinQuest Thanks man. Keep being awesome 👊✌
Finally some good reading content for a beginner, just finished 1/3 of the Kanji and pretty comfy with some katakana and hiragana and want to dip my toes into some reading to get real familiar with the language. ありがとございます
Where did you get the manga where you can highlight the text?
If you can highlight then does that mean you can copy and paste? I've been looking for a site to read manga from that is compatible with Yomichan.
すげー❤️
I feel elite for knowing this basic ass word
@@imajojosreference9129 you and me both my friend
Where do you find Manga Scans where you can select/copy/paste Japanese text?
15:20 doesn't "お店もか?" mean "shops (are here) too?" since it has the same kanji as the previous bubble for shop?
This method of learning looks so promising and fun! I'm a complete beginner, will learning hiragana and katakana characters be enough to understand this manga and follow along with you?
Yes for sure 👍🏼 The kanji characters have furigana on top which are hiragana and katakana :) have fun!
@@GaijinQuest wow thank you so much for replying so fast. I want to make the process of learning japanese fun (as much as it can be), and I'll start following you along on your manga reading videos and watch some of my favorite anime with japanese subtitles to fast track the learning as much as possible. Wish me luck! And have a great day!
I think the hardest part about Japanese is not the Kanji (because of Furigana) or pronouncing it, or Kana, but I think it’s actually translating it into your language, for me it’s English, I don’t have troubles saying/knowing what it sounds like, but I have troubles translating it to english
I know it's been a long time since you've posted this, but if you happen to see this or anyone else, there's a whole study and several videos out there about just that. When learning any language you do not want to tranlate anything to your native language. I know this sounds really odd, but it's one of the top mistakes most people make. What you wanna do is learn the language much like a baby, you'll have to associate everything to the new words. It doesn't hurt to know translation, but you should try to learn to associate words you learn to thoughts and objects, than your native language. The less you involve your native language the better. I think it's more than okay to start off using your native language to find your footing faster and learn basics, but I'd recommend phasing out use of your native language after the first 1-2 weeks. There are several language programs out there, that refuse to introduce you in anyway shape or form using your native language.
"Sometimes an anime character will say 'SHINE!'" -- Bakugou lol