Haha, the dude talking in Osaka dialect made my day! Having this video drop on the day when I was extremely burned out from learning japanese, helps tremendously. It motivated me once again, thank you!
That first american girl speaks so well I was shocked lol and pretty much as Takashi said, if that korean girl didn't say she was korean I don't think anyone would notice, just flawless
Haha its so weird to be able to follow Takashii’s guests word for word but just sometimes trip out on how fast he speaks JP himself. The American guy at the end is so right, we will all be foreigners speaking Japanese even if we make it to full fluency! Thanks for the content again!
Please add Anki to the subtitles around 2:50 please! I've been studying Japanese for 15 years and this tool changed how I learned vocab recently! Also, we need more reasons to speak fluently....
i’ve been following the input method and absorbing as much content as possible. i can understand 85% of the dialogue without subs but my speaking is still intermediate at best. i’m reminded language learning is a marathon and not a sprint
ありがとうございます, Takashii! I began watching your videos about a year ago and they were the kernel of inspiration that led me to begin studying Japanese in earnest a little over a month ago. Loving it so far (and 2.5 yrs of Chinese make kanji way less scary 😂)! Keep up the great work!
I'm working to learn Japanese as an older guy. I travel to Japan sometimes for business and would like to explore when I go. Good video for boosting confidence!
you can learn first and then come, or come first and then learn, it doesnt make much difference. you have to be proactive either way. this from someone who came first and then learnt. i dont think there would have been much point in getting great before i came, except avoiding frustration, but frustration is motivating, its all based on your attitude at the end of the day and how good you are at learning how to learn.
Thanks for this video! I'm currently in my 6 months (I think?) of studying Japanese, and I know how hard it could be, so this is giving me some motivation, especially from a foreigner's perspective! I think I want to add something that my sensei told me when learning Japanese (or just learning anything in general, since sensei also knows I'm learning things about art and 3D modelling). It stuck with me a lot, especially since I'm used to learning things too fast. 焦らないで (aseranaide). Don't rush. I'm used to learning something fast, but then I realized that at some point in life, whatever I learned fast becomes something I don't understand. Maybe because I only understood the surface stuff at the time. Because of that, I began to take time in actually understanding things, even if I'm slow. Just like learning keyboard shortcuts or art styles, or even gaming skills, everything takes time to understand things. Sure, time flies fast, but I think even if it does fly fast, as long as you use the time properly and productively, that's great.
18:22 I know the brazilian guy, Ozu, met him in 2015 at Shibuya station as I was going back home and he had just left the station. Since it was my first time there and he heard me and my friends speaking portuguese, he helped us with directions.
@takashiifromjapan This may have been the most important video I have watched in my Japanese studying career bro. Not because the advice was particularly unique, but hearing these people speak was the first time I could truly look away from subtitles and follow the conversation, which was a massive confidence booster. 4 years of solo self-study and very minimal conversational practice. My only Japanese friend is always busy and had moved away. Grinding kanji for years and rarely getting to speak has been EXHAUSTING. This was the FIRST TIME I COULD UNDERSTAND CONVERSATIONS AND FELT LIKE THIS HAS PAID OFF. THANKS FOR MAKING THE VIDEO.
I like it. the video is very informative! Everyone learns a different way but also the levels of Japanese and daily versus business versus honorifics in how to speak and engage with others. I love that you bring people together, too!
Wow, awesome video. So cool to see various foreigners talking about their experience with learning Japanese. They offer lots of important advice from different perspectives. It's great to have them all concentrated in one video, makes it easier to reassess your goals and decide what to focus on, what kind of Japanese proficiency you want to obtain for yourself and how to get there.
I've started studying japanese 2 years ago, and I can say kanji is the hardest part of learning japanese. Thanks for the video!!!! it was really good advice!!!
This is very impressive I feel like it’s such a struggle for me to learn another language. And I also feel like some people simply just have a knack for it. Like these guys. But I aspire to be like them.
Even the people that have been here for a year have been studying a lot longer - you can't fluke learning Japanese, it's about hard work and study - they are no hacks.
Great video! And yessss, you sound really cool speaking English with a Japanese accent ❤️ Besides, accents are sexy and perfectionism is over-rated 😊🇦🇺
Brazil has the biggest Japanese diaspora in the world so someone speaking Japanese with a Brazilian accent is probably the most common JSL accent you would have the chance of witnessing.... It's like saying "Never thought I'd hear an American speak English with a Spanish accent." Don't you know anything about the world?...
@@mc1069 the accent only is that noticeable because he's not from São Paulo, where most Japanese descendants are. If he was, his accent would be faint because it's similar to Japanese.
@@mc1069 That last sentence was really unnecessary. We're on the internet, everyone lives in a different area of the world, we sink in the knowledge we are exposed to. The information you have in your head and have learned during your lifetime, very often will be completely different from the information of an average person across the globe.
@@mc1069When I went to Brazil for the first time, I learned about the mass migrations of Japanese and Italians to that country, which I had never in my life heard. I don't know if you've been outside Brazil but these things are absolutely not know outside Brazil. It's a very insular country that for the most part keeps to itself Hope that gives you some perspective
If this guy is Brazillian I'm sorry in his behalf, seeing him been so rude is kinda shamefull, we brazillians are not like this at all. I started learning Japanese two months ago, is hard but I'm having fun, hope I can be able to understand more since I consume a lot of Japanese media.
Have you guys noticed that those ppl have faces that resemble Japanese? It's because the facial muscles they frequently use have become ingrained over time, which is very interesting.
Having studied and lived in Japan a few years, I would say the Canadian guy is absolutely spot on! ... and with all respect the first French guy illustrates his point perfectly. His japanese is full of mistakes but it is probably totally fine in his daily life. He however sounds like the typical long-term resident who picked up the language rather than studied it. My Japanese was very similar to his while in Japan and only when coming back to my country and studying seriously did I realise how much my japanese was lacking. Because I became alright at casual speaking made me overlook my lack of vocabulary or my limited grammar use. Of course there are positives to both approaches but I am now in the study extensively camp as well if you don't want to get stuck in an intermediate/advanced intermediate level . which btw is not a problem either ! you don't have to be perfectly fluent anyway
@@adabamas I am nowhere near the Canadian guy's skills and I think everyone's brain works differently so it is hard to give recommandations, but my approach has been to cram this past year just like he said, basically adding a lot of volume of knowledge in a short time to solidify my foundation rather than sleep on it for a while waiting to magically catch up everything... Of course it has to be considered as just a step, focus on this intense input just for some time then you move on to the larger chunk of the learning with more ease. I have gone through all JLPT grammar (nearly done) , and also a lot of vocabulary using JLPT lists as well (with kanji reading, not necessarily writing). I used bunpro website to train these. Now I feel I am slowly transiting back to more casual activities (reading, watching stuff, talking) and it feels great as everything feels very familiar while I had plenty of instances of getting lost before. Now again I am not quite there yet but I feel like I am out of the intermediate level swamp I was clearly stuck in and able to move forward back again finally. :)
@@PPJ9274 I just checked out bunpro, looks helpful. I passed N2 decades ago while in Japan, but although I've been watching a lot of Japanese shows on Netflix etc plus speaking with wife in Japanese, and can get my point across, I really would like to fundamentally improve at a deeper level. I guess that means I need to hit the books like you write.
@@adabamas bunpro is great for setting up a routine, you won't skip a day. I also do Anki for vocab daily and Shinkanzen master series books the days I have time as well (文法 and 読解 books, don't recommend the 語彙 one) . These books are excellent IMO. I have heard good thing about 総まとめ series books as well. Basically I find JLPT suited books very appropriate to this process by being quantity focused. The quality side you get on the real life and media consumption side anyway.
Very encouraging video, I'm hoping to learn more Japanese through immersion techniques. Like most of the people he interviewed said, having conversations in any language is the way to really catapult your learning and fluency.
They all had excellent Japanese language skills and had no trouble conversing with Japanese people. However, I was surprised by the third Canadian man, who was a special mention. When he spoke the Japanese word for "ほとんど" ("almost"), he had to restate it. I thought he understood the correct pronunciation because he was objective in his pronunciation. It's a small detail, but he must have great metacognition.
You speak hood English. Kudos to you. As I am over 30 and already have 3 languages in my head, I guess I would not be that easy to learn Japanese for me.
Takashii - these language fluency videos of yours are fun to watch, they are entertaining, mostly encouraging but also discouraging all at the same time. I hope to run into in Tokyo at some point.
Regarding the kanji comment @9:09, I've been learning Japanese on and off for a long time but I never learned kanji. Even when I lived in Japan as a kid I only knew kanji for certain train stations, numbers, etc. It's SO much easier to read and hear Japanese now that I've started learning kanji. I can barely understand any full speed Japanese conversation, but I noticed it increased a lot as I started learning kanji. I only know around 80 radicals and around 65 kanji and already I can start to infer meaning based on kanji components I am seeing. I wish I had started learning kanji 20 years ago when I started learning Japanese as a kid.
I started learning English recently. I'm working hard, improving my English skills day by day, so when I feel comfortable, I will start learning Japanese. Tamo junto, salve do Brasil!
@@gianluca5638 I can try... On my 9 months Japanese journey so far, the learning curve changed quite a lot. In the beginning you make a lot of progress as you learn the basics (N5) and you start feeling kinda confident. However, when you progress to "higher" levels (N4, N3,...) you realize how much work you actually have to put in DAILY in order to become "fluent". Daily listening, grammar, Anki, reading, shadowing... It goes a looong way... You start to realize how the language actually works and how much you still need to learn. And you realize that you basically know almost nothing. But it gets better of course! Japanese is obviously very different from Western languages. It takes probably at least 2-3 times more effort to learn because of the writing system (Kanji), the vocabulary, the structure, grammar, different levels of politeness and so on... and Japanese people also speak really fast😂 I do a lot of immersion at the moment as someone who's N4/N3 level but I still feel like speaking is such a big obstacle. There's a big difference between understanding and actually speaking. But it all comes with time and practice of course. You just need to enjoy the journey. There's no finish line really. And you also need to have fun while doing it. Very important! I'm at a point now where I start understanding A LOT of daily conversation but I still need to get used to the faster pace. And I wanna try to start speaking and writing more and more. We'll get there!💪
Imo the only thing that was hard was moving past the self doubt. It's a lot of words and expressions to familiarize yourself with but the solution is just constant consistent exposure and an eagerness to use your dictionary all the time haha
Learning and speaking, Japanese is one thing, but the real learning curve is reading Japanese because there are three forms, Cata Cana hiragana and congee
I will be moving to Japan for language school in two months so this video couldn’t have come at a better time time. While I work in a Japanese company. everyone is afraid to talk or correct me when I speak to them in Japanese. So hopefully this will help me improve and I can’t wait
I always find it funny to see the foreigners that have been there for sometime and now have japanese style hair/makeup etc. The natural assimilation into the culture.
I'd love if you find some Slavic language speakers that have learned Japanese. I think these languages are phonetically much closer to Japanese than to English (or other latin based languages).
I learned fluency by not worrying about sounding natural. Nobody really cares about sounding natural. In America we don’t criticize people not having natural English. Focus on the foundations of the language and learn to speak like a dictionary then learn the casual forms.
I did this with French and it's taken 20 years to get to near native. I want to become fluent in Japanese too but honestly it's been so long since I've "study studied" French that I don't even remember how I got actually got to where I am...
That happens to me when I learned English, My native Tounge is Thai. But I cant remember how I learned English at all. I am sure it be the same for Japanese as well.
Learn Japanese kanji faster with Paperlike paperlike.com/takashii/2501
suggestion what is the best Japanese film in the opinion of the Japanese
@@takashiifromjapan 日本に旅行したい場合、誰かが私の旅行を邪魔するでしょうか? これがあなたが探しているものです、タカシ。 私が真実を隠さずに率直に日本に旅行することを望まない人はいますか？
@@takashiifromjapan もし誰かが私にそこへ旅行することを望まないなら、恥ずかしがることなく私に言うことができます。
I’m 63 years old and I intend to improve my Japanese language skills so I can travel independently. Thank you for sharing this.
63 as well same exact interest. 😊
Me too! I’m 63 and working on my Japanese! 🎉😊🇦🇺
You got this!
Same here, I am going to be 63 soon, I hope to improve on my Japanese language skills
thanks for having me on!!
hope everyone understands that immersion is nOt magic until you’ve put in the work to build a foundation 🙏
I discovered your channel thanks to this video!
Are you missing? why don't you make videos?😶
Perfectionism is definitely the bane of any serious learner.
Beautiful comment 👌
100 percent. I agree
賛成です
Haha, the dude talking in Osaka dialect made my day! Having this video drop on the day when I was extremely burned out from learning japanese, helps tremendously. It motivated me once again, thank you!
That first american girl speaks so well I was shocked lol and pretty much as Takashi said, if that korean girl didn't say she was korean I don't think anyone would notice, just flawless
I'm particularly impressed with the American girl. One of the best I've heard for Westerners.
I needed this video! I’m traveling to Japan for the first time 2 months, I’m so excited!
Same here, going in late May / early June 😁
Haha its so weird to be able to follow Takashii’s guests word for word but just sometimes trip out on how fast he speaks JP himself. The American guy at the end is so right, we will all be foreigners speaking Japanese even if we make it to full fluency! Thanks for the content again!
His name is Quinlan, his YT channel name is GoNorth Japan, and he's a total Japan veteran speaking out of lived experience.
Love the video! thanks for all the content that you create. Greetings from Spain!! 本当に ありがとう
Please add Anki to the subtitles around 2:50 please! I've been studying Japanese for 15 years and this tool changed how I learned vocab recently!
Also, we need more reasons to speak fluently....
i’ve been following the input method and absorbing as much content as possible. i can understand 85% of the dialogue without subs but my speaking is still intermediate at best. i’m reminded language learning is a marathon and not a sprint
ありがとうございます, Takashii! I began watching your videos about a year ago and they were the kernel of inspiration that led me to begin studying Japanese in earnest a little over a month ago. Loving it so far (and 2.5 yrs of Chinese make kanji way less scary 😂)!
Keep up the great work!
I'm working to learn Japanese as an older guy. I travel to Japan sometimes for business and would like to explore when I go. Good video for boosting confidence!
you can learn first and then come, or come first and then learn, it doesnt make much difference. you have to be proactive either way. this from someone who came first and then learnt. i dont think there would have been much point in getting great before i came, except avoiding frustration, but frustration is motivating, its all based on your attitude at the end of the day and how good you are at learning how to learn.
Thanks for this video! I'm currently in my 6 months (I think?) of studying Japanese, and I know how hard it could be, so this is giving me some motivation, especially from a foreigner's perspective!
I think I want to add something that my sensei told me when learning Japanese (or just learning anything in general, since sensei also knows I'm learning things about art and 3D modelling). It stuck with me a lot, especially since I'm used to learning things too fast.
焦らないで (aseranaide). Don't rush.
I'm used to learning something fast, but then I realized that at some point in life, whatever I learned fast becomes something I don't understand. Maybe because I only understood the surface stuff at the time. Because of that, I began to take time in actually understanding things, even if I'm slow. Just like learning keyboard shortcuts or art styles, or even gaming skills, everything takes time to understand things. Sure, time flies fast, but I think even if it does fly fast, as long as you use the time properly and productively, that's great.
18:22 I know the brazilian guy, Ozu, met him in 2015 at Shibuya station as I was going back home and he had just left the station. Since it was my first time there and he heard me and my friends speaking portuguese, he helped us with directions.
That’s incredible. What a small world
Fascinating video!
Enjoyed all encounters and especially the American guy at end's advice.
Very good, enjoyed your first of the year very much, Thank you 🙏🏼
Great to hear all these experiences and getting advice from the horses' mouths. Very motivating.
I have been self studying Japanese as a Nigerian for a year now.
Thank you for the motivation.
@takashiifromjapan This may have been the most important video I have watched in my Japanese studying career bro. Not because the advice was particularly unique, but hearing these people speak was the first time I could truly look away from subtitles and follow the conversation, which was a massive confidence booster. 4 years of solo self-study and very minimal conversational practice. My only Japanese friend is always busy and had moved away. Grinding kanji for years and rarely getting to speak has been EXHAUSTING. This was the FIRST TIME I COULD UNDERSTAND CONVERSATIONS AND FELT LIKE THIS HAS PAID OFF. THANKS FOR MAKING THE VIDEO.
I like it. the video is very informative! Everyone learns a different way but also the levels of Japanese and daily versus business versus honorifics in how to speak and engage with others. I love that you bring people together, too!
Wow, awesome video. So cool to see various foreigners talking about their experience with learning Japanese. They offer lots of important advice from different perspectives. It's great to have them all concentrated in one video, makes it easier to reassess your goals and decide what to focus on, what kind of Japanese proficiency you want to obtain for yourself and how to get there.
Interesting spread of perspectives, especially from Quinlan and his comments on accents. The common thread is start practicing asap!
Enjoyed watching the interviews and always marvel at how fluent foreigners are at the language. This is another interesting video. Thumbs up!👍🏼👍🏼
Kind of off-topic, but I LOVE the Korean girl's sense of style omg. She looks so cool. I thought she was Japanese at first too
Yea I wish her Ig was linked too
You like her sense of style? All the piercings? Idi@t
That was a fun and very interesting video! Thank you
Random guy in a coat of arms with absolutely no explanation. 😅
Pretty sure he's cosplaying Laios from Duneon Meishi
I've started studying japanese 2 years ago, and I can say kanji is the hardest part of learning japanese. Thanks for the video!!!! it was really good advice!!!
Whoa .. June Lovejoy? 😻
This has been the biggest confidence boost I needed ❤️
This is very impressive I feel like it’s such a struggle for me to learn another language. And I also feel like some people simply just have a knack for it. Like these guys. But I aspire to be like them.
Even the people that have been here for a year have been studying a lot longer - you can't fluke learning Japanese, it's about hard work and study - they are no hacks.
Great video! And yessss, you sound really cool speaking English with a Japanese accent ❤️ Besides, accents are sexy and perfectionism is over-rated 😊🇦🇺
Never thought I would witness a guy speak Japanese with a Brazilian accent
Brazil has the biggest Japanese diaspora in the world so someone speaking Japanese with a Brazilian accent is probably the most common JSL accent you would have the chance of witnessing.... It's like saying "Never thought I'd hear an American speak English with a Spanish accent."
Don't you know anything about the world?...
@@mc1069 the accent only is that noticeable because he's not from São Paulo, where most Japanese descendants are. If he was, his accent would be faint because it's similar to Japanese.
@@mc1069 That last sentence was really unnecessary. We're on the internet, everyone lives in a different area of the world, we sink in the knowledge we are exposed to. The information you have in your head and have learned during your lifetime, very often will be completely different from the information of an average person across the globe.
@@mc1069When I went to Brazil for the first time, I learned about the mass migrations of Japanese and Italians to that country, which I had never in my life heard. I don't know if you've been outside Brazil but these things are absolutely not know outside Brazil. It's a very insular country that for the most part keeps to itself
Hope that gives you some perspective
If this guy is Brazillian I'm sorry in his behalf, seeing him been so rude is kinda shamefull, we brazillians are not like this at all. I started learning Japanese two months ago, is hard but I'm having fun, hope I can be able to understand more since I consume a lot of Japanese media.
We appreciate your work keep doing ✨✨
たかしさんは、笑顔が増えて動画がさらに良くなりましたね
Takashii-san, どうもありがとうございます. I’m new to Japan, and I’m inspired to learn more seeing these foreigners speaking 日本語。フィリピン出身です. ❤😊 🇵🇭
Have you guys noticed that those ppl have faces that resemble Japanese? It's because the facial muscles they frequently use have become ingrained over time, which is very interesting.
2:28 Kudos to the guy who got N1 before coming to Japan AND starting to talk about it with ganbarimasu.. So down to earth..
I needed this video 😁
Having studied and lived in Japan a few years, I would say the Canadian guy is absolutely spot on! ... and with all respect the first French guy illustrates his point perfectly. His japanese is full of mistakes but it is probably totally fine in his daily life. He however sounds like the typical long-term resident who picked up the language rather than studied it.
My Japanese was very similar to his while in Japan and only when coming back to my country and studying seriously did I realise how much my japanese was lacking. Because I became alright at casual speaking made me overlook my lack of vocabulary or my limited grammar use. Of course there are positives to both approaches but I am now in the study extensively camp as well if you don't want to get stuck in an intermediate/advanced intermediate level . which btw is not a problem either ! you don't have to be perfectly fluent anyway
This is a very good point. How do you approach studying to level up further?
@@adabamas I am nowhere near the Canadian guy's skills and I think everyone's brain works differently so it is hard to give recommandations, but my approach has been to cram this past year just like he said, basically adding a lot of volume of knowledge in a short time to solidify my foundation rather than sleep on it for a while waiting to magically catch up everything...
Of course it has to be considered as just a step, focus on this intense input just for some time then you move on to the larger chunk of the learning with more ease.
I have gone through all JLPT grammar (nearly done) , and also a lot of vocabulary using JLPT lists as well (with kanji reading, not necessarily writing). I used bunpro website to train these.
Now I feel I am slowly transiting back to more casual activities (reading, watching stuff, talking) and it feels great as everything feels very familiar while I had plenty of instances of getting lost before.
Now again I am not quite there yet but I feel like I am out of the intermediate level swamp I was clearly stuck in and able to move forward back again finally. :)
@@PPJ9274 I just checked out bunpro, looks helpful. I passed N2 decades ago while in Japan, but although I've been watching a lot of Japanese shows on Netflix etc plus speaking with wife in Japanese, and can get my point across, I really would like to fundamentally improve at a deeper level. I guess that means I need to hit the books like you write.
@@adabamas bunpro is great for setting up a routine, you won't skip a day. I also do Anki for vocab daily and Shinkanzen master series books the days I have time as well (文法 and 読解 books, don't recommend the 語彙 one) . These books are excellent IMO.
I have heard good thing about 総まとめ series books as well. Basically I find JLPT suited books very appropriate to this process by being quantity focused. The quality side you get on the real life and media consumption side anyway.
Very encouraging video, I'm hoping to learn more Japanese through immersion techniques. Like most of the people he interviewed said, having conversations in any language is the way to really catapult your learning and fluency.
They all had excellent Japanese language skills and had no trouble conversing with Japanese people.
However, I was surprised by the third Canadian man, who was a special mention.
When he spoke the Japanese word for "ほとんど" ("almost"), he had to restate it.
I thought he understood the correct pronunciation because he was objective in his pronunciation.
It's a small detail, but he must have great metacognition.
You speak hood English. Kudos to you. As I am over 30 and already have 3 languages in my head, I guess I would not be that easy to learn Japanese for me.
i believe the more languages you know the easier it would be, hence polyglots etc. Its just a matter of practice so you don't forget.
Why do you think that?
You already knows 3 languages, so you know the process for acquiring a good level of foreigner languages.
頑張って！
Let's goooo, Takashii!!
another great video, thanks!
Wow these interviewees are all at a level that I dream of reaching someday…
🌸💓 Loved all the advice !
Takashii - these language fluency videos of yours are fun to watch, they are entertaining, mostly encouraging but also discouraging all at the same time. I hope to run into in Tokyo at some point.
You're the best Takashii san! 💕 Much love and respect to you from Sri Lanka.
Hi takashii! Love your content!
I was not prepared for the Dungeon Meshi cosplay 🤣🤣
Wonderful video
Regarding the kanji comment @9:09, I've been learning Japanese on and off for a long time but I never learned kanji. Even when I lived in Japan as a kid I only knew kanji for certain train stations, numbers, etc. It's SO much easier to read and hear Japanese now that I've started learning kanji. I can barely understand any full speed Japanese conversation, but I noticed it increased a lot as I started learning kanji. I only know around 80 radicals and around 65 kanji and already I can start to infer meaning based on kanji components I am seeing. I wish I had started learning kanji 20 years ago when I started learning Japanese as a kid.
I liked the video so much.The last interviewee spoke Japanese very quickly.😂 .
たかしさん、インタビューを通じて良い経験が出来ていますね👍英国人曰く、日本語は英語にない言葉や表現が沢山あって、素晴らしいと言っていました😊実際、32の日本語が、英語に追加されました✌️
日本語は文法気にせずしゃべっているので、英語も言ったもの勝ち❗️日本の教育も会話重視に転換すべきですね😊
Hey that's June, love her!
To me, the best speaker was the korean but canadian is like wow! N1 before coming to japan and speaks so well in 1 year!
True Dedication!
I enjoy watching your videos, and its great to see the same people, but I really want to get to see new people interviewed from time to time.
Daje yuriko
Thank you Takashii San it helps me to start again learning Japanese.
I Ain't gonna lie this is what I wanted
This video helped me a lot ❤
I was not expecting a 10/10 cosplay from delicious in dungeon 5:10
I started learning English recently. I'm working hard, improving my English skills day by day, so when I feel comfortable, I will start learning Japanese. Tamo junto, salve do Brasil!
Can tell that guy is French before finishing the intro lol
12年間の間欠的な独学あとで字幕をあんまり見なくだいぶ分かるようになってきたってたまに意外だよな。アニメや漫画とか観たり、アンキを使ったり、UA-camで文法を学んだりしたらレベルがどんどんよくなってる。
Yuriko Tiger our italian goat🇮🇹🇮🇹🇮🇹
Great video 👍
The more you learn Japanese, the more you realize how hard it actually is.
Respect to anyone who's fluent already!
Exactly!
Can I ask you why? (I'm not joking I'm just curious)
@@gianluca5638 I can try...
On my 9 months Japanese journey so far, the learning curve changed quite a lot.
In the beginning you make a lot of progress as you learn the basics (N5) and you start feeling kinda confident.
However, when you progress to "higher" levels (N4, N3,...) you realize how much work you actually have to put in DAILY in order to become "fluent". Daily listening, grammar, Anki, reading, shadowing... It goes a looong way... You start to realize how the language actually works and how much you still need to learn. And you realize that you basically know almost nothing. But it gets better of course!
Japanese is obviously very different from Western languages. It takes probably at least 2-3 times more effort to learn because of the writing system (Kanji), the vocabulary, the structure, grammar, different levels of politeness and so on... and Japanese people also speak really fast😂
I do a lot of immersion at the moment as someone who's N4/N3 level but I still feel like speaking is such a big obstacle.
There's a big difference between understanding and actually speaking. But it all comes with time and practice of course.
You just need to enjoy the journey. There's no finish line really. And you also need to have fun while doing it. Very important!
I'm at a point now where I start understanding A LOT of daily conversation but I still need to get used to the faster pace.
And I wanna try to start speaking and writing more and more. We'll get there!💪
The more～, the more
⬆️sentence
Imo the only thing that was hard was moving past the self doubt. It's a lot of words and expressions to familiarize yourself with but the solution is just constant consistent exposure and an eagerness to use your dictionary all the time haha
The Canadian one is pretty hot!! He’s giving Japanese vibes.
The American that been studying Japanese for 6 years but only been in Japan for 2 months was the most impressive imo 👏🏽
Learning and speaking, Japanese is one thing, but the real learning curve is reading Japanese because there are three forms, Cata Cana hiragana and congee
3:24: good point there!
Japanese guy here learned English, now working on my Spanish! Good luck to everyone learning Japanese!
This is really great channel I wish I had it 35 years ago when I lived in Japan!! Keep up the good work!!
I will be moving to Japan for language school in two months so this video couldn’t have come at a better time time. While I work in a Japanese company. everyone is afraid to talk or correct me when I speak to them in Japanese. So hopefully this will help me improve and I can’t wait
僕はインドネシア人です。
一人で4ヶ月くらいDuolingoで日本語を勉強しています。日本語はめっちゃむずいですね… 😅
Happy new year Takashi! Maybe one day I’ll learn Japanese…
I always find it funny to see the foreigners that have been there for sometime and now have japanese style hair/makeup etc. The natural assimilation into the culture.
I'd love if you find some Slavic language speakers that have learned Japanese. I think these languages are phonetically much closer to Japanese than to English (or other latin based languages).
2:23 tokuyuu !!! 🎉🎉🎉
9:00 akihabara 💕. Seems sped up
2:22 tokuyuu!!! 🙂
Finally I found someone who recognised him. 😊
アラビア語は右から左に書きますが、日本語も昔は右から左に書くことがありました。たとえば「朝日新聞」でなく「聞新日朝」、「元旦より復活再刊」でなく「刊再活復りよ旦元」、「労働運動の回顧と展望」でなく「望展と顧回の動運働労」。
I learned fluency by not worrying about sounding natural. Nobody really cares about sounding natural. In America we don’t criticize people not having natural English. Focus on the foundations of the language and learn to speak like a dictionary then learn the casual forms.
that guy who got to N1 before even coming to Japan just blows my mind!!
That part!
@japaniatv Comment tu t'es retrouvé ici ?! Je m'y attendais pas 😂
I have started studying Japanese this week and remembered Hiragana and Dakuten-Han Dakuten. I am enjoying it very much
Nice, keep it going, I am also learning Japanese, right now I know both hiragana and katakana, and currently I am learning N5
I'm very impress how well these people not from Japan speak Japanese so very well!
The two asians a korean woman and a taiwanese man are still the best at this.
I'm going to travel to Japan in june & wanna learn some japanese, i'm from germany and wanna ask what are good apps to learn some japanese
Thank you, TAKASHii! I am at the very beginning of my journey learning Japanese so this was quite interesting! 👍
❤nice vedio
The last guy was inspirational. "You can't learn Japanese as a perfectionist."
I'm a Japanese and learning English. The man in 19:20 encouraged me.
ありがとう
I did this with French and it's taken 20 years to get to near native. I want to become fluent in Japanese too but honestly it's been so long since I've "study studied" French that I don't even remember how I got actually got to where I am...
That happens to me when I learned English, My native Tounge is Thai. But I cant remember how I learned English at all. I am sure it be the same for Japanese as well.
日本公式サーバーの色々なMMORPGを遊んで日本語を覚えました。友達作ってゲーム以内でチャット使いながら漢字を覚えました、ヴォイスチャットなら会話の理解のレベルも上がる事が結構出来ました。今東京から電車で５０分の町に住んでます。