as difficult as Japanese is to learn, you teach very well, and you teach the way Japanese speak in everyday life, NOT the textbook proper way, THIS is what we want, what we need, we can't get enough, so thank you, Chika ! ! You da best
Please keep in mind that Japan has a ton of different dialects so there are major regional differences. The phrases/words I teach are what we call "hyoujungo" standard Japanese that most people from Tokyo speak and that everyone across Japan understands.
Thanks for uploading this video. I hope you can make one about the slang words. I don't know how to say this in english but I would like to learn more about the "angry" words. Those phrases often said by females in japanese dramas when they get angry and say manly words like kora(don't know if this word exist, I just based it on what I hear) and such... hahaha thank you and God bless :)
Hi hello :) Do you think you could do a video on tsu and the one that does kk cc aa the elongation of the word like your tottemo example and the differences and how to distinguish
I'm currently taking Japanese language classes right now and I really enjoy your Japanese lessons. One thing I did realize is that when you give like an example of a Japanese word or expression in a sentence, you speak super fast! I would have to pause the video and read what you just said (I understand most of hiragana and katakana so far). But other than that, this is an amazing channel I'm so fortunate to have found! Keep it up.
Thank you Chica! I would love to see more of your lesson videos like this one! I'm a student studying abroad in Japan next year, and I find your videos incredibly helpful!
Thank you so much for this lesson (and all your others)! I follow a lot of Japanese artists on instagram and I've been wanting more specific ways of saying how adorable their art is and this video was PERFECT! 本当にありがとうございました!
どうもありがとうございます！ With your videos, I've learnt so much! I've been able to understand and pronounce more words! You have a great pace, and I've been able to taker perfect study notes! One of the things I love most in your lessons is when you say what females or males would say and if the word is casual and formal, and you also give casual/formal ways to say a word. You're lessons are so great! どうもありがとうございます！
I cannot thank you more for these lessons! I'm learning Japanese at the moment as I am planning on moving there in a few years, and your videos have already helped me learn so much. ありがとうございます！
what I like about your Japanese lessons is that everything you say is interesting, some Japanese lessons are dragging and digress a lot. Thank you for these very informative lessons!
You're so good at explaining! It all makes much more sense and I find Japanese more fun and easy when I know the exact meaning of the word (like tadaima being "currently")
Oh my God I love you! Keep the lessons coming, I love Japanese, I'm learning it very seriously and it doesn't hurt to hear some lessons from a Japanese person who speaks English very well! :)
I like all the videos created for this channel. I originally subscribed for the cultural-centric videos. People like the food, others love the Japanese lessons. You have made a nice market for this channel. Thank you. Just keep them coming :)
Hey Chika. This is the second time I've watched one of your vlog. I think what you are presenting here is wonderful. Although I have spent the last ten years in Japan, with little attempt to study, you have cleared up a few meanings and the usage of words. There are a couple of intensifiers which I have heard, and assumed meaning, that I will attempt to use in the future. Thanks for the post and keep it up. You are doing a great service to those Japanese and foreigners in language study. The presentation is great as well. I will recommend your page to my ol'university Japanese Canadian Culture Exchange Society. I think they will love it. Bye for now!
I've tried sooo many youtube videos/lessons on learning Japanese and tons of websites etc etc but I've always stopped using/watching them bc it was such a struggle to actually keep going. I can't even explain why but your videos are fun to watch. On both of your channels. It's a good way for me to practice my listening skills in both English and Japanese (my native language is German). Idk where I'm going with this comment and you probably won't even read it all. What I wanted to say is that you're doing an amazing job in teaching English and Japanese and I hope you keep going and manage to introduce more and more people to these languages. I also enjoy the food videos. Food is great.
I love your videos and look forward to you really working on this channel.....I know it's difficult to switch to teaching Japanese from your other channel but your videos are short sweet and very helpful in learning Japanese. ........I appreciate your efforts as you go forward with this channel. ...thank you for you hard work and time!
This video was so informative! I really appreciate all the examples and how you went into detail about each word. I'm a big nerd with languages, so I love learning about all the background information. :D I'm also a fan of the food videos, too!
This was a really good video! You described everything very well and it's simple to understand and grasp how these words are used. Thank you Chika and please make more of these! ^^
とても勉強になりました。ありがとう！！ please make more nihongo tutorial videos !! by the way, I am living here in Japan and I am married to a Japanese. 正しい日本語あんまり教えてくれないので、このチャンネルをみつけて、本当に良かったです！うれしい！！
Fortunately, I found out your video. This is so helpful for me to study Japanese and even better with English. Please keep going your wonderful teaching. どうもありがとう！
Arigatou :) Thank you very much. Good lesson..I normally dont have much time to sit and learn properly, listening to your lesson while driving doesnt make me feel too much.. easy to understand.. :)
I love this video! This is maji helpful for myself, as I live in Okinawa. A lot of Americans don't take the time to learn this amazing language and I know for sure the locals are so impressed when we do take the time to learn their language and practice it!
Very helpful Chika! I've been in Japan since September 2014 and am ready to start learning the language(lazy, I know). I will continue to watch your videos. Thank you.
Wow awesome lesson! I wasn't aware of the female and male versions of the words. I often use "スゲー" but I'm not the most feminine girly-girl ever, I think it's ok to use kind of tomboyish language.
it's definitely okay, I know some girls use them. Just things you might want to keep in mind f you're ever in a situation where you want to be less of a tomboy and more lady like :)
Wow excellent lesson!! It's nice to deviate a little from the standard text book Japanese so thank you so much!! On a personal note I was quite amazed at how your Japanese seems native but yet you have no accent in English! Impressive!! =D
Really great lesson! I mostly find with a lot of youtube Japanese lessons the level is always too basic for me, and the moderate level stuff is not well constructed as a lesson. This lesson was the perfect balance, not super basic, and well constructed, I'm looking forward to more in the future :)
I loved this video, as most Japanese teaching vids focus on very basic grammars and not things that focus on authentic conversation. As a Japanese learner who knows mainly basics, it's very clarifying to hear these alternatives, examples, etc. and now I feel I can more easily adapt these on my daily speech. Also, I've never heard why something is considerate as feminine or masculine. There's always info what one should or shouldn't say, but not with very much explanation. I think that could be a fun topic for future videos, as is keigo and casual terms. I really enjoyed hearing these too. Plus, in general I love all of your videos and your personality, food episodes too, looking forward these vids all the time! ♫
Great lesson Chika! I knew a lot of these words and have heard some of the ones I didn't know. But your explanations helped me get a better grasp on the meaning and uses. (And once again, thanks for the gender-specific guys versions of the phrases!)
Thank you for this channel! Although I have been living in Japan for some time now I have not fully sat down and tried to learn Nihongo. of course when living around it and working with others who speak it you pick some things up, this being said I learned some things from you and thank you. I will also be introducing my girlfriend to your English learning channel as she is trying to get better with her English. Looking forward to future videos.
Thank you soooo much, that was an awesome lesson, clear and fun to watch at the same time. In a next lesson, could you please talk more specifically about the differences between -i and -na adjectives ? That would be great. Oh, and I don't blame you one bit for making so many videos on food. I live to eat!!!
Mechakucha was the fifth word of Japanese I learned... from Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On - the guy at the start who goes "kore kara minna de mechakucha odotte sawago sawago" :) Thanks for these super useful references!
What !!!! you could be no "YOU ARE "an amazing teacher of japanese ....... I got so excited about japanese, but I must finish what I am learning now English and Chinese, so I hope to learn japanese ASAP . THANKS THANKS THANKS CHIKA !!! and as long as your lessons are in english, I can continue following them.
tsugoi kawaii. I really enjoy the way you teach and I do allot of freeze framing and I find it amazing how you change your facial expressions especially when you said examples of teaching and you would say something cute but look serious when saying it. I'm hooked on you. Will watch more and more often. I love Japan all-together but it is time I learn it. Ja ne.
Looking forward to more videos. I just found this and your English teaching channel. I enjoy listening to the Japanese mixed with English (I'm assuming most of it carries the same meaning) as I'm still a beginner at Japanese.
Wow, you speak english very fluently, amazing. I lived in Japan for 5 years but I never met a Japanese who speaks english as fluent as you do. I guess you lived in USA for quite a while, just a wild guess though.
I recently discovered your channels, and I must say, I really really really love your ability as someone who knows both languages well, to explain the meanings and uses
I really loved your video ^^ You manage to explain things more simply than most of my japanese teachers in university ! I know you just started doing japanese lesson (wich I'm really thankfull for) but I would really like it if you could do some videos about Keigo please !
What a great teacher! You are really charming and your video extremely useful,also since I use english to learn japanese, with your channel I get to practice 2 languages at once! xD Please,keep this lessons coming! :P
Learning Japanese after Chinese just kinda blows your mind! Some words look and sound similar but their meanings can be totally different~ I use 点点 the same way as you did in this video too! 真剣 would most likely be translated to "a real sword" in Chinese~
Thanks you very Much Chika,. I LIke the way you explain these new words to Us..I have just started to learn Japanese about 3 short month's ago.. I realize I have some years of learning ahead of me. I really Enjoy Youre Videos & Anata Kawaiisugiru .
Well,I live in Osaka and まじで and めっちゃ came from here and boys and girls use. Maybe people from Tokyo and Here have a different perception about this. I enjoy watching your videos.Keep it up! Thanks,Chika!
Waaah...I really love the way you teach japanese and I'm so happy about that you mention the difference between female and male version! It would be great if you could do some grammar videos as well! (^-^) thank you so much!
Thanks so much for making these videos! They are really helpful and I love how you teach how Japanese people really speak in everyday life. It would be great though if you could increase the amount of Japanese being spoken, even in these beginner instructional videos. Perhaps just add more subtitles like you do in your Bilingirl Chika videos . . . but just not as fast and as advanced! I am a beginner myself so while I love the Bilingirl Chika videos, they are still a bit too advanced for me. I love the concept though! If only you had a bunch of videos that took that same concept, just made a little simpler/slower for us beginners! :-) Thanks again! You're the best!
I think the breakdown of "masculine" vs "feminine" speech is fairly important. I remember watching a Bobby Judo video where he related how, after living in Japan for a few years, his male friends scolded him for sounding feminine because he used "polite" Japanese all the time. ( Of course, he lives in Saga, so that may have something to do with it too.) Also, I've heard a few Japanese folks talk about Westerner men living in Japan who sound weird because they have gotten Japanese girlfriends and learned "feminine" Japanese and thought it was normal. There's even a video on UA-cam somewhere of the old Shimura Ken show callled, "the man who says Deshi" in which the feminine sounding man is a running joke. So, while I think it's important for visitors to not try to "dude bro" their way across Japan, and you certainly don't want to talk like Toshiro Mifune all the time, it would be nice to at least be able to understand what Japanese guys are saying. And strangely, there don't seem to be very many Japanese men on UA-cam doing language lessons. So thank you Chika for touching on that at least. (also, isn't "meccha" Kansai-ben?!)
as difficult as Japanese is to learn, you teach very well, and you teach the way Japanese speak in everyday life, NOT the textbook proper way, THIS is what we want, what we need, we can't get enough, so thank you, Chika ! ! You da best
Please keep in mind that Japan has a ton of different dialects so there are major regional differences. The phrases/words I teach are what we call "hyoujungo" standard Japanese that most people from Tokyo speak and that everyone across Japan understands.
Thanks for uploading this video. I hope you can make one about the slang words. I don't know how to say this in english but I would like to learn more about the "angry" words. Those phrases often said by females in japanese dramas when they get angry and say manly words like kora(don't know if this word exist, I just based it on what I hear) and such... hahaha thank you and God bless :)
heyy sweetheart :).
Arigato, sama!
chika san i love your videos
im going to show this one to my american husband:)
Hi hello :) Do you think you could do a video on tsu and the one that does kk cc aa the elongation of the word like your tottemo example and the differences and how to distinguish
I'm currently taking Japanese language classes right now and I really enjoy your Japanese lessons. One thing I did realize is that when you give like an example of a Japanese word or expression in a sentence, you speak super fast! I would have to pause the video and read what you just said (I understand most of hiragana and katakana so far). But other than that, this is an amazing channel I'm so fortunate to have found! Keep it up.
This video is exceptionally high quality and I learned a lot while enjoying myself. I just stumbled across it - thanks!
Thank you Chica! I would love to see more of your lesson videos like this one! I'm a student studying abroad in Japan next year, and I find your videos incredibly helpful!
こんばんは、ちかさん！
私はクリスティーナです！フィリピンからきました！
今、留学生だから、東京にいます。
このビデオは本当に便利で面白いです！
日本語はよく説明しました！
「とても」「本当に」「マジ」「めっちゃ」「ちょう」, この種類の言葉はよく聞いたことあるから、、、もうちゃんと説明を聞いたから、嬉しいです！感謝します！
勉強になります！
Thank you so much for this lesson (and all your others)! I follow a lot of Japanese artists on instagram and I've been wanting more specific ways of saying how adorable their art is and this video was PERFECT! 本当にありがとうございました!
日本人の私でも日本語のことですごく勉強になることがあってもちろん英語でどう伝えるかということもすごく勉強になるます！！それを伝えられるちかさんすごいです！！
どうもありがとうございます！ With your videos, I've learnt so much! I've been able to understand and pronounce more words! You have a great pace, and I've been able to taker perfect study notes! One of the things I love most in your lessons is when you say what females or males would say and if the word is casual and formal, and you also give casual/formal ways to say a word. You're lessons are so great! どうもありがとうございます！
I've been waiting for you to drop these gems Chika! Definitely more lessons on this channel please :)
I cannot thank you more for these lessons! I'm learning Japanese at the moment as I am planning on moving there in a few years, and your videos have already helped me learn so much. ありがとうございます！
You are such a good Japanese Language teacher! I like the pacing! Not boring like other vloggers!
what I like about your Japanese lessons is that everything you say is interesting, some Japanese lessons are dragging and digress a lot. Thank you for these very informative lessons!
Love your video. You explain things in such a way that my brain gets things so much clearer! I wish I could sit in class with you as a teacher.
You're so good at explaining! It all makes much more sense and I find Japanese more fun and easy when I know the exact meaning of the word (like tadaima being "currently")
i really like your videos, they teach us formality in school so it is nice to know more of the colloquial terms used amongst friends.
Oh my God I love you! Keep the lessons coming, I love Japanese, I'm learning it very seriously and it doesn't hurt to hear some lessons from a Japanese person who speaks English very well! :)
Great lesson. Thank-you for teaching us all those subtilities and helping us diversify our vocabulary. Thank-you for your positiveness !
I like all the videos created for this channel. I originally subscribed for the cultural-centric videos. People like the food, others love the Japanese lessons. You have made a nice market for this channel. Thank you. Just keep them coming :)
this video was awesome! So thankful you explained a topic of every day use in an approachable manner, arigatou gozaimasu!!
Please more of theseeeee love
I agree.
Hey Chika. This is the second time I've watched one of your vlog. I think what you are presenting here is wonderful. Although I have spent the last ten years in Japan, with little attempt to study, you have cleared up a few meanings and the usage of words. There are a couple of intensifiers which I have heard, and assumed meaning, that I will attempt to use in the future. Thanks for the post and keep it up. You are doing a great service to those Japanese and foreigners in language study. The presentation is great as well. I will recommend your page to my ol'university Japanese Canadian Culture Exchange Society. I think they will love it. Bye for now!
I've tried sooo many youtube videos/lessons on learning Japanese and tons of websites etc etc but I've always stopped using/watching them bc it was such a struggle to actually keep going. I can't even explain why but your videos are fun to watch. On both of your channels. It's a good way for me to practice my listening skills in both English and Japanese (my native language is German).
Idk where I'm going with this comment and you probably won't even read it all. What I wanted to say is that you're doing an amazing job in teaching English and Japanese and I hope you keep going and manage to introduce more and more people to these languages. I also enjoy the food videos. Food is great.
I love your videos and look forward to you really working on this channel.....I know it's difficult to switch to teaching Japanese from your other channel but your videos are short sweet and very helpful in learning Japanese. ........I appreciate your efforts as you go forward with this channel. ...thank you for you hard work and time!
Youre teaching method is very practical and straight forward thanks sugoi!!!
This video was so informative! I really appreciate all the examples and how you went into detail about each word. I'm a big nerd with languages, so I love learning about all the background information. :D I'm also a fan of the food videos, too!
This was a really good video! You described everything very well and it's simple to understand and grasp how these words are used. Thank you Chika and please make more of these! ^^
Thanks for making the video. Very well explained and straight forward for a Japanese novice like myself!
I was focusing on this lesson while being mesmerized with your beauty haha, great video! :)
とても勉強になりました。ありがとう！！
please make more nihongo tutorial videos !!
by the way, I am living here in Japan and I am married to a Japanese.
正しい日本語あんまり教えてくれないので、このチャンネルをみつけて、本当に良かったです！うれしい！！
This was an awesome lesson video. ありがとうございます
Fortunately, I found out your video. This is so helpful for me to study Japanese and even better with English. Please keep going your wonderful teaching. どうもありがとう！
I loooove your food videos! That's why I subscribed to this channel!
This was really helpful! I already knew what all of them meant but the explanations really helped to make them clear. Thank you!
Arigatou :) Thank you very much. Good lesson..I normally dont have much time to sit and learn properly, listening to your lesson while driving doesnt make me feel too much.. easy to understand.. :)
Pleeeeease, keep doing these videos! I'm going to Japan soon and you're helping me a lot :)
どうもありがとう
I love this video! This is maji helpful for myself, as I live in Okinawa. A lot of Americans don't take the time to learn this amazing language and I know for sure the locals are so impressed when we do take the time to learn their language and practice it!
このビデオは凄く役立ちました。ありがとうございます。
Even though I already knew all of these, I thought the lesson was really well presented and I'm looking forward to future ones! ^^
Very helpful Chika! I've been in Japan since September 2014 and am ready to start learning the language(lazy, I know). I will continue to watch your videos. Thank you.
Wow awesome lesson! I wasn't aware of the female and male versions of the words. I often use "スゲー" but I'm not the most feminine girly-girl ever, I think it's ok to use kind of tomboyish language.
it's definitely okay, I know some girls use them. Just things you might want to keep in mind f you're ever in a situation where you want to be less of a tomboy and more lady like :)
not only sugoi.
dekai = dekke
tekai ＝tekke
i think there are a lot of them.
ありがとうございます！I loved your lesson, so helpful.
Wow excellent lesson!!
It's nice to deviate a little from the standard text book Japanese so thank you so much!!
On a personal note I was quite amazed at how your Japanese seems native but yet you have no accent in English! Impressive!! =D
Really great lesson! I mostly find with a lot of youtube Japanese lessons the level is always too basic for me, and the moderate level stuff is not well constructed as a lesson. This lesson was the perfect balance, not super basic, and well constructed, I'm looking forward to more in the future :)
I loved this video, as most Japanese teaching vids focus on very basic grammars and not things that focus on authentic conversation. As a Japanese learner who knows mainly basics, it's very clarifying to hear these alternatives, examples, etc. and now I feel I can more easily adapt these on my daily speech. Also, I've never heard why something is considerate as feminine or masculine. There's always info what one should or shouldn't say, but not with very much explanation. I think that could be a fun topic for future videos, as is keigo and casual terms. I really enjoyed hearing these too. Plus, in general I love all of your videos and your personality, food episodes too, looking forward these vids all the time! ♫
Amazing lesson! I simply loved it.
Your lesson is very useful. Because of it, I have absorbed more adverbs to express my feeling in Japanese. Thank you Chika-san! ^^~
This lesson was really helpful thanks a lot for these good lessons
Thank you for another wonderful lesson!
Great lesson Chika! I knew a lot of these words and have heard some of the ones I didn't know. But your explanations helped me get a better grasp on the meaning and uses. (And once again, thanks for the gender-specific guys versions of the phrases!)
Thank you for this channel! Although I have been living in Japan for some time now I have not fully sat down and tried to learn Nihongo. of course when living around it and working with others who speak it you pick some things up, this being said I learned some things from you and thank you. I will also be introducing my girlfriend to your English learning channel as she is trying to get better with her English. Looking forward to future videos.
Thank you soooo much, that was an awesome lesson, clear and fun to watch at the same time. In a next lesson, could you please talk more specifically about the differences between -i and -na adjectives ? That would be great. Oh, and I don't blame you one bit for making so many videos on food. I live to eat!!!
Mechakucha was the fifth word of Japanese I learned... from Missy Elliott's Get Ur Freak On - the guy at the start who goes "kore kara minna de mechakucha odotte sawago sawago" :)
Thanks for these super useful references!
教え方上手すぎる！！！
What !!!! you could be no "YOU ARE "an amazing teacher of japanese ....... I got so excited about japanese, but I must finish what I am learning now English and Chinese, so I hope to learn japanese ASAP . THANKS THANKS THANKS CHIKA !!!
and as long as your lessons are in english, I can continue following them.
tsugoi kawaii. I really enjoy the way you teach and I do allot of freeze framing and I find it amazing how you change your facial expressions especially when you said examples of teaching and you would say something cute but look serious when saying it. I'm hooked on you. Will watch more and more often. I love Japan all-together but it is time I learn it. Ja ne.
Looking forward to more videos. I just found this and your English teaching channel. I enjoy listening to the Japanese mixed with English (I'm assuming most of it carries the same meaning) as I'm still a beginner at Japanese.
Very helpful great video Chika!
Wow, you speak english very fluently, amazing. I lived in Japan for 5 years but I never met a Japanese who speaks english as fluent as you do. I guess you lived in USA for quite a while, just a wild guess though.
She lived in Seattle for 16 years..
These videos are amazing. Thanks a lot!
Cool. Didn't know about the food part- I'm gonna subscribe now cause you're very helpful and I love videos that involve food! :D thank you!!
Very helpful! I have some friends who also use "maji" in the form of "majide" as a "really??" when something is just generally unbelievable.
Thanks for the lesson, I'm looking forward to more! And I love your pink lipstick :)
This is great! Subscribed! More of this, I can understand the ACTUAL usage of the word like that!
I recently discovered your channels, and I must say, I really really really love your ability as someone who knows both languages well, to explain the meanings and uses
This is amazing, thank you so much for taking time to share.
Wow, great lesson! Please do more!! :)
As much as I enjoy you eating food, its nice to see you continuing the Japanese lessons. haha
Excellent,Chika san.hope u would post more lesson about daily conversation....
I really loved your video ^^ You manage to explain things more simply than most of my japanese teachers in university !
I know you just started doing japanese lesson (wich I'm really thankfull for) but I would really like it if you could do some videos about Keigo please !
Spectacular 😀💓🇯🇵 thank-you
Chika-san! I saw a story on you in Japan Times. I thought, hey, I'm subbed to her. Anyway, that's so cool! Congratulations!
What a great teacher!
You are really charming and your video extremely useful,also since I use english to learn japanese, with your channel I get to practice 2 languages at once! xD
Please,keep this lessons coming! :P
Your translation is so nice.
Pleease, keep on doing this kind of videos!! You're a great sensei!
Btw, I also like your videos about food :F
留学中で、友達に日本語でなんていうの！？って質問を良くされるので、日本人の私に取ってもとてもいいレッスンです❤️😂
Learning Japanese after Chinese just kinda blows your mind! Some words look and sound similar but their meanings can be totally different~ I use 点点 the same way as you did in this video too! 真剣 would most likely be translated to "a real sword" in Chinese~
This is awesome! Thank you very much!
I enjoyed it. It's helpful. Thanks
Thanks for another Japanese lesson. It took me 15 minutes to watch a nine minute video because I had to pause to take notes. But it was worth it.
Thanks you very Much Chika,. I LIke the way you explain these new words to Us..I have just started to learn Japanese about 3 short month's ago.. I realize I have some years of learning ahead of me. I really Enjoy Youre Videos & Anata Kawaiisugiru .
Really well made and beautiful videos!
Nice series you've started here!
I would love it more if you put the phrases or words that you told, in the description box also. 😊 but it's an excellent video! 🙂
Thanks really informative and fun.
nice lesson sensei chika, I want to learn more about japanese language, hope you will help me, thanks for this video,,
I love these lessons! Otherwise, it's hard to tell what ur saying and I end up sounding really weird so yeah... xD
you have to make more of these!!
Well,I live in Osaka and まじで and めっちゃ came from here and boys and girls use. Maybe people from Tokyo and Here have a different perception about this.
I enjoy watching your videos.Keep it up! Thanks,Chika!
Loved the vid you did a great job!! ^_^
Im trying to learn Japanese with my sister and this was helpful :) lots of love from Hawaii ♡
英語を勉強中の私にとっても勉強になりました！
日本語ってたくさんの表現があって、当てはまる英語ってあるのかなーって思っていたけど
英語もたくさんの表現方法があるんですね☆
Great video, Chika! I use ちょう and すげぇ- way too much so it's nice learning alternate words I can use.
本当ありがとうがざいます。あなたのビデオはすごい！
I like your channel a lot. I'd like travel to Japan someday.
love this this is so helpful for me
Thank you for lesson, very useful
このビデオお疲れ様でした。超面白かったですよ! 自分で日本語を勉強しています。２ヶ月前に始まりました。
チカさん日本語も教えてたんですね～！
新発見！
Waaah...I really love the way you teach japanese and I'm so happy about that you mention the difference between female and male version! It would be great if you could do some grammar videos as well! (^-^) thank you so much!
Thanks so much for making these videos! They are really helpful and I love how you teach how Japanese people really speak in everyday life. It would be great though if you could increase the amount of Japanese being spoken, even in these beginner instructional videos. Perhaps just add more subtitles like you do in your Bilingirl Chika videos . . . but just not as fast and as advanced! I am a beginner myself so while I love the Bilingirl Chika videos, they are still a bit too advanced for me. I love the concept though! If only you had a bunch of videos that took that same concept, just made a little simpler/slower for us beginners! :-) Thanks again! You're the best!
I think the breakdown of "masculine" vs "feminine" speech is fairly important.
I remember watching a Bobby Judo video where he related how, after living in Japan for a few years, his male friends scolded him for sounding feminine because he used "polite" Japanese all the time. ( Of course, he lives in Saga, so that may have something to do with it too.)
Also, I've heard a few Japanese folks talk about Westerner men living in Japan who sound weird because they have gotten Japanese girlfriends and learned "feminine" Japanese and thought it was normal.
There's even a video on UA-cam somewhere of the old Shimura Ken show callled, "the man who says Deshi" in which the feminine sounding man is a running joke.
So, while I think it's important for visitors to not try to "dude bro" their way across Japan, and you certainly don't want to talk like Toshiro Mifune all the time, it would be nice to at least be able to understand what Japanese guys are saying. And strangely, there don't seem to be very many Japanese men on UA-cam doing language lessons.
So thank you Chika for touching on that at least. (also, isn't "meccha" Kansai-ben?!)