Japanese Lesson 19

[TheDarkMindedOne]

what book do you use for these lessons? I'd like to purchase it because your lessons are more useful than all my books in teaching me. Please reply to this.

[takineko]

@TheDarkMindedOne In the description section I posted a complete bibliography of the book I used. Hope you can find it, it is out of print. Try used book places!

[TheDarkMindedOne]

@takineko ah, thank you so much. I just bought it on amazon for just 6 dollars. Great deal. Thanks again.

[FreedomValentine]

just noticed that you pronounce 'd' as a retroflex sound instead of the trill used in japanese.. hmm..

[takineko]

@FreedomValentine Did I mess up? How often do I mess up? I don't mean to, I might be doing it just out of a bad habit.

[FreedomValentine]

@takineko it's not wrong haha! it's just something that a lot of people who speak or learn japanese as a second or foreign language do because that sound is more prominent in their native languages. you've got a great explanation on the tense markers and your pronunciation is really clear, so good job!

[takineko]

@FreedomValentine Yay, I just don't want to be teaching all these people the wrong thing x.x

[catkac]

Would it be ok to answer ''Watashi-wa koyobi ki-mashita''?

PS: Koyobi is tuesday, yes?

[FreedomValentine]

@catkac kaiyoubi is tuesday.

[YunaLuthien]

You plan to reach 40 videos for each lesson? That's a great job from you! I think its a brave decision since you get tired from work! I hope to continue on teaching us safely ! :D

[BrokenDreamer248]

Ki is also spirit.

Ki wa hito ga onaji janai!

My spirit is different than others . . .I think

[ArturoStojanoff]

LOL when I read 'Anata-wa doko-kara ki.mashita ka?' I said it as I was talking to someone and thought to memorize it to use it too LOL!!!!

LOL twenty-five easy payments, how much is 9.95 divided by 25!?

[tinyke3]

just a question: don't japanese verbs end in -ru? as in, to open, you wrote Ake, but shouldn't that be Akeru ? or is it another form ? o_o btw still lovin' theseeee <3

[undertalgo]

more general, they all end in a u sound, being shinu(to die) the only one which ends in nu

japanese has two groups of verbs, the -ru verbs and the -u verbs, -ru verbs ends in -iru or -eru and -u verbs ends in everything else with a few exceptions that ends in -iru or -eru as well as the ru verbs

there are 2(or 3 can't remember) irregular verbs, suru (to do) and kuru(to come) which has their own inflexion and they don't have anything to do with either of the groups above

Hope I helped

[tinyke3]

definately helped! ty:3

[mountaingoat777]

Thank you suuu much...I learned many from your presentation although, am so tire of chasing your 100km/hr...zooom...topic, perhaps you want to strike more...

[DeathSongs]

hope you can upload the rest soon :) thx.

[waltzone]

Nice job!　(＾＾)

[leguaman]

lol cute little sly comments

helpful as well

nice

[HomemadeWeeaboo]

Couldn't resist ^_^

*Points to name*

You, too, can be a homemade weeaboo!

[takineko]

hahahaha

[anigoko12]

hey when r u going to upload the next lesson?

[dekablueranger]

If a speaker is going to say "When and where did that person come from" at 2:51, shouldn't she put a "to" between "kinou" and "doko"?

PS: I know you go by the book but the actaual spelling is 'kinou', not 'kinoo' but I know the book is as old as dirt no offense.

[takineko]

Yeah the book is old and it has strange romanji, like splitting up Desu.

[ImYourGeek]

Only $9.95 in twenty-five easy payments!

What's a 'wiabu'? (My apologizes if I spelled that wrong.)

[takineko]

^^ weaboo! Look it up!

[szambrano22]

weaboo... isnt that the way japanese call western people?

[takineko]

considering they don't have the sound wi [lol wii] no I dont think so.

[MyBaseDesire]

Oh God, Lesson 40!!!! Cool that you spend some time sharing :)

[darklordbiscuit]

I missed your videos while I was gone, Takineko!

[jck2001abc]

Thank you for another funny vdo.

[BigMilan]

and i knwo what u mean with the fluent thing. lol. i pronounce things pretty well, but then they just spit out something massive and i just get confused. lol.

[BigMilan]

lol you're the funniest. 5 stars. i might rewatch all your vids to sort of brush up on a few things i may have forgotten

[JacobSeif]

( tell me if this sounds right)

watashi wa samui desu

[seanmanvan]

HAHA a dutch oven, no body mentioned that eh? Hey Valerie since your so giving with these lessons, would you like a dutchie? Our way of saying thanks ka?

[Klebkatt]

It was a bad newspaper. It peed in my boots.

XD

[hoshikisu93]

Yay! New Lesson! ^^

[mistresspaco01]

Wonderful, I'm looking forward to the next one. <3

[oddrenaline]

you're awesome. funny!!!

[Yougotaproblemwithme]

Haha~

Funny lesson once again. :)

Y'know, I actually knew most of the vocab in this lesson. And I already knew about conjugating -masu. However, I did learn a few things. For example, I never knew that "desu" was a contraction of "de arimasu", so that was an interesting concept. I also didn't know the word for "bookcase". XP

Other than that, this was pretty much a review. :)

Thanks for making it funny, though~

[laracroftroxmysox]

LOL

This lesson was hilarious. You may think you're not funny, but you are...very :)

Thanks again and keep posting

[Kobayashi77Maru]

you know you have a full 10 min of vid you can do, you really don't have to cram it in so fast. You know they have meds for that?

Thanks for the vids, i'll just get used to useing pause.

[takineko]

there are no meds for what is wrong with me my friend.

[Mijail219]

ありがとう。あなたのかわいい声は私を日本語を学びたいと思わせ­る。

[takineko]

doumo

[supercross1985]

Ah,nice to see a new lesson up \( ^ - ^ )/

[jatchie]

LoL, For only $9.95 wow cheap =P

[takineko]

don't be dissn' muh peeps.. yeah we're pretty cheap.

[TheFrenchiesRock]

I love your lessons. Thanks!

[InsaneInvader]

It's so funny:D This vid is good to learn English too!

[dekablueranger]

Thanks Taki-chan!

[realdalvi]

ありがとう。

[bikobs]

Anata wa Anata no O-kazan kara kimashtaka?

Sore wa shiritakuarimase.

(I'm hearing a lot of Pimsleur lately, but what I'm saying is probably all wrong. I do love hearing your lessons though, helps me diversify and confirm what I know. Arigatou gozaimasu, Taki-sensei.)