Japanese for Morons-11: Banana Peelers!

[christopheclugston]

Nowdays thsoe particles are considered as bound clitics. It might be better to present them in that manner.

[backseatgreg]

Damn so funny !

[yasashii89]

dont u mean that banana no kawa o muku is "i will peel the banana"? cus if its something u r doing at the moment it makes more sense to say "banana no kawa o muiteru". dont mean to critisize im just saying =P...

[olllaa5]

Gosh, you're so funny. I'm eating watermelon.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@olllaa5

Thanks for watching!

[Nightzo]

Does kawa also mean river?

[Gimmeaflakeman]

@Nightzo

YEs.

[NemeSisLFay]

lol i really hope you don't call your english students morons!

muy entretenidos los videos :)

[MrPentraxmul]

happy you kept calling us Morons after episode 50

[nielswolfgang]

So how you conjugate the past tense by.... switching the last sound thing (in this case "Ku") to iteiru or ita ?

[chaos08154711]

You gotta peel it from the other end. That way you don't get those stringy things...

[Jessebadesha]

バナナおねがいします。

[goshinbi44]

それを食っては駄目、それは食べ物じゃない！

[shadedscript]

LOL damn i don't think i'll remember banana in japanese...

[elitotaku]

LOL i was LMAO at 2:00 :P

and those things from the bananas you were asking about is a second lair of peel.

[Hobbesuki]

When you asked what that banana junk was, and then shoved it in your mouth and said how it didn't taste good.. made me laugh really hard for some reason.

[InstantCombat]

HAhahahha those things on the bananas piss me off xP i just peel them off

[GuamRin]

このバナナを食べいる人はすごい先生だと思います。面白かったで­すねぇ～　３９

[josiemonster]

lol. This video WAS bananas. Ichigo ga suki (Hope that's right). Thanks for another lesson.

[xiamix]

The part at the end was like some low-budget horror film. Disturbing.

Nice lesson though :D

[Sc0tyG]

LMAO!! 0:16-0:18  the expressions on your face!! Looks like you were going bananas!

[heeton]

ハイ、最後まで見てしまいしました、馬鹿でした(笑)

[GameShowGuy]

So what's the difference between muiteiru and muita? Are they both past tense?

[Gimmeaflakeman]

muiteiru = ing tensing, peeling

muita = past tense, peeled

[GameShowGuy]

Thanks.

[jkim6260]

BAH NAH NAH

[novanine]

Cercl.

I lolled at the end.

[abigailjcharles]

you crack me up

[NowThatsJustGreat]

"Banana coward"?

:P

[sugoiakl]

b/c if i didn't stick around i wouldn't have gotten the complicated kanji for baka...XD

[Fromatic]

At the end you have baka written on the screen in romaji katakana and what i guess must be the kanji for baka, do you know why complicated kanji symbols are used which only represent a single syllable such as 'ba' and 'ka'?

Thanks

[GameShowGuy]

Fromatic: the two kanji mean "horse" and "deer" respectively. Somehow together they mean "idiot".

Japanese has a lot of homonyms, which are words that are pronounced the same but have different meanings and spellings, like "heel" (bottom rear of your foot) and "heal" (to get over an injury). So the different kanji provide a way to indicate which meaning you want when the sound makes it ambiguous. Also, since the Japanese don't put spaces between words, kanji are quick visual reference points.

[Kisama001]

lol Tanoshimashita.

Give us all a leson, then run to ask your wife if your correct..

[kitme]

I don't know what its called but I heard if you peel the banana from the other end, you don't get those stringy things. I never tried it. Let me know if you try it.

[TheLegend123X4eva]

Keep it up! these videos rock!

[draggt03]

watashi wa banana de chissokushita!

[desdoodles]

genzai shinkokei dude

[ElevenColors]

PAIN, bitches. PAIN.

If you want to learn Japanese, you gotta love the PAIN.

Sucks that I hate bananas though. Wish I liked them. Really do.

[Strifezilla]

Those are strings are called disgusting crap ruining the banana

[retardedhampster]

NOOO! Don't eat the strings... too late. I think you only have about 24 hrs 'till you turn into a zombie now. I think that's how that works.

[evilbrainproductions]

hehe ;]

[Daichen]

it's already bad enough that I've lost my voice, but there you have to make me laugh with the stupid backwards eating banana thing lol.

[Nuolimieli]

I'd rather take the detention after school rather than teacher calling me names T_T

[RoninDave]

banana peeling! I thought for a second that there actual was a banana peeler device. How do you do the proper response to that "I have peeled the banana" comment - "Good for you!" with a hint of sarcasm?

[eirinbe]

Why does he keep calling us morons?

*dumb face*

[RedXIIIx]

Those strings are called phloem bundles, which deliver nutrients to vascular plants.

The reason they often come off of the peels is because we peel bananas backwards, against the grain. What is consider the top of the banana is actually the bottom of it. If you even seen a monkey eat a banana, you will notice that they peel it in the "reversed" direction.

[ToniShinobi]

Wow, really? that's pretty interesting. I think i'll try eating bananas the other way now...

[robertpina99]

I guess you could call those things membranes.

[creepyk1d]

I can't think of a comment to write so I'm writing this.

GOOD LESSON THOUGH :D

[ffnlink]

wow. i loved the end.

[dorami3]

love :)

[Jessiqua42]

You got the mutant banana! Those banana strings are prodigious!

[XZorcX]

Wow, Viktor! I'm very surprised (and happy) that you're actually sticking with this lesson per day thing! Awesome! Thanks for your work and I hope they keep coming!

[HarriHaffi]

Yeah! Like your japan lesson videos! Keep up the good work dude!

MVHH

[Ido013]

What's the verb when you take off the wrapping off a new CD, or like when you open a box you peel a stripe off. What's the verb called?

[clearskyes]

はがす？　hagasu?

[Ido013]

Seems to be the case lol

剥く

剥がす

They both use the same first kanji XD

[cleanstar]

That Fight Club movie poster with a half naked Brad Pitt on your wall is so Hot.

[SoffyOoO]

I don't eat that "things" of the banana xD

dunno how they're called...

[timonczesq]

Vascular bundles. And they are actually very healthy. They deliver nutrients in plants like banana.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Did not know that! THANKS!

[TandemFuri]

maybe they stayed to watch so they can learn how to eat a banana the japanese way??

also you think telling a girl she has beautiful no kawa would be a good complement?

i think i might tell that to thedailyenglishshow's host XD

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Bad idea. Kawa is like "hide". As in animal hide.

I'll make a video soon!

For now you need to know this word:

HADA!

kireina hada desu!

Nice skin.

[TalimSoul]

lol

[iwashere]

:-)