Secret to Learning Japanese 1

[flawerkid15]

I am learning english to but in my esl class there are not japaneses :(

[chureniacko]

hey hombre you is so cool but......... aprende a hablar español y asi nos enseñas a los hispanos a hablar japones >_< bye bye you is soo cool brother JAJAJAJAJA

[jookjook]

You're so right about Morning Musume - its out of control.

Too funny and true.

[Lemau]

Dude, besides terribly amusing, you're horribly right. The reason why I DO learn Anime Japanese, though, is because I only want to watch anime with it. Although it did help me understand about 30% of what you said in the first bit.

[tsuminahana]

and im in love with YOSSI!!!!!!!

[tsuminahana]

you are not only funny but harsh..... i love morning musume.... it may not be the best way of learning japanese but it helps at one point or another.

[ssjgoten]

i agree with the バカっぽいmusume's and yakuza thing. but the r rolling is so cool anyway once in a while.

and don't choke yourself.

[puxank]

自信帽子はワロタ

[morningbreeezzz]

ok, i admit you are funny......really(!)

and i see that you are a True bilingual (((envy,envy,envy)))....NO rather trilingual: your yakuza dirt comes best :)

[bighippi]

although I do like anything by Hayao Miyazaki and the movie Akira

[bighippi]

the funny things is, I love Japanese culture and the language (i'm trying to learn how to speak it) but I hate anime...... go figure

[EZdick1234]

WOW! Nice video! You really actually know what you're talking about! Go you!

[sulamy]

that guy is funnie lol hahahaha lol apoligize for that apoligization lol hahahaha

[talljohnmartinez]

great video! thanks for the advice, too bad my Mexican background rolls R's already. JTL! Japanese as a third language here i come! btw, Asians apologize way too damn much.

[Apfelgras]

The Japanese R isn't really an r, it's more of a tap on the roof of the mouth.

[vidfreak727]

omoshiroi! is there a chance you could cover some grammar? im having trouble with the nominalizers like "suru koto" and "suru no" as well as the "ga" or "wa" that may follow.

[Staticonchannelme]

I'm an Otaku who wants to learn Japanese so I can go to Japan and not look like a completely morron.

NOT BECAUSE I WANT TO WATCH NARUTO AND SASUKE AND KAKASHI-KUN MAKE OUT!!!! (*shivers* I love Yaoi....but ew!)

OR SO I CAN WATCH ANIME IN JAP WITH NO SUBS~~

[missvee]

Same reasons here!

[littleloudboy]

You Rock, That's what i'm talking about. I knew there were incorrect ways to learn Japanese.

[DarkJadeFire]

Hahahaha, this is hilarous!!! And the HAT!! All the things you talk about are crazily true. Rock on.

[animenerd334]

yeah..but..what if you live on the east coast. l: afKADF NO JAPANESE. @n@

[wolfieaishu]

Will you be my new best friend?

[sandfan4]

your har is alsome

[Christofstau]

HAHAHA... im learning japanese a little, and you are sooo right, and so funny !!! make more videos please !!

[melina124]

lol this is hilarious, "my only friend is charlie the guy who sells me anime porn at all those conventions" hahaahahaha this is soo good

[MiyabiDesu]

Oh my god. That was awesome. XD I'm officially your #1 fan now, seriously. You're exactly the same way I am about kids learning Japanese. (DON'T LEARN FROM ANIME/MOMUSU/ETC)

I LOL'ed at the yakuza part where you made the sound of a foreigner acting all gangsta and getting beaten up by an old woman. XD

Good god *subscribes*.

[lonewolf604]

im pretty much screwed, i live in vancouver bc, and there's isn't one japanese person in my school, we have a lot of chinese though

[aikokiss123]

u r so darn cute!! LOOL

Thank you for that insitefull lesson

I've... actually learned alot hehe about the musumi thing.... and the anime.... yeah.. hummm-- yur cool!!! :P

[Nofil221]

That was so funny! (I like your hat too, but it isn't something I would wear personally.) I'm trying to learn Japanese and your videos are really awesome, so please make some more!

[mianersiyok]

and you're probobly wondering "how do they fit two syllabaries AND all those kanji on just one keyboard!?!"

I'll leave all that good stuff for Koichiben's new series:..."How to type in Japanese" it'll be a hit!! lol.

[mianersiyok]

I havn't sat through all of your vlogs yet to know if you have already or not but I think it's crucial you cover for your audience about what IME's are before they take months to find out the hard way and himrage...that was my main problem like FOREVER!!! I had the idea of what I wanted I just didn't know what it was called or how to find/get it. But now I do. No, typing in hiragana/katakana/kanji IS NOT MAGIC! and no the japanese arn't keeping how its done from you...

[biatchvendetta]

ohayo!

shiawase much? lol

im an anime otaku and

i learned japanese at like, 6 lol

[Aurok7]

On top of being useful (to anime/yakuza freaks) that was hilarious. BTW maybe you can explain to erin that being mean is all just part of being american. :P

"They like shaking hands. It's very novel."

[gabogrifa]

Well, not all of them. I stopped trying to shake hands with the natives here a while back. Got left with my hand in the air more often than not.

[koichiben]

hey now

[FunnyPhantom]

Too cute~ x3

[SuggokuBakabakashii1]

your hot,love the hat

[XZorcX]

Actually, I AM interested in learning Japanese (No smartass comments please). I don't know a place that could give me lessons, or anywhere really, and the Aploosh videos here go a bit too fast (no comments again) but I am interested. I've NEVER watched a full episode of One Piece, Naruto. I don't read anime, but I do watch a few shows. ANYWAY, any help would be awesome, thanks!

[greeneyesaphrodya]

omg you are soooo funny....i just love the first 70 seconds...you are very sweet speaking japanese ^_^...but in there you said "baka"...i hope it's not what i'm thinking(i know what baka means:P)but nice video

[hardycunte]

you remind me so much of the jon heder, the actor from blades of glory.

[xZatoichix]

AHAHAHA so funny

[kyokutankeiken]

i'll be friends with anyone and i know japanese and english(i didnt learn from anime)

[koichiben]

half white and 1/4 japanese, 1/8 korean, 1/8 filipino

[xLainyLoo]

XD You are HILARIOUS!

I loved this video.

*muah*

[kirie15]

lol. dat was funny.

[EvilKris]

Bet you anything you learned Japanese from your folks. Study

[koichiben]

if i did my japanese would actually be good.

[anjaigirl]

ur english are cool... makes me turn on..... oh i just like guys who are fluent in english or are fluent in other language that makes me amaze..... anyway much on that!!!!! thanks for those tips........ ill bear it in mind...!!!! luv yah < ur cute!! ang gwapo mo,,, mahal na yata kita!!!)

[NuttyErika]

anjaigirl-chan piripin-jin desu ka? Boku wa piripin-jin desu yo. anata wa aishiteru no koichiben-san desu ne. Sugoi yo! Ima boku wa nihongo ga benkyo shimasu demo nihongo wa chotto wakarimasu. Tokurode, koichiben-san no bideo wa subarashii desu yo. Ja ne! ^^

[Joca009]

i'm takin' sum japanese classes...just one thing...i'm brazillian...so it's kinda harder for me cuz' brazillian don't like 2 work =P

brazillian girls just wanna hav fun...

oh...i'm using my brother's login cuz' i'm to lazy to login in mine...see?I don't like workin'...

[koichiben]

american's are much more lazy, trust me!

[panic1atthedisco]

yes we americans are very lazy. thats why we usualy are over weight mwuhaha i think learning japanese is the hardest thing i've ever tried but im sticking to it

[AmbersAwesome55]

Lol i loved this.

The people who get affended about it is kind of funny.

Hes just telling the truth. :D

[koichiben]

yay!

[Yaya0Hikari0forever]

this was...unusual...to be kind.

[motobaka001]

sorry for my comment but, are wa nan desu ka? i don't like this movie.... you're so mean about others who want to learn Japanese from anime and mangas.... just let them. maybe you think it's better that you can learn japanese from other thinks but some of the anime freaks wants to learn japanese from ANIME!

sorry for that

[KyonisCUTE]

is that you if so your hot and your prolly not interested in me because im a bit young

[RxBunnyz]

theres a million-billion ways??

..ya & anime sucks. (except death note.)

but ya, yous hilarious!!

[Izarra]

You need to stop going to anime clubs at your high school yo.

[koichiben]

me??

[MuffinTopIchigo]

あなたの帽子はとてもかわいいです! I love your sense of humor! (^_^ ) I'm crying from laughing so hard!!!!!!

[1starfox1]

im english(england english) wat do i do then

[RequiemForADream412]

I want your panda... hat... thing.

I need to get some Japanese friends to go bowling with... Hmmm.

So yeah. Thanks for the lesson on how not to learn Japanese. I'll keep those tips in mind. ^_^

[sauskesuks1]

Yura Yura to yuganda sora e kiki no moto e tonde yuke ana tubani itta kara akasuki ma ina ka sugote na ma kiki ma esee o tondo o ha enje na mdara sabshii neu tae kai sa subano naieteru nara (more to it)

[JenovaXiu]

Get rid of the hat, hehe.

[Tennouhai]

Wow, you can speak English, not Engrish! I learn Japanese, so I love you now. Bye!

[janetidiomas]

how could you learn japanese? I really want to know how.

[arteannie]

wahahaha you're soo funy!!! and anata wa kawai desu (^.~)

[flit22]

thats funny!make a 3!

[sweetxfarewell]

bahah..HILARIOUS

Love the hat!

btw..you're also screwed if you live in central/southern california. Not many japanese ESLs...mostly hispanic ELDs

[koichiben]

southern cal has one of the largest Japanese populations in the United States, man!

[sweetxfarewell]

Unless you're in Kern County!

[FJSpoof]

Dude me and you. Lets go bowling XD Actually thats a good idea you had and make lots of good points cept our JApanese exchange student left last year >< BUT ILL FIND ONE!

[flit22]

why dos he have a panda head on his head?(dork)

unless thers a chinesse way for weiring that thing

[koichiben]

Why wouldn't I have an awesome panda hat on my head...seriously??

[shadowsfav]

omg you look so funny in that hat!

[Sk8erKunoichi]

your so cool!!!

hey...wana go bowling sum time...?

Just kidding!!!

lol

[Sk8erKunoichi]

hi thank you so much for the vid. i have been practicing my ass off because of ur vid. I am also starting to try to not learn japanese from anime. its so hard!!!

What if people on this site are like bad people? the japanese meeting people thingy site.

and isnt that using and minipulation?

ahh who cares anything to learn right?

[Sunyon]

ahahahahahah

[gortak]

mm intresting vid but i learned couple of words from anime i dont think its to bad from to learn about it as long you dont act like them :P but the question i have is i come from belgium we normally speak dutch where am i supose to find someone that is a eslkid

[koichiben]

sorry, can't help you much there

[ArtxDamage]

I'm learning Japanese but even before seeing your video I realized that learning from a anime series would not be a very good idea. It's not so hard for me so far since I'm already fluent in 3 different languages. The writing of the characters is of course the most challenging part. You entertain me.. nice job :D

[chucklz77]

Your video plus all the other ones about learning japanese are helping me alot. I been studing particles latly and I've been seeing "mo" a lot and I still don't have a clear idea of how it's used. If you can help me thanks.

[extrafreshchaos]

Friggin hilarious. You're to be the first person I subscribe to. That's gotta be weird to read.

[koichiben]

お！ありがとう！

[extrafreshchaos]

No problem but...whats with the Panda o_O

[koichiben]

what's NOT up with it??

[extrafreshchaos]

It's not NOT freaking me out o_O

[extrafreshchaos]

Oh holy crap I'm sorry! I realize I just asked the traditional Strong Bad "How can you type with boxing gloves on your hands" kind of question.

[cassiopeie]

Chinese & Japanese sounds like Sami!!!

[tjcouchtj]

i live in .. hicktown, oklahoma lol and the only esl kids here speak english and no not japanese but.. SPANISH.... yeah....

[Dragonclaws]

Fun.

[MvP1292]

rofl you're awesome

[samuraiallen]

oh god thank god i have been thinking this to my classmates for years. thank you. hahahha

[jembru]

I didn't think that came over as angry at all! All good points. Though I am guilty of speaking like morning musume sometimes (covers her mouth and goes into a giggle fit)...

[Mullinsian]

Eat that naruto! starting to like your videos. /subscribed

[EndOfTheUniverse]

Ha ha that was great. Luckily my midwestern high school offers japanese, I guess to make up for the lack of Japanese ESL kids. lol

[MiaZoRaTo]

where can I get a panda hat or beanie.. I totally love pandas!!

[Sadnesssinger]

kawaiii *w*

[iTzNoko]

nnooooooooooo!!! im screwed, i watch too much hentai, uh er, anime..yea anime, definetly not hentai. i learn all my japanese from there!!!

[BINSETSU]

hilarious!!!n i like your panda hat too`haha

[remixjxpop]

LMAO hilarious!! good stuff good stuff. =]

[MHIoscar]

you are GOOOOOOOOOOOOD !!!!!!!

[decibel182]

Good until you ruined the mood with apologies. Seriously, this is very good information. I have real French speakers helping me with French because I help them with their English pronounciation... now if only I could find some unsuspectiong Japanese persong who wants to learn Engrish.

You pwn dude.

[Kariluvme]

i luv it great vid i understand it to

[myNAMEisBOB]

hahahaha. i love this. i understand it. =)

is japanese your native language?

hahaha. anime. you make some GOOD points!

this shit is hella funny.

[koichiben]

definitely not my native language - i speak too mediocre for that.

[NDBbassist]

Nice video. I'm planning on minoring in Japanese in college. Right now i am just learning from 3 sites, 1 book, and 6 casettes... And i didn't understand half of what you were referencing (don't watch much anime or read much manga or any of that)

[IcyTiger]

HAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAA!! This is sooooo hilarious!! Great vid man, I learnt all these stuff from Naruto, One Piece and Bleach but when I went to Japan and tried talking Japanese, people stared at me funny!! Soooo embarrassing...^^ Love this vid cause it's so funny. Thanx again ^^

[TigerJulia]

Damn it. I've been learning Japanese from Naruto. I only know 12 words though, so I'm not screwed yet. Thanks.

[koyousetsu]

i want to lern japanese

[Moriko9415]

My friend (in Japan) said it's okie to roll your R's O_o;;

[samuraiallen]

its ok to roll ur R's but dont talk like a friggin yakuza gangster!! hahahah

maybe ur friends in the poison fists of the pacific rim? yakuza?

[otakixus]

omfg!!! switch lives with me man! i want to speak japanese, damn it ... <33 ;/

[thefacemaster]

so what if charlie is my nly friend huh huh wanna fight about it he gives me and eight percent discount thats what i thought. you know what im gonna come over to japan land or china land or whatever the hell it is kick your ass and take your hat you dirty little kid! AND I HAVE TO INCLUDE CAPS LOCK SO IT MAKES ME LOOK BADASS

[iwakeupat6]

あれ？じっど・あい・めっと・ゆー・びふぉー？datte, 会ttayouna気gashimasuyo～??

[Myvore]

"people who will be friends with you no matter what, they don't even know better" Umm... what a nice thing to say :D I want to learn japanese but the problem is that I do live in america and I'm in an esl class, but NONE of the students in the esl program in my school is japanese ;_____; There is korean people and taiwanese people and there's 2000 kids but no one's japanese -.-  BLAH. This video is fantastic btw and love the hat.

[koichiben]

hehe, hopefully you know I'm joking a little bit :) good luck on your studying Japanese, I hope you find a good way to learn!

[ryuhinomaru]

wow thats honestly really good advice man...

not to sure about the yakuza part though...

i mean off course you dont want to be saying stuff like Ohikaenasutte in japan but out of expirience i can tell you that speaking kansai dialect in the west with a bit of an angry tone they will crap themselves ¬¬

well anyway sugoi blog ^^

[sternkern]

Thanks for the advice :) And of course... your hat is cool :D

[KnownForBeingRandom]

I want the hat. And uh ^^ Yea.

[sailorodessa]

Gomenasai KOR'YA////Gomennasai Kor'Ya///sd/gvsd fga

[sailorodessa]

hey!!! I don't like it... are you sending to hell everyone in here??? baka

[stylus22]

faggot

[koichiben]

hahahaha. oh boy, has the hating begun?

[nightshadekarasu]

...you're just being stupid and mean. if he's so gay, stop watching his videos.

[yasie1]

your trying too hard..

[Gellex1990]

Does the panda hat give u english speaking powers?, i saw right when u put it on the power of english overwhelmed you

[Amenat]

Ahh! Kakoii!

Kimi to Nihongo renshuu hoshii!

[corribobo]

HAHA I LOVE IT!! BRILLIANT!! ^^

[Diruizmus]

Haha...the hat is silly.

[charliealctt]

I can tell he's gay

[goku178]

look if he was gay. he would have a girls voice asshole.

[koichiben]

I also have a girlfriend...but I can see how the panda hat might mix you up.

[nightshadekarasu]

畜生!君の問題が何？！[heh, heh, i used my dictionary on that one!] BUT SERIOUSLY!!! what the fuck is your problem?! can't you just heed his advice and shut the hell up? you people are so immature.

[vietcheese]

i dont understand a single word because i was paying atention to the panda hat

[friday17]

:) funny

[neitokundesuyo]

panda no boushi ga daisuki XD. anata no bideo wa sugoi to omoimasu XD.

[tamplet]

Oh, I wish u know but u surely do that "arigatai desu" means more like "tasukarimasu" than another way to say thank u.

Also, talking about morning musume, do u know your "degozaimasu" sounds ve-ry girlish. It's really honorifing and formel. If u say it in an amusing tone u sound gay. "Degozaimasu" really dont' fit ur vocabulary, again, weird.

[tamplet]

Pronunciation? Watch drama, anime, informations, and other japanese shows and remember the tones for each word. For otakus, "lear japanese from manga" books do exist.

I can't believe u don't get inspired by anime or drama for ur japanese. It sounds way too weird. What's the keigo-tamego mix, "hanasemasen dayo"? "manabimasu da to omoimasu"? Who would use these words together in japanese??

Zero credibility. Isshou yattero.

[Sps7890]

You're awesome....LOL

[samphilomath]

Learn to write Kanji, that will also teach you how to not learning Japanese lol

[kimkiller70]

I LOVE your hat

[FreedomNo1A]

Just Randomness but you posted a lot of comments cant find which 1 u meant when I said go Yakousa I meant GTO since hes The Greatest Teacher Ondizuka

[RukiKeyMaster]

lol ur funny

[goowl]

You are cool. :P

[intense7]

Otaku shouldn't learn Japaneses anyway, they are mostly antisocial creatures that feed at night because the sun burns their pasty white skin. Do you really want these people, who can barely converse in their first language to be able spread their stupidity in 2 languages?

[koichiben]

haha trufe. I do like making fun of them though.

[auroral]

GOD I want to speak Japanese fluently... Im learning but I speak like a retard right now...my grandparents has a summer home in Karuizawa, my sister and I visit every summer....but we get lost and we don't want to walk around in the cities with two old people all the time. Are you living in Japan right now?

We need friends BADLY over there!

[koichiben]

Nope, definitely in Oregon

[MagicalCarrot]

I want your hat. I want it so much. ^^ That was an awesome blog, you are tres cool...however I'm not an American!! I'm British! How do I use the American pushiness when I don't have it! Can I use toff-speak instead? "I say, it'd be jolly spiffing if you'd teach me how to speak Japanese old chap." XD (Fyi, we don't actually speak like that...just like Japanese poeple don't speak like anime. =])

[koichiben]

you can use your british pushiness...Gai jin smash works as long as you're white.

[abrosch]

the bowling thing is soooo true! take them bowling!

[koichiben]

Japanese are crazy about bowling...bowling, and then afterwards, karaoke. It's a good mix.

[KEYJM2006]

ur japanese is fake!!LOL dont act as if ur fuckin' native Japanese speaker!!

[koichiben]

when did i ever do that?

[moshimoshiumeboshi]

Why would someobody ask a NATIVE SPEAKER the secret to LEARNING Japanese?? Watch his other videos, jerk.

[19Kagome19]

that's amazing lol

[diruist]

haha this is even funnier the second time.

i wish i knew some japanese people!! i only god nerdy white friends...and i'm not even white *rolls eyes in irony* what are the sad oods that i come from tha country with the largest japanese population (outside of Nihon/Japan) and i know none? sad life i lead

[smartass123]

what is the correct spelling for thank you in japanese?

is it arigato or arigatou?

[koichiben]

second one. There's a long 'ou' sound at the end.

[RYRY11]

this is actually true. Many people actually learn from anime. Man I am part japanese and I can't even speak it hahaha. Americanized

[diruist]

ha ha this made my day! crap and i was really hoping to go to Japan and use my knowledge from Bobobo-bo bo-bobo to speak to the natives!!

tabemono de wa arumai...watashi wa nori, pan-o, to gohanmono tabemasu. ha ha

this is great, i like you (in a creepy way too) just kidding O_-V

[hausenko]

i learn japanese ^^ 'couse of the animes ^^

[t697318]

is it suppose to represent something, or is it just normal, coz i really wanna go to japan and kinda live there, but i can't bow that much. oh and i don 't have a nasal voice that many japanese people have. i'm more of the bary white voice guy, so will it be hard for japanese people to understand what i say? oh and watz father in nihongo?

[diruist]

isn't father in Nihongo, Otoosan?

[koichiben]

that's one of the ways to say it

[koichiben]

learn to bow

[t697318]

okay in japanese, WHATZ WITH ALL TJHE BOWING? i mean i saw a hentai the other day and the girl thanks the guy by bowing! what the hell!?

[koichiben]

bowling is awesome

[Nemurimakura]

But I leaanred SOOOOOOOOO much from aniiimeeee!! but now I will learn everything form you Tawainai!!

[sharinganitachi12345]

yah 4 real they do say dattebayo in every sentence and they over use bakaand look how people in ff dress gosh talk about a dress code

[theblip]

"Anime also teaches way too many people how to dress..."

Who's wearing the Panda on their head? :) Lol!

[koichiben]

haha well...erm...hrm...hmmm.....ye­ah.

[darnelle364]

dude your so rite like my frend marcus allways a narutard all the time at school and some times this emo kid gets mad at him.

realy hes a narutard oh and yeah i wach naruto but i dont be sooooo well you know reply plzz

darnelle364

[koichiben]

yeah, i know

[coolhalo333]

LoL 3 things! ^-^

1) where did you get that hat? =)

2) is Bankai a word? heheh

3) charlie supplies you with your hentai too???

[koichiben]

1) no

2) no

3) yes! i mean...no!

[thinks1306]

dozo

[jjnoname]

lol bowling...

[FreedomNo1A]

Lol Yakousa fun P go Sign Language haa dubs lol go finger man gamba lol to ESL haaaa lol middle class were all screwed uhh spooky lol bowling I go haa and poke them with Japanese from the dark world nice scapegoat

[koichiben]

what the hell are you talking about?

[Ciaela]

lmao.

take them bowling, he says.