Learn to speak Japanese

[MsAJDJ29]

How do you say, "are you japanese?"

Thanks! :)

[pinalakasnatide]

@MsAJDJ29

anatawa nihonjin desu ka?



[misper34]

Great lessons. I am going to Japan in October and these help very much. Thank you for uploading these lessons.

[SteelboneNakedlunch1]

Great vid. We need more like this, more sentence-based daily conversations

[higdig]

kanji is way easier than alot of stuff...there may be 2042 characters...but most(like90% or more)are words

[UzumakiMatrix]

Great videos..I wanna cry ^_^ I wish I had found this so much earlier ...

[erasmusso]

Btw I saw that above the kanjis in this vid there's written the pronunciation in hiragana, it's much easier to read the hiragana than the kanjis, so here follows the stupid question: why don't they use the hiragana instead of kanji?

I already imagine the people out there screaming at me: "Because it's their culture!" But why would they spend all that time learning thousands of kanjis when they could easily learn only the 104 hiragana symbols? Isn't that a huge waste of time?

[sodapencil]

You will discover that once you reach a certain level of proficiency with Japanese reading kanji is actually much easier then reading hiragana. If you tired to read a newspaper article or book in only hiragana it would drive you mad. You would end up reading quite slowly and would have trouble identifying words.

[S0NiCCCCC]

nice video...but..having romanji would be more helpful...

arigato gozaimasu

[sodapencil]

keep in mind that romanji is NOT Japanese. The worst thing you can do is to become Romanji dependent. It is a complete waste of time.

[S0NiCCCCC]

indeed, but having it initially is a good start to learning conversational japanese....of course i dont plan to become completely dependent on romanji...im actually practicing to learn hiragana in my free time....thanks =)

[Tetraglot]

But also remember that it's "Romaji" (ローマ字), not "Romanji," as Japanese words do not have possessive forms.

[vampirelust6]

i really want to live in japan so ive been picking up the language and its quite easy to learn so i encourage everyone to do it!

[erasmusso]

Learning at least 1000 kanji to be able to write like a child is easy to you?

[caletcalet]

good video!

[LiMona7]

i found it quite easy ^^,

i love japanese culture for abt a year and i just want to live there...

i also learning japanese language (by myself - without any help) and the kanji letters r really hard to remember...this lessons r very useful :)

arigatou gozaimasu

[1bigpooh2000]

shit its hard

[madpownage13]

i was born in japan but raised in america

my japanese name is yumi but my mother renamed me so now im kayla

i still like being called yumi though

:)

[ProductOneEnabled]

TOO HARD!

[transonicbuoy1]

I came to Japan last year, from England. I had no teaching experience, but I managed to get a part-time job as a teacher, and a work visa. You generally need a degree to get work here, but there are exceptions.

[Just2Lazzzzy]

I love Japan. Hope to seriously live there and take a job there. Don't like England* its alright, but I wish i was japanese. LOVE YOU JAPANESE.... PLEASE GOD MAKE ME SPEAK JAPANESE

[mnfchen]

then study it damnit

[Just2Lazzzzy]

mnfchen: I am currently learning it. -you relize I can't just pick up the langauge in one day. "I basically, wished I could speak Japanese after about 1 day"

[rodimusprimal25]

@Just2Lazzzzy iv ha the sme dream since i was 8

[daughterrevolution]

Too hard.

[Reenx95]

ur're 37 years old wow i tot u sound younger

[domokun555]

Thanks for this series- I really like the way you chat informally about the phrases. It makes it really listener-friendly.

The question about Japanese food and compliments about chopsticks drive me nuts when I hear them for real. They are such condescending things to say.

[purplejugnut]

i like the lesson how ever sometimes when the words are spoken its hard to hear what exactly is being said. subtitles with the phrases spelled out phonetically would help me to be sure that i am enunciating the words properly.

anyway thank you for the free lessons.

[PrinceZukoFanGirl]

yeah i agree. I like the lessons but i would actually like to see the word itself.

[fazzajemz]

if you learn hiragana and katakana you will be able to read it, not the kanji, but the small letters on top of the kanji, and then you will know what's said

[ItachiAkatsukiTensai]

nice