Learn Japanese from Yoda

[NamiNekoGirl]

Question. When learning Japanese, should I be thinking "Pen it is" or switching it and translating it in our heads back to English into "It's a pen"? I find it hard to understand a more complicated sentence unless I translate it back to English, but then I'm not very fast at comprehending it. when I do this, It takes me awhile to flip it in my head and understand it. So, should I be learning it in the order it is spoken? or is it just a thing where I'll get faster at flipping it over time? :T

[Icefrostfur]

Yoda also helps in learning actual American tongue. By that I mean not you English-Americans, I mean Native Americans. There are over 500 different tribes of us and so many languages lost, but the ones I know follow the Yoda Principal like Zalageesh a.k.a Cherokee, Cayuga and Pueblo-Jemez all speak in the same structure as Yoda does. This could be why Japanese is so attractive to me, language cousins. Thank you for posting ^-^

[godhatesyou0666]

your yoda voice is awesome man. you better teach yoda's voice rather than yodas grammar.

[Thoseweirdoes]

WILL YOU SHUT UP PLEASE!!!!!!!!!!

[geoffreystover1995]

teach me your ways Asian one

[hakumeigita]

do you still have live online Japanese classes?

[XxtokyomuffinxX]

whats that little pink thing hanging on the lamp!?

[caityrockstar]

I was drawing after I watched this and was drawing with a pen and it ran out of ink and I randomly screamed "PEN BAKA DES!!!" so did I scream "IT IS STUPED PEN!!!"? I kno Ookami, Kami-sama, Inu, Neko, and a bunch I leaned off of Anime...(wolf, God, dog, cat)

[RanAbvideo]

@caityrockstar if you want to learn japanese, i have videos on my channel.Go under "japanese lessons" playlist. Pleae check them out. By the way keep watching this guys videos he really has good videos, but for learning grammer and sentences and speakking conversational sentences (not just words) i have good lessons.

[Tr0llFace666]

@caityrockstar It would be "Baka na pen desu".

[FrontButt45]

Your awesome.

[111olbap]

Your video LIED to me buddy where is yoda

[Dragza63]

all i can say in japanese (which i learnt from anime like naruto and bleach)

is.... Baka, Teme, Domo, Ohaiyo and cursuur ( idiot, ba$terd, hello, good morning and damn it)

[occultninja4]

@Dragza63 That last one I think you where refering to is Kuso, it actualy means "$hit" but it's a sware word so yeah. But I will now teach you some new words just because I can. Konichiwa: Hello Sayounara: Goodbye Ayasuminasai: Goodnight Itadakimasu: Lets eat Daijobu Desu Ka? : Are you ok? Hai: Yes (positive reply) Ie/Iya: No (negative reply) Wakarimasu: I understand Nihon/Nipon: Japan Nihongo: Japanese (language) Tomodachi: Friend KORE GA SUPARUTA NO RYUUGI DA! : This is sparta!

[Dragza63]

@occultninja4 ty

[occultninja4]

@Dragza63 Thats "Arigatou" in japanese which means "Thank you". Forgot to add that one. More polite way to say it is "Arigatou-gozaimasu" xD

[animucc27]

@occultninja4 it's supposed to be Oyasumi, not ayasumi.

[occultninja4]

@animucc27 I thought so but I've heard it said a few times and it sounded like Ayasumi. Thanks for the clarification.

[labobo]

@tofugu would be nice with some more japanese videos

ex about particles and sentence structure

[MsSeaKittens]

Kore wa pen desuka?

[1lalase]

hay wait talk slower my head hurts!!!

stupid I am! 0.0

[japanfan67]

Nice idea, though there is a little difference between Yoda's way to speak and Japanese language :

In Japanese language, we say for example "Neko desu" or "Kore ha neko desu" which literally mean respectively "Cat is" and "This cat is", since Yoda would say "Cat it is". The subject isn't at the same place.

But it's still a good idea.

[TheWorld4all]

Why learn jap language??? It's only spoken in JapLand. 

[clowcard79]

@TheWorld4all 1. Some people go visit or move to Japan. 2. There are cool online websites and un-translated shows and manga that you can watch. 3. You can make Japanese friends who don't know English. 4. The language itself sounds musical.

[TheFreakAndSam]

@TheWorld4all On my block, entire neighborhood as a matter of fact, no one speaks english.

[SuperMakoto8]

うまいなあ！



[linkinpark4life08]

Can you tell me if i got this right please? I'm trying to say "She loves sushi".

"Konoji wa sushi daisukidesu"

[ultrastupido]

@linkinpark4life08 *kanojo

Besides that, yeah.

[linkinpark4life08]

@ultrastupido Thank you :)



[TheDrakaan]

I thought negative tense was Janai, past tense was Datta and past-negative was Janakatta??

(from Tae Kim's grammar Guide)

[Alchrat]

@TheDrakaan that's correct. it's just in an informal tense.

[TheDrakaan]

@Alchrat Which is Informal? This video or the ones I said?

[Alchrat]

@TheDrakaan the ones you said are informal. (the ones on the left are formal) Desu = Da Imasu = Iru Arimasu = Aru Imasen = Inai Arimasen = Nai De Wa Arimasen = Ja Nai Arimashita = Atta Imashita = Itta Arimasen Deshita = Nakatta Imasen Deshita = Inakatta

[WhAtEvErMoRoNz]

Immediately after watching this, I lost my pen...

So when i found it, I said Pen-desu. Thank you for that comedic moment XD

[darkraven2116]

This was one of the first things I noticed in Japanese grammar : the simmilarity to Yoda :P

[supah1337B]

WTF, you speak it so fluently >.>

[71021015]

Please searching this movie by U tube. you can know what Japanese is.

"Canadian Questions and Japan s Response"

[MegaChAoS22]

How did he say it is NOT a pen. i thought it was "de arimasen" it sounded like "Jyaa arimasen" ( i dont know if this has something to do with level of politeness or gender difference so i am asking)

[shamikami]

that`s wrong dude. kore wa means "This is". As in "Kore wa PEN desu". It makes sense to imagine that desu is equivalent to "This Is" but grammatically it`s not true. The sentence as it is spoken in Japanese actually amounts to This is a Pen desu. If you`re just saying "Pen Desu" then it is closer to This is as in "Pen this is".

DESU really amounts to an easy equivalent but not exactly...it`s more like a way to put closure to a "This Is" statement.

[SuicidalYak]

yoda....learn japanese from

[SpidersAreNotScary]

Pen desu. *repeats many times* Pendes, Pendas, PANDAS!!! ^_^ hahaha... ^_^'' maybe not. :D

[smileyface2957755]

u smell like a donkey ass

[RuthlessJim1]

....What no Yoda !@#

[superearthbender]

Good to associate Japanese concepts with current concepts. You relate new things to that which you already know in order to create a new understanding. So the Yoda association works quite well. I wonder if you made it up yourself.. *squints suspiciously*

Thanks for the video, Mr. Asian.

[usenetposts]

@TheSushiLobster Many thanks

[AsyraMist]

cute fish!

[3cl653]

wish you was still teaching :(

[leonk1998]

but that is a sharpie.

[shadowkittypro]

@leonk1998 a pink sharpie!

[Animewover300]

@leonk1998, So....シャーピです。

[dieglhix]

wow i was just watching rashomon 2 minutes ago (from kurosawa) and i typed yoda on youtube and the first thing i hit was this and ur talking about the same movies lol

[888GRM]

Great idea! Now I can learn proper breathing with Darth Vader and japanese with Yoda!

x)

[DylanplusBlake]

omfg when u said pen it is how yoda would say it i fell off my bed laughing:L

[uJustGotSushiRolld]

Really he would say something more like,

"A pen, it is."

But Japanese doesn't really have an "A", it's just implied.

So what you say, said in Japanese, is how Yoda would say it in Japanese...but--

FF- You get what I mean. You know all this.

[usenetposts]

Fascinating! I must get into Kurosawa, Tofugu-san. Please recommend where to start, which film to watch first.

[worldemperor85]

@usenetposts ran is his heaviest. seven samurai is his most classic. rashomon is very deep philosophically. probly one of those, ones like kagemusha have extremely slow pacing.

[usenetposts]

@worldemperor85 Thanks for that.

[D7DiNQgAbH0Y]

2:14 完全に一致w

[giraffekisses22]

When my bestfriend started teaching me Japanese, and she tried helping me by telling me the literal translation, then the Japanese words, I laughed and called her Yoda. When I saw the title of this just now, I froze and was like, "I KNEW IT!!!"

[LuminaryXion]

I had never thought of that. Thank you ^_^

[stephenpayn]

haha nice video man, I like the humor in how you break it down, it makes it much more fun to learn.

[princebrogan]

"This is a pen" *Holds up marker*

[nekochibi135]

hrrmmm......know that yoda-san speaks in japanese grammar i did not hrrmm.....

[summerlovechick55]

Pandas!! :D haha

[ibjmoko]

bro i cant understand your english you sound awful!!!

[talljohnmartinez]

pen ja-arimasen? I thought it was pen ga-arimasen...

[keyinregulus]

This video sucks. Where is yoda? BAIT-AND-CLICK-CRAP

[thrash77581]

@keyinregulus Did you actually listen or did you just look for Yoda?

He's talking about Yoda most of the video.

[LuinmirAvafaila]

where is yoda?!?! >.<

[Glockenheimer]

George Lucas made the name JEDI from the Japanese word "jidai-geki" which is basically translated to a style of adventure and sword-fight films, which is what Star Wars is, an adventure film with sword (light sabre) fights.

[105702pie]

lol!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[shamusoz]

This chap's got verbal diarrhea. Hardly an inspiration to learn Japanese. Bye bye...

[PolishCutie93]

@MegaFuegos shut up

[Ziiiv]

Tally-ho ol' chap! The machination in my phalanges is understood colloquially to be a pen!

[MrLuRICo]

"NOVA desh-ta"... LOL. Gotanda NOVA forever! :^) Usagi FTW

[Ashikun]

Is that a Greek flag in the background? That would explain the eyebrows..

[Maddoxmozfan]

On the second day of German One, I learned "The Yoda Rule". So Yoda knows German and Japanese. :P

[R3D54ND]

you're holding a marker..... not a pen....stop calling it a pen! XD jk

[gurlekka]

今日のビデオもみってくれて・・・・??? you really need to work on your intonation and grammar a bit !!!!

[chowderpurple]

ummm its a marker...

[mangetout]

I wander if they make yoda speak like an english person on the japanese starwars?

[Leuopold]

今日、見ってくれて、chip chip cheeryo lads! Tally ho! lol. Keep up the bully job squire!

[Leuopold]

Hmm Interesting it is.

[Tonymcgauley2u]

pen-is

[anesthesiac]

@Tonymcgauley2u

loooool

[Tsuyoshi700]

@Tonymcgauley2u Lets go to Pen Island and join to the Pen 15 club!

[SJD92493]

Learn to speak Japanese confidently with these interactive audio lessons, watch the video - youtube.com/watch?v=wfseANZtMN­g

[flakelorenz02]

I always thought Yoda spoke German.

But if George Lucas says it's using Japanese syntax then I'll believe him.

[Sweettart9467]

Your videos are so dang helpful! Thank you so much!

[MoonlightMystical]

That's not just a pen - That's a SHARPIE!

...and a pink one at that!!!

[ugottastopbeinglame]

Haha. Smart.

[n3jlpt]

Its best to study with a language partner & have a goal like the JLPT. You need structure. Great video.

[AndyRaslan]

Watu ze fakku? =)) (spell it out in katakana and you'll understand)

Lol, anyway.... Kore wa pen desu. lol. Muzukashii dewaarimasen.

[deadlymassacre1]

Thats a sharpie though.

[zombiefuckification]

@deadlymassacre1 a ha ha ha

[GRONOPRIO]

oh..and nice new hair cut

[GRONOPRIO]

like 2 hours talking and theres no Yoda-sensei...go to the &%$@!

[mari101xoxox]

likeS playing mad libs... did u do that on purpose??

[SuperPhoenix5]

I sense nerd force intruder's there will be hum..

[soflabob]

arigatou gozaimasu

[thepanther17fan]

but you can say "kore wa pen" instead of "pen kore wa?"

[skj91]

@thepanther17fan that's not a complete sentance. kore wa pen is like saying "this pen..." people will be thinking in response "That pen what?" or ""what about the pen?"

[thepanther17fan]

@skj91 oh. O.O

[AndyRaslan]

@skj91 As far as I know, "desu" is simply used for politeness, and is not necessary. It's like "arimasu", which means it "exists" in a certain location. You can simply say "Aru", but it's not polite ^_^

[Xeferah]

@AndyRaslan: Here are they, you mixed up 'aru' and 'de aru':

da / de aru - de wa nai

datta / de atta - de wa nakatta

desu - de wa arimasen / de wa nai desu

deshita - de wa arimasendeshita / de wa nakatta desu

You can replace 'de wa' with 'ja' too.

And don't forget, 'aru' is for "dead things" while 'iru' is for "the living".

[AndyRaslan]

@Xeferah Thank you ^_^

[Sally0602]

@skj91 then: Kore wa pen ga arimasu. This should be all right.

[Mirachu]

@Sally0602 Grammatically perhaps, but you just said "this is a pen there is."

[huppimmuppim]

lol, in Japan middle school boys follow me like, "THIS IS A PEN! THIS IS A PEN!"

[STUNER1251]

OTAKU lol XD

[asadrocker]

Great video i've been searching this type of video since a long time ! thanks alot keep making these videos !

[quixoticpixel]

Excellent lesson!

[Chiritsu]

haha, first time i've seen someone make a learn japanese video >D

nice pronunciation btw

[Moonstruck220]

Funny...I actually -haven't- heard of "The Magnificent Seven" or "A Fistful of Dollars"...but I HAVE seen Seven Samurai and Yojimbo, lol.

[47mangaluver]

かわいい :) lol

[TheAlennia]

I swear you look diffrent in every video...i should probably look at the date

[sanjiro1]

Lol Mayonnaise! Ohh man that made my day. :D

[megalolkiller]

dont move it creaps me out

[Lolanimationcrew]

Why did I think it was Kore wa pen desu?

No, wait.... "That is a pen."...

I see.

Gomen!

[TheAutumnAyane]

now teach them to say:

"これは俺のペンやで!"

"これはペンやけど俺のゴムわどこいったんねん"

just for fun

[metsslip]

thats a marker...

[Isakuma]

@metsslip A pink marker too.

[sijotakane]

YODA's model is samurai movie playwright Yoda Yoshitaka.

Coppola introduced Yoda Yoshitaka to Lucas.

[sucram4545]

theres noooo was star wasr, STAR WASR, S.T.A.R. W.A.R.S. was based off of hidden fortress ,a saga, that has more twists and turns than your pubic hair, in comparison to a 2 hr samurai drama, and whos the samurai master in hidden fortress?

[monkey0alejandro]

super cute!!!!

[mecchahappii]

your intro was way too long.

[HannahAerie]

You'reeeeee HOTT! :D

[RunawayDreamer123]

wow i dont undterstand grammer either! lololololol

[Unicornzilla]

spelt jari masen right?

[YouseiGaMieru]

ja arimasen :)

[yellowfellow]

damn i wish i had japanese friends growing up to tell me this stuff.

all i have are my white wash relatives who dont understand a word of japanese

[veliauribe]

U R AWESOME!! Love your vid, thanks for sharing :D

[cprow10]

lol 500th commmenter.

love ur chnnel dude

[And502]

theirs an anime called samuri 7

[stevemarson]

yeh i agree great video - but if u ripped of a little sound bite or short video clip from star wars with yoda speaking it would be even better (don;t worry georgie won't mind if it's in the name of education)

cheers,

Steve

[freacls]

wow ur cute i love Japan

[KingLashiec]

I was expecting to be told how to talk like Japanese Yoda. In Japanese, Yoda talks like an old man. No special grammar whatsoever.

But this was good too.

[xXGaTaGaNgStErXx]

PANDEX :P

[KanadienSweetheart]

<3 Awesome LOL

[flatblackstrat]

今は日本語の専門学校で日本語を勉強していますけど文法やへ、と­、が、は、の、などの使い方あまりわからないです。覚えやすい方­法が教えてくれませんか？

[VJjosesanchez]

dude stop extra polarizing cultures, we are good and they are bad...

The scheme of divide and conquer is dead with the new generations!

[lccoolpants]

Hahaha thats soo true dude! very good way to explain it!

[619kammy]

Kore wa pen desu

Booya knew that!

[RaimiiChan]

yoda yoda the dancing cola =D

[AmyGetz01]

Take your advice and learn yourself.

[ryohayashi]

ur hella cute

[LeapingLeptons42]

pen ja-arimasen, sharpie desu :-)

[odizzido]

minus the fact that desu doesn't mean it is at all.

[kjburger12]

It can. Desu is a linking verb which means it as many meaining in englis in Kore wa pen desu, desu means it. in Pen desu, desu means It is.

[odizzido]

no sorry. I think one of two things will happen. Either you are going to find out that desu cannot be translated into English because it just doesn't exist in English, or you are going to tie it onto a massive pile of possible meanings.

Desu isn't even a word BTW. It has no meaning my itself and I guess if I had to put it in English terms I would say it is closest to something like ing, but instead makes the sentence more polite rather than plural.

And for when you get to it, da != desu either

[soyh1n1]

@odizzido

Dude.. you're trying to argue with a native Japanese speaker..

give it up, you're wrong.

[odizzido]

@soyh1n1 - It doesn't matter if he is native or not, it's still wrong. Desu is taught to mean it is or I am to let people speak as fast as possible politely, and it works for for the early stages of learning. That is how I was taught and it wasn't until later that I found it it wasn't true.

For kj's example, kore wa pen desu, you don't actually need desu at the end. If you are talking to people you don't know it's probably best to add it. With or without desu it means the same thing.

[odizzido]

cont-

Also what about non-desu things?

pen wo tabemasu. Is masu = to the "I am" desu here? If so you could say:

pen = pen

wo = action applied to particle

tabe = eat

masu = I will

so pen wo tabemasu = I will eat a pen

But then what about pen wo taberu? Does that translate to "eat pen" without the masu? no. because desu/masu aren't actually words and only change how things sound.

Anyways what I am saying isn't 100% true either, but putting things into english does that.

[thehpower]

@odizzido...

you're partially right (btw to y'all i'm japanese... and i know my grammer)

but... the grammer in japanese can become extremely difficult, so you really shouldnt argue about it if you don't know it entirely.

[thehpower]

@odizzido

btw, "desu/masu" is like a form.

"kore wa pen desu" is simply a polite way to say

"kore wa pen da" and it means the same thing to say "kore wa pen na no da"- and as you would probably notice, the only thing i added on this example was "na no", which really doesn't add any true 'meaning'. it simply changes the structure of the sentance.

ok.. so that partially explains it..

[thehpower]

@odizzido

now.. ill give you the three forms in which to say "This is a pen"

1. kore wa pen da

2. kore wa pen desu

3. kore wa pen de gozaimasu

1 is like how you would speak to a friend.

2 is polite

3 is when you're speaking to someone you respect

ask me questions if you want...

[odizzido]

@thehpower

You make it sound like だ＝です

そうですか？=そうだか？？

そうだと思います=そうですと思います？

Anyways I have no questions. The only reason I clicked on this video is to hear yoda as I don't really know starwars. Unfortunately I didn't get to hear him...oh well.

[zombiefuckification]

@soyh1n1 tsumori de omai nihongo ka? that having been said, i really don't know if this sentence makes any sense or if it is even a sentence. i do, however presume to know that nihongo is japanese language. watashi no baka na amerikajin. (?)

[andarks]

@soyh1n1 I don't want to say that he is a native Japanese speaker, because he speaks English really well. Unless he is good learning languages. Who knows. The thing is that he is cool.

[TheKingdomofErnor]

@soyh1n1 Actually, he's right. Desu doesn't actually translate to anything in English, and his "closest" was pretty good. I was thinking the same thing when I watched this video. It's not that Japanese people speak in a different order, it's more like that they leave out "this is" from the sentence all together. Really, "desu" is more like a flag that denotes [this is a noun], and imasu is like a flag, [this is a verb]. 猫はねています. Cat sleep [verb]. くるまです。Car [noun].

[KosaChuChu]

@TheKingdomofErnor but to teach it, you cannot say that , it will confuse noobies head...like....mine...

[origamimoonXO]

waah ~ sugoi LOLOL

[belanova2222]

ahahahhaa sence i read the title i started to crap up!!!!

[jfunf]

Best Video on you tube!

[THEFUNGATE]

bakana

[yugiohfan12345]

kekko desu

[tigerpantss]

your videos rule:) my dream is togo to tokyo

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Nice job dude.

[hgsdesyg26]

ディスイズアペン

[diamencik1]

U smart young boy .. u r cool teacher

[AZURA888]

Master Yoda like japanese speaks.

[ffejgib]

"ペンです。"

[5dsGX5ds]

you are really stupid!!!

[SpiderCatTM]

pen desu

[SpiderCatTM]

desu pen :) x