Tommy Lee Jones in Japan (JFM-BONUS lesson)

[AkinAssCunt]

where the hell was tommy lee jones? this vid is FULL OF LIES!!!!!!

[cutekittykathy]

ちょっと！ｗ

CM見たけどこんな入ったっか？ｗ

アタシ「う～ん、口の中に甘みがぱぁっと広がってですねぇ」好き­！笑

言ったかなぁｗｗ

あ～！面白ッ！ Thank you☆！

[ilovebraziljapan]

あ～、このレッスン、楽しい！！

[crazyanimelovers]

that was fun! lol...saying along with it...i think i get the hang of sayin it....like pronounciation and the speed...it's just the don't know some of the meaning! thanks!

[xuzumakixrasenganx]

Hahahaha, that commercial was funny. I understood half...? xP 「つるつる」とか「住人」とかの言葉を教えてくれてありがとうご­ざいます！：D

[akasaart]

so...is this the dialogue from the commercial?

[Gimmeabreakman]

Yep!

[akasaart]

hmm

i just found it right here on YT surprisingly easily

but i was a little disappointed that he didn't speak at all

[samzever123]

for those who understand japanese i suggest you put up a translation to english, しかしとにかく、その日本語を学ぶのに最適な方法です

[fightprejudice]

As you know, I love samurai movies. When I hear your japanese in this video you sound like a sensei samurai.

[xFL1PPYx]

Whats that catchy background beat?

[drewbningen]

i also watch movies with Japanese subtitles it seems to improve my listening and reading skills at the same time!!

[RelVleDy]

so sekai means "earth/universe" whereas wakusei means "planet"

[poopslingingmonkey]

WRCL

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Gotcha!

[P00P0STER0US]

lol I didn't have a lot to say but I knew you were cool with this method of adding to the comments :o)

[mirkokosmos06]

arigato gozaimasu! iisho kenmei ganbarimasu! (^_^)

[HaxorLee]

What's Wakusei?

[JoeInJapanDotCom]

a planet

[bikobs]

Nice lesson, flakeman. That commercial is HILARIOUS. Nice freaking choice!

[yumyumsesame]

That was fun! My speaking needs improvement so I found it really helpful to repeat those phrases out loud at a fairly natural speed. :) Please do another one like this!! :D

[ToniShinobi]

Great video! There were a lot of phrases that I wouldn't usually understand unless i went over what they said first. Thanks.

I like using commercials for learning Japanese, since there are so many quirky and fun Japanese commercials :) Thanks for introducing me to a nice CM series, its really funny. Another good one is the Softbank CMs

[coolixm14]

Thanks for the lesson, i love watching anime and getting the feeling that i know what that person just said. and i know anime is not a good place to learn Japanese.

[Thatguyfox]

Anyone else find it hard to get all the syllables out? I get tung tied a lot

[Gimmeabreakman]

I get tongue tied too!

[nanodances]

ohh just what I needed on the day I サボ'd my Japanese class :D

[amaterasuka]

and btw, I've been following your channel from the beginning, although I've thrown some negative and/or cynical comments your way, i got a lot of respect for you

[Gimmeabreakman]

I don't really recall anything negative from you. I must be getting senile.

[amaterasuka]

possibly. I mean you must be taking in so much information all the time, the unimportant things start fading from memory. One comment i remember clearly was about fakesagan? yeah.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

I vaguely remember that fella. He was amusing.

[amaterasuka]

indeed he was.

[amaterasuka]

Yeah I've been studying for the last 11 months and i know what you mean, It's so rewarding to see your self-improvement with vocab, how much faster you can read etc, and yeah you're right, you gotta put a lot of input in to see the results relatively quickly.

[markshmily]

I watch anime on a daily basic.. which is what got me started studying Japanese in the first place. I've been at it for about two months ( I think) and I've learned a lot from your lessons Victor. Thanks so much for your hard.

When I watch anime now I often times will hear words I already knew and it exciting to understand them.

I need to study harder though!! Alot harder!

[creepyk1d]

Donna tabemono ga suki desu ka?

[skitplace]

Iv just started to study japanese at a Swedish University and I can understand the particles like ha, ni, ga, no etc aswell as kono, sore, are etc. So I kinda get what the sentence is "focusing on" but I have no idea what the accual "words" mean, But it's definitly nice to do listen exsercises. We have this lession where we sit at a PC and listen in headphones and some teachers are also natives speakes so we get a lot from that. But it all comes down to how many words you know in the end :/

[Gimmeabreakman]

Having a big vocabulary certainly doesn't hurt but when your hearing gets better you can hear words you don't know.

[ThePacificCrossing]

the only thing to improve listening is more listening.. preferably ALL THE TIME!

[00kenchin]

Awesome advice, i often go to a nice sushiya and order in Japanese and the waiters there often correct me or explain something ~~ and while I'm there eating or waiting i often eaves drop on random conversations lol. Not that i care what they're saying just that i know ~

[reaper4255]

80% of learning a language is all input. (ie. listening)

The other 20% is output (when you show off your language skills)

[BlackFlameHair]

nothing like that you have to output other wise you wont understand how to use it and will be making errors

[Gimmeaflakeman]

I think the percentages will change depending on the person, the subject, and the age of the student, but in the end INPUT must exceed OUTPUT. That's only logical. I WISH it were 50% 50%. But then again, not sure if you're talking about how often you repeat something as output. Drilling is important too, of course.

[giugnhgbvinierngvb89]

when was that u realised u were able to understand?

i hope it wasnt after 1 year...

this channel is the best for learning japanese.

[APOKALYPSE34]

Great lesson!

I will have to come back to this video!

[systemjap]

brilliant advice at the beginning =]

[Adoriakashite]

Yeah, I did that with English - watching this comedy show over and over and it worked out so well!!! But with English it was kinda easier than with Japanese now ^^; I'm already happy if I can distinguish words I know from words I don't know LOL XD

[bboytrippin]

Sugoi ne! 한국말을 읽울수있어? 나도 한국말을 공부했지만 요즘은 일본어를 공부하고있는데. Why did you switch from Korea to Japan?

[CaliBoyinJapan]

That was awesome! Thanks for sharing. The lesson was really good and some of the best advice.

[rphinks]

saw this commercial before, thanks for helping me make more sense of it. The ping pong scene had me rolling.

[kakera]

Listening to movies without subs and Japanese radio stations really helps. Even if I can't understand all of what's going on it helps just to hear the conversation and be immersed in the language. I feel like the "textbook" conversations are so artificial that they don't really help. I originally found your videos through a Japanese one (from Victor in the World) as I was looking for Japanese speakers on YT to improve this skill).

[BahamutDKing]

when i first started to listen to Japanese i found it hard to hear anything as words just noise but more i heard it the more the same pop'd up and started to recoinse them best way i found is to watch a Movie no subbtiles and try to understand the plot then study a bit then watch movie again and gets easyer the more you hear it just let it settle in your mind.

[TAz69x]

Awesome; reminds me of a Czech hockey player here in Canada who learned English through watching Happy Days over and over again. I always wondered what his first conversations were like; "Heeeyyyy!" *hits jukebox and jumps over a shark.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

LOL!

[LEV1ATHYN]

Another inspirational vid, thanks!

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Thanks. Busy until Oct. 10th. But after that.... uh, do you drink?

[LEV1ATHYN]

Not like you drink, but I'll try to keep up. Catch you later in October then.

[crimsonigloo]

Thank you so much! This was a great help ^_^ [x]

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Our pleasure. I'll get back to you soon.

[Degenskonto]

I can understand most easy childrens anime now

yeeey

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Good start!

[SireStefan]

listening is hard for most, I seem to be pretty good at it though, when I had french in highschool I always had bad grades except for the listening parts. Maybe growing up bilingual (dutch/german) helps.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

I think it does help....

[RMSanford]

sweet, I can always use listening practice! I find watching dramas has helped me a lot, as a side note.

[battim]

after he was twoface in the batman movies timmy lee jones became irrelevant. a footnote as al gore college roommate.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

No Country For Old Men?

[Pilipinoguy2k]

I just watched this like 5 times on the maggie site, then I find it here. Hehe. Thanks for the lesson. This does help.

[Gimmeaflakeman]

Saw you in CrimsonIgloo's vid. Good job!

[Pilipinoguy2k]

Thanks. It was fun. I'm finally in a Japanese class this quarter. Already ahead of most people in my class, all thanks to you and the others doing this on YouTube.