I’ll never forget asking my sensei to come to my graduation party. She looked me dead in the eyes and said, in Japanese: “I will try to be there” Which we all know really means: “no, I won’t be coming.”
Something I've noticed is that the more time passes as I study japanese, the more enjoyable Dogen videos become. An additional motivation to keep me going !
"You're actually studying English." Absolute fact. When trying to study Japanese I have ended up learning about English and things like how words go together. It's pretty interesting.
“No matter what anyone says, you are not good at Japanese” truer words have not been spoken 😭
My main reason to study Japanese is to better get your jokes
I'm 15age japanese student. ive studied english for 3 years in school. im gonna write my opinion abt studying japanese In my opinion as a Japanese, honestly, you dont need to study Kanji very much. because Kanji is not necessary to talk in Japanese, write a message on the phone( if u need to write a letter, it is necessary).First U need to memorize how to read Kanji. also, don't forget to speak and listening Japanese every day. Listening and speaking are most important thing to learn Japanese. Do you know why many Japanese cant speak English? because what we need to study for exams is reading and writing (grammar) . that's why we cant communicate in English. i didn't know how many people are studying Japanese. im so happy to hear that. Hope u guys to succeed. i will study English so hard too<3333 (ill respond all question u guys have)
If you found yourself nodding or laughing at some point in this video you're closer to 日本語上手ness
何気なく動画開いたら主の日本語が信じられないくらい上手くてびっくりした
あまりにも素晴らしい日本語の発音です。どれだけの研鑽を積まれたのか想像もできません。感服いたしました。
I'm a Japanese 17-year-old student. I’m going to write my opinions depending on your purposes to learn Japanese. 1, for watching animation without subtitles you need to learn EASY grammar and listening skills. About grammar, it is only to learn「を(wo)」「が(ga)」「は(wa)」「だから(dakara)」and so on. About listening skills, it's good for you to watch animations and movies! You needn't watch formal radio, TVnews because our language has very deep sense, and such things always use such a formal grammar. We never use them everyday life. 2, for reading book It's so difficult skill. Many Japanese can't read books because Japanese writers have too deep thought for us to understand what they wanna convey. However, for improving reading skill, you need to read! I recommend some writers or books. Tsujimura Mizuki (辻村深月) has beautiful sense and she use easy metaphors. It's great! Kuromajosan ga toru(黒魔女さんが通る!). It's a book and very very interesting. It always has ふりがな for Kanji, so it's easy to read. If you want to read Natsume Soseki, Murakami Haruki, Mori Ogai, etc, you should learn Japanese almost completely. Their works are so difficult. I can't read them🤣 3 for speaking You need to learn grammar, listening skills, mainly. I recommend you to watch Japanese movies and dramas by using AmazonPrime, Netfrix. In them, actors uses casual words and grammar. You need to learn them. my recommend↓ 家政婦のミタ (Kaseifu no Mita) Soooo interesting! It's a Japanese MOST famous drama. マザー(Mother) It's also very interesting and deep. It discribes child abuse and victim(a girl)'s teacher try to protect her by kidnapping. ALL Japanese cried😭😭 アンフェア (unfair) It has some series. It's a detective drama, and very interesting, but so difficult, so if you want to learn high level Japanese, let's try! That's all! My English is so bad, sorry😭 Please comment here if you want to know more.
"Air isn't something you breathe , but something you read" Is what I've learned while learning Japanese.
自分は英語を勉強してるんだけど、この動画見て、外国の人も頑張って日本語を勉強してるって思うとモチベがめっちゃ上がる!!みんな頑張ろう!! I'm studying English, but watching this video and thinking that people from other countries are also studying Japanese hard really motivates me! Let's all do our best!
I FREAKING UNDERSTOOD THE TITLE AND IM SO PROUD OF MYSELF RN EVEN THO I HAVE LITERALLY BEEN LEARNING JAPANESE FOR SIX YEARS
If you wanna be a really special foreigner, you should learn the hardest of all Japanese dialects, the Miyako Dialect. If you love Japanese for how simple its syllables are, Miyako is perfect because it has such simple and easy to pronounce words as “fks” and “kff” and “psks”
I love this, especially because you said that sometimes the direct translation isn't the best, then translated "chotto matte" to "Let me double-check that" even though it directly translates to something more like "wait a moment".
I've been studying japanese for 2 years and i enrolled in a japanese school (OJLEC) in April this year and when you said "Japanese people don't really say that." it just hits too close to home :')
I started learning Japanese because Japanese music is such poetry and I love understanding all the feelings on tram or train like tonight when I just came exhausted from work. The best feeling. A whole different feeling. I am taken a different world.
I have been studying Japanese for about a month on Duolingo. I am proud to say that I clearly heard "pencil" in the video. Also, my greatest accomplishment so far was being able to sound out about 95% of the title card in One Piece last night. (I'm actually extremely happy about this even if it seems lame.)
道元さん、日本語上手すぎる! すごいですね、信じられないくらい上手いです。 この動画の音声だけ聞いたら、まず99%以上の日本人は道元さんが日本人だと思うでしょう。 それくらい自然な日本語ですね。 そしてなにより文化も含めた日本語の理解が大変深くていらっしゃる。 この域に達するまでどれだけの労力と時間を掛けられたのかと思うと、本当に頭が下がります。 凄すぎる。敬服致します。
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