hi yuta sensei I've a question I speak arabic and learnt English and am fluent at it and I'm trying to learn Japanese but I just don't know where to start I've already learned hiragana and katakana now am I supposed to start learning some grammar or vocabulary or learn some kanji
Simone
5 years ago
ニューヨークでにゅうよく
Maitri
5 years ago
Does obasan mean women or woman? I mean singular or plural?
C Shannon
5 years ago
There are long vowels in English. Choose versus chose. Pretty much any word with o_e as an ending has a long vowel. We even call them "long vowel (sounds)". Same thing in Dutch, which is really closely related to English.
Iñaki
5 years ago
It seems like for the "n" sound you pronounce it with your lips, making it look like an "m" sound. Is this a common feature of the japanese language or simply a personal trait of your pronunciation, Yuta-sensei?
Doge
5 years ago
有田先生、どうもありがとうございました有田先生、どうもありがとうございました
John Resty
5 years ago
I found it funny when i try to pronounce the long vowels because of my tone and the way i pronounce it.lol
Wing
5 years ago
Thank you, this was very helpful, long vowels trip me up a lot, especially with listening. I will listen to a news broadcast and try to look up in a jisho what the word is, but I inevitably will spell it wrong because I didn't catch the long vowel sound. This seems to happen a lot especially with compound kanji words. Now I can also pay attention to the pitch change as well as vowel length, thanks Yuta!
Pbpsych
5 years ago
Is it me or does it EXTREMELY help to be natively hindi speaking. Hindi has 11 vowels with short 'a' and long 'aa', same with 'i', 'u' 'o' and 'e' and then a 'ri'
This is a lot easier to understand because of that
Aïcha
4 years ago
Arigato gozaymasu Yuta sensei
Kaido
4 years ago
Im learning japanese from mr yuta, duolingo and a japanese friend of mine. I hope i do well.
Ardawen
4 years ago
That's super cool!
In Dutch we also have double vowels, so the difference in sound isn't that weird for me.
I just don't think we have words where either a single or a double vowel have such a small difference in word meaning, but that's probably because of how Japanese seems to "build" words
Abhisha
4 years ago
as a hindi speaker I find the Japanese word order and pronunciations pretty easy actually but the kanji really scares me and I heard about the stroke order as well ahhhh :')
Fazle
4 years ago
Nyuuyoku, taking a bath.
Japanese, a language where the state of New York can be mistaken for bathing
Jay
4 years ago
はい。どうもありがとうございました。頑張って勉強します。
Joseph
4 years ago
In hungarian we also use long vowels but like this: o, ó you say them the same way bit the one with the marking gets longer. Other examples: u, ú; ü,ű; i,í etc. But there are two wich change in prounanciation: a, á and e,é.
I think I undarstand double vowels. Thank you Yuta, have a nice day.
One of the biggest questions I have always wondered is why do Japanese people often speak differently in anime than they do irl?
hi yuta sensei I've a question I speak arabic and learnt English and am fluent at it and I'm trying to learn Japanese but I just don't know where to start I've already learned hiragana and katakana now am I supposed to start learning some grammar or vocabulary or learn some kanji
ニューヨークでにゅうよく
Does obasan mean women or woman? I mean singular or plural?
There are long vowels in English. Choose versus chose. Pretty much any word with o_e as an ending has a long vowel. We even call them "long vowel (sounds)". Same thing in Dutch, which is really closely related to English.
It seems like for the "n" sound you pronounce it with your lips, making it look like an "m" sound. Is this a common feature of the japanese language or simply a personal trait of your pronunciation, Yuta-sensei?
有田先生、どうもありがとうございました有田先生、どうもありがとうございました
I found it funny when i try to pronounce the long vowels because of my tone and the way i pronounce it.lol
Thank you, this was very helpful, long vowels trip me up a lot, especially with listening. I will listen to a news broadcast and try to look up in a jisho what the word is, but I inevitably will spell it wrong because I didn't catch the long vowel sound. This seems to happen a lot especially with compound kanji words. Now I can also pay attention to the pitch change as well as vowel length, thanks Yuta!
Is it me or does it EXTREMELY help to be natively hindi speaking. Hindi has 11 vowels with short 'a' and long 'aa', same with 'i', 'u' 'o' and 'e' and then a 'ri'
This is a lot easier to understand because of that
Arigato gozaymasu Yuta sensei
Im learning japanese from mr yuta, duolingo and a japanese friend of mine. I hope i do well.
That's super cool!
In Dutch we also have double vowels, so the difference in sound isn't that weird for me.
I just don't think we have words where either a single or a double vowel have such a small difference in word meaning, but that's probably because of how Japanese seems to "build" words
as a hindi speaker I find the Japanese word order and pronunciations pretty easy actually but the kanji really scares me and I heard about the stroke order as well ahhhh :')
Nyuuyoku, taking a bath.
Japanese, a language where the state of New York can be mistaken for bathing
はい。どうもありがとうございました。頑張って勉強します。
In hungarian we also use long vowels but like this: o, ó you say them the same way bit the one with the marking gets longer. Other examples: u, ú; ü,ű; i,í etc. But there are two wich change in prounanciation: a, á and e,é.
I think I undarstand double vowels. Thank you Yuta, have a nice day.
TYSM!!
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Yuta: What is “nyuuyoku”?
Me: New York