You can just go to the apple store or google play store and type dr. moku and it'll show up.
Another good app for hiragana/katakana/vocabulary I would like to recommend is memrise. It works in a more of a flash card style but it's one of the alternatives if you learn better that way.
I used Memrise, I actually found it didn't help that much. I recommend Human Japanese. You have to pay for the full version but they have a lite version available that goes in depth with teaching Hiragana, Katakana, verbs, and everything. I don't use Duolingo as much, but it us good for review, but i can also see it being good for Vocab, Hiragana/Katakana, and Kanji.
the mnemonics really help. If you're creative (unlike me, hehe), you can create those mnemonics by yourself. For example, when I think of the katakana for TA, I think of Tarzan swinging on a rope
I used Duolingo to learn most of the Japanese that I know. It is helpful when learning hiragana and certain kanji, but for katakana, JapanesePod101.com would be pretty useful and both are free.
This is what i did, and i memorized Hiragana in 8 days completely, can even read it reasonably fast already.
I just took 5 new chars each day and wrote the whole alfabet down 10 times a day while saying the phonetic sounds while doing it.
last day i was bold and did 11 chars.
I was using Memrise for Hiragana while using iknow.jp at the same time. Doing this I have the hiragana down to the point I can any of the hiragana and I can flat out say it with confidence. I still need to get the meanings down.
Honestly I don't use apps, just write them and say the sound. Go five or ten at a time. This way you can write them off of memory instead of only being able to identify them.
One thing I did when learning to read was to write out all of the hiragana and katakana characters, then use different coloured markers to colour code similar strokes. This made it a lot easier to remember characters that are similar but are different by one or two strokes (e.g. さ vs き, ツ vs シ). Also writing them out and making sure your stroke order is correct is a major help.
I would also recommend using (only if his recommendation isn't working for you) katakana pro and hiragana pro for both katakana and hiragana learnings. I used it and it was great! I learned in under both in under two weeks!
I used Hiragana pro / Katakana pro because they show you a symbol and give you 3 options so you can familiarize with the alphabets, then I used kanatown or the same apps, but with an option where I'd have to type the correct option so I can incorporate the alphabets, if you work hard you can learn both katakana and hiragana in a week or 2
Yes for better understanding you should learn japanese alphabets and,I will also recommend you to learn Japanese songs as they have helped me very much or watch japanese programs with subtitles like I watch animes with subtitles
I've used several apps that are fun and very fundamental for learning katana/hiragana/etc. Just go to Google play store if you have an Android and type in Japanese Learning Apps and it will let you choose which one fits you best
Omg, I didn't expect Japanese to be this simple.
I'm actually soo happy right now because I really love everything about Japan and want to learn Japanese so bad T.T
I hope other lessons will also be this simple, so I just need to learn more words and verbs.
Thanks Yuta sensei
You should, it helps you follow along better, helps remember new words, and really helps with pronunciation. It's not hard or anything just try to memorize them for a week or two, I recommend buying flash cards with pictures to help you remember better.
I have found that having hiragana and katakana charts downloaded to use as a reference is great. Particularly the ones illustrated by Joey Heaton, as they are simple and easy to understand. They have helped me a lot. Also, the AnkiDroid app is helpful for helping memorize all those pieces of information.
It depends on what you actually need to learn.
If all you want is to "speak" Japanese and handle conversations, it's not absolutely necessary for comprehension.
But if you want to actually LEARN Japanese and its deeper meanings and subtleties, there is no avoiding it : you HAVE to learn their alphabet. I would recommend starting with hiragana (the syllabic alphabet), a few signs per day. Don't overdo it at first, go step by step. You'll soon learn all of it and be ready for more.
However, you must practice everyday to keep up. Dedicate 20 to 30 minutes to it daily.
if you want to learn very basic phrases, it's not mandatory. but if you plan to dive deeper and have better pronunciation, learning hiragana and katakana is crucial.
I already learned hiragana and katakana to understand better I'm sure it will help you. You can easily find ways to learn on internet, there are apps too on Play store like Hiragana Pro and Katakana Pro.
I am not ユタ-せんせい (Yuta- Sensei), but yes, you should. Learning at least hiragana helped me tons, and learning katakana (which I'm still working on) helps a lot too. When you take notes, you don't even have to write the pronunciation that often unless it's something that you aren't used to reading lijkeeeeee double vowels or something.
Why do none of your questions end with か? If a man holds a package of ramen and says ラーメンたべる out loud how am I supposed to know if he's saying "Do you want to eat ramen?" instead of "I'm going to eat ramen." or something similar?
This sort of thing has always bothered me and the only answer I ever seem to get is "context" which I dislike because I feel that can lead to many unnecessary misunderstandings.
The key is the intonation. When it's a question, it has rising intonation, the same way English would.
If he says it with flat intonation, it's a statement.
Of course, these are all highly informal ways of speaking, leaving out particles and pronouns and such. The same way you can say in English "Sushi tomorrow?" and have that mean a whole sentence.
I was going to reply to Smudgey, but I've seen your answer. Yes, the key is "intonation", and Yuta is using a good intonation, it is very easy to understand its lessons., evan for a child. Of course, Japanese language is very different from English language, but does not require too much effort to learn it. Thx, Roberto.
for this case you tell them apart by inflection (pitch) on the end of the word: when it's a question たべる？ the る swings upward in pitch at the end, but for the statement たべる。 it doesn't do that, it stays flat. if you listen for this in the video you can probably start to hear the difference
It works sort of like it does in English. か functions as a verbal question mark, and is somewhat unnecessary because, as in English, you can turn any statement into a question with your tone. How do you know someone is asking a question in English without using who/what/when/where/why/how? Same thing here. "You eat ramen" is said differently than "You eat ramen?".
You don't usually use か with non-keigo sentences. I'll talk about that in another lesson. And that kind of context is very easy to intuitively understand so you won't have to worry about it. Nobody miscommunicates on that level.
Hi, sensei.
Well, I think without か at the end it will be very hard for me to discern whether the person is asking me to eat ramen or just saying he/she is going to eat ramen. And it gets worse. For example, let's suppose I and another person are deciding what to eat. A textbook would say:
ラーメンはたべますか。
I understand why removing は won't make a difference in a setence like that. But does it really rely only on the intonation to find out whether the person is asking me to eat ramen or saying they want to eat ramen when they say ラーメンたべる？In another video I saw you mentioned that Japanese people hardly use particles when speaking. Would that apply to this sentence as well (continuing the above conversation):
ぶたにくたべる instead of ぶたにくもたべる when what I actually want to say is that I ALSO want to eat pork with the ramen? I think particles are truly hellish in Japanese (the only thing worse is keigo), but I really don't see how you can do without them in many situations.
There's something that textbooks don't teach you: we actually use question marks. So when they text you, they write ラーメンたべますか？ or ラーメンたべる？ As for real-life situations, it shouldn't be hard to understand if they are asking you a question. Most of us have enough social intelligence to intuitively understand that stuff.
Hey yuta! Thanks so much for the great lessons. I've been wondering, should I learn the Japanese alphabet before your lessons or will you include teaching them as part of your lessons?
I love Japanese language. My first language is not English but Spanish and maybe because of that I find it a little hard to produce the right intonation to sound like you. I can do it but after I tried many times 😀 thanks for the lessons!
I am wondering what the rikes are for when you say: Ashiita raamen taberu? You put ashiita first in the sentense. But If I put it last.. then it would be wrong, correct?
Like, Raamen taberu ashiita? Or Raamen ashiita taberu?
How do I know the combination correct?
Hello, Yuta, first of all, the conversation "すしたべる - たべる" is not an example of "simple japanese grammar", it's informal. In Englishe you can easily say "wanna sushi?" And get a reply like "yeah" or "i want". In Greek (my native language) too. No people use long formal phrases in informal conversations.
yuta, i downloaded an app called mondly last year and i have been learning japanese from the app. but they have past, present, and future tense. im just wondering if i have been wasting my time learning japanese from the app. i do love watching your videos. i want to move to japan in a few years that's why im trying to learn your language.
Thx Yuta, Is it possible to speak Japnese so i can comunicate with Japanese first. And learn the writing later. Im meeting my partners parents this year and i want to be able to communicate with them?
Matane.?
Yuta, so how is the format in making a Japanese sentence? For example in english, if the sentence is "I will run" the format is Subject, Modals, then verb. How about Japanese?
Wow, this is amazing. I have a lot of textbooks to study Japanese, but they use sentences that are much longer. I bet I would sound really silly to Japanese people if I spoke the way I've read in the books.
to be honest I would just reply yeah thank you (in japanese) but I got the point.
also, up to this point i really liked your lessons. brief, to the point, and having you send them daily helps with keeping a costant llearning pace. also finally someone who doesn't start with here is hiragana learn it or you wont be able to read the rest of the course when I just want to be able to understand when people speak to me and to survive a brief interaction with a japanese person.
Yuta sempai, Could you please explain why we don't use the particles let say in question? I mean か and so on? Thank you for the explanation in advance.
I am also learning Japanese on Duolingo (we used it in school sometimes for learning German so I am familiar with the app I know there are far better ones) and it is teaching us the formal stuff first. I think it would have us say sushi wa tabemas ka (I’m practicing typing with the Japanese keyboard すしは食べますか) (idk if there’s an o before sushi but it hasn’t explained the rules on that kind of thing and it’s not explaining the stuff you’ve talked about so far)
Okay so this is very clear and better very easy. 🙂 Fantastic.
BUT I am confused about one thing, and maybe you just omitted it to keep the lesson simple? Wouldn't it be clearer to say 食べるか instead of just たべる？
Since it's all contextual so if I get the tone wrong or my accent fails me just saying たべる also means "I am eating ramen". So basically with the different meanings that one word sentence can have I'd be worried about it coming across as not being a question but a statement.
So would たべるか。Be the same thing as たべる？ Or would I need to make it 食べるですか or something else to really make it clear I'm asking a question?
Gottit. Note: I've noticed that sometimes when a Japanese word when romanized and endind in 'N', you often pronounce with closed lips as an 'M'.
eg. Obasan
In the video it looks like you are saying OBASAM
Q: which is the correct way? Obasan with open lips or closed? M or N?
If you guys are looking to understand hiragana and katakana , there is an app called kawaii -learn japanese which yes you will have to pay for but its so detailed and helpful , it includes both alphabets , vocab , grammar and even kanji
When do you use markers?
I have used Duolingo and Mirai Japanese before and they said to use を to mark between the verb and noun.
For example 水をのみました
Or would it be 水のむ
Also do you always put か at the end of a question?
I was wondering, does the pitch for example in the word "sushi" matter that much? Like does it sounds more native if it goes up in "shi" or does it matter if the pitch in "shi" goes down?
No, it should be something like "sushi tabemasu ka?"
The keigo form of "taberu" is "tabemasu".
Also, we usually don't say "you (kimi)" and also, we usually don't use "kimi" with someone who we speak keigo with.
This is so helpful. And thank you for clarifying that this is only for close people in your life. I'm beginning to understand many things I see in anime now. I also answered correctly. I feel i can make my dream of being the world's greatest anime creator possible with your amazing teaching skills.
You're answer was confusing to me at first because I was like doesn't it make sense to say "taberu sushi?" to "do you want to eat sushi?" but then I remember that when Translating Japanese to English Japanese people write or say things backwards so in my head it was taberu sushi because in my head it made sense.
I know hirigana basically all the letters but they can’t do katakana at all especially the “tsu” and “shi” and the “n” they all look similar any ideas on how?
While watching this, I imagined two people having this conversation. A guy standing in a kitchen, holding a bag of ramen and his roommate who’s sitting on a couch.
I would definitely recommend WaniKani (wanikani.com) to learn Kanji. The first 3 Lessons (several hundred radicals, kanji and vocabulary words) are free, afterwards you have to pay, but it's worth it. It makes learning kanji really fun and is actually quite simple. After less than two weeks of using it I know about 400 Radicals/Kanji/Words Composed of several Kanji. Try it out!
i have a quetion because of the first video series. we learned that u could say "maiku dayo" or "Boku, Maiku" when someone asks for your name, but that was in the non-keigo form, how would i introduce myself in keigo? and how can i emphasize the "I" as a female? (since "boku" is male) and also thank you so much for these lessons! they help me alot
Yuta Sensei when you asked the last question do you went to eat sushi?
Answer: I answer this question without seeing the comment section- sushi taberu?
Thank you for starting with natural language! I did a minor in Japanese at university, and while the teachers were awesome, they started with formal language and constantly marked me down for using casual speech – even in dramatic performance :/
Anonymous
8 years ago
If you want to add a particle for sushi, would it be が or は ?
Is there a standard order when constructing sentences? For example, would 'Ashita raamen taberu' mean the same as 'Raamen ashita taberu'? And in that same category, can the verb move around? Would 'Ashita taberu raamen' be valid?
In other languages the meaning often changes with the order of words, so I was wondering whether that is the same for Japanese and what that order is if so.
This is all super informal manner of speech, the kind you would use with family or very close friends, so a lot of the normal rules slide. But you could say either of the first two, with different emphasis on the topic of the sentence.
Ashita ramen taberu = Re: Tomorrow, will you/shall we eat ramen?
Ramen ashita taberu = Re: this ramen, will you/shall we eat it tomorrow?
Your third example would not be used, as the verbs come at the end of a Japanese sentence, but the topics can be moved around.
In Japanese, verbs tend to appear towards the end, but all those three ways that you mentioned are totally possible although I'd say "ashita raamen taberu?" would be more standard.
Well, "When do you want to eat ramen" and "When do you eat ramen" are two very different questions. The answer for one is something like "tomorrow" and the answer to the other is something like "every Friday". Does context really easily solve something like that?
Yes, if you are in a real-life situation, you will have enough context to understand because you will have a lot of information. It seems hard when it's written because we don't have any other information like what we talked about previously.
Sarah
8 years ago
Is it possible to reply to "いつ ら-めん たべる？" with just "あした" ? Or is "たべる" an essential part of the reply for it to make sense?
Answer: すしたべる？ Sushi taberu?
Yuta sempai should i also learn japanese alphabets for better understanding???
I would. I used an app called Dr Moku's hirigana and katakana. I learned it exteemly fast with that app. It uses pictograms to help you remember.
Can you link to the app?
You can just go to the apple store or google play store and type dr. moku and it'll show up.
Another good app for hiragana/katakana/vocabulary I would like to recommend is memrise. It works in a more of a flash card style but it's one of the alternatives if you learn better that way.
I am using Memrise, but I still struggle with both alphabet and normal sentences. Any advice, please?
I used Memrise, I actually found it didn't help that much. I recommend Human Japanese. You have to pay for the full version but they have a lite version available that goes in depth with teaching Hiragana, Katakana, verbs, and everything. I don't use Duolingo as much, but it us good for review, but i can also see it being good for Vocab, Hiragana/Katakana, and Kanji.
I've learned hiragana in a couple of days and katakana in 2 weeks using the following two sites:
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-hiragana/
https://www.tofugu.com/japanese/learn-katakana/
the mnemonics really help. If you're creative (unlike me, hehe), you can create those mnemonics by yourself. For example, when I think of the katakana for TA, I think of Tarzan swinging on a rope
I used Duolingo to learn most of the Japanese that I know. It is helpful when learning hiragana and certain kanji, but for katakana, JapanesePod101.com would be pretty useful and both are free.
For me, apps didn't really help me with hiragana/katakana. I reccomend writing them down in order and saying the sounds as you write them
Not gonna lie, I do this myself
That's what I do too. But I feel like it's a slow process
This is what i did, and i memorized Hiragana in 8 days completely, can even read it reasonably fast already.
I just took 5 new chars each day and wrote the whole alfabet down 10 times a day while saying the phonetic sounds while doing it.
last day i was bold and did 11 chars.
I was using Memrise for Hiragana while using iknow.jp at the same time. Doing this I have the hiragana down to the point I can any of the hiragana and I can flat out say it with confidence. I still need to get the meanings down.
try duolingo flashcards, they have really helped me
Hiragana:
https://tinycards.duolingo.com/decks/e1fhs/writing-japanese-hiragana
Katakana:
https://tinycards.duolingo.com/decks/31S6uh/katakana-japanese-syllabary
Honestly I don't use apps, just write them and say the sound. Go five or ten at a time. This way you can write them off of memory instead of only being able to identify them.
One thing I did when learning to read was to write out all of the hiragana and katakana characters, then use different coloured markers to colour code similar strokes. This made it a lot easier to remember characters that are similar but are different by one or two strokes (e.g. さ vs き, ツ vs シ). Also writing them out and making sure your stroke order is correct is a major help.
It costs money right?
I learner Hiragana and Katakana quickly on Japanese Pod 101. It was free.
thank you
I would also recommend using (only if his recommendation isn't working for you) katakana pro and hiragana pro for both katakana and hiragana learnings. I used it and it was great! I learned in under both in under two weeks!
Do it cost or is it a free app?
thank you for the app
Sushi taberu
I use write japanese and it's a great app
Learning Katakana would make it easier to read the symbols above the words! Ive learned most but not all.
I used Hiragana pro / Katakana pro because they show you a symbol and give you 3 options so you can familiarize with the alphabets, then I used kanatown or the same apps, but with an option where I'd have to type the correct option so I can incorporate the alphabets, if you work hard you can learn both katakana and hiragana in a week or 2
Learning hiragana and katakana is very useful in learning Japanese. I would say yes.
Also, it's "Senpai" ^^;
（先輩）
Sempai is actually correct too. It all depends on which kind of romanization you use.
I learned hiragana and katakana VERY quickly for free on Japanese Pod 101.com. You may find it useful.
I learnd how to write japanese and its all thanks to my brother
ofc dud :V
I think u should.
Yes for better understanding you should learn japanese alphabets and,I will also recommend you to learn Japanese songs as they have helped me very much or watch japanese programs with subtitles like I watch animes with subtitles
japanese song bring backs nursery/elementary days feels to me.
はい
I've used several apps that are fun and very fundamental for learning katana/hiragana/etc. Just go to Google play store if you have an Android and type in Japanese Learning Apps and it will let you choose which one fits you best
Definitely
Omg, I didn't expect Japanese to be this simple.
I'm actually soo happy right now because I really love everything about Japan and want to learn Japanese so bad T.T
I hope other lessons will also be this simple, so I just need to learn more words and verbs.
Thanks Yuta sensei
You should, it helps you follow along better, helps remember new words, and really helps with pronunciation. It's not hard or anything just try to memorize them for a week or two, I recommend buying flash cards with pictures to help you remember better.
To be honest you can use Duolingo like an app for see Japanesepod101.com on YouTube it's really helpful check these out if u want : )
I would recommend busuu.com , it’s free and I’ve learned 58 words in two days
I have found that having hiragana and katakana charts downloaded to use as a reference is great. Particularly the ones illustrated by Joey Heaton, as they are simple and easy to understand. They have helped me a lot. Also, the AnkiDroid app is helpful for helping memorize all those pieces of information.
Google hiragana and katana charts & study them. I learned how to read them with my japanese coach game for DS.
Sushi taberu?
in my opinion, yes
It depends on what you actually need to learn.
If all you want is to "speak" Japanese and handle conversations, it's not absolutely necessary for comprehension.
But if you want to actually LEARN Japanese and its deeper meanings and subtleties, there is no avoiding it : you HAVE to learn their alphabet. I would recommend starting with hiragana (the syllabic alphabet), a few signs per day. Don't overdo it at first, go step by step. You'll soon learn all of it and be ready for more.
However, you must practice everyday to keep up. Dedicate 20 to 30 minutes to it daily.
I would say yes based on my experience so far because it is easier and faster to understand a sentence. 🙂
in my experience i recomend learning to read and write Japanese
before learning to speak!
https://drlingua.com/japanese/games/kana-bento/ Visit that site it will help u to memorize kana……with the help of that i learn kana in 3 days
there is another app, yoshiwara flower alley
if you want to learn very basic phrases, it's not mandatory. but if you plan to dive deeper and have better pronunciation, learning hiragana and katakana is crucial.
すしたべる
I already learned hiragana and katakana to understand better I'm sure it will help you. You can easily find ways to learn on internet, there are apps too on Play store like Hiragana Pro and Katakana Pro.
Yes it will help your reading
personally i would recommend it, it really helped me
I am not ユタ-せんせい (Yuta- Sensei), but yes, you should. Learning at least hiragana helped me tons, and learning katakana (which I'm still working on) helps a lot too. When you take notes, you don't even have to write the pronunciation that often unless it's something that you aren't used to reading lijkeeeeee double vowels or something.
I used an app for kana and kanji (this app is only for Apple devices).
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kanji-teacher-learn-japanese/id1048445761
Yes
YES! Alphabets are essential for learning Japanese. Start by learning the vowels. 😀
Sensei
Get Kana From Zero I don't like there other books but that particular one is good I learned the various forms of Hiragana & Katakana in no time.
taberu
Yes!
Thanks for the lesson Yuta!
Why do none of your questions end with か? If a man holds a package of ramen and says ラーメンたべる out loud how am I supposed to know if he's saying "Do you want to eat ramen?" instead of "I'm going to eat ramen." or something similar?
This sort of thing has always bothered me and the only answer I ever seem to get is "context" which I dislike because I feel that can lead to many unnecessary misunderstandings.
The key is the intonation. When it's a question, it has rising intonation, the same way English would.
If he says it with flat intonation, it's a statement.
Of course, these are all highly informal ways of speaking, leaving out particles and pronouns and such. The same way you can say in English "Sushi tomorrow?" and have that mean a whole sentence.
I was going to reply to Smudgey, but I've seen your answer. Yes, the key is "intonation", and Yuta is using a good intonation, it is very easy to understand its lessons., evan for a child. Of course, Japanese language is very different from English language, but does not require too much effort to learn it. Thx, Roberto.
for this case you tell them apart by inflection (pitch) on the end of the word: when it's a question たべる？ the る swings upward in pitch at the end, but for the statement たべる。 it doesn't do that, it stays flat. if you listen for this in the video you can probably start to hear the difference
It works sort of like it does in English. か functions as a verbal question mark, and is somewhat unnecessary because, as in English, you can turn any statement into a question with your tone. How do you know someone is asking a question in English without using who/what/when/where/why/how? Same thing here. "You eat ramen" is said differently than "You eat ramen?".
You don't usually use か with non-keigo sentences. I'll talk about that in another lesson. And that kind of context is very easy to intuitively understand so you won't have to worry about it. Nobody miscommunicates on that level.
Learn by step to step don't jump over
What he teaches right now is just for casual convo, maybe we will take our time there soon. And か is use for formal convo. ?
None of my replies seem to post? Testing.
Hi, sensei.
Well, I think without か at the end it will be very hard for me to discern whether the person is asking me to eat ramen or just saying he/she is going to eat ramen. And it gets worse. For example, let's suppose I and another person are deciding what to eat. A textbook would say:
ラーメンはたべますか。
I understand why removing は won't make a difference in a setence like that. But does it really rely only on the intonation to find out whether the person is asking me to eat ramen or saying they want to eat ramen when they say ラーメンたべる？In another video I saw you mentioned that Japanese people hardly use particles when speaking. Would that apply to this sentence as well (continuing the above conversation):
ぶたにくたべる instead of ぶたにくもたべる when what I actually want to say is that I ALSO want to eat pork with the ramen? I think particles are truly hellish in Japanese (the only thing worse is keigo), but I really don't see how you can do without them in many situations.
There's something that textbooks don't teach you: we actually use question marks. So when they text you, they write ラーメンたべますか？ or ラーメンたべる？ As for real-life situations, it shouldn't be hard to understand if they are asking you a question. Most of us have enough social intelligence to intuitively understand that stuff.
i was thinking す市食べる？ but then I thought why couldn't it be すしたべたい？
Hey yuta! Thanks so much for the great lessons. I've been wondering, should I learn the Japanese alphabet before your lessons or will you include teaching them as part of your lessons?
Yay I got it right 🙂 thankfully I learned Hiragana way back when lol.
Yes I had it right
Ashita sushi taberu.
sushi taberu
I love Sushi.
I would frequently say that. ^_^
Sushi taberu
I love Japanese language. My first language is not English but Spanish and maybe because of that I find it a little hard to produce the right intonation to sound like you. I can do it but after I tried many times 😀 thanks for the lessons!
Is the answer Sushi taberu – 寿司 たベる?
When would you say Taberu Sushi? Would you ever say taberu first?
Pretty much never. It’s just the way grammar is structured in Japanese.
sushi taberu
Ashita taberu.
I am wondering what the rikes are for when you say: Ashiita raamen taberu? You put ashiita first in the sentense. But If I put it last.. then it would be wrong, correct?
Like, Raamen taberu ashiita? Or Raamen ashiita taberu?
How do I know the combination correct?
Arigatou gozaimasu sensei
Great video so easy to understand. Thank you
Hello, Yuta, first of all, the conversation "すしたべる - たべる" is not an example of "simple japanese grammar", it's informal. In Englishe you can easily say "wanna sushi?" And get a reply like "yeah" or "i want". In Greek (my native language) too. No people use long formal phrases in informal conversations.
yuta, i downloaded an app called mondly last year and i have been learning japanese from the app. but they have past, present, and future tense. im just wondering if i have been wasting my time learning japanese from the app. i do love watching your videos. i want to move to japan in a few years that's why im trying to learn your language.
Im also curious, I have been using mondly aswell.
sushi taberu
is this friendly question? る at the end of sentence not Polit question like ますか。
Sushi taberu??
Sushi taberu?
Would you actually normally use the sentence you posted instead of "Sushi o tabetai?".
Taberu
Thx Yuta, Is it possible to speak Japnese so i can comunicate with Japanese first. And learn the writing later. Im meeting my partners parents this year and i want to be able to communicate with them?
Matane.?
Aarigato yuta sensei
たべる。
Sushi taberu.
Sushi tabemasen.
Raarman taberu
Sushi Taberu can be a correct answer. It is very interesting combination Japanese word! Thank you for the sharing
Why the video unreachable in my android..i can play the video ? does anyone know how to play it?
Hai! Taberu. Yes. I will eat!
Yuta, so how is the format in making a Japanese sentence? For example in english, if the sentence is "I will run" the format is Subject, Modals, then verb. How about Japanese?
Thaank you Aoki~senpai.
Is learning Knaji necessary?
はい。寿司食べます?
Wow, this is amazing. I have a lot of textbooks to study Japanese, but they use sentences that are much longer. I bet I would sound really silly to Japanese people if I spoke the way I've read in the books.
arigatō gozaimasu it helps a lot , i love it
Taberu
すしたべる？
はい。。。すしをたべるよ!!
すし たべる？
That is so neat. It makes sense and it is very easy to compose just by using the same exact word or words from the original question. Thanks.
はいすしたべるです
すしたべる。?
I learned the more formal way of "sushi o tabemasu ka?" It's been engrained into my brain. The way you put it is far more simple
I got it right!! Thank you so much Yuta san for making this an easy introduction to grammar .. this is great I love it!! ありがとううううううございます!!?
Sushi Taberu?
Taberu.
Sushi taberu ka
I don't know but "すし食べるの" is acceptable or not?
はい
はい たべたい
what about すしたべたい
すし たべる
Thank you Yuta
Isn't that Japanese people say おすし instead of すし
Ashita taberu 🙂
Got it right , arigato for the class Yuta sensei
Yay, I successfully got the answer correct!
Taberu. Am I correct? Or can I say the word "Hai" instead? Thank you for your lessons!
I added ashita xD
はい、 すし を たべます。
たべる
Ashita taberu?
Yay! I got it right!
arigatou
Ah i almost got it right i said taberu sushi :,) oops
to be honest I would just reply yeah thank you (in japanese) but I got the point.
also, up to this point i really liked your lessons. brief, to the point, and having you send them daily helps with keeping a costant llearning pace. also finally someone who doesn't start with here is hiragana learn it or you wont be able to read the rest of the course when I just want to be able to understand when people speak to me and to survive a brief interaction with a japanese person.
たべるです. Taberudesu.
Sorry. I was excessively polite. Didn't I? XD
taberu kudasai:)
This is so helpful. I'm so glad I found your youtube channel.
ArI gator.
すし たべる？
はい， 明日 食べる
Yuta sempai, Could you please explain why we don't use the particles let say in question? I mean か and so on? Thank you for the explanation in advance.
Hai!
あしたは寿司を食べる
Taberu?
I am also learning Japanese on Duolingo (we used it in school sometimes for learning German so I am familiar with the app I know there are far better ones) and it is teaching us the formal stuff first. I think it would have us say sushi wa tabemas ka (I’m practicing typing with the Japanese keyboard すしは食べますか) (idk if there’s an o before sushi but it hasn’t explained the rules on that kind of thing and it’s not explaining the stuff you’ve talked about so far)
Okay so this is very clear and better very easy. 🙂 Fantastic.
BUT I am confused about one thing, and maybe you just omitted it to keep the lesson simple? Wouldn't it be clearer to say 食べるか instead of just たべる？
Since it's all contextual so if I get the tone wrong or my accent fails me just saying たべる also means "I am eating ramen". So basically with the different meanings that one word sentence can have I'd be worried about it coming across as not being a question but a statement.
So would たべるか。Be the same thing as たべる？ Or would I need to make it 食べるですか or something else to really make it clear I'm asking a question?
Sushi O yorokonde tabemasu yo. Dai suki desu kara .
Gottit. Note: I've noticed that sometimes when a Japanese word when romanized and endind in 'N', you often pronounce with closed lips as an 'M'.
eg. Obasan
In the video it looks like you are saying OBASAM
Q: which is the correct way? Obasan with open lips or closed? M or N?
Yuta pls remove romaji I think romaji is not teaching us the hiragana also if a word ever has a kanji character show it to us.
Thanks. I love your posts.
yay i was right!
Awesome .
If you guys are looking to understand hiragana and katakana , there is an app called kawaii -learn japanese which yes you will have to pay for but its so detailed and helpful , it includes both alphabets , vocab , grammar and even kanji
love it
Sushi Taberu?
I got it right! I'm a natural
Taberu
When do you use markers?
I have used Duolingo and Mirai Japanese before and they said to use を to mark between the verb and noun.
For example 水をのみました
Or would it be 水のむ
Also do you always put か at the end of a question?
I've been taught that even casually, you should still add "o" before "sushi", thus making the sentence "O'sushi taberu?" is that incorrect?
Thank you!
すし 食べる?
Thanks for the lesson
Sensei, how to use past tense
The
I was wondering, does the pitch for example in the word "sushi" matter that much? Like does it sounds more native if it goes up in "shi" or does it matter if the pitch in "shi" goes down?
thank you so much for the lessons you are amazing
This is honestly genius, I struggle with particles, so teaching word usage first really helped.
Sensei, is this also correct?
– Sushi o taberu desu ka?
what's the difference between taberu and tabemasu?
"すしたべみますか？"
is it the same?
すしたべる?? SUSHI TABERU??
Taberu! Arigato Gozaimasu
J'aime bien votre façon d'expliquer le japonais, merci beaucoup !
Taberu, Arigato gozaimasu
Are you wearing one piece t shirt
Sushi taberu?
OMG its correct :>
Sushi taberu?
Sushi taberu. Yuto sense
Sir in reply of the question " sushi tavern? "
If I answer " hai" as yes , will it be wrong?
Oh sorry I meant to say taberu
Dumb autocorrect
Can I say it like "Kimi wa sushi taberu desu ka?"
No, it should be something like "sushi tabemasu ka?"
The keigo form of "taberu" is "tabemasu".
Also, we usually don't say "you (kimi)" and also, we usually don't use "kimi" with someone who we speak keigo with.
Why can’t I access the lesson? I’ve tried to use another laptop and phone
Taberu.
Great lesson thank you Yuta
Sushi taberu
すしたべる?
Looks like i got it right (^_^)
Perfect!
I'm confused! I learned that you have to add か at the end to make something a question!
:p oh yeah!
sushi taberu ? すしたべる？
I got it right ! （＾∇＾）
Ashita taberu
Some of this will be hard to get used to saying like sushi taberu instead of saying it like taberu sushi.
Sure xD
This is so helpful. And thank you for clarifying that this is only for close people in your life. I'm beginning to understand many things I see in anime now. I also answered correctly. I feel i can make my dream of being the world's greatest anime creator possible with your amazing teaching skills.
たべます
すしたべる？
Sushi taberu ?
Do you eat sushi?
Yay! I got it write!
You're answer was confusing to me at first because I was like doesn't it make sense to say "taberu sushi?" to "do you want to eat sushi?" but then I remember that when Translating Japanese to English Japanese people write or say things backwards so in my head it was taberu sushi because in my head it made sense.
Yes! Got it correct! Thanks Yuta! My notebook is getting really full, but I know it’s worth it.
taberu
What about the particles like に、が、を、and は?
Do we not need to use those?
Shouldn’t it be すしを食べる？
Arrigato
うん、食べる。
What about sush tabete des ka
And then there you have me, 2 years late with replying haha.
たべるます
You teaching is VERY easy and short enough to remember. I have become overwhelmed by working on too many things in one day.
I know hirigana basically all the letters but they can’t do katakana at all especially the “tsu” and “shi” and the “n” they all look similar any ideas on how?
Sushi taberue
たべる! ^_^
すしたべる？
たべる。
たべる。
すしをたべる
If its formal/ keigo itu would be
Sushi tabe masuka ?
すし 食べますか
While watching this, I imagined two people having this conversation. A guy standing in a kitchen, holding a bag of ramen and his roommate who’s sitting on a couch.
Konnichiwa ! Yuta sensei.
Arigato gozaimasu.
For always sending ur mails and informations t learn .
Sensei san!
How i can say like
I need food . It is like
Watashi wa hoshi or
Tabetei
sensei!! japanese people speak so fast so how are we supposed to keep up when in a restraunt or something?
Thanks very much Yuta, it is so easy to learn from your Japanese teaching. I am learning well.
I would definitely recommend WaniKani (wanikani.com) to learn Kanji. The first 3 Lessons (several hundred radicals, kanji and vocabulary words) are free, afterwards you have to pay, but it's worth it. It makes learning kanji really fun and is actually quite simple. After less than two weeks of using it I know about 400 Radicals/Kanji/Words Composed of several Kanji. Try it out!
I got it right 🤠
Sushi taberu?
Sushi taberu.
Im correct hohoho am i smart now? HAHAHAHAHA
Ashita Taberu.
たべる Taberu.
Yuta sensei m, do you recommend using Memrise to learn Japanese? There are mixed reviews about it, so I would like to know you’re opinion.
Thanks!
yay I got it right 🙂
Can you please let how to say no if not needed.
A: すしをたべませんか？
Sushi Taberu Ka?
If I were to ask a stranger if they wanted to eat sushi would I say:
おすし たでます?
osushi tabemasu?
すしたべる?
I just gotta say, this is the most amazing thing. Yuta saved us a lot of money with these and I thank you for this Yuta.
Yes I got it right sensei
けっこです
i did everything corect, i really thought this wuld be harder
こんにちは Yuta!
I wanted to ask if スシ is right too?
さようなら👋🏽
how do i ask if somebody has eaten/ already ate?
ゆた日本のアルファベットを知らなければならない
Merci beaucoup
I like how you only write using hiragana
It really helps a lot😁arigato gozaimasu
yay i was corect 😀 and tysm for those lessions it helps me allot
たべる。taberu.
食べません
すしたべる スシタベル
i have a quetion because of the first video series. we learned that u could say "maiku dayo" or "Boku, Maiku" when someone asks for your name, but that was in the non-keigo form, how would i introduce myself in keigo? and how can i emphasize the "I" as a female? (since "boku" is male) and also thank you so much for these lessons! they help me alot
Itsu raamen taberu?
This is the answer for the question.
Yuta Sensei when you asked the last question do you went to eat sushi?
Answer: I answer this question without seeing the comment section- sushi taberu?
I got it
はい、たべます😁
This has been so helpful! I love your lessons!
hi yuta can i use hiragana in everything or katakana
Hai, watashi wa sushi daisuki desu.
(I love these icons) so like.. sushii taberu? Itsu? Ashita. taberu.
taberu
yesss I got it right!
Taberu
食べる
Thank you
I like sushi, so:
Taberu.
Is it actually that simple? I love this language!
Sushi taberu
Sushi taberu
Sushi taberu.
What about たべたい?
Sushi taberu.
It should be noted that this is very informal way of speaking. This is not a way to be used when addressing stranger on a street.
I will talk about that in the next lesson.
Thank you for starting with natural language! I did a minor in Japanese at university, and while the teachers were awesome, they started with formal language and constantly marked me down for using casual speech – even in dramatic performance :/
If you want to add a particle for sushi, would it be が or は ?
Neither, it would be を。
Hmmm lowkey smarto
I love your videos they're so helpful 🙂
Also: Sushi taberu
すし たべる ?
ありがとうございます ゆた 先生
Answer: 寿司食べる? (すしたべる?)
Sushi taberu?
Sushi taberu?
Is there a standard order when constructing sentences? For example, would 'Ashita raamen taberu' mean the same as 'Raamen ashita taberu'? And in that same category, can the verb move around? Would 'Ashita taberu raamen' be valid?
In other languages the meaning often changes with the order of words, so I was wondering whether that is the same for Japanese and what that order is if so.
This is all super informal manner of speech, the kind you would use with family or very close friends, so a lot of the normal rules slide. But you could say either of the first two, with different emphasis on the topic of the sentence.
Ashita ramen taberu = Re: Tomorrow, will you/shall we eat ramen?
Ramen ashita taberu = Re: this ramen, will you/shall we eat it tomorrow?
Your third example would not be used, as the verbs come at the end of a Japanese sentence, but the topics can be moved around.
In Japanese, verbs tend to appear towards the end, but all those three ways that you mentioned are totally possible although I'd say "ashita raamen taberu?" would be more standard.
2:35 some strange frame glitching
I saw that
I saw this too
Well, "When do you want to eat ramen" and "When do you eat ramen" are two very different questions. The answer for one is something like "tomorrow" and the answer to the other is something like "every Friday". Does context really easily solve something like that?
Yes, if you are in a real-life situation, you will have enough context to understand because you will have a lot of information. It seems hard when it's written because we don't have any other information like what we talked about previously.
Is it possible to reply to "いつ ら-めん たべる？" with just "あした" ? Or is "たべる" an essential part of the reply for it to make sense?
You can totally answer あした。 Good guess.
”寿司食べる？”
To the above, is it casual? If so, is it ok to add: ”ですか？” at the end to make it polite?
It would be 寿司食べますか？ (in real life but 寿司を食べますか。 in textbooks). I'll talk about that in the next lesson.