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The part about certain things sounding more feminine or masculine reminds me of a friend who went to live in Japan and although he could speak some basic Japanese, he got better at it from living in there. It wasn't until one of his male co-workers told him that his Japanese sounded very feminine that he realized it was because most of his friends and social circle were women so that's how he got used to talking.
I've heard about the same problem, so I decided to explain sounding feminine part. But interesting thing is that I've never heard the other way around, that foreign women sound masculine. I guess men talk to women differently from when they talk to men. They tend to speak more politely, so it's ok for foreign women to imitate men's speech around them.
Fantastic video! I love these videos where you explain how Japanese sentences work, like the meaning of certain particles and expressions, and also how you give examples on how to use them. I would appreciate future videos like this! You're a great teacher! 👍😃
I think of casual か as "huh..." sometimes: "So it's already that time, huh..." "So that's what you wanted, huh..." (both with falling intonation just like in japanese, and commonly used as a self rhetorical question)
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally thanks!! also, for じゃん, I think of "isn't it↓ " since technically that could be considered the literal translation: 「すごっくいいじゃん！」 "That's great, isn't it!" Also falling intonation and I'm so grateful Japanese is similar in this way, makes it a little easier to catch onto the verbal queues 😅
Thanks, this helped a lot! Yesterday my friend told me I sounded too feminine because I was using でしょ a lot, so she said I should use だろう. Will you make a video about that?
I learned about the very feminine わ a few weeks ago after hearing it in one of the songs that I think I've mentioned in the past (Tricot - サマーナイトタウン ). The text 「おかしな夢だわ」. I think it's so important to learn about feminine and masculine ending particles for everybody, even if we would not use it. Because it is good to understand when hearing or reading something (like in the song). Edit: (I wrote 「また同じ夢わ」 first, and that was wrong, it was を at the end 😅 ).
Thank you again for this interesting comment! I checked the lyrics, and here are the feminine endings, which means when we see this ending we can tell the speaker is a woman. かしら のね のよ （だ）わ Also, words like ちょうだい sounds feminine when it's written.
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally wow, are all of those feminine endings? And ちょうだい too? I only learned about だわ because seeing わ at the end was so rare for me. When just listening and not focusing on the lyrics I thought it was the particle は, so when I read わ I looked it up. Are there any similar endings that are masculine (or even very masculine?) 😃
なのに／のに shows the speaker's unpleasant feeling because the result isn't something the speaker has expected. 今日は晴れだと思ったのに(I thought it was sunny today →it isn't sunny, and the speaker isn't happy)
こんにちは、ふみ先生！ It is interesting to see that the particle ね「ne」is exactly the same as the Portuguese "né". It is pronounced in the same way, comes at the end of a sentence, and has the same function. In Portuguese, "né" is a contraction of "não é" = right?, isn't so?, isn't that so?, isn't it? 🙂
Sensei the explanation is great, easy to understand and qlear. more or less i can understand most of it but only one thing make me wondering, are feminine intonation really crucial in conversation when i use "no" ending particle ? i mean, if a man accidently speak feminine intonation, is it okay or make the person who said it in wrong way sound like a "okama"?
Another helpful video! Let me lazily say that your lessons show how similar languages (those I know) are. Common thought patterns produce common language patterns, throughout humanity!
This video includes ね and よね Speak Japanese Naturally - The very basics of ending particles - ね、よ、よね ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-Di-GmRnHMcQ.html
Watching this video makes me wonder about your teaching methods when you conduct your English classes in Japan. Given their quiet reputation, I wonder if you're able to get many students to raise their hands during class...lol
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Oh no, your methods are great. I just thought it would be fun to see your classroom style, but I guess you're more of an individual instructor...I do wonder if you'd be a "tough grader"..lol
I'm sure it wouldn't be fun for you and me. Actually just thinking about teaching in front of a class full of young people makes me horrified ...😱 I have a license to teach in Junior high school and high school, but that's last thing I want to do in my life ...😓
