~ている Verbs in Japanese 

I feel exactly the same, although I've only been learning Japanese since 5 months ago, but I was as well confused because I thought it only meant on going action like the ing form in English.

@@fromgames3123 exactly some grammar resources kinda skip over this iru form to describe a state and just say its like -ing form in english

I agree. This explanation has solved years of confusion caused by textbooks that think it's obvious and just gloss over it. Thank you, Kaname!

Best part of Kaname's video's for real. So many other Japanese youtube teachers just do the very basics because that's what gets the most views (it's no secret that most Japanese learners quit after they learn the basics, probably like all languages). Kaname is AMAZING for people who are trying to break through to the intermediate levels of Japanese learning. Actually since watching him starting from a couple months ago, my listening comprehension has been getting so much better. I'm at the point where I'm watching non-subtitled Japanese shows (not anime) and I'm mostly able to follow along throughout the whole thing. All thanks to Kaname who actually goes into the REAL usage of these grammar points, rather than the typical "here is the one basic way to use it and that's it because that's all we think your English brain can handle :pleading_face:" approach that even most intermediate textbooks use. I still suck at speaking LOL but I'm enrolling in Japanese 102 at my uni soon and I expect that to get way better now that I can actually use it with people at a place/level I'm comfortable with

Yeah, a couple of zeros on the left

@MinaSteph I obviously don't

True

Yuh this guy helpful as

seriously!! i must just be early

As a chinese, would you say that the state restricts your freedom? I am brazilian and it is very hard to know unbiased information about this subject.

I would like to help you with a grammar error you made. You said “between this two languages”, when it’s correct to say “between these two languages”. The word “this” can only describe one thing. For example: “I am trying to learn Chinese, this is a very interesting language.” The word “this cannot be used for more than one thing. Instead you would use “these”. For example: “I am trying my best to learn the verb difference in Danish and Japanese, but these languages are very different.” You should also say “This is a funny way” rather than “This is funny way” because the second one does not sound right with the word/letter “a” that connects some words together. “I’m focus on learning” should be “I’m focusing on learning”. The “ing” makes the verb something that you are doing right now or are going to do. There isn’t many other mistakes in your sentence but if you have any questions I can help.

​@@Honda_Kiku Thank you for your help.I have just learned these languages by watching many videos on youtube since this year.I think I shoud write some comments below instead of only watching them.Maybe it could help me to express myself more. And it is so kind of you that you are willing to correct my mistakes by writing so many interpretations.すごく勉強になりました。ありがとうございます。

@@Honda_Kiku ~ Super nice of you to step in and provide a suggestion!

@@C_Lena Writing comments would definitely help you with language learning. Good luck with 日本語 and English.

And furthermore, I've been studying Japanese for so long...spinning my wheels to be honest, and this is the first time I've heard this point explained! Mind blown.

I think it's not just the Japanese, I hear it a lot among Slavic people. It's so much more challenging for a foreigner to learn English if their native language is from a different family. The nuances of when to use which form/tense when you don't have something to compare it to is really difficult if nobody points it out like Naito does for Japanese! And don't even get me started on the spelling/pronunciation.

I love using the small mistakes people make when speaking a foreign language to better understand the differences in the grammar usage between the two languages I (spanish first language, but raised in the US so my english is stronger) have these kinds of conversation with my mom (native spanish speaker, adult english learner) a lot. In order to help her improve her english, I'll try to identify what it is that she's trying to translate into english from spanish and oftentimes it's that she's trying to use a spanish grammar rule/way of saying in English. For example saying "I have cold" instead of "I am cold" since in spanish it would be "Tengo frio" (literally "have cold"). Breaking down the reason why that doesn't work in english (you can't "have" intangible things in english) but does in spanish is the fun part and helps us both get a better understanding of each other's languages :D

@@misslovedog8177 Mmm. That's not quite it. You certainly can have intangible things in English: "He has tremendous courage." "I have an idea." "We have pride in our organization." "They have insidious intentions." These are all examples of perfectly possessable intangible things in English. I think what's really going on here is that you can't have adjectives ("cold", in this context, is an adjective.): "I have tremendous." "They have insidious." "She has great." "We have circular." "He has generous." These are all examples of having adjectives, which is illegal in English. Though, there are special circumstances where this might initially appear to be untrue. However, upon closer inspection, I think it still holds up. Like, for example, if you're playing a card game, and there's a card called "Cold", and you have this card in your hand, you could say "I have Cold". So that might look at first like possessing an adjective. But, in this context, "Cold" is really a proper noun (hence the capitalization), and not an adjective at all. And, in the very common case of "I have a cold", which, of course, is also legal, the word "cold" is a noun (not a proper noun, but just a regular noun), and still not an adjective. Another common example is with colours. One might say something like, "I have so much green!" They could be talking about, say, money, or weed. In any case, there's an unspoken noun being omitted: "I have so much green [paper]", or "I have so much green [herbs]". It could be reduced to just "I have so much green [stuff]." So, depending on how you analyze something like that, "green" could be an adjective describing an unspoken noun (and that noun is actually the possessed thing), or "green" could have been upgraded into just being used AS a noun in its own right, thereby losing its adjectival status. The latter conceptualization is very slangy, however, but doable. In theory, you could say "I have cold skin", which would be technically legal-if very unnatural-English. From that, one might surmise that they could then say "I have cold", with the noun "skin" simply being omitted. However, omitting the noun like that can only be done if 1) the omitted noun is widely and immediately understood without any ambiguity or confusion, and 2) the intended context of the statement remains intact. The first criteria is not met because your average English speaker will say, "... cold what?" They won't immediately and reliably know what the unspoken noun is. The second criteria is also not met because we're trying to use this in place of "I'm cold", which has a "right now, in this particular moment" connotation, but "I have cold skin" is going to be interpreted in English as a general statement that's true most of the time. In order to turn that into a "right now" statement, one would have to say "My skin is cold", which, again, is legal, but somewhat unnatural English.

Still don't follow why they would say that could ya explain

Imagine how much better your Japanese would be if you hadn't stopped. That's what I tell myself everyday after seen how long ago I started trying to learn this language

Each Duolingo unit has a guidebook that usually explains what you're meant to learn in that unit. It's not bad to use other resources to understand better though, since learning a language is that something that use can easily do with only one source.

well, his channel only recently started getting exposure, and this video was released two hours ago, so it's about right, but hopefully soon he will get thousands of views in the first hour of posting :))

Kaname-san's channel is a diamond in the rough. Lets spread his channel xD

Same!

Yup. Exactly that. I am not really good at japanese though... And this comment is mostly to feed the algorithm :D

@@johanneswerner1140 you'll get there soon, just keep going 💪

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