3 months of Japanese: My first conversations | Vlog #12 

すごい！ You say "um, uh" a lot which is of course natural in conversation but you could replace these with the Japanese equivalents, "ano" (あの) and "etto" (えっと) to make your conversation seem more natural. Good luck with your studies!

It's always refreshing to see someone upload a real video of their Japanese progress. There is no hiding with these interview style videos, so well done! You are making great progress for 3 months. Keep it up!

This is amazing. I visited Tokyo last March and started learning some basic words and grammar three months before the trip. It proved its worth when I had to talk with the taxi driver to tell him where my rented room was.

I've taken half a dozen italki tutoring sessions. I keep forgetting to record them. I have wanted to do a freestyle session like this. But they have either been structured classes( the tutor's teaching style), or very early on it turned into a mini lesson, which were all good, but I almost wish they had let me struggle a bit more so I could focus on keeping up the conversation, rather learning specific lessons. I've started a couple sessions with the intention to build my speaking confidence spent half of the time practicing and then leaving with "homework " like counting various items, telling time using minutes or something else (important , yet not relevant at the moment).

Transcription of the sentences that the tutor says at the unsubbed parts for others who maybe didn't quite catch it. 02:02 他の。。。え、ショーンさんが受けた先生のコメント見るととても日本語が上手なんですね 5:55 ちょっとやったことある 6:25 三味線をやります 6:48えっとですね、三味線も色々あって。。。 7:27 日本の伝統的な I think there may have been a mistranslation by your tutor regarding the word 動画. He translated it as movie, but I think we have a distinct difference in what we consider movies (i.e. big budget films) and videos. My instructors have told me that 映画 is what we'd think of as a cinema type film, and 動画 is more akin to videos (e.g. RU-vid videos). In practice this seems to be the case. Nice to see the fruits of your efforts thus far. It definitely seems like your flashcard study is paying off. Looking forward to more updates like this one.

Dang man, for 3 months thats some really good progress. I'm on month 2 and after seeing this it really makes me want to push harder cause I feel like I'm not going to be able to match you till twice as long

This should make an interesting video to compare progress over the months which I'm sure is your intent. Also makes a good example to others about putting oneself out there and be willing to make mistakes. Great job.

Wow, you're learning so fast! I started learning japanese three months before you, but you are clearly better than me. It is obvious that you are putting a lot of effort into this. I'm very inspired by you.

Way better than I did in my first conversation

Not bad for 3 months study. Keep it up. Well done.

Ok i just watched a little more of this video. Your tutor really wasn't doing you many favors as he didn't really simplify his Japanese for your benefit as a beginner. For example, he heard you say ビデオ and he understood but he chooses to use the more natural word 動画 without explaining, yeah ビデオ is a word but 動画 is a more natural word for video. He also, switches into casual speech sometimes, which is actually more confusing to beginners than speaking in polite form. In Japan, kids learn plain form first then learn polite form, but for almost all Japanese learning material for native English speakers, its polite form first with the polite conjugations then you learn plain form. Maybe its because your pronunciation is pretty good compared to a lot of Japanese learners he thought you were more advanced but you may actually get more help from speaking to a tutor who's not native Japanese in the beginning who understands these things. There's a guy, Benjiro on italki who seems pretty good for beginners, he has a youtube channel.

I smiled through your video. Well done. I watching your journey from the beginning

Thanks for uploading! This is great listening comprehension practise for me as well

Finally the big announcement!!

Wow, you are going to Japan in three weeks, that's great! If you want to meet when you're​ here and have the time, please let me know!

damn 3 months? That's really good!!! Can you post an updated video of you speaking? You must be a voice actor in animes by now

My first conversation I was so nervous and stuff that I got a stitch in my stomach just from sitting in my computer chair and forgot that I can make conversation by asking questions that I knew how to use.

You are farther than me for sure. I am maybe 3 weeks in. I could understand, and or recognize some words there. I have a small head start. I studied it for a little while in HS. So, I remembered pronunciation and some words. I forgot most though. I am starting over for the most part. Can't wait till I get to your progress level. Seems like once you can kind of hold your own in a conversation, it would snowball from there.

pretty impressive for 3 months, at least vocab wise. One thing to note is at the end you say you are bad at something. This isn't わるい　as you'd expect, its へた（下手）. As in 日本語が下手です　（(I'm) bad at japanese)). The opposite of this is じょうず　（上手）which you can hear him say earlier in the video.

Lol this reminds me of when i was first learning japanese, i would just constantly just go "hai hai hai" because it was the only answer i could think of that i knew it was 100% gonna make sense lol

Subcribed! I am too learning Japanese and you are an inspiration :)

Great vídeo thanks a smile scochi

Really cool man, It's awesome

The last word you said: "Chao" right? I think you can speak Vietnamese also ne!

I'm one month into studying Japanese, and for the life of me I don't feel like I'm even close to the amount of progress you made in 3 months! Hell, just the idea of actually having a conversation with someone in Japanese gives me anxiety, lol.

I wish I could help you with your Japanese :) 楽しそうです. Great video :)

(Edited) forget the comment i didnt see the description and its obvious that you found them through Italki lol.....Excuse me sir where did you find a japanese native to speak to through skype? I would like to have a skype convo with a native as well to test practice my japanese with

Just curious..what would you like to use your Japanese skills for? I mean short term and long term?

How did you find someone to talk to ??

Is he a tutor or are you just talking with someone on iTalki or the like?

how you record your conversation?? i want to record mine too when i using skype and italki..i already learn nihongo for 1 year and half and i think my speaking skill even worse than you.so don't worry..you are doing good now.. がんばれ!!

I'm a ばか

はい counter - at least 20

Are this random people you met on italki?

Your began to turn red

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