Knowing Idioms are sometimes more important than grammar sometimes when it comes too understanding context of a situation in any language, this is super useful. Been looking for more of these.
Thank you so much for this! You teach more than an average teacher does and your explanations of verb usage and examples is so helpful to me. I have learned so much from you. You are the best teacher one can have!
"Fundari kettari" = "One thing after another." I found one in the dictionary once. "Michikusa wo ku." Roughly, "To eat the grass along the road". This is when someone gets distracted instead of focusing on a task. Imagine a guy sitting by the road chewing a stalk of grass when he should be working. So when I find myself reading the books I'm trying to sort out and put away I stop and say, "I'm eating grass again!"
Good stuff. I would appreciate more idiom videos like this. It really helps those of us that have been in japan a long time but cant catch expressions like as meshi mae. Also a video that has the opposite idioms as well would be useful. Cheers!
Don't worry Misa-sensei. Many people here love you and support you. Thank you for your hard work. I wish you to be fine in 2022. Take care of yourself.
A good English example of 踏んだり蹴ったり is "kick me while I'm down" It means even though you are already down you are still being kicked. Or even though life is already hard it keeps getting harder. 👍 皆！勉強頑張ってね 💪
I love love LOVE your verbs video. If you ever did more of those for other verbs or nouns, I would DIE. :) it helped me so much more than you think. Way more than just remembering them from a stupid book.
Hi Misa-sensei! Another idiom you might like is "start over from scratch." It comes from the scratched line in the ground at the start of a race. Your cooking example made me think of it, because you can use it in a different way for cooking. "From scratch" would mean that you had no premade ingredients for cooking an item. Like rather than using a cake mix or even just buying a cake from a store. Sometimes a cook can feel pride if someone thinks the dish is very professionally made. Like at a dinner party, Guest: "Wow you made this? It tastes store-bought." Host: No, I made it myself, from scratch, no mixes or anything." So when you messed up the cake, and if you made it from flour and everything, you could say, "Now I have to start over from scratch, making it from scratch." Hopefully some silly wordplay will brighten your day! :)
Misa sensei you look radiant, healthy and beautiful 💕 thank you for always teaching us all these useful words and phrases! Also love your hair ✨ 明けましておめでとうございます🎍🎊
Omg i was thinking that song before you said it, it is good southpark moment 😂 I hope you will have good luck in the future, last couple of years were beyond miserable for me too. Maybe there will be a miracle, who knows.
I had to start recommitting myself to learning Japanese. I got lazy & my interest waned trying apps that claimed but failed. It's so hard with PTSD my anxiety & memory make it so hard.
Wow, I knew absolutely none of this. Really good to know, especially 踏んだり蹴ったり. 13:51 you can also just say 20 22 (twenty twenty-two), which is much less of a mouthful lol.
"Superman" exercise is easy to do and great for lower back pain. Lower back pain is usually due to slightly weak muscles, it helps me immensely. Please try!
I don't understand the usage of"の目に " in the sentence "ふんだりけったりの目に遇った " . Could anyone please tell me the meaning of this? Thanks a lot and sorry for my bad English.
目 here means "experience". 目にあうis an expression, usually meaning to experience something negative. So, "I suffered (experienced) a series of unfortunate events". You might also hear ひどい目にあった or いたい目にあった
How many decades are they going to keep you from travelling abroad though? That might be the last year of your life. I mean, Japanese national parks are a gem, so for the Japanese it's not THAT bad but, I mean, who said there are not people who want to go somewhere else?
あけましておめでとうございます！Thank you as always for your fun and informative videos! They really help me living here in Japan--textbooks just don't cover this stuff. Thank you! Let's all do our best this year!
