please do more of these type of videos I genuinely wanna learn new languages. Japanese is my main one and your helping me a lottttt :) I appreciate you keep up the great teaching skills :D
Konishiwa, Alise! Japanese is so complicated to me, that seems almost miraculous that someone could learn it when an adult. I would not be the best student, but you're definitely the very best teacher ;) Thanks for this video!
Arigatou Alex! It's definitely complicated, but being interested in the language helps haha! Thanks so much and I'm glad you're enjoying the Japanese videos :)
They often don't use the カタカナ for アメリカ, they just put 米国. Shortened (lazy) kanji. Which literally means "rice country". Is America a rice country? No, it's because of the 音読み. And then people complain about the spelling English of words.
Always wanted to learn Japanese. 😊 couldn't ask for a better teacher. Thank for the amazing video as always. 😁 hope everything is going good with you. 🙏🏻
アイ ラブ ユ (i hope that’s what i think it says cuz it took me like 2 hours of rewatching to figure out which letter is which, and idek if it’s right or even acceptable katakana haha anyway what i want it to say is basically, “You’re awesome Alise, and this video was great! 😁”)
4.21k 💀 I started watching your videos when you were at 800-900 and that wasn’t long ago. Congrats! And this video is amazing. Your voice always helps me relax lol
I had been wondering why the vowel groups sounded so familiar since the last video, and it only clicked when you reach the "L" group - That was the call and response phrase used between multinational forgeign intelligence agents in Snake Eater: "Who Are The Patriots?" "La Li Lu Le Lo." I get the cleverness of it now - Kojima was a Japanese director writing about American, British and Chinese agents in Soviet Russia, and directed the dialogue in Japanese so it was assumed that all spoken words had been transposed to the players native language from the Russian, English etc that the characters were speaking. So to the Japanese player, the pronunciation of the phrase as weitten would instantly distinguish the intended foreign agent from any unintended Russian (Japanese) parties. That's really cool, actually.
This will take a lot of practice but I won’t give up, I might have to study on the book or watch this video again and again until I can memorize each letter in Japanese, I will learn this language and hope to put in good use to communicate
So katakana is only used for not japanese worlds for example countries , brands, names or something like that? And u can mix katakana and hiragana when writing? Like for example ,,i live in america" i live in- hiragana , america-katakana , im very sorry if im saying something stupid , i didn't learn katakana yet
That's right! One sentence in Japanese can actually have words written in three alphabets: hiragana, kanji, and katakana. It's a little confusing haha I had the same question too when I started learning :)
Love these Japanese videos. The only thing is that seeing the microphone kills many of the tingles for me. It feels less personal but still, it was quite relaxing
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