Big YouTube Promises from Japanese gurus and くて | Japanese From Zero! Video 145 

really sugoi, a lot of effort put in and the result is really high quality content, this was a great くて review for me

Love this new style actually. Intro did a really good job at hooking me into the topic. The walking around as you talked to the camera made it feel more professional in a way. Plus I like when you started walking backwards while talking of speaking and learning backwards xD I understand くて now, but tbh I'm still in the first book so a lot of the words in general were new to me. Still it was great learning a little something new from what I could understand. Definitely love this though. Personally think you should stick to this for future lessons.

日本語はかなり奥深い言語です。（笑）

Hi @DDB168. 起 くて doesn't work. I think perhaps you wanted to use くて as because since watched this video. When you want to say because, you have to use ので. And just 起 also doesn't work. It would be past tense in your context. So it should be 起きていたので. If you realy want to use くて, you should use 寝てない (didn't sleep) and change it to 寝てな. Thank you.

@@masayama1618 Thanks!

@@DDB168 You're welcome.

So you must be learning a lot.

I feel attacked

No, it's called a promise ring, I think.

Believe it or not, there actually IS a way to encapsulate the idea of the て form, but I haven't really seen it in any Japanese textbooks. If you've ever studied Latin, the て form has a nearly 1-to-1 match with the ABLATIVE GERUND. (Note, this is NOT the same as the English gerund.) I repeat, the ablative gerund in Latin is used in 90% of the same situations where the Japanese て form is used. This ablative gerund became the "-ando/endo" form of verbs in Romance languages like Spanish or Italian (i.e. "pensando", "dormendo"). My Italian teacher stayed on us for misusing the "gerundio" as they call it. The "gerundio" in Latin/Romance languages and the て form in Japanese are all ADVERBS. Thus, it tells you HOW the main action is completed. (The English gerund/participle, on the other hands, is usually used like a noun or an adjective.) The て form does not mean "verbing", or "having verbed", or anything like that. It means "BY verbing" because it is explaining HOW you are doing the main action or under what conditions you are doing the main action. My Italian professor would correct me on this a lot, making sure I knew the difference between the two. (And I mean all of the extended uses of the "gerundio", not just its use in the progressive tenses.) Once I realized that the Japanese て form was doing all the exact same things as the "gerundio", it was the biggest aha moment I ever had in Japanese. So, て means "by doing this action, some other action can occur", or "due to this thing being true, then something else is able to occur". Usually, just saying "by verbing" covers the idea. However, when dealing with stative verbs such as adjectives and で (the て form of だ), it can mean either "by/due to being ___" OR "while being ___". (で even can get the extended meaning of "by means of" when used with nouns.) Either way, it's still explaining the conditions under which the main action takes place. Just remember it's always telling you HOW or UNDER WHAT CONDITIONS. Notice, that the "gerundio" in Latin/Romance languages doesn't inherently have a subject. And neither does the て form. And neither does "by verbing" in English. If I say "by going to Japan", that in and of itself doesn't tell you who is doing the action -- we have to keep listening in the sentence for the rest of the context to fill in that info. So then, in a complete statement, "By going to Japan, he can see Mt. Fuji", now we see who that condition is true for. This even holds true when using the て form as a command, because you're really just dropping off the ください (or some other appropriate verb of giving). So when you have してください, you are saying "by doing (it), (you) give to me" -- or more naturally in English, "please do it for me". But even if you drop the ください and you are only left with して, it still means "by doing (it)" with the ください part being implied. For something like 走って行く, you have "by running, I go". Again, the て form is just telling you HOW you carry out the main action. Even when you have and extended chain of て together to connect statements, this same idea is still underlying that. (For this reason, you may notice there is a difference sometimes in how a native Japanese person will string sentences together vs. how you might do it, because て doesn't exactly mean "and", but rather explains HOW. In some cases, a string of multiple "hows" can make sense; but in other cases, it won't, and that's where Japanese people would express the idea in a different way.) I hope this made some kind of sense.

Hi @Timeisallthatmattersinlife1. いただくくて is wrong on grammar. I think yhou wanted to use passive style with polite japanese. So it should be くださって. If you want to use いただく, it's be いただいて. And You shouldn't use 授業を教える. Because it means "teach lesson". you change the verb 教えて to して. Thank yhou.

I don't even know if the 今日は is necessary because of context someone let me know if I could omit it

@@JustIzzan yeah, you could leave it out, 疲れる is present tense so it's already conveying that it happens currently and not on the previous day.

@@nineballnoir that's exactly what I thought ありがとう

Hi @JustIzzan. I think you lost て after 寝 when talk about past. Thank yhou.

Imo once you have a vocabulary of a few hundred words and know a decent amount of grammar is when things like anime and podcasts actually start to benefit you. After that point is when it goes from being no help at all to absolutely essential. Worst part about training your listening is that you cant notice your progress the way you can when learning new words or grammar, but it does help, even if you only catch one word in the whole sentence at first

Sometimes they will say short and concise things you can learn from. Day 1 it might just be ありがとう, a few days or weeks in (depending on your pace) it could be たすかった！ こんどは僕のばんだ！ and you take that knowledge and catch up on words and phrases on the longer stuff said. Once you have some grammar knowledge, you will hear words separately. Immersion is very important. It's just a matter of how you use it. My comprehension is also pretty bad and I might take my mishearing and create a false context for myself which further confuses me. Which is why it's important for me that the content has Japanese subtitles to go with. Animelon is a fantastic resource where you can watch anime with both English and Japanese subtitles. Learning Japanese with AI is also valuable, but soon it will be really valuable. Why? Because you will be able to talk back. Walking to school or work and having something to talk Japanese to on the way? Absolutely incredible.

About .1 probably.

Correct.

Hi @parkcityhuman. The location of 多くの iseems unnatural. I think 多くなくて or たくさんいなくて are better options. Thank you.

@@masayama1618 こういう言い方はもっとペラペラらしいでしょうか？ 四年間ぐらい日本語の勉強をしていますが、日本に住んでいる友達が多くなくて、日本語の会話の相手が少ないんです。

@@parkcityhuman はい。前のよりは自然です。

​@@masayama1618勉強になりました。手伝ってくれてありがとうございました。🙂

@@parkcityhuman どういたしまして。がんばってください。

In English it sounds fine to say "I commented because I finished the video", but it might sound better to just end the Japanese sentence with masu, since it's a current action I'm taking (as I'm typing it out). Also... my brain wants to go with から or ので rather than くて, so I have a feeling it doesn't really work here.

Wait, it's only for adjectives ...so ~て might work, but for くて I'd have to say something like ...面白くて, ...

動画が面白くて、コッメントを書きます。

コメント also good self correction for くて

It's the same thing. 通じて is more written language and you might see it more in books or magazines. My advice is to not get hung up on things that seem to be the same thing, I'm fluent in English but I can't explain the difference between "through" and "via" and that's fine by me. 😄

散歩は長くなくて、大丈夫だろう。

The mouse is actually much bigger. But for some reason it shows up smaller on the recording. I’ll research it a bit more.

There was something special about her soft voice.

それは広告ですか

Hi @user-mh9cr4kg6b. 使う教える isn't correct. If you want to say "use" as a method of teaching, that part will be "使って教える". Thank you.

@@masayama1618 Oh yes, you are right. I made a mistake there. I’m going to change that, so that I will remember. Thank you!

@@Livio-g7h You're welcome.

Hi @limbobbins. なることが欲しい is incorrect on grammar. That "want to (a verb)" become "(a verb)たい". So you have to say "なりたい" as that part. Thank you.

@@masayama1618 Ah, rookie mistake! Thank you for pointing it out. 教えてくれてありがとうございます。 「話せるようになりたくて」！

@@limbobbins You're welcome. がんばってください。

Some Japanese people speak soooo fast. I love it honestly.