I love how George puts out these videos with minimal editing if there is even any, it makes you feel like you're actually in a lesson with him not just on youtube, it makes it feel real. thank you for these amazing books and this amazing video series.
The best teacher! I have been thorough a lot of japanese learning apps but nothing compared to all of his books and videos!!! Mr. George you are the best!
"I'm Mr. Meeseeks!!! Look at meee!!" Haha Joji san wa watashi no Mr. Meeseeks desu. He teaches me Japanese and when I'm completely fluent he'll just disappear. (Don't worry, I think you have a lot of time left)
As for the Filipino "kamayan" thing, yes, it's a cultural thing and believe me when I say we sometimes eat soup (poured on rice ofc) with our bare hands too and just sip the soup out of the plates. The food's more delicious when did that way lol
I think made is more correct because it's sort of a "counting until the hours end" situation, in which made means "when the hours end", referring to the time until the destination is reached.
George! This is my first comment on your videos so far, and think they are f****g awesome! I've been through other learning material, and this has been great. For the question "How long does it take you to get to Japan by airplane?" I wrote down "なんじ ひこうきでにほんに いきますか。”(excuse the spaces, didn't want to use kanji) Would this make any sense? Again, this video series has really cleared up some big things in my head. Thanks sooooo much.
These video's teach me more useful phrases for daily life, than my Japanese class does. Same grammar points, but much beter vocabulary. Super useful for reviewing during summer break
When describing a public transport line, or something, would you use へ? Like, in English we might board something like "route 903 to Altona", but we aren't going to Altona, maybe.
My answer to the last one was, 飛行機で日本に(は)何時間かかりますか I don't think it's wrong, it could be, but I think it's just a matter of saying the same thing in different ways.
How important is word order in Japanese? I'm asking because I seemingly always do the opposite to George. E.g. from the video わたしは バスで がっこうにいきます。 I would have said: わたしは がっこうに バスで いきます。 Bus and school inverted positions. I'd that an issue?
@@SM-ok3sz thanks!!! You know what I'm going to ask next, right? Well... here goes: "How do I know what is the more Japanese way?" Are there rules of thumb? Thanks for replying. I appreciate it
As an EXPERIENCED Japanese student I get frustrated when Kanji isn't used in the lesson because it's actually easier to read the sentences when all the writing systems are used. Though Kanji is a fucking pain in the ass.
We just eat with our hands when there's no available fork and spoon in a 5 mile radius. If there's utensils available we will use it. P.S: yes I know mang inasal unli rice blahblahblah use your hand
Hi George, firstly あなたのチャネルは大好きです。I’m an intermediate student just getting a refresher or different perspective, my question is, (hoping that u respond to past episode related questions) how come (as appears in this episode) no one seems to translate 学校へ行きます as "heading to school" or "heading for school" cos that’s the sense I get.. would that translation be wrong? (🇬🇧btw).. thanks 🙏🏼 & all the best!
yeah, man, my wife is Chinese. Chinese language is really hard - the grammar is a lot simpler than Japanese thats true, but the lack of common words with Western language is a major hurdle in boosting your vocabulary quickly. And then there is kanji or hanzi as they call them. No hiragana or katakana crutch. Pinyin is sort of pointless as it isn't used in real life really.
I know you like to use に for がっこう instead of へ because へ is supposed to be for a bigger like wider area destination. But what if they use へ because at school, the destination is the never-ending expanse of knowledge?!
You know で you said that is the method marker.....i think of it as a particle which describes the action of the noun like.......... nihongo de hanashite kudasai...Japanese is marked with de what about it,speak in it. so is it ok to think of it like tht?
George I love your videos and the tremendous effort you had put in making these videos. I bought all the books and they all are worth reading. Can you please suggest anything for increasing vocabulary. Dictionary is not a good thing I guess if it is particularly verb. I confuse with the verb classification and the exceptions. Kindly share your thoughts on it.
Thanks for another great lesson George! Wanted to let you know I purchased the Course 3 book which should be arriving by Tuesday according to Amazon so I will use that in conjunction with the videos so have a better understanding overall. Thanks again for all you do! :)
"Alright so let's like some look at blearg check back chet oooo check chaa..." "And so they e- so the question will be the answer if the ques." You made my day.
Can anyone help me out here, I'm waiting for my Japanese from zero book to arrive and was wondering if the book includes a code to join in the yes Japan chat? or do you need to buy the courses online?
You just won a FREE book from us. You just need to go to fromzero.com/support and submit a ticket and they will tell you how to get your free book (or sub to FromZero.com depending on where live). That's it! Congrats on winning our random drawing. - George
You reminded me of this great memory. I met 2 adorable Japanese girls while they were on vacation here in Los Angeles. They invited me out for Japanese curry. I started to eat it with a fork as they used big spoons. The both froze, looking at me with surprise. "Ee! Why use fork?" I said, "I don't know. I guess because I'm American." They both put down their spoons in unison and picked up the forks, and dug into their curry. What made it cute and memorable was how much they were in sync. Like they'd rehearsed doing the exact same thing at the exact same time. Every facial expression, hand movement, and speed was perfectly timed. It's like they'd rehearsed it for a few hours beforehand. フォークで！
Hahaha! Hey, I've called a barbarian by better people than you, Trombley! ; ) Some years ago, I was in an elevator with 4 Japanese women in their 40s, and a guy came on with a cute little puppy. In unison, a high pitched "KAWAIIIIIII!" Until then, I thought it was something that teenagers did. You never outgrow EEE? and Kawaii.
Jeez George what part of the Philippines did you go to? I'm literally from the Philippine boondocks and hardly know anybody who does the things you describe lol
It's easier but it hurts you, if you learn to produce the language then you'll automatically be able to understand it, but if you just learn to comfortably translate it from japanese then you won't be able to come up with stuff on the fly very well.
@@ThinkForward0 With nouns (バスで, でんしゃで, ひとりで, ...) you use で, but with verbs you have to use the correspondent て form. あるいて (歩いて) is the て form of the verb あるく (歩く, to walk). Another example that I remember is はしりて行きます / I'll go running.
XD Good to c your doing be ta chipooong.... well George lol. I had to triple take that moment because I was distracted and thought "wtf is going on". XD
About katakana, it's annoying when retro games uses nothing but katakana! I read it slower than hiragana first of all and second thanks to the use of it I can't tell where english or other foreign words are used. Why did they do this? To help teach kids to use it or what? Sorry, I digress
If you see game that use only one of two the reason is most likely memory limitation, and both hiragana or katakana takes twice as much of memory then latin alphabet (which also sometimes included too) if both included it makes 4 times more, it's also reason why don't you see kanji in old games or only first grades of it even in 16-bit era where a lot more space for them (note that modern games for kids like Yo-kai watch for example uses even high grade kanji but with furigana so kids can read it and in the way even learn it, same as manga do). I don't really know why they prioritize katakana over hiragana specifically, but possible reasons i can see is 1. game use a lot of english terms anyway 2. katakana being a lot more simplistic on way it is draw making it a lot easier to draw it in small pixel space that characters have in disposal
because 歩く is not a noun. あるく and いく are both verbs. and 2 verbs are combined into "あるいていく" This type of verb combination often occcur in Japanese. はしって・いる おしえて・ください かえって・くる しって・いる ほうって・おく etc
Courtland gavan-glover て does not work like で particule, it is て-form of e verb, which is formulated same as た-form, but it used to combine verb with another word (in most cases another verb) sometimes changing grammatical form of first verb, like giving it continues form or whole set of "doing something for somebody" using give and receive verbs, it will be probably explained in future videos and this is just tip of a iceberg what you can do with it, it's most powerful form of a verb in japanese. て-form used alone means request (you definitely heard once たすけて help me)
