Do textbooks teach you REAL Japanese? Hmm Not always. 

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I've casually noticed a lot of particles being dropped from spoken Japanese for quite some time now. I wish this video could time travel back about 20 years when I first started my interest in Japanese to tell me it's ok. But then again... 20 years ago Japanese language was most likely a bit more strict. Also those books older than 20 years ago... are rough with those honorifics. Thanks Miku for the best videos always!

So far, this has been the most frustrating aspect of learning Japanese. People teach you how to say things in "Japanese," but then it turns out they are completely unnatural sounding to natives and completely different from what people actually say in real life. Like wtf

I really like that Genki tells you that usually people omit the い in ている but that it’s slang like wanna and gonna in English

I did 3 years of college level Japanese, got a job in Japan. Might as well have been in Greece for all the language I understood. Had to start learning all over again. Wish I had this video 20 years ago.....

I'm using Minna no Nihongo the second book now, it's actually good for beginner to get to know basic Japanese , and yes now I'm watching your video to get to know more about what real Japanese speaking . Thanks Miku !

From my experience textbooks gave me the required basis/understanding of Japanese to be able to learn efficiently and correctly. I would say that I learned the most from just listening to people speak, but if I didn’t have the textbooks I don’t think I would’ve learned as well at that point.

Years ago I learned Japanese from Minna no Nihongo... now I learn online with a Japanese teacher because I want to learn how to speak 🙃 very useful video, thank you!

YES YES YES! Part 2 please!! I love this video! it's so important. especially for me as a solo learner with minna no nihongo.

多分アカデミックの試験は助詞が大切だと思うけどほんまに実生活によく使われていないです。Mikuさん、本当にありがとうございます。僕英語はあまりできないけどMikuさんの説明することが分かりましたよ。(間違ったらごめんなさい。)。よろしくね。✌🏻

...so basically learn japanese, then unlearn everything. Got it!

You are an awesome teacher, Miku. Your way of clarifying the meaning of Japanese words with the English translation of them is superb. ありがとうございしたみく先生。

ありがとうみく先生！！ I've been wondering about this casual conversations for awhile you are a life saver!

This is a great advice, specially to intermediate-advanced learners. There are books that teach more natural japanese as you progress. For example, "TRY N3" (by japanese publisher "Ask publishing"), teaches a lot of informal japanese used in daily life. I found "classic books" like Minna no nihongo, arcaic and unpractical; I often encourage people to not use these kind of books.

Awesome video. Really useful, thank you so much for your efforts trying to expand Japanese language. Gracias Miku-san!

Your teaching approach is amazing tysm!!

This is really useful! Thank you so much!

Such a useful lesson. Thank you! The sweater you wear looks very good on you by the way.

Thank you. I had gotten confused about why these particles are so often omitted although my lessons tell me to use them. Also, I could understand these examples, so I am excited. I hope I can start speaking more often soon.

Miku Sensei's audio course and a long commute to and from work did wonders to improve my Japanese.

This video is the best express crash course I’ve ever seen that debunks (conversationally) unnatural Japanese from the textbooks! A lot of these things I had to speculate about from my experience… but I feel so reassured now! Thank you Miku sensei! Every Japanese beginner should watch this video when they start learning Japanese! BTW, listening to Japanese children talk to each other is an amazing way to learn true Japanese… they rarely use polite (keigo) language with each other.

Love this so much. I could listen to your channel ALL day ❤️ I can’t wait to move to japan 🇯🇵 🎉

Miku, you are a huge treasure! So much useful information in this video, I have to watch it again and make notes. I'm learning from Minna no Nihongo at the moment. It's good to familiarise myself with the grammar, but I do need material for spoken Japanese. And for this, You are the Best, Miku! :D

Literally just can’t put it into words how amazing and how helpful you are!!! Every Japanese learner would be lucky to have you as their sensei🥰

That janaidesu thing is great to know!

教えてくれて心からありがとうございます先生🥰

We need more contents like this real one!.

参考になりました！ありがとうございました。

this video opened up the use of real Japanese to me... arigatou miku sensei...this video is really helpful...🙏

Very helpful video as always. Thanks! But why is the video so dark and low contrast?

PLEASE I NEED A PART TWO

Thank you so much Miku Sensei!😊🙏

Such a sensible video ❤❤❤

this is the video I was looking for

Thanks!

Thank you! As an autodidact, this is gold !

Very useful, very practical, very helpful in learning how to actually communicate with native speakers. 本当に、とても役に立つ授業です！　ありがとうございました。

非常に勉強になりました❤

Finally I found a good Japanese teacher You video understand me easily to study. Thank you ❤️ ありがとうございます。 先生❤️

I've normally used Genki, from seeing other people who use Minna No Nihongo it sounds like it's just keigo. I like the mix of casual and keigo in Genki.

That s why I do love this girl. Honest and direct.

Tysm

Speaking and hearing other natives is my main form because my brain is wired this way. I learn better from hearing and understanding when its from someone elses mouth than reading text. But am using only the textbooks for minor stuff. I keep speech and textbooks separate from each other I don't mix the two.

Miku Sensei! Can you explain this same concept for writing if you can? Like, what can I omit when texting someone and what can I not? I've been corrected on sentences where I don't understand why the particle was needed, and what Kanji can be side-by-side, and what can't. It's all very confusing and not in my textbooks.

When writing messages to friends on instant messaging (Whatsapp / Line / Tandem etc) would you choose the formal written rules, or the 'spoken' way of saying thing? For example, omitting particles. いつもありがとうみく先生！🙇🏻‍♀

Love you and your lessons!! Hello from Belarus 💗

How do I start learning from the beginning of your courses Miku Sensei?

Bonjour Miku sensei, super leçon ! Merci 🙂🇯🇵

my Japanese teacher told me long ago that many phrases and expressions used in Japan and more commonly by young people is not proper Japanese, it's ok to understand them but she will never teach me those ways of speaking herself

Tae Kim's grammar guide is literally the textbook any textbook wishes it was. And it's literally FREE. It teaches you grammar properly and eventually after not long of using it, you can start immersing in japanese media to learn the language properly.

英語勉強してる日本人だけど、日本語は英語より難しいと思う。日本語を勉強してる人はすごいわ。 I’m japanese studying English, but, I think Japanese is more difficult than English. so people studying Japanese are amazing!!

Hello, Miku Sensei! I only have a question: Are the PDF transcriptions of the videos or audios included in the 15 USD montly subscription? Thanks a lot and I only can say that you are doing is a wonderful and the best material we can have to finally speak japanese and sound more natural.

Hello miko sensei I always watch your video and it help me a lot I want to explore more to speak more real japanese but I don’t know how to purchase your item because I am a trainee here in japan.please teach what do I need to do,, thank you

Thats very educational especially. By the time i am planning to go to Japan it will be 2 years (Me learning Japanese). XD hahaha.. i hope i could understand. Even though i watch Drama/shows/J-Vlogs/ Talk shows... I figure alot despite lack of vocabulary hahaha but real life is always different i have seen. 🤞✌️😂

みく先生、教えてくれてありがとうございます ♡ ポルトガルから

Part 2 please...

Can we also use の in question sentences?? What kind of questions should we use this word?? I've heard so many sentences that sorts of " 私のケーキ食べたの？"

Sensei Could you Please explain what difference of きれいな and すてきな.

I little Note about へ and に。 へ is about direction に about destination. For example: When you say you won't go anywhere, you say like: どこへでも行きません。 Did you think why you use へ instead of に？ Because there is no destination like "where". Where is abstract concept, you can't go to "where". So when you are asked "where you go to today?" If you won't to be precise use へ instead of に. People actually use へ. Just some people don't know how to use them correctly. PS. Same goes for 誰. You can't say 誰は, because 誰 is not a person it's abstract concept. That's why you should use が。

Tanto luchar con las partículas y resulta que no las usan 😆😆😆

Friends is the best English teacher, I have to agree Miku sensei! You won't see "We were on a break" and "How you doin'?" in textbooks!

Two video may not sufficient.. Make a whole series.. Thanks you

Miku Sensei Is Just the best :)

hi !! does the "without basic audios" also come with pdfs ?

Me: *receives a notification that Miku uploaded a new video* Me: *drops all plans to watch immediately* みく先生、色々教えてくれて、ありがとうございました!!!　最高RU-vidチャネルだと思います!!!

You're so kawaii thanks for this realistic Japanese tips and very valuable course!

15年前にもう故郷に帰ってきたとしても、日本語が大好きで、毎日日本の映画やテレビドラマを見るのに使っています.😊👍

This is extremely simplified. There is so much textbook and (University) language lesson bashing among online "teachers". Textbooks are good. But somehow people think that that is where teaching or learning should stop. No one ever said that. It should have always been textbooks AND. On top of that: Studying by yourself is NOT easy. Keeping up your motivation all by yourself, without tests and people who struggle along with you is incredibly hard. And being around others who enjoy learning the same language and share the same passion makes the experience so much more enjoyable. Also, huh? Why do you keep saying informal language is "real life" Japanese? As if there were no instances where Keigo is more than required? I have noticed this a lot with Japanese online teachers. We don’t just study to speak casually. Most of your points concern spoken and casual language, but when you go to a Japanese University you have to write a lot of formal essays and e-Mails. Like I said. It should always be textbooks AND. I do wish we had had an extra lesson for spoken Japanese that could have taught us better communication. But I‘m glad I also learned how to understand formal language and write formally. Nothing you mention is in any way an argument against formal language or textbook education, you only bring up valid points for improvement.

Wow

OMG! I learnt じゃないです and then I started hearing everyone around me saying じゃありません and I thought I was wrong so I was struggling to switch. And now I know I can just continue as I did. Thank you!

The key is also to actually speak Japanese with other people. Speaking Japanese is essential to learn spoken Japanese (It should be totally obvious)

Students: I can't undertand particles, they are a nightmare. When is ha? When is ga? Teachers: You have to learn it, so ganbatte! Japanese people: *They omit particles* Students: *Rage in textbook japanese*

Question! Do these rules when texting casually with friends, like on Hello Talk?

Querida Miku san, no puedo agradecerte lo suficiente por todos tus maravillosos videos..pero en este caso no creo que esto se aplique a mi... Tengo 63 años y puede sonar raro si hablo como una persona joven... que piensas ? とにかく 助けてくれてありがとうございました本当に感謝します

I think its better to learn the formal first

みく先生が大好きです。

textbooks are good for absolute beginners when building foundation. but as you progress on learning, you may need to switch to practical learning methods. dont get stuck on textbooks.

先生の授業は最後です👍

Is the course available offline or is the content only online? I don't have internet at home and i have to rely on offline things

I m also learning japanese from Minna no Nihongo text book.🥺

先生、質問あります。 Do you want to eat this? In Japanese, can I write: これ食べたい？ Sorry for my English, I can't write English very good, my language is Spanish... ありがとう!

日本語の勉強勉強をします　> 日本語の勉強します 日本語を勉強します　> 日本語勉強します こういうぶん、いいんですか、先生？

It's been a long time i try to speak more naturaly , I don't like so much practice book cause they don't learn the most important : talk with people and specialy your friend. Thank you ;)

I think it’s good to learn a more formal way first (even if I can’t communicate/ understand anything in the country) When people learn German or English and I can obviously tell they are beginners it’s very awkward to hear them only use casual forms of words. It feels quite inappropriate because you don’t always use those forms (even with friends...)

1:06 I learned from one of these textbooks...

But idoesn't it differ tho with your goal of studying, I mean if you want to pass japanese language exams like the jlpt the particles should remain in place??

まことにありがとうございました😊 メリクリ🎄🎅

not for me., i learned much more when i was studying in sapporo for 3 months than all the past 5 years with books and videos . Experiencing the culture and being surrounded by the language and Japanese people is what helped me the most , at my job in england everyone is Japanese, so that helps me while i cant still enter japan , i havent touch the books for ages because of the motivation aswell .

Nice color grading...

In our country, most of the teachers says us not to talk in Nai Form coz it's rude . I really wanna know it's really or not. Is there any situation we shouldn't use that form. Thanks for this video.

Hello. Miku. Do you have paid course ?

If you like anime, be an observer of your anime fandom, most likely Twitter. I challenge myself to read official and fan tweets, note new vocab, and I’ve strengthen my colloquial japanese a lot cause of it. We can do this!

Please someone who have taken JLPT, can you help me answer? I learned with Minna no Nihongo 1 For N5 last year and took some break. Now I just started learning Minna no Nihongo 2 for N4 in Nov 2021. So can I take coming JLPT exam for N3 in July? Can I finish my course before exam?

haha. you've never said じゃありません. That's quite amazing since it's always taught.

SHOUTOUT PLEASE!!

どうもありがとうございます。 みく先生。

As someone who studied japanese in university using a japanese textbook, this is really confusing. I understand it but its just weird. Its correct and yet its "unnatural"? It is taught in a formal japanese education but its not used practically in real life so what's the point of even teaching it in the first place?

Actually i would never say 何見る？ and I would be confused if someone said it because I have difficulty dealing with ambiguity. Does it mean 何が見る？ or 何を見る？? Maybe you can make a talk about how Japanese fill in missing information in sentences.

In good English books, you will have more casual language, like gonna etc. Miku your videos are great but you are also speaking very slow, and properly. Most Japanese speak differently than Japanese teachers.

I found a goodly amount of critical fakes in some Japanese lessons, for example, a kind of "women don't use the imperative form and men tend to use it"; however I can't find any facts even though I've researched many publications in each era. Especially, Minna No Nihongo and its derivatives are troublesome.