I really like the advice of playing games at language exchanges. It gives an opportunity to actually learn candid Japanese WHILE breaking the ice so you can actually talk about interesting topics. Personally i found that 15% of my Japanese speaking/listening came from language exchanges, and 85% from making friends with people at the exchanges and just practicing on our own time while hanging out. Making friends is the MOST important thing you can do!! 🤧
I've been chatting with a Japanese language exchange partner for orver 2 years now and our secret to keep our friendship going is to chat in a way that's more like "postal-letters". Since both of us are constantly busy and the time zone difference is very big, we usually reply to each other's messages at about every 4 to 5 days. We usually speak about how it is going in life, or our country's problems or traditions, food, games, manga... and such in messages that are longer than usual so that kind of keeps our conversation slow paced but constant, and we never run out of ideas of what to talk about because this way it is like we're having a very prolonged conversation instead of saying "hi, how are you" and running out of things to talk quickly.
Omg same! I also have a Japanese language exchange partner for about 1 year and just like that! I'm not so busy but they are.So I send them a message and a few days or maybe even a week later,they texted back.I'm not mad.But sometimes I think they are not busy and just bored to talk to me. We are in good terms tho
I think the romantic part which you talk about is so true. I’ve had heard so many times of people confessing on HelloTalk and I get the question “do you have a boyfriend” a lot which is why I decided to change my setting to only talk to the same gender… it’s like you’re not interested in language exchange after some time, because you’re able to communicate anyways
Soy una Hispanohablante que esta aprendiendo japones y tus videos me estan ayudando muchisímo, el japones es uno de los idiomas que mas me apasionan, algunas quisiera conocer Tokyo y lo bellos lugares de japón y comunicarme con las personas, y aúnque todavía me falta aprender mas simpre doy mi esfuerzo ¡Gracias por los videos!
Yo soy argentino y estoy estudiando japones para algun dia cumplir mi sueño de vivir y trabajar alli. Es lo que mas deseo asi que todos los dias estudio para poder cumplirlo
Thank you, it was interesting. :) I have a good Japanese friend I met online and we've been chatting in English with some sentences in Japanese (because my level is low, around N5-4) and after some months we decided to do videocall once a week. It's been so much fun, we are talking in English most of the time but never had a problem with what to talk about. We regularly watch some anime videos with subtitles and we try to play some language exchange games (like explaining a thnig in other language, guessing the other persons character, guessing which sentence about him is true or false), but I have to say I am afraid to speak Japanese because my level is too low, so I get embarrassed I don't know much of the language. :D but so far it's been great experience and I can say it's better and better. :)
Thank you for this interesting video! I always enjoy watching your videos because they're very わかりやすい and actually brought me to a level where I can watch other japanese RU-vidrs like hajime syacho . I have a few ideas for videos that will help me and others too, they're about japanese grammar mostly: 1. How to use ほど, I've seen a lot of ways but I don't really understand how to use it. 2. The uses of よう, it's also something a lot of japanese learners struggle to understand. 3. Maybe you could make a video about your favorite japanese snacks so when we'll come to Japan we would be excited to try them out!
@@xXDESTINYMBXx I didn't really understand what did you mean by emphasis, can you give me an example? Anyways it's has a lot of meanings and uses so it's not that simple.
I don't even study Japanese (yet), but I love your channel. For some reason I can listen to you forerver lol.... Anyway, I found you when you had 100k subs and you grew so much!! congratulations!!
I've been learning Japanese for a few months now and it's been a rocky, but fun journey! Language exchange sounds like a cool and fun thing to do, but I'm not good at talking to others (or making foreign friends) about ideas like: "hey I had this idea, wanna be a part of it?" usually because either the person doesn't have time, I make it sound weird (I try my best not to but I'm bad with communication, thanks introversion), or the person doesn't seem interested. This video gave me lots of positive things to think about for language learning! ありがとうございますオナマップ-さん！
The romantic part is so true TT I actually know this one person through Twitter; he plays the same game as I do, and I thought it'll be nice if we became a Japanese-English conversation partner. I ended up using formal words whenever speaking to him since I find out that he's older than me by 4 years. But he mistook me as a "genuine" person, his ideal type, etc. I ended up getting confessed by him and it made the whole friendship awkward ^^; I decided to only have a conversation partner with the same gender for now.
i really appreciate you using japanese without subtitles(in the video). i was eating and so didnt feel like clicking for captions lol, and it turned out i understood most of what you said! if you had put subtitles, i most definitely wouldnt have had the same experience i died at the tameguchi part lol. too much unknown vocab for me, i got lost
انت رائع حقا انا احب كل ما تقوم به من فيديوهات انا اتابعك من مصر و احب اللغة اليابانية كثيرا و افكر ان ابدأ دراستها في الاجازة و اتمنى ان أزور اليابان يوما ما😇🇪🇬🇯🇵
I agree with everything!! 学校より人と会話の練習でいいレベルをとどけるのところよく分かるね！あと、そのために色々なアプリがあるし、色んなのやってみた。最後までなかよくになることはとても難しいと思うんけど、無理じゃない！友達ができたり日本語も上手になったそう！だから、外国人と練習するのよくおすすめするね！
I have been interested in Japanese culture for a while now and now that I found your channel I have made attempts at learning the language using your videos as reference of how normal Japanese people speak. I am Indonesian and I hope your Indonesian language learning is going well. Thank you for what you do! 本当にありがとうございます!
Yep that's absolutely true what you said in the third part. Some people just don't care about their partner's speaking skills of their language and just use them as a medium to speak that language. This makes the another person lose interest in learning. ちなみにあなたは人との交流がとても上手です
It is hard for me because how do you actually start speaking it? You need to learn enough to start speaking but then you are limited, then you will need to keep learning. Its like the egg and the chicken. Which comes first, you learn and then practice, but you need to practice to learn. Maybe i am just rushing myself..
You are a motivation for me to learn Japanese, your videos are really interesting and I like them a lot, greetings from Mexico, I hope and have an excellent day ☺️
Oh wow, this video came at the perfect time! I did a virtual language exchange from about late October to mid December this past year with another student from my university, and a student from a Japanese university. I totally agree with how adding in games can be a big help; I tried to incorporate as many games over the course of our exchange and I think it helped to bridge the language barrier. In terms of actually practicing the language, I do think we're on similar levels of comprehension, I just get flustered or tongue-tied when speaking, so I often revert back to English or Japanese-English hybrid LOL. Fortunately, our Japanese partner is studying abroad at the university we're at, so we'll have a lot more opportunities to improve on speaking, and become even better friends. おのまっぷさん、教えてくれてありがとう！それで、あけおめ！
What I just filled out in my comment is to use translate, a language translator application😁,But I can understand a little but want to know more than japanese😍
I'm actually tying to go for a cultural exchange this summer in Japan so I'm very interested in this topic! Let's hope that the borders won't be closed anymore by then
I enjoy watching your videos. I also have an online language exchange partner and I agree with the what you said in this video, specially about finding a language exchange who is at the same level as yours.
Thank you! I just started learning Japanese so it’s hard to communicate what I want to say (and with a lot of mistakes!) so I worry my language exchange is boring or one-sided. 😣
I really like the idea of playing games for language exchange but it's so tough to find people to do so. T.T I've recently been participating in a language exchange program online and I was able to meet many Japanese native speakers. While it's a good experience, I feel like I'm lacking so much. I have no issues understanding what they say, but I just can't articulate well what I want to say. The vocabulary magically disappears when it's my turn to speak T.T
Relate on this! I only have one language exchange partner and everytime it's my turn to speak (in Japanese), it seems that the amount of vocabulary that I know suddenly becomes the basic ones.
this happens for me as well, more reading out loud and being comfortable with patterns for speaking has been very helpful so far. Easier said than done, but not being hung up on being correct all the time is helpful as well.
Don't worry too much about this! It's just what speaking in foreign languages is like. The vocabulary you can easily use while speaking will grown on its own if you continue!
@@LegatoCirion thanksss. It's just a concern since I've been attending lessons.. and in a couple of weeks, I'm gonna start advance level too.. it's such a downer to realise that even as an advance level student, i can't converse yet =')
im totally going to hell. -"i want 3 wives in the future" -chinese guy: "thats not allowed in my country" -"oh sorry, i meant 3 children" -chinese guy: "yeah, thats also not allowed in my country"
Hello! I love your videos and I agree, 言語交換 is an amazing way to learn new languages! I am currenly learning Japanese and looking for native speakers, I am a native spanish speaker, so if anyone is interested let me know!
I think I have never learned faster than playing, also the bond you make with the people is great, I taught a German friend how to play with a rubbik cube and that night we also play cards in french and it was unforgettable, you all should try :3
I had some language exchange friends online. Due to my schedule, or perhaps things I said made them stopped contacting me :). But I don't know, I'll try next time
siempre me ha interesado la idea de tener un compañero de intercambio para aprender un idioma, inglés principalmente, pero siempre me da miedo que no termine bien por cualquier motivo, aparte de que si en mi propio idioma se me hace difícil encajar con la gente debería ser aún más con la que no comparto casi absolutamente nada más que medio idioma aprendido que no he puesto en práctica, en la escuela no funcionaba mucho porque no muchos se lo toman en serio y siempre he sentido que sería más desafiante con alguien que tenga una cultura completamente diferente, creo que voy a volverlo un propósito para este año
