How to Use やつ? 

True, I agree He is such a good teacher

@@sparklesparklesparkle6318 very true, vids like these really help alot because i recognise alot of points when im deliberately studying just from these videos

Agreed!

Agreed

I'm with you 💯

YATSURA GA KURU! ABUNAI !

But doesn't やつ, or 奴, meant "slave"?

​@@DigiDragon001 isn't slave dorei (奴隷)?

@@Mycorrhiza Yes, but the character 奴 alone also means "slave".

@@DigiDragon001 I know the original kanji used to mean slave, but we never use the word奴 in that meaning in modern Japanese. You have to add 隷 after 奴 if you want to describe slave.

100% agree!!

yeah this video is great, the example are much more useful, and the absence of romaji is clutch

He makes it fun without joking around, that's also quite a skill I appreciate! I'm also trying to practice on pronunciation again with his sentences, I'm happy to finally hear example sentences pronounced by a man instead of a woman!

200% true

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ditto

Even the 30 minute ones don’t feel like a waste of time like most other Japanese learning channels and he covers more in depth topics than why people shouldn’t use “sayonara” and “doshite”. Truly a blessing sent from japanland

He’s different from others in a good way because he doesn’t constantly tell you to apply for their course unlike some others

Because when you learn Japanese you learn the basics as well as the proper wordings and sentences. Yatsu is somewhat of a casual way so japanese teachers and institutes dont typically teach it. Plus you’ll pick it up naturally as you converse with Japanese people eventually

It's like how schools don't teach you to say "stuff" as in "cool stuff". I bet it's one of those informal terms that friends learn from each other

I think the way Japanese is taught has a real issue with formal and informal speech because, let’s face it, the way Japanese people speak to each other on a daily basis (outside the workplace) is completely different from the formal version of Japanese that we learn overseas. I don’t see why it can’t just be taught that there is context and then trust the student to understand when to use what! It’s a big part of Japanese culture to orient yourself in a situation… something that is hardly taught. I found it very difficult to unlearn bad habits (eg. conjugating from DESU form not ROOT verbs) in order to speak normal Japanese because all I ever was exposed to was either formal Japanese (that didn’t even resemble what it was like to learn at a Japanese university-I attended Waseda) or manga (we’re talking DBZ 😅 it was the 1990s & I was in TX).

@@Nerubiru well, idk where you live but a lot of people where I live use "shit" instead "stuff". "stuff" isn't used really here and sounds really white

@@alexjustalexyt1144 Don't know where _you_ been living but 'stuff' is used really commonly regardless of colour.

Maybe it's just the way it rolls off the tongue

@@n484l3iehugtil Maybe it, the way it rolls off of a tongue, is the way the problem is.

Sorta like, "Who's handling the new project?" "You're." Like, it's technically correct. Just weird.

It's simply what people use or don't use. Which means it sounds normal and they understand exactly what is meant easily. Since a grammar is not a full description of a language, it doesn't tell you what to say, much less in every situation. The bulk of a language doesn't follow from a simple ruleset, meaning is essentially idiomatic.

Yeah, shows how linguistics is fluod and imprecise even thoygh we try to make strict rules for everything. Sure, a lot of the rules may work most of the time, but language can never be strictly defined and there will always be exceptions

And it's not even hard for him. Would be the same for me if i had to teach my native language.

​@@Disorder2312 I think you underestimate the amount of work needed to produce this 6min video. Those are def not impromptu explanations, things like "point at object without mentioning the name of the object" show thought out scripting. Timing subtitles, with translations and furigana, acting out, editing and retaking the sample dialogs. Take note of the number of cuts between the sentences. Things were retaken a lot. It's not exactly rocket science but I wouldn't call that easy.

@@thorbergson Yeah, bla bla bla. I don't care that people will always misunderstand my point.

@@Disorder2312 I am sorry

@@thorbergson Okay.

Doesn't やつ, or 奴, mean "slave"?

@@DigiDragon001 my understanding is that that is one meaning of it. When used to describe people it can take on different meanings, many of them derogatory or condescending.

HAHAHAHHA

LMBO I THOUGHT THE SAME THING

bro was caught lacking

Immediately paused and scrolled down to the comments

にが please moment right there

I thought やつ, or 奴, meant "slave".

​@@DigiDragon001japanese words have overlapping readings it's insane. Look up "ki" for example there are multiple kanji for it.

It took me half an hour to try and understand 飲みたくなっちゃったんだ. Why can one verb be so long and complicated. I thought I was messing around chaining on 30 conjugations to a single verb all those years ago, but the more I learn the more I realise it sometimes happens 😥 飲む (to drink) -> 飲み + たい (want to drink) -> 飲みたく + なる (to become wanting to drink) -> 飲みたくなって + しまう (before realising, becoming wanting to drink) -> 飲みたくなってしまった (before [ I / you ] realised, became wanting to drink) -> 飲みたくなっちゃった + んだ (you didn't know previously, but I have become wanting to drink) -> 飲みたくなっちゃったんだ (as above, but the whole sentence together) Like wow. It's basically a sentence on it's own Edit: I suppose in this case they were auxiliary verbs not conjugations.. but my point still stands that it's complicated

Yeah that's pretty awesome. He just goes regular speed. I'm always like "woah, I probably need to pause", but it's really good practice.

もの is a physical object whereas こと is a conceptual thing

i kinda wanna know とこ as far as i understand, it means "part"

@@user-jd3gf5xw1x とこ is an abbreviation of ところ used colloquially, which translates to "place", but in this case it conveys the "part" nuance. It specifically refers to a specific part of a whole, and it actually has a similar use and meaning to やつ when referring to an object and modifying a noun. - 主人公が橋を駆け出した *とこ* 、面白くない？ "Isn't *the part* where the protagonist started running on the bridge really cool?" - 先生の説明でわからない *とこ* が多い。 "There a lot of *things* I didn't understand in the teacher's explanation. Hope this explanation helps!

もの is functionally equivalent to the material version of やつ

@@GeometryDashPowerbomb thanks

I just started learning Japanese using Duolingo, but I’m having so much trouble remembering how to write the characters - do you have any tips?

@banquo4223 I was young, and I have good photographic memory so those both enabled me to learn quickly 🥲 But I also dedicated so much time to it and normally when I enjoy something, I become obsessed. I would literally be writing characters in my school books, tables, on my arms, on any piece of paper almost every day so I think that's what helped me. I guess my advice is just practice with a lot of repetition 😭

@@banquo4223 how many times did school/your parents make you write out the alphabet/just write words when you were growing up? unfortunately that's the answer

12 years and you're still watching videos covering the most basic aspects of the language

@@Alex-hv8rj Everything I said in my comment I learned within a month. It's right there and I said after learning those bits, I quit to focus on school. So, since then I never touched Korean or Japanese so basically a total of 12 years of NOT learning. Hopefully you understand this time.

"What's up my 5:43 "

frrr i was like “WHATD HE SAYYYYYYY⁉️”

I can fucking see the memes already

にが in Paris 🥖🇨🇵

You guys always applying american culture everywhere

What the hell is even that bro 😂, plz explain i don't know

​@@Jasminebjork69 You use these when you try to point out something you may not remember or know the name of.

It's my impression that a lot of Japanese teaching materials tend to err on the safe side, so to speak. Avoiding at all teaching anything that in some circumstances may be offensive, always teaching polite forms first etc

@@thorbergson its safe (you cant really offend anyone) but rather unnatural sounding

but けど means "but". often used at the end of the sentence if you want to sound very polite like someone who doesnt demand and is thoughtfull that it may be difficult to meet his wish even if it may not be true.thats why people use it when they ask something, like direction on the street, or when they call restaurant or hair dresser.

and often used as normal but, and as a "though" thing simmilar to english. I ate salad. It tasted bad though. It tasted bad けど

​@@Pako9713 damn I thought kedo at the end was doubt or just softening the sentence

@@Pako9713 is my understanding also wrong or just another different one?

@@PuReXtremeGaming but what i said about people using it to show that they dont demand and are aware that their request can be denied, and softening thing is same thing. Teachers call it softening, but dont explain exactly what is in mind of person when they use it. So weird to me.

I would argue being able to read japanese clearly is harder than speaking it fluently

@@mursyidelric4734 Yes sort of, but there are different challenges involved. Like, my tone accent and speaking skills can suck and I could still read fine.

@@mursyidelric4734 depends on the person ultimately, so far I've honed my reading skills way more than my speaking skills

@@UzumakiHarutoJP yeah this exactly lol. there;s the stereotypical dude who passes n1 百点満点 and cant speak a lick of japanese cause he just spent his time reading. you get good at what you do more of, pretty simple. of course the japanese writing system is quite daunting which does push some people away from reading but tbf i think reading is easier to master since it only requires a good dictionary and time. speaking, on the other hand, you need patient natives (hopefully lol) and a whole lot of confidence.

@@d0xter742 absolutely... I honestly think the kanji writing system makes things so much easier, especially with the amount of homonyms in Japanese... If kanji didn't exist I don't think the average Japanese learner today could learn Japanese at all 💀 (of course, there are people who pick it up audibly easily though)

congratulations