I'm Done With Japanese. 

LMAO DUDE I’m glad I’m not the only one! It gave me Kill Bill vibes 1000000%, when Beatrice was given her sword by Hatori Hanzo.

The intimidation from his whole aura was like the final samurai last boss. Having some tea before the showdown begins 😂 Why does he look so 先生っぽい???

This is what my wife does (she’s Japanese) when I’m speaking to her. It’s a little unnerving sometimes but she’s reminded me that I do the same when she speaks English to me

Looking hot lol

Idk what y'all mean. He looked so casual sitting there. He was focused but still chill about everything.

Good job on learning English! It's a difficult language, one of the hardest. 🎉🎉🎉

@@kick4243yet it's one of the most common languages used today. I grew up in Canada and my English is still bad sometimes

@sheridanwolf I think spoken English is very different from written English. I am from Midwest USA, and I grew up speaking both English and Spanish. English can be so confusing!! I still get words mixed up, and then you get different dialects, accents, and phrases that are not used everywhere.

Wow 5 years is amazing!

I grew up my whole life speaking English and I also still mess up! Plus your english grammar is really very good! You've made a lot of progress and it shows!

Agreed. Part of my family is Filipino, and one of my cousins there often boasts about how she graduated with valedictorian in her school and that she's top of the class when it comes to her English classes, yet whenever I spoke to her, she never would speak to me in English in fear she'd mess up. Despite her understanding me, despite her being able to reply to me in English, she (instead) chose to use someone else to translate what she was saying in her native tongue, which (imho) feels like it completely defeats the purpose of learning the language. ----------------- A lot of times people often forget that making mistakes (and learning from them) is how we learn. I'd even go as far as to argue that you learn more from your mistakes.

agree with this wholeheartedly, this is how I got to be fluent in Spanish (the spanish family helps too) XD

100% legit. we need to focus on learning and making mistakes. no one was born speaking a language perfectly from the start or playing an instrument like beethoven. mistakes are fundamental in growing and becoming more fluent!

>Hopefully, they will tell you what you did wrong and help you fix it. Yeah, Japanese don't do this. They tell you that your Japanese is great, while they actually think you're a fucking moron for making mistakes.

Eh its overrated to be honest

@@byproductofcheeseLearning Japanese? What does this mean? 😭

Click bait?

@@byproductofcheese I agree, knowing language of country you live in is completely not needed and overrated.

@@ChunkGamesYTwhat

You sure do know how people are.... /s

Well, i think he doesn't mean to tbh, it is just how the culture works. kind but to the point. and joey has is always upfront with aki so i gotta appreciate the healthy communication.

@@lupolinar Huh?

@@damiendurakovic6864 this man has never been on reddit /s means sarcasm

​@@Efoxativewhat is a reddit? Naw just kidding

with aki she has no Goals

heck having to look our for a crew of 500 people is vegan

​@@lawrupwhat

He is

He's daddy of course

​@@xReaghan yoooooooooo

Husbands are like dads to their wives sometimes and vice versa. I low-key think that's how they (unintentionally) practice being parents before actually becoming parents

@@HIMMBelljuvobeing loving partners also means being the other eyes that helps see their error and make them accountable

I wish I could do that; I'm stuck in my little city cause "uni here is good, why waste money to change city?" But all I really want is to study Japanese... I feel I lose my purpose staying here. But at the same time I don't want my family to make an enormous sacrifice for me and not use the money, for example, to buy a vacation for themselves, which they totally deserve. What I'm certain of is also that I can't keep studying what I am now and get a degree, I feel that either I change course and take japanese NOW or I'll drop out.

@@ouui You could take Japanese classes online and then start looking up practice conversations if it helps ! You could also order some workbooks and textbooks from online shops that'll help you with writing/reading :3

@@ouui i dont know what kind of relationship you have with your family or how university works in your country so i'll assume you're in the same position as me. your future means so much more than a vacation- a couple weeks of happiness versus an entire life of happiness doing something you love. i know how it feels to not want to inconvenience people, especially loved ones but this is your chance to find purpose. don't forget that you can get student loans to take the pressure off of your family financially. they can save money up again for a vacation any time after your course but this is your opportunity to push to go do the thing you want to and its only a few years that they'll have to sacrifice a bit of money for in a return for a career of fulfillment. please seize this moment if you can

I’ve heard this as well. In fact, she told me learning English was easier for her than learning Japanese, even though Japanese was her native language. I’ve wanted to learn Japanese for a long time, however; I feel very discouraged by the fact that I struggle severely with short term memory recall issues, even with repetition.

I dunno. I didn’t find learning Japanese to so impossibly difficult… but then again… all my teachers called me abnormal, so maybe I’m not the best judge of that.😅 At least to me… especially when I looked at foreigners I knew in Tokyo who lived there for 10-16 years, but basically could only order at restaurants… I think it generally comes down to drive. Are you ABSOLUTELY driven and determined to try to achieve near-native fluency? Being willing to eat, sleep and shit Japanese day and night… at any and every opportunity you get… always avoid using English with Japanese friends, acquaintances, colleagues, etc. (most never did with me anyway because my Japanese is much better than their English and… well… I don’t like being a free English teacher). Language and culture are closely tied, so spend some time learning the culture and mannerisms. Or at least it worked something like that for me anyway…

英語母国語者の私の考え方はあなたと全く同意。中学生の頃から中途半端に独習してたんだが、大学に入学してから真面目に勉強し始めた。日本語能力試験N3も合格しちゃった。 なのに、今までも全然出来ないっていう辛い想いがずっと私と一緒。日系会社で働いていても、発音などでよく褒められても、私は「やっと辿り着いた」などの気持ちを把握できる瞬間が決して来ない、が本当に想ってる。 私は一生の部外者に定められた、っていう感じ。（そんな理由で、N2に目指す意味あるのかな）

Exactly, it just comes down to focus and determination in the end. I completely understand if somebody doesn't have that same drive though, among needing the time to juggle japanese with everything else in a busy life. I managed to learn a lot and get kanji down pat by slaving away at it for days on end when I had no job and a ton of free time. Though I'm also heavily invested in japanese culture and media so I naturally felt compelled to learn. There was games and other stuff for my favorite franchise that only existed in japanese or you had to look up some fan translations, so I felt like not knowing was an obstacle I had to get through. But, I'm also an outlier. 😅@@jmbickham

What's mean アキちゃんとできてると思う?

Same. I'm thinking about trying to find a Japanese penpal to help learn. But I'm still in the process of learning how to read hiragana, katakana, and kanji. I've got hiragana down for the most part and just started on katakana but trying to understand the grammar is a bit confusing in comparison to english. I've been learning through duolingo for now so it's a little helpful but I know there's so much more to be learned outside of it.

​@@gabblebabbles2017I would recommend bussu

do you realize how braindead people sound when they say awesome! awesome! awesome! all the time?

I think it helps not thinking of it as in English or Spanish but as in its own language without the romanji. Im in the same boat and its helped me alot visualize and learn through the kanji Katakana characters rather then through Romanji English or Spanish

“Where is X?” And “Where is the bathroom (toilet)” will be your two best friends! Others like “how much is it? (When buying something)”, “do you have X?”, and “What’s your name?” Are also super useful! Have fun and good luck!

he's literately half japanese.. why wouldn't he not be good at japanese? His family comes from Japan, he is Japanese its his family native language.

​​@ya-boy-joshy He's also Half Australian from his father's side, but he also is exceptionally Good at Japanese like Better than natives.

​@@IcuTapIcuI believe he explained in an old video that his mom did raise him and his siblings to learn Japanese. On top of just living and growing up in Australia. So he had his whole life learning it.

@@usonohoshi6165 Yeah, and he also used to read the Japanese dictionary for fun.

@@IcuTapIcu he's been studying japanese for 26 years; so.. Like; reading the dictionary, reading kanji, ect. ect. when he has 2 decades invested into learning japanese lmaooo