Japanese Sentence Structure - Word Order Doesn't Matter? Really?

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In this lesson, I explain how word order doesn't matter much in Japanese when constructing grammatical sentences. What is more important in Japanese is the Particle.
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@YukoSensei Месяц назад

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@pigmemonkey 4 года назад

I took classes when I was in college years ago but these grammatical intricacies never made sense to me. In these short videos that has completely changed. I can not thank you enough for these!

@YukoSensei 4 года назад

よかったです！I'm glad the lesson was helpful. 😊

@TimeDiddy 4 года назад

Btw guys she said im glad in the comment if u cant read it x

@Tohka10- 3 года назад

@pigmemonkey I feel the same way! I took classes for about a year, and a half in college and by no means were they not helpful, however the sentencing structure was always something I had difficulty with.

@TimeDiddy 3 года назад

Woahhh this was 9 months ago???? Yuko Sensei is still helping me to this day 😂

@yellareddyputta9083 2 года назад

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@moonrise3251 3 года назад

Wow! My mind is blown. Out of all the Japanese grammar instruction I have come across thus far, this is by far the best and most comprehensive. Seriously well done. I applaud your teaching abilities.

@amirtv106 6 месяцев назад

Same

@johndelilo6038 4 года назад

Whoever made the French captions / subtitles did a really good job ! Personally I don't need them, but those captions are just perfect.

@PippaNiNi Год назад

This really changed my whole view on how I learn Japanese! I was nervous because I thought that I had to put words in order just straight from the head. But, as you explained, the thing that makes the sentence correct (or sound correct) is the particles (which I'm pretty good at)! This was very clear, thank you so much!

@killuazoldyck9929 4 года назад

This is something I've recognized with watching animes and listening to songs. I realized that sometimes orders aren't as important in English so long as the correct particles are used.

@CDJPV Год назад

Right! That is what immersion is all about! Regards~

@ShahadSFahad 4 года назад

What I admire here is the color of the particles can fully make me understand and comprehend it easily and simply

@ngangocly4201 5 лет назад

Your lessons are always clear & well explained! Thank you so much!

@lizesursok3899 3 года назад

Yes your right

@zombkiin 2 года назад

I started learning japanese, I can read almost everything except for kanji. So knowing the structure is amazing, I am one step closer to reading japanese fully. Thank You!

@zeymort3926 4 года назад

I've read Genki I several times, and I'm halfway through Genki 2, and only after watching this video do I understand that particles are attached to the end of the word they mark as opposed to joining two words together. All this time I thought the particle used in any given situation was dependent on which word was before AND after it. Showing the particles in boxes the way you did, and then moving the boxes in different orders, made me finally understand. I like to study computer programming languages and Japanese has a certain logic to it that I appreciate. Thank you!

@CDJPV Год назад

Hi, Zaymort. I like your comment!

@themannhugo 5 лет назад

You taught your japanese lessons very well in English, Yoko先生👩‍🏫. ありがとうございました。😊❤️

@gato-ol5pw Год назад

This video is so informative and still easy to understand ! I didn't even notice 11 minutes had passed because I was so engaged. Thank you for sharing this with us for free :)

@kdjec16 4 года назад

Yuko Sensei, from the bottom of my heart, Thank you!

@ENHAxBTS 4 года назад

This helped me so so so much thank you 😊 and Japanese seems much easier because my main worry was the sentence structure but knowing this I feel much better

@xoshuichi9708 2 года назад

how good are u at japanese now

@UzumakiHarutoJP Год назад

Well, in English you can still move the words around quite a bit too, it just might sound weird or maybe medieval but almost always perfectly understandable. At 6:00 I eat fish at home ✅ At home, I eat fish at 6:00 ✅ You can also make the "I eat fish" part "fish, I eat (at home/at 6:00)" though it's mainly done that way when you're listing things. "Fish, I eat at 6:00. Tea, I drink at 7:30." The part where it would sound weird is "Bed, I go to at 8:00" probably because you're not directly doing something to the bed when you "go to" it. At that part I would say "At 8:00, I go to bed" or "I go to bed at 8:00". Even "To bed I go at 8:00" is grammatically correct, just sounds medieval and archaic. And all these sentences are made without even sounding weird. Similarly, as long as the correct "particles" are attached to English sentences, you can move the words around quite a bit too, but maybe not quite as much as in Japanese. But still, more than people seem to know... I think people are being taught only one way to create English sentences, when in reality there are many word orders that can be used depending on the feel you want, or what information you want to get out first or save for last. But it's also just as interesting that in when learning Japanese we are taught only one correct order as well (or at least I was). For that, I appreciate the video. Thanks!

@issieglore2447 8 месяцев назад

Bruhhhhh. I thought so.

@issieglore2447 8 месяцев назад

Btw, are you a japanese? I assumed based on your name

@UzumakiHarutoJP 8 месяцев назад

@@issieglore2447no, I'm not japanese, but I'm living in Japan right now

@mysryuza 4 года назад

Somehow you explained grammar far better than my own English teachers in the US and other sites I've read about this topic.

@christianwilliams6847 Год назад

This is literally the best description with the best concise visuals I’ve ever seen! Perfect!

@VitalijKaramakov 3 года назад

Particles in japanese work just like declensions in slavic and finnic languages.... You can place any word anywhere in the sentence as long as u use the corrrect particle/case and it still makes sense....

@dupeken 3 года назад

Oh shit, you're right

@tenhoandersson 2 года назад

So that's why learning Japanese feels so logical to me. Well compared to what I was led to believe that is

@lolo_o4309 9 месяцев назад

Japanese is less flexible as the verb can not change it's place

@VitalijKaramakov 9 месяцев назад

@@lolo_o4309 yes, verbs normally have these exceptions and extra rules haha

@lolo_o4309 9 месяцев назад

@@VitalijKaramakov Just wanted to point that out, as that is not the case in every language and you wrote "any word" but nvm haha

@moguuuwu7843 5 лет назад

That one of the best explanations I’ve gotten so far!!

@TheCompilationguy2002 3 года назад

This is literally the one problem I couldn’t get passed and thanks to you, i can finally get passed it and learn lots more of japanese😊😊😊ありがとございます！！！

@Kiev-en-3-jours Год назад

This video makes me a lot more confident about my japanese learning. It is such a relief to know predikat blocks order does not really matter from a grammatical point if view. Thank you!

@keystoneeducationforburmes5882 4 года назад

Your explanation is very clear, Sensei. I can't thank you enough for your excellent teaching. Thank you.

@dcchan9828 4 года назад

high-quality class for new beginners. Amazing, thanks! Please keep on!

@sreyleapsok9110 5 лет назад

Amazing teacher ! I really like your teaching.

@chorwaihui7882 5 лет назад

So glad that I found you. You are really good. ありがとうございます☺

@YukoSensei 5 лет назад

Chorwaiさん、ありがとうございます for watching and for the positive feedback. I appreciate it. (^^)

@evanc5676 2 года назад

Easily the most useful and informative lessons on RU-vid. Thank you.

@origins08 5 лет назад

I must say you are the best teacher I ever come across!! I truly understood the Japanese language structure now! Keep up the good work sensei!!!

@DannyMexen9 5 лет назад

You are an amazing teacher. Thank you so much for your videos.

@rkn4916 2 года назад

This is absolutely brilliant. Thank you 😊

@wajebd8377 5 лет назад

I have just started learning Japanese and I'm still at the very beginning, but somehow i find this to be very clear to me and very understandable too, probably because of the similarity between this and how we can change the places of words in Arabic sentences and still mean the same!! thank you very much

@YukoSensei 5 лет назад

Wajeb-san, I didn't know that in Arabic also you can change the location of words without changing its meaning. Interesting to learn that our languages have some similarity!

@zienamohamed1197 5 лет назад

yes we sometimes could although it is still a little bit weird to change the order (as you aren't used to it ) but the meaning is the same at usual

@popcornale6393 5 лет назад

it is because she is a great teacher

@ShiyarokuBasil 4 года назад

Yeah, its the same in German. As long as the verb is on the 2. position in a main clause, you can change the order of the phrases. While "Ich esse Fisch." sounds more natural then "Fisch esse ich.", if you add articles in German "Den Fisch esse ich." or "Diesen Fischen esse ich." it sounds perfectly alright. So our articles are kinda like the japanese particles in this case.

@rainemccandless8160 Год назад

Thank you for the slow and informative video. It was excellent in unpacking everything and help me orientate myself to the sentence structure

@elementofone439 3 года назад

Thank you so much for this video, this has helped me a lot!!

@KuroNeko33810 9 месяцев назад

Thank you, this video was so helpful!!

@anonymous12726 6 месяцев назад

This was very helpful, and simple. Thank you.

@wendili8234 3 года назад

You are an amazing teacher! Thank you so much!

@Zinferbuddy Год назад

This channel is phenomenal. You are so good

@winddrunker 4 года назад

This lesson was very good. No other teachers explained this. It made me clear a lot

@PamelaProPeace 4 года назад

Thank you for this. I loved it 💕 Your graphics are superb - so clear and well thought out. It really helped me to understand the grammar points you were making. For the first time I understand about markers.👍 I have now enrolled for the mini-course and so - thank you in advance for that too. 🤗

@joshuayarbrough148 4 года назад

keep them coming please, very helpful

@thetreaccount4830 3 года назад

So easy to learn with your videos !! ありがとうございまあす先生！！！

@Brooooklyn_-hf1zy 2 года назад

This is so clear! Thank you

@ze_chooch 3 года назад

You’re an amazing teacher.

@eduardoindigo1500 2 дня назад

This is amazing, maybe that's why you called it Smile Nihongo, now I have a smile on my face, it was by far the best explanation I've ever had

@frostywrathc7640 8 месяцев назад

Nice and clear, thank you

@chris_day_ 2 года назад

Absolutely brilliant, never would I have thought of this rule until now. I've always been wary of my word order ever since I tapped Into learning Japanese, this had finally expanded my knowledge of the language by a huge margin. Always appreciate the work

@SanjaySharma-sc5oy 4 года назад

This video really helped me alot. I love the way you teach. I understood it clearly. ありがとう、先生。❤️

@profmiss 4 года назад

How engaging! I loved learning about how to make a negative. Interesting!

@BillieJolene1 5 лет назад

OMG! You ROCK! Seriously, this is the best one about particals so far. And it was so simple! Thank you! You genuinely saved me SO MUCH TIME! You're AWESOME! A+

@YukoSensei 5 лет назад

BillieJolene1-san, Arigatoo gozaimasu. Thank you so much for such positive feedback. I'm so glad that the lesson was helpful for you! (^^)

@kanjitime Год назад

Thank you sensei for this short but clear explanation on constructing sentences in japanese. 😀

@danjf1 Год назад

Wonderful explanation of particles!

@thafrostyfox 4 года назад

This is great! Thank you !

@babanski295 2 года назад

Thank you, This helps me a lot.

@dnl275 2 года назад

Thank you for making it easy to comprehend, never knew you can move words around in a sentence

@marukomax8688 5 лет назад

Very clear and good explanation

@stephengoh5456 2 года назад

Awesome! Love it.

@winesoup6907 4 года назад

I learned a bit Japanese in high school many years ago...and just recently started duolingo to refresh some of it (two months now)...thank you for your video! I've always knew/thought that the word order could've been flexible and the predicate is at the end...but the particle and the word pairing now really makes sense! Kinda like...I wouldn't just change the 'with, at, in' particles in English...now I just have think the same in Japanese...thanks again Yuko Sensei!

@zakkxx1 3 года назад

Being french I am really impressed with the french captions. Considering the lesson, everything is very well thought out and clear. Plus Yuko sensei english is amazing which is another mark of excellence. Well done!

@r.viswanathan2188 3 года назад

Yuko sensei, you make the Japanese language so easy with your explanation and examples. I thoroughly enjoy your lessons. Thank you so much.

@zacky5315 2 года назад

Excellent explanation. Clarifies a lot of things. Arigatô.

@dearydarling 4 года назад

Thank you : ) This was really helpful.

@user-nr1py1xe9o 5 лет назад

Thank you. Really! That helped a lot.

@michaelhoffmann2891 3 года назад

What I was missing - and what was implied in the subject of the video - is that in practise there *are* conventions that dictate the sentence order: would it not be quite unusual to *actually* see the logical marker somewhere near the end? The direct object marker at the beginning followed by location or temporal particles? Meaning, just because you *can* doesn't mean you *would*, correct? Unless it's "poetic license" which is where I find Japanese is almost similar to Latin: in that noun declinations allow for some wild ordering in sentences because Ovid or Juvenile wanted to show off. But it doesn't mean that in the speeches or books of Cicero or Caesar much more "proper conventions" weren't followed.

@lizbarca5767 5 лет назад

Very useful. Thank you so much.

@klnskljafdskl 4 года назад

This video helped me more than 3 weeks of Japanese classes.

@ttsnowy7101 4 года назад

You make it clearly to understand ❤️

@ShoegazeForever 11 месяцев назад

Very informative!

@ShkouP 5 лет назад

you've explained it the best way , Thx Sensei

@manish5058 4 года назад

Superb, need more like this... With lots of examples

@onyxchidorii4540 3 года назад

I've watched million videos and dont beg it. 1 minute in and I already get it all you're a life saver tysm

@koyuki6113 Год назад

thank you, this cleared up a lot of confusion.

@jianjungou8965 9 месяцев назад

Thank you! It’s a great teaching of Japanese!

@akiiame_ 3 года назад

This helped me a lot! ありがとうございます！

@mopbrothers 7 месяцев назад

Wow this was very helpful! ありがとう！

@majutsushisliceoflife 2 года назад

Thank you so much for this! Knowing this makes grammar seem a lot less intimidating.

@reykhault4072 2 года назад

I had this question in my mind for some weeks now and couldn't find a proper answer to it, until RU-vid showed this video on my feed and accidentally I fonud a very nice answer to my itching question! Thank you 先生!

@albertorodriguez7024 6 месяцев назад

Thank you so much♡

@ri_tteung 11 месяцев назад

A-a-amazing.. thank you sensei!

@slerched 4 года назад

I've been studying Japanese off and on for 20 years. Other than a half semester noncredit curse, it's been all lone wolf learning. I find what you explain in your videos and courses are what I need NOW that I can understand the language more. Learning the rules and reasons for why the language pieces for together the way it does is deepening my understanding and I greatly appreciate it, even though much of the content I already know. Thank you!

@SuperDuce74 5 лет назад

すごい！So helpful! ありがとうございます😊

@YukoSensei 5 лет назад

Derekさん、どういたしまして。やくにたって、よかったです。I'm glad the lesson was helpful! (^^)

@jkseraphim4 2 года назад

I took a 3 week class at my school and I had trouble how to arrange the sentence. This really gave me some clarity. Arigato sensei!

@juniorarthur3683 4 года назад

Great lesson Sensei.

@lowkey276 4 года назад

Great lesson!

@benpogai8936 3 года назад

Thank you this was really helpful

@michealgr1035 3 года назад

Very well explained Thank you 🙏

@jallilahmagaluyan4098 5 месяцев назад

So clear I love it🤗💋

@MichaelMiller-qm1nl 3 года назад

A fantastic teacher .👍👍👍🥰🥰🥰Thank you so much Yuko !

@kb1sm_ 3 года назад

This was very helpful and helped me understand the "Wa" and "O" particles. I recommend this video or anyone who really needs to understand the use of particles and sentence structure!! ありがとうございます :)

@berttkltan 4 года назад

Very clear and direct to the lesson being taught. Tq

@mirayrazakamiadana4802 2 года назад

Thank you Sensei Yuko

@stefficastandillo1469 2 года назад

Domo arigatou gozaimasu sensei your videos really help me to learn nihongo.

@shingaboy4466 5 лет назад

Thank you very much you are great teacher.

@Florrix3 2 месяца назад

ありがとうございます！ This made sentence structure more understandable! :D

@felixbendigosa1623 4 года назад

Thank you Teacher!

@ziroAU 9 месяцев назад

ive been learning japanese for a couple months now, and this video flipped my understanding of the structure on its head (in a good way!) Thank you so much for this!