I appreciate all the effort put into showing the sentences in written form in the video. The romanization, translation and the corresponding katakana characters for the kanji. As a Japanese new-beginner this is incredibly helpful.
I must discourage u from relying on romāji Try to make hiragana and katakana more familiar to yourself Since ur learning a language that has its own alphabet/writing system, i believe that its always better to memorize the alphabet, hiragana and katakana in this case, by heart U can learn kanji as u go. Since kanji is a little more complicated to learn than the japanese alphasyllaberies
@@the_observer9786 If your goal ist to SPEAK Japanese, then romaji are perfectly fine. If your goal is to READ Japanese books, then yes, one should become familiar with kana. But it is almost a separate skill set. One can learn A LOT Japanese without knowing a single kana or kanji. (Just like Japanese kids do during the first 6 years of their lives :) )
I always wondered this. I defaulted to お願いします whenever ordering or asking for things because I thought ください sounded a little demanding. Glad to know I made the more polite choice, and why it was the more polite choice.
Same! When I went to Japan, a friend of mine said he usually ask the waiter for water by using mizu-kudasai; and I was thinking internally... hmm doesn't that sound like a demand? But after hearing the first part of this video, I see it's a legitimate way of requesting water; just there's a more polite way by using 'onegaishimasu'
@@FirzenExpert The demanding way is 水を貸せ, which is a literal demand. I'd recommend learning the proper differences between particles and such. 下さる is always polite. It's just thar you have to know how to use it, as pointed out in the video.
One of the best Japanese language learning teacher from Japan. Miss Misa is clear and detailed in her explanation. I come to appreciate her site a lot. ま、どうもーありがとうございまする。
Thank you so much for being so detailed with your explanations!!! You’re one of the only people I know that tries to really convey the nuances behind each phrase!!
The pink sweater is very flattering for your figure!! You look great!! Also the the lipstick matches perfectly!! When they have two daughters you better use the name when asking for her hand... to make sure you get the right one... :D
Misa, your presentation and format is the best I've ever seen. Including all sentences as onscreen text in English, kanji and hiragana, and colour matching the words in both languages, is incredibly helpful. Thanks so much for what you're doing.
そのレーソンを撮影してあげてありがとうございます！ I love how you start the lesson covering the basics but mix in some advanced level stuff (like the marriage stuff-- this was my first time hearing that). I definitely owe you a donation since in Toronto these kind of lessons have easily cost me $300/month. If you ever want anything from Canada, just let me know! And your titles are excellent! Keep up the hard work!
I lived in Japan for a whole year and this is the first time I have fully understood the difference between kudasai, onegaishimasu and douzo.... you're videos are so helpful! thank you!!!
Thank you for your kind teaching! It has been over 30 years since I've had a chance to learn Japanese. Your voice is very clear and easy to understand.
Wow, that is a lot of Pikachus. I'm watching Misa's videos since years, whenever I want to improve on some specific topic, and somehow I never noticed.
Thank you so much for the great effort and explanations you always put into your videos! They are so helpful and easy to understand in a fun way. So much love ❤
No way,you watch her too!??! P.S. I really like your content. Specially that "pain" edit (I failed my Japanese test) gave me a solid stomachache. Loved it
thank you for making this clear , saying please and thank you is very important to me ,in English we do tend to use "please" for all situations ,though the the tone and preceding words will be contextual . knowing which to use in Japanese is very helpful .
I love your videos, Misa sensei. I have learned a lot so far, thanks to you. I have a suggestion for a future video, how about explaining some of the most common "abbreviations" or "elisions" in everyday language? Sometimes I see sentences in mangas ending abruptly in っ or sentences ending or connecting ideas with "って" and i don't know what that means. The Japanese used in mangas is really weird sometimes *Emoji shrug
お待ちしてください is grammatically incorrect. another way to ask people more politely to do something that Misa sensei has not mentioned is , お待ち願えますでしょうか？ which you often hear in business scenes.
@@tealcrystal6088 The "altatic language family" is widely discredited. It's not a real language family and the only ones that still think it is are Turks.
tl;dr - intermediate japanese learner confused by clickbait title i was confused when i looked at the title, and after like 4mins in the video i was like wait, i know most of this already! these videos are incredibly helpful, but dang the titles are sometimes a bit clickbait-ish. Careful Misa
@DogSayingWoosh Why? Most people aren't actually polite, no matter where, so Japanese culture just forces people to put up fake politeness and not show their true feelings.
You don't know what you are talking about LoL. Japanese etiquette is overly specialized in boss-subordinate and merchant-customer relationships. If you work in a Japanese company in Japan, you will surely scream.
Can't wait for you to have to deal with a hotline in Japanese A 2 minutes problem taking 20 minutes because all sentences get 10 times longer in keigo xD
(Insert angelic choir sound here). Epiphany. I do believe this is the first video of this type where I didn't get list along the way! Yay! So, what they say is true, if you just stick with it long enough suddenly things begin to click into place and make sense. I'm very happy about that! Domo atigatou Misa sensei! 😁✌
I am way too old to learn a new language, and I've always wanted to learn Japanese. After a few videos of yours, I honestly think I might have been able to when I was younger. Informative and fascinating. Thank you.
I don't think there is an age limit on learning a language. You might not get very good at it... but who cares? If you've wanted to learn it, I say go for it, regardless of what society says you can and cant do. Effort is the biggest factor in doing anything, and I think if you temper your expections of skill to the level of effort... you would be happy with your results even if you dont get very far. --- This is from the experience of having studied 2 completely different languages as an adult. - I got both to better than conversation level, but dropped one due to the lack of interest in the language.
Great video. Very informative and well done. Glad you dont use romanji because it forces me to learn katakana and hiragana. Glad for the concept videos. I need to get into learning Japanese again.
Alors pour ameliorer ton anglais deja tu dirais 'french person' pas 'french people'. 'french people' c'est plutot 'les francais' ou 'le peuple francais'
That the te-form is used for a request was something I knew, but it isn’t really written down in (german) university material. And before I ask the question what the te form of いく is, I’ve already found out it’s 行ってください。 Shogun 2 thought me that 行け is something a general would shout to his subordinates.
From other Japanese channels like That Japanese Man Yuta I've heard that "~て ださい" can be considered rude because it sounds you're requesting something from them. He recommended using "~て もらえませんか" instead. Is that something a learner should worry about or is it too formal? (or did I miss it in the video?)
もらえませんか - could you (give me), I think it is used when you don't want to bother other people so you want to be sure if they are able to do something for you お願いします - I would like to/I'm wishing for (something), when you know that the other person is already there to do something for you ください - Please do/please give me, directly requesting for something I'm a beginner too so feel free to correct me if I'm wrong
@@awakepictures9435 いただけませんか sounds as polite as もらえませんか, or rather more polite. I find those expressions to be overly humble at times. The literal explanation is that it says 'Can't you～ please？' or 'Is it impossible for you to～？'. They also anticipate a negative response.. You should say like いただけますか？ or もらえますか？ in many situations. ex) When you call a restaurant employee to ask for water： お水をいただけませんか？ sounds too humble . お水をもらえますか？ is more natural If you think it is natural for others to do so, you should choose ～いただけますか/～もらえますか. Otoh, if you ask others to do something difficult or the person has no obligation to do at all, you should choose ~いただけませんか/～もらえませんか.
少々お待ちください was one of the first phrases I learned in Japanese. I worked at a busy restaurant in Waikiki at the reception desk and there were so many Japanese tourists who didn't speak English at all. I sometimes said ちょっと待ってください to them as well, because I didn't know then that it wasn't as appropriate in a business setting. I also said どうぞ when handing out pagers or menus to them. When I worked as a server at a Japanese restaurant in the UK the chef would yell お願いします to let us know there was food that was ready to go out.
very natural and common I think. When you said どうぞ, you omitted a sentence like the one that followed ~こちらのメニューをご覧ください. When the chef said お願いします to you, s/he omitted a sentence like the one that preceded この料理をお客様のところへ～ . If you both know what to do next, you can skip some sentences. But you should have at least said, "メニューを"どうぞ to be polite to the customer.
@@zeroimpact742 True, but when you're first learning a language you tend to not get the nuances, like when to omit the object of the sentence or what level of formality is appropriate in a give situation. I think most of the Japanese guests were just pleasantly surprised that people outside of Japan would make the effort to speak any Japanese at all and didn't really mind if the person's usage of the language was 100% correct
