Learn Japanese Verbs Like a Native (Ichidan & Godan Verb Groups) 

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Very nice point! Super useful!

Making it even more simple: if the last vowel before ない is an a it must be godan...

Precisely. Also by using their original names instead of calling them "group 1" or "group 2" verbs (some teachers actually do this), it accurately tells you exactly what they do. It's almost like Japanese makes complete and total sense!

Thisss is so true 😭😭

Literally!? I've never heard of this before and it finally feels like I'm actually getting started on learning the language after years..! (of just listening and learning some of the alphabet)

So true

Glad you appreciate the way I format my videos! Long live Dolly!

ご視聴ありがとうございます！ Thank you very much for watching and commenting!

Glad you found the video helpful! こちらこそ Thank you for watching!

こちらこそ Thank you for watching and commenting! Now that you've found the channel it's better late than never! 😎

Takes me a while to make because I want to do all the research and makes sure what I'm saying is actually correct before running my mouth! . Also busy grinding out those daily immersion hours 😂 . Thank you very much for watching and commenting! こちらこそありがとうございます！

​@@JouzuJuls ah, i see XD. anw do you have any anime recommendations for beginners? i used to do ur anki deck but still i think i'm lacking in jp content immersion so yeah, the result is i still can't understand some basic daily dialogue. and should i start my own anki deck while watching anime?

You're very welcome! And thank you for watching! 😁

100%. Really hope what I'm doing ends up helping learners the way Dolly did!

My deck is not paywalled and you can get it for free here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DcY2Svs3h8M.html . About making other decks to put on Patreon and what not... . I think a much better way of batch creating cards using anime is to use Migaku since Migaku can tell which words you know already. . It would be better than any deck I make because it might contain words you already know. . Watch this video to learn how to quickly batch create cards from your favorite animes with only the words you don't know! ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-45_TwPlhvGE.html . Also I'm definitely not a sensei! "Senpai" I can accept though! 😁

Here you go: cdn.innovativelanguage.com/sns/em/content/lp/kana/hiragana_chart.jpg !

@@JouzuJuls Thank you!!

Thank you for watching and commenting! For absolute beginners, I serious recommend giving this a watch because it will 10x your Japanese learning: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DcY2Svs3h8M.html

There's basically no pattern for する and 来る and you'll have remember each form on a case by case basis. However you only ever use a handful of them so it's not that hard to remember. I think it goes without saying but going out of your way to learn a list of verbs and their conjugations isn't very practical or efficient. Just make note of it when you see it in natural immersion.

@@JouzuJuls I see. Thank you!

Thank you very much!

That's the Yakuza series for the first 7 parts (0 to 6), from 8th part onward, it's known as "Like a Dragon" series.

Hello again! Thanks for coming to see my other videos! Once again appreciate the comment. I've actually mentioned all this in the worksheet as well as explained why I didn't include it in the video. To keep it short, 1. There's no functional reason to learn 上/下 一段 verbs. They function the same. 2. The amount of exceptions are so few and so common, it is not hard to remember as you see them. カ変 only has 1 entry so there's no point giving it it's own category, and サ変 is inconsistent in modern Japanese (愛する). 3. Unsure what you mean that by calling them "Exceptions" we imply that there are only 2. If I say there are apples, I'm not saying there are 2 apples, I'm saying there are multiple apples. 4. Since most verbs fall into either 一段 or 五段, anything that isn't one of these can be treated as an exception. You can further draw rules to know what to do with each specific exception, but because there are so few exceptions and so few consistencies, and the fact that we've already determined them to be an exception- I do not believe it is useful to tell learners there are exceptions within the exceptions. Just learn exceptions as separate.

@@JouzuJuls In fact, everybody talks about 2 kinds of Ichidan or "group 2 verbs": the "iru verbs" and "eru verbs". You too was talking about both of them. And that is normal: I think it is very important to understand there are two types of Ichidan verbs, so that we can recognise them better. So, I see the benefit in that. Yes, the exceptions are few, but... there are very, very visible. If you consider 言う, 行く, or even ある (given the fact the form あら does not exist anymore in modern standard Japanese, contrary to some dialects like Kansaiben or classical Japanese), I think I'm not wrong if I say they are in the top 10 of the most used verbs in Japanese. As for me, i felt quite puzzled to discover the truth, think that people lied to me. As for the two groups of irregular verbs that are taught in Japan, I think it is convenient to explain those have a particularity compared to the other irregular verbs: it is the stem of the verb itself that changes. One of those two groups has 3 radicals (く, こ and き), and the other has 4 (す, し, さ, せ). So, if I was explained that, why two seperate irregular groups were created for those verbs but not for the other irregular verbs, I would have understand better that the other irregularities in other verbs do not belong to the same kind of irregularity. In fact, when I learn another language, I don't like been taught a grammar that is different of the grammar that is taught to the natives of the language I learn, as if I had been lied by teachers or textbooks trying to fit a square into a triangle, trying to explain a different language logic by a different language logic. However, the verb groups are not the biggest issue to me. But for example, when Western teachings were explaining me there is a "te form of verbs" in Japanese, or that there is a kind of adjective called "na adjectives", or even "polite form" and "neutral form", I did not quite understand what that was until I discovered the traditional 6 forms of verbs and adjectives. So, I would have preferred been explained from the beginning we use 連用形 of the verbs from which we added て with changes in pronounciation, and that this 連用形 can have the same function of connecting clauses without て in more formal and written language, instead of been explained "we take the neutral form of verbs and we transform them into te forms". As for the adjectival nouns (the so called "na adjectives"), I would have preferred been explained the take the 連体形 form of だ that is な (by explaining what means exactly this form), instead of being explained "To use such an adjective before another nound, we have to add な". I would also appreciated been explained from the beginning the concept of "auxiliary" (助動詞) in Japanese, that だ and です are some of them (instead of been told "those are verbs" or even "those are copulas"), as well as ます or even た. And speaking of ます, I would also preferred been explained from the beginning that in negative, we take the 未然形 form that is ませ and that we add a "negative auxiliary" that is ん (abbreviated form of ぬ), and that in past/accomplished, we take the 連用形 that is まし and that we add the auxiliary た, instead of been explained "we replace ます by ません or ました). I would not have been puzzled when reading things like 知らん if I was explained ん was the very first negative auxiliary that was taught to me long before ない, or when learning the past form of the other verbs. And this would have helped me to discover more easily classical Japanese (that I'm still studying). So, if teachings does not explain me a language on the same way or logic it is taught to the natives, I don't really understand that language, feeling they are always lying to me. But maybe I'm a little weird, I don't know. Actually, I have no problem on the fact some people prefer "Western teachings" of the languages they learn, but my biggest complaint is that those teachings NEVER SAY they are not based on the same way natives learn their mother language. So, it is always as if those teaching are lying to me about that (fortunately, later, I discovered other teachings in my language that was explaining things in a way that looked like the native way of explanation).

@@JouzuJuls Indeed, we should be grateful that Japanese has so few irregular verbs, unlike most romance and Germanic languages.

いや、実はそれは感じてないですね。最初は確かにそうですが、正解な法則を見つければ以外に例外はほとんどないです。問題は人気教科書とか、人気オンライン文法ガイドとか、人気スマホアプリとか...　とにかく人気ものの法則は全部違いますね。 『漢字でGO』の動画に現れた「師匠」のキャラは実は私の本当の先生でしたｗ　"Cure Dolly"先生と呼ばれて、RU-vidで無料に日本語の文法の正しい法則を教わったんだ。 今、正直の感想は、日本語より英語が難しいと思います！

でもなぜ？ People are really obsessed with making Japanese harder than it really is. I'm not sure how that's helpful for learners though.

@@JouzuJuls Really, the hardest thing about Japanese is negotiating three writing systems (excluding roumaji). I think the verbs are probably the easiest thing to learn about in Japanese. It's all very regular and organized.

The only language class I took was Chinese, and I still can't understand Chinese. English "class" for me at school was just immersion- reading books and watching movies. Never had grammar classes for English. Thus never knew grammar terms 🤪

Haha kinda pains me to hear that because Dolly Sensei was a really good teacher and had a great heart. Even in her last moments she was still responding to my questions while I was completely unaware of how serious her situation was... . That said I do understand what you're saying tho, I too was put off by her thumbnail and model when first seeing it. . Really glad I'm able to help spread her message to more people! If only she was here to see it too 🥲

​@@JouzuJulsyou are correct. Cure dolly was an amazing teacher. I only found out today that she passed away and it pains me greatly because as you said even in her last moments she TRULY cared about each and every single one of her students. My condolences to those who were close to her. RIP cure dolly, you will always be remember and i will continue to study so you can be proud of me up there.

nah

Disagree. Try organizing english verbs into conjugation types and watch yourself pull your hair out.

@@jaycee330 english conjugation patterns aren't that hard though