Parsing Sentences for Natural Speech 

Finally , the lesson I needed the most. English is not my first language. I live in Europe. But I learned Japanese, the same way. To translate japanese sentences from the ending. And it was hard and a little bit confusing. So I always wanted to not just to translate but also to understand the meaning of a sentence the right way, like you showed us here. So thank you for this! 😊

As a linguistics student, the way you explain Japanese grammar etc is very intuitive and truly effective for learning.

はじめてはあなたのチャネルをみている、どうがはほんとにたのします。 I still struggle to notice pitch or intonation. Maybe it just comes natural to me as my Japanese teacher never mentions it.

The word order in Turkish is similar to the word order of Japanese. But being native, I don’t really realize how I parse Turkish, so it still is very helpful to have some hints on how to break down sentences; even more helpful to know how that can naturally relate to the intonation when speaking, both aloud and internally. ありがとうございました、ふみ先生！

Fumi Sensei, Thank you for introducing this method of reading and speaking. I have been using this over the past week and it really helps!

This is one of the most helpful lessons I've ever seen! Thank you!

Thank you Fumi San for the clear and helpful videos! I especially like your voice and smile :)

Wow, at last a teacher that explain this very important base to create sentences injapanese, thank you very much

I’m so grateful for teachers like you! Thank you so much for teaching us Japanese!! ♥️

I love this method, it's like poetry almost. Thank you very much

Very good and teinei teaching. I’m glad there is no distracting BGM during your teaching and your microphone is doing a great job; capturing your voice.

I like your outfit color, it look good on you. こんにちは。 もう一つのレッスンをありがとう。 Fumiさん、お疲れさまでした。👏😃👋

helpful lesson/ thank you / you are great teacher😌

Wow, absolutely amazing. Thank you for sharing the real details of speaking Japanese, and it was so well explained ! I finally been able to keep up with the natural speed of japanese and I understand how to imagine the context now. ありがとうございます、先生

Thank you. I love the tone of your voice, and the music in your vlogs. It makes it a great option to watch right after waking up. Very peaceful

どもうありがとうございます。So well done and helpful. 🤗🙏💗 Thank You.

ありがとうございました❤

Your voice is so nice🙂People who are starting to learn Japanese can understand.

You have a very pleasant calm voice, very nice to listen to🙂

This video is really useful, interesting and very nicely done. ありがとうございます。

I’ve had so many arguments with a friend about Japanese grammar. I didn’t know this was a problem because the only thing I’ve struggled with is spelling vocab compounding words and spelling conjugation correctly. I’ve always kinda been berated for not “getting to the point” in English. The grammar clicked with me once I actually had it written out in front of me and not just in anime with misaligned subtitles.

This was very helpful. Thank you

This is a great concept for a lesson! I'm a fairly new learner, and while I feel I'm getting pretty good at parsing while reading, it's really hard to keep up with listening. This kind of video is perfect. Thank you!

ふみ先生、ありがとうございます! This was a great review for word order and it taught me a lot about reading/listening in Japanese! I guess I had been translating backward without even realizing I was doing it. Thank you for teaching me a lot about Japanese!

I like to think of everything between the subject of the sentence and the main predicate as sort of like setting the scene for the action that main predicate describes.

Just came across your work, splendid breakdown Fumi-san. I have subscribed. Thank you.

These are the explanations that are needed the most , if everyone took the time to properly explain in more depth . Then Japanese language could be understood easier by those who study .

ありがとうございます

Sometimes I'm translating Japanese sentences from the end. But now that I think of it I just have to mentally switch from English to my native language because the word order isn't as rigid in it. Until this video I haven't realised it. I was just automatically using my "English brain" for Japanese studies because I use English resources for studying. I should probably start utilising my native brain more in general when learning Japanese. of course the goal is to let go of the mental translation altogether but it's still too early for that and of course I'm sure the method from the video will come in handy too at some point, so thank you!

J'ai découvert votre chaîne hier, et je suis si heureuse ! C'est pour moi la meilleure chaîne pour apprendre le japonais. Merci beaucoup beaucoup !

As a Brazilian, the translation is even more agressive, for our mother language, to us english is inverted already... so japanese is 100% reading backwards to make sense. だから and なので come as first word in our translate sentences, its crazy. Then I try this (yours) method my self for a while and get better results. But struggling with long frases with 3 の particles, i can undertand, with proper brain process though. Listening is my ultimate challenge, I can undertand all the word in sentence, but the sentence by it self... no clue. Love your teaching videos and listening praticing, helping a lot. でわ、まだまだ。わたしが始めたばかりです。ほんとにありがとう、先生！

Its fun you explain it in the same manner I use to grasp meaning of Korean sentences.

Thanks! This has greatly helped me improve my listening skills! 方法を教えてくださてありがとうございます！

This was a fantastic video, Fumi. Thank you. 興味深いです。

This is really an amazing method, ありがとうございます sensei!

This helped me SO MUCH.

ありがとうございます！

Thank you so much! This lesson really helps a lot! Iro iro arigato gozaimasu.

このヴィデオの意見が本当にいりました。英語から日本語を学ぶと大変です。日本語はbackwardsとその考えをわかます。 ありがとうございます。

I dearly wish my Japanese teacher had taught me this method 30 years ago. Syntax and language chunking should have been taught explicitly like this to demystify it. Unfortunately at the time, in the 1980s and 1990s, the natural acquisition method was all the rage and it was just assumed the learner would eventually pick it up by osmosis. Well, to a certain extent you can, but it's much quicker and more efficient to have it highlighted from the outset so you can get on with the process of noticing by yourself.

❤love your lesson.

Thank you for the clarification ❤

Interesting and easy to follow lesson. Arigato-o gozaimasu.

Please make more video on intonation because there are not a lot of video covering this topic.

Since Korean is very similar with Japanese in grammatical order and word itself it is easier to translate at the same time, simultaneous interpretation where European languages we have to wait until whole sentence is completed. I am Korean, born and raised in Korea although I speak English everyday in Canada it is much easier for me to learn Japanese. To understand Kanji, 漢字 is another advantage for Korean, particularly those age who learn Kanji at school in 50's or 60's.

すごい！ありがとうございます！

I can really see that, sensei. As I read the English subtitles while watching anime or Japanese programming, the sentence structures for both languages truly are backwards lol. Also, It's been awhile since you did a video in English. 😅 I hope you'll do more Eigo videos. 😊

A really useful video! I've been really struggling to learn how to "think" in Japanese because of this exact issue. It's really helpful to learn how to parse the sentences and information given. I would love to see more coverage for this particular issue, as it is perhaps the biggest thing holding me back in my Japanese studies. Something else that I think should be addressed is how to process relative clauses, too. For example sentences like: 英語で話す人には日本語を話せるだけ人と友達作ることがすごく難しい。or 風の吹く場所ではあの人たちが壊れた階段下った。(I don't know if my examples are actually correct, but I think it gets the main point across for what I mean.) Or even more advanced sentences than that that get really long. How do you parse what is a relative clause and what is the main sentence when you hear it in spoken form? Oh and something else I've been struggling with and would love to see a proper explanation for are words like 範囲 and 難易 vs はに and 何（なに）vs はん and なん. I find these to be really difficult to pronounce, not just because of the mora, but also because of the devoiced "い” sound that seems to be there.

Greetings from Venezuela, South America. 🇻🇪🖐️

Me gusta mucho, como enseñas😊

Very insightful content! ❤Thank you sensei!

Tu tens uma voz suave.

モスクワからこんにちは 🖐 レッスンありがとうございました 🙏 I watch your videos regularly. You have an unique manner and a pleasant voice. Do you think it’s realistic to learn a language by translating your favorite movie word by word or will it all be forgotten right away?

I've never heard anyone mention that intonation and pitch and two different things. Its something I've some what picked up on naturally, but never actually distinguished the two.

"Let's not do that anymore" The funny thing is, when I hear non-native speakers make little mistakes, it is always so endearing to my heart. But I am inhibited myself in speaking Japanese for the same reason - I don't want to make any mistakes!! Aaaugh!!!!!

I love you Fumi!

Arigatou sensei! More videos pls! Gb

Practice 3 では、「髪がめれてるけど雨降ってる？」を訳してもいいですか: Since your hair is wet, is it raining? Also, the translation of ちゃった to "got ____" is very intuitive 👏

Amazingly useful lesson, ありがとうございます、先生！As a matter of interest, is the way you parse sentences also an indication of how you should be speaking it too? So the slashes are almost like mini pauses?

thank you so much!!! wonderful and easy-to-follow explanations!! 😊❤ (i went to click subscribe, but i saw i was already subscribed!…oops!)

❤Thanks for unlocking this theme too. 선생님! Generally not teaching this type of (kind of)when to use space bar but you are teaching through RU-vid video and you know i feel similarlity many times with Korean e.g. Particles(wa: 는 mo: 도 no: 의 ni: 를 etc.) Although shy but i once written my thought. 💌I'm interested in japanese so i decided becoming one of subscribers. * I hope i step someday your course.* 💙Kimeura fumi sensei, Please have a good June's 1st weekend!🌸.

Amazing video :) I think Japanese will be easy for me because in Amharic we have the same (more or less) structure. ትናንትና ጓደኛ ጋር ካፌ ውስጥ ለ2 ሰዓት ጃፓንኛ ተማርኩ። ትናንትና (yesterday) ጓደኛ (friend) ጋር (with) ካፌ (café) ውስጥ (in, inside) ለ (for) 2 ሰዓት (hour, hours) ጃፓንኛ (Japanese) ተማርኩ (I learned, studied)።

This reminds me of how I used to use sentence diagramming as a student of English. It's how I started studying other languages, including Japanese, form the start. It's the only logical way. You know, even in schools here in the US, they used to teach English sentence diagramming. Sadly, this has fallen out of use, because they wanted to try different, "progressive", methods. Unfortunately, these "progressive" methods were effectively "regressive". Now many English speakers have difficulty understanding parts of speech in their own native tongue. This makes it much harder to learn another language. I'm a middle-aged lady high school science teacher, but I was fortunate to have had a wonderful set of older teachers to teach me the correct way.

Basically speaking, Japanese is a Subject-Object-Verb language, adjectives and adverbs come before nouns and verbs modified by them, and dependent clauses come before main clauses. English has prepositions, but Japanese has _post_ positions.

Thinking in English and then translating it into Japanese was really difficult, until I realised that the word order in a sentence in my native tongue Kokborok is the same as Japanese. So, now I think in Kokborok and then translate it to Japanese. It's much easier this way.

僕は、日本語を独学してきましたが、この映像を見ると役に立ちます。 This is a really good you tube channel for 日本語勉強! 文美? 先生、ありがとう。 漢字の発音か難しいですね。例えば、in 文祿慶長の役, 役 sounds eki, but in 見ると役に立ちます, it sounds yaku… 僕の質問は、Any easy ways to tell?? And why different sound????? Thank you

Hello FumiSan, a question: I speak German Italian and English fluently, a bit of Spanish, too. I started Japanese, and I'm having a hard hard time 😁. For all languages I know, I have a dedicated part of the brain so I directly think in that language (and dream in that language). With Japanese there are so many aspects to consider that I'm having much more difficulties creating the brain for it: -words: (how you name it); -phrase construction: (how you put it together); -grammatic: (particles, conjugations, negative verb, or negative or past adjective, て-forms, etc...); -accent; -intonation; -whatever more... To create a self standing brain for a language the best is to think the less possible, and follow the flow. What should I focus on to make this happen? Thank you very much, 🙏🏻🌞

Thank you ❤ I love you 😘

3:10 I got all the same chunks except I put 勉強をしました as one chunk lol

thank you, helped me a lot

So basically, think and talk like Yoda 😄

I need to watch this video a few times ...watashi wa toshi o totte ...gakusei warui desu sumimasen . Jugyou wa yokatta desu Arigatou gozaimashita sensei .

ありがとうございます、このビデオはとても手つてです

Though I am no expert on constructing Japanese sentences, I do much better with that than I do with understanding spoken Japanese (when spoken by native speakers). So, in your example sentence, I'm sort of confused by the の after 日本語 and the を between 勉強 and しました。 I might have thought the sentence would be 日本語を勉強しました。

Arigatou gozaimasu sensei😊🇯🇵🤗❤

For me as swiss persen is it totali mixt up😂 it maks it harder. I hope i can gad it.❤

Fumi先生: Is it more natural to say 「日本語の勉強をしました」rather than 「日本語を勉強しました」?

日本語がすごいですね。

❤❤😅❤❤THANKS 😇 Merci Mme❤❤❤

I love how you actually do your best to have a natural accent in english when you speak, instead of having a japanese accent. nothing wrong either way, I just wanted to appreciate your effort, Fumi-sensei 😊

I have a question. I notice at 8:10 you read the words “あつすぎたので” pronounced as “暑い たので”. Will there be times when some words/characters are omitted or shortened while speaking like how you did when reading this sentence?

I'm curious why the "ten" punctuation was placed after "Kinou watashi wa," and not "Kinou, watashi wa" as a translation of the example of Yesterday, I...

1 month before JLPT be like😂 hope this helps me with my reading😂

Is teaching english a good job with a good salary for foreigners.

こんにちは！私もフミです！

Your English intonation is (linguistically speaking) seductive. This video is exactly what I needed. Thankyou. I had been intuitively feeling down this path. BTW..it's "introduce to you"...just about every Japanese teacher makes the same mistake of omitting the "to"

ふみサン、癒されます。ありがとうございます。

よかった先生。

こんにちは！Is this sentence correct? 昨日私は、友達とアイスクリームを食べました。

Can I say 日本語を勉強しました instead of 日本語の勉強をしました ?

فرح صنم اذا جات ريتا

أحمد عمره ٢٧مبين ٣٦😂

❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉

I realize you didn't pronounce the su and the gi after tsu in this: 暑すぎたので am I right?

Feels like Duolingo LOL

this is how my teacher is teaching me. she said gaijin don't really learn this way but I am smart so I will know it. So I have to find a video to study so she doesn't know i have only one brain cell 😂😭

❤👍🌹🍑🍨

Japanese is already one of the most difficult language and pitch accent is also there i hate pitch accent honestly just over complicating a already difficult language

If it were only backwards, it would be easier than it actually is. In reality, it is a jumbled mess.

イヤ、何も分からない！漢字をまたく覚えない❗全部は難しいし、勉強はつまらないんだし、もう諦める！私ね、趣味でビールを飲んでいる者だそ