The SURU verbs | Japanese From Zero! Video 57 

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People confused about Japanese formality and the secret code behind it all don't seem to realise we do it in English. If, in English, you're asked by a teacher "did you do yesterday's homework?", you probably don't reply "aw yeah cuz, I fuckin' nailed that shit". You're probably going to say "Yes, sir".

I'm stealing your phrase... "Sometimes an explanation is worth a thousand pictures." That's some serious gold right there...

質問があります。is correct. It means "I have a question."

Once I was confused when Japanese guy ask me on English (about a game) "do you want to do with me". That was just "suru" as "play".

HEY! Where is my down vote!!!!!!!! I DEMAND IT! I have gotten used to it and it was a welcoming part of each video release. DO NOT LET ME WIN!!!!

Calling out Rosetta Stone like a boss. I hate Rosetta Stone. But that's just me.

that opening gets me every time I go back to this video😂😂

Even though I’m a more advanced learner, I’m working on book 2. Really in every lesson I felt wow... I missed some basics while “rushing” through my actual textbooks. My reading, speaking!!! and listening skills have improved in these 3 week with book 2 and book 3 and 4 are already here ☺️ . I worked with so many “popular” textbooks but the JFZs are definitely the best! Everyone, don’t get irritated because the “pace” seems to be slow. This is i m p o r t a n t 🙏🏻

12:17 Actually ancient chinese was one of those language where written form omitted more elements than spoken form. They also had different names. The written one was called “文言”, which means “language in articles”; the spoken one was called “白话”, which means “plain language”. The fact that “文言” was so abstract that it made most of the people in ancient china unable to read or write any book, therefore it was abandoned almost completely in last century in order to educate more people.

"with who did you do telephone" 😂sounds naughty

Your personality is so refreshing. I'm usually a very "anti-teacher" , but your just so fun to listen to, and i always end up learning a lot! I know this is a video from last year, but keep putting out great content!

"'A picture is worth a thousand words.' SOMETIMES an explanation is worth a thousand pictures." **Mic Drop

Ah, this just happened to me. I looked up how to say "I'm playing Final Fantasy 8" and the translator said "Final Fantasy 8 shiteimasu" I could only think "I'M DOING FINAL FANTASY 8" but the dude didn't correct me so... :D

Thank you for considering language with your audience George. I do sometimes watch these videos with my son :D.

I respect you so much for learning (knowing) Japanese, Korean and now Mandarin. Holy moly, i don't think i have such brain capacity haha.

the rosetta stone anecdote was pretty good

The する verbs reminds of when I was learning the verb "to get" in English and all its versatility to form other verbs, like "to get engaged", "to get at some place", "to get in trouble", "to get sick", etc.

You're easily in my top 3 RU-vid language source material for studying Japanese. It's just you, the camera , your knowledge and the 5 million books behind you. It's terse and to the point yet perfectly illuminating.

When you laid into Rosetta Stone you literally conceptualized exactly my frustration I've had with it. I've used it for both Spanish and Japanese and in both instances like you said it's the, "El Hombre" pick out of 4 situation to, "Donde esta El Hombre?" You can't just jump from a simple noun to a complete sentence with a subject, verb, and object without context and knowing what each component means. But I distinctly remember them going from "おとこのこ" to "おとこのこはひこうきのなかにいますか？" I was like, "Really dude!!??" :D

Duolingo has the same problem as Rosetta Stone.

16:48 I am happy and very excited to hear, that you have tried to learn russian ( /have been learning russian) !!!! :) Russian people are watching your videos too. Thank you for all the work you have done to help us learning japanese! (Sorry for my terrible English.) Я очень рад слышать, что вы пытались изучать русский язык ( изучали русский некоторое время) !!!! :) Русские тоже с удовольствием смотрят ваши видео! Спасибо за всю работу, что вы проделали, помогая нам изучать японский язык! (Простите за мой плохой английский)

I always thought there was a subtle difference between + suru and + wo + suru. I though the former translated to, like in the case of study, to "I study", and the latter to "I do study". That is, in the former, the verb is "suru", and benkyou is a still a noun, but in the latter the verb is "benkyou suru", and benkyou is part of the verb (and is no longer a noun). They both have the same meaning, as you state.

I actually have a pretty easy time with all of these suru phrases because they correspond with a lot of phrases in French that are similar. In French you uses the verb faire (to make/ to do) for phrases like this there's faire du sports (to play sports) faire du ski (to ski) and faire de la flute ( to play the flute). You can use it with any sport or instrument. Like suru its really useful so for me this one has been a piece of cake. I think Spanish and Italian might have something similar. One thing that does trip me up is tsukau and tsukuru because I want to relate them back to faire. I'm surprised by George's comment about the dictionary. Usually good translating dictionaries have some idiomatic uses of a verb listed below the main usage. So, if you look up suru it should have the main definition and then under it would be some of these uses like sport + suru, or noun + suru. I've not use a Japanese translating dictionary yet because I'm not at that level, but that's how my really good French/ English one works. I agree that a translating dictionary is a dangerous weapon in the hands of a beginner.

Hi George! Greetings from Russia and thank you very much for this huge job you've done. It's very helpful. I've been study with native Japanese teacher, but it's probably better to do on advanced level, because he gave me good pronunciation, but can't explain some simple things the way you are explaining it. Btw, it's great to know you study Russian (do you?) and I'd like to offer my help to you if you need it, any time. I'm native Russian, professional voice talent and Russian voice of busuu project.

George swearing? Lolol

I upvoted you just for the Rosetta trolling :D

I see ジョージ先生 のヴｨデオand I hit like before even watching it. I know it’s gonna be great ☺️

George, My asian friend accused me of being Racist and appropriating asian culture for being white and studying Japanese. Have you ever been accused of this in Japan? Is this a thing?

Is this sort of like Spanish "hacer", where you have this single verb that combines with nouns to make various phrases that are actually verbs in their own right in English? Edit: I guess sort of not, considering that べんきょうする acts (syntactically) like a verb in its own right that you can do to something else.

Love me some book ASMR

I have heard you say emersion in a few previous videos. do you mean the teaching style or actually like going to Japan and studying there? also id like to know you opinion on language schools in Japan (not sure if you have made a video on it), its something I'm considering at the moment for work related stuff.

さ行-irregular verbs

In the book, it says benkyousumasu (is this a typo and should be shimasu at the end or does suru have a special form?) - can anyone help?

I noticed in one example it was asked だれとでんわをしますか？and you replied おとうとにでんわをした。So did you just switch from polite to casual past tense there? Is that typical?

George, did you know Superdry is actually a British brand and they intentionally have Japanese phrases that make no sense on their clothes to take the mickey as Japanese clothes always have Janglish written on them.

That's true i used to be frustrated about not getting こそあど words right in memrise but after i watched the videos where you explained those words, it got much easier

I'm confused about the masu form of suru, I feel like he haven't discussed it before.

I did not understand why you used the particle に after sports and not a は instead, anyone knows?

lol, the Rosetta Stone rant. That software and similar ones are good complementary stuff because of the repetition, but yeah, not as the only resource for learning.

the dicc

日本語。早くやれよ。✔️

So tabemono is food and kaimono is shopping. おもしろい...

This is the lesson that has been driving me crazy. Nouns to verbs by ~する. Thank you!!

19:29 can いっしよにいきませんか, also mean: you are not going together, are you?, as a reply from a person you are speaking to?

Why out of 13,756 views only 445 people thumbs up? Come on people... such a good content for free! Dont be catchy on Likes! Thanks George your videos is being very helpfull to my Japanese studies.

先生、can I say 質問があります?

すみません、いきません。 でも、来週に会いましょう！(But next week, we should meet. I think)

I feel like this video teaches more info then most people learn from years of reading books haha.

"suru" is so powerful! I can say shit tons now! Thanks, George!

I wouldn't call Rosetta Stone immersion.

sakka to tennis wo shimasu, Like I do Soccer and Tennis. Doesn't it sound a bit odd?

Konnichiwa from Russia :-)

I think German can make sentences shorter by using the"formal" way as using the informal way. Answering the comment on 12:20 about a languange being shorter in the informal way :)

"with who did you do telephone?! who did you telephone with?!"

Can I say "しごとをするからいきません"

for the last sentence can we say けっこうです that we use for refusing drinks or ごめんなさい,働きます i am sure we learnt ,働くfew vidoes back we you said that it is a japanese kanji not chinese and even けっこう i think you've already talked about it in the other series one last thing can we useすみません in stead of ごめんなさい in this particular sentence

Great video! I love it that I learn something new every time.

Diiick!.. I ned to re look the episode of YesJapan.com about perverse Japanese words or something like that like kuso/unko=shit/damn/poop. Things like that.

So, the SURU verb conjugate like the I add on (masu, mashita, etc.)?

Thank you. That was very helpful!

Rosetta Stone be like : 😳😳😳

So does "きく" have multiple meanings? I thought it simply meant "to listen", and therefore would "しつもんをききます" mean I will listen to a question?

I am Russian and I against using un-equal formality in Japanese. Everybody must speak informally, and I would do so even if I move to Japan. And I don't care who is in front of me: only -kimi and -da and so on... I against American and even Russian people who came to Japan and started following their stupid rules. I have been fighting against Japanese politeness for a very long time. Never ever I would say "anata", "des" etc... And I ask my own Japanese teacher not even trying teach me polite forms))

The Rosetta Stone rant! hahahaaaaa - 100% here for it! I HATE all these "learn the way a native speaker would" programs. I'm like, teach my some grammar, damn it!

George, is “きのうのしゆくだいしたか。” also correct? Can you replace the の with a か?

サ変 (サへん) 変格活用 (へんかくかつよう) 変格 (へんかく)

I've been enjoying your lessons! I was wondering which book I should start with. My mom made me go to Japanese language school for 12 years, but I didn't take it very seriously. I want to pick it up again. I think my vocabulary is still good, but I'm rusty on particles and kanji. Hiragana and katakana are fine though. Thanks!

I'm with you. I tried Rosetta stone with Portuguese. Learned nothing and gave up.

haha, do sports :D it maybe doesn't exist in English but does in french. I had no idea what do you meant by "suru =play". Until that. Thanks for the lesson

To say I can't go is ikemasen which is the potential verb form. Change u sound of a verb in dictionary form to the e sound for it to mean "I can or I can not."

Nice, I didn't know that you can put を on all the suru verbs, like 勉強をする

I really thought that 「質問があります」was correct. Thought i'd heard it a few times before.

He's right about the flashcards. Duolingo anyome?

-する suffix

する verbs

Is する always used as present form? My guess would be scince you didn't use it, you can't say しごとをするからいきません or does that change the meaning completly?

Sugoi.

さ行 (さぎょう)

のほんごをべんきょうしてください、そうするならば。。。。つづく。

19:27 isn’t it aunt? Not grandmother?

A classroom some where full of children just lost their innocents.

So 100% natural... its gluten free as well? :-)

Could you explain んとする??? Please!!!!

George said he was proud of me 😍

WTF? Isn't Rosetta Stone like a dictionary from ancient times that was unearthed years ago?

Eww I hate Rosetta Stone. Worst.

ikemasen ! can't go is ikemasen

Haha. Video wa Kokkei desu.

0:00 filthy frank is that you!

i'm really improving in japanese every day ,thank u george, i wrote in the last example: sumimasen shigoto ga aru kara kaemono o ikimasen, Is it correct?

Don't limit yourself talking, please. Cussing is part of the language sometimes lol

Dare to denwa wo shimashita ka? Ghostbusters ni denwa shita. Gomen nasai! :P Need Japanese keyboard...

から　ま路こ!!

s-irregular verbs

It confused me a lil about the call thing.. Can i still say dare ni denwa wo shimashitaka ?

1:37 thanks dad :)

俺は君のシャツが大好き

相変わらず良いビデオ 漢字はGoogle Translateから

i thought きく meant to hear