This, Next, and Last Dates | Japanese From Zero! Video 25 

It's part of the charm of these videos ;)

Goerge! Silly george!!!

@@akualung Hahahah!!! 😆

Don’t afraid of making mistakes. That’s how we improve.

@@aquilazyy1125 Ik XD

great observation guy from kyonen

@@mrpolnareff-5553 great comment guy from sengetsu

@@kopper248 great follow up guy from senshuu

@@TheKnightOfNee Thanks for looking out beautiful person from senshuu.

@@intogrey2038 indeed, commenter from せんげつ

@Memes Seriales the last sentence used "desu"

yes, deshita

There's a lot of hiragana keyboards for free on Google Play Store.

@@smg3250 There's also Microsoft IME.

I found that TypeQ works best for androids. It even has kanji in the predictive text which is rare

@@smg3250 Ah. @ undeadCantBeKilled didn't specify which device he was using so I assumed PC. I use SwiftKey Keyboard on my phone.

Just go to settings and then keyboard wasy

That works. It’s also often the case that translating の to “of” solves many problems as well. Using the possessive property of の is how I teach locations in book 2 so I totally agree with your thinking.

Yes, you're right, he committed a mistake :p

I did. I am not surprised but I missed this error. It was the LAST THING I said... damn... so close!

HOWEVER.... I can point out that if I was answer "how do you say last April? I would have been absolutely correct to say DESU. I always find a way to win!

Think about it... "When was the party?".... answer "It WAS on the first." because the date has already passed. If I said "It IS on the first" then that means the party hasn't passed and I didn't miss it. Japanese also uses past tense to show something passed. In this case the actual date of the party doesn't matter, just that the date of "the 1st" has passed.

5 years

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Sergio Bastian I’m pretty sure him making mistakes is a teaching technique to help people remember better. For example him wearing all green and a green hat randomly one day. I didn’t make the connection clear but I think it’s beneficial.

Did you look at the answer key in the book? samukatta is indeed the past tense of the i-adj SAMUI.

+Learn Japanese From Zero! ありがとう

@@japanesefromzero I realize that this comment is 4 years old, but please fix the lesson 9 drill! Samukatta is not learned yet an there is no answer key for that drill, so it took me a lot of reviewing and some time on google to find that it is a mistake and I did not miss something! Thanks!

The kanji is different and also "today"is lengthened in sound. 今日、きょう、kyou = today 去年、きょうねん、kyonen = last year 千年、せんねん、sennen = 1000 years

@@japanesefromzero 先生 there is typo in きょねん you type ”う” in it.

Sameee

I just learned ひらがな and now I'm learning katakana I feel like it's so much to learn and kanji is probly the hardest.

I don't know where to start with kanji. I was trying wanikani which is nice but it's annoying to have to do SRS for the first low levels that you already know because you end up waiting 9 hours to review hiragana for 8 weeks reeeeeeeeee

I think yes, its like saying "it was this year's april"

I think yes, its like saying "it was this year's april"

Yeah, that makes sense. Thanks guys.

Yes. This works.

Did I? ことし means “this year”. I might have misspoke. Also ごがつ is May.

Hi ouichtan. I'm sorry I'm not George. 13:08 He said 去年の4月です. I think it's a little difficult translation. On screen, he wrote past tense verb "was" and a word "last", which means past. Perhaps that's a reason that you think he should use past tense, rghit ? You might feel it strange because they talk about "past" with using present tense. But the question is present tense "いつですか？" instead of past tense "いつでしたか？". So the tense match between question and answer. If you use "past" words, like "去年" in this Q&A, don't have to use past tense to say past. Ofcourse 去年の4月でした is not wrong. Thanks.

@@masayama1618 Thank you so much for that explanation! It's always good to be corrected, that's how we get better!

You're welcome. ouichtan.

@@masayama1618 after two years this comment is still very useful thank you for taking the time to write this.

@@riccardom.bonato5222 You're welcome.

not trying to be rude just trying to help/ be thorough

きょねんの四月でした

yes it is "deshita"

Lu Bi yes, it’s in the past

Yep. の can also translate to "of", so "Friday OF next week".

I guess it would be "Kotoshi no shigatsu deshita." I know I'm 2 years late so you're probably the one who's going to correct me 🤣.

Is last year's February cold? use でした for past tense and "ga" for adjectives.

He mentions it at 7:30 in this video that you should add です to all the examples.

Bankai!

na he said deshita. miss in last. but it is deshita.

Not a copy past error. More like a typo. I just briefly forgot we know ん already.

This was sort of a follow up comment because I commented on this typo first in video #24 so I assumed that it was copy paste as it happened again in this and it's also the exact same sentence :P You also mentioned a copy paste error at 10:41 when you spotted raいがつ which you corrected to raいげつ so that's another reason. Just trying to help; I have been loving your videos for 4 years now, keep it up! :) Make sure you also read my comment in video #24. It's related. You should have read that first and then my comment in this video. I assumed you did read comments in a chronological order.

Hello, He say for the past tense use "deshita". and last example was in past tense.

but he used "desu" he made a mistake there

123dog ok then sue him

I bet you're one of those people who gets butthurt when someone points out your mistake

That's why i am saying, you sue him, how can he make the mistake, "The mistake".

ことし means this year

Okay. Thank you.

Kanji by kanji. As some words are composed of more than one kanji, it would be more difficult, I guess... This is how I work anyway.

+xxxPetrolHeaDxxx it's so difficult that way because every kanji have more than one meaning

+Summer Yes but if learn the kanji one by one, with every meaning (on and kun yomi), you'll see that you'll learn the words easier at the end

well... you do both... the more kanji (and radicals) you know the better you'll understand the concept and new words/kanji... it's all like a complicated but interesting puzzle... and when you have already memorized one reading because you learned a word, it's easier to remember the other readings as well... like in this video the kanji for moon/month is read as "tsuki", "getsu" and "gatsu"... you'll probably have no problems with this one since you know all the readings because you've learned so many words that use this kanji... but when you know the kanji first and then you stumble upon a word that uses this particular kanji, you instantly know the general meaning... that's the beauty of this concept ^^ I won't give you examples here because George-Sensei always says we shouldn't get ahead of his lessons in the comments... but you'll get the idea in the following videos...

i recomand wanikani (its not free but you can try 3 levels for free) or houhou-srs (which is free but dont have any course you need to manage order and pace of what you want to learn yourself). in wanikani spirit, pick one main reading from kanji (i personally pick first listed on yomi) and learn it via srs, then learn words that use that kanji and in progress you will learn other reading and when you use them as well as words them selfs (single kanji word, i-ajectives and verbs should have top priority), dont add words with kanji you didnt lear yet... that ofcouse is when you use houhou, wanikani is a course which pocks stuff for you, but houhou is also good addition to it to learn extra words. thats my way of doing it and so far its quite effective, i currently at 315 kanji and 1500+ words in houhou queue in half of year (i think), in case of wanikani in good pace you can complete it in 2-3 years, but don't get yourself down because of that, learning language takes years and keep in mind you learning stuff which japanese kids learn for around 8-9 years so 3y is really short compare to that

nope. Always sengetsu. tsuki is just the word for moon

No,I don't say sentsuki.sengetsu only.sen is onyomi(Chinese pronouncation imported with kanji) and tsuki is kunyomi(original japanese) and there are few case mixing onyomi and kunyomi. it is called jubakoyomi

it sounds weird... Japanese probably would understand it the same way you'd understand "last moon..." but you should learn the proper reading ^^ it'll make sense when you start learning kanji... trust me (or better... trust George-Sensei)

There only one way to say word regardless of kanji readings. Onyomi reading is used when you got word made up by 2 or more kanji which is in this case. dont worry once you start learning kanji you will feel the pattens in which they function, just dont think about it to much now

Thank you everyone (^^)