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George, you are the best teacher ever! Honestly!

This man single handedly is teaching me a whole language... A language that I thought i could never learn. What a legend

5:40 this is why you're a great teacher, you understand how too massage the little ego of the learner 😂😂

Best 5 seconds of learning Japanese. 15:16 - 15:21😂😂😂

11:16 Here in the UK there is a chain of Japanese fast food restaurants called 'Itsu'. You therefore _could_ say 'Itsu ni kimasu ka?' - 'Are you coming to Itsu?' ;-)

Here I am crying over a splendid teacher telling me to be proud of what little japanese I know. If you read this George, thank you truly, you were meant to be a sensei.

Thank you for explaing "ni wa". That always got me for some reason.

I never really thought about it that way, but I take a step back and look it's true: I do know much more japanese than I realized!

oh man I'm busting up! "tell me that doenst sound like, dfocvaiswneroufhwevnowienf" oh man! You're killing me.

It's 2020 and I'm almost 4 years late, but THANK YOU for this video! :) Being able to translate that long passage at the end felt like a massive win. I'm already bought Book 1 and will continue with your series!

George, i go to university in Japan and I'm taking the most basic Japanese class and tbh the teachers for the basic class are not much help. When i learn from you everything clicks so well because you emphasize the importance of learning grammar rather than memorizing phrases. You also teach in a very fun way, throwing in a few anecdotes here and there, it just makes me feel more connected to the lesson. I am sure you get this all the time but George, you are an amazing teacher.

3:25 When he said "Doko ni iki masuka", I paused the video, broke-down the words, and GOT IT CORRCT!!! ON MY FIST TRY!! I said "Where are you going to?"?? Which, isn't the exact thing he said, but it means the same thing. I'm so happy right now! I've worked really hard just to start learning Japanese, and now I'm working hard to learn it!

The realisation that I understood some of these sentences before I had even consciously translated them to English makes me so happy. My brain just clicked. George is the best teacher of all time

George your videos and book are the reason I hadn’t given up on learning Japanese. I can’t express how thankful I am. I have a Spanish mother who is in need to learn English and I wish there were books and videos in the style of these for her

This is the lesson where I felt like I was really speaking japanese, it feels like such an achievement

Oh my god😂😂 I think this was the best lesson ive ever had 😂 ur amazing!!! Best teacher ever!You always make me laugh and you explain everything so good! Thank you so much for helping us learn Japanese! Greetings from Greece ~ 😁🤗 hope you learn Greek soon 🙄😱

Had the biggest smile on my face in this lesson. Being able to actually say stuff like this is so cool to me. Being able to confidently say "I speak a little Japanese" has now become the highlight of my month😂.

5:40 he was right. When I got to lesson 12 I was pretty pumped not because of what the lesson was but because I tried learning Spanish before and conjugating is not as simple in Spanish as it is here where you just add an ending. This is on if those things where English and Japanese are like opposite languages but I love when they have something in common like go to going and いくto いきます. PS when I say it to my phone is types 行く instead of いく. It’s because the Kanji that replaced い means going/ journey/ to carry out and the word is literally to go so don’t get frustrated if you’re experiencing the same thing. It’s not hearing you wrong. It’s just another way to write it.

To be honest, I was wondering whether or not using "ni" twice in a sentence like that sounded natural. This video completely cleared that up for me! Thank you George!!!

For real I wasn't expecting what you've said! I am an ICT student learning Japanese. and from hearing what you've said. I'm now even more dedicated in learning Japanese!

I love this man so much I'm crying. George, if you're out there, please know that I'm crying bc you're so clear when you explain things and honestly just thank you. you bring tears to my eyes. I love you, man

5:59 OMG That voice, is just perfect for a badass anime!

Buying the JFZ books are such a win win! Its a great tool to help watching along with the videos, and even better.. you support JoJi-San!!! Such a great sensei

Thanks for being such a nice and genuine teacher! It's wonderful that I can both learn and laugh from your videos.

I wish I would have you as a teacher when I'm gonna study Japanese in Tokyo.

We may disagree on a few things George, but I always thoroughly enjoy your videos. Even when I’ve already seen it a few times, you always get my full attention easily.

Love your videos! I'm struggling with Japanese and all my tutors and language exchange partners are not great English speakers so it's hard for them to communicate precisely. Your teaching style is so personable and your passion for the language rubs off in such a positive way! I feel like you're talking directly to me! I have made faster progress watching your videos, thank you sooo much! Keep up the great work!

Thank you ジョジ先生 . i Will be applying for a scholarship in Japan in 2022 and i basically have two years to learn Japanese. My parents are stiill saving up money for enrolling me in a japanese course to learn nihonggo so in the meantime i thought i could study by myself. I have found alot of videos that are so confusing and i even came to the point thinking that maybe i just cant really learn this language. but when i stumbled upon your series, everything was just very clear. the things you teach in 5 videos other people try to fit in one 10 minute video. and so i was surprised i could actually pick up the language much more easy. You are the best teacher i have encountered so far. i think i might not need to enroll in any courses and id just buy your books. im very thankful to have found this series

So glad to be following your approach. Feels good to be near the end of book 1. Big thanks for all your videos.

thank you george for another awesome video, I watch these religiously

ありがとございます、ジョジ先生。Deeply thankful and respectful to you, for making such helpful sources of learning Japanese available, for free ❤. May you and your family be loved, happy and in peace ❤.

This is really the best series on how to learn Japanese. I was so excited when I was able to understand what that long phrase at the end meant.

I feel so good right now! It's all coming together! Thanks George :)

What i love about your lessons - you actually tell us how to speak and sound more like a native. For example, until now i didn't know that "に/へ" are not interchangeable. Everywhere i've been told that they are. Thank you again, George! P.S. I rewatched 5:45 like 10 times.

I laughed so hard so many times while watching this. Thanks for such a good and entertaining class!

What a wonderful lesson. Thank you so much!

ive been watching your videos over the past week but after i go through all of book/course one i will wait a few days and go thorugh all the videos again to reinforce what i know and remember what i forgot you keep me entertained with your rants and storys and i think being entertained is one of the best thing that can happen to keep intrested i went about learning the hiragana before wathcing you and reading it in your videos keeps it locked into my brain

I find these videos very helpful. ありがとうございます！

ありがとうございます、ジョージ‐先生！ It's crazy how everything came together in this lesson. I'm very excited to get to book 2 soon.

great lesson George sensei... learnt a lot from this vid

George, you're simply awesome!

You are so kind and motivating! I know a mess of Japanese, but I'm trying to sort it out from square one and you make me feel really encouraged instead of feeling hopeless.

What a great teacher!!!

I've started learning a year ago, and I am reviewing these videos (I'm with book 2 now, and I've already bought the 3rd!) and I can't believe how much progress I have made in a year. I love these videos and the way you teach. I'm always looking forward to watching them, and even these that I've already seen... they're still funny and easy to watch, but at the same time very helpful. Thank you! To be honest, I want to learn korean as well now because I know you have a book series. I hope you keep on working with different languages because it's the first time I actually feel like learning by myself is easy and fun and working better than going to an institute. ありがとうジョージさん！

2025 is going to be a sad year...

George, your videos really helped me so much in fixing my grammar. This'll make me more prepared for the JLPT. Thank you!

Beautiful lesson, probably my most favorite one so far. And I totally agree with you about your feeling towards Hiroshima and the Memorial Park, that visited last July.

I started listening to this and thinking "why does this sound like he's repeating stuff he's said before?". Then I realized! He isn't repeating anything. This is the video that I found him from and then from there started watching the whole playlist. Now I can see how much I've progressed by starting from zero and getting to here, because I understand everything and know the verbs and vocab he mentions

Thank you so much for your work George! Well done!

George i always watching your video i learned a lot from you .youre the best

I got Book 1 for my birthday back in April of this year and using all my free time ive been doing the lessons 3 to 4 times over just to make sure i understand everything and when i got to this lesson after almost 2 1/2 months I couldnt explain how happy i was to realize how much Japanese i actually knew! Ive treid using other methods before and i can say ive learned more in the past 2 1/2 months than i did in 6 months of Doulingo. Im definitely going to continue through the rest of the books and i cant wait to see how much more i can learn! Love the website, Love the Videos, Love the Books, Love your methods! Thank you so much!

Thanks for the videos, they were so good I decided to pick up a couple of the books 😊

This lesson made me feel good and encouraged by my progress so far! ありがとうございますジョジーせんせい。せんせいがいいです。

Thanks for the lessons, they are really good structured and helpful, keep it up George! greetings from spain

I’m smiling the whole time watching this video because I’m able to understand everything. 5 months into learning Japanese now and this is simply a wonderful feeling 😊

Simply the best Teacher ever... have not found understanding Japanese easier... :D Thaaaaaaanks

Amazing free content, thanks!

Thank you for your dedication and desire . I see what u mean saying I got chills,I got it too.I mean I am a beginner but can read understand construct sentences ,and when I can create sentence ,when I understand kanji ...it’s I got this chills ! It’s real indescribable feelings of a little achievement for me ,cos it’s hard for study with teacher by skype ( I do it regularly 6 months now) Just thanks 🙏for all u do for us who learning this language .BIG help

Hi George - Thank you so much for these videos. I'm almost finished book 1 and I can't wait for book 2. I'm a stay at home mom with a two year old and it's been my goal to learn Japanese for years, ever since I took Music of the Worlds People for a humanities credit in university. It was the shakuhachi, shamisen and koto that introduced me to Japanese culture and I've admired it ever since. So here I am, finally learning Japanese, and I love your teaching style and the way you've put your lessons together. It's not my first foreign language, but it's been by far the most enjoyable to learn. Thank you again. Also looking forward to Mandarin From Zero... no rush, eh! ;)

George I bought, read, and loved the first JFZ book. Just ordered the other three!To anyone who loves these vids: As a customer I recommend buying the books in additionto watching the channel (especially if you're serious about learning the hiragana).

You need to win a medal 🥇 for teaching Japanese. I understand everything better than my actual Japanese professor. Thank you so much. I just got your books. They are very easy to understand and I love how, little by little, you integrate hiragana/Katakana to the Context of the text. ありがとうございます

Love your passion, せんせい. いつもありがとう!

I studied Japanese in college (I'm trying to brush up here) and my Japanese college professor (Japan native graduated from Tokyo University) taught that that the most correct form is "Location" è ikimasu... Tokyo e ikimasu, as the particle "e" indicates direction/movement toward a location. Maybe for Gakko "ni" is preferred because you're going "inside" the school. My 2 cents.

i very like u teach japanese in the casual way , the way that we will use in reality situation . . .

I've only been teaching myself Japanese for about two weeks now. I'd like to say that I'd made some good progress (mostly because I had learned some words and expressions via osmosis from Anime and other media), but this and the previous video really brough a lot of it together. I clearlly still have a long way to go (I mean even if I've done a lot, it's only been two weeks), but this really helpped me break down sentences and understand so much more of what I was reading.

It's really exciting being able to understand most of that without having to really think about it.

anybody was happy they were able to translate that last one at the end of the video

Wow, all this time, that I haven't understood the difference between "ni" and "he" and he just explains it in one sentence. Good job thanks a lot! :)

He is the best listen to him made I addicted to Japanese thanks

I cant leave enough likes on these videos, im so glad you're doing this george, you have been extremely helpful, and i know that these are still very basic but goddamn im so fucking proud and excited. I've been going through a lot lately and learning japanese has been a huge help to keep me going im so thankful man... love ya

I like it when you say it sounds so Japanese. the rhythm of Japanese sounds good to me.

This is so helpfull !!!! I am doing a Japanese course and this helps me so much as extra material

those praises over little things make me feel so happy (⁠个⁠_⁠个⁠)💙 like someone is petting you on the back and saying it's okay you're doing well it's enough, thank you so much for everything 🫂🤍🤍🌸🦥

I've been learning japanese for a couple month now, and barely now i understand how to use "には" particle. ありがとうございます😆 (btw i used many platform to study nihongo)

Peace Memorial made me cry. Thanks for the lesson btw

i normally don't comment on vids.. but ive been looking fr a place to learn japanese in a structured manner.. and George u are amazing.. Tx so much fr making these..its been unbelievably helpful.. i look fwd to d lessons ahead..Ps- i still remember ur bdy!!

e & ni being somewhat interchangable reminds me of learning programming in c++ many years ago. We were told that endl; & /n were in most respects the same (starting a new line in the console window), yet the slight difference between them made one of my programs act in strange unintended ways. (Also I will note that I had to use romaji here because Android's JP keyboard settings suck. It is one of the few things I miss about my iphone days.)

I like that "ni" marks both space and time, so it is a spacetime marker from general relativity :D Just like the Latin "ubi".

Your amaizing!Thank you very much!

Awesome! I had so much fun in this lesson :D

Just a thing maybe you may want to know about non english speakers public. I'm brazilian and I'm studying japanese by your books and Genki. I think you are, really, the BEST teacher! Of course it's personal and maybe some people may not think the same. But to me the way you explain things on your books and videos, the progressive system you'v createde, make easier to learn than any other books, methods, sites or even a japanese teacher I've found in I talk. Really man, you know how to teach things, you "born to be a teacher". Besides, you're so funny and cool. So, I told about your work to my friends that, inpired by may posts about learning japanese on facebook, asked me the best way to learn. Of course I told what I just said: "Learn Japanese form Zero is to me the best tool you may find. Unfortunately they don't understand english and they told me there's no portuguese version of your books (I didn't know it cause I intentionaly tried to find english sources to learn, beacause, beyond there are much more materials available it will help me to improve my poor english while I'm learning a third idiom- I'm also learning italian, so a the 3'd or 4'd idiom haha). So, I think you maybe should think of the possibility to translate your work into another languages. Of course portuguese may not sound to you a great deal. We are a millions of portuguese speakers in the world, most due to my giant country but very few countries. BUT maybe would be interesting to you to make in spanish, the second language in the world and very similar to portuguese in many ways. Most of my friends could understand the books if there was a spanish version of the text. Maybe you will find this idea interesting. I don't know. Anyaway, keep this great job!

Thank you. By the way, you are really the best teacher.

Great video george sensei!

Love your videos

I like the way you teach sensei.. I really understand.. Thank you very much.. #beginner

Ground breaking lesson.... huge!

Seriously, come to Okinawa...you are helping me daily with Japanese here. I am more than happy to show you around and I have a guest room you are welcome to.

It felt good to be able to understand that entire last long sentence fluidly. Just by hearing it. Thanks George! btw, reinan no haru ni Tokyo mi ikimasu demo, okinawa ni wa ikimasen. kanashii.. wakarimashita. Tabun, Hokkaido ni ikudeshou!

Couldnt find any good japanese learning resources anywhere. But your videos have been great :)

I’m jo n I bought two book hope I can use love learn from u sir I watch I tude I feelsupport u Thnks for teaching

Thank you George.

First time to watch his video and he's been better than my local sensei lol.

Damn i search a lot of youtube channel but you are the best you are very clear! And smooth when it comes to teaching😭 ありがとう先生

when you said 「どこにいきますか。」I didn't even haft to think about what it means. I really didn't notice that until you pointed that out

Excellent channel

Goerge - don't get this the wrong way, please but: I love you! And I am a dude. With all the other books and material so far I've never made that much progress and at least for the moment this. feels. awesome. Oh and just so you know - I left Genki I a 3 Star Rating and your Book a 5 Star Rating on Amazon because I love not only how much better your material is suited for self-learners. It's also how fair you treat your students. There's no paywall and subscribe-this or register-that nonsense. Your videos have a low entry barrier so that people know what they get. It's how I found you after pretty much blindly buying the Kanji book first (don't ask why). Watching the videos reinforces buying the books as well. In conjunction it seriously feels like being back in school a little (I'm 36, now. Just now it also feels I can appreciate it much more than when I was younger. I will recommend you to anyone who wants to learn japanes as well. You Rock!!

Yes George u rock !!!

I GOTTT GOOSEBUMPS I UNDERSTAND

feels good now after watching this