Really wish there was more of these, i have all five books and stopped mid way of 5, somehow these videos really clarify my problems and kept me motivated. I blew past books 1-3.
May I ask when you’re going to continue this book and start the book five videos? I find these really useful after reading the chapter with your explanations and I get to grips with the content better after watching these.
2:48 ガムガムの実を食べたら、泳げなくなりますよ。Sorry about the ワンピース spoilers, apparently if you eat fruit in the aforementioned anime you will get cramps and be unable to swim.そうして、気おつけて。
I'm not quite to this level yet, maybe close, but got here looking for a JFZ thing about transitive and intransitive verbs (because they're being mean to me, and/but I couldn't find any). Somehow it still helped with that, though. I was thinking, "why can't they just be forms/conjugations of the same verbs?" Maybe I didn't stop thinking that completely, but seeing so many forms/conjugations/modules stacked at once like a line of adapters adapting from A to B to C to D, I think, "maybe the language didn't have room for more", lol. It gets hard to follow. I kind of wonder what the longest you can get a verb to be would be, just stacking as many as possible. It's kind of what antidisestablishmentarianism is, and why I can remember the word. It's just "establish" with way too much added on. PS. I was thinking if this くなる would really be that useful, but I then realized I've used that kind of thing at least twice in this comment. Edit: I found some, somehow getting the idea to search passive/active. I only learned "transitive/intransitive" for Japanese and because of others insisting, and find the words annoying and frustrating. 他動詞 and 自動詞 already make more sense, even though I don't properly know 3 of those 4 kanji. "Others verbs" and "self verbs". Something you verb (takes somebody/another to do it), vs something that just happens on its own "by itself". I guess I've been looking for a shortcut to not have to apparently learn a lot of verbs twice, which are only one in English and the concept of "transitivity" is as foreign as the word itself. (For the record, the video mentioning it is on Course 3, Lesson 8 / video 77)
Since I learnt my Japanese online through watching videos, I have no idea how to translate between English and Japanese, I just know what is natural in both languages 😂. So this was good at training my translation skills
I finally made it; I reached the top of the Form Zero series without using the book, lol. Now I need to wait for a new 'episode' to come out (sadly, there is no shipping to my country for the books). It took me half a year, but I made it, and I can say with certainty that this series is amazing and has taught me so many things. I'm a lot more confident in myself when I talk in Japanese, which is amazing since I'm soon going to Japan. Thank you so much, ジョージ.
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I feel like my use of に may have changed the meaning of my sentence to something different than I intended, perhaps I used the wrong way of saying "sometimes" as well but this is what your getting.
@@jonathanallen2560, hi Jonathan, my Japanese is not good, but I think that after 時々 (sometimes with an s ) you don’t need anything as に, just continue the phrase.
