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Japanese is best learned by getting used to the language, rather than trying to master grammar I don’t know any Japanese grammatical rules I’ve just grown more and more comfortable in the language over time brbr---brFREE Language Learning Resourcesbr10 Secrets of Language Learning ⇢ wwwthelinguistcombrLingQ Grammar Guides ⇢ wwwlingqcom/en/grammar-resource/brMy blog ⇢ blogthelinguistcom/brThe LingQ blog ⇢ wwwlingqcom/blog/brMy Podcast ⇢ soundcloudcom/lingostevebr podcastsapplecom/us/podcast/learn-languages-with-steve-kaufmann/id1437851870brbr---brSocial MediabrInstagram ⇢ wwwinstagramcom/lingosteve_/brTikTok ⇢ wwwtiktokcom/@lingostevebrFacebook ⇢ wwwfacebookcom/lingostevebrTwitter ⇢ twittercom/lingostevebrLingQ Discord ⇢ discordgg/ShPTjyhwTN Comment from : Steve Kaufmann - lingosteve

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I love katakana, I learned that in two days Comment from : Junior Sasaki

やはり慣れが大切ですね😀 Comment from : Egi

Thanks 🙏 Comment from : yonny silva

All these videos about language learning are very interesting but I think highly distracting for my actual language studying Comment from : thinktankdonahue

My favorite part of Japanese is that they formalized grunts as legitimate answers to questions which probably goes along with the flexibility he is talking about Comment from : Daniel Scalera

Steve, what are your favorite languages? Comment from : Les Pleiades du Taureau

In Japanese I can express myself the same way I do in Spanish Spanish is my mother tongue but Japanese simplified way of speaking sometimes is more difficult for me to adapt In Spanish we use more flourishes Comment from : Angyliv

i learnt japanese in japan in my 20s and am now in mexico learning spanish in my 40s and i find spanish so much more difficult infinitely more difficult everything you say about the flexibility of the grammar is probably not something a beginner wants to hear necessarily but is totally true and lies at the heart of learning it Comment from : figgettit

katakana is pervasive, not sure what you mean steve maybe things have changed since you were in japan Comment from : figgettit

that is the coolest pair of glasses i have ever seen Comment from : Jothanan Vlogs

I find Japanese very logical for the most part, but it's just so much to remember - which might be the same for most languages, but I find myself struggling to remember the grammar points, especially when speaking Writing and reading isn't too bad Comment from : Flash Gordon

2:18 this is so satisfying Comment from : Sweet Durt

In spoken Japanese and in casual writing like a text message, I've come to find that the native speakers tend to say things in the most concise way possible that's understandable They don't usually talk in obscure idioms or long complex sentences which makes things just a bit easier to pick up on and start contributing to conversations as a beginner Comment from : theacp127

Anata no megane ga suki Comment from : Sem Perez

Hi Steven, how did you learn the grammar? brIs there a great way to learn about this? Comment from : Mag

Boa tarde meu amigo, eu sou o Martins moro em São Paulo capital, Brasil, eu quero muito aprender inglês, quero ser fluente: como procedo para alcançar a fluência ? Comment from : Menezes Martins

For an Indian who knows Sanskrit and South indian languages like Tamil and Kannada, the structure of Japanese is very familiar My bugbears are katakana, and the numerous small particles and junk interjections! Comment from : pjdilip

There is also kyujita /木内た words traditional Japanese words which I found it on YouTube just finding some random videos and they’re longer to spell also a lot more difficult than Kanji Comment from : Mason Fremlin

私の日本語はすごくないです、でも、私は新しく。40日 Comment from : 光月

Thank you for shedding light on learning one of the hardest languages of this planet Comment from : گەیاندنی زانست

I've lived in Japan since 1988 It took me 10 years to be fully fluent and 15 to become literate Japan is incredibly hard Believe otherwise and embrace the disappointment Comment from : Gordon Graham

Yes, it's really hard Comment from : Gordon Graham

If you like to read books Japanese is not hard Comment from : 山川川山

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is it hard to learn japanese?brbrwell, i’m finding out right now :'D Comment from : mafuuya 🫧

日本の漫画「大奥」18巻の183頁にこんな台詞があります。brbr「言語とはすなわちそれを話す民の頭の中身そのものです。このように合理的な言語を持っていたから世界に植民地があるのか、それとも数多の国を征服しているうちにこのように合理的な言語になったのか。」brbr日本語は合理性からは遠く、とても曖昧で難しい。brだから日本で働く海外の方を尊敬する。 Comment from : 桜田美津子

The particles were one of the major things that tripped me up when I was learning Japanese years ago Comment from : Misha Purser

Katagana? That's the bpow/b bbang/b stuff? Could you find that in comic books maybe? Or animated cartoons? Just a suggestion maybe Comment from : Laura Salo

Sir more videos on Japanese are needed 😄 Comment from : Soumya Chakraborty

I know this Comment from : SAFRINXER

As always an excellent, informative, and motivating presentation Concerning the three forms of Japanese script - a samll note of interest The Georgian scripts are the three writing systems used to write the Georgian language: Asomtavruli, Nuskhuri and Mkhedruli Although the systems differ in appearance, their letters share the same names and alphabetical order and are written horizontally from left to right Additionally Arabic the letters, as you may or may not know are modified according to their position in a word or sentence, thus giving isolated, initial, medial and finial Comment from : Phoenix Angelfire

What is the best app for learning a language Comment from : A C

I feel like one of the most misleading things people commonly say about Japanese that I wish would just stop being said is "Japanese has three writing systems" brbrIt's just not true It has one writing system It's just that the characters can be naturally split into three distinct parts But they all come together to represent the language, and they serve different functions inside of the writing system, so no part of it is redundantbrbrI feel like it gives people the misleading idea that you would only need to learn one of hiragana, katakana or kanji to read Japanese, which of course isn't true Comment from : Jason Schuchardt

14:04 My language also has genders for a lot of parts of speech and if you use the wrong gender while speaking, you are going to get weird looks and and it can feel very awkward to the listener Comment from : Sayam Qazi

Can I achieve a good level of Japanese if I started studying it at 29 ? Comment from : Moises Flores

Does listening to music count as listening? Comment from : Moises Flores

外国人の方からしたら日本語はどういう感じなんだろう🧐brやっぱり難しいのかな Comment from : ツッチー

What a flex 2:17 ! Comment from : Severus Bandaya

So in short is Japanese easy ? Comment from : karyn karam

Nice explanation, however I would have definitely mentioned the counters: the numbers in Japanese change depending on what you are counting（depending among other criteria on the shape of what you are counting, so round objects are ko, flat objects are mai, oblong objects are hon / pon, etc) Three eggs for example is sanko tamago (三個卵）, but three days is mikkakan（三日間）, three generic things are mittsu, etc There are hundreds of counters, although you should at least know the most common 40 or so The other difficulty is the double negatives, which definitely takes some adjusting to, especially during a real conversation The fact that several Asian languages count on a base four instead of base three is also challenging, especially when dealing with large numbers (so one million has to be said "one hundred ten thousands") Comment from : Alabama Samurai

が is to describe something (mostly) and は denotes the subject you're talking about Comment from : Mobik

Hey there Good to see u learn Japanese I am risa By the way, i also teach Japanese at my channel You can check it out if you want Hope it helps 😇 Comment from : Ask your sensei !

Therapist: Ronin Steve Kaufmann isn't real, he can't hurt youbrbrRonin Steve Kaufmann: 3:32 Comment from : Isaac W

Teach us your ways スチブー先生!brLove the video as someone whose been doing self study on this language for about 2 years Comment from : Kathina Gallery

Alright Comment from : TheBombayMasterTony

Steve is everyone's language grandpa Comment from : Heather Hanlon

My native language is Navajo but I went to school and learned english, but Japanese and Navajo are sometimes very similar which makes it easier but confusing Comment from : kylees

why am i here if im trying to learn korean lmao Comment from : kavi

I've been learning Japanese for almost 7 years but I still can't speak fluently like JapaneseBut i have some advice for you If you want to be able speak it fluently The secret is only two if your language structure is totally different from Japanese br1 Learn it continually, do not try to stop learn it even just a few days br2 Never compare your mother language to Japanese, it can be your obstacles while you learning Japanese grammars typically are about feeling, although you read the grammar explanation, you wouldn't still understand the meaning get the feel of the grammar and you would be able to use it in conversation Comment from : Bacot Official

多くの人々が日本語は極めて難しいを言ってるというのを、あたしはネット上でよく見ます。しかし、数年間日本語を勉強して経験に基づいて、日本語は少し難しいなんですけれども、それほど難しくありません。正直、中国語や韓国語やタイ語やベトナム語などの言語は日本語よりもはるか難しいです。あたしは今、日本語をかなり上手レベルで喋れるなんですけれども、より流暢なレベルに狙っています。そうすれば、アニメや日本語の動画などが完全わかりやすくなります。 Comment from : 美少女ワナビー

altos anteojos Comment from : NAGATEI

このおじさんめちゃめちゃカッコイイわ、若い頃を見てみたい Comment from : ちゃきずーるー

Not the glasses lmao Comment from : Liberation pocket

我听英国朋友说，日语比华语要难得多。 Comment from : お節介じい

I'm a Chinese, and I'm learning Japanese I think Chinese is more similar with English in structure than Japanese, even though they seem totally different from each other, while Chinese and Japanese kanji look the same Japanese tend to put the most important part into the end of a sentence, usually predicates, as well as add many structures into a simple sentance which seem kind of meaningless and made the sentences super long compared to their original forms, just to express their emotion, to adjust to a certain environment Maybe it's more important for a Japanese to read the atmosphere, it's kind of difficult for me but, actually I like it, which allows me to express my emotion in a precise waybr"爱" and ''愛", both "love" in Simplified Chinese and Japanese, the difference is that we don't have "心", "heart", in it Simplified Chinese is more efficient, not just in kanji We have simplified kanji and shorter verbs, but we speak even longer sentences with overwhelming amount of information than Japanese and Traditional Chinese, which is used in taiwan In fact, people in taiwan often have trouble understanding mainland movies without subtitles just because we speak too fast and too complex It does efficient, but we just only stand on our OWN position, no attention to OTHERS side, which made simplified Chinese relatively harder to understand and less emotion, heartless, in other word Of course, I didn't realize it before knowing Japanese, I think it's the charm of linguistics Comment from : 谢禹

In my experience no one learns Japanese It takes them 5 to 10 years to be fluent at the N2 level and they stay there with only 1000 learned kanji and still other 1000 more kanji to go, which they never learn because they don't ever need to Actually most of the people who claim to speak Japanese fluently sound horrible (both bad pitch accent and bad pronunciation) have many many grammatical inaccuracies, weirdly mix casual with ます〜です thinking Japanese people don't notice it (they do, they just don't say anything), they don't go anywhere near keigo and can't actually read a novelbrThe few people who can actually read, write and speak properly at a near native level had insane study routines, incredible drive, lived in Japan and probably needed that level for their job I bet if we did a psychometric test we'd find high IQ's and a high level of the 'conscientiousness' trait which means they naturally work harderbrSteve's Japanese is good, but he doesn't care about pronunciation at all in any language so he has a pretty strong English accent He tells people Japanese is easy but he learnt Japanese by living in Japan for ten years and after having learned Chinese first so he did not have many of the obstacles most people havebrJapanese is cool but it's too hard and you may not need it or ever use it I'd learn Chinese first It's also very interesting, will actually be useful in the future and unlike Japanese I've seen many many people learn Chinese at quite an amazing level Comment from : kliudrsfhlih

日本人です。brコメント欄見て、日本語学びたい人がこんなに多いんだと知ってなんかちょっと感動してる Comment from : ごいち

In Japan, students learn the grammar of their own language in detail when they reach junior high school It's their language, but everyone complains that it's too difficult lolbrI really respect foreigners who can work hard to learn Japanese Comment from : 霧島 かすみ

The easiest thing about learning Japanese is that there is so much high quality media to consume and immerse in Books, manga, films, music etc Whatever you're into, you can likely spend your whole day in Japanese for years and never run out of interesting content to immerse in Given how important input is in acquiring language, this is a massive advantage for Japanese learners over learners of languages with less developed entertainment industries surrpunding them Comment from : Ongoing Discovery

Yes Comment from : Rory Jamieson

4:11 I'm surprised you would claim that after having learned chinese The vast majority (90+) of chinese characters are not pictographic Comment from : Donovan Downes

Hebrew also has 2 writing systems, one is called "Dfus" and is used in print, official writing and how children learn to read, and the other one is called "Ktav" and used in everyday handwriting and in modern use to give an 'informal' sense to the text Comment from : A Neiger

Whatever language you're learning, there really isn't a substitute for spending time memorizing things and constant exposure to the language If someone claims there's a shortcut to learn a language without putting in the efforts, you can be damn sure they are lying Comment from : 習包子の野望

thank you, i hope to learn japanese too Comment from : Mauricio Jaramillo

I just want to know where to buy those glasses Comment from : 林彥承

I honestly am studying Japanese but I wanna learn how to read it and understand it Comment from : おっとおっと

I think the question should be “Is it possible to learn Japanese?” Comment from : Денислав Петров

I feel so lucky and thankful growing up speaking a european language (German) that uses time, different levels of politeness, gender, cases and tons of conjugations English and French, which I started learning in my teens, seemed just easier versions of what I already knew, and picking it up was super relaxed Even Russian and Portuguese weren't too bad, as I was familiar with the system When i moved on to other languages I found them difficult, but on levels and subjects that are so much more welcoming for someone who just wants to have fun as I did As hard as the japanese writing system is, and as confusing the levels of politeness and the particles are sometimes, "forgiving" is exactly the word I'd use to describe it And the same goes for Korean, Mandarin and Cantonese Comment from : Mia Sayato

Best thing about being turkish and trying to learn japanese is that our pronounciations, sounds and the way verbs are at the end are very very similar to a point that I understand it naturally It's an advantage to not have English / European languages as my main language when learning japanese because their structures and sounds are very different Comment from : HalfGandalf

The difficulty of a language should not be of concern, if you are deeply interested / invested in said language Comment from : Onbii

counting things in japanese is incredibly hard and i think it needs its own video loved this one btw! Comment from : Anthony Dellimuti

he looks like joe biden Comment from : tobi87

As for the diehard FF7 fans with a Formal form of Nut Growing around their IQ, Cloud Only Looks for Mama and knows to get the fuck out Of Hereditary Obligation Comment from : JFIFFL

I can speak 4 languages: brPolish (fluently, writing is sparse (never went to school))brGerman (fluently, writing too ((went to school))brGreece (fluently, cant write anything ((never went to school))brEnglish (fluently, writing too ((went to school))brbrNow I am learning japanese for 128 days (20min-30min daily) and let me tell youbrJapanese is like another level of language Its so alien to me, and I thought "Meh, I was able to learn some languages in my life why should be japanese be differnt" lol brwell now I know how different it is Still amazing language and dont ever get discouraged by learning something new Thats the fun of it like playing dark soulsbrbrThe more your ass gets kicked, the better you feel if you overcome it Comment from : SeBu

Russia and Serbia use Kyrillic and the Latin alphabet on a daily basis How could you not know? Comment from : se://A

I wanna learn to speak it cause I really like the language but I have no one to speak it with Comment from : shane smith

Japanese seems like talking would be a bit easier in some aspects like you said but the sentence structure of the verb being in the "wrong" spot compared to English or Spanish seriously gets me, that's the hardest part other than learning Kanji and Kana Comment from : Sb129

tl;drbrHe talks about how hard it is to get to a level of "you can navigate everyday situations", not how hard it actually is to LEARN brbrI'm not sure this man is qualified to spread his opinion on whether or not japanese is difficult There are a lot of little things that add up and make me believe his level of proficiency is enough to navigate tokyo, but he still seems to make beginner mistakes and some of his advice seems almost like misinformationbr1) I understand he learnt japanese from older sources, but katakana is really all over the place, contrary to what he saysbr2) It IS important to use the polite and casual forms correctly They may forgive a foreigner but if a japanese would do it wrong, they'd take them for a foolbr3) Hiragana and Katakana are barely worth mentioning You can learn both of those in 3 days if you really want to Kanji however are magnitudes harder to learn, because of the amount that are used frequently He also didn't talk about what makes kanji so difficultbr4) The wa particle puts emphasis on the following, the ga particle puts emphasis on the preceding Im kind of shocked that he didn't know and still makes a video like this Comment from : Random Name

日本語って翻訳機能使ったら使ったなーってのがわかるけど外国の人もそうなのかな Comment from : スタバ

Weebs? Comment from : Rajyavardhan Singh

I really have a thing with Japan, a fascination I really want to learn the language but I really feel bad when I see people saying how fast they memorized the hiragana and katakana I really have a hard time memorizing them I already started and stopped a few times this year Thanks for the nice video Really enlightening Comment from : Lívia Tavares Näther

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Some Kanji can Howe 4 meaning , Comment from : Malgorzata Miroslawa Kim

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