Hi Germaine! Thank you for posting these. I have had one italki session and I FROZE. I sounded like a three year old. Ganbarimashou!

A very good video, and I also use いちろうさん for speaking practice, he is very good to chat with. One thing i dont agree with is in your description not being good with japanese, the whole video you speak extensively and you are a million miles ahead of me and i have been studying for over 2 years and have hit a bit of a brick wall this year 😢. I can only imagine now you are completely fluent. Many thanks for a great video. ありがとうございます All the best 👍

জাপানকে হুসিয়ারি দিলাম

Hi! Would you recommend getting the workbook of Tobira or textbook is fine??? Also... is the audio free? 😅 I have genki but the audios aren't free and the lay out isn't interesring to me. I kinda wanna buy Tobira. Hope you see this 🥹🥹🥹🥹 (oh wait, I didnt realize you posted the intermediate one) they have 2 beginner japanese tobiras now with pitch and stuff! My questions were for those 🥹 hoping you checked those out!!!

I have been studying Japanese for 9 months using Genki 1. Starting to lose interest; not quite happy with the way Genki lays out the material. So I decided to switch to the new Tobira Japanese for Beginners , and workbook 1. Hope I get excited again.

Is she a Singaporean?

Hope you can continue this channel as i noticed this was your last video. I am from Singapore too and would love to communicate with you!

一生懸命に、話をされている姿勢に感動しました。

I`m a Japanese and a English learner. I`ve been learning English in Kyoto, also useing ItaikI. I like British literature and art, and I often learn from British teachers. so I like the British accent as well. I am happy that lots of people are learning Japanese language. There is a proverb that Practice makes perfect！継続は力なり 頑張ってください！😄

Thx

18:38 she is copying benjiro sama!

寿司屋のおじさんは”板前さん”と呼ぶのが良いと思います。

do you have this book's mp3 audios

This tutor doesn't seem to be active.

はじめまして、私は ネパ-ル人 です。今 日本語の 勉強を していますから この 動画を 私の ために とても 役に立って いるから ありがとう ございます❤️。

omg shes so cute

I really love Satou's Japanese Playground. She explains japanese sentence structure so well and make it easy to understand, and she also plays cute games which helps me to learn as well with a more fun way.

Really enjoy the video and the conversation. Really good for practicing japanese. Thank you!

I miss you!

This was such a fun conversation! Lots of good vibes and laughter. It was really enjoyable to watch.

I really enjoyed all your conversations with Kurumi! You both seemed comfortable with each other and like you were having a lot of fun. The translations helped so much, thank you for adding them. I plan to rewatch these conversations and note down new words and phrases.

Thank you so much for your channel! I really love how authentic and down-to-earth you are. You give off really calm vibes, and I've been enjoying your videos immensely.

I wish my pronunciation had sounded so good at this point. I'd be so much less embarrassed of speaking if i sounded this good this early.

You only need comprehensible input video from Nihongo-Learning, that helps me a lot.. when the other fail..

Great as always!! Hope you come back soon

I've just started learning Japanese where can I learn Hiragana and katakana. 😊❤

I am learning Japanese now. I would love to try this method

The level of this conversation is AMAZING. Come back Germaine, please, I miss you

I do this really weird and somewhat inconvenient thing of using this book along with japanesepod101. Why? Because the JP101 lesson notes are actually pretty useful for me. Sometimes I combine them with the online material from the tobira website since I prefer knowing things very in depth. But man, I really love this book.

great video thank you :)

Guys If you like video games there is a channel called “game gengo”! I would recommend it too 😊

You're the freaking best. I laughed so much with the start, really. Come back whenever you can, we're waiting for you

I did Minna no nihongo intermediate I and II which were by far the hardest textbooks and readings I’ve ever done. Even now that I read native material, those Intermeadiate minna no nihongo books were no joke. After minna, I did Tobira and it was a breeze compared to minna. You might need a little inbetween book between genki and Tobira because there is a slight jump, but you should be able to survive if you don’t get a inbetween book.

Selamat siang Saya mau sharing ttg bahasa jepang. Gimana caranya supaya bisa ngobrol dg anda di italki onegaishimasu

First time listening to this one, I have to admit that I feel you changed a little bit how much Japanese you spoke throughout the videos, like.. this is one of the older videos of the channel and I feel like when your channel grew, you got a little nervous over time. I suppose you tried to use more difficult grammar instead of freeing yourself that you started talking less and less. But again, your level of Japanese is amazing! Like really amazing. I hope you get back soon, I know you'll, and I hope you're fine!

You have to please come back. At least as a vlogger or something. Don't let your thoughts or fears stop you. You're huge and I can't even express how grateful I'm with the videos you have on your channel and all the hardwork you did is visible. I know you might have too much work to do, or maybe a busy life in general, I know videos dont take just the lenght of the video for making it, but I'm sure you have too much to express and too much to say that's really bad for us here to not to be able to get to know all those things. I hope somehow you get to read this message and if there's even a small part of you willing to come back to youtube (or whatever platform just name it hehe) just do it, please! I hope you stay good 🤗 you, girl, you rock! 🤘

Is the background behind you done with an app? It looks great, no distortion

thanks for this video Germain`~san, it gives me more courage to study.God bless you!!

ありがとうござい

Thank you so much for making a video on this topic. I would have never found Cure Dolly if it were not for this. Turned out to be one of the best Japanese channels.

BENJIRO CHANNEL Top learning Japanese

WHERE ARE YOU!? PLEASE COME BACK 😢

Thank you for the video. The sensei is amazing 😍 She is so active. I can see that she tries really hard to keep the lesson interesting and relaxing at the same time. This gives me inspiration to continue my Japanese study! Arigatooo ❤️

The vocabulary additions is very helpful

This is super helpful! I just finished Genki II and my classes will be moving onto Tobira in a few weeks. I'm nervous because it seems far denser than Genki, but it makes a lot of sense to focus on comprehension of the passage and to use the rest of the chapter materials as context and assistance.

"me realising it's still painful" laughed at loud at this hahaha. I think in my studies, I have always tried to find ways to make it fun or interesting to me. It's painful when you read or listen above your level, especially if you're tired. And there is always a tension between skill building, prioritizing the storage strength of memories, and getting lots of easy input, prioritizing retrieval strength/automaticity. Most of the successful language learners seem to lean on retrieval, I think because it is such a long road and all words show up all the time anyway, so prioritizing storage strength is exhausting, slow and unnecessary. Anki hits this weird middle road, where it claims to be about storage strength but it can only possible work if you are getting lots of input outside the program, and it infact is just training yourself to respond to cues with a high level of retrieval strength. Sorry if none of this made sense. It's just some thoughts about why language is unintuitive to people otherwise very good at learning other things, and why so many polyglots are almost exclusively good at learning languages. It is less about deep understanding and more about very strong cues, to where you can't help but convert messages directly to meaning without explanation. This takes a lot of practice esp. in a language with a very different structure to your own. I'm really impressed by your italki videos, really nice to see you were inspired by Benjiro.

I’d like to recommend neko sensei! My uni teacher would add neko’s KZbin as consolidation

Cure dolly is the ONLY real teacher out there

I think they should also provide new audio files. They static noise is really annoying if you want to listen to it a lot. (Especially the first lesson.)