Can you add a link for the dictionary you use? Thanks

Great video, I'm almost at that step, so this is very appreciated

Shout out to Khatsumoto! The GOAT. Loved your video, man. ありがとう

Amazing video, homie. ありがとうございます。

How the fuck can you read a book in a language you are learning? Like why do all these videos completely ignore this fact? Dude, I don't have any Japanese vocabulary yet. How am I supposed to read a book? Dictionary each word one by one for all 50,000 words?

I think it is important to highlight that patience is key considering that it is classified as an isolated language, that is without closely related languages existing. My first language is a Romance languagel and I studied English (obviously) and some French at school, and the commonality of vocabulary and structure (even English does actually work a lot like a Romance language despite being Germanic: it's still Indo European!) certainly made teaching by our teachers much easier. However, with Japanese, which I began self studying this summer, there is no "pre existing map" to fall back to, so I essentially have to create a functional duplicate of my Indo-European brain but in Japanese. Ps. Jisho is absolutely a great website, I use it all the time. What is the name of the "Jp-Jp" dictionary shown in the video? "コトバノバンク?

Happy new year, 今年もよろしくお願いいたします。

I'm intermediate and haven't read a novel yet. Do you have recommendations for first novels to read? Thanks for a great video!

nice collection of stuff and also straight and to the point. i knew 3/5 but 虚を突く and 上目遣い both seem useful

THANK YOU for this video!😭🌟 It was EXTREMELY helpful! My current goal right now is to be able to read Japanese novels and finding resources that help with more advance/harder novels is few to none.Thank you so much and PLEASE continue to make more content like this that helps with reading novels!💖😆

For those who are fluent in Japanese, are they able to read official documents, contracts, and other important documents without using a dictionary or translator?

o cara eh brasileiro, explica perfeitamente japonês em inglês. (: massa. vc fala japones muito bem!! meta ^^

Muito bacana. Falta esse tipo de conteudo aqui no KZbin, voltado a vocabulário avançado para quem lê em japonês. Torcendo pelo canal

ótimo vídeo! Ainda sou iniciante, mas ganhei um livro em japonês de presente e uma das minhas motivações é conseguir ler essa obra um dia (além de poder me comunicar, é claro). bom trabalho! 😊

hello ! i didn't know about 虚を突く ! very useful, and I love the concept of these videos !!!

I'm using a french version of the method, doing about 5 characters per day, along with learning the language in parallel. For me it helps to understand a text even if I don't have the vocabulary, just by grasping the overrall meanings conveyed by the kanjis. Nice to hear about your own experience in that domain :)

For someone from Brazil you have a strangely French sounding accent

Thank you for another amazing video

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11:24 I definitely think it's more common than you think. It's just instead of chinese it's Latin. Sure it's not written the same way but that's more of a historical and practicality thing. But in a lot of non-latin european languages there can be a latin word found that has a more serious, clinical or fancy ring to it, simply because it isn't intuitive. An example would be beef vs. cow sheep vs. mutton. Simply because the upper class in England could speak latin and the rest couldn't. Or the kyoto example could also be analogized into English with Britain and all those weird place names that seem easily pronounceable at first but then sound completely different: Cholmondley, Fowey, Featherstonehaugh (I'll let you guess how these are pronounced lol) The reason for those is the same in both examples, it's just history. It's obviously still fun I'm not trying to take away from that, since you will learn so much new history through language learning but each language is equally strange and bizarre imo. I am now at about 4,5 languages that I can speak with japanese being the 0,5 and my takeaway is: they're all weird, but they're all fun too.

mto bom video

amazing. Keep posting. I always learn a lot with your videos

Teacher, Many thanks indeed, was great.

おれのいぬ Which assuming i typed this correctly (since I'm still nearing how to use the JP keyboard mode on windows), is a phrase that translates to "my dog". おれ = "Me", or in this context "My". の = I'm not really sure how to translate it to a single word, but it's very often used to connect words in a way the word "of" is used, as in "x of y", in this context, it's probably best to remove the "of" in the translation as it makes no sense, but in Japanese it would still be used to connect おれ and いぬ. いぬ = "Dog", I mean, even by sheer process of elimination you could probably guess, but yeah "inu (いぬ)" is dog. Ore no inu (おれのいぬ) "My dog"

Its reassuring to see a fellow Brazilian that also fell in love with such beautiful language! How was your process of gathering kanji over the years, did you use tools like flashcards?

I did the same sort of thing but I wouldn't do it again knowing what I now know about both the kanji and learning in general. For many people it is a good way to overcome the fear of reading though, if only for sunk cost fallacy 😂 20 cards a day is terrrrrible, there is no need. You forgot the saying you just taught us!

I think the actual hard part for me is to tell which ones to add a と for and which ones I shouldn't for these lol I guess that's something that'll be ingrained into you subconsciously, they remind me of English prepositions in a way

I agree with the advice of learning Hiragana and Katakana first. I mean, that's pretty much good "first advice" of any language as an adult-Learn the alphabet, first. Then, go from there. 😁

Mnemonics are an absolute game-changer in any language! 😁👍 I used mnemonics for learning Swedish, and now I'm using them again with Japanese. I'm learning a little bit of Mandarin now, too, and BOY is it going pretty smoothly because I already know a lot of basic Japanese kanji, so it's easy to guess at the meaning of what the phrase might be in Mandarin (although the pronunciations are a little bit tricky! hehe)

Fascinating! This was fun to watch, even though it was above my level. I'm from the USA and I've been studying a little over a year, mostly through Wanikani. I really love the idea of being able to read in foreign languages, and it's fun to recognize kanji.

1:15 Haha... I like the voice for はさん。 😁

Thanks for this, I'll definitely be keeping these in mind. They seem very useful and pretty easy to remember (except for 本末転倒 😭😭)

I don't really understand why you said that 高を括る is hard to be understood by its kanji. 高 means "high" or "tall" while 括る means "to summarize". So i guess the idea they were going is that you judge yourself too highly and hastily, thus underestimating your opponent？ I don't know what this has to do with rice though. But I loved the story! it was like watching a battle shounen manga! I wonder now why japan never created a battle shounen with kanji competitions, since they like so much their kanji complexity, shounen battles, and making unlikely mixing of ideas sell well.

Sorry for leaving multiple comments but would you recommend reading multiple books at a time? Since I have a feeling that I'd get bored out if I were to spend almost a year on a single book (even if it's my first one or it's one with a premise that draws me in) tbh

I recommend the かいけつゾロリ kaiketsu zorori series for Japanese kids it has Furigana even for Katakana so you only need to know Hiragana to start reading it. Yeah some words are connected to others with hiragana but it'll help identify grammar points connected to it too. Also it introduces I think up to 2nd grade Kanji. Lots of pictures to help with comprehension too but more words than a manga would have. I regret not starting to read sooner in Japanese honestly so I agree with what he has to say but I would not pick up a straight novel and exhaust myself with that first even if it's just random looking for words/sentences (or manga personally because they use some really hard words in manga too) unless your interest in the manga keeps you going. Pick something you feel comfortable with and feel like you can continue more easily. The more stress you feel from trying it the more it will push you away from reading. (at least that was my experience) Also search online for the free tadoku japanese graded readers they will help a lot as well.

Almost halfway through the video, while watching this I'm suddenly reminded of having heard someone saying that "Reading is technically its own SRS", I'm certain that that is the mindset you're trying to convey, and I actually do agree with it, though the only problem I have is that I think you're more likely to forget some of the more uncommon words that just don't show up often in daily conversations, and I feel like pretty much the only way out of that is to have a separate flashcard deck for those words in particular (even though there are wayyyyy more uncommon than common words).....

thank yoh for the advice. I will read the 新世界より novel. I am also trying to read everyday a bit of my japanese biblingual new testament

Thank you

nice video!!!! very specific

A única forma de falar bem é ouvir bem. Você precisa ouvir e prestar atenção em como os japoneses falam e então imitar a forma como eles falam. Não há outro jeito. Você precisa assistir filmes ou programas de TV com bastante diálogo, de preferência com legendas e prestar atenção em como os japoneses falam.

6:38 a cool example I saw was アーメン with a reading of 光あれ

This was really good advice and resonated so well with the struggles i have talking Japanese 😂 I was literally smiling every time you mentioned something I know I am bad with 😂 そして, でも and だから, overused to death 🫣😅 Subbed 🎉

Oh my goodness thank you SO MUCH for making this video!❤ Im currently studying Japanese to one day be able to read and understand any Japanese novel but there's only a handful of videos on KZbin in my experience that talk/teach about more advance Japanese, not just N4-N3 stuff. I immediately added these grammar points to my review app! PLEASE continue to make more videos like this!😆✨

Very nice. Good job on your japanese. I have been trying to learn japanese for a long time but constantly lose motivation. I'll try to use your advice to advance myself.

Sorry, but do you have a script? You voice is trembling and you always pausing, But i appreciate your content, I'm not trying to offend you, it's just try to be better, good video overall

My enemy whenbit comes to reading will akways be kanji

how much time did you inmersed each day? im wanting to do this inmersion thing but i dont have much time a day and i think i inmerse only half of a hour lmao, its hard since i cant find easy animes for begginers but im trying

I like your uploads a lot. They allow me to learn new things while doing mundane tasks like washing the dishes. In the past, I've dabbled in reading novels and essay collections, but life forced me to put that on the back burner. Thanks to your videos, I'm reminded of the fact that I've been suffering from an unquenchable thirst for Japanese literature. For some odd reason, Japanese writers seem to speak to my soul, while writers in other languages speak to my mind. I just can’t help being drawn to the vast world, covered in thick mysterious mist, ready to be navigated and discovered, that is Japanese literature. So yeah, a series about everything related to Japanese literature would be very helpful and a lot of fun to watch. By the way, do you have any experience with Japanese essays?"

I swear if you do more stories to learn 擬態語・擬音語 that would be ぴったり for me and I bet a lot of other learners. The tricky part about these guys are twofold: a lot of the time these adverbs have at least both a literal meaning with the sound they represents as well as the figurative meaning that stems from it, sometimes more common than the literal meaning. You end up having to memorize a bunch of definitions of a single word that looks similar to a lot of other words (ざっくり・さっくり・ざらざら・さらさら). Secondly, getting the natural usage of these is harder than regular words because English doesn't have the equivalent and its easy to forget they exist and are very common. Please do more! Especially food taste and texture ones are useful I think!

Thank you for sharing your experiences, I understand that same advices I gave to people to understand english is now repeated in Japanese as well. Encountering repetitive words unlike when I’m reading Japanese in manga to further understand the language and patterns.