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.

Seus vídeos são excelentes com ótimas dicas! Por favor faça mais vídeos voltados para a prática de leitura. Falo chinês e sei uma quantidade considerável de hanzi (simplificado), mas tô tentando aprender japonês pelo interesse em literatura mesmo. O japonês tá sendo chato pra mim porque parece que todo santo kanji tem 3/4 maneiras de se ler o mesmo kanji, claro que isso tem no chinês mas é muito pouco. Enfim, muito obrigado! Por acaso , qual foi o primeiro livro que você conseguiu ler inteiramente em japonês?

you're so good at explaining grammar points! please keep on making such video. 助けてくれてありがどうございます

Another good video! Thank you, Pedro!👍

Thank you so much. In response to your final question, I find the rhythm in which Japanese is spoken to be absolutely beautiful. I also love the way that the language is so beautifully descriptive, and I find the writing system to be stunning. Fluency to me is to have the ability to think in that language. To hear something being said and to not translate the words spoken. To glance at a package in the store, or see a sign on the street, and understand what it means. To have a meaningful conversation with people you love, who you wouldn't have had the chance to meet if it wasn't for all that time, and all that hard work you put in to learning their language. They're just friends we haven't met yet. That's why I want to learn Japanese. 本当に、ありがとうございます。 毎日、頑張っています。

Great sample everyday conversations! More of these please!

日本人です。 3:33 昨日パンが食べたくて、ベーカリーに行って買ったの。すごく美味しかったから、ぜひ食べてみて。 美味しくて→美味しかったから 「あなたも」を消しているのはgoodです。

thank you so much! I'll adopt the journaling and "self talk" to my studies! I just finished learning hiragana and I'm halfway of learning katakana, but I already know some entire words without knowing the separated kanjis

Olha aí, Brasil na área!

These are my least favorite type of words...

役に立つがいいでした。ありがとうございました。

Muito bom!

I can attest to this, even though I'm still at a low level. Kanji used to feel impossible, but after studying for just a short while with an Anki 2k/6k deck, I'm starting to see the benefit of learning them from the start, as part of the word. I also use the Rikaikun browser add-on so I can learn about kanji and words by just hovering over them. The various definitions and forms listed also help with understanding kanji as "concepts" instead of just words. I'm just starting to have those little epiphanies learners talk about. I recently saw 玉子 and it just clicked because I knew "ball" was 玉「たま」, "child" was 子「こ」, and たまご meant "egg". It's kinda funny, but "ball child" makes sense, lol. I know this will happen more and more as my knowledge increases. The TL;DR is that if you associate them with words and concepts you're learning from the start, they actually can be helpful. You don't need to do long study sessions, but you have to be willing to learn consistently (preferably daily) over a very long time. _Bonus example of why kanji actually kinda make sense:_ 高い「たかい」"high/tall, expensive" 最高「さいこう」"the best" _(most + high)_ 高校「こうこう」"high school" _(high + school, just like in English)_

本末転倒の例。I bought some nice clothes for a date, but I ran out of money and couldn't go.

😂 Aright, why don't we make it complicated, to a language that already being complicated enough. 😂

Thanks man

Thanks for this man. Very helpful. I hope to find games I like and level appropriate books.

Getting N1 certified is actually pretty easy you just need to get half of the questions right. It’s a multiple-choice test, usually with four options, sometimes three. Two of the options are clearly wrong if you’ve studied, so for most questions, it’s a 50/50 guess. However, getting a high score that truly proves your proficiency is the real challenge.

The core of this advice is to consume content that you like. That’s how I learned English, by reading song lyrics, videogames, forums and books.

Estou começando agora, e no meu caso eu tentei demais começar pelo vocabulário (kanji focused) mas não sei explicar, eu não consigo focar em vocabulário pois minha cabeça sempre vai pro lado da gramática, então finalmente decidi me render à ela. No momento eu sinto que está funcionando pra mil, vou pegando os vocab conforme avanço nos temas, mas meu medo é de isso estar me atrasando ao longo prazo pois, assim como você fez, todo mundo me recomenda a construir uma base de core words e só depois ir pras nuances linguísticas… Mas bom, queria saber o que você acha disso kkkkk Foi mais um desabafo que uma pergunta, mas ainda sim uma pergunta.

i like how you put this, your absolutely right about the "simple, but easy" i work with computers and i often get asked "how do you remember all that?!" or "how can you program things?!" and all i ever really say is "well its not that hard you just have to learn to do it" and its always met with the "naah that stuffs impossible" and hearing people say that japanese is easy and having wanting to learn since i was a kid i just decided screw it im gonna learn japanese and keep the mindset of "its easy, but not simple" which is a better way of explaining then "its easy if you learn it" lol, its only been like a week and a half and im getting the kana down, still mess them up but ive gotten the dakuten down pretty well minus the " one cause thats got 3 different variations but i figured out a way to help remember them K+"=G T+"=d ect. and it has gotten a bit easier, i read a japanese childrens book doing my best to read the kana and then checking my accuracy after. i also want to say, its not weird to watch a show with subtitles on even if you understand the language, i very often use subtitles even while watching something in english for the exact reason you said, its easy to miss things.

as someone who taught themselves how to read, i can agree that this is good advice, reflecting back this is pretty much exactly what i did when i was a kid (i could read pretty good when i started school not like genius level shit or anything) ill elaborate a little bit here, i didnt just start reading novels, i started reading video games and like signs, and the comics in the newspaper, nothing super heavy or anything but stuff i enjoyed, which i think is also important.

simple, but not easy. perfect definition of japanese. at the end of the day, every lenguage has thousands of words and thats the hard thing to do. if someone tells you a lenguage is "easy".... he/she is lying to you and trying to sell you a course probably

Hi Pedro, nice insight from you there. I really like hearing perspectives from personal experiences they have more nuance and a sense of authenticity, especially since you've been in Japan for 10 years. Very nice! By the way, I'm now in my 3rd month of learning Japanese. I've been learning English for about 10 years since college, and I've also studied basic German, Turkish, and Russian over the last 7 years. So far, Japanese is by far the hardest language I've encountered. I have to say, it’s extremely challenging, but I'm trying to stay serious about it. Never in my life have I had to review flashcards every day with such high repetition. It took me almost 4 weeks just to learn the alphabets, Hiragana and Katakana, and I still need to drill my Katakana because I often get the readings wrong. However, hearing your confession that even natives get it wrong sometimes made me think maybe the language itself is just really, really not possible, haha! Thus the best achievement for beginner is simply to be fluent in basic conversation or around N3 level to enjoy some good talks. Anyway, I'm glad I found your videos they up my motivation. Thanks Pedro, take care bud.

Thank you for this video! I just started learning 日本語 a week ago!

Interesting video with some useful tips. I'll say that the progression that you talk through is not very useful (interacting with the book). I can understand why interacting with a book or written japanese can help us focus in on the words since when you see a jumble of characters your eyes automatically unfocus and don't look at the characters much. But personally I've found reading actual japanese sentences from anime or manga or textbooks to be helpful in getting familiar with reading japanese. Like everyday I read some japanese in Tae Kim's grammar guide and I find it useful in improving my readng fluency. Then also learning sentences from anime or manga sentence by sentence also helps. I really think a more direct approach here, even using romaji to help to start reading japanese s useful (after all the chinese kids use pinyin to help them read chinese in their first years of school). The tip I found helpful was "to read 1 page a day". I think this is a good speed and a good pace to maintain for consistency. Japanese learners, myself included, have a tendency to want to do too much at once and then quitting or leaving it for a while. It's better to a little everyday rather than a lot on some days.

2 minutes into the video and it's something I experienced very fast upon coming to Japan already ^^". I was speaking with a roommate, telling her about how I went for a walk in 下落合 to take some pictures of a temple, she didn't know where it was so I said it was to the south of Shinjuku and when she asked which station it was, I showed her the name and until reading the furigana she didn't get the right pronunciation, we had a good laugh and she said that obviously Japanese was hard for the Japanese too. Most people don't really master their own mother tongue but they have a level at which it's far easier to look up and learn things they don't understand. Also, good point on children. They're fluent, that's why when I see people saying they think reading/playing stuff "for kids" should be easy, unless speaking of toddlers it won't. Think of the first novel you read in your native language. I read Harry Potter at 7, in French. Kids already have a very large vocabulary, one hard and scary part of learning a foreign language imo is that I think you have to accept the fact your understanding will be that of a small child at first, you have to be curious and proactive, think about stuff you want to understand and talk about and then try to put them in practice. Be curious as children are. Especially as we now have a lot of wonderful tools to learn with ! Anyway good luck.

I all of a sudden NEED this book lol thank you for the awesome video. Any recommendations for purchasing ebooks where you can actually get the file as an epub or at least download it and convert it? A lot of the ebook sites have their own ebook viewer and thats useless to me as a japanese learner who has a whole set up for easily reading epubs on android lol i might as well get the physical copy if i cant get the actual file.

You sound like a Brazilian, am i right? You have Pretty good english and japanese Pedro!

I enjoyed your video! Thank you for making it :) I've been studying 日本語 for almost three years. The first year and a half was a rough start with not much progress. Now im doing WaniKani to learn Kanji (im lvl 25) and i read/watch/listen to as much native content as i can tolerate that interests me. Fluency to me is to be able to think in the language, and when speaking you don't have to think "how do i say this ...." , it just comes out. What im doing to work towards my definition of fluency is shadowing, journaling, and practicing speaking in a mirror (on top of basic learning). Im very slow at it but my goal is to get to a level where i can be understood and hopefully make some Japanese friends that would like to have conversations with me.

This is useful to me. I'm not interested in most manga and now I have another reason not to keep trying to force myself to like it.

ペドロさん、貴方の動画はとても面白いです。二年間ぐらい日本語を勉強しています、前の動画のマインドシフトおすすめ良かったでした。 I'm still a noob and would appreciate any corrections from the comment section in case I made some mistakes :D　ありがとうございます

To improve in Japanese, I recommend Immersive translate. It is an app that offers revision services for foreign languages and all I can say is that it really helped me

Fast forward to 6:02 (!) for START of content promised in title :/

I like this video! I am going to follow you around for more

Absolutely loved this video! It's so refreshing to find content that's both informative and entertaining from a native Japanese speaker. Speaking of learning, if anyone's interested in diving deeper into Japanese, I've been using apps like Ling and other online resource such as NHK Japanese to expand my knowledge. They've been incredibly helpful in making learning accessible and fun. Keep up the great work with these videos-I'm already looking forward to the next one!

I'm now on my 3rd year mark of self studying Japanese almost everyday when I woke up study 10-20 minutes vocab/ phrases, flashcard afternoon before I go to work 10-15 minutes Vocab/phrases sentence structure or whenever I feel like watching some jap conversation on utube depending on my mood then at work vocab and listening practice immersion podcast, MUSIC in audio only and I'm doing benkyou in subtlety because its not allowed in my work as a BPO moderator.. Then aftework before I go to bed i do some kanji hiragana katakana readings and writings flashcard etc, and then repeat the next day, I did this for about 3 years now consistently and fast forward today I did pass N4 JLPT exam.. I can speak well and express whatever topic I'm interested to, but there is still limitations I still got a struggle in reading mostly kanji, and some native speaker talking in native Japanese, this nihongo benkyou is a long journey as I discover more and more and as i explore about the language and culture were I still continue to unfold every pages the more it becomes deeper I need to learn towards being skillful in using this language

I find that learning the stroke order helps me with remembering the kanji itself. I use an app called ringotan to learn kanji and it works by making you write them on your phone to pass them. It has helped me a lot, atm I'm up to ~300 kanji. As an artist I really enjoy the writing as well

I find that learning the stroke order helps me with remembering the kanji itself. I use an app called ringotan to learn kanji and it works by making you write them on your phone to pass them. It has helped me a lot, atm I'm up to ~300 kanji. As an artist I really enjoy the writing as well

Bon dia, i'm like you i learn Japanese by english. I'm french so it's hard, learn the language. Do you have advise. Obrigado.

ありがとうペドロ先生 I've been studying for a few weeks and I use WaniKani for Kanji/vocab and immersion on KZbin and movies/anime for everything else. One thing I like to do for immersion in particular is watching lets plays for games that I'm already familiar with. It makes it easier to follow along and figure out stuff I don't know without searching because I already know what's going on. Plus the let's play part is helpful as well because you get both the story elements as well as the KZbinr talking about the game included in your immersion. Works pretty good for me

indeed fluency is all about what you think is fluent. in my case it is more about getting to a certain level of proficiency within a certain field. e.g. you can not talk about stocks an shares with a kid same as you can not talk about quantum mechanics with a doctor. therefore, absolute fluency is very hard to achieve goal even if your native language. especially in Japanese, even after 20 years of Japanese you will still find new words and phrases or new meanings and usage of those you are already familiar with. Japanese is a fascinating language in its fasces of expression und undertone of some of that. even when you can all words from e.g the koujien , it doesn`t mean that you know every aspect of it. there are some trend words coming in each year as well. that constant evolution makes it close to impossible to know everything of it.

I find 四字熟語 fascinating

Fluency is to me will be the time when I am able to read japanese books without a dictionary. I am studying everyday to reach this goal

Excelente!