💪Good luck with your journey! There are also many free resources online that we can tap into🙌

I believe there’s a reason why we happen to like what we like, so definitely lean into your passion and see where that takes you🌈I’d like to think that we define our achievements, not the other way round.

🙈Tonal languages are amazing (and challenging)! But it is a whole new world🌈

Thank you so much, glad you’re interested in learning about my native language 🙌🙌

Thank you for the kind comment! I hold the clip-on microphone because my hands feel more natural that way, and I don’t like the way it pulls down on my shirt when clipped on🫣

@@YukiChiu852 Thanks for the reply and explanation. ☺

Thank you so much I’m glad it resonates🌈🌈

Thank you so much, I’m honoured to have received your comment and paragraphs of it too😭I also fly under the radar on KZbin as a viewer so I know how much this means. I’m so glad this video spoke to you, and that you took action and pleasantly surprised yourself💪💪It’s a strange feeling to use a newer language that you’re not 100% comfortable with when you’re used to be being confident and eloquent in your other languages. But the slight discomfort is really where growth happens🌱

Love that for you🙌Hanzi is certainly challenging to get into and I say that as a native Cantonese speaker🤣I hope you’re having a good time with learning Chinese and I’d be interested to know how you go, and whether there’s content I can make to support your journey!

Not a sensei😭😭but thank you for your kind comments! Good luck with your language learning and let me know how it goes!

...You need to learn English, not "American-English"...!!

Thanks for your kind comments🙌we all need to be a bit kinder to ourselves in our various pursuits

It must be really discouraging when there’s no one around you who shares the same interest or even sees value in what you love! But don’t forget that *internet exists* and now we are able to find our tribe outside of our immediate vicinity, both fellow learners who are keen and native speakers willing to teach. You got this🌈🌈

Glad you found it useful 🙌have lots of fun on your trip and let me know how it goes!

pimsleur is the goat

I’m curious about how you came to understand English without learning it! My first language is Cantonese and I learnt English and Mandarin at school. My command of my first language is of course still unmatched by the other languages. Learning languages as a kid is definitely easier but I like to believe that learning as an adult is completely doable🤓

@@YukiChiu852 1. When my flight landed in Ireland at age 34, I did not ask myself how I understood a part of Irish English too clearly for a person who had not learned this language before. 2. When I lived in a different country, I had to choose to speak by myself or ask the help of other people. The first year, another person spoke instead of me. 3. I memorized English words and started to say one word, two words and more words. Pronunciation did not bother me, but I had no control over what I said. I did not use the correct tenses or forms. I used the same sentences over and over to minimize mistakes. 4. I did not understand how I understood one part of the Irish people and I had difficulties with the other part. A similar situation without English grammar lasted for 16 years during my life in Ireland. 2 years ago I moved out of Ireland and forgot for a while about my mysterious English language. I learned German in school, and it is partly similar to English with some grammar construction, because I had for a while that English was made with the help of German.... But after 18 years, I understood where my English comes from. When I was 16-17 years old in my former country, the Soviet Union, in there started to show American movies. These movies had the sound of two languages. Russian was oversounding English, but this language was there. I had watched these movies at least for a year. Now something is happening with my English. The grammar of language popped up in my mind 5-6 months ago. I have a real fourth language, English, with a very low level of knowledge.

@@YukiChiu852 This ability to get the sound of a language is until you are 26 years old. For that, you have to listen to another language for a few months .... After this age, we lose this ability. If I decide to come back to Ireland, I will have a new challenge with this language, because now I have control of this language and will be worried about how I am correct with sentences...

Thank you for the support and the kind comment🌈 You made my day! I’m glad I brought you joy. It takes a lot of courage to be true to ourselves and I’m still working on it🥲(me after a ridiculously long day at work)

Thank you for finding me ^ ^ Glad you found it helpful!

I understand, it’s human nature to compare yourself with others and get discouraged. One thing I like to remind myself is that this is our own journey - it’s not just about how fast we get there (if there’s even a destination to speak of in language learning) but also what we learn about ourselves along the way and about working with our own body and mind. If you come to think of it, this is just a silly hobby that we happen to enjoy so we should celebrate it and don’t be too harsh on ourselves ;) The point of doing it is to keep doing it🌈

Thanks very much, I’m glad you found it useful 🙌一緒に頑張りましょう💪

Thanks Noel, really appreciate it :) I'll keep going!

Thank you for your support and your very thoughtful comment. The idea that this channel should be a reflection of me really strikes a chord. I will do my best to play the long game and not let short-term metrics get to me 💪

@@YukiChiu852you're very welcome and you've totally got this.

I think the key is to always learn in context! Definitely don't start by learning all the different meanings a sound could have, otherwise it'd be mind-boggling :p

It's all context. "Kami" means god but it also means "paper." You'll know which one they mean because you'll know if you're talking about gods or paper.

Hi Tatiana, thank you so much for the kind and gentle words and the unquestioning support right from the start - you didn't even know what I was going to make and you chose to support me😭 I hope you're living your best life, I hope I continue to make you proud and that our paths cross one day irl. Take care🌈

Hello, thanks for commenting seems like you haven't completed your thought! To me having any audience at all is new :p

@@YukiChiu852 where are you from ??

I'm from Hong Kong! And you?

@@YukiChiu852 I am from India

That's such a big title😂 Thank you so much for your support!

Thank you for the encouraging words :D

Wow thank you for taking the time to articulate your thoughts so well! We can all weaponize our desire for instant gratification by setting tangible short-term goals. Well said, 頑張りましょう！

Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for your support :D

ありがとうございます。頑張ります！

ရပါတယ် :D I used Google Translate, I hope this says "You're welcome"!

Ah, I have checked, unfortunately it seems to be an Apple only app. The Android apps called "Hiragana Memory Hint" and "Katakana Memory Hint" look promising though.

@@YukiChiu852 oh thank you so much, I just tried these two and they're exactly what I was searching for, cuz I found one for writing, but there was no app that had a variety of quizzes for free. I honestly don't know how I found no one talking about it Again, thank you so much 💞

Vocab and phrases maybe? I’m doing that by listening to podcasts, Ask Japanese KZbin channel, and songs - always writing down phrases that catch my ear (or eye). I’m finding it difficult (むずい) to string sentences together, and I want to learn general words like ‘pavement, grass, sky, trees, birds - natural things like ‘I’m going for a walk’ or ‘yesterday I went for a walk…’😢

Thanks very much! I agree it should be some combination of vocab and grammar, so that you can start building sentences. My goal was to start having Japanese conversations as soon as possible, and I started using Pimsleur together with a beginner grammar/vocab book by Inoue Kazuhiro, which is meant to be a companion textbook to his free courses on KZbin (N.B. they are in Chinese). Pimsleur is subscription-based but it's good value and you can share your subscription with three other people. I also tried an app called Mesh Class for vocab, taking only the free classes though. I recommend that you have a flip-through in the local bookstore to see if any learning material catches your eyes - any material that you will stick to is good learning material. For audio-visual input, you can find many great teachers on KZbin :D

To be honest, do what you find fun to do. Example: i dont like textbooks, so i dont use them. Only occasionaly i look into Genki for grammar, words etc. Sometime i use flashcards, when i am on public transport to kill time. But most of the time, i just listen and watch videos. KZbin: Comprehensible japanese, anime, drama, sometime podcasts. You will not understand in the beginning, but it will be better later. Right now after 7months doing this for some hours per week, i am at least able to understand topic or what people are talking about. I dont know some hard words, but it will become better. Imagine you are child again. Listen a lot, then try to speak a little, you will get better. Dont worry about forgetting. It is natural. If you cant remember some word, when you encounter it many times, it will stick :) It is fun for me and that is the most important thing for your brain when learning. Do what you like and find fun :) If you like reading, try learning some kanji, which is also nice to widen your vocab. You learn a word it represents and some others, where the kanji is used. Dont bother by learning numerous ways of reading it thought, just how the word is written. Like in 日、日本、月曜日 etc. 3 ways to say read it just from these words. Have fun and enjoy :)

I bought "Minna no Nihongo" off Amazon (the writing one) for practicing the characters after I finished my original workbook. It's been a fun supplement so far. Scratches that itch to pretend I'm back in grade school doing workbooks over summer break. I enjoyed them then, and apparently still do. It gives me something physical I can see progress in, I think. I've picked up some phrases just from spending hours watching and listening to Japanese media of various kinds. Your brain will just start absorbing it and connecting dots through association. It's built to learn how to communicate with others. It will naturally build vocabulary, as you look at a fridge and hear someone else in your head say "reizouko" because you heard it 20 times in real life when referencing the thing. You can build it through hard study. Or you can brute force it through many hours of not understanding most of what you hear. It's a trade off, and I think a good strategy is a melding of both types. I want to get to the point where I can read a kid's book without looking up every other word. Then I'll be all set to do what I did building English as a child: reading for hours a day. This is a goal. I don't have a clue how long it will take me to get there, but at 2 months of actually studying, i can nearly make simple sentences and could understand what you said in Japanese, even if I would struggle to construct those sentence, myself. So there's that to be proud of. I always recommend as much music as you can in your target language, cause it's good for building phrases and associations, especially with feelings involved. Watching a show you're interested in has a similar effect. I have an Anki deck (digital flashcards you can customize with sound clips and pictures) I wish I could get myself to add to and study more consistently, but I don't know if it works with my learning style, since it's a struggle to get myself to use it at all. Other people swear by them and use them religiously, tho, so that may be something you're interested in working building for vocabulary of your own.

Muchas gracias, mi suscriptor número 500 :D

えっ、本当ですか。私にわはやすぎます。

Thanks very much :D Hai, Ganbarimasu!

Thank you very much! And welcome any ideas for new videos :D

Thank you for your support :D

Great question! Kanjis normally have some connection with the Chinese characters, although at times it takes some creativity to make the connection. I don't find it confusing as such, being able to at least guess what a kanji means is really helpful. I think it's a bit like the word "nice" - even if it looks identical, I'd pronounce it differently depending on whether I'm speaking English or French :D

Yay that's my favourite type of comment :D Let's goooo

サポートありがとう :D

Thank you for sharing your story! Language learning is a massive time commitment indeed. But I hope it's all worth it for you, being able to now speak and use Japanese fluently. You can appreciate the culture you love that much more :D

はい、頑張ります :D

Love that! Sounds like you have a great system. Let's improve together!

You're right 😂 The best time to start was when we were kids, the second best time is now :D

Awww your comment genuinely made my day :D As a newbie creator this video took me forever to make, really appreciate the kind words ^^ Thank you for being one of my early supporters - I'll get there one day haha!

Yes being bored is definitely one aspect of it! It's infinitely better to find a method, time and place that suit you. Thank you for watching and leaving a nice comment :D

Thanks very much ^ ^ glad you understand the struggle and took time to leave a detailed comment. It's super challenging to learn sister languages together! All the best on your journey!

Haha I guess you're right :D or learn *some* Japanese in 2 months

Or be fluent in Spanish in 3 weeks! Unbelievable! But it's all bullshit

I didn't know that! Thanks for sharing the resource :)

@@YukiChiu852 No problem, I hope it was helpful. がんばって!