BY THE WAY in Japanese - Formal & Slang┃The Native Way

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This time we will learn the different ways to say "by the way", "speaking of which", "incidentally" in Japanese.
Have you been only using ところで?
There are more ways to say "by the way" and being able to change the topic naturally will help you sound more native-like!
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[@kellycharles4765]

[[Changes the topic completely]] ~つか＊男/てか/ところで~ A1「今日はいい天気てすね。」 B1「そうですね。ところで買い物に 行くんですか。」 A2「今、何をしていますか。」 B2「漢字を勉強しています。ところで、 どうしてまだ起きていますか。」 A2「今、何してる？」 B2「漢字勉強してる。てか何でまだ　 起きてるの」 C「てか髪切った？」 D「てか熱くない？」 [[Similar topic/Within context/Changes point]] ~そういや/そういえば~ A1「あ、このレストラン安くて美味しいよ」 B1「へぇ。そういえば、晩ご飯何食べる？」 A2「車どこに止めよう。」 B2「そういえば、駅前の駐車場の料金　 上がるらしい」 A2「え？まじかよ」 [[For your information.../when you want to add new information that’s not meant to become the main topic of the conversation?]] ~ちな*/ちなみに~ A1「「女の忍者はくノ一って言うんだよ。 ちなみに、くノ一っていう言葉は女っていう漢字を書くときにひらがなの「く」、カタカナの「ノ」、漢字の一を書くことに由来してるんだよ。」」 A2「キンダーハッピーヒッポ美味しいよね。」 B2「うん。ちなみにヒッポは日本語でカバって言うんだよ。バガっていう言葉に似てるよね。」 [[Extra Information]] ((ところで、というか、っていうか)) A1「どこか涼しいところで休みましょう」 A2「ポイ捨てはダメだよ」 B2「私一人がやめてところで何も変わらない」 C 「みさ先生は十三歳だと言いました」 D 「みさっていう先生/みさという先生」 E 「ポケモンっていうゲーム/ ポケモンというゲーム」 F 「原田くんは頭がいいというか、ずる賢いですね/原田くんは頭がいいっていうか、ずる賢い」 G 「安全じゃないというか、危ない/ 安全じゃないっていうか、危ない」

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That bit about 女 and kunoichi was so freaking cool. I love little factoids like that. Just like your video about answering the phone and youkai. Of course, I find youkai fascinating too.

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I like this format with example dialog without subtitles first.

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I'm loving the Gollum approach to conversations, some of the more "physical" skits I've seen online can be a bit too much for my easily distracted, noob brain to handle. Also going through it twice with and without subtitles is a nice touch. ありがとうございます！

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教えてくださってありがとうございます。すごく役に立った! :)

[@Vladimir-nc7nb]

Thank you for making these! It's interesting to rediscover how learning works: I recently learned the ...か...か grammar, which is a way to express "or". So when I was rewatching the video now, having almost forgotten the details, when I heard about というか, I immediately thought: huh, it's like saying "[Previous sentence]," you can say, or "[Next sentence]"

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[@TheAmazingUselessMan]

LOL I was just wondering about ちなみに this morning! thank you so much as always! :D

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Tokoro de, you are the best teacher in Japanese. Although I dropped my Japanese for the moment, from time to time I listen to your videos. Keep up the good work.

[@jeffersonlam2969]

これどう言えばいいか分からなくてずっと困ってた！いつもいい動画ありがとうございます😊

[@yuki-kun5809]

In Filipino, we also used the word Teka "wait a minute" but it can also means btw, depends on the situation.

[@eringreene6477]

This lesson was really helpful for me. Thank you for posting this. Misa sensei- your Japanese is beautiful!!! When you said you reply with お前カバ I was laughing so hard haha!

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Misa sensei, I don't usually comment on KZbin, but just wanted to say that you are the most stylistically fun and quite frankly most effective Japanese teacher whose lessons I have used. You deserve far more subscribers and I wish you had been my Japanese teacher in high school (even though you are distractingly cute)! がんばってもらう (I think is appropriate?).

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After reading multiple explanations of ていうか and failing to understand them I finally understood with this video , みさ先生 your teaching skills are incredible! 本当に助かりました！ありがとうございます!

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Thank you for the lesson Misa-sensei, take care in this hard time we're all going through and greetings from Bolivia.

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I found very useful you make conversation without subtitle first. Very useful for improving listening skills!

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I had given up learning Japanese, but these videos are really motivating. There is so much good information.

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I love your videos and how you explain things, it makes it learning japanese a lot less overwhelming. Have you done a video of chaining adjectives and nouns? I can understand it in the present, but it gets a bit difficult in the past. Thanks! Hope you've been well!

[@MonyoDS]

Hi For i-adjectives Change the い with かった 優しい人→優しかった人 And for na-adjectives Instead of な add だった 簡単な本→簡単だった本 Hope that works. Thanks. Source: www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/grammar/adjectives

[@TechfordummiesSV]

@@MonyoDS I know that already, I meant かわいい ---> かわいくて, ちいさい ---> ちいさくて, by putting it into a te form, so to speak, in order to chain them together. "It is cute, small, and yellow" かわいくて、小さくて、黄色です. I can do that in the present but there are other rules in order to do it in the past. Thanks for the link though

[@MonyoDS]

Hi About the i-adjective chains Change the last adjective for past and present 〜い → 〜かった 〜ない → 〜なかった And change one by one, the negatives 〜くて →〜 なくて 可愛くて、小さくて、黄色い＝Cute, Small and Yellow 可愛くなくて、小さくて、黄色くない＝Not cute but small, and not yellow 可愛くなくて、小さくなくて、黄色くない＝Not cute, not small and not Yellow 可愛くて、小さくて、黄色かった＝Was cute, small and yellow 可愛くなくて、小さくなくて、黄色くなかった＝Was not cute, nor small, nor yellow. Same as with verb chains 取って、壊して、走って行った＝I took, broke, and ran away. I may be wrong that’s what I understood from the article, also the verb て chains work in a similar way. Thanks. www.tofugu.com/japanese-grammar/i-adjective-te-form/

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Your videos are great and super informative! I love the text at the bottom and how it's colored.

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Thank you for another helpful lesson.Keep up the good work Misa sensei..Tokoro de i like you style your such a good japanese teacher😊

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Notification squad! So happy to see a new video :D!!

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She seemed a bit sad when talking about going out to dinner. Ah the things we can’t do anymore! Yay 2020.

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Sometimes, it matters more who you go with than whether you can go at all.

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I thought it was curious timing to me, because in my country we're about to start gradually coming out of quarantine, so I thought "don't worry Misa, soon you'll be able to go out to dinner again as well".

[@saejuro]

Great video and lessons as always. At 11:40, for the sentence 「そういえば、駅前の駐車場の料金上げるよ」、 I think might be more appropriate to translate 駐車場の料金 as "parking fee" instead of cost of parking lot which may mean the cost of the entire lot (as real estate). Therefore, something like "By the way, it seems that the parking fee of the parking lot in front of the station will go up". This follows the context that the speaker wants to park his car, and not to buy a parking lot.

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I am understanding you more in Japanese each time. みさせんせいのビデオが日本語でまあってわかりました。

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Thank you for this wonderful lesson!

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apart from the language part for which I am here, I'd like to point to your attention, Misa, that it's a great combination of colours that you have in your attire, hair colour ,the lipstick and the blurred lines of the eyeliner. This looks extremely satisfying.

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Thank you みさ先生。You're the best Japanese teacher of YT. And the cutest as well 😊

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[@akator3069]

I like to use 'by the way' in english.. thank u for this.. x) And whoa.. the quality of your videos... you really are the best..

[@ido944]

I loved the お前カバ part 🤣🤣🤣 Keep it up ミサ先生, I love your tutorials :)

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Your pronunciation is truly incredible! :)

[@august-jf3dr]

みさ先生のシャツはめっちゃかわいい！！よく似合います 😊 今日も教えてくれてありがとうございます~

[@nisioisinnerman]

Haha, don't know that kanji in the second line but was thinking the same otherwise.

[@guillermosuarezperez8849]

@@nisioisinnerman it's from the verb 似合う, which means to match as in "your shoes match your shirt really well!" "•••の靴(くつ)はシャツとよく似合う(にあう)よ!

[@nisioisinnerman]

@@guillermosuarezperez8849 thanks, I've got it! Sorry but do you happen to know what the kanji after the mo particle in the third line is as well? I originally thought it meant lesson but it seems to differ a bit... the radicals for "children's respect" and winter?

[@jaycee330]

@@nisioisinnerman Are you talking about "今日も"? That's "Even today/Yet again today/Even this day".

[@jaycee330]

@@nisioisinnerman 似合う = niau: to fit, to match, to look good.

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このビデオたちからたくさんの日本語を学びました。みさ先生、ありがとうございます I tried

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Easy listen. Thanks.

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Thank you! I had never heard of てか,I will be more careful when I watch something in japanese in the future !

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She's pretty good. Usually I prefer learning a foreign language from a foreigner because foreigners who learned the language are often aware of what it takes to get it, while native speakers just learn the language from growing up.

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i agree with flowurbanflow, also an engaging bit of humor will go a long way. like at the end 15:49 that was really cute, i enjoyed that.

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相変わらずみさ先生の動画はすごく役に立ちました！練習だけだと思ったのに、必ず私が知らないことがあって、たくさん勉強になります。ありがとうございます！ （ところで、日本語が間違ったらごめん>..

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Love this channel ❤️ great stuff!

[@easterdeer]

Great video! Love the Baka - Kaba story 😄 I also love that the word 'Sou' in Japanese and the English word 'So' happen to sound so similar - great minds think alike 😆 Your English is beyond incredible Misa Sensei. We can only hope to one day be as good at Japanese!

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wow amazing new intro i love it!

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thank you

[@RobertHeslop]

ありがとうみさ先生。I'll re-watch and write my notes later 😊

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Misa Sensei is the best! Sending love from Myanmar!!!

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Thank you very much for this lesson.

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Thank you for the lesson, very useful and interesting.

[@feiyue2240]

Hi Misa ! I have been watching your video for few weeks now and I learned so much thank you so so much ! I was wondering if you made or will make a video about all the words like そして、それで、それに、それでも... it’s so confusing ! I never know what to use to mean words like So, ... Also... Talking about that... In fact... Well... Actually... I don’t know how are called these words in English grammar but I hope you see what I mean ! 日本語を教えてくれてありがとうございます！

[@jaycee330]

That would be a good video, but in brief: そして(soshite) "...and (then)": often used to start a new sentence, but can be used before the final item in a list of things. それで(sorede) And so/thereupon (also used at a start of a new sentence, the sentence being a consequence of the previous) それに(soreni) And besides: used when adding additional information to the previous sentence. それでも(soredemo): However/But still.../Still and all..., also used at start of sentence.

[@SantiagoRodriguez-zi3gv]

Very fun lesson!

[@RealJokerx7]

I was studying kanji while watching the video and noticed you uploaded it around 4:30 am Japanese time, then you said: 3:47 lol

[@MonyoDS]

JOKER X7 私も漢字を勉強していました、アップロードの時。

[@PorkChopXpresss]

I was playing a game with a character class called a Kunoichi (The female version of the male Ninja class) while listening to this. When I heard her say Kunochi and what it meant, I was just like.. "Ooohh, that makes a lot more sense now." hahaha

[@ulicec]

Awesome! Thank you so much

[@japanesewithchandan2780]

どうもありがとうございます.I'm from Bangladesh. I'm preparing for N-4 Only watching your useful lesson videos.You are my best 先生. I'm little bit weak at listening.I expect more N-4 Listening learning video.

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She has the cutest eyes! I love the way she brakes everything down!

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When people ask me what I do in my free time I told them I study lessons with Misa :D

[@NutritionMadeSimple]

that was awesome

[@sandeep7365]

So helpful ..thnkyou sensei

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Great lesson

[@topesjeebal8760]

Wow, really cranking them out today! てか、さすがうまいビデオ！

[@geruto17760]

ちなみに, このレッスンは 良いというか素晴らしい。

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15:12 In germany, chocolate milk is called Kaba.

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i love her personality

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15:11 sensei's sadistic moment

[@EtherTheReal]

what would you say if you would cut the video into two halves, made a short info that you did that at the beginning of the video and linked the time stamp of the beginning of the second half. The two halves would be first half: Normal spoken japanese, no subtitles explanations in japanese and second half slow spoken japanese with explanation in english, just an idea, great video, i like the practicability of giving insight to slang and formal and informal speech, thank you!

[@philboehm]

Damn.. I had to restart the video.. I was too busy looking at you I haven't followed the beginning of the course.. Anyway, わかりやすいでした、ありがとうございます!

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Great video🎉

[@preciouss_amjad2206]

色々お世話になってくれてありがとうございます先生。

[@jakubiscooler911]

Thanks for the lesson Misa-Sensei! Can you make a video for “Anyways” phrases? これからもよろしくお願いします！

[@jaycee330]

Actually, "tonikaku" would probably cover it. (It's "anyway", however.") You can also use "Toriaezu", which means "For the time being".

[@jonathanray2711]

ビデオはすばらしい！ありがとう、ところでみさせんせいのシャツはすきです！がんばってください！

[@chaosDesigner9]

Wow, this is really funny. XD "Souiya" kinda sounds like "soya," which is soy in Spanish, and "china" (pronounced and written the same) is how we refer to China, as in, the country. It's written the same in both English and Spanish, but pronounced differently due to different pronunciation rules. Still, it's hilarious. XD

[@shubhamsingh7405]

Thanks a lot as always.ありがとう

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U r just awesome, much respect for u.

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Misa has resorted to talking to herself for her social interactions

[@georged4186]

Already way ahead of her

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Your hippo story is adorable

[@74Ahly]

ところで、ミサ先生の動画を全部待っているよ。 ありがとう*_*

[@PhotoLukeHawaii]

Aloha Misa 👋. Hope you are ok and staying safe! Aloha 😁🤙🏽

[@Michelle-mr5hx]

I really enjoy your videos and explanations! I'd be happy to see more videos all in Japanese though >

[@dmitriypostnikov6951]

Thanks a lot! There are some Japanese words which sound like full speech in Russian. They are like "suki", "soyeba" "o-yabanai-ni", やばい, fuyu and some others 😂

[@nootherlikemyownskin3818]

Only Yesterday based on the story characters. Inspired dialogue. "Taeko and Toshio" Could you have emotional responses to this characters? A friend relationship conversation in Japanese For a Japanese lesson. When you're able to.

[@takeshi_chin]

I finally understand what "Soiya sossosso soiya" means (from the song "Karate" by Babymetal).

[@Venom-gr5xz]

Thanks a lot for your video lessons of Japanese language, you’re really cute and clever person, I’m always watching your new videos with more pleasures. ありがとうございました

[@suk6556]

love her

[@DeHaos]

。。。ところで抜群で教育的な動画だと思います。たっぷりこのような動画を作り上がりたいんね。 でもさ質問が持っています。『ところで』と『ちなみに』って正式な言い方を知って聞いたことがあるしけど『さて』っていう風にはなんですか。両方とも主題を変更するために使用されますか。 新しい通常口語の言い風に使えることが好きだ。 またのレッスンを教えていただきくれてありがとうございました。

[@AntiTheBird]

I’ve also just heard people say “で”

[@FF2Guy]

I like this style of dialogue so I can practice trying to understand by listening rather than reading. And, of course, the segments of the recurring character, Little Misa ^,^''

[@AYouTubeLady]

Please continue to act out sentences for some of your examples! I feel like I can grasp this format better.