I started learning Japanese here on KZbin, like a month ago. I'm influenced by the anime culture, and Japanese music. I really like how Japanese sounds, I find interesting the combination of letters when forming a sentence. Also the intonation and accent thing is what make it sound great, even though Japanese is not a romance language, as French or Italian. As a languages student, I'm looking forward to this new challenge! great video.
@___xyz___2 жыл бұрын
Japanese is a very hard language. You can do it, but it may take you 10-15 years to become comfortable worst case. As a European you'll perhaps even find along the way that languages like Chinese are a breeze when compared to the backwards sentence structure of Japanese. You'll also shed your endearment for anime along the way, as you grow more familiar and mature in Japanese cultural quirks and pitfalls. Good luck.
@RoySieh2 жыл бұрын
Watching this feels like I'm watching two of my favorite artists performing together. Thanks for doing this, and keep up the good work, you two!
I’m confident in my English pronunciation and listening/communication skills but when it comes to speaking I feel like I’m limited. Probably because I keep using the same sentence structures. The English subtitles in this video seems very natural and I got a lot to learn 😊 I’m also one of those who wants to speak like native so it helps me a lot🙌🙌 Thank you for making this video with English subtitles 🙏
@ThatsEnglishSchool2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for such an incredible collaboration! ☺️The both of you are such an inspiration for both English and Japanese language learners.
@paulwalther52372 жыл бұрын
I'm really impressed with the subtitles. I know if had a KZbin channel and did interviews I would never be motivated enough to do them.
What an incredible collaboration!! this is like my dream Japanese teacher collaboration between two of my absolute favorite youtubers. thanks to you both!!
Understanding phonetics is huge. I studied English language but never a second language, whereas my brother studied Spanish and his understanding of language structure and phonetics far outpaces mine and he's leveraged that into learning French and Italian too. While I'm stuck here still barely speaking English properly!!
@Steven-e7c2 жыл бұрын
Summer that was a great collaboration, thanks so much for sharing this!
@kennethaiori2 жыл бұрын
Great video, Summer! I also just subscribed to Dogen's channel today. I enjoyed the collaboration. Thinking about how my parents spoke Japanese at home in Canada, you both speak the language extremely well. Thanks so much for your video!!
Ive gotten into kpop but japanese is my fave language to hear, a little above mandarin chinese. Its theatrical, hard edged, easy to understand (in terms of pronunciation), and soulful. Sherlock holmes said german was the most expressive language but i guess there were no weeaboos or subbed bootleg anime to set him straight. I stopped watching anime years and years ago but sometimes just listening to people speaking japanese is so relaxing. Never thought id be listening to 2 americans sounding like native japanese tho.
@takanara72 жыл бұрын
Well, Japanese spoken by voice actors in anime is actually a specific 'theatrical' way of speaking, the normal, everyday way of speaking isn't as pretty. (If you imagine the way actors spoke in early movies with their fake 'trans-Atlantic' accent that didn't sound like normal Americans)
Each time Dogen says "After that", I keep hearing "そっから" while the text says "そこから". So is Dogen using a different dialect? Or is そっから the actual native pronunciation of そこから? Or am I just hearing it wrong?
@SummerSensei2 жыл бұрын
Good ear! Formally, it's written 「そこから」but in casual conversation, is often pronounced 「そっから」
Thank you for both the Japanese and English subtitles! It’s helpful to hear AND read your conversation with translations. (Maybe I’ll watch this over and over like a movie as a learning strategy! 😂😊)
Even though I dont speak nor write japanese, the way I learned english is by watching a lot of youtube videos and speaking in online games, practicing grammar at school or home helps even more if you are not familliar with a romanized alphabet
As an English learner, I found a kind of pronunciation rule in Japanese that excluding diphthong that almost all of Japanese do not conscious. For example, such as 携帯電話 which should be pronounce けいたいでんわ Keitai Denwa but it usually pronounced Kehtai Denwa, dropping い I sound in natural Japanese speaking. 静岡 Shizuoka which is usually pronounced like Shizoka, dropping う U sound in practical manner is another example. No body says 教皇 like Kyoukou but instead speaks Kyohkoh dropping U sounds. So as Dogen san said, studying foreign language is a special chance to find unconscious aspects of mother tongue. This footage is really interesting and suggestive. Thank you.
@scottend52392 жыл бұрын
It feels stupid to say, but I almost forget there's a U in Shizuoka based on how it's usually pronounced.
@jacquelineliu26412 жыл бұрын
"Dropping う sounds" isn't what happened here. It's that a lengthened え is written as えい and a lengthened お is written as おう. Exceptions exist though. This can be considered a flaw in Japanese orthography, as the current one was revised to make the pronunciation more consistent with the spelling, but retained some old spelling like えい and おう.
@alecman92152 жыл бұрын
@@jacquelineliu2641 just like how i hear so many foreigners pronounce 先生 with an i sound. where it's just sensē