How to INTRODUCE Yourself (Without Sounding Annoying) in Japanese

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★In this lesson I teach you how to introduce yourself in Japanese.
Be careful if you have a habit of repeating the word "わたし (watashi) = I"!!!
My First Kiss (hajimete no chuu) - • Kiteretsu Daihyakka - ...
Phrases you'll learn:
☆ Nice to meet you.
★ I'm *name*. Please call me *nickname*.
/ My name is ~.
☆ I'm nationality (e.g. American, Canadian, English...)
★ I'm from *place*.
☆ I live in place (now).
★ I used to live in *place*.
☆ I'm a student.
★ I'm studying ~. (I'm studying Japanese.)
• "To Learn / To Study" ...
☆ I work at ___. / I'm working for ____.
/ I'm *profession*. (e.g. English teacher, programmer)
★ I like ~.
☆ My birthday is ~.
★ My blood type is ~.
☆ when to use "YOROSHIKU"!
Write your introduction in Japanese in the comment ♡
Hope you enjoy it!
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"Even if you're a hikikomori, you can learn japanese" Misa sensei just hit pretty close to reality there, ouch.

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Scroptels Gluzar whats a hikikomori

[@jadebell7242]

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[@Sam-wr7kg]

Its a term used in Japan meaning guys that stay home all day playing video games and being lazy

[@faha8812]

Actually a 'Hikikomori' in Japan, is someone who choose to live their life in social isolation or with very limited social interaction. It is not simply 'being lazy' and indicates an underlying problem with social integration or mental health problem. I think there are a lot of reasons for this in Japan, for example, being bullied in school, undiagnosed autism or losing social skills after developing a mental health problem. That said, a hikikomori can develop a habit of playing video games (or any other kinds of hobbies that would let them escape reality) all night to past their time and sleep during the day etc.

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I absolutely LOVE how you color code your sentences on the screen!! I love this about your videos!

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Simp

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I hope your Japanese is better now by watching her videos.

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I didn’t know that someone could have a Japanese accent and a British accent at the same time

[@richerDiLefto]

Timmy Tammy - I think of Noodle from the Gorillaz band when I hear it, lol.

[@LDXReal]

Interestingly enough, there's a kid at my school from China and she speaks with a similar accent, but it's a lot more subtle since she's been living in the States for a while

[@thetoedilexperience]

@Proton Pkm because we don't speak "english" in America. We speak north 'American' tho English words are a lot of the language here we also us French, much Spanish, and some Japanese, and a little islander... that mainly comprises the American dialect of dialects.

[@laurengardella9524]

Should hear the Aussie Japanese accent combo

[@nightfall1249]

​@Proton Pkm I'm Swedish and I do my best to speak in a British accent. What you said is very true. A long, long time ago when my dad was still studying, his professor was becoming more and more frustrated with the assignments he was getting from my dad. Then one day, the professor confronted my dad to apologize for not realising that he was writing in American English and not Proper English. I don't know if you can tell or not but I am quite terrible at writing, and I believe my proper English have been contaminated with some American English. Either way... I just wanted to say that you have a point, this is just a loosely written comment to solidify your statement. May you have a good day or night depending on when you read this.

[@michaelwatson113]

You certainly do pack a lot into your videos. I need to go back and replay each one, sometimes stopping to make notes, or to practice writing. Thank you for all of your hard work.

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Simp

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@@freshair9133 nothing wrong with complementing a youtuber. Or learning Japanese

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I hope your Japanese is better now by watching her videos.

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You put a colossal amount of work in your video's, I will support you via Patreon for sure. I love your thorough approach, intelligent, articulate and clear, thank you!

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Thank you :)

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Please teach me “orsikaremashita”

[@georgiamaguire692]

What is that?

[@ericsurf6]

This is really easy to understand and so helpful. Thanks Misa sensei~! Keep up the great work.

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Simp

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@@freshair9133 Logan Paul 登録者？😷

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@@sorryimshy5412 translate bitch

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@@freshair9133 geez you don’t have to be so rude

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@@freshair9133 馬鹿

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Agree

[@nappyheaded]

I was at this Judo camp in America I met this Japanese person there. When I introduced myself I referred to myself as oresama. He laughed his ass off.

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nappyheaded 😂😂😂 I can see why lol. I've only heard that in shonen anime 😂

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That's... kind of incredible, hahaha.

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DO you practice Judo?

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Whats that?

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@@TheSsbcandidates I know this is kind of late but yeah

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[@sorryimshy5412]

The amount of content you put into a single video is incredible. Thank you very much

[@freshair9133]

Simp

[@sorryimshy5412]

@@freshair9133 ​ 三年間後でも、同じことをまだ熱心に信じてますよ。みさ先生の動画とかは本当に助かりました。無料で何回か見直してできることなど、大学に入れ、日本語を副専攻を簡単でできた後でも、いつもこのチャンネルに感謝したいんです。確か文法チャネルは多い。でも、言ったことは本物です。だから、そんなスラングはいらない。勉強頑張ってね🙇

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I just accepted a job offer in Japan, which commences in December, so I was looking around on KZbin for videos to help me know how to fit in better, and came across your channel. I already passed the JLPT N5, but I plan to watch your videos from the very beginning. Your explanations are great, and you give really easy to follow examples. I expect that I will learn a lot even from the beginner video. Thanks for your hard work. :)

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How is the N5 exam?

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It's really good to see your channel grow. I started watching your videos from when you had only 4 videos in the Japanese for beginners series and watching you and your channel grow on KZbin has really been a pleasure.

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@amy whinehouse no, but that's cuz I sorta dropped actively studying it. I still do consume a lot of Japanese multimedia and can understand a lot of the stuff going on and know enough to complain when the subtitles are bad XD

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[@ornleifs]

This blood type interest is so strange - I have never ever heard anyone in Europe show any interest in this or think that the blood type somehow affects your personality. It's bit like astrology which of course we have here in Europe.

[@hahajahjah]

Congratulations! These are by far the most detailed and comprehensive Japanese lessons on YT. You studied your English in England obviously. Got a bit of an accent there, miss! Thank you for your efforts!

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Thank you, you're such a good teacher!

[@TheFormActually]

"Bondo Jamesu" sounds like a super glue

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TheFormActually That made me laugh out loud, thanks for the laugh.

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TheFormActually bondo jeemusu

[@linosundae]

It just sounds like James Bond.

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James bond

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ボンド　ジェムーズ

[@svtteezthinker9180]

i love how you thoroughly explain the construction/meaning of each sentence. i find that most vids just say that this phrase equals that phrase, making it harder for many to learn since it often promotes memorization rather than actually understanding how the words/phrases come together to give their meaning!

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I am just now starting to learn Japanese and it really seems to daunting. I realize that this is going to be the case and I should do my best and work hard at learning it because learning Japanese is something which may help in my future endeavors. You have a new subscriber. :-) Hajime mashite [Although that may not be necessarily correct since I'm not actually officially meeting you].

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It gets easier.

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No it doesn’t

[@BiGSmoke-.-]

I hope your Japanese is better now by watching her videos.

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Ive been living in Japan for years and no one told me how to construct sentence, wow thats why everytime I explain I annoyed them thanks new subscriber here!

[@Archchill]

You uploaded this video the day I landed in Japan! Wish I knew about you before I came!!!!! Thank you so much will study for the next time I come back!!

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Misa teaching is really rich comparing to other channels! I've been into many sources but Misa really shows contexts, variety and a load of grammar at once easy to remember.

[@RNGD-jp7nk]

Very interesting. In America, if a foreigner were to say to us "I will speak with an American for the first time" it would be considered very odd. It's so fascinating how different our languages can be! Thank you for another wonderful video. I am learning more quickly thanks to you.

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Every time I watch your videos I take notes on my notebook. There are many useful tips and contents only in 19 minutes 😍 I really appreciate your channel and the effort you put on it. Thank you, Misa!

[@kwicksandz]

i absolutely love how you make your subtitles colour coded with kanji and kana. thank you misa sensei!

[@general_alexus2533]

And i was wondering why you can find the blood type of Characters from Anime or JRPG so often in Wiki-entrys or even in Artworks. Always seemed a bit strange but now it makes totally sense. O 型　です　 ( it is not like everybody in japan will get along with me because everybody can get my blood is it? that seems scary to be honest. With this Interpretation i know why the AB type is considered a Genius :P....) nice Video as always, ありがとうございます。

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I feel that I’m ready for your lessons. Been studying for 4 months now. Hard to get started but I can understand most simple things because of context. I’m watching Japanese movies and can understand at least 1 to 2% but I catch all the particles most of the time. Have not had a conversation with any one yet sadly. But I have sorta talked in a monster hunter game recently. But kanji kills me. I know like 20 kanji. Thanks for this lesson.

[@carlamaker2545]

You are doing well. The kids in my Japanese class WITH A JAPANESE SPEAKING TEACHER have been learning for 3 years now and they are all retarded, I asked one of them what です was to test and they were like ???? Nani?? I want to strange them

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orange Making fun of other people's language skills while making plenty of spelling mistakes yourself... Pitiful.

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haha when you talked about blood type and you said 'personally, I DON'T CARE' made me laugh so hard lol

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I find it really interesting how much insight you put into your videos that I don’t seen in textbooks! I liked the blood type descriptions too, that is so much different than American culture! Very pleasing :)

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Is really very educative thanks so much appreciate it,, Living in Japan you can't understand Japanese language is very difficult,,Thanks once again for making it easy for those who can't afford for for Japanese language classes

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me and my friends went out yesterday since it's sunday, we happened to meet a japenese couple touring here at hongkong... at first, I just caught up that they are talking in japanese... i gathered up courage to ask them if I'm right... so i said, "sumimassen, nihon-jin des ka?" and that's the start of a new acquaintances. thank you so much for your effort in creating a very helpful videos like this. 😊😊😊😊

[@starletshay]

Doh! I don't know my blood type.

[@popbigode]

hahaha mine is -O, the universal donor who receives only the same blood... It's kind of altruistic and thinks in another person firstly... haha

[@starletshay]

How did you find out?

[@popbigode]

you need to give your blood to be examined... i don't know how it works on another countries, but here we ask for a doctor when we need to check our health, you know...

[@starletshay]

I'm afraid of needles... I'll just check it when I HAVE to, not just because I want to know. LoL.

[@popbigode]

hahaha well, everybody have your fears... ^^

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I recently started to selfstudy Japanese and your videos are super helpfull and you explain way better then anything written I have found in the internet, thanks alot!

[@possessedllama]

But James Bond introduces himself as "Bond, James Bond" :-P

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possessedllama “Bondo, Bondo Jeemusu desu” 🍸

[@SELARIA]

I love this lesson! And your Pokemon plushies in the back are super cute!

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You are SUCH AN AMAZING TEACHER!!!!!! YOUR TEACHING IS SO EFFECTIVE in my opinion!!

[@YerMaw2Ka9]

Being from Scotland myself i never expected you to include our country in your translation, we are always lumped in with English or British which is just way off the mark, Also i dont know of its because i wasnt expecting it but it almost sounded like you had a scots accent when you said it

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If her James Bond reference had Sean Connery in mind, you have two examples!

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same with me, I'm from Germany and I didn't expect german to be in this. It's usually just Italia, England, France and Spain​ or something like that...

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I know this video is a few months old, but I'm just seeing it for the first time. Thank you for the upload. Your videos are super helpful and are great for helping me improve my Japanese.

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Oooh my God !!! You're the best Japanese and language teacher I have ever met. The way you break down and simplify the explanation us just amazing...💖

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Where did you learn to speak english? You have a mix of japanese accent and something else that makes it sound so cute for some reason

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Australia

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Italki? I think Iwilli.

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😂😂

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Your videos are pure gold. I am a beginner and see genuine progress.

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I can't believe I've never come across your channel. Really enjoying the content and how you give a variety of words for similar or related situations.

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I know it's already been said, but you truly are a great teacher. I am so happy to have come across your videos. I feel more confident in the Japanese I use because of you. Thank you for all you do!

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I love your videos! I've only watched a few but there's so much good information in them that I want to go back and watch through them all. ありがとうございます!

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This girl is the best source to learn japanese

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Most beautiful teacher ever

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Misa, gotta give you a big thumbs up, I would love to be able to converse in Japanese. I hope to visit Japan someday soon.

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thanks alot you really are a good teacher 👍

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thank you for the video Lesson here in New York City trying to learn Japanese. I always enjoy watching your videos, I learn so much from them. I give this video thumbs up👍

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Best video on youtube about self-introduction, thank you so much, Misa!

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Listen, pause, take note, repeat, practice, listen ... doing that again and again. Love it!!!

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Merci depuis Paris, France! Don't ever found a such methode who teach japanese in french language! It make me work both languages at the same time with pleasur. Arigato gosaimasu!

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new video, yay! i already have an italki account but i can't find anyone to talk to ;c

[@caffeholictj1708]

Thank you so much for this Misa. This is very helpful. All I need now is to figure out the questions to be asked, so that I can respond to Japanese people all the phrase you tought. Thanks again.

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You are amazing! You teach us not only the sentence but the meaning of every world thnx thnx thnx

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Miss is like 80% more effective than another channel that just gives you a word and moves on

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Yay! I am so happy to see how easy the Month names are. haha Counting/dates/time have all been the most difficult part of learning Japanese for me so far.

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Your videos really helps! Thank you so much!It feels like learning japanese is much easier now

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I love your videos!!!! They help me more than any website or program ive tried. これはぺんです！！！！！！！！！！！

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Well, I learnt nothing from this video..... and I couldn't be happier!!! Maybe I'm finally starting to get a basic understanding of the Japanese language at last and so I'd like to thank you Misa for your amazing lessons that have played such a large part in my studies so far. おつかれさまでした！！

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Misa sensei your lessons are very helpful. Detailed and fun. At first I thought learning Japanese was difficult, thanks to your lessons, now it is fun and so much interesting. Thanks a lot!!

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Subscribed

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i dont wanna ask for much but will you continue the kangi lessons please 😶😶

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Congratulations! for such important sponsorship and so good daily comments about you

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Very helpful. Please upload more sample of 1st day of work speech 😃 Please. I will be working and go back again in Japan soon. ❤️

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Wow kinda stumbled upon youre video, but you speak so clear and abit slow, i love It realy helps me getting better in Japanse! Thank you for your hard work!

[@nnightmareg]

soooo helpful! this helps because in my next japanese class japanese students are coming and we have to do introductions! i wont add watashi so i sound more professional

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Thanks for my actual birthday date, way easier now to learn it :) Great Video, gonna need to check more of them

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have to say I love the kind of southern English accent you have :)

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thank u so much for these videos! It is perfect to refresh my Japanese!

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Super helpful video like all of Misa-sensei's. I would just point out the background music is rather a (not really welcome) distraction -it would be even better without it. No matter how basic the topic, you always manage to show interesting sides to it!

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My word, you are brilliant. So informative!

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Misa-sensei, thank you for all the hard work ^^ It is really useful. Watashimo tanjyobi is February 8th.

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わたしもたんじょうびはにがつのようかです。

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oh the sentence construction in color code perfect.

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ありがとう！！ this video is helping me speak 日本語 more casual, instantly subbed!!! :)

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I love your lessons. Pure gold

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I'm new here but I have learned a lot from you so far. You make really good videos. 🙂 ありがとう!

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Thank you!

[@depressedteadepressoespres186]

Actually, in English, we omit the “I” subject a lot. I didn’t Notice it until recently but yeah 😂. Like for the name example, saying: A: hey what’s your name? B: Henry Is natural, I wouldn’t think anything of it.

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Thank you so much for your videos, Misa!! They are incredibly helpful. I love your work!

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Thank you for a very good lesson. So easy to follow. You are very sweet too. Thank you.

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thanks - like the grammar deconstruction.

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Your videos are great, it's been helping me a lot! I'm learning so much from you! Thank you very much!

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Misa-san I am used to watch your video classes and they are amazing you helped me a lot on my path to learn nihongo however it could be better if the videos were shorter and could be marvelous!!thank you a lot😆😄

[@Sorcering]

すみません, I would like to thank Misa-sama for the amazing lessons. It may not be my place but since Misa-sama has helped me improve my Japanese I thought I could return the favour by noting that Misa-sama often (if not always) pronounces the word 'if' with a H sound. That, of course, must be due to the lack of a strong F sound in Japanese, especially next to a palatal Y (as in 'if you'), so one wouldn't normally address that but since Misa-sama is ever so good as to warn for potential mistakes I would like to humbly ask Misa-sama to consider the phonology of the English language. すみません、ありがとうございました！

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Ahh i am really happy because i found this video! Thank you very much!!!🧡🧡

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Your videos are very informative, thanks. It's really different seeing someone learning UK English from Japan, btw.

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Thank you Misa for your great and deep explanation!

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this is sooo useful! thank you so much for making these!

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Thank you so much. You explain everything very well. It's so much helpful ❤❤

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You teach so many things in one video very informative ❤️

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I saw many videoes om self introduction, but this was the most explanatory video so far. I loved it. 💯💯💯💯 Where can i find a video where working experience has to be told, interview related

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Love the amount of content you put into your videos. Subbed always wanted to learn Japanese!

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Thank you, this helps me a lot. You're great in teaching

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This is extremely late, but as someone who's just starting to learn, I like that the Furigana are also included.

[@squish4805]

As someone who speaks a bit of Chinese Mandarin, seeing the kanju stuffes me up haha. Instead of pronouncing 日本 as nihon, I always go to pronounce it like riben, which is the Chinese pronunciation. Its a bit of a problem haha

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All your videos are so informative and helpful, thank you so much!! xxxx

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Thank you so much. You are an amazing teacher.