How to say "not yet" and "still" in Japanese | Japanese From Zero! Video 47

[Course 2 Lesson 6]
This is a pre-lesson of what is coming up with the word まだ.
This video is part of the courses on:
fromzero.com based on the Japanese From Zero! (learnfz.com/JF...) book series written by George Trombley and Yukari Takenaka

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[@KenTse]

I thoroughly enjoyed your "もう子供じゃないです！" tantrums and style of teaching in general. You inject good humour into what can be a painful process to learning a new language です。

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George - “안녕하세요, 저는 조집니다...” Everyone - double checks video title

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[@LessTalkMoreDelicious]

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Omi God, this is unbelievable....teaching / learningJapanese AND Korean...is there no end to how much has been achieved and oh, I forgot,writing so very many Japanese books, getting the, published AND being able to take classes, too much,I say. I am truly amazed.Kudos, George!

[@Johnny-wx6ze]

We encountered まだ quite a bit in Japan. Like when someone wasn’t ready or open for business they would tell us まだ. Glad you taught it here because that came in handy.

[@osonhodeleon]

Best channel to learn Japanese.

[@nevabegovic2905]

Thank you for your teaching, George sensei!

[@suvdaaganaa2158]

ジョージさんはすばらしいです ありがとうございます。

[@cyanure1320]

your class is really funny, it s a pleasure to learn with you and your story give a lot of context, it s very usefull. i think i ll buy your books next month まだ日本語と話せません　でも　まいにち　まなぶ　ようにします。

[@88KeysMan]

I love the extra material. Thanks!

[@anythingstuddios]

George さまありがとございます。

[@yoimati]

It might be very high level thing, but there is one thing suddenly come to my mind just now. In some case ''mou'' and ''mada'' can mean almost the same thing. Just imagine you have a plan to go out to watch a movie with your friend. You've come to friend's house and he/ she has not be able to choose what to ware on yet. You have been waiting for him/her more than half an hour and you got irrtated. In such case ''mou ikanai?'' and ''mada ikanai(no)? These feelings are slightly different but they expresses almost the same thing. ''Mou'' has a suggestive atomosphere with tiresome feeling in you, then ''mada'' has a rather stronger blaming mood. Another important point is this, if you say ''mou ikanai no?'' instead of ''mou ikanai?'', it can mean ''we are not going to watch a movie anymore since we're almost being late for the running time''. Just one sound ''no'' can changes the meaning because ''no'' emphasizes your feeling and sometimes make ''I DON'T understand WHAT do you want to DO?'' kind of feeling,also. If you are a beginner just forget about it. George-san always has intention to make the differences clear in multiple words in Japanese.

[@martydali]

When the lesson started I was so confused because I swore I had never heard that japanese before 😂😂😂 then I heard that mnida sound and I was like "hol' up a minute! Is this a KDRAMA!?!" 😂 laughed quite a lot 😂😂

[@jd.herotimemusic4028]

Thanks George! 😁

[@jeff-8511]

When your Japanese is so bad, you really think he is speaking Japanese in the beginning. 😂

[@stanlomas]

Thank you George. I started Jan 1st, 2018 and have watched most of your videso in sequence as of Feb 20th. Wish my Russian language teacher at university had been as fun. She was serious but also so gorgeous though that none of us learned a thing.

[@andybrown8981]

Hey George, my Japanese friend just asked me to explain the difference between still and not yet, and i'm having a hard time because im really not sure if i can adiquitly answer the question in my limited Japanese. do you have an egoegg lesson on this i can link her ? thanks for your time.

[@ho5201]

"mada otona janai desu. MADA OTONA JAIANI DESU" LMAO!! U do have a sense of HUMORE!!!!

[@ho5201]

Humor*

[@uchihasasku5042]

That first example had me dying😂😂😂

[@MONOBLACKMAGIC]

Hi George and thank you for all the great work and effort that you put into making these videos. I have a question for you but im not sure if this is the best place to post it. Up until now i have been mostly studing japanese via textbooks. This however made me very good at understanding textbook language but i realized that im really bad at understanding spoken japanese. I couldnt find any of your videos that cover this in detail so here are the words that i find most frequently used in everyday speech: Yappari Nanka Toka and a lot of versions of "iu-somethingsomething" (to many to list) These words are in practically every sentence you hear in japanese yet they are not covered in the textbooks that ive come across. So my question is: How do i use these words? Why is there TOKA after everything? Why are they saying "iu" so much when they are not speaking about saying stuff?

[@ShadowriverUB]

とか is particule similar to と and や where you list things and it put emphasis on fact it's "things like" like "etc." that there some other things too, i think it can be used also alone. I seen it explained in most courses i seen aspecially if it's also explaining や particule

[@MONOBLACKMAGIC]

Yeah ive seen that usage aswell but like 99% of time when they are saying TOKA they are not listing stuff and they are not bringin up examples. To me it seams like its either a filler word or a word for emphasis since it follows no pattern. Kind of like how we in english can say either "I met a man" or "I met this man" where the latter puts more emphasis.

[@proin111]

조지선생님 일본어 잘 가르치 주셔 감사합니다! 저는 조지선생님만큼 일본어도 한국어도 잘하고 싶어요.

[@japanesefromzero]

KZbin.com/KoreanFromZero

[@chexan86]

haha this guy.

[@AdityaKumarChaudhary]

George Sensei no okage de mada mada nihog ga ikemasu. Eigoegg nimo atarashii episode ga hoshii desu. Doo chan :D

[@suntharisoriano8419]

i want your book..

[@iantylerTv]

What if you used "もう" + past tense negative?

[@fatima7271]

Can you also make "Korean from zero" videos?

[@RonaldSL-]

I'd love to watch the stream for the in-between bits, but I have school everyday, and I don't want to be up all night since you live in America, and I live in Norway. :(

[@MelonTF2]

I: omae wa mada shindeiru means you are not dead yet ?

[@SchlimmShadySmash]

Mr Trombley I am an aspring languages teacher from Germany, I have great respect for your knowledge on languages, so I just wanted to ask you something not 100% related to Japanese. Namely: What do you think of the notion, that with age comes less ability to learn new things, in the same vein of the phrase "Can't teach an old dog new tricks". I'm 23 and I'm fluent in 4 languages, but I don't want to stop at 5 languages (5th one being Japanese). I still feel like it's possible to learn new languages even with age, if the right "learning habits" are developed. As neuro-scientific research strongly suggests, it may be true that new habits are hard to form when one is older, but I have the hope that by, instead of directly acquiring habits related to a specific language, developing habits that are related to language learning itself and not a specific language, meaning that they are applicable to any language, it may be possible. Do you agree with this idea, or would you say the old saying holds its ground? (I sure hope not.) Since it is known you started learning Korean rather late (like 5 years ago?). I thought maybe you have an opinion on this. Thanks for reading!

[@usablefiber]

It's nonsense. I know lingosteve learned to speak fluent russian after the age of 60. Now he is learning Korean in his 70's. I am encouraging my mother of 58 to learn french because she has always wanted to. If you are the type of person who is curious about new learning new things, languages, and culture, that won't go away with age. However, if you aspire to be a professional athlete..... that is something that you probably won't be able to do with old age. What languages do you speak/teach in Germany?

[@silviemonk5556]

That's an old theory. Scientists use to think that we couldn't make new brain pathways beyond age 28, making learning new things difficult. Now we know that to be incorrect. We make new pathways all of our lives. Having said that, it is much easier to learn multiple languages before the age of 5 when your brain is a sponge.

[@japanesefromzero]

I just watched a documentary called "the brain that changes itself" and it talks about brain plasticity. Brains CAN change and brains can still build new pathways. It can even re-route long established yet damaged pathways. I am not having any problem learning Chinese... HOWEVER I would say that part of that reason is that I have already build up significant language pathways. In the documentary they actually specifically say "this proves that you CAN teach an old dog new tricks". When I get hooked on a game I know that my brain goes into "all out learning" mode for that game. It's the same with Chinese for me now. I listen to Chinese entertainment podcasts in full Chinese and my brain is working overtime to find the patterns. And amazingly it finds all the words I already know. And other words that are repeated are being remembered even though I don't know what they are. If you do something enough your brain will put the energy towards it. In about a year I will be conversational in Chinese. Right now I am garbage at Chinese. But I know that my 4th language, Chinese, will come faster than Korean because I have build up those language pathways. Then I am off to Spanish. I do NOT thing there is a limit.

[@japanesefromzero]

Usablefiber... I agree that it is nonsense... However I am certain it's harder for someone who doesn't have "lingo" in their name to learn a new language when they are old. If a person hasn't kept their brain condition good by continually learning I think it's MUCH harder to put new things into because they have established hard patterns. For me, who by the way has "polyglot" in my name on my other channel, I have continually learned languages... not just spoken, but PHP, MySQL, Javascript, jQuery on top of the Japanese, Korean, and now Chinese. So for me it's not a big deal to just add a new set of rules. I don't have to break 20 years of thinking one way to do it. I think the 2nd language is the hardest as it's the first "reprogramming" of the brain. But all after are easier in my opinion and experience.

[@silviemonk5556]

Learn Japanese From Zero! Oh! Thanks, George. I'm going to watch that documentary. It's on amazon. Sweet!

[@zebatov]

I just want to know how to say "still". Like "I'm still here.", "It's still here." or "He's still out." Homonyms make translating the word I want difficult.

[@masayama1618]

Hi zebatov. "I'm still here." and "It's still here." They says "XXXは、まだ ここにいる" or ここにある. Like "私（わたし）は、まだここにいる" George told about the difference of いる and ある. kzbin.info/www/bejne/h3yVlIKBfKuDqZo kzbin.info/www/bejne/mnbOiqV5eMtnf7c "He's still out." says "彼（かれ）は、まだ外（そと）です". But it's unnatural japanese. If you want to say more natural than it, please use まだ外出中（がいしゅつちゅう）です まだ出（で）かけている. George told about the difference of XXX中. kzbin.info/www/bejne/labLqoarlLdsZtU Thanks.

[@zero-it2pu]

Korean from zero

[@Woodfan1392]

So does this imply that it "could" happen in the future? Or is that implication not as strong as English? Edit: Wait, that might be a dumb question... I'm going to assume it does >.>

[@victoriajohnson1469]

Are まだ and また interchangeable for 'still'?

[@Kanru]

wait, which example was "still"?

[@SmashBrosBrawl]

I "Still havn't done it" yet... if that makes sense.

[@demertknight]

You use "Mada" for still...

[@raddox7]

So, it's basicly "Still not ... yet", then?

[@kitsun2464]

"Mada" in a positive sentence means "still".In a negative one it means "not yet"

[@gocrazy432]

I have the same question.

[@Nifuruc]

이것을 가르쳐 주셔서 감사합니다 XDD ok... that's not nice... we should stop that... ^^ thanks for the video... I sometimes confuse まだ and もう while speaking... and I bite my lips every single time...

[@graemep7729]

Excuse me, but I have a question. I was watching an anime and the character said 「まだはやい」Grammatically, how does this work? Is it just like saying "not yet, it's early"? Thanks

[@masayama1618]

Hi Gram O. If you add some words to まだはやい , might be easy to understand it. For exsample, 「XXXには、まだはやい」 or 「XXXするには、まだはやい」. 「It's too early to XXX」 Thanks.

[@graemep7729]

Thank you! At the time, I did not see a future video where George explains it. Thank you for your comment; I agree that context always helps.

[@HelDracul]

XD for a second i thought i was on the korean channel

[@SimplyJustTroy]

where do you even stream? i keep missing it

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All of the recent streams are were done in 5 or 6 day period last month. Follow the twitter and Facebook because that is where I announce. However... I do announce only roughly and hour or 2 before max. facebook.com/japanesefromzero twitter.com/yesjapan

[@SimplyJustTroy]

Learn Japanese From Zero! りょうかい! ジョージーせんせいありごとございます!

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Teni-Puri fans, where y'all at??

[@YouPoop]

I am sure you have a typo in your title. I think it should be: "How TO say .." and not "How DO say".

[@japanesefromzero]

You my friend are correct! I have have fixed it. Thanks!

[@YouPoop]

+Learn Japanese From Zero! no problem George. I help where I can. ;)

[@YouPoop]

***** you could copy and Paste it in the yesjapan Forum if you want. ^&

[@Qrisys]

mada atsukunai janai

[@japanesefromzero]

That actually can be and is said. It means “but it isn’t hot yet”. I need to make a video on how janai is used to say “yeah but”.

[@Qrisys]

@@japanesefromzero I appreciate the reply, also loving the series so far.

[@ilmarinen79]

Fetus could say "I'm not a kid yet!"

[@sergeyknol]

ヴィデオ作ってくれてありがとうございます

[@jonanabuke7000]

漢学を分かりません、ジョージ先生。。。

[@2haveagreatday]

Try and teach some intermediate or advanced Japanese. Please. By the way, I still like your lessons. But intermediate and advanced is always appreciated.

[@senshai1267]

Mou KANSAS ja nai desu!?

[@EyeOfAllah]

Make a private video with Georgian or Armenian to tease the Poly-Linguists

[@japanesefromzero]

You lost me. Did I make some sort of references to this . I don't think I have ever actually said or typed the word "Armenian" in my life... except for just now.

[@AviArunOnFire]

Learn Japanese From Zero! exactly the point, George. I believe she's telling you to make a video in a language that the Norsk guy doesn't understand to troll him.

[@japanesefromzero]

OH I see. I would have to care a LOT more to do something like that. Once I said what I wanted to say I was done caring. :)

[@Rizztana]

The title is "Not yet" and "Still" But you only did not yet? You didn't do still?

[@rameshadhikari3617]

もうさむくないです。

[@dubai_darshan]

안영 하세여 저는 네하입니다.

[@Here_it_is_bro]

"Madada" i came here for asta 😅

[@williammckee6165]

I am not cute and never have been I am burning my books

[@japanesefromzero]

I'm also not cute and never have been outside of my dreams... so I am burning the midnight oil working out and getting plastic surgery.

[@rameshadhikari3617]

までおとなじゃないです

[@rameshadhikari3617]

もうくどもじゃないです

[@tacticolfire]

*こども*

[@UncommonKnowledge587]

You never were cute is a very cutting thing to say. Most babies are cute, but you're saying they weren't cute, even when they were a baby.

[@JoseMartinez-xc6qs]

lol

[@anilrai3283]

how to say you are still cute.

[@さいとう-c6b]

尚かわいいです。(don't take it, just for fun)

[@erdemkaya2735]

ah man, ok you have your own style but please make it more properly...you are like stranded

[@japanesefromzero]

+Erdem Kaya - What do you mean by stranded? How can I improve my style?

[@eleonora1]

dont fret you're amazing

[@vandamme6379]

Stuck in the office? Ahahahaha