I learned a new language in 6 days and went feral (it was japanese)

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good evening my axolots
Well well well we meet again, welcome to your daily dose of cheap #entertainment I ventured out into the wild for the past 2 weeks, finding enlightenment on the snowy mountains, achieving great knowledge, only to return, for I refuse to leave the youtube space alone. My reign has yet to end, it's barely scratched the SURFACE
I tried to learn Japanese in 6 days, and now I can successfully read the language with a 5 second delay on each phrase and only a 5% chance of understanding what it meant, but my studying shall go on for I am now the jack of all languages, master of none B)
also duolingo was not helpful at all here's some good websites and apps instead if I get kahooted in my sleep you know who to blame
dictionary: shirabe jisho
renshuu (for writing)
tofugu (for learning kanji and hiragana)
kana-quiz.tofu... (for kanji and hiragana quiz)
mwah mwah

[@estefaniaicardi]

"The more I learn one language, the more my understanding of another language dissapears" such a mood honestly

[@darkwingduck7247]

@Rapunzel ♪ 😍😍

[@Elsa-rq2ty]

@Rapunzel ♪ haha nice

[@Ajdf1209]

Bilingual issues

[@tobysresearchprogram9296]

Hello m'lord

[@vilkiee]

Typical bilingual struggles

[@waffleisaloser1569]

As someone who's been learning Japanese on and off for the past few years this video actually made me really wanna go back to looking at it. The idea of looking up song lyrics and highlighting the words you don't know is a really good technique and I'm thinking of trying it out. I also really like the idea of creating a new account and only subscribing to Japanese channels. If I still have the motivation by this weekend I'll definitely try these things out.

[@じゅげむ-s6b]

nihongo no mori has a series on breaking down japanese songs

[@6up5ohcopoutprocon]

same I keep forgetting it

[@jyranoynay4827]

u can also try reading japanese children's book and highlighting words u don't quite understand (i read an advice like that before when i also tried learning japanese) ig its bc since its for children its much easier to read than most books perfect for ppl learning the language.

[@marlepeace9844]

This is me rewatching vocaloid songs with Japanese and English subtitles and correlating the words. It is so useful and helps solidify the memory in place thanks to the music.

[@S3RAPH1MX]

Input is the best way of learning, there are some good podcasts/yt channels that are for beginners, or just listen or watch normal Japanese media. I would also recommend workbooks

[@Naums_Cabin]

The way she’s tired, exhausted and just generally looks like she’s about to loose her mind due to sleep deprivation is the exact same way I was acting during Inktober (a challenge where you draw every day for October)

[@tomoshi8515]

i wanted to participate in inktober but i remembered i cant even draw for shit

[@tan8802]

@@tomoshi8515 lmao same

[@aur1ne]

@@kiyomi7385 bestie its an october challenge chill LMAOAOAO

[@Naums_Cabin]

@@kiyomi7385 Ohh, I just realized I wrote the comment wrong. I meant “a challenge where you draw every day for October” not “where you draw every day”. But yeah, I totally agree that drawing every single day would cause you immense burn out and make you loose motivation and that you shouldn’t force yourself. Since October, I took a small break but I’m slowly going back to drawing. The challenge was hard but I feel like it did help me a bit (also I slept every day, just some nights shorter then others)

[@arunimaghosh952]

I really wanted to participate too but I had my exams😔

[@Tabeezey]

I was not expecting to stumble onto a comedic genius while looking for resources to help with learning Japanese

[@Shimon24]

lol same she's so good at this

[@luisitonocomunica6795]

Same

[@gonzalezhd2108]

Same

[@ravindraakula8036]

look at the presentation on snail that she did in another video, it's pretty cool. that's what got me into watching her content.

[@turkeylegs1343]

​@@ravindraakula8036they prefer he/they now

[@rw7873]

“Shita” in Japanese is just “a shit” switched around. I will remember this always even though I have no intention of fully learning Japanese.👍🏾

[@I-luv-sharks]

Now this is a good comment.

[@greencheese3717]

She is really a great teacher too

[@jisem_6383]

nice

[@ongong3773]

It basically also means down.

[@starry.nightss]

@@I-luv-sharks kokichi pfp?!

[@sj4iy]

I feel like it's important for people to understand that honestly...we are never done learning a language, even our native language. Same goes for a second or third or any language after that. There's always something new to learn. And you are never too old to learn. I started learning Japanese as a teenager, majored in college and lived there. Now I keep up by reading and translating. I never stop learning. 頑張って！

[@zorlandies]

I want to take a wild guess and it says thank you?

[@sj4iy]

@@zorlandies "Try your best!/Good Luck!"

[@orinblank2056]

Yup. It's not like riding a bike either. You need to keep up with it so that you don't forget everything. I don't know if that changes after spending long enough immersed in the language, but I'm four years in and the need to maintain my ability is still very important

[@harshsrivastava9570]

@@sj4iy gambatte? (sorry, i barely know kanji yet)

[@rkpyi8616]

Atleast i can read "tte" still not able to read kanji though

[@marijazaiceva8099]

Being subscribed to Faline is like having that one sleep deprived friend, who calls you at 3 a.m., tells you about some crazy shit they just did, has a mental breakdown, reads you a random fanfiction and then lists top ten reasons why caffeine is the only thing keeping them alive at the moment. And yet they always sound so insportional.

[@didhitianam8734]

i LITERALLY have watched her 2 videos and already this comment makes SO MUCH SENSE

[@gayatri51]

all of my thoughts summed up in a comment😌👌

[@gayatriunni549]

i,,, am that friend. minus the caffeine

[@ragmamale4783]

@@gayatriunni549 *sigh* same (kinda)

[@origamiorc467]

I really want to take a screenshot of this

[@s_xm1z]

learning a new language so quickly unlocks new abilities that were not previously known by man, like drinking a drink with a mask on. truly inspirational.

[@Ryokoudesu.]

thank god someone else also noticed it--

[@thatpotato37]

Faline's content is so simple yet so hilarious every single time, its almost like reverse clickbait where if youre not already subscribed to faline you wont even be able to predict how funny she can get

[@xkrystalbrookex]

"The more I learn one language, the more my understanding of another language disappears" same, I've also been learning Japanese for like a month now and I think I've lost like 50% of my knowledge in Spanish :_)

[@ShrinkhalBhushan]

All of that anime watching is really gonna pay off 😎 Is what I told myself but....

[@rv4069]

YASS The only thing i know of anime is naruto's "naani???"

[@fellafelin3339]

lol how tf are u everywhere i go lol but glad to know u have faline san humor✨

[@smexyhotmmmmh1861]

I only know Korean gawa requiem da this make me popular with japenese people

[@arohi3076]

OMG SHRINKHALLLLLLLLLLLLLL 😱😱😱 me yer fan 🥺❤

[@kinjal9767]

Fancy seeing you here

[@Taboou_Penguin]

Ah yes, being multilingual sometimes is either a gift or a curse....

[@cnmmm]

Ikr

[@AJ-pn8us]

Yeah I agree on that

[@Ghost-vd2ow]

Especially learning a second language in school, because I know all these super complicated historical terms…. In french, I’ve never learned them in English because my history class is in french.

[@sousleciel2416]

I have a terrible memory and being bilingual is already too much for me, Yet instead of trying to improve in either one I'm trying to learn French 🤦‍♀️

[@evyfu2683]

I feel like I met someone witn the exact same personality, never have I ever felt so relatable and the fact that I would do exactly the same.

[@anonymous-np1dg]

as someone who is learning chinese and spanish at the same time, one for fun and family reasons, the other for school. i completely understand the ‘while learning a new language my understanding of another crumbles’. i was writing a paragraph for english and started busting out spanish cuz i forgot english for a bit, and in spanish i keep forgetting spanish and english and my mind goes to chinese and i start blanking

[@astral_studios]

That's literally me, my first language is polish and I am also fluent in english, and sometimes when I talk to someone in polish I keep forgetting some words 💀

[@the_demon149]

Reminds me of a quote my 6th grade German teacher had right next to her door: Der Moment when you start denken auf two different Sprachen at the same Zeit.

[@picklerick2861]

In my English language GCSE I forgot English for at least 5 minutes and could only remember Japanese. That GCSE went as well as you'd expect

[@rip.s]

learn 2 languages at once by changing the native language in the app, so you're forced to translate twice!

[@picklerick2861]

@@rip.s I do this. I now learn Japanese and English. So basically double the Japanese and I don't forget English. It's surprisingly effective.

[@heli_3105]

Glad to know I am not the only one who struggles to learn a language using Duolingo

[@itzmiggyl2423]

Saaaaame.... Im still struggling how to differentiate niku and mizu 😂

[@quinn2917]

@@itzmiggyl2423 ahh meat and water I remember when I was also struggling but I uninstalled duolingo because I didn't have any storage left😅

[@nobody1747]

@@itzmiggyl2423 I'm also learning on duolingo but I have other sources to help. Personally it helped me to change my course to japanese learning english. It makes understanding sentence structure easier.

[@Diaryofaninja]

@@toku_u Or just don’t use Duolingo because it’s garbage.

[@Learner_of_Languages]

Knowing a lot of languages are really hard especially when you start to see that you are forgetting your own language. Right now i know Turkish as my first language and English, German, French, Spanish and a little bit Korean as my other languages and I also want to learn Finnish and Japanese too. But Damn. Today I had an exam. And I couldn't remember nearly any words from my language my head was like "나는 한국어를 할 수 있어요" in the middle of the exam and I don't know. damn!

[@seldoch_636]

lmaoo im turkish but lived in france and trying to learn korean and i feel you..

[@Jeff.Hardy.]

Dude don't burn your brain. One day artificial intelligence is going to make real time translation and your effort is going to be trash 😃 Yinede sana bol şans diliyorum. ☺️

[@urvi7384]

as a fellow korean learner, i'd like to let you know about the infinite amounts of time i have written "몰라요!!" beside the questions i don't know answers to 😂

[@urvi7384]

@@Jeff.Hardy. personal growth and learnings go wayyy beyond ai understanding :)

[@barry5]

@@Jeff.Hardy. Even if that was possible at native quality, there's some words and phrases you just cant translate. Its also not really possible to translate songs accurately while still making them sound good.

[@ThaProdigalSun]

I have been studying Japanese for about 5 years, and regardless of any step in my journey of self-discovery through language, this is my favorite video on the whole of the internet. You are amazeballs

[@Alyrulz421]

Honestly, that's probably the best way to learn english. Trying to approach english purely with proper grammar would take eons, most fluent english is super casual and doesn't follow "proper" structure lol. Not to mention all the words that are spelled 1 way but have 2-3 different meanings and pronunciations, learning those without hearing/watching it get spoken would be endlessly confusing.

[@IATEALLTHECHEESE]

Like, even to shop keepers, you're not gonna go: "Hello my good sir, do you perhaps sell a pair of leather boots? You'd say "hi, do you have any leather boots"

[@erwan3204]

Your french was actually extremely good for someone who learned 5 years ago, and not butchered at all !

[@baakojernigan7095]

Wait she's only 17??

[@erwan3204]

@@baakojernigan7095 I think so, if I remember correctly Edit: Yeah, I looked it up and I was right

[@Psoewish]

As someone that achieved some notion of understanding both Japanese and Korean, all I can say is ... good luck with Korean. If you want to give yourself a challenge while learning Korean, you could even try doing it without crying yourself to sleep every night! :)

[@kurootsuki3326]

lmaoo

[@yosojinuchiha9549]

Ya no, too hard. Crying is my therapy for learning how to actually speak it. The alphabet gives it such a false sense of easiness 😭

[@nodrvgs]

LMAOO

[@sagearviso1979]

@@yosojinuchiha9549 😭 it rly does. At least with Japanese I don’t have to worry about two characters literally sounding the same 🥲 like come on 😭

[@ruchikarao9643]

wait really? i dropped Japanese after trying to learn like 10 letters but I was able to read Korean in 2 weeks by practicing for one hour daily. So now I'm confused. is Japanese easier?

[@darioadaseq]

This video made me find my favourite KZbinr of all time, around a year ago AXOLOT FOR LIFE!!

[@mccama19]

The bit about her talking to her friend about aphantasia is hilarious! I was laughing so hard I nearly fell out of my seat!

[@cye2310]

Yeah, I also had a friend once. He couldn't visualize himself having AIDS and denied reality

[@ejlyt9148]

0:18 Edit: Fixed timestamp

[@caylalily6872]

Jesus loves you

[@caylalily6872]

Jeremiah 29:11,John 3:16

[@SentienceMoldly]

@@caylalily6872 tell him that i'm a minor

[@Ekkyrjh]

“Now they dont have to wash their eyes with (word i cant write) acid to unsee what your up to” I felt that

[@nayan5612]

She's literally me😭😭 I started to learn French when I was 14 and only retained "bonjour" "oui" "merde" etc then I moved on to Korean and retained alot, can read sentences (thanks to kdramas). Now I have started to learn Japanese 💀😭 I think Chinese will be the next prolly

[@lithbcyes4201]

Hey! Im studying chinese, and i wish u good luck with it, some experiences i've had: Memorization: kind of hard at first but i now think its kind of overestimated Pronunciation: get ready for the T O N E S and trying to distinguish "zh, q, ch" when u start Writing: im studying simplified, and all i have to say, its pretty stress relieving for me and even more when you get a satisfying result Grammar: kind of alike to english, but still has some rules that are kind of easy to grasp Im scared of advanced chinese tho I know u can do it!

[@nayan5612]

@Duy Anh Pham right

[@nayan5612]

@@lithbcyes4201 yess all the best!! All the asian languages are super hard to learn!

[@chloelqczrrrr]

@@nayan5612 Filipino isnt rlly that hard to learn and its the english alphabet but with 2 extra letters:) im filipino so i know this

[@reikun5416]

@@nayan5612 I heard that Cantonese is the hardest to learn

[@eliza-what]

Can I be honest and say I also memorized the hirigana,Katakana their pronunciation,the abrieviatin thingies and more than a hundred Kanji in 4 days. That was actually last week(why i am here)

[@UndeadP]

As a Japanese speaker, you did so much better than I expected 😭

[@Kemalist0008]

Ur one of the few japanese people i saw that knows english after sora

[@crosscharayt986]

Half American?

[@Aaaaaqqq404]

How are you speaking English?

[@Id939c]

@@Aaaaaqqq404People learn other languages 😭😭😭

[@Aaaaaqqq404]

@@Id939c nah they probably used google translate

[@sondres.8021]

7:51 The small　っ before a morae (in this case hiragana/katakana character) will create a double consonant like in かった (katta) instead of かた (kata). However the iteration mark 々 means that you are going to repeat the kanji with the supplement of rendaku ("sequential voicing" by "voicing" the first consonant in a word). This has examples like 時々 (literally: 時時 |ときどき | tokidoki) and 人々 (literally: 人人 | ひとびと | hitobito).¨ Either way, good luck

[@TapiokaOishii]

Very true, but it doesn't necessary mean that when we use 々 (odoriji), we also use rendaku (although there's the rendaku very often)

[@sondres.8021]

@@TapiokaOishii true true, sorry

[@samuraiboi2735]

Well i am learning kanjia since its kinda like one of the main stuff for japanese and its hella hard.

[@neopalm2050]

I'd say that the small っ is best described as "stop speaking for a split second before pronouncing the next character" rather than a double consonant (and a double consonant is just the best way to denote that). Thanks for telling me how the iteration mark works.

[@sondres.8021]

@@neopalm2050 I can't say I'm an expert on this, but it's often called gemination from latin "doubling." Although you are right for some cases, that is just the property that the っ have. In examples like よかった there is a slight pause after the second mora, altgough in a word like おっさん there is just the extention of the sound "s". Germinated consonants that are marked with a っ, can be described like either creating an absence of sound, or an extention of sound. Also cool you now know about the iteration mark, I suggest you search it up if you want to learn more about it - tofugu.com have a neat article about it

[@inkie2504]

every so often i come back to this video and it motivates me to do my japanese homework

[@bansarivora7448]

Fal: describes how learning this language drive her crazy and she is literally out of her mind Also fal: OH YES LEARN THIS LANGUAGE OMG WOULD RECOMMEND

[@momo_2442]

As a Japanese whom lived in another country in my child hood and struggled to talk in Japanese when I came back I’m superrrr impressed 😮😮😮 “The more I learn 1 language, the more my understanding of another language disappears” is so true Now I go to a normal school in japan and is trying to understand korean (cuz,,,, K-pop) but my motivation gets lower and lower everyday 😅 Do you have any tips for learning another language? I’m pretty sure Korean is way more easier than Japanese cuz there are no kanji or anything 😅😅

[@justyouraveragehumanbeing7411]

i only speak two languages atm, but learning any language demands a lot of time and effort, and each languages has its own challenges I believe in you tho!

[@buycraft911miner2]

My go to approach to learning japanese is just to try to think in japanese. Like, when Iwant to say something in my head, I try to translate it and look up any missing words if I have the chance. Its really passive, but also really low effort, and I am in no hurry so Im fine with it I dont even know if it will be efective, though it makes sense that it will in due time. Also, I still do duolingo daily, more as a reminder of the fact that I have to learn japanese rather than anything priductive, since I do the bare minimum and leave, but better than nothing I guess. Watching japanese media really helps too, since some words stick to you, and others will sound familiar and easier to remember.

[@ricechu5639]

can we talk about how good faline's hand writing is

[@bean4435]

I cam across your video because I'm learning Japanese for an interview in a week and omg you're so funny. 😭😭subscribed!

[@akonni2]

"I'm planning on learning Korean next" *Laughs internally. Remembers owns struggle.* I'm learning Korean myself and I can't count how many times I was cursing coz of reading & pronounciation. Japanese, thank you for being less difficult 😂

[@koo-core7274]

as someone who is at an intermediate level in korean, i feel like japanese is more difficult! even the korean pronunciation and accent was easier for me to grasp, so much so that i have a korean accent when i speak japanese.

[@harrypottermaniac08]

Yeah idk about that, I've tried learning both languages and I find Korean is a lot easier. The alphabet has way fewer characters and I feel like it's a smaller jump between English and Korean than between English and Japanese.

[@Rik_0]

As someone who’s only learning the characters, I’m terrified...

[@kimchaeyoung7193]

@@Rik_0 of u talking about Korean characters don’t worry as myself who has been studying Korean since I was 2(for family purposes). It was really hard to get to know them but each day and day I got better and u will so it just takes time and practice Stay safe and never give up

[@Rik_0]

@@kimchaeyoung7193 Okay

[@lalalaidkw942]

i’ve been learning spanish for a year and a half now and i started learning korean 5 months ago,this month i have been practicing korean so so much and i film videos for myself in spanish to practice most days,while i was talking i accidentally kept on saying korean words…and yesterday i started learning japanese in a total of 4 hours,i can confirm that the more you learn a language the more ur understanding for another language disappears .

[@thegrim418]

I couldn't imagine learning all the different ways to write Japanese. I can't remember my own birthday each year, much less Kanji.

[@alexanderrobins7497]

Hiragana and Katakana are not too difficulty since they are the same system, but different characters. Kanji made me cry when I first saw it.

[@Milombech]

@@alexanderrobins7497 I think kanji made all of us cry. I've seen Japanese people who can't write the kanji but they can recognize them, which, same. Not with kanji lol but it's much easier for me now to recognize the hiragana and know what sound it is, but there's only a few I can write from memory. But then again, I haven't been practising for very long.

[@Jiraiya23]

@@Milombech You get used to it after enough exposure, I can read manga pretty comfortably after 100s of volumes of manga and can watch anime pretty comfortably with the japanese subtitles on but if you turn them off or if a random Japanese person talks to me out of nowhere then I can't really pick up on jack shit lol

[@letoast8208]

Lmao kanji is just- rlly hard but at least I understand some stuff? Since Chinese is my second language

[@silentcry0325]

If u want to learn reading korean, I'd recommend that one 5 minute video on youtube where it says : "learn reading korean in 5 minutes" and it's the only video on that channel- SURPRISING I ACTUALLY DID LEARN READING IT AFTERALL

[@luffyluffy2791]

"The more I learn one language, the more my understanding of another language disappears" I felt that to the point it made me remember a few weeks ago when I was asking a customer whether they wanted a bag or not but I forgot how to pronounce the word bag in english (first language) but could only remember it in Japanese (currently learning) T-T

[@TamaseiTobari]

I sometimes use english in the middle of portuguese and pray that people understand that my own native language disowns me from time to time. It is especially fun when both languages decide my brain is no place to live and I can't remember a word in any of them.

[@dong8912]

Faline: "I think that this video is more- more of a rant for me than an actual hAHA fuNNy" Me: *Already laughing* oh...

[@ril3y.m]

"The more i learn one language the more my understanding of another language disappears" Is so real. i forgot 20 % of the english language after trying to learn another language.

[@Mrempoleon100]

The "SUPUN" part made me laugh more than it should 🤣

[@Bubulle_Celeste]

Also trying to learn Japanese as a third language, I've realized I memorize way better the new things I'm learning when I get some good sleep shortly after. So don't be afraid to rest; that could really help you! Also, your French was pretty neat (>my first language

[@Bubulle_Celeste]

@Lxrd Kami Well, at least you still understand it, which really helps. You could try watching and reading things in French, and try repeating it out loud after. That would help you practice enunciation. If actual words are still too difficult to start with, you could try the alphabet, and letters combinations that make specific sounds (like "on"). Once you feel confident about the various sounds in the language, you can go back to repeating sentences. If you struggle to form coherent sentences, like constructing them, expressing the things you'd like to say, analyze the way the sentences you are practicing are built, try understanding why they are the way they are. If you can't figure it out, try either looking it up, or asking a French-speaking person. I hope that could help. I'm not too sure that was what you were looking for.

[@mx-mars3370]

I studied French for 3 years in a row at school and the only thing I remember is that when you want to use the negative form in a sentence you have to put the subject + "ne" + the verb + "pas"... So yeah, good luck on that Faline

[@hi10442]

currently learning japanese, french, and german at the same time wish me luck

[@sanashi27]

I self-studied hiragana and katakana characters back in highschool and it took me months to get all of them without even knowing what they're called. We didn't have internet connection back then and I just randomly decided to learn them by watching anime when I realized some of the "letters" seem familiar from another show. I haven't learned kanji though (some just look familiar). It's impressive that you learned a lot for less than a year. Good luck in studying more!

[@abellsatime378]

Ayo months to learn the two scripts they took me 1 or 2 weeks 💀

[@justjames4]

Now if you want to be fluent in Japanese, you're going to have to practice not using those methods of remembering the meaning of words based on visualizing something it makes you think of in a language you already know. With enough practice, speaking Japanese can become natural. Learning a language is hard though, so that is impressive either way!

[@poxalmazro3e734]

I use anki, to just learn the meaning of kanji ( I will learn the reading from context|) Its been a week or so? never skip reviews, and now when I see a kanji I know, the meaning is immediately in my mind, with out thinking, its awesome and keeps me going.

[@vali69]

@@poxalmazro3e734 rrtk is weirdly awesome.

[@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775]

@@vali69 rrtk?

[@Boinic]

@@d.o.p.d.o.p.1775 modified version of remembering the kanji as an Anki deck

[@akilovescatz]

I have been learning japanese for like a year now and i only know 6 hirigana characters 💀

[@KatBambi]

…as someone who has been studying Japanese in college for about 6 years now, this video makes me both incredibly happy and incredibly anxious :)

[@meilianHG]

The video was on x2 speed because of the previous video, at first I didn't notice the speed when you were talking but then the iTs abOuT DriVe itS abOUT poWeR started to play and that is when I went feral

[@doesntmatter.9139]

Your French is actually really good for a non native speaker. (I feel like everyone’s voice get softer when they speak french)

[@call_me_river]

4:57 I love that you had to flip to the front of the book to know that you were talking about Japanese😂

[@novelle.27]

I’ve been studying Japanese for almost a year and it’s really funny hearing Faline San describe stuff so familiar to me

[@psychlyeslg]

11:55 "Mitochondria is the powerhouse of the cell"

[@Layarion]

i'd say a big thing is learning how to tell apart the root of a word, from it's politeness fluff that gets added on.

[@TheFuschiaDragonfly]

As an Italian fluent in English trying to learn Romanian, Croatian and Albanian I relate to the linguistic chaos of this video

[@misterwiggles8771]

This is, quite literally, the greatest NordVPN ad of all time. Thank you for your work.

[@riri89927]

I barely know how to speak English, and it’s my first language-and you’re out here learning another one? Truly powerful, Faline.

[@raygin6581]

I know its shocking for native english speakers, but pretty much everyone speaks 2 languages besides you guys lol

[@fukumei]

@@raygin6581 Do you have a source on that? Because the only numbers I have seen says that about 60% of people speak more than one language, which I wouldn't call "pretty much everyone". It is also a bit ironic to call out English speakers on a video about learning Japanese, considering most of Japan do not really know any other language than Japanese either.

[@xTheFooLishx]

literally dont know any content from you outside of this particular moment i just somehow stumbled into this video. About 3 minutes in i decided this was worthy of a like and a sub.

[@myaah_9098]

The title is literally me when I had my Spanish exam and instead of paying attention I was eating and watching anime 😭

[@RunnyBottom]

I watched over 300 animes and now I can understand Japanese and even barely speak some.

[@firstlast-oo1he]

The ウィーヤーブウ is strong in this one /s

[@businessran11]

By scrolling through Faline's videos and watching this one..now I know that Faline has never lied when she says that she has struggled..

[@ernstschmidt4725]

she crammed in a week what it took me 2 years (though it probably was 80 class hours spread through those years) what an absolute mad lass. also knowing hanzi before kanji must be a such a mixed blessing, but wacky mnemonics is always a good method too

[@mirrorball_12]

our feral canibal with more content gives me life😂❤ and I lowkey read "I learnt 6 languages in a week" HELP but you learning Japanese is me with math and I am an ASAIN, I am destined to hell

[@garglee-gacha5457]

4:25 I love how you drew some figure crying

[@ashle7]

The duolingo ad comes out 2 times before i watched this video and got a duolingo notification that says i forgot my russian lesson. And fears me until this day

[@0verthinkingL0s3r]

The fact that I got a Duolingo ad when i clicked on this is...

[@sashagaybright3530]

Can we just appreciate how creative her intros are for second Edit: I've always skipped past the sponsor stuff but that was genuinely entertaining and intriguing

[@purelyorange8428]

I know this is kinda irrelevant but damn Faline's handwriting is hella neat

[@koven-thecovenantofmerakya5060]

As someone who's majoring in Japanese literature i can say that this video really summarised my entire first semester and it HURTS how relatable this is😭 Also, Linguistics sucks ass

[@valorzinski7423]

That is such a rare major that I couldn't find it when I searched that on youtube I'm really interested in learning about the experiences of someone who majored in Japanese Literature or Japanese History in a Japanese university

[@koven-thecovenantofmerakya5060]

@@valorzinski7423 foreign language literature is a quite rare major. in my country only a select few campuses has a foreign language major that aren't english. In this major, it mainly focuses on learning the language in a very detailed way. each foreign language major has some sort of Linguistics subjects, from translating/interpreting to grammar checking. not only stricted to languages, we also learn some cultures! ranging from traditional japanese culture, japanese sociological study(like their daily life behaviour, how Japanese society works, etc), to contemporary culture like anime, cosplay and histories too! There are some stuffs that they don't teach at school or normal language classes. We also have speaking and listening classes too! For thesis/manuscripts there are hella lot of interesting topics I've heard from my past seniors, for example one of them made a whole thesis about relations between an anime(i forgot what the name was) and the aspects of Japanese people, my professor said you have to watch an entire series with detailed analysis for it if you're planning to make a thesis about that😂

[@venushimatcha]

I'm planning on taking Linguistics when I go to senior high/ college and I'm scared after reading this comment 😬

[@koven-thecovenantofmerakya5060]

@@venushimatcha it's challenging but rewarding at the end as long as you stay diligent. besides every major has challenges even when you thought it sounds "easy"😂

[@Jjdb8211]

@@venushimatcha im minoring in linguistics rn, imo if you are really passionate/interested in languages then I think you’ll do really well in it. All my friends who took intro to linguistics because they thought it’d be an easy gen ed struggled in it bc they didn’t really know what they were getting into an weren’t actually interested in the field itself

[@a_personme]

"or else i will spontaneously combust" sounds like something my friend would say

[@youlikethischainthreedolla8498]

2:53 a real masterpiece I see there

[@markspyrison9659]

I commend you. It's wonderful how you push yourself to learn and to grow. You're an autodidact. You teach yourself things, expanding your mind, exercising your intellect. I'd just like to encourage you to never stop. But also please pace yourself. Avoid burnout. Cheers!

[@TheSarahAlvarado]

I'm just starting to learn Japanese, and have been watching a few KZbinrs talk about the process and your video have been thE BEST BRO YOU ARE SO HILARIOUS THANK YOU FOR THIS

[@helloworldd7151]

11:39 i dont what this is: me: 👁👄👁

[@saymyname2618]

10:32 I completely agree with this, the best way to learn a new language is to immerse yourself in it. HOW you gonna do it doesnt matter much, listening to music, watching Tv series, KZbin videos, reading books it all helps a lot and is fun. Its a lot easier to remember stuff when you like it.

[@Mistyswirl]

As someone who also went from learning Chinese to learning Japanese, I am chuckling wayyy too hard at your discoveries, which I also made last year 😂

[@stay_chxll]

by far the best sponsor ad i've ever seen lol, i couldn't even skip it 😂

[@birb7077]

Forget about stuttering or saying um, the correct word to use now is gay. (3:45)

[@justjames4]

(1:30) That montage was really funny! 👍

[@hydrangeas.d]

Faline: I'm not going to tell my sleep schedule because my parents still watch my videos Also faline: I haven't slept for 5 days Way to go :)

[@fmj616]

I had a lot of fun watching this video, I don't think I've ever laughed so much at such silly things. you are so cute!

[@Hdx64]

My spanish is native, my english is self taught, but i was also able to learn by using the immersion method. I can safely say that i'm able to communicate, make deals and understand about 98% of the english language. It's by far the easiest language i have learned, also knowing portuguese, italian and french at a level where i can crudely translate something and be on my way. Now... You can't do that in Japanese. There are so many rules!!! so much grammar, so many conjugations. Verbs types, adjetive types, rules differ between things that should be the same. Numbers that change randomnly if on a certain range, counters for stuff, polite and casual ways, differential pronouns, and things like how a kanji is pronounced if starting or in the middle of something else, particles and prepositions, which are not treated as such, but rather as indicators... Which sound like the same, but they are not hahah I fully understand going feral after that whole lot of cramming. At some points i swear when playing a japanese game, my brain shuts down and stops translating stuff and you have to jump start it again by bargaining... COME ON DUDE YOU KNOW THOSE SQUIGGLY LINES!!! We will stop as soon as we reach the save point, i swear hahah

[@Vaquita32548]

How old are u

[@Hdx64]

@@Vaquita32548 I'm 36 years old

[@studioyokai]

I'm glad English was easy for but, but as a native speaker of English I'm astonished anybody thinks English verb conjugations are EASIER than Japanese My Japanese is extremely rusty, but I could look at a verb in a normal Japanese sentence and immediately know not only which part is the verb(s) but also the tense because there are HARDLY ANY conjugations?? It's present/future in regular or negative, and past in regular or negative. Yeah okay you have more "casual" forms and some shortened ones, but you can literally memorize FOUR TENSES and then apply that to like, everything but one or two irregular verbs, and be able to conjugate it in a way that expresses correctly. Because there's like only one or two irregular verbs in Jaoanese, everything is so much more consistent, and if there is a direct object or a subject for the verb, you can also know right away because there's particle attached! In comparison I'm not even completely sure how English defines its own "irregular" verbs because we've pulled our vocabulary and grammar from multiple really different languages, including Greek, Latin, French, German apparently even Welsh/Cornish, and because of all that, there's usually differences in the VERB based on pronoun AND tense, of which there are MANY in English, sometimes inserting whole extra words, AND there are huge inconsistencies in spelling and pronunciation to the extent I'm not sure how you'd say any of it is truly "regular"... you have stuff like To read: I am reading, am not reading, was reading, was not reading, (did) read, did not read, will read, will not/won't read, will have read, will not/won't have read; he/she/it/[singular noun NOT "you"] is reading, is not reading, was reading, was not reading, (did) read, did not read, will read, will not read, will have read, will not have read; they/we/you/[plural noun] are reading, are not reading, were reading, were not reading, (did) read, did not read, will read, will not read, will have read, will not have read... Meanwhile with the equivalent verb, Japanese wouldn't bother to differentiate between plural or singular, or between first/second/third person, heck it doesn't even have a separate future tense! If you stick to standard polite forms,, you'd just have: [read]masu, [read]masen, [read]mashita, [read]masen deshita. Oh and depending on the conjugation, ALL of those "reads" in English are EITHER pronounced as a homophone for red (a color), or Reed (a plant), but good luck remembering which is which without significant practice. Also there's "lead" which rhymes with "reed" but only when it's a verb in certain tenses, otherwise it's pronounced and spelled like "led"... unless it's a noun referring to the element of lead! or things that used to be made of lead, like "pencil leads"! in which case it STILL rhymes with "led" but you have to spell it with the a again in noun form, because....reasons?? Like. If I wrote on a sticky note "read" and put it on a book, am I marking it as one I already have read, or commanding someone else to read? If I put up a poster on a painted wall, saying "LEAD!", am I trying to inspire people, or warning them about lead paint?? No contest, the easier set of verbs and conjugations is Japanese, since you can always *recognize* the verbs, have fewer tenses to remember, and don't have to reconcile it with say, "Okay is it first person singular, second person singular, or third person singular?? " One of the mnemonics English speakers actually teach kids for spelling, in order to be remotely accurate, has to be a whole dang paragraph: " 'i ' before 'e'! Except after 'c'... or when ot says 'ay' like in Neighbor or Weigh.....unless it's 'Weird' !" And even then it's technically wrong for Greek rooted words like "science", where "sci" is one unit, but it still winds up putting i before e AFTER A DAMN C. Like don't get me wrong, Japanese grammatical particles as a whole get complicated fast but...functionally, they do provide explicit structure to a sentence where in English it would have to be inferred, so yes it takes memorization and practice and lots of examples, but it makes things a lot clearer on the whole. Japanese does obviously have more characters to learn if you want to read and write it, which is a hurdle coming from European languages that typically use one alphabetic script, but - the most important are completely phonetic syllabaries, and the ideographic ones you can often guess at least part of the meaning, especially in context, and in some book formats they will even provide you phonetic characters off to the side as pronunciation guide if its not like, a super common usage. Also... the complaint about the counters confuses me because... English also has those?? Granted Japanese does have some for things English doesn't, but... What do you think "sheets" or "leafs/leaves" of thin things like paper, foil, cloth or ice are? "Sheet(s)" or "leaf(s)/leaves" are counters. English has like two or three of them JUST for Thin Mostly Flat Things which may or may not technically be used at the same time in the same sentence ("can you give me a sheet of that loose leaf paper" is an actual sentence in English that means something. So is "I need another sheet of gold leaf for this"). Sure I won't deny there are some unique difficulties going from Western languages to Japanese (namely, things like kanji, and a very different style of grammar, and the fact things are often left only implied in Japanese that a westerner would have made explicit); and keeping the actual grammatical particles straight is a hurdle for many...but... the particles when understood do help clarify sentences (not to mention they break up bunches of kanji which honestly helps sometimes!), counters are a thing English has too, and I'll say it again: to say the VERBS are a huge problem compared to ENGLISH is... just astonishing to me. Yeah, English doesn't have "politeness levels", but we have a higher number of tenses to begin with, and truly confounding number of conjugations that are often highly inconsistent even before you get to their spelling, and which conjugate based on a detailed specificity of POV and number of people acting/receiving action of that verb that doesn't even make consistent internal sense. Legit, I'm happy for ANYBODY who learned English relatively easily, but part of that happiness stems from having tried learning other languages myself and stopping and recognizing how much of an overly complicated Frankenstein monster my own native tongue is. 😅

[@Hdx64]

@@studioyokai easier than Spanish at least. We have gendered nouns and a conjugation for each pronoun. 🥲

[@Hdx64]

@@studioyokai i didn't realized your answer had a "read more" and quite an extensive one! Haha thanks for all your insight. I never thought of counters that way to be honest. More like compounded nouns

[@soullesspie7496]

The fact that she reminds me so much of michael reeves gives me the same urge to binge watch all of her channel without any effort

[@ArtyN3rd465]

I am twelve and learning Korean, Japanese, French, Spanish and sign language. From most difficult to the least in that order I would say…. Anyways the point is I relate to this video. Keep up the good work!😊

[@tumbleweed8329]

At 2:41 I literally Laughed out loud and couldn't stop laughing...I don't know why maybe because I could relate 😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@gracesmelodys]

Me too. Like what an interesting reason to learn a new language

[@WarriorCats_Clan]

Bro when I tapped the vid an ad was like: WANT TO LEARN JAPANESE

[@gwen_tyx]

*Faline talking about her saying AIDS instead of Aphantasia(?) to her friend* Me: "I have the same notebook👁️👄👁️"

[@SnowyBlizzard]

This is nothing what I expected but absolutely what I needed to watch

[@themanfromyourattic]

this managed to make my day infinitely better before the video even started

[@MariLovesTuyu]

I am also learning Japanese, and this is the first sentence that I’ve written. うんちだいすき I’m so proud of myself.

[@BASILEATSCHAIRS]

PHONE ON THE TABLE...

[@Josuh]

@@BASILEATSCHAIRS ah, brethren

[@BASILEATSCHAIRS]

@@Josuh hello brother

[@Atlas994]

@BloomingBelle もちろんうんこすばらしい. Ouchhhhh that hurt my brain to write. I have been learning Japanese for a while but it is still a little hard. I know Korean though because it is my first language. Lmao

[@みょん-o6q]

💀

[@hhhffflll]

I've been studying Japanese since September 2019 for a bachelor's degree in Business. I honestly feel like I am losing the battle with the Japanese language. It is not impossible, but the amount of determination and effort you have to put in is just tremendous. I learned Dutch from zero ten years ago, but I became fluent within 6 months. :(

[@개망신-w8x]

you became fluent in dutch within 6 months?????? bro niet dat ik je niet geloof, maar vloeiend nederlands spreken binnen 6 maanden is beetje onmogelijk

[@hhhffflll]

@@개망신-w8x totaal niet als je daarvoor al vloeiend engels kan spreken :'D . Met vloeiend bedoel ik niet perfect grammatica natuurlijk (maar dat probleem heeft een gemiddelde nederlander ook gewoon lol). Ik vind persoonlijk Nederlands de makkelijkste taal ter vergelijking met de andere talen die ik spreek of ooit heb geleerd (visaya, tagalog, engels, japans, koreaans, en spaans).

[@개망신-w8x]

@@hhhffflll hmmm fair enough :P Nederlands is my first language (along with another language), maar I still struggle with it a lot 😭 nu al helemaal sinds ik een Engelstalige studie volg 🥲 props to u!!!

[@liagamer4265]

@@hhhffflll Not gonna lie I would think you were trolling if it didnt actually translate to something. It honestly looks like when people speak cursive

[@nikc-pg1xf]

this Japanese lesson helped for the Japan trip, RIGHT lmao

[@sillychuu]

"The more I learn a new language the more my understanding of another language gets worse" I'm the same lol. Polish was my first language but since o live in Ireland I'm slowly losing more words in Polish

[@keem5300]

faline: makes an advertisement for her sponsor also faline, five minutes later: 7:13

[@koibito.e]

Now THIS is an entertaining Sponsorship skit

[@intuitivesafehaven]

this video is literally a visual break down of my Japanese learning lol

[@aidenbradfield1129]

4:36 actually there are few different pronunciation like "va" and "vo" And katakana can be used as a word divider to make reading easier.

[@guts2048]

Why didn't they just make spaces?

[@etienne275]

9:39 HELP! BLOBFISH HAVE LEARNED TO WALK!

[@willowiee_]

The onl ads i got during this video were duolingo ads

[@olivian.6503]

For as far as you got in a week it took me about 2 years to learn. The fact that you learned so much in such a short time is impressive, especially by yourself. (I also like how you subscribed to Nagao Kei)

[@Wrennvy]

The hyperfocus followed by burnout is a definite mood. I'm pretty sure that's just part of ADHD though. You remind me a lot of a friend of mine from Malaysia. Same energy. It's refreshing. Japanese is a beautiful language, it's a shame I'm language inept. I barely have a handle on my mother tongue. One day though, I will endeavor to learn more. Thank you for the content ^^