I don't know why/when the topic of pitch accent became such a controversy in the Japanese language learning community.. It is clearly an important part of the language and I think it is necessary if your goal is to be able to speak in a natural, native-like way. I'm still a beginner and have a lot more to learn to become fluent, but when I travel to Japan, I want to be able to converse with people with as little "American accent" as possible. It seems easier to learn a new language the correct way, rather than learn all the vocabulary and grammar and then have to go back and re-learn the authentic way to speak and use it.. This is why I signed up for Fumi-Sensei's online course long ago and I haven't looked back since. ふみ先生、正しい発音を教えてくれてありがとうございます!
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Thank you, rich-san, for always supporting me!! Right, I wonder why it's a controversy 😅 So I had to say it. For my course, I remember you differentiate びょういん and びよういん beautifully after watching the video "The Rhythm of びゃびゅびょ and the Other Contracted Sound" uploaded there. I was happy to know that my video worked, with your effort😊 これからもよろしくお願いします✨
@rainbowArsonal3 ай бұрын
i agree!! my dream someday is to become a japanese language teacher for beginning to advanced intermediate students, and this is something i would teach.
@Japchik3 ай бұрын
@@rainbowArsonalanata wa baka desu 😊😊😊😊
@rainbowArsonal3 ай бұрын
@@Japchik okay ☺
@Japchik3 ай бұрын
@@rainbowArsonal bro I said “you are dumb” why you reacting like that bruh 💀💀💀
@jd880803 ай бұрын
木漏れ日 Such a beautiful term! Don't know why I missed this video. So glad to see it now!
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
I'm glad that now you saw it! I love the term too, so I used it again in this video. Thank you so much for the super thanks too😊✨
@jd880803 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Not at all, Sensei. 🙏🙏🙏 Thank you for making all the videos. Especially for always including a Transcript. Most thoughtful and generous of you, Sensei.🙏🙏🙏
@Chocobooo924 ай бұрын
I'm just starting to learn Japanese - heck, I can barely speak english - however, I love your videos. It's very uselful and relaxing at the same time. I can only say: arigatou gozaimashita!
It took me a while and had to use a dictionary, but here is a haiku I wrote thinking about how it has felt with you as my 先生 on my Japanese learning journey: 感謝の葉 学びの庭に 咲く花よ It's a bit poetic and cheesy, but was hard to find words that fit with the 5-7-5 pattern. :)
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Dade-san, Wow, it's so beautiful!! Thank you so much😍 One thing... it's not haiku. Haiku need a seasonal word. I don't know how to call it, but I love it. Thank you!!
Can we just appreciate how good the videos are? Fumi san, thank you for the videos! Also, congrats on 220k subscribers! I’m watching you since 190k subscribers, and all of the videos are awesome!
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally2 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!! Finally, reached 220k and I'm so happy😊
@arkadiuszkloczko2203Ай бұрын
Thank you for your work. I learn Japanese as a hobby and passed N3 last year. Unfortunately a topic of pitch accent is never brought up during my classes and people like you help me learn more about it. 心からありがとうございます。🙇
@TheGreaterU3 ай бұрын
I actually love pitch accent, I find Japanese as a language as wonderful to listen to and try to learn. I find the pitch accent creates a wonderful rolling sound to listen to.
@jibet9923 ай бұрын
景色や文化や日本語の勉強がありますので動画のタイプはすっごく楽しと思います。ありがとうね
@Plain0073 ай бұрын
Im Diné so i understand the stressing on certian syllables and sounds . Great video. My japanese journey is a slow steady pace but its great so far thanks for your vids
@drachenlachen4 ай бұрын
Thanks for all your work! I love your videos although I‘m hardly able to understand all you say without subtitels. To embrace just all these difficulties and obstacles is a lovely idea. Thank you! I‘ll remain humble and learn every day a tiny luttle bit until I can write all this in a natural japanese! 😊
@azineox96332 ай бұрын
Great attitude, I'm trying to do the same thing. Patience is key.
@JeannePlantation3 ай бұрын
Fumi~さん、いつもありがとうございます。
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
Jeanne-san, こちらこそ、いつもありがとうございます〜🥹🥹 感謝です!✨✨✨
@sereneheavenxo3 ай бұрын
this video is so relaxing i almost fell asleep. please use this microphone a lot. Thank you so much!
@Japchik3 ай бұрын
Fr
@detroitshadowlands4 ай бұрын
English is an amalgamation of words from multiple languages which makes it a nightmare to learn. At least in Japanese, vowels are pronounced the same in every word, unlike in English, where it depends on the historical origin of the particular word as well as the regional dialect...
@anggarapangestu1524 ай бұрын
Very agree with you. I'm not raised in an English speaking country so I know the hurdles and difficulties in learning the language. Even though I learn English since elementary school, it is still difficult for me to catch up in a conversation with a native speaker. It is not enough just to learn the vocabulary and the grammar, so I decided to learn more about the pronunciation. Right after that, I'm getting better in catching up with native speaker, and the good thing is now I can spot whether the speaker is a native or not by just listening from the accent. Right now I have been learning Japanese for 1 year and from my experience by learning the accent it boosts my learning rate. Also, as Fumi 先生 said by learning the accent we can be more authentic in the language.
@allergictohumansnotanimals56713 ай бұрын
That makes English beautiful. It’s so multicultural and really just a combination of a whole bunch of languages. Makes sense why it’s the lingua franca of today.
@hjalmarwinroth3 ай бұрын
Words loaned from Chinese make up 60% of the total lexicon of Japanese, fool.
@josephscottlawrence3 ай бұрын
English spelling sacrifices intuitive pronunciation for the sake of making root meanings more obvious, so it’s easier to guess what a word means. Kind of like kanji actually….
@aleh36273 ай бұрын
Japanese is also heavily influenced by Chinese and English in vocabulary and to a lesser extent by Portuguese, dutch and Spanish.
@mattkuk67473 ай бұрын
This is very good to learn Japanese ❤❤
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
Glad to hear that. Thank you😊
@تبيانصالح-خ5ي4 ай бұрын
شكرا على هذا الفيديو الرائع، لقد إستمتعت به حقا و إستفدت و أثمن نصيحة كانت "عليك إعطاء كل حرف المدة الخاصة به" اليابانية رائعة و انا استمتع بها جدا، إنني اراها مثل اللحن الجميل و التعبير عن المشاعر بها يبدو ممتعا، اعلم ان التحديات موجودة دائما و علينا ان نقبلها، شكرا لك إستمتعت بالمقطع، و قولك "انا اقرأ جميع التعليقات شجعني على كتابة هذا و زر الترجمة سيحل الآمر بالنسبة للجميع 😁
@jd880803 ай бұрын
Thanks!
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
Thank you so much!! 感謝です!!✨
@n20games524 ай бұрын
ビデオをありがとうございます。はいくとけしきをたのしかったです。 Pitch accent is definitely something worth understanding. I know your lessons have improved my Japanese greatly. Also, once we practice pitch accent it becomes a natural part of our Japanese and we don't really think about it when speaking.
In French we don't have pitch except for end of the sentence (question, statement...) nor stress. We stress every syllable the same... Our grammar is more difficult
@AlexVieira-c6h4 ай бұрын
ちなみに先生、ポルトガル語で「ホタル」は「Vaga-lume」といいます。😄
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Alex-san, So the subtitle was wrong? AI translation didn't work well for this one😢
Pitch accent makes Japanese easier, not harder, to understand. Japanese has relatively few distinct phonemes, as compared to English. Sentences would be highly ambiguous without pitch accent clues.
@تبيانصالح-خ5ي4 ай бұрын
معلومة مشوقة: انا اجد صعوبة في عدم التشديد على الحروف اكثر من التشديد 😅. اعتقد ان اسلوبي هو السبب و إن كانت الحروف قوية في اللغة العربية 🔥
بالنسبة إلي يبدو الشعر الياباني غريبا بعض الشيء، بالنسبة للشعر في اللغة العربية فأنا لا اعرف عنه الكثير لكن هناك ما يسمى "بالقافية" و هو جعل الكلمة الأخيرة من كل جملة بنفس الوزن مع بقية الجمل، بعض المعبومات في هذا الفيديو تفسر الكثير 😄
Hey, I was just wondering if you could help me with a cultural question I had about Japan? When I was on Shikoku doing part of the Shikoku Ohenro, many of the shingon temples had stone-posts lining the walkways and entrances with what looked like dates or numbers on them. I remember a Monk telling me they were memories or markings of donations to the temple, but I cannot remember if this is true? Do you know?
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
That's true. Usually, a name and the amount of the donation are written too.
@Dr_Congo_WoW4 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally is there a name for the posts themselves?
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
They are called tamagaki, 玉垣(たまがき).
@Dr_Congo_WoW4 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally thank you very much !!! I hope to return and finish my ohenro, so knowing these words is very important to me.
@mario_prosuit3 ай бұрын
Arigato gozaimas
@Preschool4yo-7yo4 ай бұрын
I prefer urban. ♥︎Fumi T! ❤thanks for the video.♥︎ I was keeping mind 「Just learn about it. Face it ~ it'll come to me」in KZbin-shorts too. I ('m making) make almost daily to be able to study in English at your link someday. 😅🙃
@JackInJapan20234 ай бұрын
I love this video.❤ 先生質問があります. When you talk about natural Japanese rhythm, are you saying that Japanese people speak (or try to speak) in haiku (5-7-5) rhythm (conscientiously or unconsciously)? Do I need to speak with this rhythm to sound natural? ありがとうございました!
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Hi, Jack-san, Oh, no, we don't use 5-7-5 rhythm when we speak. What I wanted to say in this video was that all hiragana have the same lengths(have one mora each) because English speakers' small tsu and long vowels are sometimes too short. I should have pointed out to make that point clear.😅
@gkfujiwaraesquibel79984 ай бұрын
11:48 In my opinion, pitch accent is a part that makes all languages what they are. 12:03 Embrace it! It's everywhere, senesi. 😊😅
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Hi, I used the comment for this video first, but then decided to use it for short too😅
Thank you for this interesting lesson. I may have missed something but the 2nd to last hyougo seems to have 8 mora in the 2nd line. Which syllable can be dropped in speech to make it 7? Arigatoo
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
Oh, my, zamyrabyrd-san! Thank you for pointing it out! It was a mistake... it actually have 8 mora in the 2nd line and there's no part to be dropped in that case.
@zamyrabyrd3 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally Dear Sensei, thank you for answering my comment. What would be done in a case like that where there are 8 mora instead of 7? I spent some time in Japan so was always wondering about the hyougo(s) near the river. BTW, my husband, Fumikatsu, 文勝, named "triumph of literature" right before the war ended, reminded me of your name. I was wondering if it is from the same character 文, "bun" and if it common for girls to have that name. Thanks. Janet Inoue
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
Hi, Janet-san, my kanji for ふみ is 史, history. For girls, it's also common for girls to have the kanji 文 in their names😊 When there are 8 instead of 7 mora, if が or は is included, you can drop it, but in this case, there's no way to make it 7. So we just have to leave it as it is.
@nonri5004 ай бұрын
RedditやDiscordに俳句Botがあるのが面白いと思います。🤔
@dunghai65603 ай бұрын
How can I get sub script
@wiprotata-yy5bc3 ай бұрын
Hello hii can u do japanees water therapy to get waight loss video
@helza4 ай бұрын
May I please ask why 蛍 is sometimes written using katakana, ホタル and sometimes as hiragana, ほたる?
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
Hi, Helza-san, That's a good question! In scientific terms, the names of bugs are written in katakana. But for individual use, which one to use depends on the person. For me, I'd use 蛍 when I write a poem, but when I explain something, I might use ホタル because hiragana ほたる makes it difficult for readers to understand since hiragana doesn’t stand out among other hiragana. In the video, when I make viewers count mora, I used ほたる because I used hiragana for other kanji too. So it depends on the situation, and oftentimes, there's no clear explanation but individual preference.
@deedeemaul32552 ай бұрын
Agree
@KashMoney-ri6vo4 ай бұрын
i know this isn’t from this video but it’s from the how to say my name in japanese video how do i say “kazzmere” in japanese ? it’s pronounced kazz-meer.
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
I guess it's カズメル, but until I hear the sound, I can't decide.
@KashMoney-ri6vo4 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally i know a way you can hear it! Go to google translate on a tab on your phone and type my name in exactly as it is “kazzmere” and you’ll hear it! And thanks in advance i hope this isn’t wasting your time🙏🏾
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
If it's in English, it sounds like カズミア.
@redwings19743 ай бұрын
How to start for a totally beginner?
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
I highly recommend you start with hiragana and katakana.
@imericwilliams4 ай бұрын
本当にビデオは難しいのわかりませんでした やっぱりこれは私がテストです ありがとうございました 私もremembered the word 「光」, 五七五のスタイルhelped me a lot!😅
If you think that is dirty wait till you see an English river. You can cross by by walking on the bridge of dumped shopping trolleys. mind the trapped sewage though.
@miguetyann82663 ай бұрын
この動画 いっぱい習い おもろいよ 詩人じゃないですね(笑)
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally3 ай бұрын
すばらしい!! 詩人じゃないかもですが、笑わせていただきました。 ぜひたくさん作ってください😄
@WalterLawrence-m3p4 ай бұрын
Dear lady DEAR FUMINYKA, ALL LANGUAGES ARE COMPLICATED RQUALLY. LOVE TO HAVE YOU ON MY SCREEN ALWAYS. ALL THE BEST TRULY YOURS ADMIRER WIT AND WAL
@thomashamela6124 ай бұрын
🌸🌸🌸🌸🥰👍
@xreen78864 ай бұрын
without music please 😢🤌🏼.
@SpeakJapaneseNaturally4 ай бұрын
The music is at the beginning and the end only. Do you think it’s too much?🤔
@MrBoponpa4 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally 大丈夫です。問題がありません。This person wasn't patient enough to give it a chance.
@Chocobooo924 ай бұрын
@@SpeakJapaneseNaturally it's perfectly fine for me! arigatou gozaimashita!
@MonographicSingleheadedM-sp2wkАй бұрын
Didnt know haku and hyoougo so fat 1:25. Got the rest. Thanks gor the subs, I can instantly fill in the gaps ❤