OUR STRUGGLES WITH JAPANESE

[@つぐちゅーぶ]

Such a nice video! Your video is my life! I'm Japanese but I'm struggling in "keigo" . I can't say what I want to say in "keigo" off the top of my head often, so I study "keigo" just as a kind of foreign language lol I'm looking forward to next video!

[@johannakatakana]

Haha it’s nice to hear that even Japanese people struggle with it, it makes me feel a bit better about my own struggle 🤣 Thank you!!

[@DianaT-ph6iz]

3:27 first "struggle" point starts...you're welcome.

[@bilingualwriterjapanesetex7156]

Hi, I am a native Japanese speaker and teach Japanese in the United States. I appreciate your opinions. They are very interesting to me. Thank you for sharing!

[@johannakatakana]

Thank you for your kind comment!! ☺️

[@homerthompson416]

Doh I only know one of the four 擬態語 you said, namely きらきら. My favorites though are ドキドキ for the beat of your heart when excited and ゴロゴロ for being so lazy it's like you're just a rolling stone.

[@Meeeeey99]

Such a nice and informative video! Thank you for sharing ♥️ I am studying Japanese, it is still pretty basic but I was able to relate to some of the struggles 😅 I think the thing I am struggling the most right now is vocabulary, although it is not a struggle particular to Japanese, it has been really hard for me since it's a syllable-based language instead of a letter-based one as my mother language (Portuguese). Idk if I am making a lot of sense but... Japanese is hard man... I SHALL NOT GIVE UP! hahahahahha Sending a big hug for you both, have a wonderful week too! PS: For sure going to follow you too, honey :3

[@johannakatakana]

Haha I can definitely relate, I’ve struggled with vocab too since the beginning and it’s still my weakest point in Japanese 😂 Thank you for watching! ❤️

[@InSkyK]

So after watching your book store video I’ve decided that I’d like to try the Genki series out. I’m just a bit confused with what books I would need, as there is a ‘Student Book’, ‘Workbook’ and an answer booklet.

[@johannakatakana]

Nice, genkiiii!! I think the best thing would be to get the set with all of them, as they do compliment each other well. I only got the main textbook and found that the exercises were a bit few and there wasn’t any way for me to check if my answers were correct!

[@InSkyK]

Thanks for the response! I think I will buy each book in time for Christmas :)

[@glenn8452]

ありがとございます　for the video, I'm struggling with just about everything from learning new words to grammar. Being an older person, my memory is not what it use to be! Another word that has multiple meanings and intonations is かみ

[@johannakatakana]

I was just talking about that with my boyfriend the other day, かみ is another great example for that 😂 I had him say all of them with the correct intonation and even he got confused lol!

[@glenn8452]

@@johannakatakana I am impressed with your progression with the language and achieving and completing the N1. Especially someone from a European country and someone that speaks English as a second language.

[@johannakatakana]

@@glenn8452 oh that’s so kind of you!! There is definitely a lot of hours of work behind it 😂 But I’ve been lucky enough to be able to study Japanese IN japan for a couple of years, that has definitely helped and boosted my learning a lot!

[@homerthompson416]

In the US we pronounce onomatoepeia like ah-no-mah-tuh-pee-uh, mah like mahjong, pee like what you do in the toilet, tuh and uh like how seemingly every unstressed vowel in English turns into uh.

[@johannakatakana]

Oh you pronounce it like ah and not oh?? That’s interesting!! I usually only hear it said in Japanese like オノマトペ so I don’t really know how’s it’s pronounced in English 🤣

[@josequintero331]

I never heard of the word onomatopoeia until I went to college. When hearing my professor say it, I was like, that pronunciation doesn’t sound right lol. It’s pronounced “ana-mata-pee-uh. The first half I get, the second, not so much lol

[@johannakatakana]

Haha I know!! I first learned it after having studied Japanese for a while, and I prefer saying the Japanese name for it since it’s so much easier to pronounce 🤣

[@homerthompson416]

LOL the hashi part, I saw someone post this hilarious meme about hashi: i.ibb.co/hC4ZvVH/hashi.png How about 建前 vs 本音 though? Dogen's video on it makes it sound like you have to learn to be passive aggressive to be truly fluent haha. kzbin.info/www/bejne/lYWYqHaeh8uKeKs

[@johannakatakana]

Ughhh yeah, I’m still navigating that and I do agree with him on that, and above learning to use it yourself you need to learn how to pick it up while talking to others too 😂

[@chethankarkera9078]

Hello..Do you have FUKUOKA FOREIGN LANGUAGE COLLEGE fee structure for first year?

[@johannakatakana]

I’m sure that information can be found on their website or on gogonihon.com, it’s probably safer to check there! ☺️ Some additional info though is that you only need to pay for one semester at the time!

[@takemuraarasaka3838]

When you talked about your intonation, with the example,「雨」and 「飴」is something called Pitch Accent. The kanji for rain is said with the 「頭高」Atamadaka pitch accent pattern, which is said going down and the kanji for candy is said with the 「平板」Heiban pitch accent pattern, which is said going up. Dogen has many videos explaining what you talked about and may help with that problem:kzbin.info/www/bejne/hWekoJyifKqYqNU.

[@homerthompson416]

I died laughing the first time I learned 腹立つ, I forget where. And then 泣き虫 was hilarious when I heard うさぎ describe herself with「性格はちょっとおっちょこちょいで泣き虫」in the first episode of 美少女戦士セーラームーン. Kanji so far is the funniest thing I have learned in the language but the metaphors crack me up too. Like 別腹 as if you have another stomach so you can have desert or a snack after eating a full meal (learned that one from パンダ君 in しろくまカフェ). It's normal for girls to use 腹立つ though? I thought I saw for example that 腹減った was very male language and that a more general way to say it would be お腹が空いた. Ugh the way Japanese kanji have wildly different readings like 腹＝はら vs お腹＝おなか. Makes me want to 切腹 or 腹切り.

[@johannakatakana]

Haha yeah I was so happy when I learned 別腹, it’s such a good word 😂 And as for if girls use it, I think in other phrases like 腹減った it’s more used as slang, while as 腹立つ is a “normal” phrase, so I don’t think it’s necessarily uncommon for girls to use it!

[@Jerry113]

:3 relatable

[@yy9269]

腹立つと泣き虫！！そんなこと考えたこともなかった、、

[@johannakatakana]

日本語はそういう表現が多いから難しいんです🤣