Asking Japanese teachers how to learn Japanese FASTER

[@takashiifromjapan]

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[@tavonknight398]

Can we get some Japanese rizz

[@Lock2002ful]

How do you feel about other youtubers like Asagi calling you and street interviewers scammers and accusing you of cherry picking the people you decide to show, suggesting you want to only show people who show a certain narrative you want to portray about Japan? I find these accusations unfounded and ridiculous, especially since you are japanese as well. Just was wondering if someone has brought this to your attention or if you are aware of this way of thinking about street interviews and what you would say to that.

[@itsumotanoshimi]

Takashi your disinterest to the all interviewees is extremely noticeable. Your body language shows you do not actually care about what is being sad at all. 15:06 This effect happens in all countries with non native speakers of a language living in a foreign country, once they know enough to survive... they switch their brain off...they're too lazy to continue learning as they know enough to get by in daily life...

[@Lock2002ful]

@@itsumotanoshimi dafuq are you talking about? He’s a native speaker, he’s japanese himself. Stop smoking crack.🤦🏻‍♂️

[@KenjaTimu]

Native speakers shouldn't be giving language learning advice.

[@Berisha]

TAKASHii managed to get connections with all of these Japanese teachers and online content creators including Sayaka. They are collaborating. That’s neat.

[@allendracabal0819]

KZbinrs are big-time collaborators, in general.

[@noneedtoknowme]

Sensei avengers have assembled 😂 .

[@sandwich4916]

Thanks for the video description lol

[@cuquis2867]

Entonces escribe en español

[@GoodMythicalEeveening]

"It's really exciting to hear words I learned" is so real as a language learner. This is one of the factors that motivates me to study more Japanese so that I can understand more Japanese sentences when watching dramas or anime even without subtitles.

[@saddlerrye6725]

Yeah, when you watch a move/series with subtitles and suddenly you go: "Wait a minute, there was a slight mistranslation there!" is priceless.

[@lissssssssa]

Also it's really motivating, when you start to form some new phases with new and old grammar and connect them together. Like "wow, i really can do something with what i knew!"

[@immfi]

ive been learning japanese as of the past few months, and subtly picking up on a few words is so cool, its like an automatic instant translation in your head

[@hitmanjonesy1586]

I'm trying to rewatch my fav anime in the raws rn, so I can pick up on words and listen better! And hearing stuff I know and being able to piece together the sentences without the subtitles feels so rewarding!

[@TVParasite-h5z]

Yes, I was over the moon, no, the sun when I heard a French sentence I could comprehend in a movie 😂

[@Fire_Lunar]

When she talked about Spanish & Japanese similarities in pronunciation, I absolutely agree. As a Spanish speaker, I was so surprised at how much of both languages sound similar when speaking!

[@djayceemobileentertainment]

Knowing nearly fluent Spanish in 1992 made my Japanese accent better. Sadly I forgot all my Spanish

[@YuichiTamaki]

I totally agree, As a Spanish speaking Nikkei, Japanese pronunciation was very easy to learn for me. But I can see native Spanish speakers having a little bit of difficulty with "Tsu","Za", "Zu","Zo". They make it sound all like "S".

[@WhisperOfDoom86]

It's the same for Italian too, pronunciation is really similar! It would be nice if it was like that for writing, vocabulary and grammar as well 🥲😅

[@theninjabot25]

I was watching anime in my room and then I went out of my room and my mom asked what novela u watching, I told her I’m watching anime. She was like Que 😮

[@mellostation]

I’ve said this for sooo long to people but could never really explain it the best. When I was learning Japanese in school all my Spanish speaking classmates had the BEST accent and pronunciation.

[@hackptui]

In another of Takashii's interviews, the guy he was interviewing said we live in a golden age of language learning: with the technology available to us today, there's never been a more ideal time in human history to learn another language. That has stuck with me ever since. I feel so lucky being able to hear from all these language teachers any time of the day or night.

[@Raizan-IO]

I'd be more inclined to see we live in the age where learning languages is unnecessary and just a hobby, while many should keep disappearing into obscurity. I don't particularly like English, but I see no purpose in using anything but English worldwide and online. Once the non tech generations cease to exist it will also become easy to use it more frequently while traveling.... Learning languages is a hobby - I can use 4, and I'm aiming for 6 more but it becomes so hard to choose when in reality so many are minority languages even if they are "household names", take any nordic language (north germanic - swedish, danish, norwegian) or finnish as an example; each of them have around 9 million natives and most of those natives understand english better than their neighbouring countries languages... Rinse and repeat with most eastern european and asian languages. Only languages with soft international power are english, spanish, japanese, korean, mandarin, french, arab and maybe russian.

[@Raizan-IO]

@Raindropv5wt I don't know what you are on about... I never claimed English was a universal language per se as far as I recall as I find both Universal language and lingua franca as stupid terms, and I certainly did not claim it is the most natively spoken language at all. I did also claim mandarin has relevance, unlike the many random hindu languages that not even them themselves use all that often due to how many they are in a small geographic area (to the utmost of my knowledge). The greek language thing is straight up a lie by the way, and back them there were many more languages than there are today. English is the most used language worldwide, as in through a wide geographic area while the likes of Mandarin are stuck to the China borders, likewise for Russia... So I fail to see any point on your reply to me, the resources are there? Sure, the need is the one that is no longer there and as time goes by this will be ever more true... Languages will disappear, those that are just niche like many Indian dialects, and serve no purpose beyond cultural emblems and allowing people that don't know any other one to communicate (which as I said, overtime will go away). If therer is no need to learn languages, even if the resources become more plentiful, then language learning becomes a hobby and not a necessity - which nowadays is the current state of things ONLINE beyond the key languages mentioned. Also, the only reason greeks had the influence they had in us was due to how many thinkers they had with access to written language and the ability to leave evidence of this while other nations were waging wars for survival, most people had not idea how to read or write most languages that existed back then and things like the library of Alexandria were so emblematic due to this - and this is representative now of how the world knowledge is now preserved digitally in ENGLISH, as every research paper is required to have an abstract in english even when the whole thing is in, for example, spanish.

[@dangerszewski9816]

this is SO true. I tried to learn Japanese in highschool in 1998, but bounced off how hard it was to learn kana with the available methods-- no podcasts, youtube didn't exist yet, decently translated Japanese media (if you tried to "learn from Anime" from some of those translations you would be learning from someone who knew barely more Japanese than you did!) no apps. Spaced Repetition was known as a learning technique but not taught and the tools available to assist were nonexistent. There were relatively few advances from the 1940s when wire recorders allowed "language labs" full of recorders and players for the first time until like almost literally 2005 or 6. Language learning until the smartphone era really took off in 2012 or so looked like studying a textbook at home speaking out loud to the wall and once or twice a week sitting in a row of cubicles with headphones repeating phrases and hoping you remembered them and perhaps a professor or two walking around listening for obvious errors and correcting you. It was the dark ages.

[@dangerszewski9816]

​@@Raizan-IO I cannot agree with this at all. In my field, IT, the gulf of language-speaking forums is immense. If you spend most time in the old "first world" (US allied nations of the cold war) you need only English really. But if you ever go to the "second world" (former soviet allies) Russian will avail you more and English will be more uncommon, though it's not like it was in the cold war where only military officers would speak English but they PREFER not to speak English in many areas, especially within Russia. If you're in a field where that matters, like IT Security, you will be far more effective if you learn Russian. Similarly there's a lot of fields where if you don't speak one of the languages of India you won't fit in.

[@Raizan-IO]

@Raindropv5wt that's KZbin, not the youtuber. When a youtuber bans you, your comments simply are invisible to every other person except you.

[@Signulll]

The different perspectives of everyone was really interesting: Anannya had the anime-fan/solo learner perspective. Sayaka's answers were really focused on the linguistic part of language learning and pronunciation as well as how the language actually sounds when spoken conversationally. Kozy really focused on the sentence structure and used good grammatical examples. and Risako had the experience of knowing a roman derived language to compare it directly to japanese. So cool!

[@cantgame4now152]

That also shows how there are multiple ways to learn/focus on depending upon the individual, yeah it's pretty cool.

[@sammy69831]

​@@cantgame4now152 exactly 💯 soo interesting 💜

[@ArturoGarzaID]

Risako is a genius. She has to be, she can express her thoughts clearly and in depth in all 3 of the languages she speaks.

[@rellloom]

I disagree with your justification but I do agree that she seems very smart. (As in, being able to express your thoughts clearly and well is a sign of being smart in itself, but the amount of languages you can do it in is not as important depending on how you learn them) My pov: I grew up in Luxembourg, where the average person speaks 3.5 languages, so most people can speak 3 or 4, and usually people can express themselves well in at least 3. (so usually Luxembourgish, German, French and/or English for natively Luxembourgish people, and native tongue + sometimes secondary native tongue + english and/or french and/or german for immigrants, who are about half of the population.) I've seen plenty of people who can speak really well in 3 or 4 languages, but are complete morons lol. I think there is actually not so much difference between being able to express yourself clearly in one language and 4 languages if you grow up in some circumstances. If you go to school where you must communicate in at least 3 languages for your classes, you will be able to express your thoughts in 3 languages even if your head is empty otherwise. Anyway, I don't think this applies to Risako and in general people who learn languages to fluency of their own volition rather than due to the systems they are surrounded by. All I'm saying is: perhaps she doesn't *have* to be very smart. Still is!

[@childmolestr]

I have never seen such an answer to depreciate ones though without question

[@ca678.4]

@@childmolestrright, it’s hella weird

[@IRONMIN117]

@@rellloom indeed

[@avveti500]

@@rellloom Although i agree with you, to be fair, all the languages you mentioned are "romance" languages and very similar while on the other hand Risako knows 3 languages that are all extremley different from each other.

[@TomTheCat2367]

I'm a simple man. I see Sayaka on the thumbnail, I click

[@demonlord50]

Men of culture 😳

[@lucasbuff8451]

Well said, gentleman

[@joec.p.6381]

It is a pleasure to greet you, gentleman. 🥂

[@Kuro_Oni_Official]

😂 True me too

[@OatDrip777]

what did sayaka do for a living?

[@starmechlx]

Anyone reading this that's learning Japanese and is around an N5 to N4 level: Watching Terrace House is one of the best things you can do to level up your ability to understand and speak ACTUAL conversational Japanese. Watch a season once with English subtitles, then go back and watch it again with Japanese subtitles. Terrace House was the show that propelled me from N5/4 into the N3 zone. Taking the N2 this summer in Fukuoka. 💪 Good luck to the other test takers.

[@576kg8]

I'll try this ty, by the way where did you watch it? Netflix?

[@JudgeJeana]

​@@576kg8 I found it on Netflix!

[@meaniezucchini5216]

Did you look up words and grammar points on your second watch or just take it in and try to understand as much as you could?

[@WeWillAlwaysHaveVALIS]

Thanks for the tip! I am an absolute beginner at the moment and until recently I have not had the free time to dedicate towards learning. However once I get myself to a point where I am a bit more comfortable with my ability I will be certain to give this idea a try. Thanks again and I am wishing you all the best for the future!

[@jesusceren1594]

Where can you watch this show?

[@gadeyeye6268]

Your English has improved a lot brother. Thanks for these suggestions

[@ThePilgrim98]

He really has, in the last year he has made major improvements.

[@vickytutanes9770]

So happy to see Sayaka in this interview. I'm one happy follower of hers and one of Takashi's followers as well.

[@TheMiddlingGamer]

Takashi-kun always knows how to pick his guests. Shout out to Sayaka-sensei, miti kurete arigato!

[@DjMonak]

"Mite kurete"

[@TestTest-cd9yr]

mite

[@Netukom]

見てくれてありがとう！

[@HarryPotter-jy9mh]

bro after seeing this "miti kurete" i remembered who she was, as i had watched some of her videos a year back

[@harryfieldson]

Absolutely love Sayaka, she makes learning genuine non-textbook sounding japanese really entertaining. Her tiktoks are brilliant.

[@amyr3285]

I speak Spanish, and my Japanese teacher/sensei tells me my Japanese pronunciation is very good. So we do have that advantage because in Spanish, our r’s sound the same or similar to Japanese, as well as vowels, and the bilabial sounds like b, p, and also the t, d are the same. I began learning Japanese on Duolingo 2 yrs ago and began lessons also 2 yrs ago. I love it!

[@TheMakoyou]

Because Spanish pronunciation is a bit similar to Japanese. But it is not the pronunciation that is important in Japanese, but the intonation or pitch. Because as long as the pitch is accurate, my daughter can often understand what I'm saying even if I have a toothbrush in my mouth. lol

[@fernandorangel4679]

I swear I knew I wasn’t crazy they both sounded similar in a way lol

[@amyr3285]

@@TheMakoyou I’m sure! That pitch and intonation will come later for me. I wish I could learn it now. I’m just focusing on vocabulary and grammar for now. I am just beginning to understand putting sentences together and learning the verb conjugation for I, na, and te form verbs. I’ve got a lot to go!

[@Taetae-ye8zb]

Estoy de acuerdo 👍🏻 una pregunta¿cuál es tu método para memorizar Kanji? 😊

[@amyr3285]

@@Taetae-ye8zb En el curso que estoy tomando, Kanji viene un poco mas luego. El profesor nos mando las notas por email y segun lo yo veo de kanji, hay que mirar a cada letra de kanji… y separarlas de sis partes. Ciertas características de las letras tienen algo en comun. Otras parecen a lo que quieren a representatar por ejemplo, agua. Veo tambien que hay ejercios a donde tengo que distingir una letra kanji con otras que de presentan. ASI uno va poco a poco mirandolas y notando las Que son iguales. Casi todas tienen partes diferentes y hay que mirar a esto. Yo tendria que escribirlas en cartas y escribir que significan al Otto lado de la carta. No mas de 5 o 6 a la vez. Espero que esto le ayuda un poco.

[@MusicAllie24]

Your interviews are so full of varied perspectives. Such an excellent job. I always look forward to your videos.

[@IlVenturetto]

So great to see Sayaka! I've been watching her videos since a long time ago and is both fun and didactic! 😊😊

[@MrMIMIFAN]

I saw Sayaka and I am here already... To find Sayaka Sensei 0:43 Intro 1:45 To start from 5:50 Anime pros and cons 11:17 Common mistakes 14:21 Japanese on textbook 16:16 No matter where you are, speak! 17:22 Advice

[@Battousai_1]

Weird

[@MrMIMIFAN]

@@Battousai_1 Thank you bro😁

[@valendis]

That's kinda creepy 😅

[@DonewithYT]

​@@valendis Yeah 💀

[@wilsonlai2970]

Simp level:100🤣

[@stevenbridges5981]

Sayaka! Love her shorts, they're fantastic quick lessons.

[@meridian6042]

this was comforting. A lot of the recommendations and considerations were already part of my plans. Mainly using duolingo to get initial grasp of the characters. I have workbooks for learning to write, but mainly hoping it will assist with me recognizing them - just using them as another medium for learning them. That way I can progress to typing which will be my main learning tools apart from dramas/tv shows. I do enjoy anime/songs, but with the creative freedoms in both, I know they can't be completely relied on just like with related content in english. Thanks for this video

[@angietrif]

I love what Sakaya said about the most important thing just being able to communicate! I think the thing that holds people back from practicing is the fear of making mistakes, when it doesn’t even matter, and is just an opportunity to learn! It’s not like I care when people from other countries make mistakes in English so why would anyone else care?! Loved this video! Very inspirational as I finally embark on my Japanese learning journey!

[@m8onethousand]

I mean, it depends on your goal. For a lot of people, their entire goal is being able to consume content, which aside from getting a Japanese gf/bf or a perma tutor, it's probably the fastest way to actually get good at the language. For those people, talking isn't really all that important. Lucky for those people, the best part about that is that even if you don't speak, by merely learning Japanese and consuming tons of content, when they do decide on speaking, they'll be able to because simply immersing and consuming tons of content allows for your output potential to be so much more. After that, it's just refining, and getting comfortable with actually speaking.

[@tacoslover4765]

That is what language pedagogy of the past 20-30 years says. A lot of teachers are out of date or some think they can teach because they are native lol

[@japanmesmerises1384]

Love Sayaka Sensei. Her mitekurete arigatou truly makes me speak after her. Her pronunciations seem its easy to learn

[@DetalhesPerdidosOficial]

These tips are very important, this video was incredible as always Takashi !!! 👏👏🔥

[@StickPeopleAndPuff]

Took Sayaka-Sensei's classes all the way through, can attest that she is very good and my Japanese is better thanks to her instruction! Highly recommend!

[@normalouis8593]

It makes me happy that I already follow most of them! Nice to see

[@mr.swedishfish12]

the way I've seen/heard of pretty much all of these people, this is a crazy collab!

[@constantlychasing]

I am a current student of Kouji sensei on preply and LOVE his teaching style and guidance. He always has answers for my questions and can always comment on the context in which to use certain Japanese words/grammar.

[@juanpabloruiz5605]

Thank you so much for this video. I'm currently learning Japanese and I think that these experiences and advices are pure gold. Greetings from Argentina! ありがとうございます。

[@Derfoux]

The hiragana you say i only know 6 in the word you saying in japanese

[@geisipereira5479]

This channel is amazing for learning about japanese culture

[@82easyrider]

I loved all the teachers and Ananya (she made me look into my South Indian mother tongue to find similarities!). Kozy Sensei seemed such a patient and wonderful teacher. I follow him now. Thank you Takashi. I always learn something new from your channel.

[@mailejohn5296]

I love your channel so much. It’s always insightful and your interviews have lots of meaning. I’m currently learning Japanese and I feel fortunate because I have several Japanese coworkers that have been so helpful in my learning. Immersion has been key to my learning.

[@moomoo_01]

Their English is phenomenal! I wanna reach that level so bad!

[@gabrieldimasyazbek]

Thank you for making this video, it's so cool to hear this information from them, such nice and good looking people too!

[@mikabutters7215]

Kozy sensei is my Preply tutor and it’s been the best way to increase my Japanese fluency! He’s the best!

[@VladimirShagin]

It’s nice to see Sayaka here 🙌🏼 love here channel

[@cameraday9196]

Right!? I was super surprised when I saw her

[@S2Otaku_Girl]

​@@cameraday9196 same

[@erikagonzaez99]

It s like the multiverse joined together 🎉

[@alonzosurrette3717]

3:57 I would totally agree. The vowels are very similar between Spanish and Japanese. I have often told my native Spanish speaking students about this as a way to persuade them to learn Japanese.

[@EnglishPalette]

Great content. Motivation is often overlooked as a factor. Interview successful learners of Japanese and ask them what motivated them to keep going.

[@hawaiiankira]

Awesome! I was using Dueling to learn Japanese. I have not been consistent but this video has been motivating.

[@tidus37]

My Japanese partner helps me learn Japanese by having me do daily tasks in Japanese, and using/listening/reading practical Japanese every day. That plus going to Japanese school here in the US has helped me a lot and speaking Spanish helps with pronunciation

[@kev_alac]

I second and confirm that speaking spanish does help a lot with pronunciation

[@doublebubblebarb7606]

Yupp my Japanese tutor was impressed with my pronounciation and she asked if I speak Spanish… how did she know 😮😮

[@tidus37]

@@doublebubblebarb7606 yep the phonetics and vowels are the same. The problem I have is, when I speak Spanish, I speak too fast. So when I speak and pronounce Japanese, I pronounce it the same speed and I make a mess.

[@babyjoker997]

Ive been thinking about that, i feel like my Spanish upbringing helped with my Japanese a ton, like im able to mentally tie vocabulary between the languages to remember definitions, and pronunciations (as previously commented) are also shared which helped a lot. Really interesting stuff

[@babyjoker997]

Dominican here so, likewise Spanish speaking speeds is fast!

[@allendracabal0819]

"We (Japanese) live in a bubble without knowing we are." This is so true. So many Japanese are not aware of that.

[@TheDarthpsi]

Honestly I think it is good given how the world out here is going, hahaha.

[@Gibbysaurio]

The point of a bubble si that it's transparent

[@Theinfamouskiki411]

Living in a bubble isnt necessarily good. This isnt 1990 with social media and internet we are more of a global society also Japan gain a lot of income nationally and businesses by exporting their culture. Economically no country is an island unless you wanna become north korea. But tourism is huge​@TheDarthpsi

[@Pilgrim182]

She is out of Matrix. Some japanese really need to travel

[@ManhwaInfinite]

If only they knew how different things could be.

[@SCHWARZHAMMER]

Sayaka follower here writing from Brazil. I love the way that she teaches Japanese on KZbin. I'm a fan of her

[@UiiMadonna]

Same here. Bora focar nos estudos pra um dia a gente ser fluente em japonês. 頑張ってね

[@SCHWARZHAMMER]

@@UiiMadonna Isso aí. 👍🏾👍🏾

[@n1hondude]

As someone who speaks 5 languages (🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇲🇽🇯🇵) fluently and some conversational, here are my observations that people reeeeally don’t talk about enough why na show people learn fast or not: (the same applies for Japanese people learned English) 1) western countries are low context, we speak directly “this tastes bad” vs Japan (eastern mostly) is high context “maaaaaaaaaaaa this is…… oooookay…..” 2) people don’t emphasize enough how the grammar structure is different West: SVO vs Japan: SOV I eat apples “(I) apple eat” 3) countries whose first language is not English but use the same Roman alphabet tend to learn faster, they don’t have to waste time learn yet a new set of letters (which is why Japanese English education should start in kindergarten, some junior high school students STILL switch “b” and “d”, even “p” or “q” sometimes…) 4) if you already speak a second language, your brain is already used to “learning languages” 5) if the language(s) you already speak are PHONETIC, that’s yet another advantage 6) if the language you already speak is part of a particular “family”, that’s another advantage, that’s how I learned French and Spanish, they’re both from Latin and there’s a lot of overlap in grammar, word roots, verb tenses, etc. There’s nothing similar to japanese the same way Romance languages are to each but the closest would be Chinese and Korean. Chinese for the kanji (word order is like English, and they don’t have verb tenses) and Korean for the vocabulary similarity (many video’s online demonstration that) Bonuses 1) a friend/bf/gf 2) time 3) drive/motivation (not really a bonus, that’s a given)

[@tinnitus5024]

This comment should be pinned cause you only said FACTS 🎉

[@SilverHaze5X]

Underrated comment 👍

[@Derfoux]

ça ta pris combien de temps / it take you how many time ?

[@thuytiendang0128]

Thank you for nice info ❤

[@kayocartonilho1815]

I love Sayaka’s channel, even though I haven’t started studying japanese yet

[@tricwriterr]

Great vid and great tips, thank you! For me what helped in the beginning was associating certain Hiragana and Katakana letters with specific things. For example the N kana always resembled the let's say "n" in my native language so it was easy to memorize. And the "E" kana reminded me of a man just waving his hands in surprise like "eee" so got that down as well and so on. The disadvantage is that it obviously doesn't work for everything and since I use it while trying to learn other languages it can often get confusing.

[@adventureswithatlas]

I have been studying Japanese for the last 5 months and this was so helpful! Thanks!

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Nice keep up only 2 and half years left till you reach a decent level of fluency. Also AI tools help a lot don't forget to use them

[@SussyRamen]

Awesome!🫡

[@FerShibli]

3:10 it's really exciting to hear words that we learned, but it's much more amazing when you're able to recognize the first word by accident this happened to me yesterday, and I'm feeling so much energy for learning more Japanese (also I'm not a native english speaker, I hope I didn't mess up my phrases)

[@TC-cd5sm]

This is exactly what I was waiting for as I'm starting to learn Japanese!

[@neondreams2337]

Im not learning Japanese, but Kozy Sensei makes me want to start. He gives off such positive energy and a warm inviting personality. Very knowledgeable too.

[@Val_the_fairy123]

Loved this video. So true the point about having the courage to try using what you're learning in new situations

[@dawnofhades]

Learn all of it, all together, at the same time. Thanks, got it!

[@MrShem123ist]

Thanks for this video Takashi san. 久しぶり！

[@Nekojin64]

The woman walking past @16:49 had a awesome style💯👏🏽🔥

[@idleeidolon]

this video is proof that japanese shouldn't be shy about their "japanese accent". trying to sound "like a native" and that kind of perfectionism is foolish. instead the goal should be closer to "being understandable." even native english speakers have so many accents. your accent is part of your culture. be proud! :D

[@Obanai_Iguro720]

Not only Japanese, all Asians in general should be respected no matter what their accent is. I've seen some trolls online who specially quote accent whenever they wanna mock a whole country. Asians are amazing...they should in fact be praised for being multilingual ! I personally speak 5 languages and it's annoying when people mock my English for having an Indian accent. 🤔🤔😑

[@iris_nazarena_4882]

That's a great point. I think sounding like a native is an unrealistic expectation. And as a language teacher, I think comprehensibility trumps pretty much everything else.

[@nawtmyrealnamelol]

exactly. If you hear a native japanese speaking fluent english with an accent it doesn't mean their english is bad. Nobody really thinks about it because the important part is you can understand them

[@rudolfaerofare2683]

Right on. And within the community of people trying to learn Japanese for instance, they peddle the narrative that 'perfect/native' pronunciation trumps all else. If one's goal with a language is not to communicate, connect or consume native content from that language I can't imagine it being for many other reasons that feeding ego and bragging rights in line with one of those clickbait 'Person from x race SHOCKS natives with language abilities!' People with various accents are everywhere and make the world more colourful because they offer glimpses into unique backgrounds, upbringings and cultures that shaped their cadence.

[@febryanvaldo]

Can't agree more.

[@owenhembree5753]

Hey Takashii, thank you for all of your content. I have been learning Japanese for a little over a month, and I watch your videos every day. I appreciate you very much.

[@user-ct7gr9po2m]

thank you so much Takashii. I always think your video is fun and great. From your videos, I always learn many things. I am hoping that I can watch your video as soon as possible.

[@GalileoGal-o4f]

Absolutely loved this video! It's so refreshing to find content that's both informative and entertaining from real people who's went through the same thing as you have. For me personally, I've been using apps like Ling and other online resource such as NHK Japanese to expand my knowledge. They've been incredibly helpful in making learning accessible and fun. Keep up the great work with these videos. Love from UK!

[@jimwalsh7904]

Another great video Takashii. Nihongo is my joint.

[@Wabi-sabiME]

Your English pronunciation got better, congratulations 🎊 Takashi

[@PujanTamang379]

Sayaka Follower here. Glad to see her here. :)

[@NewYorkerinLondon7]

I’m an American living in Mexico for five years and about to venture to Japan. I will now think more about how continuing learning Spanish can help in my learning Japanese. I’ve already become aware of the certain similarities in sound and pronunciation. Thank you. ありがとう。

[@AkamiChannel]

Your spanish is not going to help your japanese

[@deadstar5328]

All this mention of Sayaka is great but seeing so little praise for an Indian girl speak fluent Japanese. She's very good for foreigner. Props to her. Always heard south Indian languages have similar/identical grammar structure to Japanese so nice to hear confirmation from her.

[@nikki3996]

i love herrr ive been following her for a while on instagram so it was a nice surprise to find her here

[@user-vw6lj7sv3y]

because japan is a racist country

[@japanmesmerises1384]

Sayaka is the best. Her teaching is lively and makes we too can speak easily like her. I have often switched channels when i saw others as they look very fast making to feel very difficult to speak like a native. I like NATIVE Japanese teachers. I am an Indian and see only content by natives who inspire confidence. I watch Sayaka even though am doing my N1 as I like her pronunciation and her confidence inspiring style.

[@Lijoje]

Completely agree with you. She's an inspiration.

[@hackptui]

So true! If I ever get to her level, I'll feel like I've died and gone to heaven. Life goals...

[@TheMAnoneGodJESUSChrist]

I am so thankful to you for making this video. This is realllllly helpful and I am also self learning Japanese and Mandarin myself. Thank you 🙏🙏🙏

[@Tina2tu]

I just started today and this is incredibly helpful 🎉 thank you !

[@Mylittlebooster12]

I always go to this video whenever I need the motivation again to learn Japanese. Thanks to all the sensei who were interviewed and Takashii.

[@Yin_yan-g1z]

Looking for such video... Arigato Takashi 🙏🏻

[@sean1728]

This gives me hope. As someone who’s been struggling on-and-off to learn Japanese for the last three years+, I take hope away from this, if only for the love of a people & culture and the desire to communicate with both. Domo arigatougozaimasu for the video! 🙇‍♂️🙂

[@j4259]

The guy in orange is such a traditional style teacher.

[@geometrist_]

brings a good balance to the video :)

[@doublebubblebarb7606]

Yeah I want to have a teacher like that

[@southcoastinventors6583]

Forgot to add the 3-5 years you need to spend in order to get anywhere with the language

[@derekstallman]

He dropped some knowledge bombs and here I am watching this whole 20 min video because my brother is a weeb and i am a teacher

[@XaldinX]

Yes I would love to be his student

[@omegoa]

That's a great video, Takashii. It's interesting how the teachers/tutor agree but have slightly different answers to some of your questions. Ananya is a testament to her own efforts, as well. Thanks for putting this together with different perspectives.!

[@pap314]

very insightful, great video! Arigatou gozaimasu XD

[@msscotie8627]

Your resource of teachers are all inspiring. Thank you so much. Makes me have the courage again to learn from zero..

[@DragoOsu]

I'm currently trying to learn Japanese, but I'm in the phase before being able to watch japanese content because I don't know enough vocabulary :( I am trying to learn vocabulary and Grammar everyday for multiple hours and I hope it won't take too long, until I can watch some Japanese Content even if it's a children tv show, because I learned english that way and for me it worked great. Thank you for the Video, it really motivates me to keep studying!

[@bighawkdz]

Try Totoro Hamturo without subtitles.

[@DragoOsu]

@@bighawkdz I'll try it thanks for the help!

[@autisticpainter4079]

Thank you for posting this video, I'm learning Japanese and this was very informative to me.

[@EveningCODM]

I didn’t expect to see さやかさん here amazing!😆

[@chichidog625]

i press translate and it dont make sense. " sa ya ka " is 3 sound. why your japanese got 5 houses? i dont know jacksht abt japanese btw. nvm

[@yuowamei]

@@chichidog625they wrote sayakasan

[@smallsymcsmalls8331]

When it clicks it is incredibly rewarding. I came to visit Japan in March 23 and am back in the country now. It is night and day different in how much better I am at using Japanese now. To the point where I ended up chatting with a little group of locals during a festival. It wasn’t necessarily philosophy at its finest, but we all understood what we were talking about. They were so excited I could speak with them 😂. I then got the traditional Japanese helpfulness when they learned I was just going to walk back to my hotel (about an hours walk), so one of them basically demanded I let them drive me home 😂.

[@MrOMYSTARZ]

What a wonderful video!

[@randomninja9898]

im telling you, learning with the guy in orange must be soooo nice and sooo good. hes so easy to understand and speaks so well.

[@dingo3432]

It’s Sayaka! I always learn something new from her. 😊

[@birdanne]

Well this just made my day! Thanks! ❤

[@cherkhawa]

I have been wanting to learn Japanese for all of my life! This is so encouraging!

[@sonyyaaj]

Sayaka!! I learn many japanese tips from her videos ❤️‍🔥❤️‍🔥

[@warionumber2]

Great video! This certainly will help many learners, including myself lol, thanks for sharing it!

[@coolbrotherf127]

I've been studying Japanese for the last few years and I agree with most of the advice. My advice when learning new words in is to look for sentences in either video subtitles or written texts that have less than 3 words that you don't know yet, and make a review card for that sentence. That way you'll learn just a bit more than you already did. Trying to memorize entire sentences with 5+ words you don't know is way too much information to actually learn and remember quickly.

[@Yo-cn3nc]

Thank you Takashii, I watch your videos from time to time and leave you thumbs up.

[@AaruhiJha-f1n]

Wow its so great and helpful Love your vedios takashi onisan

[@aidabeco]

Fantastic Video, Takashii. Thank you so much!!

[@natasmart1191]

Thank you for this video! so interesting!

[@MonFrancisco-zi2if]

takashi its nice to see you use wireless mic for flawless conversation i love the conversation, and act like you are not in hurry, i love you take care

[@siddhayogi907]

Thank you 🙏🏽 very much, it was very helpful and informative ❤️😇

[@jordanbielski8443]

Starting to learn Japanese from complete scratch.. Im learning from apps for now. Im excited for this journey

[@bryenlink]

Kozysensei seems like he'd be an amazing teacher.

[@tomasburgos7017]

It was a very, very nice video. The way some candidly explained sometimes how Japan is and how they all, including you, encouraging us to learn is very great. And yes, I am an American with Puerto Rican ancestry, and our vowels and hoy you pronounce Japanese is the same. Always good to see what binds us and not what separates us.

[@Celeste77789]

Great video!! Thank you for the amazing video ❤ Takashi, you're the best 🙇🏻‍♀️✨ My Number One 🌟

[@queanhnguyen8170]

I watch Ms. Sayaka a lot on the Pinterest. Her videos helped me learn Japanese more quickly and easier. Thanks Takashii for making this video!

[@kappy-nf6uh]

Forty years ago, we didn't have all these online resources although I wish we did. But when you're in a relationship with a Japanese girlfriend or boyfriend and especially if you live with them, you're on a steep learning curve. This helps too.

[@mohammedtaqi9508]

great video Takashi very motivating! Thanks!

[@eigojiyouzu]

I always give an example of two individuals speaking a language fluently, one with a heavy accent but with an immense vocabulary and another that has no accent but with a small vocabulary. Now, which would you rather work and or be friends with? Pretty easy. This is to say, being able to communicate effectively is a million times more important than sounding native. In many cases natives prefer a different accent and even the new, interesting and sometimes funny ways non native may say something. If you sound native you are just another one of 100s of millions.

[@martinthomas2520]

As I grow older, I’ve found this channel to be one of the best KZbin channels for educational purposes when learning about different perspectives and stories living in Japan!

[@EhCloserLook]

I've been trying to learn Japanese for a couple years now and all I have to say at this time is 日本語は本当にむずかしですよ。😓

[@JoyceChiong]

This is so relatable and helpful for Japanese learners! I speak English and Chinese in Singapore and our 'informal' national language Singlish has similar structure as Japanese. Thanks for publishing this video.

[@ImTiredBossYT]

16:54 very honest answer , cool person

[@jennsunflower]

I really loved this answer too.

[@pixelandbeat]

Japonesa Poblana Is her chanel!

[@holimoli2023]

What a fantastic episode! Thank you!