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This time we'll learn how to use "てみる" (= "to try ~ing") and "ようとする (= "to try to ~ / to attempt to ~") in Japanese.
This grammar point is VERY important and frequently used in Japanese so make sure to master it!
For example, if you want to say "May I try this on?", you want to use this form てみる and say
「着てみてもいいですか。」(kite-mite-mo ii desu ka)
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I also laughed 😂 I appreciate Misa's sense of humor

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What is your level now?

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So lazy boyfriend 🤣. How are you now?

[@jd.herotimemusic4028]

この動画がすごく役にたつです。 日本人の友達と話したら、『〜てみる』と『〜ようとした』を使ってみます。 ありがとうございますみさ先生！

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(役に立つ is a verb, so the polite version is 役に立ちます)

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I really love your videos. They are really straightforward and help a lot with learning.

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Awesome lesson!!! Thanks a lot, sensei!!!

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これはペンです。

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I definitely love your videos. 教えてくれてありがとう！

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Love all these new verbs 👏✨

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ありがとございます。素晴らし！

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Misa, your videos are so so helpful but it takes me a week to watch one because there's soooo much for me to unpack. Hopefully gets easier over time.

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think of it this way, cucumber is just crispy water

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So useful! Thank you!

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You are the best teacher ever!! All of your videos helped and improved my Japanese~ I went to knowing how to say Hi To knowing how to write a whole page and able to pick up what people say~😆 Thank you so much for all the time you had put into!!!🙇‍♀️

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Another good lesson! どもありがとうございます😊！

[@jonathangolding1066]

Very Good explanation, i've always wondered about that.

Muchas gracias Misa! Tus videos son cada vez mejores.

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ミサ先生のビデオ授業はいつも面白くて分かりやすいんです。ご説明していただいて誠にありがとうございます。

[@KingLouie91]

ようとする was a new one for me 😁 お疲れ様です、みさ先生。いつも通り勉強になりました。ありがとうございます。

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Thank you so much I really needed to learn this! You know how to explain it perfect! Arigatou ☺️❤️🙏🏻

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Amazing lesson, thank you!!!

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Great video! Very useful information.

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Really thank you Misa 先生　you helped me a lot 😍😍

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The best teacher! Thank you!

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I love your videos. It’s really at my pace and I learnt so much. ありがとうございます　😊

[@yakata79]

thank you very much! Very helpful.

[@dannyallen2894]

This is so helpful! Now I know why I keep seeing て form and みる and I no longer have to wonder what is happening! ありがとうございます

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its almost 2years now since i watched your videos..i learned a lot ..thank you😍😍😍

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この説明ありがとうございました。全部がわかるようになった‼️ 嬉しい 🤗. I think this has been by far the best Japanese class I had had. There were two main gramma points and they were perfectly explained. Also the way you explained how 受身形 works in those examples were perfect. I couldn’t understand these topics until now. Thank you so much!!

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日本語を 勉強するのは 難しいですけど、勉強して みる。あなたは とても 上手な 先生だと思う。あなたの 教えるのが 好きです。私は あなたの ビデオで たくさん 勉強しするね。ありがとうございます。

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You're amazing with all the languages you speak (Japanese - naturally, English AND Russian)!! Do you have any videos of you speaking or teaching Russian? I tried learning Russian years ago, but kind of gave it up when I got to busy

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日本に行く時みささんと会ってみたいです。 手伝ってくれてありがとう😊。みささんのビデオは日本語勉強することために一番のだと思う❤️

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Thank you Misa.

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You have the sweetest way of saying "but"

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This was incredible and it will require much reviewing but as I repeated the examples I really thought I was speaking Japanese.

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Wait... Misa, you know Russian?! Say "I love teaching" in Russian! ;D (Or I guess you could say "something" too... hahaha!)

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みさせんせい。All your videos are very helpful to me. it is easy to understand. youre the best..おしえてくれてどうもありがとうございます。

[@AllenTsuna]

I already knew about this from anime, since I used to watch a lot of anime where the main character wasn't exactly the nicest person, I really had this line stuck in my head: やってみろ I decided to watch it anyway, because your explanations are insanely well done, since you go really deep into it and make it so clear at the same time, and I learn new words along with it often, thanks a lot. c:

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[@JoaoDias-qk6jq]

A very nice lesson! (note: at min 28 払う is translated as 'to sit')

[@7quantumphysics]

I'm pretty sure you noticed by now, but there is a typo at 27:33 I love this video BTW

[@JapaneseAmmowithMisa]

It should have been "To pay" sorry!

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@@JapaneseAmmowithMisa Typo at 12:18, too. 「断られた」のふり仮名は「わ」が抜けているようです。

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ありがとうみら先生 : D

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Hi Misa Sensei, you are the best teacher in the world! Can you make a lesson about sentences with "almost", please? ありがとうございます.

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You're the best

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00:08 〜てみる 19:09 〜ようとする

[@RustieMcHogg]

You'd agree with Dr Johnson (the writer of the first dictionary), being quoted by his biographer Boswell in 1775 "It has been a common saying of physicians in England, that a cucumber should be well sliced, and dressed with pepper and vinegar, and then thrown out, as good for nothing." Boswell: Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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二本の壊れてる腕でタイプしていますｗｗありがとうございます!

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holy cow!!

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16:39 this was hilarious 😂

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If you hadn't heard yet there's a new Pikachu movie coming out

[@tidakada1965]

The furigana for 断was just koto, you forgot the "wa"(11:57). This was the first time I learn that kanji, so when I pause the video, I read it as "koto rareta", ha, ha.

[@OliverHatched]

I was about to ask about that, but then I remembered the famous line from Jojo, "だが、断る!" And that really cleared it up for me, haha

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「ことわる！」is so common in anime :D

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@@aaronseet2738 really? 聞いたことがない。

[@Bolocosmico]

temiru = tried (for the first time / though it didn't go well) youtosuru = tried / attempted (but couldn't / Didn't) ラーメンを作ってみた ramen o tsukuttemita I tried making ramen (you actually made the ramen) ラーメンを作ろうとした ramen o tsukuroutoshita I tried making ramen (but couldn`t / didn't actually make it)

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7:48 It will indeed

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Great vid thank. Can you do a video on how to say but/ however not sure when to say kedo or demo for example

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I think she has. But I'm pretty sure demo goes at the start of a sentence and Kedo goes at the end, or possibly before a comma?

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日本語を勉強しようとしたけど、難しすぎだった！

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今分かります。

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Впервые услышал о том, что Миса сенсей говорит еще и на русском. Теперь вот действительно захотелось услышать твой русский :В Greetings from Eindhoven.

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Good thing you uploaded today, みさ先生。 Have you heard about the new live action Pokémon movie? ピカチューはかはいくフワフワんだよ! すごいレソンをありがとう!

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You are a great language teacher. You must have a very unique personality ,to be so patient. Ed moore

[@takigan]

It was 7 minutes into the video before I realized there was no romajii on this one. I feel smart! lol

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Wow 4. But actually there are 2 more. Do you have video on, 試みるや図る? To try attempt 🤔. You explain it well.

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説明ありがとう！ロシア語話せたら、本当にすごいだよ！私はロシア人ですね！

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Teşekkürler

[@ando1135]

ty for your videos! i looked and i didnt see any videos on the "kedo" or "but" particle. can you make one? i always see/hear "desu kedo" and apparently there are different ways of using "kedo"

[@lucas-3659]

You can make a video teaching what are the best form to learn pronunciation? Arigatou misa. あなたはナンバーワンです。

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Thank you very much for your excellent content, I have learnt a lot with you. 美佐先生の名前を漢字で書いてみる。:)

[@nicjansen230]

was trying to learn Japanese on the train today, but the app didn't really explain the form so I basically missed the point of it... and now I'm watching this at 2 am (like 18 hours later) and it makes so much more sense and of course there's a beautiful host explaining this and much more... and I'll definitely try drawing you and put it on Instagram :)

[@chooowl1754]

May I request that you list those videos that you had mentioned in this lesson. So that it is Good for us to watch again. Thank you.

[@joels341]

Great video! Quick question. In the sentence @24:49 it says mae wo arukareta. Since "walk" is intransitive in English, is there a special meaning for aruku as a transitive verb with the "o" particle?

[@mudkip_btw]

「ザ・ルーム」という映画を見てみて、いいよねｗｗｗ

[@kamilkastek3991]

There is also one more "try-grammar" in japanese - ようにする "to try change..." For ex; タバコを吸わないようにしている = I’m trying not to smoke.(I smoke before, so i try to change it). btw. thx for lesson like always :)

[@AndresJ80]

Did anyone else notice she accidentally spliced this video with another video at the end?

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Hi Misa. I'm Polish since you speak Russian any advice for Slavic language speakers for learning Japanese? ありがとう!ミサ先生のチャネルが大好きですね

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ありがとうございます

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When staying up until midnight pays off

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Btw thank you very much for all the videos misa.One of the best if not the best KZbin channel ,thank you for helping me with my struggle with Japanese .ありがとうございます

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19:18

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❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@suk6556]

so you basically have to put the verb into the 〜て form. 漢字を書いてみた。 (i tried writing a kanji.) 漢字で名前を書いてみる。 (i will try writing the name in kanji.) お箸を使ってた。 (i tried using chopsticks.) 頼む: 友達に頼んでみる。 (i will try asking my friend a favour.) 断る: to reject

[@astral2048]

27:32 - There's a mistake. It should be "to pay" not "to sit". I think you copy-pasted the caption from the timeline and forgot to change it... lol Stuff like this happens when you're editing while in a hurry.

[@richardwilliamsmusic]

Thank you for this clear explanation. I have another question though- What about the normal present tense for "you to suru". You did a lot of "you to shita" in the past form and the meaning makes sense, but what does it mean if it's in present/future tense? Would "tabeyou to suru" mean that "I will try it, but might not succeed"? Is that the meaning? Thank you.

[@nuha1018_]

I came here because I heard the grammar be used in Naruto and didn't understand (during studying) what the ようとする meant. It was in the present tense as well. From the context, I guess it means to try and not succeed (when said to someone else in present tense). The sentence was this: 「戦おうとするのは無意味だよ！」which the subtitles translated as "It's meaningless to fight!", which is why I assume this is the meaning.

[@ZyTelevan]

My go-to phrase to say in another language is "I, of course, could speak X right now, but since you don't understand me, I should probably stop." ;D

[@Sangeado]

21:27 別の例: 俺の好きな人にメッセージを送ろうとしたけど、やめた。

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Спасибо миса! Клас 👏✌