The Japanese sentence structure

[@GoldenEmperor5Manifest]

I've been studying Japanese since 1998 and I can't seem to get sentences down because nobody told me it was the particles. I went to college and took courses, the professor never even told me. I wish I had known this 25 years ago, that's a lot of time lost. Thank you for explaining, I kept thinking Japanese people just spoke like Yoda.

[@NoamVH]

This is a really important video! I never realized these principals in Japanese exist, and they're crucial to actually understand Japanese. Learning words and letters is one things, but this is the type of lessons that really lets you understand a language. I'd love to see more of these!

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you very much!!💛

[@funkthat]

Oh snap this is the first video new learners should watch. Its essentially the organization or structure of sentences in japanese. Learning this theory before learning words is sooo much easoer now its about increasing vocabulary and plugging in the words thankssss

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you for the kind comments!!💛

[@bramdal4843]

I want to thank you very much for your videos. You speak slow and clear even in the videos where you speak more japanese. Your videos helps me a lot. Thank you for your time and work doing this very good and important video. And for all the other content. ありがとう ございます😊

[@percyg1]

Layla does an excellent job with her lessons.Her pronunciation & pace of speaking is ideal for following .

[@qamarzaman7500]

Nice You have nice way to teach I like to hear

[@billthebodyguy]

The quiz at the end really helped solidify the lesson for me. Great video! 先生ありがとうございます

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

こちらこそありがとう！

[@jowelvaldez1189]

Bringing me back memories of when I took a couple of years of Japanese language in high school. Thank You Layla!

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

You’re welcome!☺️

[@CyclingCornwall]

Thank you for clear and concisely explaining structure and use of particles.

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

You're very welcome!☺️

[@danielpalamara8285]

Thankyou Layla. This lesson cleared many things up for me. Very logical presentation and your graphic diagrams really help.

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you very much!!!💙

[@ananthaanu6764]

You're so much better at teaching than the Japanese teacher at my University ✨

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Haha I don’t think so, but thank you vey much!!

[@azurebing123]

Thank you for the video Layla! It’s very helpful!

[@gregtca1]

thankyou so very much for all your time and effort you put into this channel, your lessons are very good

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you very much!! You made my day🥺

[@nhathuyly8248]

thank you very much, that helped me a lot

[@marymickelsen3378]

Super helpful, thank you so much!

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you!!😆💛

[@robfos3040]

Hi Layla, you're a great teacher! I'm following you now on instagram and youtube. Your videos are really helpful and useful and your friendly approach makes it fun to listen and learn. I've been to Japan many times but have only learned individual words - this video, in particular, is very useful for me as I have been too shy to try and put sentences together when speaking with people in Japan. I'm trying to improve my skills for when we are able to return to Japan again. Thank you for sharing all your knowledge. I really hope you're able to make your dreams come true with your language school.

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you so much for saying so!! I’M so happy to read your comments!💙 Good luck with your Japanese study! Wish you all the best!✨

[@Mrcraft4]

This was absolutely the best! Thank you for sharing this ❤

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you!😆

[@juanvillalobos2159]

Most usefull video of 2021 so far

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you!!!!!!!!!!

[@rickw2305]

Thank you so much for this video. It was extremely clear and helpful.

[@isaacweinbach]

Super helpful!

[@nadasou]

👍... Explaining the mechanics of Japanese language is more useful than telling tons of random vocabularies... no way to memorize, leave alone use them effectively if instinctively!

[@Alpha0000007]

Holy you just blew my mind.

[@creativekyu5350]

Thank you sooo much for this lesson. I try to learn japanese and this will really help me. 💙

[@aureaproportio]

Hello Layla, best of luck with your language school, I'm rooting for you! It's helping me so much! My japanese teacher sent me your videos to learn from.

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Really?! I'm so happy to know that!! Thank you so much for learning with my videos!!✨

[@sebastiendumais4246]

It’s a nice little video with the natural word order😀 The only thing I would point out is that NOT putting the verb/adjective at the end is not only “messy” it actually changes the meaning of the sentence by creating a subordinate (eg: 飲みました抹茶を… vs 抹茶を飲みました have different meanings with the first one being an incomplete se sentence)

[@mattiamele3015]

Mmmh, not exactly. When you put the verb before the noun it’s always in the plain form, so it should be 飲んだ抹茶 (the matcha that I drank/that has been drunk). In this case the verb acts like an adjective. Of course you can add を after the noun and complete the sentence as you want. You can, actually, say 飲みました、抹茶(を)。 instead of 抹茶を飲みました。but it’s not a plain sentence. There is a particular emphasis on the verb. This type of sentence is sometimes used in advertisement or in song lyrics.

[@ricardod.g.3820]

I'm learning a lot of japanese with you :) I can say that today I learn something new and this make me happy :D thank you very much, regards from Chile!

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you very much!! I’ so happy to hear that!

[@ronniegirard4918]

As a beginner, this video is very helpful to me! I really hope you make a video in the future explaining 'desu' , 'masu' , and 'da'. I have been studying them for days and there are so many forms and nuances like 'datta desu' or 'dewa arimasen deshita' or 'deshita'. I get confused. I love your videos on here and on instagram! Thank you for being a great teacher! :)

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

That’s a good idea! I’ll make a video for that!👍 Thank you so much for the kind comments!!!💙

[@flamoonigirlolivia]

:) :) So helpful! I feel I'll be a lot better at Japanese by learning particles and their positions thank you!

[@AnimateTronix]

どうもありがとうLayla先生 😊

[@siobhanrose1680]

Excellent explanation. ありがとうございます❣️

[@EttoreCamean]

あなたのアイコンを見て、とても見覚えがあるのですが、宮本さんでしょうか？

[@cindywai6]

I arranged it like ‘昨日私は友達とカフェで☕️を飲みました。’ Is it also okay if I put 昨日 first?

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

yes, it’s perfect!👏

[@Subfightr]

This should be lesson #1 for english speakers wishing to learn japanese. Before i was just basically mimicking the particle placement until this finally made the little hamster in my brain start to move somewhat.

[@sswayne501]

im taking jlpt N5, this is helpful😁

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

I’m glad to hear that! Thank you!☺️

[@nyt_shorts929]

That means particles are more important than arranging sentence and verb comes last

[@Shiv15199]

Quiz=2/3 ., Still learning . 2nd one is which i got wrong. Maybe also because English is not my first language

[@TheEleventeen]

Thank you Layla-san for making this video ! If I watched this video first, as a first video on how to learn Japanese language, everything would be so much easier. Now I’m willing to start over again because I feel that I can do it. X🤘🏻X

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Thank you so much for the kind comment!!🥺✨

[@TheEleventeen]

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[@kdsfhkljfnsdfo1323]

9:25 I'm confused about this one ;w; How come it's 私の猫は / ベランダに / 私の犬と / います。? From the rule above, companion goes before place. So I would imagine the order would be 私の猫は / 私の犬と / ベランダに / います。 I know you said the rule isn't perfect for everything, but I'm really confused as to why this example is like this 😅

[@FreePalestine2024__0]

I just look at your Instagram. It's very helpful like this video. I am currently learning Japanese and I just think about the correct sentence order. So thanks. Some Corrections: In the last quiz you translate "last month" with "gakkou wo". Then correct it in the resolution. Second in the Caption, the plural of quiz is quizzes.

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

Sorry for the mistakes! But thank you very much for the kind words!!💙

[@tonyinhk888]

So is a song titled arigato anata, meaning sincerely thank you, has messed up the words order?

[@DoriansPortrait]

Why does "gakkou wo" turn into "sengetsu"? I don't know this part of Japanese grammar yet.

[@done.6191]

Great lesson! I started as "Kinou watashi wa....", like "today, I...." Would it be good to say that generally, (especially if including "watashi/boku/ore wa") one should place the wa particle noun first, as it is often omitted? IE, "Kinou Kafe--- de tomodachi to matcha (w)o nomimashita." edit: Looks like that is what you recommended; I think I did it with kinou first because my brain wanted to leave off the subject (topic) marker since it would be understood most of the time, and so a "ghost" topic that's not voiced.

[@macbethjoao4887]

Thanks for the precious lesson sensei. A question:In case of adverbs of time,they will be in the beginning before the subject or after the subject?I ask this because i am studying korean and japanese,and in korean the adverb of time is located after the subject and in the Japanese textbooks the adverb of time generally is located before the subject

[@metalflames777]

I really enjoyed this. Can you explain a little about the difference between the *Topic* in a Japanese sentence and the *Subject* in English grammar? I'm fascinated by what is called Philosophical Grammar. In short, all language must have certain elements in its grammar to describe fundamental relations between objects in the world. That being said, the Japanese *Topic* sounds fairly similar in function to the English *Subject*, but I'm lead to believe that there is some nuance you can share as to what distinguishes the two concepts. Thanks again for the wonderful video. ^_^

[@mattiamele3015]

Japanese is a language where the concept of subject is irrelevant, while the topic or the focus of the sentence is what matters.

[@raymondmarshall2501]

今イチわLayla ♥️先生サンキューのためにこの楽しい授業先生ありがとうございますと僕希望あなた持っている驚くべき週末Layla 先生♥️🙌♥️🙌♥️

[@luizgeraldo3412]

O sorteio mora no Brasil

[@luizgeraldo3412]

Sou solteiro moro em Brasil

[@drmehato]

Arigatou🤩

[@Subfightr]

I gotta stop trying to learn Japanese from these videos. All these women are drop dead gorgeous and I just zone out.

[@tomvandebroek1565]

Hey Layla, in the last sentence of the quiz you wrote "gakkou de" instead of "sengetsu".. I guess most people will see but I wanted to let you know anyway.. Nice lessons btw.. Really bite sized 😊👌

[@BitesizeJapanese1]

I didn’t notice! But thank you!!☺️

[@OsakaJoe01]

You lost me at "In Japanese, word order doesn't matter." Why do you repeat this. Of COURSE it matters, just not in the same way as English. This is why 飲みました is at the end of every sentence possibility you present. When you place 飲みました before 抹茶 it's becomes an adjective. An entire clause can become an adjectival phrase; カフェで飲みました抹茶. And you can take it further; 友達と私がカフェで飲みました抹茶は美味しかった。 Of COURSE word order matters. 🙄

[@drmehato]

Arigatou🤩