"To Be Like" ┃The Differences between みたいな vs ような vs らしい vs っぽい in Japanese

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Sorry for my voice! I filmed this when I was ill ;;
This time we'll learn how to say "to be like" in Japanese.
We have a few different ways to say "to be like" - "みたい", "よう", "らしい" and "っぽい".
Find out what the differences are!
◆ "らしい" as "apparently" / "I've heard"...
- • ②そう & らしい I've heard /...
◆ What does "ようとする" mean?
- • てみる vs ようとする "TRY / AT...
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0:01 みたいな (speaking) 5:16 ような (more formal) 14:28 っぽい（negative thing) 15:45 らしい　(appropriately/I've heard)

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Outside of expressions, there is 似ている, which is a verb that just means "to resemble". It's the continuous form of the verb 似る, but I suppose for these purposes you would want to use the continuous form.

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Another fun use of らしい is saying "This isn't like you..." If someone is acting weird, like they are saying mean things when they are usually really nice, you can say, "(name)らしくない !" I love your videos as always misa (:

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This video help me a lot, in my book there aren't all these information about みたい、よう、らしい and っぽい. ありがとうございます、みさ先生　;) And yes i'm Italian and we really move too much hands while talking 笑

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