言葉の勉強は楽しくやる。苦労してやるものではない。本当におっしゃる通りですね。私は74歳ですが3か国語は身に着けたいと思います。Thank you good advice. I am deep impressed your opinion. Steve Kaufman will change my life. I respect you.
@Thelinguist2 жыл бұрын
Thank your for commenting and best of luck to you.
Thank you so much for your great tips in fluent Japanese! I'm a Japanese student learning English.You have encouraged and inspired me a lot! I will keep learning with fun as you say!
Does anyone else think Steve sounds more enthusiastic when he speaks in Japanese?
@squid77058 жыл бұрын
Good. Thank you so much
@Thelinguist12 жыл бұрын
A kindred spirit! Great to hear from you.
@マコト-v2w4 жыл бұрын
I think that learning foreign language enables us not only to learn the country culture and history but also to understand deeply one's mother tongue. As you say, they're same the "language". We have nothing to fear!!
@manekineko2k12 жыл бұрын
I'm a Japanese guy. I'm really impressed about your video. Your pronunciation of Japanese is also really great, almost perfect. I wish I could speak English more fluently like you. Steve さんの仰っておられることはまさに王道ですね。ありがとうございました。
@YangJettYung12 жыл бұрын
Just listen to it... the level of fluency I want to reach for my target language. what an inspirational figure.
@ちょんちまん6 жыл бұрын
日本語ネイティブレベルだし、表現も上手いし圧巻です
@StickMan12946 жыл бұрын
english and japanese are both beautiful languages
@aethelwulf1912 жыл бұрын
Damn, I studied Chinese at Beijing Language and Culture University, and now I live in Tokyo and study Japanese. Both are extremely hard languages but I love the challenge. I hope someday I can talk this well. You sir, are my hero!
Listening to you speak, and understanding a lot more of it than I would of a regular Japanese person, makes me wonder if I shouldn't seek out more 'gaijin-nihongo' to listen to. I'd really like some intermediate-level authentic Japanese to help my listening skills, but it is rare to find a Japanese person who can modulate his/her language and still get it to sound more or less authentic. What do you think about that idea (I hope I've made myself sufficiently clear)?
@forgottenmemories2112 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that thinks Steve is speaking with a bit of a Chinese intonation/accent while speaking Japanese? Steve, just curious... do you focus on or have you been listening to Chinese more than Japanese recently?
Sensei, your Japanese is totally fluent. I hope one day I'll be able to speak at that level, the level of natives. Great video.
@CasinoFolies11 жыл бұрын
I was suprised that your Japanese is very fluent !! Actually I'm learning English again now. This time, I'm enjoying learning English !
@everydayenglish57799 жыл бұрын
全くその通りですね!!楽しくないと思ってるなら上手になれないんですね!! I wish more people would watch this video! It's really important that people realize the importance of having fun while learning a language! Thanks for such an awesome video! :)
@mylife051312 жыл бұрын
Don't worry! Your Japanese sounds way more natural than those usual Japanese learners out there:D I'm Japanese, can speak English, and have been learning French. I myself as a language learner, am personally totally agree with you, Steve!!! 僕は日本人ですが、やはりスティーブさんの日本語をはじめとする語学能力は かなりのレベルだと思います。僕も英語が問題なく話せるようになれた経験があるので スティーブさんの「楽しくないといけない」というのには大賛成です。 I think your explanation about language learning totally matches to mine:)
@nkrg1912 жыл бұрын
私もそう思います。そして、私もあなたみたいに、自分の話したいことを、自分の話したい外国語で、いろいろと話してみたい。Thanks for this great video! 저도 이렇게 생각해요!
@Rainfall12 жыл бұрын
Sadly I lack the volubility to understand this well at all. 日本語は習得するのは難しいです。 I'd best keep it up.
@HolySinging10 жыл бұрын
凄すぎるwwwwwwほとんどネイティブレベルwwwww語学学習の天才やね。
@otibed35812 жыл бұрын
Maybe a bit off-topic Steve, but I'm wondering if way back when (sorry!) you studied Japanese, was it common for any given Japanese person to suddenly blurt out 日本語を上手ですね!even after you simply said something as generic as おはようございます!?
@吉田-w9r9 жыл бұрын
It is not possible to remember the 11 countries of the language if you have been studying as certainly obligation. The same may be said of thing other than English. It was good for me!!
@KFed60412 жыл бұрын
looks like the blue snowball microphone
@successcollege42835 жыл бұрын
subarasii... amazingly fantastic Japanese almost no accent Steve speaks....respect YOU. i fully agree with your philosophy of learning or acquring second or third...languages. great helpful to me. sure that everyone watching this script like your comment regarding to learning language you frequently place a high value on it. i will remember your messages conveyed thru you-tube uploaded here. million thanks from Korea. ariatokozaimas...
@MrTennis60911 жыл бұрын
I'm Japanese. I think that you are good at speaking Japanese. I am studying English now,but can't English well. I am sad...
@kenbinner6 жыл бұрын
(4年遅れているが)がんばって!
@japtakashi12 жыл бұрын
@forgottenmemories21 As a naive Japanese speaker, I don't think he has a Chinese accent. His intonation is sometimes a little off, but most of the time he sounds almost like a native speaker.
@お節介じい7 жыл бұрын
Steve老师的日语一点也没有老外的口音,实在不简单。佩服,佩服!
@forgottenmemories2112 жыл бұрын
@japtakashi Yes you are right, the timing is perfect but the intonation is sometimes bit off.
@oliviayp12 жыл бұрын
Steve, my hero! ☆
@tias9012 жыл бұрын
It's incredible that you can read Czech newspapers after having studied for five months, and that you are able to maintain such a high level of Japanese despite focusing on two European languages. As unfortunate as it is, change doesn't occur quickly in Japan and people still study English simply to pass tests. I think one good way for Japanese to see that studying English can be fun is go abroad and study, but exchange student numbers are falling.. Does your wife speak Japanese as well? :)
@Thelinguist12 жыл бұрын
@AmericajinYumi Aw shucks! Thanks and I saw your Japanese video and you are great!! Keep it up!
@targettman12 жыл бұрын
That's a side effect of speaking in Japanese I think. When you speak in it your expressions become exaggerated. If you imitate the way Japanese people speak.
@Thelinguist12 жыл бұрын
@forgottenmemories21 I doubt it, but only a native speaker could tell us. I have been listening to mostly Czech and Russian recently, although I was on a local Chinese radio program two nights ago.
@Thelinguist12 жыл бұрын
@pon00050 I will have to get more enthusiastic in my English videos.
@mylife051312 жыл бұрын
I agree with you. I studied English in junior-high and high school, but the way I studied was just the "traditional method" like transrate the word, understand a meaning, and memorize it like that, but I couldn't speak, listen, and understand English after get out of the schools. Right now, I've been actively studying English(mostly listening) for about a year and half. Guess what? I speak, write pretty fluently, and I understand almost 100%. TOEICとかどうでもいいですよねw AND I am damn Japanese! 関西人ですよ^^
@Thelinguist12 жыл бұрын
@mylife0513 Right on!! Now if we can only get more people to do what you did!!
@lelandv19697 жыл бұрын
do I detect a slight tang of 関西弁 in this video ? ;)
@Thelinguist7 жыл бұрын
perhaps, I did a lot of business with people from the Kansai
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