Not a mistake, but once when I asked my senpai a doubt while texting, she asked me "タイプできる？” (Can you type in Japanese?) And this was just around the time when I was watching Jujutsu Kaisen, and Todo has a line where he asks Itadori "どんな女のタイプだ？” So I thought my senpai is asking me "Do you have type(in girls?)" It was pretty embarrassing when I told her what I thought she meant, and she started laughing too omg :""") xD

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO that’s hilarious 😂😂😂 i know the exact scene too, it’s so legendary 😭😂👏 i love that your senpai could laugh it off with you, cause it’s definitely an understandable yet hilarious misunderstanding 😂💀 “Jennifer Lawrence is my type…”

@Mamapikas_thick_shlong

11 ай бұрын

OMG😭😭😭

One of my many mistakes was when I said "suzushii" to mean "cool" as in "audacious" and my sensei laughted because it is "cool" as in "refreshing" 😅... I just found this channel and I am enjoying every single video, keep it up, man 👍🏻

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahahahha classic, i feel like i probably made the exact same mistake at some point 😂😂 they’re super embarrassing, but you’ll cherish these wholesome mistakes as you get better and better at the language. Thanks for watching my videos!! 😙

If you had time to make full courses I would choose you over all the other people I've watched! Love your content :).

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for the lovely comment, Taylor!! 🤧 im really glad you like my teaching and video styles! 😙

Totally agree with being "shameless"! My most embarassing moment was when we tried to say "thank you FOR~~", and mistakenly used the pattern "(〜のために) ありがとう" because we were initially told that it was how to say "for" in Nihongo. 😮‍💨😫 And we said that line to all the Japanese in the office. No wonder their face were like "なに?!" 😂😂😂

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

I love that story, thank you so much for sharing it even tho it’s ‘embarassing’!! I think I made the exact same mistake of thinking のために could be used in that way too 😂😂😂 but these embarrassing moments just grill the lessons so much better in our minds and at the end of the day it’ll just become a funny memory! Let’s keep embarrassing our way to fluency 🥴👌😂

@yoshihasascended

Жыл бұрын

doesn't のために mean "for the sake of" like 俺のために means for my sake ?

I put a time marker for 5:55 into an Anki flash card, so I can come here to listen to the phrase, なんと　いうんだっけ, for pronunciation practice. But afterwards, I also always like skipping over to the "my advice for improving" section just to watch it again because the part with the "sign language" is so hilarious. xD And the other guy's confused expression... haha! I love it.

@TokuyuuTV

8 ай бұрын

ahahahahah im glad you like the weird hand signs, that was my life for a while 😂😂 and なんというんだっけ is a very useful phrase, it’s great that you’re committing it to memory!

Obsessed w your tips !! The speaking around words you don’t know concept is definitely gonna come in clutch:)) feeling more confident heading into my next Japanese conversation already😎

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

That tip definitely helps me the most with fluency!! Sometimes you just gotta let the pride go and admit you forgot the word 😪😪 でもブランダンもうペラペラじゃん 😝

Man and all this time I didn’t focus on pitch accent now it’s a lot clearer. Thanks man, that analogy you made was good

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Im glad the English analogy helped!! It blew my mind when i realized we do this in English too, never even noticed 🤯

Oh! I never even considering shadow videos on youtube! Thanks for the tip! As for the shamelessness. I'm trying to think more to myself in Japanese. Like if I see a number, like "45"K subscribers I think yonjuugo (or at least I try too) And I think little thoughts like this overtime will hopefully help in the long run! Same when I return home, I think "Tadaima!" Also I've never heard of italki so I'm looking into that now too! Love your videos! You got a new fan!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

glad you like the idea! It’s a good embarrassment-free way to get lots of speaking practice 😝 i love that you’re trying to think in japanese, that’s a great habit to start! I also personally like to think out loud sometimes so i try to do that in japanese for extra practice too 🤧 thanks for watching my videos!!

That was actually really informative, thanks!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Im glad it was helpful for you Yuuko!! 🥳

Man, I remember when I was eating some salmon with a friend. I asked them, "背中が美味しいですね？" Idk how I mixed up 魚 with 背中 but it stuck them both in my head XD

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO i love that, your friend must’ve been a little shocked 😂😂 i can totally see how it’s easy to mix those ones up. glad you remembered them now; embarrassment is the best teacher 😝

I honestly can’t remember all my mistakes since I make A LOT of them but my recent one was mixing up いそいで and いそがしくて and my teacher was like “why are you so busy in the morning even before going to work“ We had a good laugh😂 I have to agree so much on being shameless though. Even if I made so much silly mistakes never did any Japanese people judge me (one even apologized to me for correcting my mistake lol) and I’m so grateful to them.

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

LMFAOOOO that's soo funny, "why are you so busy before work?" 😂😂😂 Your Japanese teacher sounds like an awesome person Ahhhhh sooo relatable!! I would always tell my Japanese friends "PLEASE CORRECT ME" because i KNOWWW they feel bad about it but like it helps sooo much to be corrected in the moment. Good for you being able to take it like a champ 👏👏 keep up the awesome work!!

sooo glad i found your channel!!! your tips and the way you explain its just perfect :) thank u so much for sharing your knowledge and charirsma with us! really inspiring!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

super glad you find my videos helpful!! 🤧 thanks so much for taking the time to leave such a lovely comment 🥺

Absolutely nailed those hand signs!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

That's what im SAYIN'!! it's like Japanese people never took sign language 101 smhh

Thank you for this high quality video

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad you enjoyed it, Patompong. Thanks for watching!! 😙

you guys funny lmfao, thank you for the tips, I'm going to try the shadowing !

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Shadowing is a really good way to really focus on pronunciation and sounding natural!! I find in conversation im just too focused on not screwing up my sentence 🤪 thanks for the awesome comment, Daiki!

Everything you said in this video is 100% relatable. Thanks this video is funny and useful at the same time.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for leaving all these lovely comments ❤️

Your speaking is actually good!!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much!! I still need to work on it, but it’s slowwwwwly getting better 😝

Thank u soooo much u been an inspiration!!! I’ll keep going w my journey to becoming fluent, it’s gonna be an amazing adventure and very rewarding in the end!! ありがとうございます！😁👐🏽

I'm so happy I found your KZread channel! I love how fun and dinamic your videos are. You cover topics about the Japanese language that not a lot of people talk about but they're so important (like that awkward feeling of not knowing how to keep the conversation going, or forgetting words and falling back into your native language, which happens to me ALL THE FREAKING TIME) Thank you so much for talking about that! I would absolutely love to share your videos with my friends, we're learning Japanese together and I think your videos are going to help us a lot. So, if you ever want to add Spanish subtitles to your content, please let me know! It'd be so much fun and it'd would make your channel grow even more! Love from Argentina 🤗

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahhhh really happy you find my videos relatable!! they reflect all my real experiences, glad im not the only one who feels them! 😝 thanks so much for the lovely comment and wanting to share my videos 🤧🫶 ill keep in mind the Spanish subtitles! Hopefully in the future i can hire someone who can translate 🥵

@rosarioesteban4792

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV Same! I'm glad I'm not the only one who goes through all of that haha! Sometimes I beat myself up for making mistakes, because most of the content creators I watch online have a perfect pronunciation and they make no mistakes whatsoever. But it is truly refreshing to watch someone having fun, making mistakes and sharing their real life experiences and their tips and tools to improve! So, thank you! I worked with quite a few KZreadrs last year, and this year I've worked with some KZreadrs aswell. I love to do Spanish subtitles for content creators, so I'll be here if you need me or if you'd like me to do Spanish subtitles for your content!

Nice videos. I hope your channel grows quickly

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Victor!! You and me both dude 😂🙏 but either way im gonna keep pumping out videos 😤👏

Thank you, the “n” and “r” sound have been my biggest foe up until now, this is so helpful

@TokuyuuTV

11 ай бұрын

right?? I definitely struggled with them the most in the beginning - glad you found my explanations helpful!! 🤧

Thank you so much for this content! You're so intelligent and funny, it's a pleasure watching all your videos! The way you present things really rings a bell, I'm living the same journey with mandarin chinese and you describe perfectly this delighful awkwardness of forgetting a word, making up a sentence with side words to be understood anyways or using sign language to replace... 😂 that's the whole point of learning 👌

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahahahahaha im really glad you enjoy my content!! and even more flattered that you watch it even tho you’re not studying japanese 😭 but yes, the struggle of learning a language applies to all languages, im glad you found it relatable 😝 we’ll get through this 😤✊

Now we're talkin'! 😅🤙. Another fantastic upload all around. Thanks a million for the "shadowing" suggestions!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks a ton RayWoodJr!! And shadowing is definitely great for making the words feel more comfortable to say without the embarrassment 😝

@Ray_Wood_1984

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV I'll let you know how it goes! ✊😊

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@Ray_Wood_1984 please do!!

I always remember having a conversation in Japan and had no idea what the word for 'scissors' was, so I described them as 紙を切る事 😂

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Definitely a fantastic way to work around not knowing the word, and there’s no way japanese people wouldn’t understand you! 😙 tip: 事 is used for ideas/actions, whereas 物(もの) is used for physical objects, like scissors!

Your skits always have me rolling lol

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaha im glad you like them!! They’re really fun to make 😝

What do you mean "one more video in this series" - you can't quit on us! We need you!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO i aint quitting don't worry!! Just branching out and doing new kinds of videos. Can't get rid of me that easily 😎🔥

It is so fun to watch your videos. I love the way you express yourself. I am currently living in Japan so I was thinking we can maybe become friends!!!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Im always happy to have more friends 🥳 I don’t think I can meet up in real life tho since i already have so many commitments, but if you ever have questions or stories to share then leave a comment anytime!! 😙

Your videos are fun and educational 👌🏻 I look forward to see more of your videos, if anything is coming up though 😅 the guy seems to be very busy in japan 😎

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Im glad you think so!! Fun and educational are the two main points i try to go for 😝 and yes! I have been busy jn japan, but im still planning on uploading videos, so stay tuned!! 😙

Learning with this type of video with some comedy in it makes it more Understandable, I like it!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh I'm glad you like my style!! I always believe in having fun while learning so i do my best to keep it engaging. Thanks for checking out my videos!! 🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️🙇‍♂️

@FuuuCh

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV Your video is really fun & Entertaining ngl, Hope your channel Grow!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you so much for the kind words 😙🙌 I'll keep working on better and better videos!!

Oh, so obsessed with supporting you in every f social media that I almost forgot to leave a comment here. Got to see the video a couple of times to catch it but here it is haha. Thanks for always sharing the true REAL and GOOD stuff here, Tokuyuuさん！ :) The funniest miss comunication miss while speaking japanese was in a reunion we used to call お茶べり（お茶を飲んでのしゃべり会）in where we would share out hobbies. And at that time (I was under N5 while my partners where almost at N2 or higher) I tried to say いっぱい読みます, but I said いっぱい飲みます in stead! 笑 For those who didn-t understand the joke, I tried to say "I enjoy to read a lot" but in stead, what I actually came up with was "I enjoy to DRINK a lot" LOL

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

As always, you the man Eze 🥲👏👏 LMFAOOO that's hilarious 😂😂 saying いっぱい飲みます is definitely a great way to get people to think you're a fun guy 😝 お茶べり sounds like a really fun concept too 😮!!

@japoneze6507

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV let's drink.... I mean... Read together some day! 🤣

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@japoneze6507 why not both? 😉😂

Lol great stuff man ! Just found your channel

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much!! happy that you stumbled upon my videos 🤧

You're quite funny and charming. I wish you great success with this channel.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

awwww thank you so much!! ill do my best to grow the channel 😙

Another great video of yours! 🤩👏 Not surprising, though! But I suppose there won't be too many supportive and encouraging words, so I'll keep saying this!! :) By watching this video, I realized that your tips apply not only to Japanese but to any other language! English was my second language and even though I'd studied it for many years at school, I became fluent only by having to constantly speak to others. At first, I was thinking about how to say something correctly and ended up not even saying it as I thought I'm not sure whether it was correct. However, everything changed when I still had to communicate daily in English (I did my internship abroad) and in the end, I realized that hey, I started talking, yes, making mistakes, but TALKING! And, importantly, THINKING in English, not translating directly. So thinking in Japanese to learn it better does make so much sense! To be honest, from time to time I have those moments when I lose my "way" when learning Japanese as I come across such contradictory feelings - it feels as if the more I know/learn Japanese, the more I feel that there's, even more, I don't know. It crushes that motivation in such moments 😁🙈 Buuut (!) when I watch your videos, it really boosts my motivational levels and acts as supporting pillars to keep going no matter what! It's not about time (how quickly you learn), not about how much or little you know but just constantly moving forward, learning daily and having fun alongside! So thank you so much for such support and encouragement! I'm happy you do what you do!!!! ❤️🙏 P.S. It's not a Japanese mistake but it was still embarrassing at that time: I was learning English and German at school and in the beginning of the English lesson teacher asked certain words that we learnt last time. She asked me how would "German language" be, of course, I had to say "German" but instead, I said, "Deutsch" [it means "German" in German]. Everyone in the class started laughing and I didn't understand what was going on. I felt really awkward and just a bit later I realized that I mixed languages. More than 10 years have passed but I still remember such an awkward moment 😁

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Nice to see you in my comments again, Evelina!! 😙 oo im glad you feel like my tips apply to learning other languages as well! I have no idea, since I’ve only ever learned japanese 😝 and you’re absolutely right - the amount of japanese that you ‘still have to learn’ can feel very overwhelming at times, but it’s all about just moving forward. I love your mentality! 🥳 ahahahahaha i love that embarrassing story!! honestly, you gave the most correct answer possible 😂 glad to hear from you again and see that you’re still keeping up the studies!! 😙

Its only been 4 months and I only have a vocabulary of about 2200 words so I don't think I should be worrying about fluency right away , but your videos are fun to watch and keeps me motivated , Thanks 😊

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

A vocabulary of 2,200 words in only 4 months is incredible!! Knowing the words will help a lot with understanding spoken japanese. If you study grammar as well as practice listening for sentence patterns, you’ll make fantastic gains on fluency 😙 keep up the great work! 🥳

A lot of this definitely helps with any language you're learning, great tips and I can vouch for all of them!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

I’m glad you agree with my tips is terms of other languages as well!! Definitely feels reassuring 😙

Man!! You're videos are inspiring!! I just started learning Japanese language for 2 months now. Hence, it is so muzukashii 🥵 so thankful to your tips

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much, im glad you like my videos 🥺 Japanese is muzukashii language, so don’t be discouraged! And fantastic that you’ve been studying it for two months already, keep up the awesome work!! 🥳

@johnantonrillo8441

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV thank you so much!! I've been following your tips lately and it does work!! I'm in Japan now and it so hard for me to talk with people. But just like what you've said, BE SHAMELESS! 😅 Thanks!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Woww congrats on making it to japan! Not being able to fully communicate with people is really tough i know, but being shameless and consistent is the fastest way to improve. You got this!! 👏👏

@johnantonrillo8441

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV thank you soso much!!! I hope to see you around here in Japan (tho it is impossible because Japan is too huge of a country). More videos to come TokuyuuTV!!

I want to move to japan next year, learning since 5 month, N5 level achieved but I can''t really speak a word with confidence.. I'll try Italki lessons beacause I don't want to learn without even being able to speak at least a little :'( JLPTN4 in December I have to study more T_T :D Thank you for all your videos

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Great work so far achieving N5, that's awesome!! I'm sure italki will be great practice to build your confidence with speaking. Thanks for watching my videos, i appreciate it 🥳🤧 Good luck with the N4 exam in december!!!

I'm already close to finishing all of ur vids, what am I supposed to watch tmrw? 😊

@TokuyuuTV

11 ай бұрын

ahahahahahah thank you so much for all the lovely comments!! 🥺😭 currently working on the next one and im almost done!! 🥳

That intro hit close to home lol I remember I was talking to one of my Japanese friends a while ago about majoring in finance. Long story short, I said “it’s a lot of middle school” rather than “it’s a lot of math” lmao quite the confused silence for a second there. やっぱり動画は本当に面白い。ありがとう！

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO that’s so funny!! i can totally see me making that mistake too 😂 but i bet after that you never forgot the difference between the two 😉😝 視聴ありがとうございました！！🙇‍♂️

3:10 OMG I struggled but I was able to say it at the end. There's this new anime called Blue Period and I absolutely LOVE the ending song. The song is called Replica and it has a verse where the person is singing in lightening speed bro you should check out the song and anime ✌😗

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahaha nice!! If you can master those ones then you can master any words 😎 i watched the trailer - it looks super interesting! I love how real the story looks. It has been added to my to-watch list ✍️ i really like the feel of the song too 😙✌️

So funny but true! Thank you for sharing great tips on how to become fluent in Japanese! :)

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Im glad you found my video funny and useful, that’s the combo i try to aim for 😝 thanks for watching my video!! 🥳

@SabinasWJ

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV I hope you’ll share also tips on how to pass the reading section of both N1 and N2. I took JLPT N2 last 7/3. I think I won’t be able to pass it. :( no enough time for the 読解。anyway, thanks again! Your videos are really helpful!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

I had the exact same experience where i failed the N2 because i ran out of time in the reading section 😂 however your result turns out, just keep working hard and you will keep getting better! Ill try to make more videos for advanced level learners in the future 😌

@phen-themoogle7651

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV I figured out (after 20 years of learning Japanese, been fluent for about 12) an epic way to learn to speed read stuff. Play visual novel games on auto and try to keep up with everything, can change the speed the text scrolls too in most games. The fastest speed is hilarious, it’s like a block of text in a split second, although I can barely process one sentence let alone four at that speed it really forces me to try to process at much quicker speeds. And then when I go back to read normally I find myself seeing much more text than normal and it’s like the heck I didn’t know I could read this well before (still have tons of room to improve on vocab and everything though but yeah lol xD) Considering visual novel games have harder vocab than JLPT , the JLPT should feel easy for speed reading and when someone tries to pass it they will have much more time to reread passages etc It’s a lot easier to group bigger chunks of information together with this technique so a visual novel game is ideal for immersion in reading (I’m also too lazy to read real books kinda so works out for lazy people such as myself 😂)

Do you edit your videos yourself or do you have an editor? The editing is pretty good. And no, I did not stay up watching your videos one after another.😅

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahahahahah im honoured you _didn’t_ stay up to watch all my videos 🙇‍♂️😂 and i actually edit all my videos myself!! (and i spend wayy too many time on trying to make everything perfect 🤪) but im glad you think it’s good!! 😙

My girlfriend is a native Japanese speaker (since she was born and lives there lol) and I can’t even begin to count how many times I’ve messed up my Japanese and she got upset lol but still regardless of what you say, no one will actually be upset nor should you feel bad because the other person will more than likely know you didn’t mean whatever it was lol

@TokuyuuTV

11 ай бұрын

exactly!! making mistakes is unavoidable and even necessary to learning a language〜 and having a native girlfriend is a huge advantage, definitely use lots of japanese with her!! 🤧

workarounds and hand gestures, although not the most effective method, are like my saviors in social situations in Japan. When I went to the pharmacy to find band aid, I asked the store clerk, "kizu no ＊*gestures covering my arm*＊ mono. (she didn't get it) chi ga deru toki (I didn't say to stop the bleeding cuz it didn't come to my mind)" after a few more body gestures and workaround words later, the store clerk went, "aaa, bansoko!"

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahahahhaha nice!! i love your persistence, and honestly your descriptions were really good! im surprised they didn’t get it the first time 🤔 but now you know the word for next time 😉

okay after the giraffe, i really enjoyed your lesson, thnk you for this sensei!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

glad you enjoyed the video!! 😙

I'm learning my fifth language now, and I realized always start thinking in the language and just fill in words you don't know with words from other foreign languages, sure at the start you'll need to fill sentences a lot, but it gradually becomes more and more complete sentences that will also become more natural with time

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

working on your fifth language is incredible!! definitely a big difference in freedom when you move from thinking about everything to say and having things come naturally 😌

Love you

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

❤️❤️❤️

It's sad that I found such cool channel but he uploads once a month :( oh well time to binge watch every video here

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Hey Za, I’m glad you like my content!! 😙 I put a lot of effort into these videos, so making them takes a LONGGGG time 😝 but I’m starting to make Shorts so i can upload more frequently 🥳

@zawarrudo3930

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV 🥳

I’m in Japanese class so I’m super stoked for this informative

Damn those killer hand signs though

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Right?? I dont even need to speak Japanese anymore at this point 💅😌

Gosh you're so cute! And your videos are very informative. 日本語はすごいですね！

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahahahahaha thank you my guy 🤧🫶 glad you enjoy my videos!! 勉強がんばってね💪

@SebastienFortin07

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV I absolutely do love them. I've very recently started to learn 5 new words per day. 本当にありがとうございます！がんばる。

Ive kinda had to go into my own corner since my goal is to read a Haruki Murakami book in Japanese. ( I'm nurodivergent and shows can actually be way too over stimulating.)

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

that’s fair!! if reading a full book in japanese is your goal, then it makes sense to spend more time on your own studying kanji, grammar, and vocab!

When someone asks me to say something or teach them something in japanese I always say "atatakakunakatta" just to mess around. My most embarrasing moment was when on the test i forgot how to say "Two days ago" and instead of saying futsukamae i wrote... ninichikanmae... I was thinking of this for almost half a year now...

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

AHAHAHAHAHAH absolutely no need to think about it for half a year but i totally get the feeling 😂😂😂 a very reasonable mistake tbh, it’s japanese’s fault for this one 😌

@akisamaa

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV Yeah I know that half a year is too much but it goes away slowly with every day. Time for new mistakes! :D

I'm so fortunate to have learned Spanish, because the Spanish R and Japanese R are so similar, that I quickly learned how to say all the R characters :DDDDDD

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahhhhhh I’ve heard that before!! My Spanish-speaking friends said the same thing 😝 consider yourself lucky that the skill was transferrable, it took me a while to get it down!!

*read the following in a steriotypical jock voice* man I kita'd to see this video asap when I saw this video in my subscription box, in more ways than one

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

BAHAHAHAHAHA hey better that you きた'd yourself than you きった'd yourself 😉

Very nice intro

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks Popcop!! It's inspired by numerous struggles of me trying to communicate in Japanese 😌🙏

Although its very minor, the hirigana character for "hu" has a slight "F" sound to it, so it would sound like "hfu". It is a bit hard to describe in text.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

yeah good point! It does take a little bit of getting use to doing the “hfu” sound, but i find that most foreigners can master it relatively quickly😌

I thought of an idea to remember which syllable has the higher pitch accent (at least, for simple beginner words that are often just 2 or 3 syllables long). I usually create a mnemonic scene to act as a visual for remembering the sounds. For example, to remember 分かる (to understand, or an interjection that means "I know! I think so, too!" at least that's what I think it means), I use the characters Kanga and Roo from the old cartoon, Winnie The Poo. *Wa* lking around outside, *Ka* nga explains things to *Roo* as he nods, understanding. (Sorry, I had to add spaces to "Walking" and "Kanga," to get the bold text to highlight properly. I am trying to highlight the sounds Wa, Ka and Roo, which is Ru). The extra visual that I add to this mnemonic (and other mnemonics) is either picturing a little Santa Claus hat to represent the North Pole (meaning, to put the higher pitch accent on the first syllable) OR picturing little penguins following them around to represent the South Pole (meaning, to put the higher pitch accent on the second syllable. So in this case, since the pitch accent goes up on 分かる on the second syllable, I'll picture little penguins following Roo around. This is using direction (north, south, east, west) to remember specifics about a word. I learned about this and used this when I learned Norwegian for a few years. I plan on using this sort of "directional mnemonic" for remembering past tense and future tense and whatever else may exist in Japanese. Doesn't have to be NSEW. Let's say I use the image of me standing in my kitchen, to remember a certain verb. Maybe facing the microwave on the left is associated with past tense, and facing the stove on the right is associated with future tense, and facing the fridge is associated with present tense. These can be connected to whatever mnemonic or scene is happening in the kitchen that is a trigger for remembering the present tense of the verb. I hope I am explaining this well. It might sound confusing at first, but it really helped me both in the past and now at this beginner level of Japanese. I am fully aware that there are very long words in Japanese, so I'll have to come up with a way to adjust the directional thing, perhaps, for where the pitch accent is, in the word, in the future as I learn them.

@TokuyuuTV

8 ай бұрын

wowww this is a really intricate system you made for remember pitch accent! I love the use of imagery and directions to cue in where the pitch is. It sounds like you’re a very visual based learner! You’ll also start to just natural remember words and pitch accents, so you won’t need to remember the imagery forever, but it can be a good way to recall in the beginning 😌 good luck on your japanese language journey, i love your passion!!

😆😆😆😆that sign language part

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Sho’s expression kills me every time 😂😂😂

now i think that learn from spanish is more easy only per pronunciation its almost the same :)

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah I always thought the Japanese 'r' sounded similar to Spanish!! Im sure pronouncing Japanese words will feel natural for you quickly 😙

spanish is my first language so the japanese pronunciation is really easy lol, usually letters always sound the same no matter what u put besides them. and we have all the sounds japanese ppl do

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

yeahhh ive heard that both spanish and italian have similar pronunciation to japanese! appreciate your advantage 😉

Got it. Now I'll be shameless although I was very shy when I need to speak Japanese.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

i knowww, speaking a second language can be really nerve-wracking, but it’s extremely rewarding seeing your progress!!

What is あめ? A 雨 (rain) B 飴 (candy) C 編め (knit it)

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahahahahaha that’s a pretty aggressive way of telling someone to knit something, but technically possible 😝

@runningriot7963

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV I got it from a Japanese KZreadr 'Sora the Troll'. It's his most recent video, you should check it out it's hilarious.(When you tell Japanese people "Japanese is Easy")

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

@@runningriot7963 ohhh I’ve seen his videos before! Ill check that one out then 😝

My biggest mistake I feel is when I was studying with a friend in japan and I suggested that we rest. IYKYK 😭

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOO did you accidentally ask for some netflix and chill? 😏😂

I am Indian so there is absolutely NO problem in any kinds of pronunciation👽 BTW LOVE YOUR VIDEOS I WATCH THEM WHENEVER I FEEL STUCK IN JAPANESE AND TRUST ME YOU'RE THE BEST

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ohhh I’ve heard that some Indian languages had similar pronunciations in japanese actually!! that’s a really nice advantage 🥲👏 awwwww thank you so much for your warm support, im really happy my videos can help you 🥺🤧

just a second ago I was thinking to comment one of your video that '' where are you? ''. Thank God, here is the video, I know I said this alot but I reall fall in love with your filming style :).

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhhh thank you so much for keeping tabs on me, these videos take me a while to make but i do my best getting em out asap 😪 I'm super happy to hear you've been enjoying my videos!! More to come in the future 🥳🥳

as a native spanish speaker, this is surprisingly easy.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Another native spanish speaker just commented this as well!! It seems spanish and japanese pronunciation has a lot of similarities. Consider yourself fortunate to have a head start!! 😙

hi. How do you pronounce rya ryu ryo. because when I listen to people speak it there pronounce it with a D. I'm so confused. Hope everything is going well in japan.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahhhh those are also really difficult sounds at first! and even now i sometimes hear the japanese r as a d sound 😂 but they’re pronounced the same as the japanese r i described in the video, once you master the r i think those sounds will become a lot easier!

bruh why he has so less subscribers. perfect humour, gracious montage and so much help of learning the language

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

thank you so much 🥺🤧 i honestly think i have so many subscribers for the short amount of time I’ve been on youtube. But ill keep working on growing!! 😤✊

The giraffe gif made me spit my drink gdamn

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahahahahah im glad you appreciate the little details 😝🤧

The most embarrassing thing is when my words get mixed up when speaking in my family’s mother tongue (Cantonese) which makes me have even less confidence speaking in a foreign language where my speaking level is much much lower 😅 Guess I have to work on my ✨Shamlessness✨ haha

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ahahahahahahah so true 😝 you're not the only one tho dont worry, the amount of English I flub when I'm speaking makes me question my ability to function as a human 😪😪

@o0...957

Жыл бұрын

I even forget words in my mother tongue sometimes 😆

My “funniest” miscommunication was forgetting 「日本人」and of course I didn’t use fillers, I just sat there wondering how I forgot a word I even knew the pitch of🥲 All you can do is laugh through the pain when it wakes you at 3am. I’m praying they let you in because you’ve gotta be able to buy some of that rain for yourself!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOO forgetting the basic words is the worsttt, it hurts to look up the word later and be hit with that guilt for forgetting 😩 I'll let you know how that Japanese rain is, better be ✨premium✨ quality since i gotta pay for it 😤

I have n1 and work in a Japanese company but my accent sucks. It really sucks as people don't realise how good you otherwise are at speaking japanese but I have quite a severe speech disorder in English so I guess my dream of sounding good in japanese was never going to happen.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

First of all, congrats on achieving N1, that’s incredible!! 🥳 im sorry to hear about your circumstance. I would be surprised to hear that people wouldn’t know how good you are, considering you probably understand most of what they’re saying at full speed. Perhaps letting them know about your speech disorder would help let them know that it’s a difficulty with delivery rather than comprehension or ability. I don’t know anything about your personal situation, but I’ve heard of many people who’ve had speech disorders who’ve either completely overcome it or are able to strongly manage it after lots of help and practice. Don’t give up until you’ve tried everything to the fullest!

TIL Japanese uses tone. Is it as extensive as Chinese?

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Omggg is that THE SnugglyTech?? I love your unboxing videos man 😍 And noooo i think Japanese pitch is a lot subtler and has more to do with just the sentence overall sounding more natural

Sugoi ne..👍

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Arigatou 🥺👉👈

I've just received my PlayStation... It came with orchids.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

😮😮😮!! Im glad i wasn’t lying after all 😂😂

I’m Japanese but pronouncing あたたかかったis very difficult😂😂😂

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

im glad it’s not just me 😂😂😂😂

Even though I am not a native English speaker I think everything in English . I should start doing that with Japanese

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

yeah that is definitely a great way to start making japanese feel more natural! i also talk to myself sometimes and i try to do that in japanese when i remember 😝

Bro i miss ❤❤😂

The workaround phrase are too real….. my personal favourite is 側😂

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

How would you use 側 as a workaround? 😮 i must hear of your technique

@shio10926

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV hmmm like 販売者and購買者 becomes 売る側and買う側😂😂😂 this is great for cowards like me 🙋‍♀️ who dislike being reminded of words in public because oftentimes it slips by and no one notices that you forgot 🥲

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

@@shio10926 dAYUMMMM those are so next level words and I wouldn't even TRY to remember those in a conversation LMFAOO. I'll be keeping 売る側 and 買う側 in mind then 😌🙏😂😂

Yes, My Lordo....

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

😂😂 if all else fails, you can default to that

I want more PlayStation orchids!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOO ive accidentally built up the hype for it too much 😭😂

Yeah, i think the best thing is to just having fun of speaking japanese. There was one time when sensei asked me "いつ髪を切りましたか" (髪 - hair) but i thought it was 紙 - paper so i just said "神を切りませんでした。よく　パソコン を使います。" Well it was hilarious for me so i wasnt ashamed.

@TokuyuuTV

9 ай бұрын

ahahahahaha nice 😂😂 honestly a fair misinterpretation, basically the same word 🤷‍♂️ glad you can see it as a funny memory

Mixing up れいぞうこう and れいぞく🤡 oops

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

I didn't even know れいぞく was a word until now and apparently it means 'slavery'. Hopefully those Japanese people didn't think you had slaves in your kitchen LMAO

For Japanese learners, don't worry so much abt pitch! Yeah definitely pronouncing pitch correctly makes your Japanese sound fluent, but normally Japanese don't care so much about that. plus we japanese know it's hard to speak without making mistakes 'cause Japanese language is not your mother tongue. Even you made mistakes, I bet most of Japanese will try to figure out what you really mean. I'm Japanese I can confirm it. (I'm not good at English so maybe my sentence is kinda messy...soWWy)

„Even if you group vowels together, that will not change the pronunciation“. せいと: I’m about to ruin this man’s entire career.

I accidentally referred to a girl by "omae" for some reason thinking that it was a more respectfull anata. It is what it is, thanks for the tips.

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOOOO that word is definitely such a trap i stg 😩 like the お makes it seem more polite 😂😂 i think it actually use to be polite, but then somehow became derogatory? Thanks for sharing your funny experience 😝

@hejoric

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV THATS WHAT I'M SAYING. In Genki there was this expression in chapter 1 that went like, "お名前は何ですか？” . Since it was a respectful expression I got mixed up with the beginning お. Anyways, please make more content! I've almost watched all of your videos, looking forward to more of your great content. ありがとう！

I'm 13 years old I'm trying to learn Japanese but the fact that I live in eygpt is so impossible to communicate with japanese people sooooo yea......

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

ahahahahah yeah I can’t imagine there are too many japanese people in egypt 😝 but you dont need people to speak with to learn, especially in the beginning!

Your pitch for 温かかった was incorrect, the downstep should be on the first か

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Interesting, I didn’t even realize that I did that! I’ll keep that in mind for the future

Last night.... asked my exchange partner if she had an 運動免許 instead of an 運転免許

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

LMAOOOO “do you have a license to exercise?” 😂😂😂 they must’ve been a bit shocked that you might need one overseas 😂 i love this, thanks so much for sharing!!

7:34 Anime name..?? 😂

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

it’s called hokuto no ken!

Oh, Tokuyuu! It's me again. I now come to notice that you missed some freaking cool tip for ENS when they don't know a japanese word. And that is: >Any possible word in japanese has a English imported equivalent. 動画→ビデオ 窓→ウインドウ 個人→パーソナル 装備→エキップメント 金字塔→ピラミッド 空調設備→エアコン 写真機→カメラ 友達→フレンド 共有→シェア 聴覚→リスニング 英語→イングリッシュ And so....

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

Ahhhh so true!! So sometimes you CAN default to English as long as you know the correct katakana word 😝😝

@japoneze6507

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV ダットイズライト！笑

Train stationをPlayStationは草😂

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

うけてよかったwwwwこういう誤解よくあるんだよ😭

Mad disappointed that my mans put in seven years to learn japanese but can't spend five minutes to learn the 3 hand signs for chidori!

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

LMAOOO im SORRY okay?? It was either learn Japanese or follow the ninja way, i could only handle one 😪

@MartialDayrok13

2 жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV 🤣

Great vid! The only comment I have is even though it was meant to be funny it probably needs to be said that real life Japanese people hardly ever would sound like anime characters….other than that great vid!

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ofc!! A lot of anime characters’ ways of speaking are super dramatized and unique, not really reflective of actually daily Japanese. But it can still be helpful in learning overall sentence structure and pronunciation 😙

@GenkoKenja

Жыл бұрын

@@TokuyuuTV definitely agree with the sentence structure part :), but a lot of them even use vocab or grammar that as you mentioned may be unique to the character or not really a common way of speaking. Young Naruto’s ってばよ at the end of (basically) every sentence would probably be a perfectly good example of something unique that I don’t think even exists in the language (at least not in the way in which he uses it). As far as pronunciation….I would agree to disagree on that one lol…again, as you mentioned they like to dramatize stuff in anime which means their pronunciation can also be a bit exaggerated. Not every character does this…some might sound perfectly natural and not exaggerated, but it isn’t common for beginners to already know this kind of stuff which is why I wanted to mention it. Learning Japanese through anime is pretty fun, but it should always be done with caution and probably should not be the only way to learn :)

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Agree with all you points! Anime is definitely a very fun learning resource but best used as an add-on on top of other studying resources. Thanks for the insightful comment!! 🥳

個人的にみんなへ本当に上手に日本語になりたかったら、コメントは日本語で入力すべきだと思いますね

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

皆それぞれのレベルあるけれど確かにできるだけ日本語を使った方がいいね！😙

The intro part looks like anime fr

@TokuyuuTV

Жыл бұрын

Ahahhahahaha thank you!! Imagine having a real anime intro, that would be too sick 🥲

🤣🤣🤣🤣

wait… y’all don’t have to pay for rain? 🤨😐

@TokuyuuTV

2 жыл бұрын

You must've been living in Japan this whole time girl 💅😌

haha gojo..

@TokuyuuTV

8 ай бұрын

too cool of a character 🥲✨