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  • @Dogen
    @Dogen Жыл бұрын

    Japanese pitch-accent and pronunciation lessons: www.patreon.com/dogen

  • @shweyin
    @shweyin3 жыл бұрын

    WOWOWOW I CANT BELIEVE IT!!! Thank you soooo much for reviewing my Japanese!! I don't believe I'm there quite yet but this was super motivating to hear!!! ありがとうございます!!!相変わらず凄い勉強になりました!!!

  • @jamyfu6464

    @jamyfu6464

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shweyin Than you’re so sexy. I love you.

  • @user-ut9iy8mq3d

    @user-ut9iy8mq3d

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@jamyfu6464 やれやれだぜ

  • @moodbeast

    @moodbeast

    3 жыл бұрын

    You got an ENTIRE episode! You are so lucky!!! Oh, and well done btw.

  • @MarkRosa

    @MarkRosa

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shu, you're waaaay ahead of the game for just three years of study! I think back to my Japanese 301 class long ago, and nobody was anywhere close to that!

  • @lloydmeadors

    @lloydmeadors

    3 жыл бұрын

    His pronunciation is great, I agree Dogen. I live in Sapporo and most of my foreign friends you can tell they're not Japanese, though I'm often confused for Japanese until they see me(myself being foreign here) his pronunciation almost sounds native

  • @mytuhb213
    @mytuhb2133 жыл бұрын

    For me, a native Japanese speaker, this series is useful for learning both of Japanese and English. You teach me Japanese deeper through foreigner's eyes/ears, which is so interesting. And I thank you all here for having interests in Japan!

  • @jamesatem6046

    @jamesatem6046

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes, I love 😘😘❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️ Japanese society and I am currently learning Japanese.

  • @KuroShiiiro

    @KuroShiiiro

    2 жыл бұрын

    i feel the same about english. anytime its a secondary language, I'm love to let them use it just to see how they've interpreted it

  • @user-du4mq9yf7i

    @user-du4mq9yf7i

    Жыл бұрын

    日本人でもよくわかっていない

  • @LetsaskShogo
    @LetsaskShogo3 жыл бұрын

    A common mistake that I often recognize is using like "申します" a polite style of Japanese, then using "俺" after it. "俺" is actually only used among friends and family...

  • @r.m.l.5487

    @r.m.l.5487

    2 жыл бұрын

    Genuine question: is 僕 fine to use as a guy in a more polite/ formal setting? Because I have been doing that and never have been corrected by my Japanese teachers (they are Japanese themselves). It just feels off to say 私... I do realise in a more informal/friend setting I should probably get used to saying 俺, but we don't tend to use that in the course :')

  • @MiaH56

    @MiaH56

    Жыл бұрын

    @@r.m.l.5487 For me, if you are a college student that's okay if you use 僕 but if you are older than that I suggest you to use 私 in a work place or somewhere formal. I'd rather say that I prefer men use 私 in a work place because it sounds professional. Although some people intentionally uses 僕 from time to time to give people impression that he's cute/naive, etc. So what I am trying to say here is, it's not if it's correct or wrong but it's what impression you would like to give in a polite/formal setting.

  • @Catgatroid

    @Catgatroid

    Жыл бұрын

    @@r.m.l.5487 僕 is decently formal, you need to be aware of the pitch accent though, theres a immature way to say it, and a normal way

  • @___xyz___
    @___xyz___3 жыл бұрын

    1:42 This is a humble nod that I hear far too rarely. To state that "I am capable of helping you improve a skill which you demonstrate better than me" is, in fact, logically coherent, although many think otherwise. Whether an expert or not, I believe it's incredibly important to constructively criticise one another not as "someone who knows better", but as someone with a complimentarily different perspective. This is the kind of comment I would be reserved to give outside the context of philosophy, but you demonstrate an enthos reinforcing level of practical communication that I myself struggle to achieve, and I hope you continue to do so more often.

  • @Nonameron

    @Nonameron

    3 жыл бұрын

    Wow, I did not expect to learn to give proper feedback when I clicked this video. I am certain that I have come off rude many times when giving feedback. Thank you for your comment, I'll be sure to remember it.

  • @user-cq3fd6td7m
    @user-cq3fd6td7m3 жыл бұрын

    3年でこのレベルは凄すぎる...

  • @nomongosinthaworld

    @nomongosinthaworld

    3 жыл бұрын

    すごいのは間違いないけど、単純に言うと勉強方法の選び方が賢い。母語話者を真似することが一番

  • @dungantiger3018

    @dungantiger3018

    3 жыл бұрын

    習うより慣れろ

  • @CarelessMiss

    @CarelessMiss

    2 жыл бұрын

    @@nomongosinthaworld その通り

  • @YYYOKOOO
    @YYYOKOOO3 жыл бұрын

    I wonder how I can compliment people's Japanese without saying 上手 when they're really really good assuming they're watching Dogen san's videos lol

  • @Hijiri04

    @Hijiri04

    3 жыл бұрын

    well you could add 凄く or 素晴らしい or sum

  • @YYYOKOOO

    @YYYOKOOO

    3 жыл бұрын

    K, I will say 日本語うんんんんんんんま!!then

  • @mikachu7670

    @mikachu7670

    3 жыл бұрын

    Just say how long have you been learning Japanese

  • @mai5185

    @mai5185

    3 жыл бұрын

    え、ヨーコさんだ!

  • @alucardjp1

    @alucardjp1

    3 жыл бұрын

    Don’t mention it , it’s just annoying. Beat praise you can get if people talk back to you like they talk to anyone else

  • @TadAkimoto
    @TadAkimoto3 жыл бұрын

    First of all, Shū-san's Japanese sounds amazing. I would have thought he must have been Japanese, if I had heard his first few lines without knowing he was a non native speaker. What makes him sound a bit off is some of his word choice as Dogen pointed it out in the video. He started with polite Japanese, but he said "おれの日本語も直して欲しいなって", which cleared up my tiny doubt that he might be a native speaker. In Japanese, how to mention yourself reflects on your personality, and as Dogen says, you have to keep the consistency. 私の日本語 or ぼくの日本語 would be better and sound more polite. However, I repeat it again, his Japanese is so good. Japanese native speakers hardly end sentences by saying です・ます. He perfectly copies that nature, which makes him sound natural.

  • @GXrevolution96

    @GXrevolution96

    3 жыл бұрын

    I listen to a lot of Japanese and people seem to switch back and forth between polite form and casual form all the time. For example, a Japanese person may use the ます form for positive verbs while using ないです or just ない for negative endings. There are also times where a speaker will use ですが・けれども in one sentence and then だけど or simply けど in another

  • @TadAkimoto

    @TadAkimoto

    3 жыл бұрын

    I can't say anything deep unless I see actual situations. However, when native Japanese speakers do the switch, they have convincing reasons, situations or backgrounds even if it is unconscious. In the situation here, Shū-san has respect to Dogen-san. This is his first time talking to Dogen-san, (probably). He started his talk with polite form. That doesn't match "おれの". Staying consistent is safer. My first post was not for nitpicking. His pronunciation is so good that I can't imagine how hard he has worked on it.

  • @coconutpineapple2489

    @coconutpineapple2489

    3 жыл бұрын

    I'm not him. But ごらんになりましたか?is not strange at all. But if you are close to your boss, it might be too polite.

  • @princessthyemis

    @princessthyemis

    3 жыл бұрын

    they don't useです?? Then what DO they use? I was taught to use that to end sentences??

  • @foka.3kai

    @foka.3kai

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@princessthyemis just leave it out like in "これは私のパソコン" where u would be taught to put です at the end.

  • @user-ft2hm7uj5n
    @user-ft2hm7uj5n3 жыл бұрын

    3年でここまで上手くなるのか……凄すぎる😱

  • @KoreKaraPodcast
    @KoreKaraPodcast3 жыл бұрын

    Can you grade the hardest pronunciation in Japanese next episode ... Katakana English

  • @shellybananas

    @shellybananas

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes! I'd really like to see this. Most of my friends switch to the English pronunciation when reading Katakana (myself included at times!) and it feels so weird!

  • @elliotw.888

    @elliotw.888

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@shellybananas sometimes I look at the katakana, read it out, and spend a minute figuring out what it's supposed to be in English

  • @slayermusiq1

    @slayermusiq1

    3 жыл бұрын

    ナイスアイデア❗

  • @FunkyBukkyo

    @FunkyBukkyo

    3 жыл бұрын

    グレート

  • @elliotw.888

    @elliotw.888

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@FunkyBukkyo what the hell is that supposed to mean? grit? greet?

  • @hiroui9450
    @hiroui94503 жыл бұрын

    I'm starting to think these people coming to get critiqued are actually just flexing.

  • @123jeffries123

    @123jeffries123

    3 жыл бұрын

    Definitely and im sure the time that they have been studying Japanese isn’t right all the time as well .

  • @kennethirgendwas4616

    @kennethirgendwas4616

    3 жыл бұрын

    You kind of need some confidence to send in a video eh? I feel a lot of people that could really improve from this dont want to be put on display because they think they would embarrass themselves. But look at how long the videos are dogen does on almost proficient people. Imagine the length if he'd have to go through 2 mistakes per sentence

  • @dain644

    @dain644

    3 жыл бұрын

    @k k lmao. if you're proficient in under 5 years you're definitely lying and not just actually learning the language properly

  • @dain644

    @dain644

    3 жыл бұрын

    @k k no offense, but you're really bad at picking up sarcasm. My comment = if you're learning the language in a reasonable amount of time (under 5 years) you are actually learning correctly (and probably not LARPing textbooks)

  • @dain644

    @dain644

    3 жыл бұрын

    Also, my method - MIA, doesn't suck. You should check it out. 😉

  • @redapple0123tune
    @redapple0123tune3 жыл бұрын

    地方のなまりのある日本人でも、このくらいのアクセントの人はたくさんいるので、ほとんど気になりませんでした! 「俺」の使い方はたしかに注意が必要ですが、しゅうさんは独り言の再現として「俺」を使い、その後のどうげんさんへのメッセージの主語は「僕」に戻っていたので、この場合は適切な使用であり、むしろその切り替えが上手だと思いました。 文脈に応じて意識してアクセントを使い分けている日本語学習者の皆さんを尊敬します!

  • @Konichiwamydude
    @Konichiwamydude3 жыл бұрын

    I'm a Japanese teacher. His pronunciation is good and very casual. ``おれ``は使う場面気をつけてくださいね〜

  • @mina-gd1xi
    @mina-gd1xi3 жыл бұрын

    ええ?!日本語ネイティブじゃないの?っていうくらいうまいですね。びっくり! 私も言語学習がんばります。励みになりました。

  • @user-ku8oy2qs2d
    @user-ku8oy2qs2d3 жыл бұрын

    正直日本に何年も住んでる外国出身の方より全然上手 ちょっと日本語忘れかけてる日本人みたいな感じ。His Japanese is excellent!!

  • @trice1857

    @trice1857

    3 жыл бұрын

    わかる 3年でこれはやばいわw

  • @ch-yw8ut

    @ch-yw8ut

    3 жыл бұрын

    子供の頃から日本語聞いてるからだな

  • @purple_sky
    @purple_sky2 жыл бұрын

    More common exceptions to the rule: 両親 (りょうしん) - 頭高 (1) 人生 (じんせい) - 頭高 (1) 半分 (はんぶん) - 中高 (3) 靴下 (くつした) - 中高 (2) 海外 (かいがい) - 頭高 (1)

  • @LimeGreenTeknii

    @LimeGreenTeknii

    Жыл бұрын

    商人 (しょうにん) - 頭高 (1)

  • @pahoopahoo
    @pahoopahoo3 жыл бұрын

    子供の頃少年ジャンプの新刊号が出る日を楽しみにしていた気持ちでこのチャンネルを見ている

  • @Sergeantpaprika
    @Sergeantpaprika3 жыл бұрын

    Sensei, you’re so humble. Thank you for sharing this!

  • @isprithul
    @isprithul3 жыл бұрын

    I can't thank you enough Dogen San, this series is so helpful and fun to watch

  • @aquaskysm3972
    @aquaskysm39723 жыл бұрын

    So much value in this video. Thank you for sharing!

  • @LadyHermes
    @LadyHermes3 жыл бұрын

    I think it's one of the best advice I ever heard through my learning. I like the way you teach and how passionate you are to share your knowledge. I'll gladly subscribe to your channel, thanks for your work.

  • @Akuryoutaisan21
    @Akuryoutaisan213 жыл бұрын

    This is so helpful thanks Dogen.

  • @svisvisvisvisvi
    @svisvisvisvisvi3 жыл бұрын

    Dōgen, I love the colouring (or is it colouration? Colourisation?) of this series! The quality of the production, and of course the content, makes me very happy. I don't know Japanese, but if I do end up studying it I'll already know so much about pitch accent 😄

  • @tokyokacie
    @tokyokacie2 жыл бұрын

    I’ve used HelloTalk before and I think i’ll use them again. Very helpful advice on there. Also, thanks for the education, Dogen!

  • @kishpawar
    @kishpawar3 жыл бұрын

    Hellotalk is actually absolutely the best thing for beginners. I've learned most of my vocabulary and also pronunciations from it.

  • @joaovictorcarvalho6339
    @joaovictorcarvalho63393 жыл бұрын

    ur videos are so aesthetically pleasing

  • @fresusjeak
    @fresusjeak3 жыл бұрын

    Even better lighting; congratulations on the continuous improvement!

  • @princessthyemis
    @princessthyemis3 жыл бұрын

    He's been studying for only 3 years?? He's so good! I need to speak more :(

  • @aquajoyah5450
    @aquajoyah54503 жыл бұрын

    Wonderful Japanese, goes to show how helpful it is to immerse yourself in native speakers' speech! Also thanks for the free tip, Dōgen-sensei! I can't believe how many words, so many of which are important and common, fall under that rule. SO helpful.

  • @tme11
    @tme113 жыл бұрын

    日本語うますぎてびっくり、友達と話してる感じがする!

  • @user-mo2hc2nn8o
    @user-mo2hc2nn8o2 жыл бұрын

    this was extremely useful, thanks!!!!!

  • @etherdog
    @etherdog3 жыл бұрын

    I am so glad to have this level of insight whilst beginning my solo study of Japanese. It is helping me avoid bad habits from occurring.

  • @user-on6xv3dw9v

    @user-on6xv3dw9v

    8 ай бұрын

    hows it going?

  • @lunaluna62
    @lunaluna623 жыл бұрын

    あとはしゅうさん、nihongoの発音もDogenさんが初めに例に出している学校、銀行などと同じピッチ?だと更に上手に感じます!日本人としてはこんなに細かい規則があるなんて知らずに話していたので外国人の方が日本語を学ぶのって本当に難しいんだなと思います。皆さん頑張って下さい! そしてこう言う動画の英語版も見てみたいなーなんて。ここは日本語を学ぶ方のチャンネルだからか難しいですね💦

  • @slpery86
    @slpery863 жыл бұрын

    Hi Dogen, i only discovered your channel a few weeks ago, you have really enjoyable content! Regarding pitch accents, I've lived in Japan for 3 and a half years and had no idea that was a thing! From the words you used as examples, luckily it feels like I somewhat picked up the correct pitch accents unintentionally. It really great to know that's a thing so i can be conscious of it, thank you for your service! :)

  • @abirhasankhan9327
    @abirhasankhan93273 жыл бұрын

    This video had the most relevant and probably the most useful sponsors segment in the history of KZread. Couldn't skip even 1 second of the video.

  • @benny496
    @benny4963 жыл бұрын

    this is next level advice thanks man.

  • @ahonagaikotsu5167
    @ahonagaikotsu51673 жыл бұрын

    最初の人日本語上手すぎやろ、すげえな。

  • @eron-kun7883
    @eron-kun78833 жыл бұрын

    VERY HELPFUL!

  • @eddylyle8329
    @eddylyle83293 жыл бұрын

    I don't even study Japanese lol but your videos are hecka entertaining and you inspire me to do a deep dive on Spanish phonetics, it being my second language. Keep it up, from a fan back in Seattle

  • @doitnow666
    @doitnow6663 жыл бұрын

    Who else doesn’t or barely know japanese but is very interested in these videos? Always been a fan of japanese culture, language and history. Currently reading The Taiheiki: A Chronicle of Medieval Japan and I love it. Keep up the videos!

  • @mochipengin
    @mochipengin3 жыл бұрын

    omg lang-8, brings back so much memories!!! got me through a lot of my university days lol

  • @christinam935
    @christinam9353 жыл бұрын

    Wow! The first video I found where you speak English! 😁 great video!

  • @AaronSmith-wz7hg
    @AaronSmith-wz7hg3 жыл бұрын

    めちゃめちゃ上手いです。

  • @lupin8516
    @lupin85163 жыл бұрын

    自動字幕をつけて英語の勉強に使わせていただいております。

  • @korvusliedke8913
    @korvusliedke89133 жыл бұрын

    Dogen, you’ve got the best language channel on KZread, by far!

  • @jessswann5879
    @jessswann587910 ай бұрын

    Thank you!

  • @SayuriSaying
    @SayuriSaying3 жыл бұрын

    8:14 *挨拶(あいさつ) as in a greeting :)

  • @jnnschnll9008
    @jnnschnll90083 жыл бұрын

    Thank you so much for this explanation! I use anki and colour code for pitch accent and already started noticing this pattern but you basically gave it a name! (I got really irritated when I first learnt the pattern for 先生 and started doubting my theory.)

  • @mythun6735
    @mythun67353 жыл бұрын

    I really wish he did more of these videos.

  • @Comp678
    @Comp6783 жыл бұрын

    These videos are really useful Dogen! Thanks a bunch!

  • @shami5enwow
    @shami5enwow3 жыл бұрын

    Love watching these videos as always, very informative! I was curious about words with three kanji with 4 (or 5) mora like 映画館 or 図書館 do they have any patterns?

  • @akikom.491
    @akikom.4913 жыл бұрын

    最初「俺は」って言って、次に「僕は」も使っていたけれど。「俺は」は友達同士でもスゴイ仲良くてカジュアルに使うから。初対面の人や目上の人と話す時は、男性も「私は」が良いと思うよ🧖😉

  • @KuroShiiiro
    @KuroShiiiro2 жыл бұрын

    wow, this makes so much sense. ive always pronounced it right but i never caught the pattern!

  • @user-yq1mz7fs9k
    @user-yq1mz7fs9k3 жыл бұрын

    I wouldn’t believe it’s really you, if I see you on HelloTalk😏 Like the one saying “本物?lol” at 10:40

  • @asuranrocks
    @asuranrocks3 жыл бұрын

    his japanese is fantastic!! i've not heard anyone achieve this in 3 years

  • @orangeoldfish2304
    @orangeoldfish23043 жыл бұрын

    Nobody can escape the とても上手です, not even in a learning app.

  • @salihcandemir9364

    @salihcandemir9364

    3 жыл бұрын

    That's a favorable cultural trait indeed, and yet I suffered from that a lot during these seven years of learning Japanese, since many Japanese speakers would never correct my pitch-accent, grammar or word choice, unless I make a very very obvious mistake. I always said 予備学校 for an English language prep school and then just recently I learned that the correct way to say this should be 予備校, and even if I say 予備校, people won't really understand what I actually mean, because in Japan there are almost no public universities teaching in English. So, I need to go like 大学入ってから一年英語の勉強をする予備校があるんだけど、、

  • @dmanden1242
    @dmanden12422 жыл бұрын

    I’m glad I stumbled on this video as a beginner.

  • @vitasiregar1602
    @vitasiregar16023 жыл бұрын

    Love this

  • @rrr.8
    @rrr.82 жыл бұрын

    As a Japanese speaker, the most distinctive part from native speaker in his perfect Japanese is the very first thing that dogen sensei says, mixed polite way and casual way. Sasuga sensei...!

  • @georgeocurioso5546
    @georgeocurioso55463 жыл бұрын

    Thank you to show us this amazing world of the japonese, my english is not very good, because i'm from Brasil. Thanks for your job

  • @kyounokaze
    @kyounokaze3 жыл бұрын

    Amazing

  • @ichigobatakekakashi
    @ichigobatakekakashi3 жыл бұрын

    しゅうさんの日本語はほぼ完ぺきですね! ところで私は男性が自分のことを「俺」というのが非常に気になります。丁寧な言葉使いをするときは「僕」か「私(わたし/わたくし」とすべきです。最近日本人でもふさわしくない状況で「俺」を使う人が多いので、外国の人が間違えるのは無理もありませんが、目上の人や良く知らない人の前では気を付けた方がいいと思います。

  • @justinsilver280

    @justinsilver280

    3 жыл бұрын

    賛成です!I'm going to expand on this comment because I really think it's important for other Japanese learners to know. The pronoun "Ore" is extremely casual and generally should not be used with anyone besides your close friends. If you use it among people with whom you are NOT close, you will likely appear as foolish, rude, or perhaps uneducated. You should simply use Watashi. Boku can also be used. But on a positive note, cheers to Shu-san. His spoken Japanese is crystal clear and easy to understand.

  • @user-pr7ue6ek4o

    @user-pr7ue6ek4o

    3 жыл бұрын

    I recommend not to use the 俺 except amongst close friends. And It’s impossible to use 俺 when you speak something with です、ます。 ✖️俺はアメリカ人です。 ○(私は)アメリカ人です。 ( )なのは、主語が必要としない時があるから。

  • @yoshihiromashimo6655

    @yoshihiromashimo6655

    3 жыл бұрын

    our minister of finance can be foolish rude and uneducated he describe himself as 俺 in our parliament. I think it sounds like just bossy

  • @coconutpineapple2489

    @coconutpineapple2489

    3 жыл бұрын

    You can't say ore at work or to people who you don't know. But watashi sounds like old man or politician or president at your company. Woman call myself watashi. Very polite man might say watashi. Some Japanese KZreadrs say that. But they never say to their friends.

  • @bertman4

    @bertman4

    3 жыл бұрын

    I think you hear too much "ore" 俺 if you're watching anime only. Watch some drama (not tokusatsu) and you will hear it less often. Pay attention when people are speaking to family or close friends, versus when they are speaking in a social or public setting. アニメだけ見てると「俺」が普通に聞こえてきますが実際は違います。ドラマとかも見た方が良いと思います。そういう中で普通の会話と家族や友人との会話を比較してみると勉強になると思います。

  • @JAPANquickies
    @JAPANquickies3 жыл бұрын

    You're the man Dogen!

  • @user-ex1pi5cx5e
    @user-ex1pi5cx5e3 жыл бұрын

    “おんがく”とかの鼻濁音できないんだよなぁ私。。。中学校の頃の音楽の先生が秋田出身で、鼻濁音に関して知ってる人だったから、助詞のがも合唱では鼻濁音で歌いましょうって教えられた。未だにできないからDogenさんのおんがくの発音すげーってなる😭

  • @jellosapiens7261
    @jellosapiens72613 жыл бұрын

    It's so hard for me to imagine saying a word with no accent having grown up with a language with as strong a stress-accent as English

  • @user-ws3lk1pz2w

    @user-ws3lk1pz2w

    3 жыл бұрын

    When I learned English at school, it was so hard for me to remember many words with accent. So we’re faced with the same difficulty.

  • @joshttale

    @joshttale

    3 жыл бұрын

    what helped me personally was thinking of the pitch accent of each word as musical pitch patterns. For example, to me 最高 is just さ at one pitch, followed by a rise and plateau at the い, and 案内 is the same but I drop pitch for the last mora.

  • @coconutpineapple2489

    @coconutpineapple2489

    3 жыл бұрын

    I haven't even cared English pitch accent and intonation. My English definitely sounds like a non native speaker. I don't care. They understand me. But when it comes to French, I started French conversation CD from repeating. So I don't need to struggle French pitch accent and intonation. it's hard to get correct pitch accent by studying each words. I assume just repeating each phrase is the key. But I haven't done this for pitch accent. I just wanted to memorize French phrases. I'm not interested in pitch accent. What I need to study is listening English. It's hard and more important.

  • @coconutpineapple2489

    @coconutpineapple2489

    3 жыл бұрын

    Shashou I'm very beginner of French. Maybe I meant intonation. Thank you for your information.

  • @jacquin8511

    @jacquin8511

    2 жыл бұрын

    It's not that there's no stress, but that stress (= foregrounding) is achieved differently in different languages. There are certain acoustic variables available to speakers: mainly duration, frequency (pitch), pitch movement (intonation), and intensity (loudness). In English, duration and intensity foreground syllables. A language like Japanese that employs duration for phonemic purposes (i.e. has vowel length distinctions e.g. 気韻 [=きいん, dignity] vs. 金 [=きん, gold]) will use different phonetic variables to realise stress, such as pitch movement. Hence Dogen's emphasis on pitch accent - it's as critical to correct pronunciation in Japanese as using correct duration/intensity "stress" in English.

  • @high84merry3
    @high84merry32 жыл бұрын

    丁寧に話すときは男性でも「私」がいいと思います。 『俺の日本語』というのはカジュアルすぎます。

  • @alexdemoya2119
    @alexdemoya21193 жыл бұрын

    Dogen, you should call this "The Sempai Notices Me Series"

  • @user-jo2sd3nt4t
    @user-jo2sd3nt4t3 жыл бұрын

    日本語のアクセントは外国の方からすると難しいかも知れませんね。  日本人同士でも出身地や世代によって違う場合もありますし、「音楽」と「音楽室」といったように複合語になるとアクセントが変わる場合もありますし…

  • @DJDCann
    @DJDCann3 жыл бұрын

    0:30 He ends the sentence with この動画を録音しています。録音 means recording but mainly for audio. Technically he is recording his voice, but he's referring the video that is being recorded so 録画 should probably be used instead. If you know the kanji, this shouldn't be too hard to remember.

  • @eleonorav.d.d.8864
    @eleonorav.d.d.88643 жыл бұрын

    Me hearing this, wait どうげん is also four 🤔 Dogen can be added to the list

  • @blu837
    @blu8373 жыл бұрын

    普通に発音とかうますぎて日本人だと思っちゃう

  • @9chPa
    @9chPa3 жыл бұрын

    逆に日本語上手いですねと言われないレベル

  • @Norio1213
    @Norio12132 жыл бұрын

    DOGENさん、するどいです。 出だしが「申します」でしたね。 「謙譲語を使いこなすんだ。すごい」と引き込まれたところに、 「おれ」とかの表現で「おやおや」と、不思議な感じがして 注意がそちらに移りましたね

  • @janismittelstaedt5642
    @janismittelstaedt56423 жыл бұрын

    A few more common exceptions to the 4 mora rule, which are all atamadaka: 今晩 - こんばん - tonight 毎晩 - まいばん - every night 毎日 - まいにち - every day 音楽 - おんがく - music 兄弟 - きょうだい - siblings 結構 - けっこう - 'I'm fine./It's alrigth'

  • @marcpanther7924

    @marcpanther7924

    3 жыл бұрын

    www.weblio.jp/content/%E6%AF%8E%E6%97%A5 Adverbial usage of 毎日 can be Heiban. Do you know of any example sentences?

  • @jhawk1229
    @jhawk12293 жыл бұрын

    A question about the 4-mora words almost always being heiban. You said it applies to 2-kanji, 4-mora words, but what about single-kanji, 4-mora words? Words like 侍(さむらい)and 紫(むらさき)come to mind. Are these words also heiban? If so, is it also because of the 4-mora rule or just coincidental?

  • @virvalka6219
    @virvalka62192 жыл бұрын

    mindblown!

  • @malkavian6275
    @malkavian62753 жыл бұрын

    Love you dogen

  • @swame
    @swame7 ай бұрын

    Thanks, that was really useful. You were so cool even back then, Dogen. I wish you did more free stuff like this, because channel is all about memes today. I like the background, too. You are genius of proper light position and vibes on your camera frame. English is actually not my native language, if you or even just someone interested - then you could know that im russian 🇷🇺 guy, in order to notice some pattern that shows itself up. Although there is no Japanese at my comment, haha. I barely speak it yet, despite liking how i can mimic some sounds. Hope, i will get back to my comment at future.

  • @Sadoriel
    @Sadoriel3 жыл бұрын

    and now Dogen is going to have a lot of followers also on Hello Talk (me included)

  • @user-mq2xn2te3g
    @user-mq2xn2te3g3 жыл бұрын

    外国人の言う「日本語」、だいたい「に→ほ↑ん↓ご」みたいに「ん」で下がりがちですね。自然には「ほ」で上がった後そのままの高さです。

  • @blimobot6627
    @blimobot66273 жыл бұрын

    I’m enjoying the evolution of your background as well as this new series. Thanks Dogen!

  • @-Bagel-
    @-Bagel-3 жыл бұрын

    I want a video of Dogen just staring into the camera and complimenting all of our Japanese. I was starting to feel proud for Shū after hearing his praise. lol

  • @lloydmeadors
    @lloydmeadors3 жыл бұрын

    His pronunciation is great, I agree Dogen. I live in Sapporo and most of my foreign friends you can tell they're not Japanese, though I'm often confused for Japanese until they see me(myself being foreign here) his pronunciation almost sounds native

  • @calvinlau6938
    @calvinlau69383 жыл бұрын

    When I listened to Shu speaking Japanese, and then he said "Japanese Teacher Grades Your Japanese", I was like "wait, he is an English native speaker? Then he must be native in both languages!". Could not imagine he has studied Japanese for only three years. Bravo! Really impressed! It's a very educational video. Thanks Dogen and Shu!

  • @dougthemoleman
    @dougthemoleman3 жыл бұрын

    中国 might be another exception? Though I don't know if country names fall under this rule at all to begin with. Thank you for pointing this stuff out!

  • @lordcanti
    @lordcanti3 жыл бұрын

    A wild dogen appears in my feed!

  • @kori228
    @kori2283 жыл бұрын

    as a crapshoot idea, this makes me wonder if there are any correspondences to different Chineses' tones, like if it's high/low in the same place like 学生 in Mandarin is rise-high, Cantonese is low-high some are kinda, like 最高/最低 being mid-high in Cantonese 簡単 - rise-high in Cantonese might just be a coincidence though, a lot don't work for the heiban exceptions: 音楽 - high-low in Cantonese 兄弟 - high-low in Cantonese 先生 - high-high in Cantonese (so not a match) 案内 - mid-low in Cantonese 残念 - low-falling, low 給料 - high low 迷惑 - low-falling, low 挨拶 - high/rise, mid 玄関 - low-falling, high 経済 - high-mid

  • @kevinbelho115
    @kevinbelho1153 жыл бұрын

    I can't tell how old Dogen's videos actually are.. they look old but is new.. some look new but is old..

  • @kliudrsfhlih
    @kliudrsfhlih3 жыл бұрын

    Having studied corpus linguistics I'd say it's quite accurate to say hundreds more 6:22

  • @cyanicbanana
    @cyanicbanana3 жыл бұрын

    Another mistake I think I found was when he pronounces 小さいころから「ずっと↓」 , but his pronunciation and the way he expresses his thoughts is really good!

  • @1337hacks
    @1337hacks3 жыл бұрын

    That Hellotalk guy be stealing all of Dogen's patreons now

  • @pahoopahoo
    @pahoopahoo3 жыл бұрын

    しゅーさんの日本語についてですが、確かに厳しい目で見ればまだいろいろと不自然な点があるのですが、発声や発音、またおそらく聞き取りに関しても基礎がしっかりしていることが明らかなので、あとは意識して微修正を積み重ねていけばよいという段階かと思います。 ただアメリカに住みながらこの(特に話すことにおいて)「微修正を積み重ねる」というのは結構大変なことだとは思うのですが、しゅーさんは動画の中で日本人の友達がいると言っていたので、私からの1つの提案としてはその友達に「本当に小さなことでもいいから自分の言った日本語がほんの少しでも(用法でも発音でも)ネイティブの日本人の日本語と違っていたらすぐに指摘してくれ」と頼んでみるのがいいと思います。 しゅーさんとその友達にそれなりの信頼関係があるのならいろいろと指摘してくれるはずなので、それをメモって修正を重ねていけばまだまだ上達できるかと思います。

  • @yoshihiromashimo6655

    @yoshihiromashimo6655

    3 жыл бұрын

    don't hesitate to use english if you want to explain something

  • @rmblroff
    @rmblroff3 жыл бұрын

    HelloTalk便利そう!!日本人でもあんま使わない語彙って発音がわからなかったりするから、外国人のフリして「〇〇の発音がわからないよ〜」って投稿すれば教えてもらえるよね。

  • @yosidaeasie8045
    @yosidaeasie80453 жыл бұрын

    文脈とかで発音変わるの普段は自然にやってるけど論理的に考えながら喋ると頭おかしくなりそうや。

  • @yabbamita
    @yabbamita3 жыл бұрын

    I will forever remain loyal to lang8.. haha aight I'll try hellotalk because dogen sensei recommends it

  • @jvu2ilj26
    @jvu2ilj263 жыл бұрын

    This is something I can't really seem to understand... Very often I hear Japanese people mix casual and formal Japanese in conversation! Just yesterday I was watching two guys go to a 心霊スポット and one of them was using です、ます to talk to the other guy most of the time, but sometime he would say things like そうなんだ or そうだね, or even ask the other guy questions in casual Japanese. I realize the guy in this video should not have done it, it's a completely different context, but while consistency is important - I guess sometimes it's ok to mix them? Does it depend on the relationship between the two people or something?

  • @user-ch5zy6vt2f

    @user-ch5zy6vt2f

    3 жыл бұрын

    It's not a problem mixing. I mix it too sometimes. When I'm not 100% confortable to regular Japanese, but at the same time I don't need to use formal... I mix too. But yes , that's a lot about the relationship.

  • @yoshihiromashimo6655

    @yoshihiromashimo6655

    3 жыл бұрын

    interesting i guess two guys mixed formal way丁寧語 with respect way 敬語 i mean they act in formal way because of TV show which so many unfamiliar people watch but in thier workplace years of work on TV is most important. you must talk in respect way to the person who started to work at TV show even for1 month earlier probably they don't usually talk each other in respect way because of thier relations in the show you watched they try to talk in formal way丁寧語 because of TV show but sometimes they do usual conversation without keeping mind of camera

  • @jvu2ilj26

    @jvu2ilj26

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@yoshihiromashimo6655 That's a very good point. I also thought maybe they use 丁寧語 because of the video, but normally they talk to each other casually. Still, I feel like it's ok to mix these two sometimes. Even if you're talking to someone formally, but if the talk becomes really exciting for a moment or you want to make a joke or something, I think it's ok to use casual Japanese... I could be wrong though.

  • @jordanrodrigues8265

    @jordanrodrigues8265

    3 жыл бұрын

    The way I've heard it described academically is that desu form is used for the part of the conversation that's related to the social roles that motivated the conversation, but if an utterance strays off topic and is a personal touch then that's when you're most likely to hear intimate forms mix in. I hesitate to give specific examples - I'm nowhere near good enough - but let's say there's a bicycle mechanic who has become friends with a customer. He'll continue to use desu-forms when talking about that customers business, even if many other topics are in plain form.

  • @coconutpineapple2489

    @coconutpineapple2489

    3 жыл бұрын

    We mix it. But we don't mix at work. Ore is too casual in this case. Moushimasu is too polite in this case. We know he isn't Japanese. So we don't care that. We don't feel it's rude. But boku wa ~ to i・i・ma・su is natural.

  • @rmblroff
    @rmblroff3 жыл бұрын

    シュウさん、日本語お上手ですね!たった3年でここまでできるなんて凄いです 「にほんご(日本語)」を中高型で発音されていることだけが気になりました。 「日本語」は中高型(遮断機、ジョバンニ、御三家、破廉恥、ミサンガ、モモンガ、アレンジ、阿寒湖、お天気、etc)の仲間ではなく、 平板型(おしんこ、五反田、お転婆、クリンチ、道産子、かばん語、etc)の仲間です!

  • @michelezanda3462
    @michelezanda34623 жыл бұрын

    Hey, just out of curiosity: at 11:41 you said “hiragana” and (to me at least) it sounds like the “accent” is on the first mora “hi-” and the you bring down the pitch when you say “-ragana”, and being hiragana a 4 mora word, is it another example of a 4 mora word not being a “flat” pitched word?

  • @nootherlikemyownskin3818
    @nootherlikemyownskin38183 жыл бұрын

    Could you do that again? 5:35 - 6:23 Just saying words with Japanese accent. For a coming video.

  • @DarkDrakman
    @DarkDrakman3 жыл бұрын

    Drink a shot every time Dogen says "wonderful start" or "fantastic place"

  • @0Enigmatic0

    @0Enigmatic0

    3 жыл бұрын

    This is a wonderful start! Your pitch accent though...

  • @DengueBurger

    @DengueBurger

    3 жыл бұрын

    "you're gunna be in amazing shape" - dōgen in previous videos