Learn Japanese with Yuta: bit.ly/3w7ki0h

@Karman7

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ЯR

@lolajane9876

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It doesn’t work

@Karman7

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@@lolajane9876 Why?

@lolajane9876

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@@Karman7 idk it hasn’t sent me any emails

i might be reaching here but i think yuta will teach you the kind of japanese real life japanese people actually speak

@yooaab

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🤣

@ForAnAngel

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I have a feeling you may be right!

@vanessameow1902

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Hmm you're right..... That is a bit of a reach.

@frolad3d

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its a big conspiracy theory

@seeanthonyn

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What gave you that impression? 😁

"です is a copula and ます is an axiliary verb which means gramatical explanations aren't always useful" I fell on that line. Very funny and yet very accurate.

@dizzydaisy909

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They'd be useful if he went into more detail about what those words mean

@andrewpinedo1883

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A X I L I A R Y

@omp199

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In case anyone is here looking for facts, the real word is "auxiliary", with a "u". An auxiliary thing is a thing that helps or provides support. So you can think of auxiliary verbs as helper verbs. We have them in English. For example, the word "can" in "I can walk".

@mattiamele3015

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Neither is correct. Desu is not a copula and masu is not a verb, so of course it can’t be an auxiliary verb.

@omp199

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@@mattiamele3015 What is your reasoning for saying that "desu" is not a copula and that "masu" is not a verb?

Yuta is easily the best Japanese teacher on KZread

@matoikazamaki9522

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I like Yuta a lot but the best is cure dolly in my opinion

@TheOtakuDude

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@@matoikazamaki9522 same!

@khalilahd.

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Agreed. He’s helped me learn so much 🙏🏽

@user-mx1rb2vz3v

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If you wanna learn japanese that isn't only for beginners, i recommend you watching misa from japanese ammo with misa, she is the best teacher imo

@lgndrylucas1984

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He’s good, though Misa is also extremely helpful, especially past beginner content.

7:50 It's funny coming across words like 原油 (crude oil), 物価 (cost of living), and 経済 (economics) in places like lessons and pre-made Anki decks. You wonder when you'll actually come across these words organically and then the Prime Minister strings them all together in two sentences.

Since I started learning Japanese, I've always used "です" and "ます" and now I've seen this, I think it's pretty interesting that both words are part of the けいご system. Definitely need to look into non-keigo forms/replacements, but still useful to know nonetheless.

@itsachickenwiththing

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Many Japanese courses start with desu/masu forms of verbs since it's the most straight-forward way to teach the basics to non-Japanese speakers. Whereas it makes sense to teach Japanese children "informal" Japanese first since that's what they're gonna hear most of the time outside of school.

never saw a vid that early

@johndreemurr5574

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Same!

This is rather similar, if more complex than german. We have simple german, what you speak everywhere between friends and family, dialects which can change the style and grammar and high german, which is used with strangers and official situations.

In my defense, in every textbook for foreigners I've come across, "keigo" is only used to refer to sonkeigo and kenjougo, while -desu and -masu are called teineigo, hence why I was misinformed when I wrote that comment. However, I would like to mention, and I promise it's true, that beginner textbooks do indeed teach plain Japanese! (-da, -shita, etc). It just comes after teineigo, because it's more important to use it with people you don't know (as you yourself admitted!) and it's easier to conjugate than plain Japanese :)

Estelle from Tales of Vesperia very clearly pronounces the "U"s in です and ます. In her case I think it's just a verbal quirk though.

@imeralvarez5

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Nice to se a Tales fan here, I eventually want to learn more Japanese to play my games fully in Japanese.

@novantha1

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Yeah, fully enounciating otherwise unemphasized sounds is "weird" in Japanese, but not always in a bad way. Pople who say を as "wo" are definitely seen as otaku, though, lol.

@simonlow0210

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Lol, didn't expect a Tales fan here.

@danielantony1882

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@@novantha1 Damn. We got an Oni who likes Tea.

@kirank287

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Ok

Dropping keigo during a conversation without explicitly declaring it is so beautiful 😯❤

This is the best explanation I’ve ever seen of です and ます.

Your videos are so helpful! They’ve made learning Japanese so much easier for me 💜

Sometimes I have trouble grasping the difference between "polite" and "formal" Japanese, but your explanation/examples were super helpful. Thank you!

i was greatly surprised by how often japanese actually DO pronounce the "U" sound in "desu" and "masu"... WHEN they talk over phone

@gtc239

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@Dancing Queen Most of the time, yes, although they do sometimes pronounce the u.

When I was taking Japanese classes, keigo was the first form taught whenever we learned new words or grammar, so to me - on the exceptionally rare instances where I speak Japanese - keigo is my preferred form of speaking.

A very clear explanation. Thanks!

Great lesson - Thank you. 😀😀😀 Your channel is awesome !!!!

Yuta: simple video talking about です My brain: *repressed Rozen Maiden meme memories intensifies*

Thank you for making this video, it is very helpful for understanding the differences. Its great that you show so many different examples. よい　しゆまつ！

0:42 nice dialogue replacement, you did a very convincing job at syncing your rerecording to your mouth! 🤣🤣

Hey Yuta! Thanks for the video, it was helpful! Could you make a video talking about Neutral VS. Plain VS. Polite Japanese? Thank you!

ありがとございます、先生！

Thank you, this was very useful!

Another wonderful video thank you senpai 😁

Didnt understand when to use keigo and now I understand it better. Thank you

Amazing explanation thank you 🙏

finally! 🤩thank you for this very enlightening video, yuta-sensei! 🙇‍♂🙇‍♂🙇‍♂🙇‍♂ i always wondered what its about this -desu and -masu... 😅

Another good explanation.

Buen vídeo Yuta. Sigue así 👍

ありがとうございます

Ive been watching your videos, and I have found the same common learning obstacles that exist with Japanese, also exist with any other foreign language. Long ago , I learned German, but I also forgot German, because I live in the USA in a location where there are not any native speakers of German to practice it. The problem is. if you do not practice the language, then you forget and do not retain the language. Then your back at the beginning, learning it all over again as if you are a new person just starting to learn German. That's what happened to me. I can remember parts of the German language, but that does not mean I can remember the language as I did long ago, when I remembered how to have conversations with people who speak German. You have to learn German by practicing it, by speaking it over and over again with native speakers, to understand how it is spoken naturally. The instructor who was teaching me in a classroom with other students, emphasized that this is important in order to retain it in memory. That's just half of the battle, because you have to you also learn how to write and read the German language. This is true with Japanese, and this is true any other foreign language. There are no short cuts around learning a foreign language, in this issue. I could learn everything you could teach me about Japanese, but I have to practice it. It takes practice to remember, retain, and instantly recall the language. Just like learning German, learning Japanese requires finding someone to speak it with for the same issue of retaining it. Thats the problem I have, as much as I have with speaking German. I wish this was not the nature of things in life, but unfortunately the human brain forgets anything it learns that is complicated, that is not used often from there on. Knowledge is like a knife that a chef uses to cut food. If you don't sharpen the knife before using it, then it doesn't cut the food properly, and it will slip and cut you.

This was a really insightful video (I honestly thought keigo = formal. good that I know the difference now).

Hey Yuta. Can you please check out Chapter 2 of "Tobira: Gateway To Advanced Japanese"? The text from that chapter (page 28 「日本語のスピーチスタイル」) is about casual & everyday Japanese (written in Japanese) and I'm very curious what your opinion on that text is.

Yuta, I love these videos! I would love it if you made a video on the archaic keigo that samurai characters speak, for example Kaedehara Kazuha from Genshin Impact always uses 拙者 and 御座る and the rules that apply

lol, I was just thinking about exactly this about 4 hours ago on my drive into work. And specifically if you had done one on this!!

Definite source of confusion: In my college classes we first learned the difference between です/ます and no です/ます as "polite" and "casual" language. I don't recall ever really hearing the terms 敬語 or 丁寧語 at that time. Later we learned "敬語" as referring specifically to the Honorific (尊敬語) and Humble (謙譲語) forms. I don't recall it ever being explained that です/ます was a part of that umbrella term. Going forward if we talked about "studying 敬語" it was always in reference to Honorific/Humble form. Maybe it was to avoid confusion because です/ます was something we had learned from very early on as its own thing.

Needs more desu If you remember this meme, you're old

@ExpedientFalcon

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@Kawaii desu wa わ added to the end of a sentence is generally used by female characters to sound more feminine. It's becoming less common in real life but is very common in anime and games.

Now I finally get what ますand です is used! I want to join Yuta's learning class but I think there is a age limit

I completed level 1 and level 2 of Barron's diplomatic Japanese ... I did not even realize that multiple verb forms existed, I was told dictionary forms were "infinitives" and using masu was the conjugated verb form. Conjugated vs infinitive made sense to me as someone who had studied romance languages. As a result, my ability to understand non keigo sentences remained at effectively zero despite years of study :(

Okay, so ます and です are part of 敬語 (けいご). There are 5 types of keigo. You can talk informally or formally while using keigo. 👍 I forgot Netflix added 'Love is blind - Japan', now I have one show where I can follow real Japanese.

i am learning japanese and I think if you learn the textbook version of the japanese , you can understand the normal conversation easily. I may take few days to adjust, but you don't need to study separately for normal japanese conversation. That's what i think from my experience.

Yuta’s beard gets better and better

When it comes to switching from Keigo to Tamego, I always think of a Russian song about switching from formal "na Vy" language to informal "na ty". "Иду на Вы" the guy says near the start of the song. ｢(私は)敬語で行きます｡｣ "Иду на ты" he says near the end of the first verse. ｢(僕は)タメ語で行く｡｣ "Иди" the girl replies. ｢行ってよ｡｣ "Идём на ты" they both sing together near the end of the song. ｢(我々は)タメ語で行く｡｣ That is, the song is about the two of them going between different stages in their relationship, and it uses formal/informal language to show this. It's a sweet song, but also kind of weird in other parts. I wonder if there are any Japanese songs kind of like it.

It seems Yor even uses keigo with her adopted daughter, who doesn't reciprocate. I always wondered about Golden Darkness from To Love Ru. She seems to use keigo with everyone, but I don't recall her ever using an honorific when addressing anyone. It's easy to guess what this is meant to convey, but I wonder if there is more to it that I'm still missing.

Tohru from Fruits Basket only speaks in Keigo out of habit! It’s a part of her back story. And I think in Sailor Moon, (might just have been the live action version) Usagi gets offended when Ami calls her Tsukino-san and speaks in keigo with her because she thought they were closer friends than that!

Just like in the Philippines, we normally add "po" to make it formal. But we dropped it as soon as we became friends

I get the gist of what you are explaining because it's the same in Spanish when you speak to older people. Learning Japanese is so much harder when, well, everything just sounds Japanese. I really want to learn but it's so discouraging when everything is still so confusing. I find reading it even more difficult because I can't tell where one word ends and the other begins.

@danielantony1882

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Well, you gotta figure those out as you go on. If you can't do that then I'd recommend starting with vocabulary.

At least in Dekomori's case she's not using "desu" to be polite, she's using "desu" because it sounds like "death" and she thinks that's cool because she's a chuunibyou.

Wow amazing education I need to relearn japanese

Yeah! i don't know history but it's similar here in Philippines i don't know where it came from, we also use politeness who are older & family members too.

probably not going to happen cause you're trying to appeal to a larger audience, but I'd appreciate more advanced videos. you're actually a pretty good teacher and decent at explaining, but these very basic topics( like whats desu/masu) are only really interesting to beginners. For intermediate learners it would be nice to tackle more complicated topics? Just a suggestion.

@gix9461

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I would love that!

@sharlacher8

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I started his paid classes a few weeks ago and I'm having a great time. Small bite sized videos that are packed with info. And there are literally hundreds of them. Even though I bought the lesson plan, I still get emails almost daily from him with free lessons. I'd look into that!

@gix9461

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@@sharlacher8 thank you!!!

@saikiimhere.p1831

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@@sharlacher8 just a question, how did u do paid lessons? cus i wanna do one too.

@sharlacher8

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@@saikiimhere.p1831 if you click the link in the description it lays out everything for you. Scroll through that and find out if it works for you! I think the option for payment is made towards the bottom

Yuta is there a way to watch terrace house with English translation and Japanese pronunciation like you show?

I would love to see a video talking about Japanese media love confessions. I've heard people reference "the moon is beautiful tonight", but I'd like to hear other examples that aren't as direct as "suki/daisuki/aishiteru".

@guinganosobo

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私に毎日味噌汁を作ってください

I'm 100% gonna sign up for you soon as i get paid properly at my startup. I've been learning japanese so hard that i know how to write about 1300 kanji, but im terrified of accidentally being rude by saying the wrong 'me' like watashi, watakushi, boku, ore, or jibun. >.< id like to come across in a western sense, friendly but forward, but im not sure thats possible without perfect understanding of the language.

Hello, great video but I have a quick question as I watch a lot of different movies and videos I don’t see Japanese people often using ません or ませんでした so what are the different ways of making a verb negative other than putting ません instead of ます.

Finally, somebody's talking about it

I was trying to relate this in my mind when it comes to English and it sounds like the English equivalent would be when you are polite to a stranger or a person you just met you tend to air in the side of politeness as opposed to a close friend where you can skip the politeness because you know each other. If you were to talk to a close friend that way it would come off rude or maybe condescending. People talk polite to older people too like how nurses talk to elderly people in elderly home. Am I getting the sense of what this all means?

Suggestion: Say that there's anime in the thumbnail title or description so people will be more inclined to watch. I scanned immediately to check if there is anime in this video or not. Maybe others wouldn't have bothered scanning. Request: Please do a video on Itsuki Nakano from the quintessential quintuplets re Itsuki's supposed keigo and stuff. I've had this theory for the last several months about Itsuki. Part of my theory is that I ask people what Itsuki's character type is (the 4 older Quints are onee-san/ara ara, tsundere, kuudere/dandere and genki). People tell me a lot that Itsuki speaks keigo or something. Well I find it ridiculous that you have to see the original Japanese to understand what Itsuki's type is because we who watch dubs, read English manga or even watch subs but don't know enough Japanese wouldn't then quite understand Itsuki. But eh I wanna see what all the fuss is about re Itsuki's keigo. I suspect it WON'T really change my mind on what I think Itsuki's type is. Or any or all the 7 main characters in TQQ. how they speak Japanese I believe is very important to understanding the plot eg the honorifics, the lost in translation stuff (eg when they say things like tsurui, hatsukoi, uso, etc that are removed from the dub). I compiled a lot of the lost in translation stuff in r/gotoubun

3:40 Is the "ikiki dekiru" part right? I thought it would be "iki dekiru" or something, does dekiru has special ways of combining with words?

yuma sama i missed you i just sub btw

imagine the social anxiety of transitioning to plain japanese in a sentence thinking you are good with someone only to see that person not dropping the keigo.

3:40 "As long as you add -desu or -masu at the end of a sentence, you're using keigo." How can I politely tell people to shut up? I badly need this please.

@nicbentulan

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maybe check out yuta's video on swearing? Title: Japanese Swearing 101 ID: KIPsf-_Amzs

When would you use one over the other? Are desu and masu interchangeable?

Arigato 🤘

I usaully only hear です in short sentenced/statements, and I hear ます in a fair bit more variety, and even in a bit more informal stuff too ide say

I always had "desu" down as a present tense conjugated verb for being, and "masu" as a present tense conjugation suffix for the majority of Japanese verbs (with deshita and mashita being the past tense counterparts.) Time to watch the video and see how wrong I am :P

@reloadpsi

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Nope, it's more like the difference between "tu" and "vous" in French instead. Today I learned!

@captsorghum

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Well if _copula_ is "A verb, such as a form of _be_ or _seem,_ that identifies the predicate of a sentence with the subject," then the first part seems correct. Masu as an auxiliary verb implies it's used with another primary verb, similar to how "to be" and "have" are used in the phrases "to be running" and "have gone." So an additional verb and not a conjugation of the main verb. Feel free to pick this apart, as I don't really know what I'm talking about.

@captsorghum

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Actually I always thought of です as "is", as in "これはペンです" (which I didn't realize was keigo). But then the "is" in "is running" would be an auxiliary verb, so I guess that would make it more similar to ます. Of course in English it has a completely different purpose, nothing to do with politeness.

@danielantony1882

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Yeah, です is copula. That is correct. But it's also polite. The informal version is た, the technical/neutral(which can also be formal) version is ある(inanimate), and いる(animate). I don't know what that form of language is called but it's used a lot in declarations, narratorrs of books, and news-papers, I think.

How much does this course cost? 😅 I always wanted to learn it but it is incredibly hard on my own 😅

2:05 oh yay! what does it mean? 2:08 YUTA.

You mention not pronouncing the 'u' at the end of desu and masu, which I had noticed among many, many other words both at the end of the word and anywhere else within the word. But one source I have been learning from explained that the syllable is pronounced but very subtly, which they described as being a whispered syllable. Are there various syllables that aren't pronounced at all and/or whispered? Or is this just something for 'u' in certain words?

@reloadpsi

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Yeah, you're meant to hang on the consonant a bit to fill to syllable space. It's kinda like waiting out a pause when you're playing a musical instrument.

@tidenly

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Look up a video by dogen called "Japanese Pronunciation 101: Devoicing!". It basically explains it. Its one of those things you kind of pick up naturally by just speaking and listening to Japanese natives though.

For some reason I didn't initially recognize that ます　is an auxiliary verb because I thought of it only in the context of keigo and copula. But of course it's part of a verb, therefore it CAN NOT be a copula. copula are neccesary for nouns. It isn't that difficult, it's just not something westerners are used to.

Hello, can you please specify, what exactly you mean by "when they are your age". Does it mean they are exactly the same age, or more less around the same age, give or take 4-5 years. For example, if I am 28 and the japanese person is 32, are they the "same" age or is the age gap too wide for that?

Will, if you switch things around a bit, Masu = Forceu / Accelerationu

Always educational Yuta, thank you. So adults learning Japanese are actually getting allllllllllllllll parts of the Japanese language at once unlike the more effective way of learning the language in steps?? This makes complete sense why adults struggle grasping the basics, like I still don’t know when to not pronounce the “u” or “i” in words, when I learned Italian a similar rule not pronouncing a letter was in common numbers like 21, 28, 31, 38, 41, 48 and so on. Perhaps learning Japanese in steps like a Japanese native would make it easier tho I understand the Senpai would not want to be spoken to like a kindergartner so us adults are forced to learn the polite and casual way together which inherently is confusing to retain. I find learning Japanese as challenging as my own native Anishinabe language which are very similar including Italian because these three languages use vowels nearly exactly the same, in fact Japanese and my indigenous language have exactly the same spelling of words with entirely different meanings!

@KillsAll.

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Anishinabe is pronounced with the same cadence and annunciation as in Japanese: A-ni-shi-na-be (Ah-knee-she-nah-bay) so the similarities in speaking them so help

@seneca983

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@@KillsAll. "I still don’t know when to not pronounce the “u” or “i” in words" My understanding is that they usually go unpronounced (or at least get devoiced) when they are between voiceless consonants and at the end of words when coming after a voiceless consonant. For a better explanation, see Dogen's video on the subject.

@michelledoty9818

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Wow, Wikipedia says Anishinabe is native North American. Thanks for sharing some of your heritage!

Is the transition from keigo to plain speech, like in the last segment, a conscious decision or something that people just pick up and do subconsciously?

@danielantony1882

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Conscious.

I don't know why I was so obsessed with "です means to be" I guess we hardly use words that don't have a direct meaning or translation in spanish (my native language) or english, so words like です or ます or adding お are a headache to me... so... is it correct to assume that です/ます just add a nuance of respect? I been kind of self learning this last 4 months in an app but I write (or intend to) in Twitter :) sometimes I just repeat words/kanji I learned but these kind of words like です/ます grammar particles sometimes drive me through the wall. very interesting video, sorry for the long comment. お疲れ様です、どうも有難うございます :)

Who’s that Digimon plush that he has on his video?

How much is your lessons?

I just started studying Japanese recently and after watching this I'm incredibly confused and curious what you use to substitute desu in sentences where it acts as "he's/she's/it's/I'm" and there's no other words besides the noun subject if speaking non-keigo.

wtf, this was great!

Despite being Intermediate in Japanese I watch Yuta channel like i am a beginner 😂

This is interesting and surprising to me! Masu is an auxiliary verb? I always thought it was a suffix. What did masu original mean as a verb?

@MusicalRaichu

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it's both. it's more than a suffix because it inflects like other verbs. yet it doesn't mean anything on it's own but only when attached to real verbs. i have no idea about its etymology. i'd be interested to know myself.

@Verbalaesthet

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@@MusicalRaichu Both? It cant be both. A suffix is not a word on its own but an auxiliary verb is. I think it's just a suffix.

@Damianndayo

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Masu is an auxiliary verb, but it doesn't really 'mean anything', it is used though to pay respect to the person you are talking with

@MusicalRaichu

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@@Damianndayo from a European language perspective it behaves as a suffix like Verbal says. in Japanese grammar, they classify it as an auxiliary like Yuta says. a grammar is just a set of rules that creates valid sentences. either way of treating it seems to work, so take your pick.

How did Yuta forget the one character known for saying desu?! Suiseiseki from Rozen Maiden.

By the way, does Yuta produce anything for free after his 3 1st lessons? Or is everything else with the premium. I cannot afford premium however I still wish anyone studying best of luck!

@lgndrylucas1984

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He gives you the first 3 lessons, then advertises his premium group for the following week without sending lessons, and afterward sends new free lessons daily. Or that’s at least what happened to me when I signed up a few weeks ago.

@Ben-dk9sk

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@@lgndrylucas1984 I gotta re subscribe to his email group then! Thanks haha

Is it common for foreigners to speak with Keigo in all situations? I would prefer to learn formally first, and then understand how to speak without it.

1:10 which anime is that?

The thing that confused me the most starting out was the idea of men and women speaking different versions of Japanese and yet still understanding the other. I used to think they taught different words to each gender, and it blew my mind thinking that A:) I had to somehow separate out the words for a specific gender of speech to learn, and B:) If they never spoke the words of the opposite gender then how could they remember what they mean when used. But now I feel like this concept was an over exaggeration or slight misunderstanding from the person who told me the idea. I still try to learn keigo word structure, because even in real-life english conversations I tend to speak like I'm above the people around me and never get too close or comfortable. Although when trying to talk to someone (that I see as less intelligent than myself) about complicated topics, I try to translate the concepts into more common words and ideas that they might understand better.

6:28 Typo?

So it's sort of like using "usted" in Spanish or "vous" in French instead of "tu"

It's actually sad seeing your videos get so little views considering your channel has over 1 million subscribers

Desu is my favourite word in japanese lol

Well what about greetings. You dont say Ohaio gosai. or Ogenki Ka. They have Mas and Des in them. so what is an inform...non keigo greeting?

When I pick up desu or masu, I feel like I’m Leonardo DiCaprio in that scene where he points at the TV

I am sorry to have to correct you, but it's actually auxiliary verb and not axiliary verb... just as a small sidenote, axillary is an adjective that means [something] relating to armpits

now im just wondering if sign language is universal, maybe i should learn that too XD

@omp199

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Different countries use different signed languages. You'll have to find out which one is used in the country you want to use it in.

It's slang for death match; a polite, gentlemanly way to settle disputes.

@danielantony1882

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Bruh

0:46 not a big deal just wanted to let you know that auxiliary is not spelled correctly

Are です and ます interchangeable?

@JacksonTheJackie

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です is for nouns and adjectives, and ます is for verbs.

If I mixed up desu and masu in a sentence with a Japanese person, would they still understand me?

@as2s3hf7gff

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I think they still understand u but they'll know u're still beginner in Japanese or u're gaijin (foreigner)

Desudesudesu