LINE STAMPS😅

that makes 9 in total

@@cendora7576 Could you list out

イ可ゅっτω＠？≠″ｬ｣ﾚもι″ｶゞぁゑぢゃω！☆ミ No, this is not a glitch. This was a popular form of texting back in the 2000s. Gal-moji

I was 110% certain, LINE stickers would make the list. It's a writing system that's a lot harder to master than Kanji (mainly because they somehow still don't publish any textbooks about it).

Same! My eyes and brain had a visceral reaction to it!

I'm staring at 中田... what's wrong with it? O god dammit.

@@Broockle I didn't even see it until I read your comment

I have that mug!

@@Broockle Dammit! I didn't notice at all 😂😂

Suddenly we're all for closing the borders so not to create more capitalist abominations 😂

Glad to know I'm not the only one saying this.

Very poetic i like this

so they got past the showa era ^_^

I remember seeing it phrased as Japan was already living in the year 2000 back in the 80s but unfortunately they're still there. Same idea though. 👍

People using German words in their English sentences really puts me off every time I happen across it 😅

うん is yes but ううん is no. はい is yes but can also mean "WTF". ええ means yes but can also mean "Umm". はあ means yes but can also mean "What?".

@@zUJ7EjVD コーヒーはいかがですか？ いい。 いーい～ え？どち？

@@zUJ7EjVD I think this was more a comment on how Japanese will most of the time answer you with a yes just to not ruin the mood but actually mean no ;)

@@TandokuOsaki Same, I thought along the lines of "you're welcome", and how instead of that, you're always expected to be as dismissive as possible about the nice thing you just did.

​You mean you don't boom out どういたしまして ？​@@fahrenheit2101

instead of using spaces, Japanese choose use different entirely separate writing system

@@thieftheodore English should incorporate hieroglyphs and elder futhark and get rid of all punctuation

So true!

For real, when Duolingo dropped kanji temporarily to revamp everything, I was surprised to learn that I couldn't read Japanese anymore. I expected it to be easier with all hiragana, but I was so wrong. My relationship with kanji changed, we're frienemies now.

ontheotherhanditissurprisinglyeasytoreadthiseventheancientromanshadnouseforspacesandpunctuation

I honestly just google it and find myself irrationally annoyed. Like its basically my native language, yet i read it slower and have 8 different ideas what it might be, and its none of them.

@@bobfranklin2572 And then when you look it up it's a bastardization of some random European loan word you've never heard in your life.

@@sabbylmao there should be an アンケート about which one is possibly the worst loan word in japanese

@@sabbylmao I mean, I don't know if "bastardization" is the right way of calling it...

@@SamaelsWut I'm french and I thought it was the "investigation" meaning, but it means "survey", I forgot about that other meaning (which is still common though).

Haha 😂 yes. I guess it's that we don't actually read it, we just see if and decide it's the thing we expect it to be 😄 I study Mandarin with other students and I'd say the most common mistake we make when reading out loud is saying the wrong pronouns. We constantly correct each other on those 😂 Or I see a word and read our loud its synonym instead 😆

Yeah, where can you get a good kite these days?

@@unduloid yu wot m8?

@@bobfranklin2572 多分

A dual language joke, very good!

タコ焼きをタコなしください。 チップスの中に入って、完璧よ ╰(*°▽°*)╯

A few of us are immune to this one. For me, it’s the name of my college crush so it’s hard to forget 😂 I still mix up all the other random names that go back and forth, like 上村/村上or田嶋/嶋田 For people who did read it wrong, don’t worry, I’ve seen this mixed up by Japanese people on official documents.

I didn't even notice the joke until I read this comment... whoops! Kind of like 日本 and 本日 !

I get that with 会社 and 社会 as well lol I just recognize 会 and 社 and automatically turn it into 会社

I thought we were reading right to left😂

@@beepboop4833 Your comment gets just a little bit funnier if you have Google translate it into English.

I've watched enough Gaki no Tsukai batsu games to know how Tanaka is actually spelled :)

Runner-up prize for Chuuda as well

WAIT REALLY? i need this

@@bakicci www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1GBPrh7gpQxLf5uCQr9vQQlQeiH2dMo65&usp=sharing

@@bakicci KZfaq won't let me link it. But go to: embamex(DOT)sre(DOT)gob(DOT)mx/japon/index(DOT)php/es/ Then on the top menu bar select "RECURSOS" then "Mapa de restaurantes mexicanos en Japón". Don't try changing the site's language to english because the option won't show up. If you are on mobile, the option will be under the "RECURSOS" section in the main sandwich menu

He sells ヒラガナ merch and I _really_ want to get it.

かたかな

Why does かたかな looks ok nothing weird but ヒラガナ looks so cursed?

well… last time i write in hiragana only, i suddenly eat ramen using bridges and having papers as hair

My first trip to Japan and this was my greatest memory.

Thanks for writing it here 😊 Is the joke about spoken Japanese?

@@ragdoll86 yeah, basically it's extremely common in natural conversation to append a subject after the verb for clarification. To the point that I do it myself now without even thinking about it. Kind of like in English saying "My teacher, that is" after a sentence like "He was just saying that"

​@@ragdoll86the joke is that japanese is not "truly" an sov language, the word order is quite flexible. There really arent as many hard set rules that you can pin down in japanese grammar as you might expect, despite what some learning material will tell you about the "rules"

@@ragdoll86 It's just citing part of the sentence in the video about the teacher saying that japanese is a SOV language. And the joke is that the Japanese sentence Dogen used for this had OVS order. (In reality, linguists add additional disclaimers such as these concepts SVO / SOV / etc being only about "the dominant sequence of these elements in unmarked sentences (i.e., sentences in which an unusual word order is not used for emphasis)" [quote from Wikipedia on "Subject-verb-object word order"], which leaves room for forcing languages with more flexible word order - such as Japanese - into this scheme of categorization, anyways. But also the "teacher" Dogen is referring to might be one that's oversimplifying and simply not mentioning the additional flexibility.)

Thanks! But this is still more used in spoken language rather than in written or formal language? If you exclude clearly informal dialogues in books, dramas and so on? When I watched this video, my guess was that it refered to how for example, they teach beginners "blabla から, blablabla" can be said informally as "Blablabla, blablaから." It's the same thing you explained?

撮り鉄 gang

Made me want to watch Godzilla S.P. again

I'm not very good... I still don't get it

now read かたかな

@@tomppeli. it’s just the Japanese word "hiragana" written with the katakana syllabary. Hiragana is usually written in, well, hiragana, and you just get used to it so much I suppose

@@newzefa8834 Yeah, I looked at the comment by jacquelineliu2641 and got it

@@newzefa8834 Once I read the comment by jacquelineliu2641 I understood the joke. KZfaq just got rid of my comment.

But he's comparing it to kanji which is why I came to the comments, to clear my confusion 😂 I guess you have to sound out the katakana whereas if you know tons of kanji you just see the meaning once you look at them.

In my experience, the more kanji you learn, the more kanji becomes faster to read than hiragana but long strings of katakana will always be a stumbling shit fest no matter what level your Japanese is at unless you make reading katakanized English a hobby. The only time when knowing how to read a kanji will slow you down is in Karaoke when the artist decides to extrapolate a Kanji's meaning to a completely different word that is not normally spelled with that Kanji.

@@ciel6347 When you read kanji but not out loud, do you think of the pronunciation or just the meaning? Because I know the meaning of some kanjis but not necessarily the pronunciation or I'm not sure which pronunciation it has in that context.

玉蜀黍国 hmm

Oh😮💡 Corn in Mandarin is 玉米, so literally jade rice! And I checked and 玉 can also mean beautiful which is what it's in Mandarin and Korean: beautiful country.

Ah… “America The Beautiful” makes so much sense… they were protesting the abbreviation.

Now in Japanese, America is pronounced "a-me-ri-ka". But old kanji-writing of America(亜米利加) can read like "A-mei-ri-ka", or "A-mai-ri-ka". This kanji notation only borrows the pronunciation and ignores the meaning of the kanji. I think that old Japanese people copied English accents more accurately than modern people. Or, although I am not sure, it may be of Portuguese origin, like other old Japanese foreign words. Anyway, the Japanese omitted the kanji notation（亜米利加）, and as a result America became a country of rice（米国）. （PS: "亜" couldn't be used, because it was already assigned to Asia "亜細亜→亜".

Katakana English is the hardest part of Japanese though.

nakada

Depends on whether you’re seeing it carved into a gate 門生羅

It is not true. If you know the word it's no problem. If you don't, you may or may not be able to infer the meaning from English but don't get upset because you didn't understand a word that you haven't seen before.

we are the same

I thought the catch was that it was 申田 😂

They are a thing... if you quote any term in English (or another language) (not transcribed into Katakana) that contains more than one word; then you use spaces between those words. Anyways... spaces between Japanese words are not a thing, I think, because they got their writing system from Chinese which doesn't have spaces either. I don't believe there's a general set of rules for where to put the spaces, anyways. Sometimes it really isn't 100% clear where exactly the word boundaries lie, anyways. (Especially Noun+Suru or Verb-Te-Form+Verb combinations come to mind.) On the other hand, historically, there certainly were a time where kana-only Japanese (WITH SPACES) was occasionally a thing: For simple typewriters, for telegrams, for old computer systems without Kanji support, and for old video games. Makes me wonder now, perhaps there are some standards for inserting spaces, after all..