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I find it interesting that sayonara in Japanese is much more of a serious word, but when it got loaned into English it became one of the more casual ways to say goodbye

Sayounara is like goodbye before a long journey or goodbye forever even. I usually like to use matane (またね) or mata ashita (また明日) if I see them sooner

I swear I’ve heard more non Japanese people say sayonara then Japanese people

In school my friends always say (じゃ、)また明日 (mata ashita = see you tomorrow) or また月曜日 (mata getsuyoubi = see you on Monday) (if its Friday or Saturday) and sometimes またね; 気をつけて(ね); also, mostly when they’re going to club activities, they say 行ってきます. Some form of 頑張る is also often said. And when I leave the house in the morning there is, of course, 行ってきます and 行ってらっしゃい with my hostmom sometimes adding 気をつけて. Could you make a video about greetings, if you haven’t yet? At first I always got a bit confused by things like ヤッホー or おっす and I think I still haven’t completely gotten the hang of it.

In English, people never say the word "Goodbye" anymore. There's a finality to it that isn't warm or friendly.

Thank you, Yuta-san. Especially for including the video example of the kids saying "sensei, sayounara. minasan, sayounara". So cute! 😁

This video just made me remember there was an episode of Full House, where Uncle Jesse was on the phone with a Japanese record company because he finally managed to get a record deal for his band, but only for the Japanese market. I think he didn't really believe the record company guy didn't speak English, so he said to him, "the only thing I know how to say in Japanese is sayonara." The guy hung up on him because he thought he was saying goodbye because he didn't want the record contract. Jesse's wife was pissed off at him for screwing up the deal. She was like, "why would you just say goodbye in the middle of the conversation?" I guess in the context of that Full House episode, they thought that sayonara meant something more like, get lost or go away!, like more of an angry goodbye, like "ok, BYE, get lost now! get the hell out of here!"

This video was very interesting to me. I enjoy learning how people use "greetings" and "farewells" in a standard way according to the particular people they are talking to, to modulate the level of regard being expressed. In English, the "dumbing down" continues with these forms of address becoming "over-familiar" in excess, and at the cost of politeness between strangers. I think "familiar" such expressions should be reserved for close-friends where the SINCERITY component of the greeting/farewell actually comes from the heart as opposed to the plastic or fake version where someone says a greeting/farewell and means none of the actual words said! In addition to the human psychology component, the Japanese language expressions and equivalent variety of usages really helped me learn how to use these appropriately. Thank you very much! May I ask what the correct expressions are when conducting a visit to a shop and saying "goodbye or thank you" to the proprietors if they are being attentive to your presence and ensuing departure: I'd assume it was: "Arigatou Gozaimasu"? Is there a need to say "Hello?" when entering a shop?

「さよ(う)なら」は確かに殆ど言わない。限られた状況だけでしか使わない: 1) 幼稚園で園児が帰り際に先生に挨拶するとき(1:40) 2) 誰かと人間関係を切る時・離ればなれになる時(「さよならレイ・ペンバー」「さよならも言わずに恋人と別れた) 3) 思い出深い何かが終わる時(「スーパーダンガンロンパ2 さよなら絶望学園」「マサラタウンにさよならバイバイ」「さようなら2022年、こんにちは2023年) 4) 話が通じない人などを冷たく突き放す時(「話にならんわ、さよなら」) 5) ゲームなどで勝ち逃げする時の煽り(「はい勝ったーさよならー」)。ちなみに野球のwall-off victoryのことを「サヨナラ勝ち」と言う。 あと「さいなら」だと軽い意味になる。友達と帰りに別れる時に「さよなら」は言わないけど「じゃさいなら」は言うこともある。「さいなら」は関西弁が由来だと思うけど全国的に使われるはず。

Yuta's email group always put a smile on my face

Just a daily video about Yuta explains very well about deep word in Japanese, and at the same time shows his favorite anime because why not.

Love these videos Yuta

I usually say "mata ne" with my friends but because I am chronically ill and the places I go to are limited to doctors and safe environments like bookstores, I use "ki wo tsukete" or "sayonara" because I rarely see these people again... NY has become a bit of a dark place... Edit: Edits due to not pluralizing English words because my brain was thinking in Japanese 😆

I've watched at least 100 Japanese movies this year. I've hear the word "Sayonara" in exactly one movie. I remember that because I heard Japanese don't use it often. ( They all saw that Marlon Brando movie, yuk!). Arigatou Sensei. 👍

Oh wow! I haven't seen you on my suggested feed in a long time, I'm glad to see you're still posting videos! This has been a video I've been wanting to see for a while. I notice many Japanese KZfaqrs don't use Sayonara and I've always wondered why

面白くて便利な動画です。お疲れ様でした。

Thank you for the different ways to say goodbye in Japanese. Learned allot in this lesson. Take care.

Thank you for this insightful education content. Your jokes are hilarious, too. 😂

お疲れ様でした !

I already use "bye bye", so that's pretty convenient.

This one is interesting to me not being a native English speaker... Sayonara would be something like.... farewell perhaps? It transmits a feeling that it's a more permanent, or at least longer term goodbye. It's interesting because in my native language, Brazilian Portuguese, we actually have something that translates exactly like that, which is "adeus", as opposed to "tchau-tchau" which Yuta uses sometimes. xD

So “sayonara” in JP is like “adieu” in French, you don’t use it unless you mean “we’ll most likely never meet again” or “goodbye forever”

子供に対してはよく使う 学校、習い事系で働いてる人はよく使ってると思う

Itsuki in TQQ did say sayonara. That was the only time sayonara was said in the entire series I think. Lol. Great series of how anime characters speak Japanese. Please do Itsuki Nakano from the quintessential quintuplets 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 Something to consider about Itsuki: The Quintessential Quintuplets' character types are: Ichika - Onee-san / ara ara, Nino - tsundere, miku - kuudere / dandere, Yotsuba - genki Itsuki - ?? - Tsundere like Nino? - Eat-suki? - Imouto? - Someone who speaks keigo to their siblings, to Fuutarou and to Raiha and to everyone basically? I have a theory as to what Itsuki's type is, but you're not gonna like it...

Akiba maid sensou is too good. Not a single boring episode. Itterashai buhii

I was actually thinking about different ways to say "bye" in Japanese. This helps.

エヴァはいい例やな。That Eva’s scene is a good example actually.

im just starting to learn to speak basic Japanese for basic conversations, and I am realizing there is like 50 different ways to say everything..lol. Ill just start with 1 at a time. Jane.

Wow I was thinking about the sad feeling after saying the word sayonara today and than you uploaded this video >

Interesting to listen to it. Just the other day I've listened to a Japanese guy living in Poland and speaking Polish who did a video about the same thing. BTW, he is equally great in Polish as you are in English.

I've always wondered why students say this to their teachers as they leave for the day, as the norm, when it is pretty much never the norm in all other everyday situations. Unfortunately, Yuta doesn't actually say why. :(

The anime 僕だけがいない町 shows another way of saying "goodbye", which is したっけ, but I was surprised to read that it's used mainly in Hokkaido.

I was confused for a bit until I heard you mention the students, because my students often say "sayonara" to me, if not "see you!"

So what would you use for people you just met? Like, there was one time where I was introduced to a japanese person (me, being like 18 years old and she was like 30) and we talked in japanese but I wasnt so sure what to say when we left so i just said "baibai"...was I wrong/rude?

Thank you for the Akiba Maid War reference!

Funny enough I am taking an in person Japanese class and we were taught Sayounara as goodbye. The teacher eventually told us that we can also say jaane. But we always tell her Sayounara and she says it to us as well.

Is evangelion having a resurgence in popularity? I even saw figures of the damn penguin at Lawson today.

With all that explanation, it sounds like kids say i hoping to escape school forever.

They say this stuff in Anime as well Yuta, I can count the amount of times an Anime girl has said "Jaane" to her friends as she leaves the classroom in a hurry.

How many Japanese dialects are there, and how did they come about?

I need help, why when I learn Japanese words it's right but when I translate them into one sentence it makes a difference word. And the words I learn is right but not all of them trancelate into the same word when I put it in Google trancelate. I'm learning on dialingo

Can you do a ‘how does Lum speak Japanese’ video?

2:03 for some reason "Jaa Mata" is easy for me to say xD

'matane' is my absolute favourite Japanese word.

What would be a common version for saying good bye after an interaction with a clerk? Like after paying at the conbini or leaving a restaurant? I never now what to say and feel quite awkward after leaving. 😂

I first learnt sayonara when I was five years old from a teenage mutant ninja turtle episode… I believe it was the first episode and it was said by shredder

Japanese people just say "Omae wa mou…"

Does anyone ever use english letter based Japanese in a lettter? Not sure if there is a name for that like how you can spell a Japanese word useing letters. is there a word for that?

me who almost always part with さようなら with all people for fun: i’m only human after all

4:05 source? Is she Riko of Terrace House?

I thought you were going to show the Bleach scene where Gin says baibai とにかくじゃあ でござる

福岡で勉強する時に、「また明日！」は一番通常のフレーズだった。

Ah perfect. So when I DO want to never see that person again, I'll tell them "sayonara" 🤣🤣🙌

Where I lived in Ogikubo, everyone always さらばなのだ. Is this Ogikubo dialect?

commenting before watching the vid, about 20 years ago i was taught "Wakare" which i think is "farewell" :)

muvluv taught me the weight of farewells

Ja ne :) Dewa mata :) Mata atode ne :) I remember these from my time in Japan :)

well people are saying "bye bye" now, which is sort of "baby talk"

I never say さよならto my japanese friend. I know this word from アニメ My favorite casual words is バイバイとまたね

I'm sad you didn't say your usual goodbye

🙇‍♂️🙏

What about saying “abayo” (idk how it’s spelled)

My Japanese language sensei always say "Dewa mata."

Just don’t confuse “ta” with “da”, since that changes the meaning of the phrase.

Arigatho gosaimasu 🇮🇳

Sayonara is probably the least serious goodbye for English speakers from my experience

When does one use あばよ(abayo) and さらば(saraba) then?

So a mora is a syllable?

Oh, no. Not the Evangelion vibes again. Sayounara to my sane mind again. Jaane.

Wow... さようなら really is sad. ;(

I say 'あばよ'

never become a magical girl, in reality you can replace magical with idol

Those Akihabara maids are vicious, some of them roam in packs. You always gotta take care. great vid.

evangelion!!!

Sayonara bang bang

They also say では

This is why I never hear "Sayonara" in anime.

The difference is the "U"

*IT WOULD be funny* to f-around co-workers in Japan and at one point say "Sayounara", looking dramatically serious.

Made Sora say Sayonara after 9 hours.

jaa matta ne

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I say さらばじゃ。;)

Could you tell us How many DIALECTS are in Japan ? Thnx

Bro I knew this world.