How To Learn Japanese | Common Mistakes & Basic Words

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I sat down with friend and Japanese KZfaqr Yuta to figure out how to learn Japanese. Here are some of the basic words and phrases to get started and also some of the common mistakes foreigners make when trying to learn Japanese.
How to Learn Japanese (Free Lessons from Yuta) - www.yutaaoki.com/lp/jp2/japane...
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@fizzilgig1993 7 жыл бұрын

Yuta has one of the most interesting channels on KZfaq!

@xAA7 7 жыл бұрын

Yuta's so chill

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

He really is! Awesome guy.

@orlandocastrorizo8142 6 жыл бұрын

I just can't get enough of your body language, genuine manners without appearances, the honesty with which you express yourself, humility and security in yourself ...

@Yas_lacerda 7 жыл бұрын

I love how japanese sounds!

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

So interesting, right? I agree!

@adelam4903 6 жыл бұрын

I agree, most of the time I find it just rolls off the tongue. I think that helps, that (even though I can't say I have very good pronunciation) most words come out more naturally.

@Mysticpoisen 7 жыл бұрын

I watch Yuta's videos and always see him advertising his Japanese course, it's good to see he's actually a really good teacher in this video. Just discovered this channel recently, it's pretty awesome how you can travel all around and still really care to learn about the culture you are immersing yourself in. Not many really care.

@randahamad7422 7 жыл бұрын

thank you so much for this great educational video ..its one of my favorite videos :) you and Yuta are amazing

@aneni 7 жыл бұрын

Gareth is such a sweet guy and Yuta so kind and patient, he definitely suits the teacher role perfectly. Great lesson! Jaa!

@berityoung9307 7 жыл бұрын

"On a date, you don't want to be too polite." Haha that is a good phrase to know at the end!

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, yeah he threw me off when he first said you don't want to be too polite on a date! #savage

@daniel-panek 5 жыл бұрын

Just to clarify, he meant "polite" as in "formal". Using the formal or polite version of speaking makes you seem less intimate or friendly. Yuta didn't mean that you should be a bit rude or anything. You wouldn't call your date named Jane Smith as "Ms. Smith" but instead would call her "Jane".

@uliveulearnandregret 5 жыл бұрын

@Leopold dude i don't think no one in america treats women like snowflakes do u see media and news and real life

@uliveulearnandregret 5 жыл бұрын

@Leopold all schools across america beg to differ

@user-tm2vu4gd4m 3 жыл бұрын

Its so refreshing because I've been studying japanese and it's always refreshing to see videos like these.

@orangie8426 4 жыл бұрын

As soon as Yuta broke up konichiwa into boxes... It made it easier to say it correctly... And makes absolutely perfect sense into the logistics of the phonetics of that word and the language itself... As.... in those "boxes" are where the Japanese symbols would go that make up the sounds to that word...

@lovely8702 7 жыл бұрын

Yuta is a good teacher. Gareth, You are a fast learner.

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

He is a very patient teacher! Lol

@bright-eyed5830 7 жыл бұрын

Love Yuta! Can't wait to see more!

@GetGermanized 6 жыл бұрын

I learned a lot! Thanks you guys! :)

@ahrulered 7 жыл бұрын

Love this vid!

@roy2dope 6 жыл бұрын

I enjoyed watching you two. Thanks for the lesson yuta-san

@carinamurillo2150 6 жыл бұрын

I learned so much from this video. Thanks 👍😊

@blakesolang1491 7 жыл бұрын

One of my FAVORITE countries and cultures I've had the pleasure of experiencing. Hopefully you enjoyed/are enjoying your time!

@LetsDoBetterNow 7 жыл бұрын

Amazing views! Always wanted to visit :) super educational video! He is so cool as well 😊

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you!!

@loveb1790 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for very educational video. 😄❤️

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching!!

@ltw6888 3 жыл бұрын

I love Yuta’s explanations

@Warbzz 7 жыл бұрын

great video This is very helpful, I will be going japan in a month

@SAM_93_x 7 жыл бұрын

I thoroughly enjoyed the videos yourself and Yuta have produced. I am in the process of learning Japanese myself and to be able to listen to the correct pitch and way phrases are spoken is a god send. No more badly learnt Japanese from anime :'3

@lynnabug5523 5 жыл бұрын

See how cool this guy is..! Thanks Gareth for sharing that !! And thanks to your Japanese You Tube colleague.

@Mikaela_Westmt 6 жыл бұрын

See, the thing about the Japanese language is that there are literally hundreds of ways to say one thing or a sentence unlike most other languages, which is why Japanese is so difficult to learn especially for newbies.

@whereeveritgoes 6 жыл бұрын

8:03 I literally sprayed iced coffee from my mouth onto my keyboard. xD

@shoryu87 5 жыл бұрын

i know why lool

@melekjarraya5064 7 жыл бұрын

i m already a student .. learning from Yuta sensei , and i m so eager to watch more and more of these videos to learn Japanese and lets see who learns faster and better :p Good luck :D

@wholeNwon 7 жыл бұрын

Great fun! Very patient teacher.

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, very patient indeed!

@wholeNwon 7 жыл бұрын

Oh, I didn't intend that to be a denigrating comment. You were doing much better than I would have and I usually pick up other languages pretty well.

@gifirst1 7 жыл бұрын

Fun video, Gareth! :D

@fokkwasabi 7 жыл бұрын

Dude this is awesome!

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

I appreciate it Eduardo!

@MujjOMusic 7 жыл бұрын

I love every video of you bro its awesome you post about a japanese culture and life style and i love japan.

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Me too! Thank you for watching.

@reginafernan13 7 жыл бұрын

haha! cool video/tutorial. Good to know basic words that will come in handy. :)

@pamelaangulo9660 7 жыл бұрын

Hi, Gareth! I'm a second level Japanese student and I wanted to congratulate you for your enthusiasm and great pronunciation. Also, I noticed some mistakes in spelling with two words: gozimas and suimasen, the first one is gozaimasu and the second one is sumimasen. p.d. Your videos are awesome 😆

@tcnfilmmakingintokyo2110 7 жыл бұрын

That was fun! Thanks!

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

@MrKelewan 3 жыл бұрын

Excellent piece. Loved it thoroughly, but just one critism...where's the link in the description for the second video???

@Edgesofearth 7 жыл бұрын

- Wicked. I did a video very similar to this about 1 month ago. But, with Vietnamese. It was us trying to pronounce each others chosen words. It will edit it and upload in like like 4 months from now lol

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, I'll have to check that out!

@marissaballoging5928 5 жыл бұрын

Oh'this is great very informative, helpful andintertaining I love it. Japanese are very disciplined people that's thz reason why Japan is the most progressive country in Asia,love their attitude.

@wingbutler 7 жыл бұрын

This is so entertaining. :D

@HanabiraKage 7 жыл бұрын

As someone who's been studying Japanese for a little over 5 years now, I have to say that you learn really, really fast. For example, the syllable "tsu" usually gives people a hell of a lot of trouble when they first come across it because we just don't have anything like it in English, but you got it (or at least, sufficiently close) within a few attempts. I'd recommend signing up for a formal course in Japanese if you're serious about learning from the ground up, and then complement that by consulting native speakers like Yuta.

@yoshibeckham 7 жыл бұрын

Oh I LOVE your videos!!!!!! (I just found out about you and started subscribing!!!!! )Have you been to Osaka yet!? That's my city, and have you leaned about the difference between Osaka people and Tokyo people?

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Osaka video coming up on Friday!! Thank you so much for watching!!

@yumimizusawa8703 6 жыл бұрын

This is good 👌🏻

@Mikaela_Westmt 6 жыл бұрын

"Oh Scotty" just killed me!!! Boy that was too much, LMAO!!!

@repairman99 5 жыл бұрын

Gareth san, Genki desu ka? Nice to watch you trying to learn survival Japanese. I lived in Japan for 5 years.

@kaguth 6 жыл бұрын

Ken Tanaka has a great video about how to say no without speaking a word.

@suntharisoriano8419 6 жыл бұрын

Good sensei👍👍👍👍

@christopherrogers3069 7 жыл бұрын

Gareth as a Spanish speaker did you find Japanese phonetically similar?

@Mjamar 7 жыл бұрын

I'd like Yuta to explain why he says shi instead of yon and shichi instead of nana, i learnt it that way

@YEBISU38 6 жыл бұрын

I don't know if you still want the answer, but there are more than one way to read Japanese kanji, and all of them are categorized as "on" or "kun". Yuta said all numbers in "on". If you want to say numbers in "kun", it will be "hi, fu, mi, yo, itsu, mu, nana, ya, koko(no)". You can say 4 and 7 in both ways, though there are some occasions in which one of them is more preferable than the other.

@revaholic 6 жыл бұрын

Gareth is seriously attractive, and a good learner. Yuta's a fantastic teacher. When I watch this though, for some reason I just keep thinking about the genetic differences between Asian and European men. They look so damned different!

@LuisPerez-tt2nl 5 жыл бұрын

thank you I hope you are well . I love you people Japan is a great country .I race Japan Bike. work at Honda I enjoyed been around the Japanese people thank you for your classes of Japanese speaking

@jerome6578 5 жыл бұрын

Lmao with the subtitles lol. Enjoying your Japanese trip as well bruh.

@MsPacificblue 7 жыл бұрын

Interesting, i didnt know there's a "degree" of politeness in Japan.

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

I didn't know either Therese, I have learned so much during my time here! Thank you for watching.

@codyzeik1937 6 жыл бұрын

Therese Skalstad every language is like that rofl

@coisalinda2424 7 жыл бұрын

Leonardo você é simplesmente genial

@Shinobi_sac 7 жыл бұрын

The "excuse m"e I've always been taught is Su-mi-ma-sen, although the annotation said Su-i-ma-sen?

@grog159 7 жыл бұрын

Sumimasen is correct in the sense that people will understand what you mean, but nobody actually says it.

@0ptriX 7 жыл бұрын

Yuta's got a video that explains this: www.yutaaoki.com/blog/jwy-suimasen-vs-sumimasen

@kwicksandz 7 жыл бұрын

wow thanks for this link. im in tokyo right now and i have noticed nobody actually says sumimasen. it seems like almost nothing that i learnt in the textbook is actually used in day to day conversation =(

@nasmeskartz9149 6 жыл бұрын

16:35 ikimashou is the correct way to spell it in romanji, when shi combine with ya/yu/yo, you wont pronounce "i", it became sha/shu/sho, this doesn't apply to combinations of ki, which will became kya/kyu/kyo, some example: kaisha (company), nihonshu (Japanese's alcohol), shogun (whatever it is lol)

@coisalinda2424 7 жыл бұрын

Nice 👍🏽

@HA-iy3ug 5 жыл бұрын

I'm a native Japanese and I thought Yuta made a little mistake in his lecture. He explained "suimasen" as a translation of "Excuse me", but I think , strictly speaking, it's not correct. chigai masu. It is, "suMimasen". You need one more m in it. This mistake is very common even for Japanese people, so they would understand if you said "suimasen". Yuta wanted to teach Gareth and you useful practical Japanese words and "suimasen" sometimes sounds more casual than "sumimasen" so he was correct in a sense. However I wanted you to know genuine Japanese. I'm really glad if you love my country and its language. So good luck with your learning it, I'm really looking forward to seeing you in Tokyo Olympic games 2020, or Osaka Universal Exposition 2025! Sorry for my bad English.

@zanderhamilton7908 5 жыл бұрын

Don't apologize, your English is on point!

@andrek.2786 4 жыл бұрын

This is really late, but I have a question. Can you also use ”jaa, mata!” when saying goodbye to a friend?

@taylor-dc4cf 6 жыл бұрын

I saw Yuta in the thumbnail and immediately clicked👌🏻

@awkwardaquamarine19 6 жыл бұрын

I love this! Wish I saw this video when I was in Japan. ^_^

@GarethLeonard 6 жыл бұрын

Next time Pam! : )

@awkwardaquamarine19 6 жыл бұрын

I'm subscribed to both of your channels now and learning more about Japan and the language every day. Thanks for inspiring me. Keep it up! 💚

@farcleo 7 жыл бұрын

HAHA you make learning Japanese really fun

@kbdrand 6 жыл бұрын

Where can I get that shirt?

@bonitabakrie4888 6 жыл бұрын

Sugoii yo ne! 😄

@akapantsusenpai181 5 жыл бұрын

I just came across this channel. You picked up Japanese pretty quickly. I wonder if you've retained it. I like how Yuta focused on the clothes in the last phrase "sono fuku ii ne," because "style" in Japanese means "body" or "figure." Instead of complimenting a woman on her clothes, you'd be complimenting her on her body.

@bryanbullifer8979 6 жыл бұрын

I'm also learning lol 😂👍🏽

@babyblue7798 5 жыл бұрын

That Gareth esta guapo!

@theyhaventfedmesince 6 жыл бұрын

Say good morning every time. If anyone asked, tell them that we need to have that morning spirit at anytime possible

@tohopes 7 жыл бұрын

1:35 Is that a Google cafe or MK?

@yumimizusawa8703 6 жыл бұрын

Is Yuta from Kansas? I'm sure. The way he says Fuku in Kantou it means Luck. It's different accent.

@ToruYonekura 6 жыл бұрын

"日本語でおk" means "It's ok to speak Japanese"

@LeviSaint 5 жыл бұрын

is this what Ultra-Man said when he was asked "JUUUJUUUJUJUJUUUJUUJU"??? on the Internet in Japan?

@haninraisouni5954 4 жыл бұрын

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@alfonsoperez4474 7 жыл бұрын

Yuta has alot of patience. Or atleast it looks like he does.

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, he really does Alfonso!

@peherosemperfidelis3592 7 жыл бұрын

o.O .. Yuta said: "Besser, besser". This is german for better, better. Does he also learn german? Your videos are really good I hope to see more of your lessons soon ;-) Greetings from Germany

@arata35_ 7 жыл бұрын

Haha that's actually an interesting view. But, no. I don't know exactly in which part of the video he says that, but yeah, I think actually he meant to say "better" in English WITH his Japanese accent. It's like how there's a slang for "thank you" in Japanese. Instead of saying "arigatou", people will say "sankyuu" (to their inner circles or groups) which pronounced almost like "thank you" but changing the "th" sound into "s" sound. That's just how Japanese people tongues work, I guess. :)

@sub4rctic 6 жыл бұрын

I don't think He speaks german, but he does speak spanish.

@-KMA- 4 жыл бұрын

I heard the Japanese are very express, like they don’t have Japanese words for some words and just use expressions. Is that correct?

@audelsalazar1962 6 жыл бұрын

One correction you need to seriously make: It's pronounced "su-mi-ma-sen". Other than that, I really enjoyed the video. You are the perfect Western student Gareth and I will definitely show this video to anyone wanting to learn Japanese for the first time. Great job teaching Japanese Yuta and highlighting the importance of formality but also the importance of body language and facial expressions. This video was spot on!

@GarethLeonard 6 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the correction, noted!

@GrayLemons 6 жыл бұрын

This was not a mistake. It is in fact pronounced, "Su-i-ma-sen" However, You can also say "Sumimasen" but most Japanese people do not actually use the latter, which is why teachers are now usually teaching "suimasen".

@natespringer9934 6 жыл бұрын

8:41 Just fyi for anyone new to Japanese it's spelled gozaimasu not gozimasu

@mochalex 6 жыл бұрын

すごい！

@pom3222 7 жыл бұрын

Gosh Yuta has freakishly long fingers like when he's doing the counting!!! Lol

@lunarsun7712 6 жыл бұрын

14:58 Welcome to another ASMR videos guys

@angel108638 6 жыл бұрын

I'm going to Japan in 5 months. Your videos are literally my guide so I don't completely look like a Buffoon.

@user-xx7pg3vw9k 6 жыл бұрын

If someone pulls you from a burning car, thus saving your life...then you would use 'Doumo arigato gozaimasu'.

@noraneko8242 6 жыл бұрын

What is the difference ''suimasen'' and ''sumimasen''?

@rj5485 7 жыл бұрын

There's different ways to saying certain numbers like 4 and 7...

@chefjoeyc 6 жыл бұрын

Key tip many Japanese may not speak English well but they can read it which means you can get away with typing on your phone in a pinch

@HANSMKAMP 5 жыл бұрын

8:35 On Tokyo Haneda when I was about to have a flight back home, I hear often ございまああああああああす (gozaimaaaaaaaaasu). Why do the vendors do that?

@rickyfoos4185 6 жыл бұрын

I thought "chotto" was also commonly used to say no.

@kirk6895 6 жыл бұрын

Oh Scotty 😂

@sheilahiggins6427 7 жыл бұрын

It was a little funny when Yuta was saying Gareth's name over and over until he got it right and then Gareth calls Yuta Yutar !!

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

Haha, I did? Never caught that (shhh, neither did he) 😉

@sub4rctic 6 жыл бұрын

Gareth. Garef? Gareth. Garef? GarETH. Garef? Gareth. Garef? Gareth. GareFTH? Perfect.

@gaplauche 5 жыл бұрын

@@GarethLeonard It sounds like you're saying Yutah, like Utah. :D

@egeoeoeoeoe 5 жыл бұрын

polite buffer :,D

@rachelenglishoke4857 6 жыл бұрын

This is one of the many things driving me nuts in Japan. Japanese speakers think M and N are the same, even though they know they're not. Just ask Mr. Mori if you can call him Mr. Nori. And the answer isn't 'mo.' Believe me, a little late now, but nobody closes their lips when they say konichiwa. I love your other videos, but I had to end this one early--hits too close to home. ;)

@lillydejesus9510 7 жыл бұрын

How could you remember

@GarethLeonard 7 жыл бұрын

I had to watch this many times! haha

@PLNKYELLOWBLACK 6 жыл бұрын

So helpful, I’m learning Japanese and I don’t want to sound like a drunk frat boy tryna speak Japanese

@RiderInHell 6 жыл бұрын

So, do you still remember everything? x'D It's easy to learn a word/words and phrase/phrases, but it's harder to retain them in your mind to be able to remember later. Also, one thing is learn a few words or phrases. But you don't actually know their meaning, because you don't know the basics. If you are in a casual conversation and want to say another thing, even if it's similar, you get stuck. Because you aren't actually learning the language. You're just learning some words to help you in your visit.