From now on, I will introduce myself using "watashi wa" so that I too can have wind blowing through my hair as I do so.

It's like how a command like "go" is a full sentence in English with the subject being an understood (but unsaid) "you."

Andy, you and Yuki literally create the best Japanese language learning content I have ever seen. Your material is absolutely essential and I recommend it to anyone looking to learn more. ありがとうございます！

As a Turkish person, I loved how Japanese is the same as Turkish! No long sentences for simple conversations, no need to specify the person every time you talk, add most things to the end of the verb, etc!

Yuki’s wind blowing close up cracked me up!!! Haha! Sooo funny!

That windswept cut-away of Yuki was dope AF production!

I love how y’all talk super slow. I’m sure intermediates find it slow and annoying, but it’s fantastic for us beginners

Those “overly dramatic” videos were just ✨perfection✨ 😂😂😂

Yuki's dramatic self-introduction absolutely MAKES this video. Thanks for providing great educational content in a fun and easy-to-digest way!

When you're finally past the basic greetings and understand everything said after years of lazy studying 😂

Omg I will forever introduce myself in your dramatic fashion. I KNOW NOT WHO THOSE OTHER BEINGS ARE, BUT AS FOR ME, I AM KANINER! *slams glass on ground a la Thor*

Okay, you got me with the overly dramatic skits. That was pretty funny. This was helpful, thank you! Looking forward to more of them.

I found the series of videos by Cure Dolly very helpful in understanding how Japanese actually puts sentences together. She was very good at explaining complicated concepts.

This is why I love language study in general. It just gets deep.

Funny enough you did cover this sort of buried in...I think it was your Genki lesson 3 video. I have been slowly going through those and I totally crack up when you explained "たべます" by itself was a complete sentence, and then said it in English. Literally translated it's so funny sounding in English. But I'm glad you went into even more here. But it's awesome that you made a stand alone video dedicated to this. I love the way you explain the Japanese Language. 💜

I'm just happy I was able to follow along and understand the skit the first time through!

This is incredibly fantastic. I've been learning Japanese for almost 3 years now, and I've dropped my は a while ago now, but it still makes it so much more intelligible to see this video. Also, makes me realised that all those manuals are so terrible... maybe Japanese isn't so hard to learn, it's just that the available official material is so bad that it's super hard to learn with it?

The fact that I can laugh and learn makes learning so much easier and more fun. I find myself on almost 4 hours a day of japanese learning including music now. I'm hoping to be N5 by the end of July.

This is very interesting. I had no idea some of those things could seem so dramatic.

Very useful video! I took as many notes as I could. I'm just finishing memorizing Hiragana and Katakana, and am moving on to basic sentences, so this is exactly the content I need right now. Arigato!

i can't express how much i needed this. and it makes so much sense when explained in this way. thank you so much!

This is super helpful! I just started learning Japanese in February by a combination of Wanikani and Japanese from Zero. I've actually dropped JFZ and have found that these videos plus Wanikani are helping me so much! I'm a big nerd for grammar but I don't want to sound like a strange parody so I'm glad you have explained this!

fire content, been learning from the ground up, currently at your chapter 5 lesson, great stuff man!

Really very easy to understand when u put in this way. Thank you so much for this informative video 💐💐

I'm so glad I've found your channel recently, this content is awesome :)

Wowowow this is really good information! I'll definitely be watching your channel as often as I can because I learned a LOT from just this video alone! You're the person that puts the pieces of the puzzle together. Thank you so much.

Cure Dolly and Jay Rubin get all the credit for helping popularize online the change in the way we westerners understand Japanese grammar through our lens. Her videos on the fundamental structure of Japanese and the Zero が changed everything for me. Every sentence in japanese has a subject and a predicate. She's a legend! RIP Cure Dolly 先生!

楽しかったですよ！ありがとうございました！

I first watched this a few weeks ago, and I came back to see how much better I could understand. And yah, improvement is being made :D

This is really helpful! Thank you

Love the dramatic wind on Yuki especially! Thank you as always for the great videos and teachings!

As a native English speaker, saying something akin to ‘please be good to me’ seems like quite an unusual thing to say when meeting someone

When broken down and translated literally it sounds really funny but its also super efficient.

Finally became 上手 thanks to this video 🇯🇵 Also +1 for Making Sense of Japanese! Great recommendation!

すてきなビデオ！良い勉強の方法だと思う！

Very interesting, idk if it's also in English, but in Portuguese we also have two types of special subjects, one is the "implied subject", where it was mentioned before but is now ommited and the "null subject", where it was never metioned in the first place and relies on context for you to make sense of it. Nonetheless, the subject IS there, just in its null form

Watched. Thx for the video ~

Not even learning Japanese and found this super helpful lol

The skits of the unnatural textbook versions of these sentences cracked me up 😂

おもしろい！Love the mixture between lesson and skit!

4:35 To be honest, that looks pretty good to me...

dude i would pay to take classes w u what in the world thank u sm

Great video!

Finally Jay Rubin先生 getting the recoginition he deserves!😭🔥

So you're saying the textbook form would sound like Zucc saying: Hello my fellow humans. I just drank a glass of water as we humans usually do throughout the day.

Russian is kinda simillar, in the sense, that you can drop the subject and the object in conversation. Though since verbs change based on person and number, it isn't as ambiguous without a context

I really like these bite-sized lessons

Already knowing what they were saying in the beginning of the video. 😎

I'm sorry but yuki's introduction is absolutely iconic lmao. I do not know, nor do I care to know these peasants, but I... I am the great Yuki. Ruler of the 7 kingdoms, conqueror of the deadly seas. Heroes, Villains, Gods and Devils, all crumble in my presence, you foolish mortal. lmao Also, the text book version sounds like two spy enemies and one is trying to poison the other with brownies lmao.

5:48 Ya'all are cracking me up with this

Whould love if you breakdown the conversation of video clips of two native person talking and breaking down conversation, you can make it like a series, like React Series where you breakdown two native talking, you can take from the interview clips which can be found on yt, or also can breakdown some anime, or live action movie conversations.

Thank you for your video. I quite agree. But instead of talking about "zero pronoun" (a concept I still don't understand, even after watching videos like those of Cure Dolly, or read articles like Imabi), I prefer thinking Japanese is a bit like Latin. For example, when Julius Caesar said "Veni, vidi, vici" ("I came, I saw, I conquered"), the subject is inside the verb (its conjugated form lets us understand that the subject is "I"). Since Japanese verbs and adjective doesn't change with the subject, it lets me think the subject is always the same in Japanese: "it" (or "that", "what", "this", in other words, the most "neutral" subject it can be). The subject "it" is inside the verb (like 食べる) or adjective (like おいしい) or "noun + です" structure (like アンドです). It is the context, or the addition of elements like A は or A が that allows us to know the identity of "it".

Whoa this is good

Subbed, Good Stuff

Everyone: What's your pronouns? Me: Zero!

Okay, I came here to learn something about Japanese, and I knew something new about English. It always seemed to me that in English you can throw out all unnecessary words from a sentence just like in Japanese or Russian. And in Russian, you can put words in a sentence in almost any order. You can make the same sentence in such a way that it must have a pronoun in it, or you can make it in such a way that you have to drop everything from it. If you are in a state of excitement or desire to do something, you will start the sentence with a verb. If you are calm, most often with a pronoun. Tired, you'll start with a noun or the shortest form of a verb. The context of your conversation suggests the use of adjectives - adjectives will come first in the sentence. You can tell by the order of the words what kind of person you are talking to, his priorities, his mood, even if he tries to hide it all with his body language or tone of voice. The worst thing that can happen if you choose a random word order is that you'll sound like you're playing a Shakespearean role or joking or playing a medieval Russian. So for a native Russian speaker, Master Yoda speaks in literary dramatic language, but just with the strange intonations of a jolly old man.

@4:33 hahahahaha you just earned yourself a new fan lol

Im so glad i found this m.f channel

Awesome content! 🎉 Please may you help me please? 🙏 I want to practice my Japanese romaji sentence structure only, to build it up. 🧱 Do you know any workbooks, game apps, videos that only focuses on using romaji to build your sentence structure knowledge? 📝 For now, I just want to speak, converse, and read romaji romanized words. Thank you so much! ♥

from what i learned elsewhere, は and が differ in what the emphasis is placed on. one refers to the preceeding word and the other focuses on the succeeding word.

Can you do a video with Ando さん back story. I feel like he has a very interesting past.

technically it is still the standard sentence of “XはYです” but you learn to drop things from mutual contextual understanding between speaker and listener. even in english there are times where certain things are dropped in casual speech from mutual contextual understanding. example: “Shall we?” when getting up from a seat. Understood that it is “shall we get moving to the next place?” or something similar. Japanese is more convenient with its grammar structure utilizing particle pairing that you can remove chunks of the full sentence and still carry mutual understanding that it was actually still a part of the sentence just unspoken. same example as above, the japanese could be: “行く？” or “行こう？” or even “じゃ” similar to that last one in english “Well then” or just “well” or “then” even “Let's” is enough for understanding. but yeah, Let's is Let Us.

I think you might benefit from the now defunct channel Cure Dolly. This person goes further into detail; adjectives are a bit special, as they have the "is" function already built into them as they are predicate adjectives that stand on their own. (The have a non-past, past and negative form) The reason you need です is to make it polite and there's no real way to make adjectives polite, like adding ます to verbs. So it's not really a matter of being "optional" as it is a matter of wanting to make it polite. The three basic structures are: Aは/が Bう (A does B) Aは/が Bだ(です in polite speech) (A is B) Aは/が Bい (Bい です in polite speech) (A is B II)

This is great. Not me using English as the second language to learn Japanese. 😂

English using commands: "Hold my beer" Spanish: "My beer has been on the floor" Japanese: "My beer was born in a secret underground bunker below the deepest point of the ocean"

Could you please explain where we should use the "masu"/ ます form verbs, since you have mentioned only る form of verbs. Please try to clarify my question, a request from India.

So is the Y Des structure used in all situations? Even when meeting someone older than you? Or a superior? I always thought this was just used with people younger or around the same age as you.

Cool video!

Haha nice timing, I just finished reading Rubin's book the other day. It's a nice, quick read which clarifies a lot, especially the zero pronoun you brought up.

「ゆ↓き」「アン↓ディ」と今更気づきました

U have to agree that saying "nice to meet u, Yuki desu" its kidna weird for non japanese speakers, its like wondering is she Yuki or i am Yuki?

This is pretty similar to Literary Chinese.

XD 4:36 was pretty funny. i guess alot of beginner Japanese speakers sound pompous XD

I learned with organic japanese by curedolly from the beginning. She introduces the zero-pronoun in the first lessons

Knew where this was headed - and I've pretty much observed the same myself. Well, は is the topic particle, right? The way I always thought about it, is that there is this kind of "variable" (spot the programmer) that gets filled when you use it. And by default it is filled with either "I", "You" or "That thing" (which you know from context) This is actually not quite true, because context can override this without using は, and が can also override it sometimes, but it got me a basic understanding.

How does one get better at reading Japanese. My listening and speaking skills are far ahead of reading. I’ve been practicing the three writing systems, but once words hit paper… I am lost.

Delicous! is a sentence in english too tho? if i get given some food and i say Delicious! i dont need to say it is delicous or this food is delicous cuz its obvious so thats not unique to japanese.

I feel like I need to give 100 likes to this video!

It's so strange to me to hear him say たべる instead of いっただきます when accepting the food

Instead of これはアンドさん、(if you were saying it, because you can’t say kore for a person) would it not be: この人はアンドさんです?

ぶれいんえくすぱんんでんぐ

私の名前はデーブです。 Yeah I'm gonna make this awkward for us both

I think translate ですto it’s is a error, first you don’t need to use ですeverytime, you can use for example, 私は山田 and how you will translate without です. です　it’s just politeness.

So the pronoun+wa particle is always there, but it's just invisible?

does Ando-san need lotion?

As a Spanish speaker, zero pronoun is nothing new 😂 only my classmates have issues with learning Japanese bc of that.

I'm not going to lie all of this stuff is confusing me I just want to learn the basics so I can somewhat understand the conversation and then improve from there all this Jibber jabbers a little confusing

People who told me duolingo is shit are stupid. It started me of with Y desu instead of Kore wa y desu at least.

Funny how Japanese doesn’t like pronouns while native English speakers are obsessed with them lol I like Japanese more

0:50 "unlearn" ??? Are you implying that language is, a habit?? Do all fluent speakers of all languages "Oops! Force of habit!" with *constant involuntary outbursts* of words and sentences a la spaced repetition systems ALL DAY? What about, Every day? ... Any day? No. We do not all suffer from this condition. Language is not a habit. In fact: We speak. We speak, *when* we want, what we want, exactly, perfectly; without effort of any kind. Did you drill your way to perfection in English? No. You listened to what your parents were telling you, like they requested, and then responded in kind. Thus fulfilled the transaction, of messages. Humans, even Animals, can intuit messages without any words at all. Are you of lesser intellect than a dog? No. If you did ANY DRILLS AT ALL... it was because you had a tiny, miniscule, insignificant, SPEECH impediment. (Notice I say *"SPEECH"*, and *NOT* "Language" impediment.) Truly sir, if that is your assertion, I invite you to examine the evidence A LOT more closely. The other implication is that you believe there is an entirely separate language from Japanese, which is almost entirely like it, yet somehow, both: totally, not Japanese, yet also comprised necessarily of entirely cogent Japanese. Get off the internet and stop spreading this "Study harder!" bull. You learn a language when you understand its meanings. You forget how to do your grammar every 2 minutes because it's useless, boring, and not even remotely the same area of the brain you downright バカ.