Counting and its various topics is generally going to be one of those areas that you’ll probably never get truly comfortable with in a second language. That doesn’t mean you should give up on the topic, but it does allow you to put into perspective what is achievable, and more…
At the beginner stage of learning a second language, often you find yourself much slower than everyone else. This is because you hear what someone says in Japanese, try and remember it, then go through each word individually, parse the grammar and then maybe end up with an understanding of…
When I tell people I teach Japanese, the reaction from everyone is always, “You teach Japanese?” I wasn’t born in Japan, didn’t start learning it seriously until I was 15 and have probably only spent about 2 years total in Japan. Why would you ever listen to what I have…
Compilation of common Japanese Counters 助数詞 for beginners・intermediate/highschool/JLPT N5, N4 and N3. I’ll be covering the following counters: 円, 冊, 人, 名, 枚, ページ, 頭, 匹, 足, 台, 階, 歳, 杯, 個, つ, 羽, 本, 点, 泊. I reference a few webpages in this video, I would really recommend you…
Understanding katakana words can be tricky, but I’ve got some tips that you can use yourself to work out what these words are. Mio is helping me out with this video and gives some great comments in English and Japanese. Katakana is a big part of Japanese and just knowing…
Reading Japanese can be tricky, but consuming native materials is one of the best ways to exposure yourself to real Japanese and therefore to read, write, speak and understand natural sounding Japanese. In this video I’ll show you an extension for your browser which can help you read kanji etc…
Combining question words with particles is a very useful topic of Japanese to learn. I’ll go through several common types and show example sentences to explain how they are used. Tae Kim’s lesson on the same topic for reference: http://www.guidetojapanese.org/learn/… Sentences used in this video: 『誰も知らない』 誰もが安心安全に旅行 神社の敷地が、ランニング大会コースに…「何も聞いておりません」 猛抗議に主催者の対応は？ 実際に信用金庫の面接であった質問【だいたいどこも同じです】 婚活中、どうしても男性の見た目を重視してしまいます…
Potential forms in Japanese and how to make them. Learn how to say “I can do X” etc. This includes both ことができる and the verb conjugation ～られる・える.
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This lesson we’ll be looking at the ‘ga’ particle a bit more, counting and some kanji. Google Doc to follow along with the lesson: https://goo.gl/Ng2Jz9