Welcome to part 1 of a video series I’ll be doing on permissions. This video will look at the てもいい grammar which is used to ask if you can do something, or to tell someone it’s ok if they do something. This is aimed for JLPT N5 or N4 level or for high school Japanese.
Permissions – You can’t do that ~てはだめ
Welcome to part 2 of a video series I’ll be doing on permissions. This video will look at the てはだめ grammar which is used to say you cannot do something. This is aimed for JLPT N5 or N4 level or for high school Japanese.
「カスハラ」Customer harassment
Asahi Newspaper Article Read-through, this is an article about harassment from customers. From personal experience, customers do expect a lot out of Japanese businesses and this can lead to some crazy outcomes as detailed in this article. Aimed at JLPT N1, N2 level.
Permissions – You must do that しないとならない, しなければならない, しなくてはならない
Another video in the ‘permissions’ series. Here we’ll be looking at しないとならない, しなければならない, しなくてはならない which are all used to talk about things that must be done.
Update: I’ve done some reading that points out that using the と conditional with ならない is weird for this type of construction. I agree and was just going off Tae Kim’s grammar guide, but of course Tae Kim is not a native speaker so not everything in his guide is necessarily accurate. The other 2 constructions are valid.
「引きこもり」Hikikomori – Asahi Newspaper Article Readthrough
Advanced Japanese grammar and kanji knowledge required! Read along with me as we go through this Asahi newspaper article about a Japanese social phenomenon named ‘hikikomori’ or a type of shut-in. Any article like this will squarely be in JLPT N2, N1 territory.
Permissions – Please do that/don’t do that してください しないでください
Part of a series of videos on permissions, this video focuses on
してください
しないでください
すなわち、いってみれば JLPT N1文法
Advanced grammar lesson for JLPT N1. I hold N1 since 2019, you can see my certificate on the About page.
I can tutor all levels of JLPT and I would recommend that everyone who wants to improve their Japanese include this as one of your goals. To pass the exam you need to be across Japanese grammar, vocabulary, comprehension and listening. I can help with all these areas to help YOU pass.
Learn the te form rule with just 13 words
Here is my attempt at giving everyone a system to remember one of the most important grammatical rules in Japanese, the te form! As a bonus this can help you make the past form as well (of plain form verbs).
If you can remember all 13 words in this video, then every single verb in Japanese will be accounted for!
はなす
かく
およぐ
のむ
あそぶ
しぬ
かう
まつ
ある
たべる
する
くる
いく
The 13 words are broken down into some groups, broadly these are the three groups of RU, U and Exception Verbs.
By looking at the example word, you’ll see how a verb of the same type and ending will change into the te form.
RU Verbs
Pretty easy, there is only one entry, たべる goes to たべて
U Verbs
9 words in total in this entry, which are in 4 subgroups.
Subgroup 1
はなす goes to はなして
Subgroup 2
かく かいて
およぐ およいで
Subgroup 3
These end in む・ぶ・ぬ and result in those respective hiragana going to んで
のむ
あそぶ
しぬ
のんで
あそんで
しんで
Subgroup 4
These end in う・つ・る
かう
まつ
ある
かって
まって
あって
Exceptions
Only three items here, our usual suspects of する、くる and the extra inclusion of いく (to go). These just have to be memorised. If you consider いく, as it ends in く it would normally follow the U Verb Subcategory 2 example of かく, however as mentioned it is an exception so いって
する して
くる きて
いく いって
Yosakoi Festival is amazing / よさこい祭りはすごいです！
A chat with my friend Maki about a festival she participated in called Yosakoi Festival. I speak in the polite form with Maki speaking in the casual form so you get an opportunity to hear both.
I had never heard of this festival before and Maki does a great job explaining it. We also have a chat about calling Japanese people by different names and how you know when to call someone their first name, last name etc.
Japanese article read-through – セブンイレブン / ネッシーはうなぎ？!
2 articles from NHK Easy. One about the 7/11 convenience store chain, and another offering some explanations about the Loch Ness Monster.
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