Easy Japanese 1 - Typical Japanese

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Learn Japanese with Easy Japanese: In our first episode of Easy Japanese Mona takes us around Sendai, asking people what's typical Japanese to them!
***NEW: GLOSSARY***

PRONUNCIATIONS
“wo” becomes “o.”
“wa” is grammatically “ha” , but it pronounces as “wa.”
“iu” usually pronounces as “yu.”

GLOSSARY
Omoiyari: being considerate and thoughtful of the situation and the state of mind of someone other than yourself. The state of having compassion and sympathy toward others.

Omotenashi: Ways in which one welcomes, hosts, and provides service to customers in a heartfelt manner.

Yabai: an expression that indicates possible danger or inconvenience, but it’s also used to describe something that’s great, good, and cool.

Sasame-yuki: very small snowflakes but bigger than powdery snow.

Awa-yuki: snow that is soft as if it’s a bubble. It lies on the ground thin and melts away quickly

Wabi-sabi: the virtue of beauty in Japan. It usually indicates simplicity and tranquility.

Irezumi: tattoo, especially kinds of tattoo worn by Yakuza.

Otaku: Usually an otaku person has nothing better to do with their life so they pass the time by watching anime, playing video games, surfing the internet - otaku is also used to refer to a nerd/hacker/programmer - “urban dictionary”

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Easy Languages is an international video project aiming at supporting people worldwide to learn languages through authentic street interviews. We also use this format to expose our street culture abroad and create a more diverse image of our countries. Episodes are produced in local languages and contain subtitles in both the original language as well as in English.

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Host of this episode: Mona Kumagai
Camera and Edit: Lisa Waagd
Transcription and Subtitle Producation: Hideo Adachi
Co-Producer: Hideo Adachi
Special thanks to: Daitetsu Ono & Minori Nakamura

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Wow. As a Japanese, I admire anybody who aspires to learn this difficult but very rewarding and beautiful language...

yoshi
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this video is so easy to understand that it took me only 2 years of constantly studying japanese to really understand them speaking

Andrew-cofz
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I still remember seeing this video two years ago and felt sorry for myself for barely understandung something to today where I can understand almost 90% of everything without seeing the subtitles..
Great job mate

SonuSharma-fzkj
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The old guy at 2:13 and 3:56 sounds the most pleasant to the ear, apart from the interviewer..

saule.moncada
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I completely forgot i was here for practice and had to watch it again to focus on the pronunciation, haha.

MrQwerty
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People seem so cute and polite. I used to study Japanese when I was 13, now I am 30 but I still remember how to write hiragana and katakana. Kanji is just another world, I have the feeling my occidental brain is not ready for it. Love Japan 🇯🇵. Best from Spain 🇪🇸

Miguel-hxhg
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I’ve been studying abroad in japan! I’ve finally hit my six month mark and I’m proud to say I am able to listen and understand these conversations without looking at the subtitles!!! A few words I wrote down for future reference, thank you so much for this video! It’s very helpful❤️

revyflores
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After 11 months of learning japanese, I'm finally able to understand 5%-10%. 日本語が むずがしい です ね。 :)

borntolose_livetowin
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from this I learned two important words. omotenashi, and omoiyari. I think omotenashi is to perform hospitality, so as to have someone's fulfillment, and omoiyari is to feel something just from your thought, so as to have compassion or empathy. great great words from a most beautiful language.

moorooster
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The guy talking about wabi sabi has the smoothest voice I've ever heard, he should have a radio show.

alskndlaskndal
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This was great! Although as I think this is aimed for Japanese leaners I think it would be helpful to remove the romaji, and to use just the normal script but also Furigana above the kanji.

lextube
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People...please send me good vibes, Japanese is my 3rd language on the go. It's about 6 months now, barely getting some words here and there, Hira and Kata just fine, and writing being my best developed skill right now. 日本文化を愛する皆さん,ブラジルからこにちわ🍾🍀

TheEcletickGamer
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Recently I learned how to read and write in Hiragana. It took couple of weeks. And now in this video I can read some sentences. It feels so great being able to read something in Japanese

SmartBoy-kurq
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I like it that this comes with proper transcription and even translations in the subtitles, otherwise I wouldn’t have a chance to understand this. Being a beginner, it took me more than 2hours to get through most of this, using both dictionary lookup and trial and error with google translate to analyse it in detail. It was really challenging as it was way above my level, especially when it comes to conversational Japanese. But it was well worth it - I think I learned a lot here.

reinerwilhelms-tricarico
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the best video ever 😭 with romaji, japanese subtitles and english sub 😭😭 hontoni arigatou.
anyone knows other videos similar to these one. this is really helpful . thank you for translating everything 😘

diannegail
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So, finally, there's Easy Japanese.The people seems so nice, here. Keep making videos, please :) !

Pinklaeti
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My first visit to Japan first time last month for 2 weeks and I love everything about your country and the people very much!

viettran
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I am so grateful to see there are now videos for Easy Japanese!!!  Thankyou very much!!!

ruslanvolkonsky
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ありがとございました!私は日本語をべんきょうしています。
Thank you very much for making this video!  I really like these series of video.  You can learn so much about world cultures.  I am especially grateful for this video because as a Japanese language learner I am provided with a lot of insight into the language and culture.  And the best part is it real.  Real people in real life in real Japanese.  Looking forward to new videos!  Thanks again!

codybilbrey
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I love this, I have been waiting for this for a long time. Ok, I'm lying, I wasn't waiting for this but it really really is a great idea to introduce Japanese. Obviously I like the language, culture, people and much more. Looking forward to more episodes of Easy Japanese. Keep up the good work! =D

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