Nami: Hello, it's Nami!
Today, I will be talking about Japanese!
Uh, I'm not really ready yet...
I will be filming today's video in Japanese...
Mm! Tea yummy yummy mmm
It's the first video, huh?
A video that is not in English
I haven't filmed in all Korean yet either
Today, I am telling you how I learned Japanese!
When I had Galahad, my first son (2013), I wanted to learn Japanese
The reason why I wanted to study Japanese,
At that time, I was reading a LOT of manga
Because there is a huge amount of Japanese onomatopoeia in manga,
I came to want to learn how to read Japanese
And also at that time (2013), there was a YouTuber named kotakoti I was watching
People call her a doll and
she was able to start modelling in Japan
And she was very very good at Japanese
English.... don't!
Don't speak in English!
So I also thought,
I want to be that good at Japanese too
That's what I thought
So I started studying Japanese!
My friend Marystellar who I traveled with studied Japanese in high school
She gave me (I asked her for) her high school Japanese notes
So I used that and studied
So first,
I studied the alphabets hiragana & katakana
This is a book that my friend Marystellar gave me
In here, there's a lot of hiragana and katakana
Like this
Can you see?
Yes, so I practised!
Again and again and again and again
I wrote hiragana and katakana
Then when I finished this book,
In my own notebook,
I practised some more!
Um my Japanese is really bad so
Please excuse me
I'm sorry
Please forgive me
I have decided to do this
So I will do this video
In Japanese
I wrote hiragana and katakana over and over and over again
sa shi su se so (part of the alphabet)
ta chi tsu te to (part of the alphabet)
na ni nu ne no (part of the alphabet)
This whole notebook is hiragana & katakana practice (It's very important to practice your alpha & pronunc!)
Also at that time, (2013) I found some Japanese YouTubers!
On YouTube, Hajimesyacho, Avntis Douga, Mahoto, Taipon
(also Sharla in Japan, Mimei, Michaela, Yuta, Victor, etc) (+Sasakiasahi, Green-chan, Ami Beauty, Harunyan, etc)
I watched YouTube videos and practised my listening and reading
I put a profile up on a site called mylanguageexchange.com (not sponsored lol i wish)
And I got an email!
Shoko-san was a Japanese lady living in a city a bit close to me
Now she has gone back to Japan
Shoko-san wanted to be penpals with me!
Huh where is it?
Here!
This is also all practice My Japanese practice
Because I'm Korean,
Japanese and Korean are a little similar
It's not the same but it's very similar (grammar, vocab, origin, etc along with Chinese)
Japanese is more similar to Korean than it is to English
So I translated Japanese vocabulary (& grammar) to Korean
For me to understand better
So I stuied a lot like this on my own
And I also wrote down the penpal emails between Shoko-san and I
I wrote in English, then Japanese
Shoko-san wrote in English, then Japanese, then helped me with/corrected my bad Japanese
So I wrote a Japanese response, an English response, of the same email (trans) and wrote a correction of hers
It was really
a lot
very
helpful! (?)
Does that word even exist?
So I wrote it all down
Along with my errors and their corrections
There's really so much
I wrote the hiragana, the kanji, the hiragana reading on top of the kanji,
And I wrote the English meanings as well
I studied like this...
Then Shoko-san and I came to stop emailing each other
We both became busy with our own families
But now we both have two children (at the time we both had one)
During that time, I was very happy
To Shoko-san, I have a very thankful
heart
Last year, because I had been self-studying Japanese for three years,
I wanted to study it at a language school (also to improve for my prev May trip to Japan & Korea)
So I registered at a language school called Hansa in Toronto
(also not sponsored also I wish lol)
Register
Google: "Subscribe"
Subscribe....
It's not subscribe though...
huh?
I applied!
I got a call from Hansa
Phone: Yes, hello, is this Nami-san?
Then: "yes.."
Actually that's not how it went lol
One teacher from Hansa called me to hear my Japanese level and interviewed me in Japanese
I thought I was around the 2nd level or 1st level
But that teacher said that my Japanese was good
She said I was either level 3 or level 4
I was so surprised!
Whyyyy !? Am I level 3 or level FOUR!?
That teacher said that even though my Japanese was good,
See I'm missing vocabulary cuz I don't even know how to say vocabulary
"Tango"
tango?
I don't know if that's how you tango tho
She said that I don't know too much vocabulary
So for the 3rd level class,
I applied!
But it got cancelled! (not enough enrollments)
So Hansa recommended Private tutoring for me (which was less classes for the same amount I already paid)
So I said, Yes I'll do it
Because I couldn't do anything about it
So I did the private tutoring
And that's how I met the sensei/tutor I have now!
Clap clap clap clap clap
I like Sensei
I love Sensei
Sensei-Sama (Lord Sensei)
We studied together five times (five classes)
and at the time our five classes ended,
I asked her,
I want to study with you as private tutoring but what how is that for you?
And Sensei said it was good for her
Yes,
I've been studying with my sensei for one year!
like this
It was thanks to sensei that my Japanese got a lot better
Even though my Japanese now still isn't that good
Until now, we should keep practising right?
Today's video too, I'm doing it in Japanese for the sake of practise lol
Because it's fun to speak with her
And studying with sensei is fun
And being with sensei also
I love
Sensei don't watch this
She's probably watching this
so embarassing
don't watch
It's ok thank you for watching
This past week she told me
I never knew about YouTube so my friend showed me how to subscribe to you
And she said to me, I've been late, I'm sorry ahahaha
So, until now, I am studying with my sensei!
Self studying is quite hard, huh?
If you don't have discipline, or you don't have the time or you don't have the environment
to study,
Because of that, I think studying in a class or with a teacher, or tutor is really good
I think studying like this on your own is also ok
But the method of studying when self-studying is a little different
There are four points for the method my sensei gives
for studying a language by yourself
Reading, writing, listening, speaking!
We believe studying these is really really good!
In whichever language!
So if you're studying a foreign language, please practise like this!
Reading, writing, listening & speaking (:
No matter the language!
This has been my Japanese studying methods!
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Ahh my Japanese is so bad
I think it's so bad ! (I cut out a lot of my pauses lol)
But we have to have to practise
Let us practise!
Let's practise together !!
Let's do our best!
We are doing our best....
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Then see you next time!
Though it won't be in Japanese
Lord Rice, I understand so (reading a webcomic)
Lord Rice, I'm sorry
I was bad
Hami, what you doing?
so cute
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