7 Posts found for Source: YouTube

This YouTube channel has been around for a few months now, and new videos are added twice a week, meaning there’s already quite a variety to choose from. Made by students in global communications at Doshisha University in Kyoto, the channel covers a range of topics that are interesting for Japanese learners. These include explanations of how to use words in context, especially common slang, … [ Read more ]

Sources: “Doshisha University”, “YouTube” | Subjects: Video / Audio, Vocabulary / Phrases

Fuji Family/バイリンガルファミリー (bilingual family) is a YouTube channel which features a family of three traveling around different parts of Japan.

In this family, the mother is from Ireland and the father is Japanese. Both parents know Japanese and English and talk to their bilingual son, Sean, in both languages during the segments.

The videos have a very natural and comforting element to them. The camera, held … [ Read more ]

Source: “YouTube” | Subjects: Language Study, Video / Audio

Nihongo to Tabi is a relatively new YouTube channel, launched back in January of this year. The host and creator of the channel, who is unnamed, didn’t really start publishing videos at warp speed until May though. As this is being written, he’s currently up to 167 uploads! That’s quite the output for such a short time frame — at some points, he was even … [ Read more ]

Source: “YouTube” | Subjects: Grammar, Language Study, Video / Audio, Vocabulary / Phrases

Who didn’t love watching this iconic and endearing TV program as a kid? Believe it or not, they’re still making new episodes. They’re also translating segments into Japanese and releasing them weekly! Now’s your chance to watch your old favorite in Japanese. Learning and enjoying your study time is the best combination.

These shortened episodes include some characters you may remember, like Elmo and Cookie Monster. … [ Read more ]

Source: “YouTube” | Subject: Video / Audio

Komei’s Channel is a YouTube channel about the Japanese language by Japanese native speaker Komei. This channel not only teaches Japanese grammar, like が vs. は, but also covers things like how to complain at a restaurant in Japanese and hidden texts in Attack on Titan. Out of all the interesting videos, we’d like to introduce this one: … [ Read more ]

Author: Komei | Source: “YouTube” | Subject: Video / Audio

This is a YouTube tutorial series by professional anime and game translator Sarah K. She is also a big fan of Sailor Moon and wants to help people learn Japanese through the anime.

Each episode is around 30 minutes long. Sarah plays snippets of the anime and explains each sentence used, one scene at a time. In her explanation, she breaks down every sentence word by … [ Read more ]

Source: “YouTube” | Subjects: Language Study, Video / Audio

This forty minute video by YouTuber Misa from Japanese Ammo might be one of the only resources titled “ultimate” and “the only lesson you need” that I actually believe. Misa breaks down the particles は and が and explains the differences in depth with multiple examples and on-screen text and translations.

は and が can be a major struggle for English … [ Read more ]

Sources: “Japanese Ammo”, “YouTube” | Subjects: Grammar, Video / Audio