Yosh! Pokemon LeafGreen Episode 2 - Let's Learn Japanese! Game Grammar

ただいま! We're finally back again! This time, we'll do different things, like playing Famicom, prepare to depart on a journey, and progress through the present and past.

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konnichiwa minna-san we're back again to
bring you more Japanese learning
goodness
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comments and criticisms some people have
mentioned that it's a lot to take in at
once and it is but it's not the end when
you immerse yourself in a language by
say just translating every line of
pokemon leafgreen you won't understand
everything once but over time it will
start to click
just stick with it and try your best
before we begin let's get a few things
at the way
first off if you haven't watched the
first video do it otherwise you won't
know what we're talking about a second
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so let's get prepared by going over the
rules one take notes with paper and
pencil you can even pick out a cool
folder to put them in
I have a Disney Princess one it's
gorgeous to have a dictionary handy
try looking up with yourself and pause
the video if you have 23 practice
calligraphy right
every word and its meaning several times
so it really sticks like a munchlax on
honey
and finally have fun and do you know I'm
assuming you know how to read and write
hiragana and katakana already so go
learn if you don't and I'm not a native
speaker and would not pass as one
so now that my pronunciation is not
perfect though I certainly try
so sort of a gene muscle
read the law mami como stated right off
the bat we've got something very
familiar
well it indicates the topic of our
sentence which is a rental
our characters name that didn't change
between episodes moving on
famicom short for family computer is
just the japanese name for the nes it
was outdated long before the original
pokemon games came out but right here
doesn't even have a bad and his mom
doesn't seem to work
so you can't expect him to have the
latest gear will tells us that we're
manipulating the Famicom which brings us
to stay true
still he was kind of the star of today's
episode and you'll find out why soon
enough
in fact you'll find out right now
stay is that a form of the irregular
verb suit to do is probably the most
common verben all of Japanese and beans
to do it is so general use that you can
often attached it to nouns to make them
into verbs family como stated read new
family calm but what is the tank form
i'm glad i asked the taper forum is a
congregation that connects one word to
another by adding a take to the first
word for example above we have sheet
here to see the tape it can be used to
change things together whether it be a
sequence of verbs multiple additives
sentence clauses all kinds of things it
can even be used to make requests and
express regret if the right firms follow
it
it is used a lot so we're going to
tackle it in chunks but when the take
form is combined with the verb for to be
true it is equivalent to english is
present progressive which describes with
someone or something is currently doing
we have a present tense to be in you do
so we know that we're talking about
being I am
you are and such but a form of sodium in
the present tense you are tethered
together like knuckles chaotix distinct
yet
inseparable so studio is helplessly
pulled along by the present tense here
ooh it's just like an English but
flip-flopped
red is doing read the law stay through
both have present tense forms of to be
for you to do right next to a verb that
indicates the current action
finally we drop the e in you because
nobody has time for that
so read does not do family com
red is doing family com also do is used
for playing video games sports and other
things a closer equipment we have in
English is dancing do the twist do with
our robot do the mario dance the mario
dance sounds a little bit er done
doesn't it another example is do the
dishes or do the laundry
one more example of studio is and allow
me to indulge myself
the series of Japanese commercials for
the sega saturn featuring
Pass and pseudo Sega's kurosawa parody
advertisement character song ends with
like segata sanshiro his name
shuto is the strong order form of studio
which will see more than the next
episode but it's like saying play Sega
Saturn our sentence comes out to read is
playing famicom read the law family como
stated
yossi sort of sort of take Akio
we've got another classic nintendo
reference as red cause everyone's
favorite green dinosaur into action
t Yoshi sore munchakoopas from the Mario
series
that's right everyone in the original
japanese red yoshi accompanies the
player that their entire journey and you
just got Punk'd
haha no no she is just a word pronounced
more like Josh it's kinda like all right
or yes
it even sounds like yes if you butcher
it yes a coincidence
I assure you besides you know she's name
is actually written pronounced Yoshi
his name is yoshi because if you listen
closely
Mario shouts yash when he rides the
ocean super mario world and you just got
Punk'd again yeah
and uh haha i'm on a roll today
soda soda means slowly gradually
momentarily but more often than not it's
used to indicate to the listener or
reader that there's an action of speaker
will start doing or is already starting
to do and then they cock a all from the
heat on verb a calculator to depart
he cheated on verbs always end in
through and we cut through off when we
conjugate them then we replace it with a
different ending like equipping plates
on Arceus to replace its type
right now we're adding the your suffix
to change it to the volitional type
which means it expresses intent to do
something like let's so we go from here
cater to be cocky all
let's depart another example would be a
better to eat which becomes have a all
let's eat go down verbs on the other
hand change type by switching the loose
ends to different sounds
we saw this in the previous episode when
the who became an e in order to become a
stem verb but they become volitional by
changing the new to all we saw
volitional verb 1 okido asked us to tell
him about ourselves
he says more alcohol from more out to
receive but more importantly it's
accompanied by at a forum verb which is
the formula for receiving a favor
let's receive a favor okido intends to
receive information about you
so all together with our Yoshi and are
so desoto and are the khaki all we can
translate this line - all right let's
get going
yes sort of sort of the cocky all
sonia know quite ska happy need demo no
you're right
Jeremy no hands SEO first off focus on
means mom pretty cut and dry
she is our communal mother she starts
off saying solon a which is like saying
oh well but can also indicate agreement
like that's right
and then also clinical which should be
familiar
the null connects to announce together
using our normal method it translates to
children of men which although being a
fantastic movie isn't correct
remember that no also modifies the final
down with the one preceding it
so we have babies which are men the man
baby
so boys and it to commons sometime or
someday
that's tabhi there isn't our Japanese
language editor or a place but rather a
concept
it means journey or travel remember I
said that the particle me can also be
used in more abstract ways than just
indicating pedestrian topics such as a
place or direction like telling time in
this case we're going towards a concept
journeying so there's still a
destination figuratively speaking
towards the journey dad it means to
leave or depart
so altogether it becomes to leave on a
journey
Bobby need better this mono is a tricky
one
usually mono means thing but it can also
mean person depending on the kanji used
the problem is we don't have kanji here
just gonna
however we know it means person because
the subject of our cost on sentences
young boys who are not objects notice
that tab you need better is modifying
the word
monel as verbs and in this case entire
phrases do when put directly in front of
nouns which makes top need a terminal
mean people who go on a journey
then all we see at the end is a fairly
common way to end the sentences and
feminine speech the know itself is put
on the end to indicate that the sentence
is explaining something
it's have just a more verbalized
inflection of the voice and half actual
grammatical feature men can use the
North the end of their sentences to but
wouldn't use the not
if men wanted to explain something like
this they usually end their sentence in
dial which means the same thing as not
all when you put you at the end of the
sentence
it means you're telling someone
something they don't know I know what
you're thinking isn't this kind of
similar to be an explanatory with know
what the end and yes it is but this is
more emphatic to the extent that it's
also used to reinforce commands in means
yes
it's kind of like a Japanese equivalent
- mm-hmm
however longer mm actually means no sort
of like not tatter be is derived from
the word television
apparently it's too long for Japanese
just like it's too long for english
go figure haha she is the noun form of
the verb manasu to speak and is
translated as conversation or speech but
in this case because of the context it's
referring to a story which we could
translate as a story from TV
not like Grandma stories which you never
ever interrupt but just any story
altogether
we have our mothers saying right boys
are people who will someday embark on
their own journey
yeah that's from a story that aired on
TV
we've added some words because even
though they're not in the original text
the speaker's implying them and thus
they are necessary for the sentence to
make sense in English focus on
so nay toe claw itsuka Bobby Darin on
oil soon there'll be no hanashi Oh
so ever I'm not in a low-key doha haha
no you won't take the aisle
we start off with solely about it means
speaking of which or which reminds me
so we know that our mom is continuing
from her previous train of thought and
my fans will translate the next part
pretty easily
tonari no all kido okie doll or not he
means next door or nearby but since mom
isn't giving directions to somewhere and
audio is the name of the professor the
phrase is saying neighbor professor
orchid all God and all are particles we
saw last time and will continue to see
until the end of time . refers to
subjects and blow indicates what the
verb is acting upon Allah is one of
several ways of saying you in Japanese
it is used when speaking formerly
married couples will also refer to each
other and second person as an Atallah
sort of vaccine darling usually however
people just refer to each other by their
names titles or even skip the reference
entirely if it is easily understood who
they were talking to
anyways our verb in this case is young
the top
that's kind of weird the Todd to end
suggest that it's past tense but is that
do i hear the sound of up oh my
but a form strikes back
that's right folks at a forum is back
what that's a day let me
elucidate here so last time we saw the
tape form
it was with Sue and became stay right
but to do is an irregular verb in the
conjugation rules for it our special
so what about everything else everything
else follows special patterns that
depend on which syllable the verb ends
on for example verbs that end in New or
mu change their final syllable in two
day in the tail form
working backwards yawn day could either
stem from your new your boo or your new
if we use our handy dandy dictionaries
we find that your boo
and you mu are verbs
yo boo we saw in the previous episode it
means to call your mu means to read both
become your own day but by using the
power of context we know that
okie dokie say wasn't reading us because
he isn't a legit amends obviously but
was calling for us that they form
combined with the past tense means that
this action was being done in the past
it's a little different than just saying
it happened in the past because there is
a sense that it was ongoing and
progressive to translate it
instead of saying okay called will say
oak was calling we cap it off with a yo
which we just explained its emphatic a
new information like yo
oak was calling for you think there's
also walk here
are you wondering what it is no it's not
0 cos ons wario impression
it's something ladies can add to the end
of sentences to make it softer but also
emphatically and to emphasize how
feminine the speaker is very feminine
indeed though guys can use it to
sometimes that but only in places like
the Kansai region and with different
intonation and it's used a bit
differently or if they live in other
regions and they're not feeling
particularly masculine
uh you know what we won't hear many guys
using lot so don't worry too much about
it
in the end we have speaking of which our
neighbor
professor ok doll was calling for you so
ya bah
tonari no orchid oaxaca sega are not all
yonder why o.o
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