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How to learn Japanese using Rosetta Stone

2020-10-16 · 11 min

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  1. Hello and welcome back to another fabulous

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  2. language learning video. Today we're going

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  3. to be using Rosetta Stone to become fluent

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  4. in Japanese in just 2 hours. Wow,

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  5. will I be able to do it? Let's find out.

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  6. So I'm going to press the Japanese button

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  7. for Japanese language, and we'll start

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  8. off with the basics. Have a look

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  9. at the core lessons.

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  10. Konnichiwa. Konnichiwa.

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  11. Konnichiwa.

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  12. Oh, you see that? Perfect. Onnanoko. Ten

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  13. out of ten pronunciation. Otoko no ko.

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  14. Otoko no ko.

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  15. Otoko no ko.

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  16. Yeah, I'm pretty sure that's how you say

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  17. it. 女の子.

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  18. 女の子.

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  19. See, I told you my pronunciation is so

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  20. good. 男の子. 男の子.

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  21. That's how you get level two Japanese.

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  22. 女の人. 男の人.

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  23. 女の人。Hey, wait a minute. This is the same

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  24. Asian woman picture they used in the learn

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  25. Dutch one when I was doing the Dutch

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  26. learning. They had pictures of women.

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  27. They use the same picture.

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  28. 男の人。So easy.

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  29. 女の人。 女の人。I

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  30. got perfect.

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  31. 男の人。男の人。I can't believe it's actually

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  32. giving me a good juice, a good score for

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  33. that pronunciation. Juice. Oh, I wonder

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  34. what juice means. Juice.

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  35. Juice. Juice. Juice. Juice.

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  36. Juice. What do I have to do?

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  37. I don't know what to do.

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  38. Oh, I have to press the image at the top.

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  39. Ocha. Ocha.

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  40. Oops. Press the wrong one.

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  41. It's weird because they just expect me to.

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  42. 女の子は食べています。女の子はジュースを飲んでいます。男の子は食べています。

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  43. I guess this is their idea of a good way

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  44. of teaching people. Instead of saying this

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  45. means blah blah blah in English, they just

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  46. give you a picture and. And they shove the

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  47. sentence in front of your face and just

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  48. expect you to figure it out.

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  49. Boy is eating.

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  50. 男の子は drinking.

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  51. 男の子は女の子は食べています。 男

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  52. の 人 は 食べ て います。 Oh, it 's so easy.

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  53. My Japanese is already really good.

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  54. Whoops, I didn 't press that properly.

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  55. 女 の 人 は 食べ て います。 男

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  56. の 子 は 水を飲んでいます. I'm not sure if this is

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  57. how I learned it in the beginning. I

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  58. didn't really start learning it straight

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  59. away. I watched anime for about 2 years

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  60. before even thinking about trying to learn

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  61. it. And after about 2 years of watching

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  62. anime, I had already just picked up all

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  63. the basic stuff just from watching anime.

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  64. And then I started to think, what if I

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  65. actually learned this, this language? And

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  66. then I started looking for online courses

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  67. and websites and how to learn Japanese

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  68. videos. But I wasn't starting from

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  69. absolute zero because, like I said, I

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  70. already had that background of watching

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  71. anime. I already knew all the basic words.

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  72. 女の子は食べています。女の子はじゅ。男の子はた。 男

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  73. の 人 は 食べ て います。 女

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  74. の 人 は 食べ て います。 女

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  75. の 人 は 食べ て います。 女

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  76. の 人 は お 茶 を 飲 む。 女 の 人 は。

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  77. I wish I had more games.

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  78. 女 の 人 は

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  79. 彼 女 は 書 いて 彼

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  80. 女 は 本 を 読 む

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  81. 彼 は 食べ て います. My boiler is

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  82. broken and water 's leaking out of it,

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  83. and I can 't have a shower. And they said

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  84. they've sent someone to come and fix it

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  85. today, but they didn't tell me what time

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  86. they're coming. So now I'm just sitting

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  87. around waiting for this guy to come and

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  88. fix my boiler.

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  89. It's like things can't go wrong with this.

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  90. 彼はジュースを飲んでいます。

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  91. 彼女たちは料理しています。 彼

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  92. ら は 食べ て います。 彼

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  93. ら は 泳 い で、 彼

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  94. 女 た ちは 女

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  95. の 子 は 本 を 読 んで います。 女

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  96. の 子 た ちは 本 を 読 む。 女

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  97. の 子 た ちは 書 いて います。 女

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  98. の 子 は 書 いて います。 彼

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  99. 女 は お 茶 を 飲 んで います。 彼 は。

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  100. ジュースを飲んでいます。彼女は食べています。Blah blah blah,

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  101. blah blah blah blah. B B B B

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  102. B B B.

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  103. Sayonara.

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  104. Sayonara.

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  105. Oh, I didn 't pass the

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  106. core lesson.

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  107. 新聞、 新聞、 本、

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  108. 本、 ジ

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  109. ュ ー ス。 Juice.

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  110. Juice. Didn't even say it properly.

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  111. Ocha. Ocha.

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  112. Oh, it's getting boring now.

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  113. What else do they have?

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  114. 女の人。Learning a language is so boring. I

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  115. don't know why people even bother.

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  116. 男の。男の人。 こんにちは。さようなら。I

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  117. can't even imagine learning a new language

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  118. again. It just took up so much time and

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  119. energy. It's not interesting at all.

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  120. 男 の 子。

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  121. 男 の 人。 女

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  122. の 人。 男

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  123. の 人 た ち。 女

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  124. の 子 た ち。 男

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  125. の 子 た ち。 女の人、水、本、ジュース、新聞、お茶。

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  126. 男 の 子 は 水 を 飲 んで います。 男

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  127. の 子 は 食べ て います。 男

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  128. の 子 は 走 って います。 男

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  129. の 子 は 本 を 読 んで います。 彼女は書いています。I

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  130. have this feeling that the people upstairs

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  131. are walking so aggressively and stomping,

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  132. it's making the wires and the cables

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  133. and the pipes come loose on the boiler.

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  134. It seems like it's possible. They walk so

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  135. loudly that the whole place shakes.

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  136. How is that even possible? 彼 は 料 理 して

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  137. います。 彼 ら は

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  138. 泳 い で います。 彼

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  139. は 食べ て います。 Well,

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  140. that was how to read Japanese on Ros etta

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  141. Stone. I hope you liked it.

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  142. Weirdos walking outside my home. Wish

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  143. they'd piss off.

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