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Captain_Ron · 11 months ago

Don't worry Koichi, I was really messed up before you started teaching me Japanese, haha

Easy_Roy · 11 months ago

Thnx

Now understand I do!!!

Omar Eduardo Fernández · 11 months ago

hahaha, wow, now this is awesome!

WOTDsctoo · 11 months ago

Hahaha, crazy!!!!!
Who would have though?

pancho1402 · 11 months ago

not as messed up as trying to learn Japanese on your own!
Dam it i need my own personal Yoda to teach me Japanese, and maybe the ways of the force and how to kick ass with a light saber but in the meantime ill settle with the Japanese lessons

Facebook User · 11 months ago

....

They don't change it. Yoda speaks normal Japanese in the dubbed films. I just asked the husband, who has never seen it in English and had no idea about how the English version switched it all around.

So, I'm sorry. But I guess the Japanese won't learn a thing from Yoda's amazingness. :(

koichi · 11 months ago

Boo, that's so lame!

Mikhayla · 11 months ago

But to say is not, instead of saying 'ja-arimasen' couldnt you just say 'ja nai' ? Or is there a difference?

koichi · 11 months ago

They're the same meaning, just different levels of politeness. ja-nai is casual form, ja-arimasen is neutral, and dewa-arimasen is formal/polite. I start students out with neutral and then branch out from there later on. SO much easier to learn informal forms after learning neutral / polite forms versus the other way around! :)

Mikhayla · 11 months ago

oh! Now i get it! Thank you! :D

kitankoe · 11 months ago

Do or do not there is no try...... LOL

erika303 · 11 months ago

Thanks for the little Japanese lesson XD
Lol, praise the heavens the word 'pen' in just 'pen'. After just barely finishing hiragana in class, my brain can't take anymore!! ..well at least for today XP

David · 11 months ago

Haha! On Sundays at the bar I work at it's kinda a goofy night so I end up speaking Japanese in my Yoda voice with the customers. That flips on and off with the pirate voice (arrrrr beerru!). Yea, Sundays are a little strange.

I remember when I first started to be able to speak Japanese in different voices. It's kind of like when you have your first Japanese dream. One of those achievements that makes you feel good.

mountaincritter · 11 months ago

Yeah! I remember my first (and only) dream with spoken Japanese. I was lost in Korea, but I couldn't speak any Korean so I had to try to get help from people who knew English/Japanese. I needed $$ so I sold a CD to a Japanese fellow and then started asking him stuff because I was freaked out and lost. I must've been talking too fast, because he was like, "Yokkuri onegaishimasu". I heard it so clearly. Hehe. My sis used to talk in her sleep in Japanese!

Digger · 11 months ago

I seem to recall explaining Japanese syntax a while back, and my little sis said, "So basically, talk like Yoda." I guess she was right.

Mike · 11 months ago

Loved the Nova bunny in the background!!!

elkarlo · 11 months ago

That's a really good way of thinking about it. I find that Japanese grammar is hard to learn, but now with this new Nerdy Reference power, I think it will be easier to deal with.

spacejay4000 · 11 months ago

im not a huge star wars fan, but i do know what its more or less about and im very familiar with yoda and his strange speech pattern. i had no idea that it was linked to japanese...it all makes sense now!! lol....anywho, i have a question for you based on his speech pattern and japanese grammar.

in a weird al song called "star wars rap," yoda says, "Luke, not ready are you." now is this grammatically correct in japanese? ever since i saw your vblog, ive been thinking about it. but as im not fully versed in yoda speak and japanese, i dont quite know the answer. could you please relieve my curiousness?? thanks!! ^_^

monsterofmud · 10 months ago

That Star Wars rap is excellent, but that one's not by Weird Al. For some reason every novelty song on the internet gets his name attached.

hikaritennyo · 3 months ago

Actually, it would be: "Ready you are not" because the ending determines the positive/negative.
YAY! I've learned enough to be useful!
\(^o^)/

mr_ant · 11 months ago

I've got some inside scoop that George Lucas actually named Yoda after one of the main investors in Star Wars, a Japanese man named Mr. Yoda! Only the real Yoda's English grammar is much better than the fictional Yoda's I think.

A · 11 months ago

yoda speaks japanese in soul calibur 4 but i've never really paid attention

Alexis Olson · 11 months ago

This is really cool and helpful! Let me know if you know of any good videos that help out with that whole これ、それ、だれ、あれ、この、その、こちら、そちら、you know the whole "this" and "that" situation. I take online high school classes but when I was learning this they did not do hat great of a job explaining it!

Rosieposie · 11 months ago

I love it I love it I love it! Although hopefully the "hrmmm" yoda sound is optional.. ^_^

Nanci · 10 months ago

I seriously never thought of this before....and I call myself a Star Wars and japanese language fan.

kevinnwhat · 10 months ago

yayy pen janakute neko janakute inu janakute yoda desu yo~D

Pedro Gustavo Gonçalves Coelho · 10 months ago

If you really want to learn Japanese go to youtube. Youtube is the greatest site in the world. there isn't anything you can't do on youtube... want to learn japanese...? easy:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Aploosh
(this videos are for people who don't now nothing at all about japanese language)
Instead Yoda as teacher you have an old funny-named lady, and she thinks you really are retarded..., you can tell that by the way she speak...

Good study for everyone!

Jon Link · 10 months ago

The one borrowing I've always wondered about was if Daredevil comes from Zatoichi. It's also worth pointing out that Kurosawa also borrowed and adapted from the west, Ran, for instance is King Lear.

shutters · 10 months ago

This is great - thanks for the post - the video is very good

nalivio · 10 months ago

i like that yoda voice at 2:14...rrrrr...pen it is hmmm

darthray125 · 10 months ago

SO,dose he teach spanish too?

Facebook User · 10 months ago

That is a brilliant article. I should show my niece this.

Now, if you could help me with my Japanese pronunciation. For some reason, I keep pronouncing it phonetically.

gordon · 10 months ago

i kinda figures yoda's speech was somehow inspired by the japanese language all along. this sure makes learning the language much easier. just think of yoda. ('~')

Alexandre · 10 months ago

Yoda might put verbs at the end of the sentence, but he speaks in OSV, not SOV and his subjects come after objects and complements, NOT like Japanese.
I actually read that there was no language with that exact structure... or at the very least, it's rare. SOV languages are quite frequent.

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damian · 8 months ago

thanks for the tutorial

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Ishuda Atsuki · 5 months ago

こちーさんがすごいです！

narutobleach111 · 4 months ago

fun to talk like yoda it is yes

hatman900 · 4 months ago

Hrrrmmmm, very useful this is.
(laughs about Yoda's sexy bod!)

hatman900 · 4 months ago

Hrrrmmmm, very useful this is.
(laughs about Yoda's sexy bod!)

hatman900 · 4 months ago

oops! I can't believe I just made that mistake.

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