Hi ! I’ve been watching toddler level videos on youtube to help practice listening and pick up new stuff and it’s been working out pretty well. I can understand an amount that it feels manageable.
Here’s an example of one I liked ! It’s good for counting; it goes over food counting, machine counting, and um well I’m not sure how to generalize how they count the toy eggs since I’m a beginner and haven’t learned all the counters yet.
The cool part is that this channel has massive amounts of content and it is educational in nature so there are a lot of aids to figure out what the words mean. The downside is that I don’t know many people besides me that can enjoy these very childish shows so it might not be useful for people if they are too bored by it.
If anyone else has something similar to share feel free to put it here. Also sorry if there are discussions similar to this, I poked around a little before writing this but could have easily missed something.
Edit : sorry felt like I needed to add that I’m not substituting this for actual focused studying just in case “immersion” in the title confuses people. Still doing wanikani and anki decks and Genki lessons, etc. :3c
Are you referring to the use of 個 for the hamburgers? That counter is usually taught as the counter for “small round objects” and many food items do fit it, but it’s actually a very flexible generic counter. You can use it for almost anything, but I would still recommend using other counters when you are sure they apply.
Thank you for the information !! I had called it food counting since I saw them use it for food, it’s useful to know that it works for lots of things and not just that. ^^
You haven’t learned it yet (at least through WaniKani) because you’re only a level 02, but you’ll learn it at level 20, and some of the example sentences are:
ビエトはシュークリームがとっても好きなので、毎日少なくとも一個は食べます。
Meaning: Viet likes cream puffs so much that he eats at least one every single day.
おく歯に一個、大きな穴が空いているね。
Meaning: You’ve got one big hole in your back teeth.
Here you can see separate instances where one is referring to one small (food) item, and one small hole in a tooth.
I had the same question early on, and I still can’t give a concrete scholastic answer to this, but with learning more and more Japanese, especially the grammar portion, it seems to actually make sense that there are separate counters for separate types of “things”. But I’ll refrain from merely giving my personal observations and let someone give a more appropriate answer to this.
has alot of kids show stuff but also has like 60 episodes of subtitled folktales (10-15 min each)
and all 64 episodes of イマドキ妖怪 (“contemporary demons”) which are short and awesome
and hellokitty teaches you hiragana
Interesting cute vid, thanks for sharing! The rhythm of the first song sounds like a jazzy take on “Twinkle Twinkle Little Star”, which is probably why the song feels pretty catchy and easy to remember.
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