How do you say where is the bathroom in Japanese?
"Toire wa doko desu ka?"
"Kaigai no urayamashi tokoro ha nan desu ka?"
I want a handsome boyfriend.
I think you are right there. Thank you very much!
Hey guys this is Cathy Cat!
Today I am gonna talk with you about an APP that helps you learn
Japanese because we get quite a lot of questions from you guys
about learning Japanese and Japanese language questions.
Because we also have our Japanese class.
This time I am actually gonna talk about an app
this video is also sponsored by the app.
They approached us and we were like "Hey this looks really good."
We had a look into it and would like to feature it because it's actually
really good. I have seen a couple of other Youtubers talking about this APP
and it's been quite popular.
So let's have a look into it and what we are gonna do
first I am gonna talk about how to set up an account.
It's called HiNative and it supports language questions in over 110 languages.
It's not only for Japanese, also if you want to learn a different language
Since most of you want to learn Japanese, that's what I picked for it.
And then we will try it out together so you can see how it actually works.
Nice thing with this one is, I know that sometimes some of you guys
try to leave me comments in Japanese which I find really nice.
But sometimes you can tell that this one has been through Google Translate.
And not through learning the language.
Machines can't do the translation that a person could do and
the thing is you will actually be in touch with people from abroad
who will actually teach you that certain language and stuff like that.
Let's check out HiNative and set this up together.
First of all we download the HiNative APP and it's for free
Let's start. You see a Q for Questions because it's a question and answer community.
Global Q&A Community
As you can see you can sign up with your Twitter, Facebook or your Lang-8.
In this case you can also sign up with your email if you don't want either of it.
You can pick your user name. Let's see if Cathy Cat is still available.
email address...
Choose your native language. In that case I will first actually...
for the native language where I lived for most of my life, German.
Fluent. I'd actually say...
English is native language level.
UK
There is also a Near Fluent setting but I will go for Fluent now...
Choose the language you are interested in.
I can learn US English! Let's go straight for Japanese.
So you can pick Japanese here.
Level I'd say advanced.
Add a language you are interested in...
I know that lots of people who are also interested in Japan
are also interested in Korea.
So let's go for Korean.
I will also pick Korean because I totally go for beginner level.
Here...
If you want to add more language you can still go for more languages.
For example if I wanna go for French...
Then I can add some French in there as well.
I think this is enough for now. Let's move on to the next step.
Hello Cathy Cat let's start HiNative. Ok.
So it goes first "Is this natural?" "Great."
You can ask the community if something sounds natural
And you can do it also with sound.
Which is cool so...
You can do it with pictures, sound and text.
So if you want someone to check your pronunciation that's possible too.
So that's text...
What do you eat for breakfast in your country?
"This question is for practice only and your answer won't be published."
So for example, this is like the...
test that they all do write at the start.
It's pretty much a question and you can write like...
That would probably be bread and sausage.
That's such a cliche answer, lets go for that one.
Nicely done. That wasn't bad right?
Next, let's try asking a question to other native speakers.
It's easy to ask just choose from our 6 pre-established questions.
They have pre-done question formats which make it a bit easier
to ask a question as well.
For example how do you say this in Spanish "I love you"
Just type it into the blank to use it. That makes it a lot easier.
Let's check out the actual templates. Here we go.
90% of questions are answers quickly. That is so cool.
Didn't know that.
You have "How do you say this", "Does this sound natural",
"Please show me an example sentence with...", "What does this mean"
"What's the difference" and free questions.
So "How do you say this in..."
Let's go for example for Japanese.
How do you say this in Japanese. Let's pick something simple.
Where is the bathroom?
Congratulations, that's it. You completed the tutorial.
Check out your home page and see what people are asking about.
Here are other people's questions...
What's the difference between no and not...
We have some really high level questions too...
We have questions with English, German, French, Spanish, lets's stick with Japanese...
I should probably change my profile picture, let's do that now.
Choose existing photo.
Ok!
Let's see about the questions in Japanese! You can filter them here...
Let's go for...
Audio ones!
See what it says!
Does this sound natural...?
"Tomodachi ni naritai desu ka?" (Do you want to be friends?"
"Moshi yokereba, aigo ni tasukemashyo."
Oh someone answered my question!
Let's see, there we go...
How to you say where is the bathroom? In Japanese?
"Toire wa doko desu ka?"
Yay!
Choose the Featured Answer. You can also close his question to stop
receiving answers. Selecting a featured answer will also close the question.
That happened so quick. That wasn't even a minute!
How can I ... give him a thumbs up!
And I will make this the featured answer.
Which means the question is closed!
Wooo, awesome that was super quick.
Ok let's do something else.
Does this sound natural... let's go for something.
A word phrase or sentence.
Does this sound natural? The question will be shown as following for other native speakers.
Aaaah! You can actually...
So that's the trick of the whole thing. There are Japanese users in there as well.
They will see the "Does this sound natural" question in Japanese.
So it's easier for them to then respond to it as well!
We are gonna ask a question which we had on "Ask Japanese" which is...
"What do Japanese people envy about other countries."
So let's put that into a question.
"Kaigai no urayamashi tokoro ha nan desu ka?"
Select "Does this sound natural" and let's ...
I general think I do...
I generally think I have to put the Japanese in...
Let's post this!
It's been posted.
Ok does this sound natural...
"What does this mean?" That's a really good one if you have anything you can't read.
That is a very good idea.
Sometimes you have really difficult words. Let's go for "What does ... mean?"
"... wa douiu imi desu ka?"
So this will show up to Japanese people like this.
So you know how to type it.
For example, let's go for "Satsuei"
This is a Kanji I remembered really quickly while working with Ask Japanese.
Because this one actually means a shooting.
So let's post this.
And someone else... Ryouru answered your question!
"To film, to shoot"
What does satsuei mean? - To film, to shoot!
Fantastic, thank you very much!!!
And you shall be...
the featured answer!
And this question is confirmed.
Awesome, that was super quick as well.
It's really nice to see that it's people you are speaking with.
Someone might be checking this.
If you are nice, you do the thing the other way around.
If someone had questions in English or German...
You can then answer.
Let's ask another one.
So let's try this with a bit of a... an accent and maybe slightly wrong.
Just to see if someone will actually fix this.
Usually you would say "Shashin isshouni torimasenka?"
But we just added "demo" in there to see if someone picks up
the "demo" and corrects me.
Runchan answered your question "Shashin isshouni demo torimasen ka?"
It's a little unnatural!
Someone picked up on that!
See poll results...
A little unnatural.
Thank you very much Runchan.
It's nice cause in the meantime you can check what other people have said
and maybe help them.
So even... oh! HiNative! Ricktimberson answered!
Which means I got an answer.
"Kaigai no urayamashii tokoro wa nan desu ka?" does this sound natural? - YES!
He says natural. Thank you very much.
for the "Shashin isshoni DEMO torimasen ka?"
"Shashin isshoni torimasen ka" will explain it better.
Thank you so much! You knew!
You got a like and you are my confirmed answer! Thank you!
People will actually also go through the hassle and answer the comment
They won't only...
Some will vote for it and say "It's a bit unnatural" and some other people
might actually go and give you advice on how to say this better.
So thank you very much.
What I would like to try out is also the picture one.
So select ""What does this mean?"
Let's take a photograph?
We have this lovely figure here.
Ok we wanna find out, what this one down here means.
It's like a disclaimer, a bit like an instruction manual that you get on many
Japanese items so you shouldn't give this to kids...
... shouldn't swallow any items...
It's not edible, stuff like that.
So that's the warning that goes out. This is the picture which I took
Sometimes you have things and you can't read them and you have troubles
putting that into your phone. So you can also just send a picture.
So let's use this picture.
What does "this picture" mean?
Let's see if that works.
Ok my question has been posted.
Hopefully someone will be able to answer it to me.
What does this picture mean? Maybe someone can read this part for me?
Let's go for another round of "How do you say this in Japanese?"
How about...
I would like to have a good looking boyfriend...
Let's go for that...
Let's go how to ask that one.
So I got some more notifications through.
And we have...
How do you say...
I would like to have a handsome boyfriend in Japanese?
Kakkoi kareshi ga hoshii.
I think you are right there. Thank you very much Goph.
One more time you have the chance of asking
How do you say this? Does this sound natural?
You can ask for example sentences. What does this mean?
I find that really helpful for pictures.
What's the difference and you have the free questions.
So those templates are quite helpful.
Hey yay yay!
So High Native supports questions in over 110 languages.
Which is convenient so you can go and ask questions
you get answers from actual native speakers.
It's real people that help you find the answer to your questions.
or can maybe fix your language skills up a bit.
As I said earlier you can register with facebook, twitter or your email account
I picked email in this case but it's totally up to you.
You have those templates and those templates make it easier for you
to answer other people's questions or for other people to answer your question.
Since there are question forums, it's quite simple and easy to ask and answer.
You can be a senpai for others and other people can be your senpai.
Which is a quite nice exchange going on there.
What's convenient, it's not only text but also pictures and audio.
and get help about that. Maybe help about your pronunciation,
or general grammar. As you could see someone gave me advice
not only on the pronunciation but also saying the grammar is better if you do it like this
And the good thing about this one: The app is totally for free!
It's a question and answer community so it's for free.
There is also a premium version available and if you get that
you have some extra special features but the general core app is for free.
Quite a lot of Japanese people are using the app and you get responses
straight away from Japanese people which I found helpful.
And another thing is that it's so quick! I was really surprised how quickly
you get a response and if you set up an email account,
you can put the phone down,
keep studying and then check if someone has left you an answer in the meantime.
So that's quite helpful as well.
What I also found really nice is, that it's not only text.
So that you can also put in pictures and get some advice.
If you are interested in using the app I put down below links to the android
the ios and the browser version so feel free to check it out.
I hope you have a lovely day. I hope this helps you studying.
If you are studying Japanese, this can't be your main tool.
You need to actually be already studying Japanese
to then get the help on your questions.
If you for example have a couple of words and sentences
you would like to say or leave us in a comment...
then that's a really nice way to just go ask native speakers
and get some replies from them.
I wish you a lovely day.
Let me know if you have used any apps!
Or if you used this app and if it helped you.
And I catch you soon for another video on Ask Japanese! Bye bye!
Moe Moe Kyun!