買いたい means “I want to buy something.”
買ってあげたい usually means “I want to buy someone something”
The speaker says she wants to buy herself a new bag as a reward for her hard work.
No, 買いたい is a more natural and normal way to say it.
She could say 自分へのご褒美に何か買いたいです。 ( I would like to buy something to reward myself.)
※ご褒美(ほうび) – a reward, a treat
It’s actually silly to say xxxしてあげたい for oneself, but some people like using it.
FaillenOtaku
1 year ago
Just a suggestion I’ve thought of, but I was wondering if you guys ever considered a level 5 as well? I know that after level 4 you’re ready for raw materials but finding those can be quite tricky and I love the format of these lessons. Maybe with level 5 courses you could introduce more words that aren’t found in previous levels since level 4 builds a lot off the previous but there are many words you wouldn’t find in those levels.
Yes! Since the current lessons are very curated and while in spoken Japanese are not the usual speed and only cover some of the conversations you would find in real-life. I think having a level that uses real-life conversations simply with the annotations would be perfect and would allow the introduction of more complex words that while used in real life may not be used in the standard style that the other levels have since they tend to re-use the same scenarios and re-use the same words.
It would also provide even more value to the lesson plans since, I’ve sort of gotten to a point where I only watch the level 2-4 videos since level 1 is too easy since I’ve been subscribed for about 3 years. Which ends up limiting the amount of use I can get out of the site each week and I’m sure there are others whom have been using your lessons for awhile sort of feeling like they’ve hit a wall growth wise and who may not be able to find good raw materials.
I would also recommend not having furigana on the video or a method of turning it off. The reason for this is, I’ve been using a kanji app to learn kanji but it’s hard to learn it through here if there is furigana as my eyes naturally scan above it and read the kana. Sort of like your other lesson plan, I think it was the introductory one before this where you switched from romaji to kana 3/4ths the way in.
Yeah, real-life conversation would definitely be a good idea. We are currently updating older lessons to the new format but once we are done, we will see if we can add some real-life content here.
If you do I’d recommend putting it in another level. Oh yeah I’m currently using an app for learning kanji but it’s kinda hard brute force learning it so in the future if you guys could add something to help with learning it. Unlike Hiragana or Katana it’s quite tricky from a western standpoint as it doesn’t utilize an alphabet but complex characters which is like jumping from a Microsoft user interface to a MAC lol.
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Thanks for this lesson. Can someone explain what is the difference between the [買いたい] and [買ってあげたい]? Why the second version was used in this context?
買いたい means “I want to buy something.”
買ってあげたい usually means “I want to buy someone something”
The speaker says she wants to buy herself a new bag as a reward for her hard work.
So 買ってあげたい one is more specific. But is it wrong to say 買いたい in this context? Can eighter of these phrases be used?
No, 買いたい is a more natural and normal way to say it.
She could say 自分へのご褒美に何か買いたいです。 ( I would like to buy something to reward myself.)
※ご褒美(ほうび) – a reward, a treat
It’s actually silly to say xxxしてあげたい for oneself, but some people like using it.
Just a suggestion I’ve thought of, but I was wondering if you guys ever considered a level 5 as well? I know that after level 4 you’re ready for raw materials but finding those can be quite tricky and I love the format of these lessons. Maybe with level 5 courses you could introduce more words that aren’t found in previous levels since level 4 builds a lot off the previous but there are many words you wouldn’t find in those levels.
Hi. Thank you for your suggestion.
I’ll share it with our team.
That idea has always been in my head. Perhaps we can simply introduce real-life conversations with annotations or something. What do you think?
Yes! Since the current lessons are very curated and while in spoken Japanese are not the usual speed and only cover some of the conversations you would find in real-life. I think having a level that uses real-life conversations simply with the annotations would be perfect and would allow the introduction of more complex words that while used in real life may not be used in the standard style that the other levels have since they tend to re-use the same scenarios and re-use the same words.
It would also provide even more value to the lesson plans since, I’ve sort of gotten to a point where I only watch the level 2-4 videos since level 1 is too easy since I’ve been subscribed for about 3 years. Which ends up limiting the amount of use I can get out of the site each week and I’m sure there are others whom have been using your lessons for awhile sort of feeling like they’ve hit a wall growth wise and who may not be able to find good raw materials.
I would also recommend not having furigana on the video or a method of turning it off. The reason for this is, I’ve been using a kanji app to learn kanji but it’s hard to learn it through here if there is furigana as my eyes naturally scan above it and read the kana. Sort of like your other lesson plan, I think it was the introductory one before this where you switched from romaji to kana 3/4ths the way in.
Yeah, real-life conversation would definitely be a good idea. We are currently updating older lessons to the new format but once we are done, we will see if we can add some real-life content here.
If you do I’d recommend putting it in another level. Oh yeah I’m currently using an app for learning kanji but it’s kinda hard brute force learning it so in the future if you guys could add something to help with learning it. Unlike Hiragana or Katana it’s quite tricky from a western standpoint as it doesn’t utilize an alphabet but complex characters which is like jumping from a Microsoft user interface to a MAC lol.