Japan offers a wide variety of hobbies that cater to all interests, including sports, physical activities, artistic pursuits, and indoor and outdoor activities. To learn Japanese, it is essential to have conversations about hobbies and interests with native speakers to make friends. This podcast, hosted by Ami and Alex, provides essential vocabulary for talking about hobbies in Japanese.
In Japanese, the word for “hobby” is 趣味 (shumi), which can be translated into English as “What are your hobbies?” or “What do you do in your free time?”. The easiest way to say “What are you good at?” is “Nani ga tokui desu ka?”, which literally means “What are you good at?”.
For sports and outdoor hobbies, the easiest way to say “What are you good at?” is “Nani ga tokui desu ka?”, which literally means “What are you good at?”. The phrase “Do you have a hobby?” can be used to express interest in a specific activity.
In this free lesson, you will learn the Japanese words for different hobbies and perfect your pronunciation using our voice. Some phrases to use include “Anata wa?”, “Shumi wa arimasu ka?”, “What about you?”, and “Do you have any hobbies?”.
In summary, learning Japanese to talk about hobbies and interests is essential for making friends and understanding Japanese culture. By learning essential vocabulary, sentence structures, and phrases, you can effectively communicate your interests and hobbies in Japanese.
📹 How to talk about hobbies in Japanese in NATURAL WAY!
📹 こと KOTO – Hobbies in Japanese (My hobby is watching anime!)
Let’s learn how to say your hobbies in Japanese. By using こと KOTO, you can say the “ing” part as in “My hobby is watching …
Sensei i need help 🙂 I just got confused by the word “DOKUSHO”. Does it spelled as shi-yo? Because i started learning hiragana and for 2 days i memorized how to write and read it, but I can’t remember if there’s sho in your hiragana lessons until wa and o(wo). Just want to confirm. Someone please help. Btw. I sticked with your basic hiragana and i finished it and it’s really efficient! Arigatou gozaimasu!!!
Hello and thank you Yuko sensei. I have one question, if you wanted to list multiple hobbies in one sentence, how would one do that? For example, “My hobbies are reading books, travelling, and hiking. I saw you respond to one other comment by saying the “TE” form is never used with koto, so I was wondering about how it would be done.
So a word about the koto is that its my hobby. A koto about koto is koto . Id like to say a word about my hobby playing the koto ( traditional string instrument). My hobby is laid back camping. My hobby is sketching. My hobby is looking at the stars. Im at the hiragana stage. Japanrse nursury rhyme is good. Some romanji anf kanji. I have lerned sone korean and chinese. There are similarities. Korean has the same grammar. Just a different script. Korean uses ptcles as well. Similaer wird order.bakje kingdom . It existed befire it was taken iver by shilla and koyeo.used to trade eith Japan. Some words are borrowed from one language to another. I find the history interesting. We dont hear much in nz. Tends to be western focused Gampae cheers, kabang handbag etc … Still learning. Im only a beginner . I like anime and hadrama and some j songs. Kids and j pop . I try reading la els of hspanese goods. Using hapanese software and websites. Likr Google and Yahoo . Heaps of android apps. I like gunja free. I also practice in hapanese expats. Im sure youre good but im not rich. You can talk online to people for free.
Hello @Yuko, I have a question. I want to express different hobbies but in the same sentence (ex: My hobbies are playing tennis, studying Japanese, and traveling.) Following your instructions, I would use the plain form verbs when expressing my hobbies like ‘tenisu o su ru’ and ‘Nihongo o benkyo su ru’ and ‘ryo ko su ru’. My question: in conversation would I convert each individual verb by adding ‘ko to’ after each ‘su ru’ or should I only use ‘ko to’ once at the end of the last hobby (ex. Shu mi wa ryo ko su ru to tenisu o su ru to nihongo o benkyo su ru ko to de su?) I used “to” for and.
There is another way of turning a verb into a noun. Add the の particle after the dictionary form of the verb (just like adding こと)… So, you can translate the sentence, “I like reading books” 2 ways, using こと and の: 1) 本 を 読む こと が 好き です, and 2) 本 を 読む の が 好き です Both mean the same. I wish you had discussed this. This was a great lesson nevertheless. Thank you for these wonderful lessons