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I always go out on 「一人だけのデート」

"It's okay to lie" and other good advices throughout the series would make a great quippet

9:55 "Why do I look at kinou and read it as ashita? It's like a brain block." Ooh, ooh, I know! Because kinou and ashita (yesterday and tomorrow) are a pair but its ashita that ends in -ta, and your brain thinks its the past tense one. Who's your daddy! :) Just kidding, my brain flips those too.

Actually, I was taught by my Sensei who is from japan, that saying takusan without “no” was technically correct. There are many instances where I see that same thing in novels. I rarely see “takusan no” actually. I also rarley see “takusan” in front of the verb unless it’s causal and it’s a response. I see たくさん犬がいる more than犬が沢山いる

おいしいレストランはここだけです

Still watching in 2022. You are amazing!! The best English speaking teacher I have ever seen! 😃 George さん本当にありがとうございます

Hey George
I think in this video specifically, it's okay and possibly more helpful to use the terms "adverb" and "adjective". I think most people know what those are that are studying Japanese (I could be wrong). So it could be helpful to say that because takusan is an adverb, you can ONLY use it to modify the verb, and not the noun in a sentence. That's how I'm thinking of it the second time watching it, and the first time I got confused. It really cleared things up for me personally.

Ah! I've been searching for a way to explain "first time to do..." Thank you so much George for your lessons! They are so easy to understand! I own your books and I'm working through them but your videos really help bring them to life. 本当にありがとうございます!

Only 1.5 minutes in so far, but たくさん is usually written like this, just in kana.

I love your videos!!!

Good to hear I’m not the only one who mixes up ashita and kinō!

you the best George Trombley!

It wasn't until 40 before George could whisper into another's ear, "初めてです。やさしくしてくださいね。

Yay for Misawa!

G'day, watching your video from my home here in Melbourne, Australia 🦘🇭🇲

初めての本 holds book 3

5:50 i have this same problem!

Wow, I'm literally going to go to a sushi place tomorrow and eat A LOT of sushi. For once, the example sentence couldn't be truer. And that even though you talk about how it's ok to lie when practicing sentences haha (which I agree with)

明日3人の友達と寿司屋行きます。寿司を沢山食べます。

沢 may mean swamp, but swamp in English can also be considered to be a low-lying wet area, so when trying to remember place names, I always transliterate "-sawa" as "-dale". 北沢 (North-dale).  Maybe I am wrong, but in English it sounds better than Northern Swamp.  Where I live is called "今沢",  Imazawa, which I transliterate as "Stilldale", which sounds ok in English, but using the Still part from "continues to be" from the Japanese rather than "quiet", the alternative meaning for "still" in English.  Sounds better than "The swamp that has not yet ended"