This is a video all about the Japanese language, including its features and its history and development. 🚩 Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101: ►http://bit.ly/japanese-pod-101◄ Black Friday sale: Courses are currently 51% off for a limited time! (Full disclosure: if you sign up for a premium account, Langfocus receives a small referral fee. But the free account is great too!) Special thanks to my lovely and amazing wife for her Japanese audio samples! 🚩 Support Langfocus on Patreon ► https://patreon.com/langfocus ◄ My current Patrons include these fantastic people: Brandon Gonzalez, Eric Garland, Andres Resendez Borgia, ShadowCrossZero, Zhiyuan 'George' Shi, Michael Arbagi, Trevor Lawrence, Pomax, Виктор Павлов, John Moffat, Auguste Fields, Guillermo Jimenez, Bennett Seacrist, Sidney Frattini Jr, Ruben Sanchez, Michael Cuomo, Brian Michalowski, Sebastian Langshaw, Lorraine Inez Lil, Don Sawyer, Scott Russell, Florian Breitwieser, Fiona de Visser, Raymond Thomas, divad, Justin Faist, Jens Aksel Takle, Zhukai LIN, yasmine jaafar, Tryggurhavn, Behnam Esfahbod, JC Edwards, Ashley Dieroff, Steve Decina, Thomas Mitchell, Mahmoud Hashemi, Fatimahl, Kevin Law, David LeCount, Carl saloga, Edward Wilson, Mohammed A Abahussain, Peter Nikitin, Fred, JL Bumgarner, Rob Hoskins, Thomas A. McCloud, Ian Smith, Georgy Petukhov, Nicholas Gentry, iddo berger, Brent Warner, Kevi J. Baron, Maurice Chou, Matthew C, Caio Fernandes, Suzanne Jacobs, Johann Goergen, Leo Barudi, Piotr Chmielowski, Rick Gerritzen, Sailcat, Mark Kemp, Éric Martin, Marco Antonio Barcellos Junior, Simon Blanchet, Sergios Tsakatikas, Bruno Filippi, Jeff Miller, Ulrike Baumann, and Panot. Music: Intro: "Rollin Through Osaka" by MK2 Main: "Back in Town" by Silent Partner Outro: "Japanese Style Trap Beat" by Annex. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qlHr2sZ3Xuo 00:00 General information about Japanese 00:52 The history and development of Japanese 06:54 Varieties of Japanese today 07:58 Japanese phonology 11:54 Japanese word order 13:14 Topic marker and subject marker 16:05 Agglutination 17:53 Vocabulary & the writing system 22:16 Final comments