I ImConfused Registered Joined 11 Oct 2015 Messages 3 Reaction score 0 13 Oct 2015 #1 Trying to say: The video helped me learn japanese. そのビデオはわたしを手伝ったて、にほんごをまなびます。
mdchachi Moderator Moderator Twenty-year veteran Joined 6 Mar 2003 Messages 9,317 Reaction score 9,444 13 Oct 2015 #2 I don't think you can use 手伝う in this way. It's used for animate objects in my experience (i.e. people helping people). I'd probably say: (私は)このビデオで日本語を勉強しました。 Where で means "helped" in the "by the means of" sense.
I don't think you can use 手伝う in this way. It's used for animate objects in my experience (i.e. people helping people). I'd probably say: (私は)このビデオで日本語を勉強しました。 Where で means "helped" in the "by the means of" sense.
Toritoribe 松葉解禁 Moderator Fifteen-year veteran Joined 22 Feb 2008 Messages 18,266 Reaction score 4,926 13 Oct 2015 #3 You can use 手助けになる or 役に立つ when an inanimate thing is the subject.