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I have been studying Japanese for the past 1 1/2 years; use Tobira Beginning Japanese and an Italki tutor. I am just being introduced to Kangi… as a senior, I am not interested in actually writing the kangi… I just want to be able to read them , at least on some elemental level. Trying to find resources that will work for me…. Your resources may be to advanced right now… Best, John

2:50 grouping!

Very helpful! Your learing approach aligns with mine and I will incorporate into my efforts to learn and use kanji. Thank you!

What about writing? I feel like I can't fully grasp a kanji without knowing how to write it (that's especially true for complex compound ones)

It’s hard to find reading resources when you only know like 80 kanji.

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I admire people how reach this level of reading foreign language literature with all its nuances. I never reached that, I can read news, but hardly the literature, because my kanji vocabulary of about 1000 is still too small for that task.

A good dictionary for the etymology of kanji in English is the Outlier Kanji Dictionary. The only downside is that it is available only as an app.

In a time where clickbait titles are the norm, I had low expectations of this video, but every now and then I actually do learn something useful, and this is one of those times. I was about to say, I do sometimes get bogged down by sentences, when those sentences are like three sentences long, separated by commas, but then I realised you included on in the last example lol. It sometimes gets difficult keeping track of everything, the modifiers (especially when they come at the end), who thinks what, and so on. With the final example, I didn't even pick up on 白羽さん being the one the narrating character is looking at, and I still kinda had trouble connecting the two even after you pointed it out, because they're so far apart, and there are no brackets. But yeah, thank you for the tip!

>just read >spends 20 minutes looking up every third kanji to get through one paragraph and remembers nothing for the 600th time

"I just read" You cant read if you dont already know the kanji. If you write down everything you don't know, youll end up with a list of 100s of words a day and remember nothing.

Finally, I found someone who talks about reading, and a few people in the comments who talks about writing, because every single person on the internet nowadays talks about anki and 100000 of other apps, forgetting that everyone has different learning styles

Excellent info. Thanks

You are such a good teacher! Thank you! Subscribed to your channel and mailing list🐧

Your way of deconstructing kanji is so good! Never heard of anything like that. And I studied japanese for a long time, also in university. I am blown away! Thank you so so much for sharing!!

I have a question if you don't mind. You did a PhD in Japanese and now you teach Japanese in a university in Japan? I am asking because I love Japanese culture and I intend to live in Japan I May want to be a university Teacher in Japan are there Opportunities outside of Teaching English at universities for foreigners? thank you

I have a question if you don't mind. You did a PhD in Japanese and now you teach Japanese in a university in Japan? I am asking because I love Japanese culture and I intend to live in Japan I May want to be a university Teacher in Japan are there Opportunities outside of Teaching English at universities for foreigners? thank you

Can you add english subtitles? Mh Japanese is not good enough to follow this and the English autotranslate is quite messy

Thanks for the tips, I tried to use Anki but frankly it did not work for me, both for Chinese and Japanese. Grouping characters was somwthing that never really occurred to me but it sounds like a pretty useful idea. I'm pretty much a beginner in Japanese but in Chinese I'm at an awkward stage where I can understand most basic stuff but can't read what I actually want. I havw a bunch of children's books I was unsure how to study with, I've read some in the past but I did not feel like most words stick to me, but grouping these words and your other methods never really occurred to me. For Japanese I'm doing RTK, it dors not teach readings but I see value in it because it teaches you writing (I really struggle with handwriting characters and want to change that). After I'm done with it I'll probably use a similar method for the remaining Japanese and Chinese characters.

「スケルトン・センテンス」 目から鱗。英語でどう言えば良いのか、ずーっと考えてました。 「骨子文。」「骨子だけの文にする（装飾を剥ぎ取る）。」これを英語で言えませんでした。肉を剥ぎ取れば骸骨が残る。腑に落ちました。

Wow that Hinoki-Project thing is amazing!!!! I used to just try to google phrases and see how many hits I get comparatively by switching small details around...but this is way better!

こうやって努力してる人は全然大歓迎なんだけどね。最近の外国人はなにかと日本で英語を強要してきて喋れないと逆ギレしてくる輩も増えたからな～ｗ

Why did u use so much kanjis? 😢

A highly important thing to be doing is reading native narrative sentences rather than just reading people talking to each other. A month or two of reading a LOT of narrative work enhanced my japanese more than anything else ever did. It is incredibly easy to "get lost" in narratives because everything is so based on context. Reading slower also makes it harder to keep track of the narrative. What's the solution? Just read more and more narratives. It's really the only way to do it (and studying grammar points as they pop up). Just use a pop-up dictionary like Yomitan and your own brain to find grammatical structures that look unfamiliar.

Hello! Very interesting video! You have so beautiful books! Could you recommend a book about the history of the japaense language *and theories about the origin). I am looking for it for a long time and don'y find any book. It could be bilingual english-japanese. Thank you in advance.

Thanks for the suggestions! I'm ashamed to admit I didn't know that 漢検 association has their own books. I have a goal to pass 一級 one day, and I have a work book for 準一級 (not by the 漢検 association) , but I have been thinking about what materials could be good for 一級, although I still have 準一級 to pass 😁 The 四字熟語 books seemed especially interesting, since I really love them

日本が英語でジャパン、フランス語でジャポンなどになったのか、うさん臭い語言説があります。 昔、キリスト宣教師がシルクロード経由で日本にやってきた途中、東南アジア（ベトナム等）で、「日本」と言う国があると耳にした。 当時は、東南アジアにも漢字が使われていた。そでで、何というのと聞いたところ、日（じっ）本（ぽん）だと言う。 ほんまかいなと、日本にたどりついて、この国は日本（じっぽん）かと確かめたんだそうです。当時の役人は、日本が海外（東南アジア）でそう呼ばれて いること知っていたので、「それで間違いない」と答えたんだってさ。 知らんけど。

skill issue

国籍は変えられます。宗教は変えられます（信仰心をお持ちであれば宗旨替えは中々難しいでしょうけど） 人種のせいだけではないでしょう。

日本に住んでる白人（日本国籍）ですが、皆さんが言うほど英語で話されていませんな。 金髪碧眼ではないおかげなのかな～

I also lived 6 years in Japan, and went to school, worked, and had family in Japanese. I totally understand how the interviewer feels about feeling alienated in their birth country.

Wow!!

“それはnever happens”wwww Nice conversation, thank you!

How do you research Japanese books to read whether it is fiction or non-fiction?

Hello! Konnichiwa!, Arigto! Sumimasen!

Japanese people are like.... 宣教師。。宣教師。。教師。。English teacher!

You get used to it but Japan is not a multicultural country so close to 100% of Japanese speakers you will meet look Asian and the first time or even the first few times you meet someone who doesn't look Asian but speaks native level Japanese it kind of makes your brain do a double take. I had that happen when I took a Japanese speaking class on iTalki with this Brazilian who grew up in Japan. He left Japan years ago and was middle aged now and living in Brazil and teaching Japanese online. His Japanese pronunciation was spot on. It took my brain a minute to adjust when we were talking to each other. This wasn't just a foreigner who studied really hard - this was real native level Japanese but he looked European.

I don't often find parallels to my own story of identity in white people's biographies, but Joshua's story is in many ways structurally similar to mine: growing up biracial in Britain with the same insider/outsideriness, the same overliterate-but-somehow-still-foreignness, the same sense of a dislocated self. Similar to him, I first got a better sense of what it was to be British by living abroad, and that in turn made it easier to go back. I did ultimately leave for good, though, and not being from London probably contributed to that decision: the metropolis has a lot of anonymous spaces that are extremely soothing and hospitable to a self characterised by discontinuity. The next best thing, I find, is living in a culturally remote country where the markers of your home country identity are effectively illegible to local people.

Sometimes they use japanese pronunciation for japanese words in english convesation.Maybe they aren't conscious about it. That's interesting and they are really awsome.

I miss my time in Japan. It feels more like home to me than living in the US. I spent most of my adult years there, so it still feels a bit strange to be back in the States. 😅 It would be great to meet both of you someday. Funny enough, Joshua and I have a few mutual friends, but we’ve never actually met. Small world, lol.

Good luck to Joshua when he returns home, I hope he can experience what he felt was lacking when he first left! It goes without saying that those little comments from Nikkeijin Japanese won't ever stop, but I hope the negative feeling he described because of it isn't very potent.

Good video! Go, algorithm, go!!!

Very interesting video 😊 Looking forward to more videos on the future 🤗

and now we need the collab on Joshua's channel 😊

Thank you so much for this interesting conversation. I can relate to what Joshua says.

Would be great if we can setup a meetup with the Japanese speakers in Holland. どうも。

とある外国人が日本を「奇妙でクレイジーな国」として歪曲して紹介して再生数を稼いでお金儲けをして、そのあと別の外国人が「本当はダークで陰湿で憂鬱な国」として歪曲して紹介して再生数を稼いでお金儲けをしてるだけですよ。日本は「一部の外国人」に金を稼ぐコンテンツとしておもちゃにされ、消費されているだけです。日本は普通の国です。 One foreigner distorts and introduces Japan as a "strange and crazy country" to make money by earning views, and then another foreigner distorts and introduces Japan as "really a dark, damp and depressing country" to make money by earning views. Japan is just being toyed with and consumed by "some foreigners" as content to make money. Japan is a normal country.

Came to find out what you assume I think it is.

thank you!

Excellent video! Thank you!