How I'm learning Kanji (Japanese)
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Hello there, you might have noticed that I don't use Goodreads/Bookdepository links anymore in my description box. This is because both of them are owned by Amazon and so I am trying to not support them anymore. I still have a Goodreads account, because I know a lot of people have found me through the site and so hopefully in that way I can point out a better alternative, namely the Storygraph :) This is basically Goodreads only it's not owned by an evil person (the creator and I have actually become good friends over a year -- she's honestly a lovely and insanely talented person!) and it has a search engine that ACTUALLY WORKS lmao. And you can find books, by searching on specific moods, genre etc. and it offers customised recommendations -- honestly, I'd advice you to take a look for yourself :) The website is still in beta, but I can assure it is already 10 000 times better than Goodreads. I will be trying to remove all my affiliate links in my other videos, but this might take a while seeing the volume of my library.
Either way, thanks for reading and I hope you have a lovely day/night! xx
Awwwww thank you ^-^
Thank you so much for paying attention to the request for this video. Learned alot👍🏽
Storygraph huh? I'll have to check that out. I stopped using goodreads for the same reason.
Yay! Have you heard of librarything (www.librarything.com)? I have used it a little in the past, but I can't even begin on understanding how expansive it actually is
I was actually considering the storygraph switch but I didn't know about bookdepository. :( It's the only one that ships free to Sri Lanka that I found. Should start looking for alternatives. 😊
I only came across your channel recently and I can't seem to find my way back out... no complaints.
I’m learning Japanese as well. It’s been challenging but fun.
Yeah I feel you! It's extremely rewarding :D
You have such beautiful mind.
Thank you!! 🥺✨🌼
So glad to hear that you are actively learning Japanese! I am JAPANESE!!
It was funny when I first saw the Kanji flashcard thing the kanji 男 and all the pronunciations of them on, I was like "why there is no メンnext to ダン/ナン lol I was so off and my brain was so confused switching Japanese and English! hahaha
Let me know if you need any help for Japanese study! It is a very difficult language to study all by yourself... I do not even know if my Japanese is correct or not sometimes even if I am a native speaker!
I am always here for you to support your study!
Hey, what textbooks do you reccomend or what way of learning?
When I had been learning Japanese, our teacher told us that stroke order is very important because for Kanji, we tend to rely on 'hand memory' or muscle memory, as much as the actual memory in our heads. So you're doing the right thing!
I agree that it's important to learn how to write the language properly. When we are kids learning out mother language we learn the right way to write it so it makes sense to want to do it write for other languages :)
Yes exactly! :D
your upload schedule is insane!! you’re one of my new fav channels ✨
Thank you very much!! :D
My kanji writing skills are terrible - but I've been practicing listening more with Netflix, like you :) have you tried the chrome extension 'language learning with netflix'? For certain shows, you can get a script and highlight subtitles to see the translation of parts
I haven't heard of that, that seems really cool
I am learning Japanese as well and this was so helpful, thank you!
Happy to hear that!! It's a pleasure!! 🤗✨
Stroke order is definitely important but once you're at the N2/N1 level you shouldn't need to have stroke order marked on the kanji because stroke order follows a pattern and by they time you're at N2 you should have come to realize what the pattern is. Thus it makes sense that higher level textbooks leave that part out.
Bless your heart for leering Japanese, my brain is too full of English slang, memes, and music lyrics to learn lol
I just recently found your channel after going down a rabbit hole of book related youtubers and I'm so happy I did! Your videos are great and can't wait to see your channel grow!
you are amazing. the way you nonchalantly manage to take strides in improving yourself everyday. You have a well thought out approach to learning (as sIfound out about your content a couple weeks ago and enjoyed every day since. keep up the good work m8.
thanks for these resources~ also cuuuuute outfit! 💖
My absolute pleasure!! And thank you very much!! 🤗✨✨
It was very useful! Thank you. I didn't know about those parallel text's books, i loved it hehe
Your voice is so soothing! I love your hair too!
what a coincidence! i just finished a session of japanese study.. for some reason kanji for me is easier than katakana lol
Lol yeah for some reason I forget a lot of katakana XD
Thank you sooo much !!! I was looking for the white rabbit flashcards everywhere but None of the TH-camrs I came across had the actual website on their description, they only had the Amazon link which is crazy expensive in CAD so thanks for linking your tools! Definitely came in handy !!
I recently found your channel and I cannot stop binge watching your videos. Also can I just say you are like the intellectual, well dressed and well spoken queen that I aspire to be even a little bit like someday.
i love watching what other people talk about their language studies, especially japanese because it helps keeps me motivated 😅
happy studying 😊
I’ve been trying to teach myself Italian and welcome any kind of language-learning tips I can find!! Thank you! 💗
I’ve been binge watching your videos all day , A+ content ❤️
Thank you so much!! It is much appreciated!! :D
がんばってー 😭 I grew up speaking Japanese and I had started to study for the N2... I'm too busy now for it, but I try to keep watching TV shows and listening to the radio to improve my comprehension!
love the dress very pretty and perfect for summer
Thank you so much! :D
I wish I had your discipline. Am soo behind on my korean language work.
good job! I envy your discipline and motivation .but enjoy your vids so much,,keep up the great work😊
Ah thank you very much!! xx
Girl, I only able to see your tops in your videos, but your style is everything!
i've been learning japanese on and off for the past year, and wanted to get back into it. thanks for this vid, i think I'll get those flashcards :)
Being close to 20yrs older than you I have to say, I look up to you so much 💖 I'm so glad I came across your channel. Keep up the fabulous work you are doing, which is sharing your excitement for learning which reignites that for me.
Wow, learning Japanese! That's quite the challenge :D
The stroke order is indeed important, as I've been told by my teacher years ago. Among other reasons, because it allows the identification of kanjis in calligraphy works. Not writing the kanji with the proper stroke order can be noticed, so if you ever want to try and work in Japan, you have to know it. Because resumes there are ALWAYS handwritten! Japanese consider that handwriting reveals a lot about a person, so they don't like typed CVs, according to said teacher of mine (who was Japanese, by the way) :D
There's a logic to the stroke order, which is why I guess the N3 book does not include it. By then, it should be quite clear how most kanjis should be written, as different components of kanjis would already have been studied. The normal basic logic is for stroke order is sort of left-to-right and top-to-bottom. Tricky kanjis in that respect are those for left and right, as they have one component in common, but it is written slightly differently in each.
Electronic dictionaries can be quite useful, and good value for the price, as you get English-Japanese, Japanese-Japanese and Kanji dictionaries in one little device, and you can hop from one to the other by marking characters and words.
My mum learned ~2 years of Japanese in grad school. She's Chinese, so she got a headstart on kanji: even though the meanings often aren't the same, a lot of the characters are borrowed from Chinese. Apparently the grad students all liked to joke that learning Japanese is like entering the wilderness -- you go in laughing and run out of it in tears haha. So I'm always really in awe of people who brave that wilderness. 🙌
I don't know where you can buy these in the west, but my uncle uses a pad for calligraphy that is water-activated, so anything you write will disappear when the water evaporates. It's great fun for practicing characters and brush strokes, and I would highly recommend something like that if you can get your hands on one!
This was a really helpful video! ありがとうございます :-)
you're really smart!
I just discovered your channel. I saw your poetry video and then noticed you were learning Japanese. It's such a cool language! I used the Kanji Learner's Dictionary too. One of my favorite poems if you don't already know it is Ame Ni Mo Makezu by Kenji Miyazawa. As you mentioned, poems have a sound that you don't get in translation and this is good example. I'll have to watch more. Thanks for the great content!
This was a very interesting video, thank you for all the tips. ^^ I'm trying to learn Italian and Norwegian atm but sometime in the future I would really like to learn either Japanese or Korean.
This is super interesting. I can understand basic Japanese and speak a bit too but it's very muddled since I learned simply by watching anime. I'm going to rewatch this and make notes so I can push myself into the next level. Also, love your outfit 😍
Heads up for the n3 book: I took Japanese formally for two years and the rule is always that stroke order is top to bottom left to right. Just think about how their books are formatted old-school style
So happy to see more people studying! I was studying Kanji just from Genki but I felt it wasn't the right way, so a couple days ago I've got the Ryuugakusei No Tame 300 and it's really great, at least the initial level 🙈 which is for N5-4, I really want to keep going until I can read some children books easily
Oh my god thank you so much for this video! that is actually one of my dreams!!! I already speak both french and english since I'm 5 years old... I have taken 2 classes of spanish in college but I really do dream to learn japanese and Kanji as well! I would love to read mangas in original format and language! :O
You are gorgeous! Love the dress😁🤓
I'm using the app Kanji Tree along with just my normal Japanese book and course! It's been quite nice for becoming familiar but I think you'd have to write by hand along with it and integrate it into your normal writing otherwise using an app isn't super effective. But it does have stroke order and it's something that's fun to do while watching something or on the train when you just need to keep your hands busy. I'd def recommend it, it's free, it's fun, it is sorted by the N levels so you can choose the deck that goes along with what you're studying.
Also as a note in the stroke order not being included in the N3-1 books, I think stroke order becomes fairly intuitive so probably it's just not as necessary to include and if it's not intuitive to you, you can still look it up.
Good luck with your studies!
This is awesome. I am currently trying to learn Japanese.
Fantastic learning video 🌸 😊🇯🇵
I just finished mastering Hirigana and Katakana because I thought it would be a good place to start. I'm finding it difficult to find where to start with Kanji and this video was super helpful. You give great advice for realistic goal setting for your personal needs. Thank you :)
Really Useful.
I’m only N5ish even if I have been studying japanese for a long time but I have a full time job and it’s only a hobby for me. I like reading in Japanese too. I’m using the Japanese Graded Readers from Ask Publishing. For Kanji, I love using kanji drills made for Japanese children. They’re fun and I learn a ton of vocab!
Beautiful voice
ありがとうございます！凄いでした。
I'm in awe of how you are studying kanji on your own! I'm studying Spanish on my own and that's hard, but I'm a Japanese girl and I know how kanjis are a whole another level! (P.S. I have the same red kanji dictionary! It's thick and I love it :p)
I'm Japanese-American so I grew up learning Japanese but ended up losing a lot of it until University when I took classes again.
One way I've been learning Kanji recently is though celebrity names! Or names in general. For example, there is an idol I like called Nishino Nanase and her kanji is written like so: 西野 七瀬. 西野 = West Plains 七瀬 = Seven Currents. So If you ever see an actor you like in a Japanese film or a singer you like, look up their names and memorize their kanji! It's helped for me especially since it doesn't feel like "studying," more like just learning the meaning of your friend's name :)
Storygraph looks promising... I am in the process of importing my goodreads backlog... let's see how it handles the non-English works (which are not yet supported...)
After having to study all 1945 Jōyō-Kanji (that was before the 2010 revision) for university, I realised that for me, personally, it's useless to learn Kanji by themselves. I knew almost 2000 kanji, but I still struggled reading a normal newspaper article.
I, personally, don't care for the stroke order (most of them follow a logical rule anyways) or writing them by hand because I will probably never have a reason to. I am solely focused on recognition.
I currently focus on learning vocabulary and kanji embedded in context sentences. Some kanji have so many potential readings that without example usage, you simply don't know which one to pick and Japanese is so reliant on context that I find it important to learn not just a word but how it is used. I mostly use the anki app on my android (it's free for PC, web and android). I have a deck (you can make your own or download premade ones for free) that uses what is generally considered the 6000 most frequent words and it gives me the word plus an example sentence. So far, this works really well for me. I also have the "Kanji in Context" books which I really like.
For reading practice I mostly use books aimed at grade 5-6 students. For example, 青い鳥文庫 or 角川つばさ文庫 are 2 labels specialising in these kinds of books. You can get normal books like 君の名は。 or 五体不満足 but with furigana.
I always pick up a couple of books at 'book off' when I am in Japan...
This is such a wierd comment, I know that, but this is my first video of yours and one of the first things I noticed was how calming your rate and cadence of speech was. I know it sounds kinda wack but I really do appreciate that you don't speak super fast because sometimes I watch videos where the person is talking too fast for me to comprehend anything. Anyways, I really enjoyed this video and will be watching more!
I love this! As someone who's learning Japanese in Europe, it's also super hard to find any type of literature in Japanese, just to practice reading. 🤦♀️
頑張って下さい！I need tips on reading kanji again because I forgot many of them and now I struggle to read letters from family 😭 I can speak with them but not write, so frustrating!
oh my god I really want to read that book! Just picked up the parallel classics book! Have you read Moonlight Shadow by Yoshimoto Banana? I read it in English and Japanese a couple months ago. It was a sad little piece of magic, and I loved it.
Hi! Love your channel. It's awesome that you're learning Japanese! Have you ever tried Wanikani? I personally found it the most helpful app to memorize kanji ever - thanks to it I did not have to do any special preparations for the kanji section when I took JLPT N3 exam. It does cost money but I found that the value for money is enormous. Obviously it might not correspond to your goals since it does not teach you stroke order (memorization is based on learning radicals) or writing, but it is very efficient imo.
If you want another free online resource: japanesetest4you.com/ This link has tons of resources, examples, and practice tests for those who want to learn Japanese. Also, I love the parallel text! I hope you are enjoying it!
could you please do a video recommendation about maths , computer science books
Have you tried the Heisig method? The book is good, but you can download a deck of flashcards for free on anki. The one I'm using has animated stroke order pictures. I love it.
その辞書欲しい!😍私も筆順が大事と思います！🙋🏼♀️
I saw that the Kanji Master books for N5 and N4 have a lot of interesting exercices with the kanji after each lesson. Is that the case for the N3 book as well? I saw an exercice about the reading of the kanji where you opened the book, but not more. I'm looking for a kanji book with lots of exercices!
OMG! that's haard!
I’m just starting out on my journey of self study in Japanese after starting the Duolingo course so this has been really helpful. I wondered what you use in terms of practicing writing the symbols? Thanks
i love kanji master
I am in the process too of learning Kanji! Katakana and Hirgana were easier to familiarize myself with, but Kanji is a struggle! Here is luck to us both 👍🏽
Yes!! I tend to sometimes forget some uncommon katakana though hahah -- here's to perseverance!! 頑張ってください！
0:48 のカードはとても興味深い。なるほどそういう覚え方もあるか。
漢字の勉強は大変でしょうが、頑張ってください。
i just came across your channel and i really love your content! i was wondering since i also live in the Netherlands, where do you order your Japanese books/textbooks from?
do i still have to buy a separate japanese vocab book if i buy kodansha kanji book?since kodansha has vocabs too 😅
Have you considered taking the higher levels ob Kanji Kentei? Like levels pre-1 and 1. I mean you seem very enthusiastic and if you learn the Konansha dictionary you won't have problems with the pre-1.
thanks a lot
your explain really clear👌
Mashallah
Help! So for instance: the word "rain" in Japanise can be written both in Kanji and Hiragana, right? then, which one should I use? i'm soo confused :'(
Essentially every kanji has one or multiple writings in hiragana, but usually if there's a kanji for it, it will get written with the kanji. There are exceptions such as -mitaidesu or -toiu- etc. but as far as I know, rain is usually written in kanji. Hope it helps!
As someone how has been trying to learn Japanese and have somewhat of an understanding for the basics
Kanji is the bane of my existence 🤦♀️
Seji have you heard of Ecosia before?
Just curious, how long have you been studying Japanese? I’ve been meaning to restart my studies (been a few years 😬), I just need to find the motivation lol
Is the short stories book also relevant for beginners?
So you speak Dutch and English and learn Japanese, any other languages? (Not that that isn’t enough, just wondering).
You need 2000 Kanji to pass N1 not 1000.
I like your Japanese pronunciation. When you pronounced the names of Japanese authors I knew you were learning Japanese.
Ganbatte kudasai. 💕
FYI, you just came up in my Google news feed that I was scrolling. First time I've seen a TH-cam video be suggested off of TH-cam like this.👀 You must be doing something right girl!
I haven't even been looking up anything Japanese related lately. The algorithm gave me a wild card because I only usually search Bible related content through this account.🤔
What languages do you speak?