I don't think people understand how good this guy is.... he passed kanji kentei level 1! That's over 6,000 kanji. Modern Japanese uses only about 3,000 or so. If you tell a Japanese person that an American passed level 1 they probably won't believe you lol
ぶ先生 (ブレット) は最高に天才！彼は知識無比である。とっても明るくてフレンドリーな人柄で、漢字に対しての説明は最も分かりやすい！ Bret's the best! And he's unparalleled - truly one of his kind with his abilities. Really friendly and cheerful personality - and his explanations on Kanji make them the easiest to learn!
I started learning Japanese formally this past fall and I've grown to really enjoy learning kanji and their meanings. So much so that I think I'm too focused on reading but not focused enough on speaking! 😁 I love that he includes art in his kanji and that is where I find myself leading towards. I even drew something for 難し (むずかし = "muzukashi") which, interestingly, he says often in his talk. I just found the story I made up for 難し fascinating and find myself wanting to do more as I find learning the meaning behind all the little "bits" intriguing. So unlike many people I can relate to the enjoyment he has in learning kanji and work/play needed to get to the next "level." I would love to one day be a "kanji geek" as well. ^_^
I know the video is a bit old but I would like to ask you for some advice. I am still a beginner with kanji and before Kanken I would like to give the jlpt (I know they are two different things). Both have kanji and I don't really know how to study them. Each kanji has 1000 information (number of strokes, readings, meanings, etc.) I want to study them well but I have so many doubts about how to proceed that I am stuck. You passed Kanken # 1, congratulations. Can you give me some advice? (Maybe it will be useful for others too). Thank you.
I currently study The Ultimate Kanji Course on Memrise. It has over 4000 words, both the kanji and the pronunciation. I also look at individual Kanji English meanings through different tests on the same site.
actually its quite easy to remember the kanji you just need a lot of time, the hard part of the Kanji is reading as Kanji have somany readings up to 1 - 10 readings and some are more. so you have to get used to the word on how its written in Kanji, and you can also surmise this as some Japanese ask other people names how to write it in kanji also the writting many Japanese as well forgot some kanji writting that they need a smartphone(write it in hiragana) to verify the Kanji writting.
perhaps you might be able to leverage it in one way or another (including for getting hired), but don't expect to get any immediate tangible benefits just because you would be able to pass it
兄兑阅悦脱税, "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course" explains 脱 as a brother 兄...flesh 月 exposed. So are 阅,悦. That is farfetched. 脱 and 兄 have no semantic relation...
It’s counterproductive to come up with pseudo etymology when learning kanji for 形聲字。These characters’ sound components were used to represent Chinese sounds. For example, 鴛鴦 in mandarin is yuān yāng. There sound components 夗 and 央 yuan, yang merely represent the sounds, it has nothing to do with the meaning.
Ray Cui Why mention Mandarin (if the goal is Japanese Kanji for Japanese)? Mandarin is a recent language with recently formed pronunciation. Aspects of the pronunciation in Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Vietnamese etc for Chinese characters are much older than Mandarin. Why confuse it with Mandarin? His goal is just to remember the Kanji. It works for many speakers of non-Chinese character languages.
craig ovenden I am a native Cantonese speaker. Mandarin is conserved for rhymes ending in -n and -ng. It is not conserved when the syllable ends in -m, -p, -t and -k. The tones are also somewhat messy. In Cantonese it would be jyun joeng , jyn jœŋ so they are quite similar with Mandarin jyɛn jɑŋ. Anyways, these characters are formed by phonetic principles. It’s useless to derive a “meaning “ for this category of characters, since the sound components 夗央 were only used for their sounds.
craig ovenden for kanji, learn the onomy for these characters and their sound parts because the onomy was derived from Chinese and should retain resemblance. Making up pseudo etymology is harmful to learning and should be strongly discouraged.
He’s not talking about etymology: it’s just an irreverent strategy of memorization. Nobody thinks those cute stories as etymology. This is basically a variation of the Heisig method. If for some reason it is counterproductive to you, this pick another method. As for this guy, he passed level 1 using it.
I remember seeing a dogen video on different types of Japanese learners, one of the first skits was about the guy who knows tons of kanji but can't pronounce at all. Not to detract from how unbelievable this guy's skills are though
Because his primary focus was reading and writing Kanji. Learning the pitch accent is incredibly difficult for anyone outside the country because most speakers master it through immersion rather than being taught.
@@zach101202 It is not ironic. I will have you know, I have an extremely high IQ and I was top of the class from nursery to university. I always had the best grades. Furthermore, I know everything about Japan. I am an expert on Japanese culture and the Japanese language. You and this man know nothing about Japan. Come back when you can speak about politics in Japanese.
I don't think people understand how good this guy is.... he passed kanji kentei level 1! That's over 6,000 kanji. Modern Japanese uses only about 3,000 or so. If you tell a Japanese person that an American passed level 1 they probably won't believe you lol
learning about Bret Mayer was an impetus for starting my own quest for the Kanji Kentei level 1 - but i needed almost 5 years to finally pass it
ぶ先生 (ブレット) は最高に天才！彼は知識無比である。とっても明るくてフレンドリーな人柄で、漢字に対しての説明は最も分かりやすい！
Bret's the best! And he's unparalleled - truly one of his kind with his abilities. Really friendly and cheerful personality - and his explanations on Kanji make them the easiest to learn!
ブレットメイヤーさんは凄く解りやすくて尊敬してます！
I like this guy!
トーク有難うございます！私は日本語を勉強しているパキスタン人です。私が漢字が苦手で難しい方ですけど読むの勉強を楽しくするために漫画を読んでいます。で、それでもっと読めるようになっています＾＾
Now, I'll cook up a story for every kanji, I write. 🙏
Get RTK
That's basically what the Heisig Method is
Ultimate Weaboo boss you have to beat to be allowed to own a waifu side pillow
Waifus have body pillows of him
His *OTOKO* tie tho
I started learning Japanese formally this past fall and I've grown to really enjoy learning kanji and their meanings. So much so that I think I'm too focused on reading but not focused enough on speaking! 😁 I love that he includes art in his kanji and that is where I find myself leading towards. I even drew something for 難し (むずかし = "muzukashi") which, interestingly, he says often in his talk. I just found the story I made up for 難し fascinating and find myself wanting to do more as I find learning the meaning behind all the little "bits" intriguing. So unlike many people I can relate to the enjoyment he has in learning kanji and work/play needed to get to the next "level." I would love to one day be a "kanji geek" as well. ^_^
He has his own TH-cam channel but I can't see it any more
is his TH-cam channel been deleted?
Does anybody know if he drew those drawings himself?
I know the video is a bit old but I would like to ask you for some advice. I am still a beginner with kanji and before Kanken I would like to give the jlpt (I know they are two different things). Both have kanji and I don't really know how to study them. Each kanji has 1000 information (number of strokes, readings, meanings, etc.) I want to study them well but I have so many doubts about how to proceed that I am stuck. You passed Kanken # 1, congratulations. Can you give me some advice? (Maybe it will be useful for others too). Thank you.
I currently study The Ultimate Kanji Course on Memrise. It has over 4000 words, both the kanji and the pronunciation.
I also look at individual Kanji English meanings through different tests on the same site.
actually its quite easy to remember the kanji you just need a lot of time, the hard part of the Kanji is reading as Kanji have somany readings up to 1 - 10 readings and some are more. so you have to get used to the word on how its written in Kanji, and you can also surmise this as some Japanese ask other people names how to write it in kanji also the writting many Japanese as well forgot some kanji writting that they need a smartphone(write it in hiragana) to verify the Kanji writting.
can somebody tell me i will get a job in japan if passed kentei level 1?
perhaps you might be able to leverage it in one way or another (including for getting hired), but don't expect to get any immediate tangible benefits just because you would be able to pass it
Passing Level 1 means you know Japanese better then many natives
YOUは何しに日本へに出てた人かな
日本是这样解释的？
I'm actually surprised that he has a relatively strong accent. I was expecting him to sound basically native.
兄兑阅悦脱税, "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Course" explains 脱 as a brother 兄...flesh 月 exposed. So are 阅,悦.
That is farfetched. 脱 and 兄 have no semantic relation...
漢字男ー電車男 😆
Đỗ Văn năng amasco A019
Mn A019 điểm danh nào hihi
This is Chinese character story.
It’s counterproductive to come up with pseudo etymology when learning kanji for 形聲字。These characters’ sound components were used to represent Chinese sounds. For example, 鴛鴦 in mandarin is yuān yāng. There sound components 夗 and 央 yuan, yang merely represent the sounds, it has nothing to do with the meaning.
Ray Cui Why mention Mandarin (if the goal is Japanese Kanji for Japanese)? Mandarin is a recent language with recently formed pronunciation. Aspects of the pronunciation in Korean, Japanese, Cantonese, Vietnamese etc for Chinese characters are much older than Mandarin. Why confuse it with Mandarin?
His goal is just to remember the Kanji. It works for many speakers of non-Chinese character languages.
craig ovenden I am a native Cantonese speaker. Mandarin is conserved for rhymes ending in -n and -ng. It is not conserved when the syllable ends in -m, -p, -t and -k. The tones are also somewhat messy. In Cantonese it would be jyun joeng , jyn jœŋ so they are quite similar with Mandarin jyɛn jɑŋ. Anyways, these characters are formed by phonetic principles. It’s useless to derive a “meaning “ for this category of characters, since the sound components 夗央 were only used for their sounds.
craig ovenden for kanji, learn the onomy for these characters and their sound parts because the onomy was derived from Chinese and should retain resemblance. Making up pseudo etymology is harmful to learning and should be strongly discouraged.
He’s not talking about etymology: it’s just an irreverent strategy of memorization. Nobody thinks those cute stories as etymology. This is basically a variation of the Heisig method. If for some reason it is counterproductive to you, this pick another method. As for this guy, he passed level 1 using it.
He may do even better if he applies the sound-part principle.
Any Filipino here? No? Okay.
who cares
@@toyoashihara6242 apparently you
Why is his accent so awful?
I remember seeing a dogen video on different types of Japanese learners, one of the first skits was about the guy who knows tons of kanji but can't pronounce at all. Not to detract from how unbelievable this guy's skills are though
Because his primary focus was reading and writing Kanji.
Learning the pitch accent is incredibly difficult for anyone outside the country because most speakers master it through immersion rather than being taught.
内容はともかく、訛りがちょっと強くて私には聞き取りにくい
Why is this man talking about a subject that he clearly does not understand at all?
what are you on about lol
the irony
@@GreenSwede He is obviously a weeaboo.
@@zach101202 It is not ironic. I will have you know, I have an extremely high IQ and I was top of the class from nursery to university. I always had the best grades. Furthermore, I know everything about Japan. I am an expert on Japanese culture and the Japanese language. You and this man know nothing about Japan. Come back when you can speak about politics in Japanese.
@@Zeehee-tm9wg nice trolling lol