Im learning chinese in university so for me kanji is pretty free meaning once you take the effort to leanr kanji u learn chinese aswell so it might be confusing but its worth it
I'm Japanese. When you learn Kanji, I think the most important thing is imagination. (I'm sorry if I'm unnatural English because I use a translator!) ❌ Person＋Tree＝rest ✔︎ Imagine the scenery of a person stands still beside a large tree in the primitive age. Calm time flows and he/she become sleepy and lie down. =rest
Jp are like if you took bill gates or zuck and clone them to have an entire country/ civilization... I can see zuck creating japanese to not be understood by foreigners
sultan Alsuwaidi sorry for the late reply!! I was a bit busy. Uhm, I’m not sure I’m getting the hang of kanji.. what about you? How are you doing with your progress?
10:34 Recap of everything so far Kanji • Kanji is the incorporation of Chinese characters into Japanese writing • They are characters that represent an idea and contain meaning • Radicals are the building blocks of Kanji • Kanji can have multiple readings "On" and "Kun" • The "On" reading mimics the original sound made in Chinese • The "Kun" reading is a revised reading used to integrate the Japanese alphabet • The only way to determine which reading to use is mainly VIA the context • The "On" reading is usually used when multiple Kanji are grouped together in a compound word • The "Kun" reading is usually used when it's a standalone Kanji Radicals • Each Kanji character has at least one of them • Sometimes they can be a Kanji on its own • Several Radicals put together can be another Kanji • When placed together they can be in 4 different positions known as Left, Crown, Right, Foot Common Kanji Radicals & Characters • Person/Human 人 or 休 • Called にんべん written with 2 strokes • This character is commonly found in the left position • Less commonly found in the Crown position "On" Readings are on the left and "Kun" on the right • Alone its readings are ニソ and ひと • Paired with Tree it's キユウ and やす meaning to rest 休 • Paired with Trunk it's タイ and かやだ meaning body 体 • Paired with Word it's シソ meaning Trust 信
Learning Japanese writing is like school: Romaji: Your best friend. Hiragana: Your crush. Katakana: The foreign student. Kanji: A fkn dragon with giant cannons attacking the school.
I am Japanese. When I was in elementary school, we had homework to write Kanji characters every day. When typing on the keyboard, you may not know which kanji is the correct one to use. But nowadays, if you use voice recognition, it will automatically display the correct kanji. The trick is to speak in sentences. This sentence was also entered using Japanese speech recognition, and was translated using DeepL. 私は日本人です。私が小学生の頃は、毎日漢字を書く宿題がありました。 キーボードで入力するときは、どの漢字を使うのが正解かわからないかもしれません。 でも、今は音声認識を使えば、自動で正しい漢字で表示されます。 こつは、文章で話すことです。 この文章も日本語の音声認識で入力しました。DeepLを使用して、翻訳を行いました。
We learn kanji in elementary school for 6 years with a sponge brain, still sometimes we search the characters that we don't know or forget how to write or read. There is even a quiz show that guesses how to read kanji. I want to say to all you guys who study japanese just keep it up, but I think it's best to learn step by step while having fun. I want to talk to you guys in Japanese someday! Greetings from Japan!!
you just cheered me up ! , I am absolute beginner so one question is this approach good - first learning Hiragana and Katakana , Second - all radicals , Last - Kanji (first 2000 or so)
(I'm learning Japanese and know hiragana, plus katakana, but I'm unaware of how to get my English keyboard to type either. So, I'll have to type Japanese in English lettering. I'm sorry.) Arigato gozaimasu! Hatsumode, Jada to mashimasu. Yoroshiku onigaishimasu! (This may be spelled incorrectly, if it is, I'm sorry.)
@@youneverwalkalone3584 are you going permanently? If not then it's not much of a deal, as long as you know directions and the basics in talking you'll be good
For anyone learning Kanji right now or Chinese characters, its best to learn them through memory and making up a story. This video is really teaching you one thing, making a memory or a story behind each Kanji. When they claim Person and Tree is rest, its their way of memorizing the Kanji as rest. What I mean by that is, if that Kanji meant "to lean", you would have just remembered it as a person leaning on a tree. To Lean. Its all imaginative. That's the key take way here.
Me happily coming to learn kanji after finishing hiragana and katakana.... also me regretting the day i promised myself to learn Japanese 🥺 it will take me 1000 lives to learn Kanji! hats off to the people of Japan😭
As japenese girl who is in middle school. I STRUGGLE with some kanji. Reading is easy but writing is litteraly so hard. It s because of kanji i dont have an full mark in japenese😭
@@nuhalagnaoui yes and no. Kanji are important because they show the sense of the word. Without kanji reading is too difficult or impossible because there LOT of words with the same pronouciation
The: "Can you guess the meaning of the word? It's the human radical plus the tree radical" Me: tree... person? They: "Of course it means 'to rest'! What about human and root?" Me: Well the person is now leaning closer to the ground (near the root of the tree) , so maybe sleep? The: "It's referring to the human body! Okay, then how about human and word?" Me: Oh, that's gotta be talking! They: "It means trust! Can you see how easily we can guess the meaning?" Me: Not really.
The 4 way of kanji: 1). As a stand alone. Simply as is with 1 kanji character with 1 meaning. I.e: 女(onna) = women 2). Write it along hiragana but still 1 meaning. Here we use them together with hiragana scripts which usually used similarly as a conjunction. I.e: 女の子(onna no ko) = girl, consist of kanji 'women'(女, onna), hiragana の that mostly represented as 'ownership', and kanji child (子, ko) 3). As a radicals and combine it with other radicals to create 1 kanji character. I.e: 好(kou) = fondness, consist of 2 kanji as radicals, woman(女) and child(子), but for this one isn't to be used as is, like the 2nd ways, its used in hiragana to give a 'meaning' in its words like 好き(suki, means like) or 好く(suku, means 'to like'). Not to be mistaken with 透く(suku, means 'be transparent') which spelled the same but uses different kanji hence different meaning. You can also uses more radicals, i.e. 姦(kan) = noisy, with 3 kanji characters of women(女) as radicals 4). Combine it with other kanji but not as radical. I.e: 王女(oujo) = princess, consist of 2 kanji, king(王, ou) and women(女, onna). This time not as radical which to create 1 character, but as 2 character but with 1 meaning. And just like radicals, it can also uses more characters but still create one meaning
0:32 how to know about kanji? 0:46 what is kanji? 2:21 how to learn kanji? 3:13 radicals 3:15 what are radicals? 4:34 the person radical 4:08 lesson recap 4:45 first radical 5:24 person radical meaning 7:08common positions 10:15 lesson review 10:34 human legs radical 13:04 common position
what i learnt from this lesson: one cannot simply guess the meaning of a kanji just by trying to make a connection between the meanings of its radicals.
@@smokeymanalotoo i think it's much better to learn kanji through vocabulary and context, most people are not linguists, it certainly helps guessing new words if you know a bit about how japanese words are generally conceived but that's it, but i guess even that becomes intuitive the more our brains get used to discovering the patterns
to be honest, even if the stories are far fetched they help, the person + tree meaning ti rest feels weird but everytime i see these now i instantly remember, "uh a person next to a tree?" and that feeling of weirdness reminds me of the meaning even tho the actual story behind it might not make sense, i know that ones a simple exemple but it still helps a lot to know radicals, also it's how most dictionaries are organized so it's useful for searching kanji when you can recognize part of it
Sometimes if I can't understand the story between then radicals then I just make my own way to remember like for otouto (younger brother) which is 弟 my mindset was "this kanji has horns because younger brothers must be little devils" and that's how I remember it.
@Orion D. Hunter i would have said the same given that katakana symbols are more geometrical and simpler that hiragana. But if you learn hiragana first you will feel that katakana is more diifficult ig and vice vers ca...
The only good reason I could think of to justify this is that maybe in the past it was the older brother's role to support the family and feed them idk lol
The ancient Chinese origin of 兄 depicts a man looking up and pointing his hand down as though he is giving an order, symbolizing the edlest brother's authority over those younger than him.
For all new Kanji learners, if you are planning to learn Kanji through using stories, memorize your own stories. The issue that a lot of people don't tell you, like in this video or in books like RTK (remembering the kanji), is that memorizing thousands of different stories for Kanji is also just as ineffective. People claim, "Oh. Memorizing Kanji by itself is difficult and will take a long time." But when you memorize the stories for these Kanjis, you also STILL have to memorize the Kanji. The only difference is that you are memorizing an extra step to MAYBE make it easier for yourself. I think the best situation is mix and match. Some stories for some Kanji you find difficult but the rest should be learnt through meaning and context. We don't teach English speakers to learn words like Run through pictures. IE: We don't tell people. "Okay. The R is like a 2 legs and they are moving and the UN are the curves of a track. Thus running!" Also - in English we memorize thousands and thousands of words created by 26 letters. That means 26 letters have thousands of combinations. Not once we were thought to use stories. A prime of example of why some of these stories don't really work if you listen to other people is: take the character 問 (to ask). The video basically said: the department of mouth is to question or to ask. Why isn't it to smile? To talk? To chew? To etc... This is basically basically its not REAL meaning; its what they decided to make the story as. Just remember, if you do stories, do your own or you'll be confused.
Don't think that way, focus on learning the 2136 (I don't know the exact number) that are mostly used in newspapers and the daily life in japan. I won't learn for any means all the kanji out there lol
Kanji is hard for me to grasp and I'm kinda thinking of giving up sometimes. But I've come this far. I've already learned hiragana and katakana, and I have already bought reference books and study materials. And I still have my passion in learning this language. To anyone who's feeling the same, let's not give up and try and try until we succeed. It might take long before we master some phrases, characters, or words, but atleast we tried, and we're still trying. Ganbatte! ❤️ And thanks for Japanesepod101 for the free and fun lessons! Their videos are so helpful and enjoyable that it helps me maintain my will to study. Arigatou gozaimasu! 🙇🏻♀️
I started learning Japanese almost a year ago... and really, the farther you come, the easier it gets. You start noticing patterns in Kanji, which makes it easier to remember them. My tip for new learners would be: write the characters down, and multiple times. I only started doing that recently - it really helps!
Amazing advice! It's great to see someone successful in Japanese and spewing out some advice. I'm sure that everyone would very much appreciate some reading advice as well please 🤎
FiveADay Kanji 1 only means fucking one.. 1 is beginning point as it is used for counting like いち .. It is not used as single in any sentences .. So? 1st is pronounced First which is soooo simple to understand because of common "st".. Tell me in the same way in japanese
Jonathan Meddis - yeah if i remember the names of all those 800'dang pokemon characters, then i should be able to remember at least 1,000 kanji right? XD
Then just imagine you learned the whole pokedex and then you find out about the alola one where all the pokemon have different names. It´s just that easy
It’s two am, I’ve been writing very detailed notes on a lot of your videos. It might take some time but your videos have really encouraged me to keep learning
@@anthonyk.1408 maybe. But the fact that it is so open for interpretation means it could mean anything too. I think if there is a way to identify what strokes to write for a particular something would be much more better than adding two different radicals that could mean anything due to its open interpretation.
This really feels alot like going to an art museum and learning how to read abstract paintings and decyphering what the painter was thinking at the time
this is literally the best kanji lesson ever on youtube. it covers exactly all that is needed to be known.. from the meaning, different uses, to strokes and pronunciation. it's so hard to learn otherwise. Thank you so much. This was really helpful and i've been able to remember kanjis without much effort now. please make more of these
I agree, I learned the concept of radicals a few ways and it never stuck but this vid puts it in exactly the order my brain needs to understand it lol.
Me: "Learns hiragana and katakana in 1 week and proceeds to learn kanji with confidence." Video: "Person + tree = rest" Me: "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
Introverted J It means you take one person’s word by heart. But again, you can’t translate word for word for two entirely different cultures. Better remember it just as “信”.
It doesn't take as long as they suggest. In Japan they learn them all throughout primary and secondary school, but a motivated self-learner usually exceeds the capacity for learning that's required in school by a large margin. It is very possible to crank them all out in 2-4 months if you have enough caffeine.
Learning 2000 most used kanji in 2 months means to fully memorise 30+ kanji per day. I don’t think I see anyone to do it 😅 4 months is possible maybe! Good luck
Hiragana mastered 3 days _"Anime Here I come!"_ Katakana Mastered 1 week _"Oh, Anime you're so gonna get rekt..."_ Kanji... _"Belay my last... I'm gonna be here for a while."_
Czenrtos Lagszero It doesn’t matter if you learned them in 2 hours. You can forget them easily if you don’t spend time to learn a couple characters at a time, Which I’m sure is why it took him 3 days for Hiragana.
Kanji are like ancient emojis if that makes it any easier A good tip is that there is no one certain reading （Example: Soda, Pop, Coke, Cola) and then u just use it as the 🥤Emoji
"This radical means person, and this radical means tree. Can you guess what this Kanji means?" Me, with confidence: *Treeman* I know, I'm not very bright.
I learned Chinese characters since my schooling in kindergarten. However, Kanji is still one of the most challenging parts of the Japanese language. The writing is easy. The meaning of the words is mostly identical or similar, although approximately 30% of the vocabulary is uniquely used in the Japanese language and unintelligible in Chinese. The pronunciation, however, is often different from those in any Sinitic language such that we need to memorize them one by one. To be able to read Kanji words, we still need to memorize the pronunciation of more than a thousand commonly used words. Only a very small portion of the Kanji words have similar pronunciation to some Sinitic languages, usually the regional languages in South China which share common origins with Kanji from Middle Chinese. The pronunciation of modern Mandarin Chinese is almost completely different.
Learning hiragana is like being able to read a text out loud but not understanding the meaning of it, while practicing Kanji is like being able to understand a written text but not being able to read it out loud most of the time xD
That IS the case. But if you look at it from this angle it will help you out. So it's like you know English letters and maybe can spell Spanish words. You don't know them but you know the letters. At that point you need to learn what the word is. That's pretty much hiragana and katakana when you read them don't you agree?
Single handedly the best language lesson I've ever had. Not only did you explain the root kanji but a brief history behind their pairing. Sort of an abridged cultural history lesson. Fantastic. You took one of my least favorite subjects (language/English) and paired it with one of my favorites (History). Thank you so much.
i’ve been recently trying to learn japanese fluently, and i’m doing pretty well with hiragana and katakana, but kanji had always scared me... until now. this video was super helpful and a great introduction to kanji! thank you very much!! 😅
I am Japanese. (I'm using translation.) Kanji practice is still easier when you learn the radicals. When I was little, I was not good at kanji either, but once I learned the radicals and their meanings, it became easier to study them. Please try your best, even if it's just little by little! Japanese is fun. P.S. Japanese anime and manga are also great.
hah i recognized that kanji as soon as i saw it because for some reason, years ago, i looked up the character for depression and it was that kanji...and it stuck with me, because of how unique it was. dont ask me to write it though lol, it has so many strokes.
13:10 "Just remember where your legs are on your body and you won't forget it!" "Where are your legs?" "On the bottom!" LMAO. That enthusiasm melted my heart and made me laugh out loud.
This was so helpful. I just started learning Japanese, and am just getting a grasp on Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji had me completely confused. This helped me tremendously, because now I have a basis to learn Kanji.
I can see why you’re telling to memorize instead. I mean a person radical and a word radical becomes trust? How dafu- and person radical and tree radical becomes to rest? Bruv. But at the same time it seems like this is also a way to get an idea of what the kanji means
just like how in english we read, tough, though, through, differently without thinking much about it. There are kanji i could easily read if it is part of a word with hiragana, but i need to think longer if i see them as a single kanji.
@@kanecanedy623 To non-native Japanese, for learning Kanji analyzing radicals might work good sometimes, but it's not always perfect because as some people say there are many exceptions. So trying to memorize a character as the whole, one part may increase your Kanji stocks faster. Japanese people learn Kanjis by just MEMORIZING them from 1st grade 6 years old. And we have never analyzed their structures.
@@carmcam1 In Japan we have a proverb "If you want to make a short cut, you just go the ordinary way" In this case I believe the ordinary way is memorizing haha.
Ive been learning Japanese for a while now and, surprisingly, kanji became my favourite thing to learn. A piece of advice i can give to any future learners is to learn how a kanji is written, the meaning and then vocabulary with the kanji. For example, you learn the word 日曜日 (nichiyoubi), and remember the kanji it's written with. When you see it in a text, you will know what it is and how to read it. On the other hand, if you learn kanji individually, you won't know when to use the specific reading. 日 can be read as nichi, ni, hi, bi, ka, jitsu, etc, and you might be inclined to read 日曜日 as jitsuyouka, hiyounichi, or something like that. Just memorise them in words instead of memorising them individually.
That's the problem I have. Knowing how a symbol might be pronounced won't help with the word. But knowing that it could mean sun or day not only gives the meaning, but lets you "read" it and know what it means even if you forget what the word is. Sunday, moonday,.... Sometimes it's easy to tell what it means but I can forget and might think of 水曜日 as みずようび even though I know not to say that.
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No, it doesn't get any easier. In fact, you get confused with the strokes and radical as you learn more characters. It takes many many years to truly master it.
This is gonna be really fucking hard, but i’ve already learned hiragana so i’m not gonna give up. I’m really determined to learn Japanese! I wish everyone who is trying the best of luck!
Hey best of luck. Can feel the same literally the first thing I'm super excited about when waking up is learning more Japanese I haven't felt this much motivation and passion for something at all. Shit even videogames failed to make me this excited everytime I wake up. Like excited enough for me to learn Japanese 12 whole bastard hours a day without getting bored. The only obstacle is the naps I get because of how tiring it is to learn alot in one sitting
@@ayeshaaa_ If you're still attempting this. Read nihongoshark page about learning joyo kanji in 3 month. The idea is you will try to remember just the meaning (yes just meaning, no strokes order or kun/on reading) of every joyo kanji (2000 character). So when you finally decided to take a step further into your Japanese study, the "i will never be able to learn kanji" mental block is gone since you've basically seen them all. Hope this helps ✌️
Being a beginner in Japanese language and starting to learn Hiragana at this time, my first observation of Kanji and the radicals from this video are not very obvious to me far as the end meaning of the complete Kanji Character. I feel I would still have to memorize each Kanji Character. Lets be real now!! I would have to have a very very imaginative mind to come up with the final meaning of the Kanji Character from its individual Radicals. Most I wouldn't even come close to guessing in a hundred years from the individual Radicals. Even the Radicals are not obvious what they are supposed to represent without you telling us. It is great to know the origin of Kanji and the basics of them. I still need to learn Hiragana and Katakana first before I tackle learning Kanji. I bet there are many many people still trying to learn Kanji if there are more than 1500 of them.
I learned all the first grade 80 characters with flashcards ( officially learned all 80 as of earlier yesterday morning quizzing myself). Best studying technology out there.
Abby Maynor mm mm. I bought a few books a good while back to do to start self study to learn Japanese. One of them is book that has all 2,136 kanji characters and its listened by grade level along with meanings and sounds for the kanji. First Grade is 80 kanji characters, I learned it from that book. It really does help after learning them because some of the kanji I see in a day from videos, reading, or searching it helps me understand what the sentence is about or what is being said.
I think I know most of the first grade kanji (maybe all of them). I also know more difficult kanji. In total I know about 380 kanji. I would like to calculate (by Excel formulas) how fast I learn kanji and when I hit the 2000 kanji limit. Knowing a kanji is: - recognizing it in a Japanese text, knowing the most important 読み; - knowing how to type it on a computer or smartphone. Type its 読み and then pick the right kanji (corresponding with what you want to say). I am pretty bad at writing kanji on a paper, because that is really active kanji usage.
Hans Kamp Nice! I gotta keep at it too, after learning the first grade kanji characters, I moved to working on my japanese/grammar so I have not touched on learning new kanji yet. I should keep learning new ones. There's no need for me to switch between the two.
Finally an explanation for reading kanji! I always wondered how it worked. It always baffled me how Japanese people could read a kanji they’ve never or hardly seen and understand it’s meaning. The radical system makes so much sense! Yay no longer in the dark! Excited to learn Kanji now that I know how it works! 😄
Glyphs are all around us, long before computer icons, Stop sign. Traffic signs. McDonalds Burger King Taco Bell (it's a bell) Pizza Hut Roy Rogers Big Boy Buffalo Wild Wings Chili's Wendy's (that's the picture of Wendy, the founder's daughter) etc . . .
As a very visual learner, I'm absolutely loving learning these radicals, visual storytelling at its finest! Much easier to understand then I was expecting haha
well, it's not like radicals are 100% accurate translation of kanji, it's just sort of vague idea of how to decrypt it. You have to learn all kanji separately anyway, but radicals might help to remember it and to not confuse with other kanji. And in this video what they were saying was more like mnemonic stories, rather than actual, 100% objective way of reading them
I have been learning the japanese alphabets with these videos for a bit over a week now and i just want to say that Risa is the most adorable human being i have ever seen :')
A friend sent me the official text books for grade schoolers in Japan. So I'm a 50yo Texan that reads and writes on a 4th grade level if we assume C- still counts. B- 3rd grade...A+/- 2nd grade. 🤷♂️ Fine by me. Don't let children's songs and books discourage you from using them to learn. It is how we ALL started out. Being born into a multilingual home did help. Especially with Japanese since the vowels are identical to Spanish. You'd be surprised how many Japanese people learn Spanish. But everybody starts at the beginning like a little kid. Other people enjoy it when you make an effort to speak to them in their native language and it makes for some really funny stories later when you get the hang of it and know what went wrong.😆
Barely in 2 minutes and I’m already internally screeching at how much more complicated this is than written English. But this is still very helpful, I like they break it down from the very beginning. It helps alot
After I learnt hiragana and katakana I thought “Hey it’s not gonna as hard as I thought”. Now as I’m watching this video I’m starting to realize that I’ll never be able to learn Japanese fully
m m I started on this channel with the order being Hiragana-> Katakana -> kanji and for kanji you can learn it in a multitude of ways but for learning the kanas this channel has the videos on it
I am native Chinese speaker. “儿” the meaning relates to “son”.or “child”. If you see “女儿” it means daughter, and “儿子” means “Son”. Of course when “儿” combines with other characters the meaning changes. For example, there is word “儿时”，the meaning is “ when I was young”. It is easy to memorize the meaning because “儿” related to “young person”, and “时” means time. The combination becomes “ when I was young. As you learn more characters it becomes easier as each character has its own meaning and words are linked together
ok, but this makes a lot more sense that combining random radicals to make a word that has no connection at all with the parts. Paper+fire=car. I mean, what in the world?
It was really helpful ❤ and I'm looking forward to watching more kanji series videos. I love your channel a lot. You guys really helped me to learn Japanese in a very easy way. May Allah help you guys 😘
Oh to each their own opinion. Chinese would be harder for a Japanese speaking person to learn while Japanese is harder for a Chinese person like me. But whichever language you pick up and master first will always seem like the easier one. I learnt Japanese way after Chinese and it does seem more difficult, though international research shows otherwise
Sometimes to learn kanji well we need to use our language, or languages that helps as a good reminder: For example at 30:37 :the KANJI "言" word Pronounced as the english word : a"gain" , and "e" as the english letter(kun reading) And for : "話" talk, story, 30:44 pronounced as "Hana" (kun reading)that means in korean the number one, and "wa" (on reading) For "語" language, pronounced as the english "go" (on reading), and "Kata" Which in korean means "to look like, alike"(같아)-요 For the last: "計" plan, as in my country and as an arabic person, we use different dialects, and the KUN reading for this kanji is quite the same to us, "hka" which we use it to say "like this" Or as the english word "hacker" ˈhakər (british accent), and for the (on reading) is the English letter "K" ....
Learning Japanese be like:
"This radical means dragon. And The kanji next to it means shoe. Together, they mean pancake."
This radical means paper. This radical means person. Together, they mean grass.
Im learning chinese in university so for me kanji is pretty free meaning once you take the effort to leanr kanji u learn chinese aswell so it might be confusing but its worth it
If you’re strong enough you can use the shoe to squish the dragon into a pancake.
Yes because yes
frogisamars the person make paper using the grass
I'm Japanese.
When you learn Kanji, I think the most important thing is imagination.
(I'm sorry if I'm unnatural English because I use a translator!)
❌ Person＋Tree＝rest
✔︎ Imagine the scenery of a person stands still beside a large tree in the primitive age. Calm time flows and he/she become sleepy and lie down.
=rest
so pretty much you need to find a way to connect these two words so the third one comes out?
Arigatou!
Jp are like if you took bill gates or zuck and clone them to have an entire country/ civilization... I can see zuck creating japanese to not be understood by foreigners
有難う！！！
can you explain how mouth plus legs is equal brother?
I’d like to wish every person trying to learn kanji including myself the best of luck, I sincerely mean that..
Wholesome Nagito so what progress are u making?
sultan Alsuwaidi sorry for the late reply!! I was a bit busy. Uhm, I’m not sure I’m getting the hang of kanji.. what about you? How are you doing with your progress?
*Should I learn Kanji first, I'm confused.*
@@user-vh8ep4qr6b No 1st you can learn hiragana nd then katakana after that you can go with kanji
がんばります👍
10:34 Recap of everything so far
Kanji
• Kanji is the incorporation of Chinese characters into Japanese writing
• They are characters that represent an idea and contain meaning
• Radicals are the building blocks of Kanji
• Kanji can have multiple readings "On" and "Kun"
• The "On" reading mimics the original sound made in Chinese
• The "Kun" reading is a revised reading used to integrate the Japanese alphabet
• The only way to determine which reading to use is mainly VIA the context
• The "On" reading is usually used when multiple Kanji are grouped together in a compound word
• The "Kun" reading is usually used when it's a standalone Kanji
Radicals
• Each Kanji character has at least one of them
• Sometimes they can be a Kanji on its own
• Several Radicals put together can be another Kanji
• When placed together they can be in 4 different positions known as Left, Crown, Right, Foot
Common Kanji Radicals & Characters
• Person/Human 人 or 休
• Called にんべん written with 2 strokes
• This character is commonly found in the left position
• Less commonly found in the Crown position
"On" Readings are on the left and "Kun" on the right
• Alone its readings are ニソ and ひと
• Paired with Tree it's キユウ and やす meaning to rest 休
• Paired with Trunk it's タイ and かやだ meaning body 体
• Paired with Word it's シソ meaning Trust 信
Learning Japanese writing is like school:
Romaji: Your best friend.
Hiragana: Your crush.
Katakana: The foreign student.
Kanji: A fkn dragon with giant cannons attacking the school.
Purrrfect
Romaji : the ruined everything friend 😂
Kanji: the school itself
Lungky Endinyoto The grand Library.
me: * has mastered hiragana and katakana *
kanji: you really thought you did something there
How is your studying going?
How is your studying so far?
Temporal Paradox they gave up.
The G In Genesis same tho
The G In Genesis oOf I really did )):
Whoever made this language has good imagination, not gonna lie..
Ive never seen a child that looks like 24:02
It's because everything is simplified. You need to look at the characters way before traditional Chinese. Ancient Chinese that is
@pxstel_boba• That would look like a child if the child's knees could bend backwards
@pxstel_boba• and you close your eyes to the point you can just see, then start to tear up. Then you see a child...
Kanji originated from china but sure
I am Japanese. When I was in elementary school, we had homework to write Kanji characters every day.
When typing on the keyboard, you may not know which kanji is the correct one to use.
But nowadays, if you use voice recognition, it will automatically display the correct kanji.
The trick is to speak in sentences.
This sentence was also entered using Japanese speech recognition, and was translated using DeepL.
私は日本人です。私が小学生の頃は、毎日漢字を書く宿題がありました。
キーボードで入力するときは、どの漢字を使うのが正解かわからないかもしれません。
でも、今は音声認識を使えば、自動で正しい漢字で表示されます。
こつは、文章で話すことです。
この文章も日本語の音声認識で入力しました。DeepLを使用して、翻訳を行いました。
"Human + Word"
Me: "Oh I got it, it's language!"
"It's trust!"
Me: How the f-
I've just deceived too :D
Heartmouth + Fivemouth = Language.
Of course. Obviously.
I litterly thought the same thing
It's the representation of a "person giving his word" ie. Trust, is what I believe
You need to make up your own mnemonics using the radicals
We learn kanji in elementary school for 6 years with a sponge brain, still sometimes we search the characters that we don't know or forget how to write or read. There is even a quiz show that guesses how to read kanji.
I want to say to all you guys who study japanese just keep it up, but I think it's best to learn step by step while having fun.
I want to talk to you guys in Japanese someday!
Greetings from Japan!!
you just cheered me up ! , I am absolute beginner so one question
is this approach good - first learning Hiragana and Katakana , Second - all radicals , Last - Kanji (first 2000 or so)
ありがとうございます!
@@immersivevr3605 I'm not even a japanese teacher, but there seems to be no problem!
Keeping the focus on writing kanji and you can handle it😉
(I'm learning Japanese and know hiragana, plus katakana, but I'm unaware of how to get my English keyboard to type either. So, I'll have to type Japanese in English lettering. I'm sorry.)
Arigato gozaimasu!
Hatsumode, Jada to mashimasu. Yoroshiku onigaishimasu!
(This may be spelled incorrectly, if it is, I'm sorry.)
And now i see why asians are smart....
46 symbols (Hiragana) = learn in 1 hour
46 symbols (Katakana) = learn in 1 hour
over 2k symbols (Kanji) = learn in 45 minutes
they don't try to teach us all 2000 words tho...... so ofc it's only 43 minutes
@@babijjones6432 I'd rather they tell us all off it🥲 I won't survive in Japan next year if I only mastered Hiragana and Katakana😢
@@youneverwalkalone3584 are you going permanently? If not then it's not much of a deal, as long as you know directions and the basics in talking you'll be good
@@mavi2643 Im just going for school. But thank you for the info:)
@@youneverwalkalone3584 when/where are you going exactly
For anyone learning Kanji right now or Chinese characters, its best to learn them through memory and making up a story. This video is really teaching you one thing, making a memory or a story behind each Kanji. When they claim Person and Tree is rest, its their way of memorizing the Kanji as rest. What I mean by that is, if that Kanji meant "to lean", you would have just remembered it as a person leaning on a tree. To Lean. Its all imaginative. That's the key take way here.
thanks for advice
*finally understands all hiragana and katakana and has the courage to learn more*
Kanji:
*I'm about to end this man's whole career*
*I'm gonna stop you right there*
me rn
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA......taskete onii_tan
IKR? ;-;
@@kiruazorudexick weird flex but okay
12:53 don't fool me. Human legs combined with eyes can only mean one thing: Mike from Monster Inc.
facts
@@anthonyj9299 口
Lmao hahahaha 😂🤣
It even looks like him
IM BOUTA CRY HELP
Congratulations on learning hiragana and katakana, It must've been tough and you did a great job. Now prepare for everlasting pain.
Fr tho- T.T
How sweet. Thanks for the motivation.
@@YeahRight5 you're welcome 😊
I'm going in boys
I just started hiragana...
Me happily coming to learn kanji after finishing hiragana and katakana.... also me regretting the day i promised myself to learn Japanese 🥺 it will take me 1000 lives to learn Kanji! hats off to the people of Japan😭
Lol same condition as you
As japenese girl who is in middle school. I STRUGGLE with some kanji. Reading is easy but writing is litteraly so hard. It s because of kanji i dont have an full mark in japenese😭
@@Lulu_and_mochibut what if when i write i just wanna use either katakana or hiragana? is it still ok?
@@nuhalagnaoui yes and no. Kanji are important because they show the sense of the word. Without kanji reading is too difficult or impossible because there LOT of words with the same pronouciation
The: "Can you guess the meaning of the word? It's the human radical plus the tree radical"
Me: tree... person?
They: "Of course it means 'to rest'! What about human and root?"
Me: Well the person is now leaning closer to the ground (near the root of the tree) , so maybe sleep?
The: "It's referring to the human body! Okay, then how about human and word?"
Me: Oh, that's gotta be talking!
They: "It means trust! Can you see how easily we can guess the meaning?"
Me: Not really.
You should really be on 9gag:))
MasterQuestMaster lol i agree
I was thinking reading for the last one
You're totally right, it's hard cause the word meant essentially but it's confusing . Person+tree=rest
Person+root=body
On and kun thing is the bonus
MasterQuestMaster lmao I was thinking the same thing 😂😂😂
The 4 way of kanji:
1). As a stand alone.
Simply as is with 1 kanji character with 1 meaning.
I.e: 女(onna) = women
2). Write it along hiragana but still 1 meaning.
Here we use them together with hiragana scripts which usually used similarly as a conjunction.
I.e: 女の子(onna no ko) = girl, consist of kanji 'women'(女, onna), hiragana の that mostly represented as 'ownership', and kanji child (子, ko)
3). As a radicals and combine it with other radicals to create 1 kanji character.
I.e: 好(kou) = fondness, consist of 2 kanji as radicals, woman(女) and child(子), but for this one isn't to be used as is, like the 2nd ways, its used in hiragana to give a 'meaning' in its words like 好き(suki, means like) or 好く(suku, means 'to like'). Not to be mistaken with 透く(suku, means 'be transparent') which spelled the same but uses different kanji hence different meaning. You can also uses more radicals, i.e. 姦(kan) = noisy, with 3 kanji characters of women(女) as radicals
4). Combine it with other kanji but not as radical.
I.e: 王女(oujo) = princess, consist of 2 kanji, king(王, ou) and women(女, onna). This time not as radical which to create 1 character, but as 2 character but with 1 meaning. And just like radicals, it can also uses more characters but still create one meaning
this comment is underrated. thanks for the insight 😊
3 women kanji = noisy
The Chinese knows what's up
Thank, this was very useful!
Yeah, while reading, I *surely* will have time to think about something like that
If (King+Woman) means Princess how do you write Queen?
“Take a look at these kanji characters. Can you guess what they mean?”
Nope. Not at all. Not even a little bit.
Same :v even whit the radical's meaning
I'll just stick to emoji
@@afelix LOL :D
I know what nani is lol 何 and the numbers
I guessed lumberjack axe and read lol
0:32 how to know about kanji?
0:46 what is kanji?
2:21 how to learn kanji?
3:13 radicals
3:15 what are radicals?
4:34 the person radical
4:08 lesson recap
4:45 first radical
5:24 person radical meaning
7:08common positions
10:15 lesson review
10:34 human legs radical
13:04 common position
what i learnt from this lesson:
one cannot simply guess the meaning of a kanji just by trying to make a connection between the meanings of its radicals.
true. memorization the kanji as an individual word is the only way
@@smokeymanalotoo i think it's much better to learn kanji through vocabulary and context, most people are not linguists, it certainly helps guessing new words if you know a bit about how japanese words are generally conceived but that's it, but i guess even that becomes intuitive the more our brains get used to discovering the patterns
to be honest, even if the stories are far fetched they help, the person + tree meaning ti rest feels weird but everytime i see these now i instantly remember, "uh a person next to a tree?" and that feeling of weirdness reminds me of the meaning even tho the actual story behind it might not make sense,
i know that ones a simple exemple but it still helps a lot to know radicals, also it's how most dictionaries are organized so it's useful for searching kanji when you can recognize part of it
@@lNovalandl In the old days people at the fields used to rest under trees at noon. Thatvwaybthey were protected by the sun.
Sometimes if I can't understand the story between then radicals then I just make my own way to remember like for otouto (younger brother) which is 弟 my mindset was "this kanji has horns because younger brothers must be little devils" and that's how I remember it.
Hiragana=friend
Katakana=ok one
Kanji=the bully
Oh God this is too accurate
So true! xd
Haha totally accurate
@Orion D. Hunter i would have said the same given that katakana symbols are more geometrical and simpler that hiragana. But if you learn hiragana first you will feel that katakana is more diifficult ig and vice vers ca...
Ghadi Aoun Question is... why tf would anyone learn katakana first 😂 makes no sense when you think about, but we all eventually learn it so meh
Me: so 見 is see, because of legs + eye, so 兄 would probably means talk, because legs + mouth, right?
Kanji: O L D E R B R O T H E R
And talk is "喋". 口 mouth, 世 world, 木 tree.....
The only good reason I could think of to justify this is that maybe in the past it was the older brother's role to support the family and feed them idk lol
The ancient Chinese origin of 兄 depicts a man looking up and pointing his hand down as though he is giving an order, symbolizing the edlest brother's authority over those younger than him.
Ur profile picture is satou-chan
@@polaroidghost pretty good honestly
For all new Kanji learners, if you are planning to learn Kanji through using stories, memorize your own stories. The issue that a lot of people don't tell you, like in this video or in books like RTK (remembering the kanji), is that memorizing thousands of different stories for Kanji is also just as ineffective. People claim, "Oh. Memorizing Kanji by itself is difficult and will take a long time." But when you memorize the stories for these Kanjis, you also STILL have to memorize the Kanji. The only difference is that you are memorizing an extra step to MAYBE make it easier for yourself. I think the best situation is mix and match. Some stories for some Kanji you find difficult but the rest should be learnt through meaning and context. We don't teach English speakers to learn words like Run through pictures. IE: We don't tell people. "Okay. The R is like a 2 legs and they are moving and the UN are the curves of a track. Thus running!" Also - in English we memorize thousands and thousands of words created by 26 letters. That means 26 letters have thousands of combinations. Not once we were thought to use stories. A prime of example of why some of these stories don't really work if you listen to other people is: take the character 問 (to ask). The video basically said: the department of mouth is to question or to ask. Why isn't it to smile? To talk? To chew? To etc... This is basically basically its not REAL meaning; its what they decided to make the story as. Just remember, if you do stories, do your own or you'll be confused.
👍
there are japanese people of 40years+ living there that still dont know all the kanjis.
Me trying to learn this quickly
Mostly cause there is like 50000 of them when you only need less than 5000
指アΣカ .... oh...
Don't think that way, focus on learning the 2136 (I don't know the exact number) that are mostly used in newspapers and the daily life in japan. I won't learn for any means all the kanji out there lol
@@JoseSantos-el8nj Google says on Average you only need to learn around 2k to be considered fluent
@@apex6625 "only"
You are tearing me apart, Risa!
Project Mayhem oh hi mark
Let's go eat, huh?
@@mueezadam8438 so anyway hows your sex life?
Lmfao😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂genius dude
HA!
Me 3 minutes into the video: *internal screaming*
Me 15 minutes into the video: *external screaming*
I wonder how your work feels about that
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Kanji is hard for me to grasp and I'm kinda thinking of giving up sometimes. But I've come this far. I've already learned hiragana and katakana, and I have already bought reference books and study materials. And I still have my passion in learning this language. To anyone who's feeling the same, let's not give up and try and try until we succeed. It might take long before we master some phrases, characters, or words, but atleast we tried, and we're still trying. Ganbatte! ❤️
And thanks for Japanesepod101 for the free and fun lessons! Their videos are so helpful and enjoyable that it helps me maintain my will to study. Arigatou gozaimasu! 🙇🏻♀️
I started learning Japanese almost a year ago... and really, the farther you come, the easier it gets. You start noticing patterns in Kanji, which makes it easier to remember them.
My tip for new learners would be: write the characters down, and multiple times. I only started doing that recently - it really helps!
Amazing advice! It's great to see someone successful in Japanese and spewing out some advice. I'm sure that everyone would very much appreciate some reading advice as well please 🤎
nice pfp
thats what i had to do for hiragana, and im starting to read and write it and remember them much better
Thank you it really helped ^_^
Learn the character's etymologies.
so to learn kanji you have to remember what it means, how to write it, and how it is pronounced...simple enough I shall be fluent in Japanese by 2074
FiveADay Kanji 1 only means fucking one.. 1 is beginning point as it is used for counting like いち .. It is not used as single in any sentences .. So? 1st is pronounced First which is soooo simple to understand because of common "st".. Tell me in the same way in japanese
U can be fluent in just 6 months
Good thing every kanji has only two ways to read it and 5 possible meanings
藁藁.. 同じです
漢字は本当にむずかしい
I'm not scared, I've already learned the whole Pokédex.
My body is ready
Jonathan Meddis - yeah if i remember the names of all those 800'dang pokemon characters, then i should be able to remember at least 1,000 kanji right? XD
Then just imagine you learned the whole pokedex and then you find out about the alola one where all the pokemon have different names. It´s just that easy
Uelibertiga That’s still a lot of learning o-o
800 pokemon vs 3000 very similair looking vague characters....
Jonathan Meddis its actually more than 53000 kanji... but you only need about 3000 to be able to read a newspaper ;)
It’s two am, I’ve been writing very detailed notes on a lot of your videos. It might take some time but your videos have really encouraged me to keep learning
4:42 person
10:40 human legs
14:46 ten
19:07 mouth
22:56 one
26:28 word
31:24 day
35:20 movement
39:08 gate
42:47 "Well done, you've just learned your tenth radical …"
I wonder what was left out.
@@nayhemthey missed the woman radical 女
@@rishavmitra2852女☕
No one:
Japanese:
*ten plus mouth equals old*
You can imagine a story that justifies it, like a mouth which has only 10 teeth left in it is an old person's mouth.
@@anthonyk.1408 maybe. But the fact that it is so open for interpretation means it could mean anything too. I think if there is a way to identify what strokes to write for a particular something would be much more better than adding two different radicals that could mean anything due to its open interpretation.
EVERY SINGLE COMMENT IS MAKING ME LMFAO
That's probably more like what chinese think... XD
Ten + mouth
The mouth in which jokes come from
Ten jokes gets old
Hence the meaning is old
This really feels alot like going to an art museum and learning how to read abstract paintings and decyphering what the painter was thinking at the time
Exactly.
That is so correct. The glyphs started out as 1 to 1 drawing representations. Then the drawings become abstracted. Perfect explanation.
this is literally the best kanji lesson ever on youtube. it covers exactly all that is needed to be known.. from the meaning, different uses, to strokes and pronunciation. it's so hard to learn otherwise. Thank you so much. This was really helpful and i've been able to remember kanjis without much effort now. please make more of these
I agree, I learned the concept of radicals a few ways and it never stuck but this vid puts it in exactly the order my brain needs to understand it lol.
Me:alright I learned hiragana and katakana time for kanji
Kanji: の
I haven’t checked back in a while and holy- was it that funny?!
• L i l i a n n e • I meant for ppl to pronounce it in English 😂
@@momminia3093 ばかです
I don't know how I feel, understanding everything in this thread. I lost my crap when I read "Kanji: の" lol
hahahahaha same tho
No
me : a chinese
kanji : hi
me : I DO NOT FEAR YOU.
i feel you.
It’s only the reading that’s hard
@@szecr omg its duo
i can say your school was harder than the other countries
I fear no man
But that thing...
It can't scare me
Me: "Learns hiragana and katakana in 1 week and proceeds to learn kanji with confidence."
Video: "Person + tree = rest"
Me: "This little maneuver is gonna cost us 51 years"
you could think of it as someone resting under the shade of a tree
Same feels!!!!
@Introverted J Maybe, if human speaks to you, they probably trust you (to some extent at least)
Introverted J It means you take one person’s word by heart. But again, you can’t translate word for word for two entirely different cultures. Better remember it just as “信”.
Yeah hiragana and katakana are easy
It doesn't take as long as they suggest. In Japan they learn them all throughout primary and secondary school, but a motivated self-learner usually exceeds the capacity for learning that's required in school by a large margin. It is very possible to crank them all out in 2-4 months if you have enough caffeine.
They are in the environment of their language. We call that immersion, like a fish is immersed in water. It is wet all the time.
Learning 2000 most used kanji in 2 months means to fully memorise 30+ kanji per day. I don’t think I see anyone to do it 😅
4 months is possible maybe! Good luck
Hiragana mastered 3 days
_"Anime Here I come!"_
Katakana Mastered 1 week
_"Oh, Anime you're so gonna get rekt..."_
Kanji...
_"Belay my last... I'm gonna be here for a while."_
Ok can you read this 大和さん
But I’m still 12 I learn japanese and mandarin 日本語 と マンダリン
Czenrtos Lagszero It doesn’t matter if you learned them in 2 hours. You can forget them easily if you don’t spend time to learn a couple characters at a time, Which I’m sure is why it took him 3 days for Hiragana.
Czenrtos Lagszero That's great then, It shows that you have a good memory and are extremely dedicated.
Lol i know that feel bro. I learned hiragana in only a day or 2 while katakana took me about 8 or 9 days. But fucking kanji?? LOL
Kanji are like ancient emojis if that makes it any easier
A good tip is that there is no one certain reading （Example: Soda, Pop, Coke, Cola) and then u just use it as the 🥤Emoji
i cant see the emoji but yea tanks
@@maggotsfeast3897 it' s Like a Soda emoji
as weird as it sounds this actually really helps
That helps! Thanks Isaiah!
Isaiah Scobel thanks so much!
"This radical means person, and this radical means tree. Can you guess what this Kanji means?"
Me, with confidence: *Treeman*
I know, I'm not very bright.
I don't think the problem here lies with you...
Treeman is a name of a Chinese TH-cam channel.
i thought that as well comrad
groot
@@earth527 Im subscribed to it lol
I learned Chinese characters since my schooling in kindergarten. However, Kanji is still one of the most challenging parts of the Japanese language. The writing is easy. The meaning of the words is mostly identical or similar, although approximately 30% of the vocabulary is uniquely used in the Japanese language and unintelligible in Chinese. The pronunciation, however, is often different from those in any Sinitic language such that we need to memorize them one by one. To be able to read Kanji words, we still need to memorize the pronunciation of more than a thousand commonly used words. Only a very small portion of the Kanji words have similar pronunciation to some Sinitic languages, usually the regional languages in South China which share common origins with Kanji from Middle Chinese. The pronunciation of modern Mandarin Chinese is almost completely different.
alright, any tips on how to make the memorizing part any easier? how do kindergarten kids approach this mammoth task? thanks for tips, any really😅
Learning hiragana is like being able to read a text out loud but not understanding the meaning of it, while practicing Kanji is like being able to understand a written text but not being able to read it out loud most of the time xD
AHAHA!! EXACTLY
You worded it exactly the way I wanted to say 😂👏
That IS the case. But if you look at it from this angle it will help you out. So it's like you know English letters and maybe can spell Spanish words. You don't know them but you know the letters. At that point you need to learn what the word is. That's pretty much hiragana and katakana when you read them don't you agree?
Makes sense
I swear to the Gods, this man speaks the truth. Peace and prosperity to him and glory to Ukrainian fighters.
Single handedly the best language lesson I've ever had.
Not only did you explain the root kanji but a brief history behind their pairing. Sort of an abridged cultural history lesson. Fantastic.
You took one of my least favorite subjects (language/English) and paired it with one of my favorites (History).
Thank you so much.
I bawled my eyes out when i saw a kanji composed of 29 strokes
Damn
Bruh there's even more than that. It was 80+ strokes i guess?
@@夢子蛇喰-i8u The kanji with the highest number of strokes is the "taito" kanji which symbolises a dragon in flight. It has 84 strokes.
@@夢子蛇喰-i8u YOUR NAME
I had a stroke
i’ve been recently trying to learn japanese fluently, and i’m doing pretty well with hiragana and katakana, but kanji had always scared me... until now. this video was super helpful and a great introduction to kanji! thank you very much!! 😅
I am Japanese. (I'm using translation.)
Kanji practice is still easier when you learn the radicals.
When I was little, I was not good at kanji either, but once I learned the radicals and their meanings, it became easier to study them. Please try your best, even if it's just little by little! Japanese is fun.
P.S. Japanese anime and manga are also great.
はい！日本語は楽しいです！ありがとう。
@@tranquilious そう言ってもらえて嬉しいです！こちらこそありがとう。
アニメと漫画が一番大切ものですよ
ありがとう, アニメやマンガは有用. 本！
@@D6C I'm trying to test what i just learned from the video with your comments and I'm failing 😢
Me: Alright so "人" means person, I feel like I can learn Kanji
*MELANCHOLY:*
I'm about to end this mans whole career
hah i recognized that kanji as soon as i saw it because for some reason, years ago, i looked up the character for depression and it was that kanji...and it stuck with me, because of how unique it was. dont ask me to write it though lol, it has so many strokes.
iiShadowii
intredasting
How did you type a kanji character? Been trying to find out how for a minute.
MANOFGOD9000 何?
MANOFGOD9000 if on computer you need to download a language pack. If on the phone, you can turn on the Japanese keyboard
“We highly recommend keeping ready a phone, in case learning the Kanji strokes gives you a stroke.”
SystemYTP noice
Hahahaha 😂
I learned Hiragana and just got done with Katakana from this channel, and now it’s teaching me Kanji. THANK YOU
13:10
"Just remember where your legs are on your body and you won't forget it!"
"Where are your legs?"
"On the bottom!"
LMAO. That enthusiasm melted my heart and made me laugh out loud.
No mine are at the top
*what if you don't have legs?*
Rewatching this after almost a year of learning Japanese and now memorizes about 450 kanji😇
Looks like there is still hope.
I was starting to lose hope then i came across your comment😅
@@youneverwalkalone3584 Goodluck bro, I can always help if you want
This comment gave me more hope
Damn bruh that’s dedication haha whatd u do to learn it
The moment you finish hiragana and katakana. Oh that wasn’t that bad!
Kanji: *i guess you’ve wondered where I’ve been*
Me: *confused screaming*
This was so helpful. I just started learning Japanese, and am just getting a grasp on Hiragana and Katakana. Kanji had me completely confused. This helped me tremendously, because now I have a basis to learn Kanji.
I didn’t know what I was getting myself into when I said I was gonna learn Japanese 😳
Learning a new language is never easy
well i just finished hiragana and katakana but Kanji is some hell monster
@@The_PersianAudioBook ikr
Lol u named urself "no"
@@natsumi_mayaro5471 😁
Im up for the challenge
One advice from Native Japanese:
Do not think about radicals, do not try to "analyze" kanjis with radicals.
DO NOT THINK. MEMORIZE.
I can see why you’re telling to memorize instead. I mean a person radical and a word radical becomes trust? How dafu- and person radical and tree radical becomes to rest? Bruv.
But at the same time it seems like this is also a way to get an idea of what the kanji means
just like how in english we read, tough, though, through, differently without thinking much about it. There are kanji i could easily read if it is part of a word with hiragana, but i need to think longer if i see them as a single kanji.
@@kanecanedy623 To non-native Japanese, for learning Kanji analyzing radicals might work good sometimes, but it's not always perfect because as some people say there are many exceptions. So trying to memorize a character as the whole, one part may increase your Kanji stocks faster. Japanese people learn Kanjis by just MEMORIZING them from 1st grade 6 years old. And we have never analyzed their structures.
@@carmcam1 In Japan we have a proverb "If you want to make a short cut, you just go the ordinary way" In this case I believe the ordinary way is memorizing haha.
@@mahja is there any other benefits analyzing radicals apart from what i said?
Kanji is like this...
Man: adult male human
Go: to depart
Combining these two we get...
Mango: a fruit
🤫
You just found some logic in kanji, I didn't think it was possible
@@eldron29-a54 😂😂😂
Excellent analogy!!😂
This comment has reached enlightenment
ありがとうございます!
In the movement radical, I noticed how much it looked like a treadmill which can also relate to movement which helps me, so ありがと
Here's something that may help others learn Kanji:
"You must unlearn what you have learned" -Yoda
Only problem is when you do between each lesson.
Unlearn what you have learned, you must
The problem is when you unlearn what you learned earlier and you didn't learn anything 私わ馬鹿です。😭
"Me finally learns katakana and hiragana"
Kanji: "plays Giorno's theme"
Dun dun du nun dun dun dun dun dun......
LMAO relatable-
Do I hear boss music 🤔
Srsly hahahahha
Im pretty good at katakana and hiragana but kanji scares me
Ive been learning Japanese for a while now and, surprisingly, kanji became my favourite thing to learn. A piece of advice i can give to any future learners is to learn how a kanji is written, the meaning and then vocabulary with the kanji. For example, you learn the word 日曜日 (nichiyoubi), and remember the kanji it's written with. When you see it in a text, you will know what it is and how to read it. On the other hand, if you learn kanji individually, you won't know when to use the specific reading. 日 can be read as nichi, ni, hi, bi, ka, jitsu, etc, and you might be inclined to read 日曜日 as jitsuyouka, hiyounichi, or something like that. Just memorise them in words instead of memorising them individually.
That's the problem I have. Knowing how a symbol might be pronounced won't help with the word. But knowing that it could mean sun or day not only gives the meaning, but lets you "read" it and know what it means even if you forget what the word is. Sunday, moonday,.... Sometimes it's easy to tell what it means but I can forget and might think of 水曜日 as みずようび even though I know not to say that.
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"Free" my ass
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now that I know how to write "human legs" I will write it on an empty box and ship it to Tokyo and freak people out.
Risa Yamanaka lol
Risa Yamanaka xD
It just like you write the English word "legs" on an empty box and no one will freak out but only confused
TheElmorenous ur Japanese ?
Risa Yamanaka marry me
That's it, I'm learning Japanese. This stuff looks awesome. For those of us who enjoys metaphors and hidden meanings, this language is a godsend.
How’s your progress?
Are you done?😂
Give him another 10 years
Nah I think he needs 30 years
@@jenjen_oreo have some mercy on him. Give him 50 years
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Kanji can be difficult at first. But it gets wayyyyy easier as you go on. It's a great skill to learn. :)
No, it doesn't get any easier. In fact, you get confused with the strokes and radical as you learn more characters. It takes many many years to truly master it.
@@benishan3 Everyone is different, they probably had a different experience.
I will tell my brother he's a mouth on legs, I'm sure he will appreciate it.
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LOL
This is gonna be really fucking hard, but i’ve already learned hiragana so i’m not gonna give up. I’m really determined to learn Japanese! I wish everyone who is trying the best of luck!
4 months have gone by, how did that go? xD
Hope your doing good! I’m just starting now
Hey best of luck. Can feel the same literally the first thing I'm super excited about when waking up is learning more Japanese I haven't felt this much motivation and passion for something at all. Shit even videogames failed to make me this excited everytime I wake up. Like excited enough for me to learn Japanese 12 whole bastard hours a day without getting bored. The only obstacle is the naps I get because of how tiring it is to learn alot in one sitting
@b30m.k4121 im just starting now so how useful was this video? hope youre doing well :)
@@ayeshaaa_ If you're still attempting this. Read nihongoshark page about learning joyo kanji in 3 month. The idea is you will try to remember just the meaning (yes just meaning, no strokes order or kun/on reading) of every joyo kanji (2000 character). So when you finally decided to take a step further into your Japanese study, the "i will never be able to learn kanji" mental block is gone since you've basically seen them all. Hope this helps ✌️
It seems like artists created this language, it’s so cool! I’m a visual learner, and I love this so much
31:58 日 is a pictogram? Did some Chinese dude think that the sun was actually a glowing Ikea shelf?
I agree..
Underrated comment
this made me laugh so hard that my neighbor probably heard me.
I remember 日 by thinking about seeing the sun through a window.
LOL i cant with these comments
I'm not learning Japanese right now but I appreciate the detailed videos you guys make for people.
"Learning kanji is gonna be ezzz"
*Sees the kanji character for melancholy*
(Õ_Ó)
G3 Bo_man i looked it up and holy sh*t that's a lot. artwork tho for sure
That's when melancholy ensues! x'D
G3 Bo_man
I mastered the word for melancholy, it's actually really easy if you just know and identify the radicals.
憂鬱
It's easier than it looks
Being a beginner in Japanese language and starting to learn Hiragana at this time, my first observation of Kanji and the radicals from this video are not very obvious to me far as the end meaning of the complete Kanji Character. I feel I would still have to memorize each Kanji Character.
Lets be real now!!
I would have to have a very very imaginative mind to come up with the final meaning of the Kanji Character from its individual Radicals. Most I wouldn't even come close to guessing in a hundred years from the individual Radicals. Even the Radicals are not obvious what they are supposed to represent without you telling us.
It is great to know the origin of Kanji and the basics of them. I still need to learn Hiragana and Katakana first before I tackle learning Kanji. I bet there are many many people still trying to learn Kanji if there are more than 1500 of them.
Man I seriously thought I'm about to master reading japanese after learning hiragana and katakana 😭
I learned all the first grade 80 characters with flashcards ( officially learned all 80 as of earlier yesterday morning quizzing myself). Best studying technology out there.
Japan - Desuki 80 characters from from this video?
Abby Maynor mm mm. I bought a few books a good while back to do to start self study to learn Japanese. One of them is book that has all 2,136 kanji characters and its listened by grade level along with meanings and sounds for the kanji. First Grade is 80 kanji characters, I learned it from that book. It really does help after learning them because some of the kanji I see in a day from videos, reading, or searching it helps me understand what the sentence is about or what is being said.
I think I know most of the first grade kanji (maybe all of them). I also know more difficult kanji. In total I know about 380 kanji. I would like to calculate (by Excel formulas) how fast I learn kanji and when I hit the 2000 kanji limit.
Knowing a kanji is:
- recognizing it in a Japanese text, knowing the most important 読み;
- knowing how to type it on a computer or smartphone. Type its 読み and then pick the right kanji (corresponding with what you want to say).
I am pretty bad at writing kanji on a paper, because that is really active kanji usage.
Hans Kamp Nice! I gotta keep at it too, after learning the first grade kanji characters, I moved to working on my japanese/grammar so I have not touched on learning new kanji yet. I should keep learning new ones. There's no need for me to switch between the two.
what is the book called where you have all 2,136 kanji characters separated by grade level?
Finally an explanation for reading kanji! I always wondered how it worked. It always baffled me how Japanese people could read a kanji they’ve never or hardly seen and understand it’s meaning. The radical system makes so much sense! Yay no longer in the dark! Excited to learn Kanji now that I know how it works! 😄
You still as optimistic as this?? 😂
Glyphs are all around us, long before computer icons,
Stop sign.
Traffic signs.
McDonalds
Burger King
Taco Bell (it's a bell)
Pizza Hut
Roy Rogers
Big Boy
Buffalo Wild Wings
Chili's
Wendy's (that's the picture of Wendy, the founder's daughter)
etc . . .
@@r0yceseriously haha
@@r0yceyeah I know you've given up but we all haven't I find kanji super fun to learn like I'm untangling a puzzle
@@Quach7bro, think about the emoji, these are literally pictograph and we use all the time
As a very visual learner, I'm absolutely loving learning these radicals, visual storytelling at its finest! Much easier to understand then I was expecting haha
“So, the person radical and the word radical will mean...”
Me: Oh! I know! To read!
Risa: yEs, ThAtS rIgHt, It MeAnS “tO tRuSt”!
I thought it meant to speak, but yeah it makes sense, someone who is true to their word you trust.
InfantrymanEJB oh yeah, true.
well, it's not like radicals are 100% accurate translation of kanji, it's just sort of vague idea of how to decrypt it. You have to learn all kanji separately anyway, but radicals might help to remember it and to not confuse with other kanji.
And in this video what they were saying was more like mnemonic stories, rather than actual, 100% objective way of reading them
I thought it would be "language". That was out of left field for me.
I guessed name... we're doomed
I have been learning the japanese alphabets with these videos for a bit over a week now and i just want to say that Risa is the most adorable human being i have ever seen :')
"where are your legs?"
me: *[sweats nervously]* uhhhhhhhhhhh
i DoNt fEel sO GoOd
That one Vietnam veteran who stepped on a landmine....
*flashbacks in progress*
@@dragonotakukip h-
*pewdiepie sweating in the background*
そうなんだよなー
日本人でも漢字が難し過ぎて知らないものもたくさんあるし
でもその分多彩な表現ができるから日本語は面白い言語だと思うよ
well i read it but i gave me no information, basicly i can just pronounce that but cant understand anything XD.... thats sad :(
The reason I remember 十 as Juu is because Jesus was a Jew
liked because useful
Lol
Right.
He was also a zombie...
Hahaha thanks for this
Risa is such a good teacher 😊 i got perfect score on my quizzes in japanese
Were do you take your test in school or online if online please link it. If school take me there...✊😫
me: *learns hiragana and katakana in one week and proceeds to kanji*
kanji:
One thousand years later:
A few more radicles to go 💀
A friend sent me the official text books for grade schoolers in Japan.
So I'm a 50yo Texan that reads and writes on a 4th grade level if we assume C- still counts.
B- 3rd grade...A+/- 2nd grade.
🤷♂️ Fine by me. Don't let children's songs and books discourage you from using them to learn.
It is how we ALL started out.
Being born into a multilingual home did help. Especially with Japanese since the vowels are identical to Spanish. You'd be surprised how many Japanese people learn Spanish.
But everybody starts at the beginning like a little kid.
Other people enjoy it when you make an effort to speak to them in their native language and it makes for some really funny stories later when you get the hang of it and know what went wrong.😆
"Hiragana and Katakana is easy! Why do so many people say learning japanese is hard?"
Kanji : *greetings*
"あ"
@keroasui "あ"= ah
@@shellyfrancis1813 あ is only "a" though.
@@Anonymous-qf4xn that's not what I meant
In sentence sometimes to express surprise
We put あ
But it also means A
I think ぷ would be more fun. cause its looks like a running man. 🤔
Just wait until you get to counting counters🙃
Me: learns hiragana and katakana
Kanji: allow us to introduce our self
Barely in 2 minutes and I’m already internally screeching at how much more complicated this is than written English. But this is still very helpful, I like they break it down from the very beginning. It helps alot
foot and a dragon = cake, "helps a lot man"
This was incredibly useful. Thank you so so much! Can't wait to see if there's more to this Kanji series. 🤩
After I learnt hiragana and katakana I thought “Hey it’s not gonna as hard as I thought”.
Now as I’m watching this video I’m starting to realize that I’ll never be able to learn Japanese fully
Hey, we can still try, amirite?
@@violetteamor3924 I'm also giving it my best shot to become multilingual and i hope you good luck on your learning :)
@@jjnolastname8386 Same!! Good luck to you too :))
@@jjnolastname8386 What do you use to learn? I'm trying to learn but don't know how to start. Thanks
m m I started on this channel with the order being Hiragana-> Katakana -> kanji and for kanji you can learn it in a multitude of ways but for learning the kanas this channel has the videos on it
I am native Chinese speaker. “儿” the meaning relates to “son”.or “child”. If you see “女儿” it means daughter, and “儿子” means “Son”. Of course when “儿” combines with other characters the meaning changes. For example, there is word “儿时”，the meaning is “ when I was young”. It is easy to memorize the meaning because “儿” related to “young person”, and “时” means time. The combination becomes “ when I was young. As you learn more characters it becomes easier as each character has its own meaning and words are linked together
ok, but this makes a lot more sense that combining random radicals to make a word that has no connection at all with the parts. Paper+fire=car. I mean, what in the world?
OK I'VE DOWNLOADED SO MANY APPS AND READ ALL THESE ARTICLES ONLINE AND NONE OF THEM HAVE BEEN AS HELPFUL AS THIS ONE VIDEO I'M SO HAPPY I FOUND THESE
It was really helpful ❤ and I'm looking forward to watching more kanji series videos. I love your channel a lot. You guys really helped me to learn Japanese in a very easy way. May Allah help you guys 😘
5:44 "The appearance changes slightly."
Right, slightly...
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Chinese is soooo hard, Japanese has own alphabet, so I decided: I teach Japanese
Kanji: OH HELLO MY DEAR
@@n.8224 yeah, but someone can remember grammar rules easier than hieroglyphs
@7 Melt But you can use Hiragana or Katakana.
其实汉字没有那么难学。You can do it.
There's a whole argument debating on whether Chinese or Japanese is harder.
Oh to each their own opinion. Chinese would be harder for a Japanese speaking person to learn while Japanese is harder for a Chinese person like me. But whichever language you pick up and master first will always seem like the easier one. I learnt Japanese way after Chinese and it does seem more difficult, though international research shows otherwise
My mother language is Portuguese and I'm learning Japanese in English MIND BLOWWW
joao victor Bertoldi 😂😂😂 I understand you. My mother language is somali but I speak also german and I am learning Japanese in English 😂😂
joao victor Bertoldi É amigo... somos dois haha br br
ashhsaahah
joao victor Bertoldi my mother tongue is French and I'm learning Japanese in English 😂
Você é o bixão mesmo hein
Sometimes to learn kanji well we need to use our language, or languages that helps as a good reminder:
For example at 30:37 :the KANJI "言" word
Pronounced as the english word : a"gain" , and "e" as the english letter(kun reading)
And for : "話" talk, story, 30:44 pronounced as "Hana" (kun reading)that means in korean the number one, and "wa" (on reading)
For "語" language, pronounced as the english "go" (on reading), and "Kata"
Which in korean means "to look like, alike"(같아)-요
For the last: "計" plan, as in my country and as an arabic person, we use different dialects, and the KUN reading for this kanji is quite the same to us, "hka" which we use it to say "like this"
Or as the english word "hacker" ˈhakər (british accent), and for the (on reading) is the English letter "K"
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