lol you people want to go through the trouble of learning a language simply because you are an anime/manga fan.. but not give a shit about school work or more important things in life
lol I'm like eleven years old and I already know the three language of Japanese -.- because I've been barely obsessed with anime and manga but then my friend made me obsessed with Korean I'm like :O "What do I do? Which one do I love more Korean or Japanese" -.-
@ProChewer460 im eleven now, every classmate love korean, even im in singapore, but i still go by my own style-japan. so dun get them drug u with korean ^^
Interesting opinion. I'm more anime type than manga. So, I understood for me learning words and phrases is much much bigger priority than learning the kanji. And I also feel like learning vocabulary can be totally separated from learning to write and read the kanji way. Just my 5 cents. Thanks. You're cool.
hi am 15 and am rearly intrested to learn japanese i dont know much i try and remember but in a couple of days i forget i whant to know how did u learn when u where 13 it would rearly help me
oh my gosh thank you so much for the help! I got a manga in Japanese and the learning of the characters is so simple! At least for now.... dramatically thinking of the future.
i've memorized all of the hiragana characters already but i heard that learning some kanji characters before katakana is a lot more helpful. is that so? or is your method better?
@gakuenpearl78 I can't speak for tokirocket, but I personally learned hiragana and katakana first. There are plenty of books and manga that have either only hiragana or have furigana, which is kana written next to the kanji, which makes it easy to learn kanji readings. Most ShounenJump manga have furigana.
Awesome! Ima gunna start memorizing hiragana and katakana xD and one quick question, did you also learn how to write in japanese while u were learning the characters?
It is a very famous Shoujo Manga from the early Eighties. Very well known and famous Manga in the Arab world and Greece! Has a nice classical orthodox love story that involves a girl named Ranze Eto from a Fantasy/Demon world, who falls in a forbidden love (while not knowing her origin) with a human. Her father is a vampire and her mother is a werewolf. She herself is a [Doppelganger] (copying) Demon!!
Every one she bites, she temporarily takes their form until she sneezes, while the 'bittenee' remains unconscious for the time period. Very funny, very beautiful, with rich characters! =)
You should try it!
Also, it is considered one of the grand masters of Japan's Shoujo Manga!
With saga like story!
Too bad, the first series (Ranze's generation) was adopted into Anime, the second and third series are available only in Manga format.. and no one adopted the whole thing into English!
You can check the Anime here on YouTube, and the Manga on Wikipedia, but please try to avoid the (Final Anime Episode) portion of the Wiki page! It is a huge spoiler!! I can't stress how much a disaster that spoiler is!! Avoid at all coasts!! Also, for us, Tokimeki Tonight is considered one of Japan's ~Anime legends~ here in the Middle East, plus, it is one of Ribbon Magazine's most successful stories!! =) It is much better than many of today's "NeoJunk" Manga.. It had all the original recipes!
@keochk Correct, they are actually "ideograms" or "logograms." You can learn more about that on wikipedia by looking for "ideogram" and then looking at the "Chinese characters" section. Using the blanket term "alphabet" here is so that beginners can grasp the general idea of what I'm talking about without having to look up side topics like "what is an logogram." The blanket term "Grapheme" might even be better to describe all three, but again, most people do not know these terms.
I find it easier to learn if i learn hiraganna first then katakanna and take quizes and learn how to read and right before starting it is alot easier and it helps keep you active with the charters and memorization. I think getting text books are also very important!
@thevocaloidfan297 u should get rosetta stone i heard it very good im also going to learn japanese but im MIGHT go with rosetta stone kk so that is wut i suggest its lot eaiser and fast way to learn japanese kk ^^
@narutochick365 I tried rosetta stone. Complete waste of time and illegal bandwich. I suggest you look into a game called " My Language Coach Japanese" it's $4.99 for ipod. It helped me way more than rosetta stone. Also, try japanese immersion (i.e watch, listen and read everything in japanese.) and get some grammar books. Rosetta stone is a waste of time and money in any language.
@Zer0Sum1111 I agree, Rosetta stone is not good. The ideal situation is exactly as you said, real immersion. Unfortunately we can't all move to Japan. I suggest starting a club/study group where everyone who is learning is only allowed to use Japanese (for either the whole time, or half the time), maybe some native speakers and friends will also join in and help to do this by bringing the speaking level higher and make corrections as needed. Eventually it will start to work.
Please help!!!! I am trying to find a basic manga in Japanese print. I have settled on a title + Anima. But I can't find any sites that have it in Japanese print, or any manga in Japanese print! Please what are some good sites. I can't use book off or kinokuniya because they are nowhere near where I live, and I can't purchase anything from their sites. Please please help me!!!
@texasclan123 Copy&Paste the title written in Japanese characters (you can find them on wiki) and go to amazon.co.jp and paste them in the search bar along with the number of the volume u want and search... Hope ya dont mind buying internationally =)
@gamingkingnumber1 naruto is a shounen manga. shounen is directed towards boys that are starting elementary school to the age of 15. check wikipedia or your favorite search engine to look up the manga types and genres to find out what what audience your fav. manga is geared towards.
@ThaThree Japanese has 3 alphabets, hiragana, Katakana and kanji
but i would recomend you to learn Hiragana and Katakana(bassicly try to memorize them) cause kanji is really hard to learn(but for some people they might find it easy)
i know that kinda didnt awnser you question,
but go on google imagese type in hiragana chart and find a picture then type in katakana chart and find a picture And then start memoriseing them.
@MrLegoman456 kanji is not an alphabet, kanji are idiograms. they aren't simple letters or phonetic symbols, they symbols that represent an entire idea or word.
Hi im only asking but please can you post a link for te manga tou shuuzu because i cant find it anywhee! :( or can you send a lnk for yume no kureyon oukoku
bassicly what i mean is send the link with the book(hopefully u know wat i mean)
@tokirocket, Thank you so much, this will help alot when I read my Kamikaze Jeanne manga! The only Japanese words I can read right now is ARIA and Inuyasha...
ummm i have never spoken japenese cuz im young and i have no idea how to speak it..... and i am really confused if its completely japenese, but i am going to find the pictures and draw them.
@StrrawberryBunny Furigana, as tokirocket pointed out, is simply hiragana placed next to kanji to tell you how to read, or sound out, that particular kanji in whatever context it may be in.
A tip for people is not to MEMORIZE, per se, but USE them. Find something in romaji and get used to writing them in Hira/Kata. I took a 6 mo. break from Japanese and I still can reproduce most of them, or if I can't, I can recognize them when written.
@gerry101121 if you watch both videos it explains what I did. You use the manga and charts to memorize the characters, and you use a dictionary to look up the meaning of words.
a little of topic (srry) but why cant you people say MANGA?? why do you insist on saying MAAAAAANGA? its fucking stupid and extremely annoying. the word only has one fucking A not 200, its not hard.
Thank you very much : ) I have been trying to learn japanese for a while now, and I'm 14. @_@ I still only know the basics. I have manga, but not in japanese : (
I have also learned the whole hiragana alphabet, some of the katakana, and like, 3 Kanji : D
@crazyboy554 Yea, all manga has hiragana in it (the furigana I mention is also hiragana, it's just a special word to describe the little ones that sit next to the kanji to help you know how it reads).
I hear that people that learn from manga just learn a 100 of ways to say im going to kill u or someting along that line. But even if i did try to learn through comic books i just get distracted by the pictures and dont learn anything:)
this is an absolutely wonderful video. thank you so much! now learning japanese (mostly just to read manga, haha) doesn't seem so impossible. one question, though, how do I pick a good japanese - english dictionary? can you reccomend me any? thanks ^^
I just can't understand one thing (I'm just dumb --'):
Well, 美少女戦士セーラームーン is bishoujo senshi seeraamuun but even if you memorize the katakana, hiragana and kanji, how can you know what it means in you're language? o.o
By using dictionaries. What I describe here is not only useful for learning meanings in context, but also to start simply memorizing hiragana and katakana. Kind of like flash cards.
@Nyela31 by using a Japanese to English (or your native language) dictionary. A Kanji dictionary is also extremely helpful in looking up words and discovering their meaning.
katakana is for "gairaigo" or foreign words (foreign to Japan... so, English). Also used for names (especially non-Japanese names). I've seen it also used for emphasis on a word. Hiragana is for grammer, and certain words, Kanji are for whole words/nouns/roots of verbs. For example, if you have a kanji for "protect" "mamo" you need to use hiragana to make the actual verb tense/form so for example, to say "to protect" it would be "mamoru" where the kanji "mamo" is paired with the hiragana "ru"
Japanese has been on my wish list since a long time before Naruhito come to Brazil last year during the celebration of 100 years of the first travel of the kasato maru.
Thanks so much for the video. I've been studying Japanese for a little while and I read manga in English but I always wanted to read it in Japanese I just didn't know where to start. This helps a lot ^.^
@naru7uzumaki lol, its ok, and im sorry i think i gave u the wrong info. instead of the "SPEAK" i used i ment READ. so really it is if u really wanna learn how to read the manga, u have to learn how to write it. and for the speak it, u need to know how to read it. BUT u do need to learn hirgana & katakana, then these kanji, which will take u longer, trust meh, sorry for givin u wrong info, just study those charts and u'll be fine x3
i just started learning japanese ( well, i can introduce myself and know some words) and its not easy to memorize all the hiragana and katagana symbols, but ill get it ;P
im happy that naruto is a good manga for beginners, i love it^^
im saying bailey in katakana(because i speak english) and ive got the ba and the i from the chart u gave me, and there are no l's in that chart. PLZZZZ HELP
Well, I used to watch a lot of manga so I learned words without even.. KNOWING it. I became interested in learning japanese not too long ago, and so far I learned hiragana. Katakana and hiragana both have different appearances though they are similar, so I was able to learn one at a time. (im not all that good with hiragana even though I know most if it and can read it.)
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As a guy, I find it very emasculating and offensive when women learn Japanese. Especially if they become better then me at it. Get back in the kitchen and cook me some rice woman! Most anime geeks prob find it a turn on though. I must admit it does take a very unique sort of woman to learn it since most males learn it out of an interest in anime and girls. Why a female would, I cannot claim to properly understand. I think it often stems from a socialization defect in males. Everyone is different
But general trends dominate the masses. For example, if you look at the emails you recieve tokirocket, they will be predominately male and you are asked two questions quite often with certainity. Why did you start studying Japanese, and what advice do you have for learning it. Am I right? Of course I am.
Well that was obvious, WOW, you understand the obvious demographic here and the fact that someone with those questions would ask someone who has a VIDEO ABOUT LEARNING JAPANESE. Nice work slick, anymore strokes of genius?
Oh relax toki, I am just kidding about the women stuff. But the rest is all true. The vast majority of males that study Japanese have very strong love/hate feelings toward women. The proliferation of the sick mess that is 4chan is proof enough of that. Female interest in Japan is far more rare, and I cincerely doubt it derives from deeply layered motives. Most often it comes from when Japan is brough to them, usually through anime, but even then a woman would not take a interest without cause.
Most westerners could care less about Japan altogether. The primary effect that draws them is often lack of social graces, I mean afterall, why look at Japan if you are truly happy here? For the most part anime fans all look into Japanese and less then 99% ever get to fluency. I just wish the market was a little more diverse as it is with french and spanish. That is all.
Awesome video! That is pretty much the same way I learned how to read Japanese too.
Here are some manga I suggest for beginners... (these are the first comics I started reading when I was learning Japanese).
Chi's Sweet Home (one of the simplest manga I've ever read in Japanese), CoroCoro Comic (Shounen), Dragon Ball (shounen), Chibi Devil (shoujo), To Love -Ru (shounen), Youkai Navi Luna (shoujo).
yeah...i picked up an azumanga daioh book and yotsubato at the kinokuniya in little tokyo and i found no furigana...i bought the volumes...and i cant return them (-_-)
Oh wow thanks so much! I just considered learning Japanese a couple days ago, actually. Seeing as I wanted to read some manga that weren't translated yet, and its taking forever for them to translate it regardless...
So anyway, I wanted to know... lets say your buying a manga book in japanese. How would you know what rating it is? If its a child manga or not?
Its just a question so I don't end up stuck with a manga I can't understand XD : )
I've been reading mangas since I was in first grade and the past 12 years. From experience, you can usually tell what the ratings are by looking at the publishing companies. For instance, Ribbon (for lil girls) has things like Kodomo no omocha and chibi maruko chan; Ribbon Cookie is for teens, with titles such as NANA. I suggest getting the big monthly mags like Ribbon, Ciao, or Nakayoshi. I dont know if ur a girl or boy. Sry my suggestions are for girls. Best of luck!
hmm .. i use an electronic dictionary so i type in the romaji pronounciation in english and they usually give me a list of words to choose from... personally, it's a lot easier, but it's a lil pricey v_v. I think any Japanese/English dictionary is fine though at barnes & noble : D
The steps you outlined are pretty much the same way I learned to read. 1. hiragana/katakana 2. find manga with furigana (read and repeat until it makes sense) 3. then tackle kanji
Also you've assembled a good list of tools and resources. Thanks for putting in the effort to share what you know with everyone.
Great video! Right now I'm in high school and am taking Japanese at a community college nearby. It really is a great experience and I recommend it to everyone I know. What you have suggested is a pretty good idea! I do own a couple of manga that are in Japanese, but they proved much too hard for me to read. I've been postponing buying an easier manga to read but I think you've helped my get my act together XD Thanks! Off to amazon to go buy meh some Sailormoon >:D
At first you're just using manga to memorize hiragana and katakana. After that you'll start learning grammar from a book or at school and use that new info to go through the manga again, this time using a dictionary to look up words and trying to figure out sentences so you can see how the grammar works.
ah thanks for another good vid! :D can you name the books again at the end which you showed and how to spell haha where can you get the japanese version from ebay?
I have 2 Japanese copies of Naruto, and I am learning Japanese, and I was actually doing the same exact thing earlier.
flaminbabies735 17 hours ago
I love your videos. what are some good reliable websites to buy japanese manga. I don't really know many good ones
skysword77 4 weeks ago
Another good manga to read is Yotsuba&! (よつばと！). Very simple and has furigana for easy reading. and it's fnny as well.
BROFlST 1 month ago
I took your advise and bought 2 manga, big thanks!＾＾
VictoriaNova 1 month ago in playlist 日本語
Thank you for this. What are some other good manga to start with? I also am having a really hard time getting a hold of the Japanese manga though...
WebkinzKittyxo 1 month ago
i have black cat volume 1 in japanese and i don't understand a single word... but it's nice having a original manga in my collection! ^^
EminAnimE1 2 months ago
where do you get all ur japanese manga?? i live in the U.S. so its hard for me to find those!
animeferris 3 months ago
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lol you people want to go through the trouble of learning a language simply because you are an anime/manga fan.. but not give a shit about school work or more important things in life
Slain2012 3 months ago
So I have bought all of よつばと!. Hopefully it helps.
Majinant 3 months ago
lol I'm like eleven years old and I already know the three language of Japanese -.- because I've been barely obsessed with anime and manga but then my friend made me obsessed with Korean I'm like :O "What do I do? Which one do I love more Korean or Japanese" -.-
ProChewer460 5 months ago
@ProChewer460 im eleven now, every classmate love korean, even im in singapore, but i still go by my own style-japan. so dun get them drug u with korean ^^
SecretGurl3569 4 months ago
Interesting opinion. I'm more anime type than manga. So, I understood for me learning words and phrases is much much bigger priority than learning the kanji. And I also feel like learning vocabulary can be totally separated from learning to write and read the kanji way. Just my 5 cents. Thanks. You're cool.
ilike3or4 5 months ago
hi am 15 and am rearly intrested to learn japanese i dont know much i try and remember but in a couple of days i forget i whant to know how did u learn when u where 13 it would rearly help me
misspokemonpro 6 months ago
@misspokemonpro you need to write it every day 10-20 times so that it gets stuck in your memory...that's the only way! Or you could try cue cards.
StrrawberryBunny 4 months ago
this is really helpful:) would tsubasa reservoir chronicles be considered a kid manga for a beginner learning kanji, katakana and hiragana?
blacksnowcatxx 7 months ago
oh my gosh thank you so much for the help! I got a manga in Japanese and the learning of the characters is so simple! At least for now.... dramatically thinking of the future.
texasclan123 8 months ago
i believe that hiragana and katakana look different enough that they would be hard to confuse
nirvanapower1991 8 months ago
i've memorized all of the hiragana characters already but i heard that learning some kanji characters before katakana is a lot more helpful. is that so? or is your method better?
gakuenpearl78 9 months ago
@gakuenpearl78 I can't speak for tokirocket, but I personally learned hiragana and katakana first. There are plenty of books and manga that have either only hiragana or have furigana, which is kana written next to the kanji, which makes it easy to learn kanji readings. Most ShounenJump manga have furigana.
shounenbat510 8 months ago
@shounenbat510 oh, okay xD thanks.
gakuenpearl78 8 months ago
Awesome! Ima gunna start memorizing hiragana and katakana xD and one quick question, did you also learn how to write in japanese while u were learning the characters?
vangaurd204 9 months ago
You are cute...beautiful eyes ; )
IRIE1313 9 months ago
tokirocket, I have a suggestion for you!
Have you tried 'Tokimeki Tonight' (ときめきトゥナイト)? =)
It is a very famous Shoujo Manga from the early Eighties. Very well known and famous Manga in the Arab world and Greece! Has a nice classical orthodox love story that involves a girl named Ranze Eto from a Fantasy/Demon world, who falls in a forbidden love (while not knowing her origin) with a human. Her father is a vampire and her mother is a werewolf. She herself is a [Doppelganger] (copying) Demon!!
Rewayah 9 months ago
Every one she bites, she temporarily takes their form until she sneezes, while the 'bittenee' remains unconscious for the time period. Very funny, very beautiful, with rich characters! =)
You should try it!
Also, it is considered one of the grand masters of Japan's Shoujo Manga!
With saga like story!
Too bad, the first series (Ranze's generation) was adopted into Anime, the second and third series are available only in Manga format.. and no one adopted the whole thing into English!
Rewayah 9 months ago
You can check the Anime here on YouTube, and the Manga on Wikipedia, but please try to avoid the (Final Anime Episode) portion of the Wiki page! It is a huge spoiler!! I can't stress how much a disaster that spoiler is!! Avoid at all coasts!! Also, for us, Tokimeki Tonight is considered one of Japan's ~Anime legends~ here in the Middle East, plus, it is one of Ribbon Magazine's most successful stories!! =) It is much better than many of today's "NeoJunk" Manga.. It had all the original recipes!
Rewayah 9 months ago
Thank you very much!! =)
Rewayah 9 months ago
I made the mistake of buying bleach as my first manga to learn from... barley understood it. I should try fruit basket or sailor moon I guess.
Please make more videos!
Zer0Sum1111 9 months ago
Would astro boy have furigana?
ApesHaveNoTails 10 months ago
so its hiragana and katakana and then kanji? i thought manga was written in majority kanji.
cokabears 10 months ago
Kanjis are not exactly an "alphabet", like hiragana and katakana.
keochk 10 months ago
@keochk Correct, they are actually "ideograms" or "logograms." You can learn more about that on wikipedia by looking for "ideogram" and then looking at the "Chinese characters" section. Using the blanket term "alphabet" here is so that beginners can grasp the general idea of what I'm talking about without having to look up side topics like "what is an logogram." The blanket term "Grapheme" might even be better to describe all three, but again, most people do not know these terms.
tokirocket 10 months ago
en (dot) wiktionary (dot) org/wiki/%E3%82%81
keochk 10 months ago
To learn hiragana and katakana, I use wiktionary
keochk 10 months ago
Great video. Thank you. The following website allows one to learn kanjis in relation to mangas!! Cool stuff! : anime (dash) manga (dot) jp
keochk 10 months ago
I guess naruto 51 was a bad choose to start on >_<
nofacejimmy 11 months ago
I find it easier to learn if i learn hiraganna first then katakanna and take quizes and learn how to read and right before starting it is alot easier and it helps keep you active with the charters and memorization. I think getting text books are also very important!
thevocaloidfan297 11 months ago
@thevocaloidfan297 u should get rosetta stone i heard it very good im also going to learn japanese but im MIGHT go with rosetta stone kk so that is wut i suggest its lot eaiser and fast way to learn japanese kk ^^
narutochick365 11 months ago
@narutochick365 I tried rosetta stone. Complete waste of time and illegal bandwich. I suggest you look into a game called " My Language Coach Japanese" it's $4.99 for ipod. It helped me way more than rosetta stone. Also, try japanese immersion (i.e watch, listen and read everything in japanese.) and get some grammar books. Rosetta stone is a waste of time and money in any language.
Zer0Sum1111 10 months ago
@Zer0Sum1111 I agree, Rosetta stone is not good. The ideal situation is exactly as you said, real immersion. Unfortunately we can't all move to Japan. I suggest starting a club/study group where everyone who is learning is only allowed to use Japanese (for either the whole time, or half the time), maybe some native speakers and friends will also join in and help to do this by bringing the speaking level higher and make corrections as needed. Eventually it will start to work.
tokirocket 10 months ago
Please help!!!! I am trying to find a basic manga in Japanese print. I have settled on a title + Anima. But I can't find any sites that have it in Japanese print, or any manga in Japanese print! Please what are some good sites. I can't use book off or kinokuniya because they are nowhere near where I live, and I can't purchase anything from their sites. Please please help me!!!
texasclan123 1 year ago
@texasclan123 Copy&Paste the title written in Japanese characters (you can find them on wiki) and go to amazon.co.jp and paste them in the search bar along with the number of the volume u want and search... Hope ya dont mind buying internationally =)
KaguraBecameTheWind 11 months ago
umm amm emm umm
ralithelion 1 year ago
Thanks dude
silentboxer1989 1 year ago
hey what was the name of that book monster monster
themegamachine305 1 year ago
Would Naruto be considered a "kid's" book?
gamingkingnumber1 1 year ago
@gamingkingnumber1 naruto is a shounen manga. shounen is directed towards boys that are starting elementary school to the age of 15. check wikipedia or your favorite search engine to look up the manga types and genres to find out what what audience your fav. manga is geared towards.
gfan0080 1 year ago
Can you do a list of books one can use to learn japanese? (Stuff i could buy off amazon and stuff)
SuperGuy344 1 year ago
Hi Tokirocket is death note (デスノート) a good book to start off with? (in japanese)
MrLegoman456 1 year ago
im kinda confused with the charts because they are two way charts??? can u help me???
ThaThree 1 year ago
@ThaThree Japanese has 3 alphabets, hiragana, Katakana and kanji
but i would recomend you to learn Hiragana and Katakana(bassicly try to memorize them) cause kanji is really hard to learn(but for some people they might find it easy)
i know that kinda didnt awnser you question,
but go on google imagese type in hiragana chart and find a picture then type in katakana chart and find a picture And then start memoriseing them.
Thats how i learnd japanese
you should try it :)
MrLegoman456 1 year ago
@MrLegoman456 kanji is not an alphabet, kanji are idiograms. they aren't simple letters or phonetic symbols, they symbols that represent an entire idea or word.
gfan0080 1 year ago
Hi im only asking but please can you post a link for te manga tou shuuzu because i cant find it anywhee! :( or can you send a lnk for yume no kureyon oukoku
bassicly what i mean is send the link with the book(hopefully u know wat i mean)
please reply
MrLegoman456 1 year ago
thanx this helped alot ^W^
NaruSasuVija 1 year ago
Also can you speak and understand full japanese if so, how long did it take???
Sorry for posting twice wanted to ask another question
ThaThree 1 year ago
hey, got a question tokirocket, how long did it take you to memorise the two alphabets
ThaThree 1 year ago
@tokirocket, Thank you so much, this will help alot when I read my Kamikaze Jeanne manga! The only Japanese words I can read right now is ARIA and Inuyasha...
AngelicLover777 1 year ago
I know all in katakana and some hiragana.
Scourgeandmephiles93 1 year ago
i was thinking about going on a date with u cutie
dandada14 1 year ago
This chick is cute as hell
illestPremiere 1 year ago
I changed the links, they will work now. :)
tokirocket 1 year ago
does manga use hiragana or katakana?
can i just learn hiragana?
StrrawberryBunny 1 year ago
you look about 16 xd
choongbren 1 year ago
the links are down
apestajimmy 1 year ago
If there's romaji Manga out there, I would love some..
555sonicfangirly 1 year ago
May I suggest a helpful thing to do is if you have a Xbox 360 or PS3, change the language to Japanese. Helped me :)
spookymcfuzzy 1 year ago
woooo naruto!!!!!1
seanmyster1231 1 year ago
I think i will stick 2 english manga
cutiepotlipsorange 1 year ago
i dont like that you say hiragan and katakana with an american accent...
Love your vids though! : )
PortuguesePlayer21 1 year ago
the sites for your charts have been suspended what do i do :[
Lacyewacyewasehbear 1 year ago
the links are not working anymore :(
CodeProvider 1 year ago
ummm i have never spoken japenese cuz im young and i have no idea how to speak it..... and i am really confused if its completely japenese, but i am going to find the pictures and draw them.
Popking5 1 year ago
What was that last manga you said?
iaMyla 1 year ago
Hi, I was just wondering, does らき☆すた have furigana?
4039cameron 1 year ago
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4039cameron 1 year ago
my computer cant go to the link you provided
Kezmitt 1 year ago
my computer in umable to get to the website links
Kezmitt 1 year ago
is it necessary to learn furigana to read manga?
StrrawberryBunny 1 year ago
@StrrawberryBunny Furigana, as tokirocket pointed out, is simply hiragana placed next to kanji to tell you how to read, or sound out, that particular kanji in whatever context it may be in.
4039cameron 1 year ago
why would u learn japanese just for manga and anime??
Kaneda2Tsushin 1 year ago
ah, cool, i never knew that, i always thought they just used the letters we used when using our words :O
MrSmileyHasABigDong 1 year ago
Shes right, I memorized Hiragana first and now Im struggling with Katakana :(
NocheeseSherlock 1 year ago
A tip for people is not to MEMORIZE, per se, but USE them. Find something in romaji and get used to writing them in Hira/Kata. I took a 6 mo. break from Japanese and I still can reproduce most of them, or if I can't, I can recognize them when written.
damasta00138 1 year ago
@gerry101121 if you watch both videos it explains what I did. You use the manga and charts to memorize the characters, and you use a dictionary to look up the meaning of words.
tokirocket 1 year ago
a little of topic (srry) but why cant you people say MANGA?? why do you insist on saying MAAAAAANGA? its fucking stupid and extremely annoying. the word only has one fucking A not 200, its not hard.
JumpingJackDash 1 year ago
@JumpingJackDash Who says it like that?
tokirocket 1 year ago
is shugo chara considered a more "little kids" manga? o.O
lonelypaperhearts 1 year ago
@lonelypaperhearts It's for younger girls (I guess around preteen/early teen), but not little little kids.
tokirocket 1 year ago
@tokirocket oh alright, thanks ^_^
lonelypaperhearts 1 year ago
when you read it doesn't it say the words in japanese using english letters and how r u suppose to understand it in english?
Ninetailsrox 1 year ago
@Ninetailsrox you first use it to memorize all of the hiragana and katakana, then you move on to looking up the words and meanings.
tokirocket 1 year ago
hello i want to ask something! after i learn the charts... how do i know the meaning of the characters? the letters i do i know what he mean???
anacatarina117 1 year ago
Thanks this video helped me a lot.
I was just wondering though... were do you buy the japanese versions?
VivaceVocaloid 1 year ago
@VivaceVocaloid Watch video #5-2 for suggestions on where to buy manga. :)
tokirocket 1 year ago
Thank you very much : ) I have been trying to learn japanese for a while now, and I'm 14. @_@ I still only know the basics. I have manga, but not in japanese : (
I have also learned the whole hiragana alphabet, some of the katakana, and like, 3 Kanji : D
Gackupo 1 year ago
does anyone use hiragana anymore, cause im learning that right now.
crazyboy554 1 year ago
@crazyboy554 Yea, all manga has hiragana in it (the furigana I mention is also hiragana, it's just a special word to describe the little ones that sit next to the kanji to help you know how it reads).
tokirocket 1 year ago
I hear that people that learn from manga just learn a 100 of ways to say im going to kill u or someting along that line. But even if i did try to learn through comic books i just get distracted by the pictures and dont learn anything:)
m1k3ismike 1 year ago
Thank you for posting these :) I hope to see more videos in the future
odObo01 1 year ago
Omfg, I have the same background shading thing :D
And I can't beleive you've been reading manga for so long :)
Thanks for the info about Jap Language
ObsessedXP 1 year ago
Love your videos ^^
I have Lucky Star in english xD
They dont really sell japanese manga here T_T
Konata1zumi 1 year ago
Sailor moon
Geeksquad87 1 year ago
With the links, do I memorize everything on the page or the first chart on each page?
BabyGabriella2o2o 1 year ago
this is an absolutely wonderful video. thank you so much! now learning japanese (mostly just to read manga, haha) doesn't seem so impossible. one question, though, how do I pick a good japanese - english dictionary? can you reccomend me any? thanks ^^
Lennielectric 1 year ago
umm thank you! but do you read the charts as if you are reading manga or as if im reading english stuff?
BlackButterflyxo 2 years ago
I just can't understand one thing (I'm just dumb --'):
Well, 美少女戦士セーラームーン is bishoujo senshi seeraamuun but even if you memorize the katakana, hiragana and kanji, how can you know what it means in you're language? o.o
Nyela31 2 years ago
By using dictionaries. What I describe here is not only useful for learning meanings in context, but also to start simply memorizing hiragana and katakana. Kind of like flash cards.
tokirocket 1 year ago
Ok! Thank you very much *-*
Nyela31 1 year ago
@Nyela31 by using a Japanese to English (or your native language) dictionary. A Kanji dictionary is also extremely helpful in looking up words and discovering their meaning.
tokirocket 1 year ago
So katakana is like fonetik characters right and the other two are just practicly jap
Rovering0Spirit 2 years ago
can some one tell me what katakana is used for same with hiragana and kanji plz .
Cloud9YEAH 2 years ago
Katakana is used for foreign words. Like ice cream= Aisu. which sounds like ice.
and textbook (tekisuto) hiragana is for japanese words and kanji the same pretty much ^^
XBrooklynsxAngelX 2 years ago
katakana is for "gairaigo" or foreign words (foreign to Japan... so, English). Also used for names (especially non-Japanese names). I've seen it also used for emphasis on a word. Hiragana is for grammer, and certain words, Kanji are for whole words/nouns/roots of verbs. For example, if you have a kanji for "protect" "mamo" you need to use hiragana to make the actual verb tense/form so for example, to say "to protect" it would be "mamoru" where the kanji "mamo" is paired with the hiragana "ru"
tokirocket 1 year ago
Japanese has been on my wish list since a long time before Naruhito come to Brazil last year during the celebration of 100 years of the first travel of the kasato maru.
dalisson55 2 years ago
Thanks so much for the video. I've been studying Japanese for a little while and I read manga in English but I always wanted to read it in Japanese I just didn't know where to start. This helps a lot ^.^
HachiHachi01 2 years ago
question, do you need to know how to speak japanese to be able to do this?
naru7uzumaki 2 years ago 2
@naru7uzumaki no, first if u wanna learn how to SPEAK it u need to learrn how to write it. theres hirgana & katakana, so just learn that first
MoonCrystalPower19 2 years ago
aww, that will take so much longer =( lol
naru7uzumaki 2 years ago
@naru7uzumaki lol, its ok, and im sorry i think i gave u the wrong info. instead of the "SPEAK" i used i ment READ. so really it is if u really wanna learn how to read the manga, u have to learn how to write it. and for the speak it, u need to know how to read it. BUT u do need to learn hirgana & katakana, then these kanji, which will take u longer, trust meh, sorry for givin u wrong info, just study those charts and u'll be fine x3
MoonCrystalPower19 2 years ago
my school offers japanese :)
up to level 4
and i have been to japan.
DeathByFriedChicken 2 years ago
wow,that was a very helpful video, thanks!
i just started learning japanese ( well, i can introduce myself and know some words) and its not easy to memorize all the hiragana and katagana symbols, but ill get it ;P
im happy that naruto is a good manga for beginners, i love it^^
floof93 2 years ago
thx
mangaboy159 2 years ago
this is very interesting, i would love to learn and read manga in japanese
JeiiEra 2 years ago
So basically comics made for younger audiences contain furigana aids? Hmm... I ought to try to start on that path.
ironwolfosiris 2 years ago
im saying bailey in katakana(because i speak english) and ive got the ba and the i from the chart u gave me, and there are no l's in that chart. PLZZZZ HELP
reply,please
mangaboy159 2 years ago
ベイリ
SimpIicity1 2 years ago
just most ask if Bleach is a manga there the kanji is tranlated into hirigana
unkingGG 2 years ago
Thanx! This is awesome!
halenfansarah 2 years ago
Is school rumble good for studying? It has got furigana.
Kabaxis 2 years ago
um... what furigana>?
MoonCrystalPower19 2 years ago
Furigana-Hirigana that tells you what the kanji it is connected to.
silenthillmaster755 2 years ago
そうしたら、日本語喋るの？
morningstarscrew 2 years ago
Black Cat is a good manga for guys and girls <3
AssassinsLuck 2 years ago
another book for guys is inuyasha
AWishUponAnOcean 2 years ago
Is one piece okay?
I love one piece O_O
IDontCareSoSTFU 2 years ago
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One Piece is balls! Stick to the anime dont by the manga
SIKxONE 2 years ago
I...Wow.
Well, I used to watch a lot of manga so I learned words without even.. KNOWING it. I became interested in learning japanese not too long ago, and so far I learned hiragana. Katakana and hiragana both have different appearances though they are similar, so I was able to learn one at a time. (im not all that good with hiragana even though I know most if it and can read it.)
This video is awesome :)
Im gonna subscribe.
IDontCareSoSTFU 2 years ago
give me some cool sites to learn!!!!!!
rmcld 2 years ago
what is the differance between Katakana and hiragana
MrUchihaha 2 years ago
Note: People asking where to find manga in America etc, please watch part 2 which is linked below the main video as a response.
tokirocket 2 years ago
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As a guy, I find it very emasculating and offensive when women learn Japanese. Especially if they become better then me at it. Get back in the kitchen and cook me some rice woman! Most anime geeks prob find it a turn on though. I must admit it does take a very unique sort of woman to learn it since most males learn it out of an interest in anime and girls. Why a female would, I cannot claim to properly understand. I think it often stems from a socialization defect in males. Everyone is different
robotpanda77 2 years ago
But general trends dominate the masses. For example, if you look at the emails you recieve tokirocket, they will be predominately male and you are asked two questions quite often with certainity. Why did you start studying Japanese, and what advice do you have for learning it. Am I right? Of course I am.
robotpanda77 2 years ago
Well that was obvious, WOW, you understand the obvious demographic here and the fact that someone with those questions would ask someone who has a VIDEO ABOUT LEARNING JAPANESE. Nice work slick, anymore strokes of genius?
tokirocket 2 years ago
Also, obvious troll is obvious. :D *waves*
tokirocket 2 years ago
Oh relax toki, I am just kidding about the women stuff. But the rest is all true. The vast majority of males that study Japanese have very strong love/hate feelings toward women. The proliferation of the sick mess that is 4chan is proof enough of that. Female interest in Japan is far more rare, and I cincerely doubt it derives from deeply layered motives. Most often it comes from when Japan is brough to them, usually through anime, but even then a woman would not take a interest without cause.
robotpanda77 2 years ago
Most westerners could care less about Japan altogether. The primary effect that draws them is often lack of social graces, I mean afterall, why look at Japan if you are truly happy here? For the most part anime fans all look into Japanese and less then 99% ever get to fluency. I just wish the market was a little more diverse as it is with french and spanish. That is all.
robotpanda77 2 years ago
trully happy? how many americans do you know that are trully happy? so, some people wanna expand their horizons a little. lighten up fucker
stert 2 years ago
were would u find japanese mangas
in nz
MrUchihaha 2 years ago
ok ....... where do i find japanese manga books in america lol srsly though
fatmandreams 2 years ago
Regular bookstores have special manga sections. - -
AssassinsLuck 2 years ago
in english ..
fatmandreams 2 years ago
so which is better english or japanese manga
sailorclass1c 2 years ago
what is your favorite manga mine is negima you should really read it
comikboy599 2 years ago
you rock, thank you
DCKar2nist 2 years ago
thank you so much
this vid helped a lot
that is how i am learning
AND IT WORKS
woooo
u go girl lol
roxyravenheart 2 years ago
my friend told me that there is one alphabet only for names...is this true?
hallowarum 2 years ago
Nah... It's called Katakana, and it's for use with English words, Names, Sound effects, And things like that....
zredna33 2 years ago
ok thatnk you zredna
hallowarum 2 years ago
Are you talking about Japanese Alphabet?
They have 3 alphabets
a) Hiragana : their original alphabet
b) Katakana: which is used when they're trying to spell english words or names
c) Kanji: Chinese characters
English names are written in Katakana where Japanese names are written in mainly hiragana and kanji.
littlenekojapan 2 years ago
ahh thank you, so my friend told me wrong information!
hallowarum 2 years ago
thanks for the help! ^^
otakusRawesome 2 years ago
Hehe, you are so cute :D
Nice guide there :)
devilllsh 2 years ago
Awesome video! That is pretty much the same way I learned how to read Japanese too.
Here are some manga I suggest for beginners... (these are the first comics I started reading when I was learning Japanese).
Chi's Sweet Home (one of the simplest manga I've ever read in Japanese), CoroCoro Comic (Shounen), Dragon Ball (shounen), Chibi Devil (shoujo), To Love -Ru (shounen), Youkai Navi Luna (shoujo).
StarDr0ps 2 years ago
I didn't comment here yet. :o ~fail~
thank you for the vid! <3
I'm admiring you on your persistence, I started learning the hiragana and stopped after 'na/ni/nu/ne/no'~ ;=_=
but I think that I'll take your advice and learn again Hiragana and Katakana at the same time. ^^
<3~
AtaliaChan 2 years ago
yeah...i picked up an azumanga daioh book and yotsubato at the kinokuniya in little tokyo and i found no furigana...i bought the volumes...and i cant return them (-_-)
maybekawaii 2 years ago
Oh wow thanks so much! I just considered learning Japanese a couple days ago, actually. Seeing as I wanted to read some manga that weren't translated yet, and its taking forever for them to translate it regardless...
So anyway, I wanted to know... lets say your buying a manga book in japanese. How would you know what rating it is? If its a child manga or not?
Its just a question so I don't end up stuck with a manga I can't understand XD : )
TUNEtheRAINBOWxX 2 years ago
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evilnarc927 2 years ago
To TUNEtheRAINBOWxX:
I've been reading mangas since I was in first grade and the past 12 years. From experience, you can usually tell what the ratings are by looking at the publishing companies. For instance, Ribbon (for lil girls) has things like Kodomo no omocha and chibi maruko chan; Ribbon Cookie is for teens, with titles such as NANA. I suggest getting the big monthly mags like Ribbon, Ciao, or Nakayoshi. I dont know if ur a girl or boy. Sry my suggestions are for girls. Best of luck!
evilnarc927 2 years ago
To evilnarc927:
Thanks so much for the help! : ) I'm a girl, so those titles were good . Another question, what type of dictionary should I get for reference ?
TUNEtheRAINBOWxX 2 years ago
hmm .. i use an electronic dictionary so i type in the romaji pronounciation in english and they usually give me a list of words to choose from... personally, it's a lot easier, but it's a lil pricey v_v. I think any Japanese/English dictionary is fine though at barnes & noble : D
evilnarc927 2 years ago
The steps you outlined are pretty much the same way I learned to read. 1. hiragana/katakana 2. find manga with furigana (read and repeat until it makes sense) 3. then tackle kanji
Also you've assembled a good list of tools and resources. Thanks for putting in the effort to share what you know with everyone.
rainbowhill88 2 years ago
Great video! Right now I'm in high school and am taking Japanese at a community college nearby. It really is a great experience and I recommend it to everyone I know. What you have suggested is a pretty good idea! I do own a couple of manga that are in Japanese, but they proved much too hard for me to read. I've been postponing buying an easier manga to read but I think you've helped my get my act together XD Thanks! Off to amazon to go buy meh some Sailormoon >:D
AgentYlime 2 years ago
If I learned the kanas, I would only know what the word sounds like.. How would I understand the story though?
[--Thanks for this video, it really is a grat idea!]
MewMaddiePINK 2 years ago
At first you're just using manga to memorize hiragana and katakana. After that you'll start learning grammar from a book or at school and use that new info to go through the manga again, this time using a dictionary to look up words and trying to figure out sentences so you can see how the grammar works.
tokirocket 2 years ago
*Great
Oh, I see! :D Thanks!
MewMaddiePINK 2 years ago
Do you live in Japan,
ShakaBeach123 2 years ago
No, I don't live in Japan.
tokirocket 2 years ago
Naruto is a great book and all, but it shouldn't be used first because Naruto (the character) uses A LOT of slang
coushcrew 2 years ago 2
have you tried getting a job to tech japanese
neringa616 2 years ago
ah thanks for another good vid! :D can you name the books again at the end which you showed and how to spell haha where can you get the japanese version from ebay?
XSakuraProductionsX 2 years ago
Oh, good suggestion! lol. I've added them to the video description.
tokirocket 2 years ago