Reading Japanese - Hiragana

[TheReunion31]

0:22 sounds like BI. I understand if it sounds LI, but Bi is something new!

[benarroch15]

exellent..

[johntheo95]

I dont know if you read this because the vid is old but I want to thank you very much

.You have help me learn a tons of things about japan that i wouldn`t have knew about other way but this is the best of all.I started by myself learning hiragana but i was too afraid to continue after i half learned the a and the rest of the symbols with a because i might learned to write the lines of each letter with the wrong order and then i could learn the correct one.

Thanks please keep up the good work

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

@johntheo95

Thanks for watching

[pvamshi49]

Its so nice to test my learning . Thanks !!

[sbeer6er]

I may wanna learn goat later in life.

[TecHyyHD]

some of these symbols look diffrent

[cookiepwnsU]

finally got them all stomped in my brain :D now for grammar and vocab.

[GodBlessYou2008]

it made me cracked out because the first "shi ri" means "ass" in japanese lol

[KoopaKonartist]

Okay, I knocked out some of them, but I kept missing a few, so I'll have to brush up.

But it's better to learn the spelling, and how to read it before having to learn the words. You can't live on just phrases alone.

[nathanpitones]

Hiragana is probably one of the letters in Japanese that I can read fairly well, but only most of them as of October 2010 and I can't read fast... Since Katakana is only the beginning and Kanji is something I'll get lost at.

[okinawaskate]

If your in japan and trying to learn hiragana, katakana, and kanji. i would highly recommend the Kumon Program. When i first started i knew absolutely nothing about japanese, and within the first month i could read and write in hiragana and the second and third i was reading and writing in Hiragana+Katakana, now 8 months into the program i have learned to read and understand over 500 basic kanji characters and am still learning everyday! great program for around 80$ a month. highly recommend it.

[ChisMcKeelee]

When reading tsu in the middle of a string of hiragana, I often hear it silenced, is it safe to assume that it is always silenced when not at the beginning or end of a word? Please answer soon, thank you! :D

[MarioKArtAdd1ct]

@ChisMcKeelee It's not silenced.

[ChisMcKeelee]

@MarioKArtAdd1ct Yeah I figured it out.  Your comment was very helpful tho. Lol.

[KasuganoAkira]

@ChisMcKeelee i can answer that. when you see a slightly smaller つ　like in

まって(matte=wait) it's because the consonant is longer and since you can't put two next to eachother in japanese, it's lengthened with the little っ

[TheNahina]

@ChisMcKeelee it could be the small tsu as in がっこう or school the small tsu doubles the romaji spelling letter so its gakkou

[HoogleZ]

Thanks for putting this up.

Helps me to train when I'm to lazy to write them down and then check if I did it right haha.

[PoKeMoNFaN953]

People tend to say learning katakana is easier.

But I memorise hiragana faster than katakana(and I still can't really differentiate the "shi" and "tsu" in katakana)

[PyrimidKingJindai]

Im going to study japanese next year...... woot

[RobertJFreemantle]

A cobination of videos/images like this + mnemonics are key to me learning these, for my paticular needs. This video is cool and the out of sequence thing is very nice! to shake things up.

[EWS60008]

A bit of a steep learning circle is mastering the writing and what the charactars mean, but this video helps a lot as I am learning Japanese by myself and thanks for posting the video.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

@EWS60008

I am glad it helps!

Enjoy the katakana one too!

[Chuloloc]

Awesome.

[mermesh200]

wow

[EXetoC]

Great video. If only i had someone to study Japanese with. Doing it alone is no fun :-(

[bangladaylan69]

mena san hajimemashite, watashiwa firipin jin desu, kyouwa totemo tanoshikata ureshii desu.. yoinichi o.. domo aregatou gozaimasu!

[bellsmyre49]

Having them out of order is a good idea - certainly showed up MY deficiencies

[fireboy1414]

it would probably be a little bit easier to learn if you did it in order. thats the way im learning right now. like a,i,u,e,o, ka, ki,ku,ke,ko, ect.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Watch the katakana and you will hear why I didn't.

I shuffled them up so people who have already done the pattern can try them out of order.

Learning them in the set is ok.. but when you look and a sign or a menu they are out of order..

so being able to read them in random order is important.

If you can do that you wont need this video :-)

[YourJapaneseSergent]

@TheJapanChannelDcom i never thought of it that way your'e awesome

[BlackValleyRequiem]

@fireboy1414 I did them out of order when i leanrned, because i was finding i didnt learn the individual characters but rather the patterns.

[RetardCanadian01]

Thanks for the Video! This really helps me. :P Im currently trying to learn Japanese, And i think im doing pretty well. But at the moment im just trying to pronounce the words/letters. So this really helps. :P

Thx Again. :D

[JohanHerr84]

百点！：D

[makianime13]

this is complicated

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Yes, it is.

[pabbychan]

Great video, helped me test myself!

thanks

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Did you get them all?

[pabbychan]

Most of them, but paused the video a lot to think of the answer!

I'm out in Toronto, Canada so I don't get to use the very little japanese I have picked up much...but I continue to put effort in it! thanks again, I enjoy your videos!

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Pausing is a good plan :-)

[shadedscript]

this was a perfect review for me.

ありがとう ございます !

[kawaiicupcakegirl]

woohoo :) this helped me pronounce the hiragana i learned :DDD

5/5 fav ;)

[Deathscythehell85]

The one thing I wish you put on this video and the other one is subtitles.This way you have the word and it meaning.I would think it would be more helpful. 5 star treatment

[jpzhmus]

When I was studying hiragana I associate some characters with polish characters e.g. no - e, u-reverse ć, so - z with tail(in old polish language a lot of poets use character like japanese "so" instead of "z"), to - y , te -7

[dannners]

that made 0 sense

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

You would need to already be studying it for it to make sense.

It is for Japanese students to practice with.

[K1kuch1]

Its nice from your part to help people understand hiragana and katana 5/5. It would be ask to much from you if you could make a video of how to make structure a phrase, how to use the wa , ni , ga , o on the prase or verbal conjugation like "masen" "mashita" "masho".

Well it is just a sugestion for future videos if you like!

Peace!

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Yes, this subject could go on and on, couldn't it :-)

[pachil92]

Understanding how to use those are hard for me :(

[playgrrrr]

im not in need right now, but might be starting to learn japanese shortly.

its always good to have something like this, so thank you so much!

[mrcmxoner]

nice that you are teaching this to other people : )! 5 stars and I'm still waiting for my vid lulz

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Thanks dude!

But not teaching anyone.. just given them a tool.

Haven't forgotten your video :-)