Japanese Lesson - KANJI (1)

[Knoedlii]

It's not RomaN-ji.. It's Rōmaji, without "N".. :D

[ArchetypeXE]

aaaah I'm constantly being reminded that there are a lot of very common kanji I simply don't know! I always forget the basics!

[hacker8522000]

this is what i was looking for thanks a lot :)

[katie11289]

Thanks! Now I don't have to speak English with my parents anymore and hear them complain about me not learning to speak my own language! :D

[yesterday94]

Yeah!! I got them all right!

[lilylessons]

Who want to learn Japanese with me online?

[ThinxFaerie]

But is it possible to write Japanese with just Katakana and Hiragana?

[mamipoko2525]

頑張って下さいね*^_^*

[gokharol]

Waah! the kanjis about the week days were all messed up! Let me see:

Monday: 月曜日 (getsuyoubi)

Tuesday: 火曜日 (kayoubi)

Wednesday: 水曜日 (suyoubi)

Thursday: 木曜日 (mokuyoubi)

Friday: 金曜日 (kinyoubi)

Saturday: 土曜日 (douyoubi)

Sunday: 日曜日 (nichiyoubi)

isn't it? \(^o^)/

damn...you don't know long it took to write that...¬¬'

[everydayhanja]

@gokharol it's the same as in Korean. in fact, it is easier to write these things in Korean since for each Chinese character, there is an exactly equivalent 1 Korean syllable for it. Here are the days of the week written in Korean:  Monday: 월요일, Tuesday: 화요일, Wednesday: 수요일, Thursday: 목요일, Friday: 금요일, Saturday: 토요일, Sunday: 일요일.

[gokharol]

金 in japanese is the kanji for gold, and since it comes within the kanji symbols for Friday than it totally makes sence since friday is the best day in week, `cuz the next 2 days are weekend! what a relief friday is ... \(^o^)/

[xhifbhiex]

大好きです。このがとても面白いだ

[jagerbabe36]

I know hiragana and katakana but I have trouble with kanji. What should I do?

[khepri]

よくれんしゅうするよ。 ;)

[Ryogu]

Learn it

[DAIGORO14]

@jagerbabe36 if you learn the radicals that is the different components of the kanji it makes remembering them a lot easier. I remember kanji but sometimes i forget one of the readings and read it wrong I think all of the different readings is what makes kanji hard

[TheDuerden]

Practice :p

Thanks for the video I learnt some new Kanji and it will be useful to come back and use this as a resource for remembering.

[lilylessons]

let's learn Kanji with me

i can also teach any japanese writing

[OmbrellaMedia]

Does anybody know what song and group this is. I really like this song, It's so joyful and fun.

[Makedonification]

Tell me please,what is the difference between Kanji,Hiragana and Katagana?

[lordofligtmaster]

kanji is derived from chinese characters to say a japnese word mostly nouns, adjectives,and verbs. Hiragana and katakana is the alphabet. Hiragana is used for any other part of a sentence and is a bit curvy. Katakana is used for foreign words and is more straight and used for certain words. ex:TV=terebi, Sports=Suppotsu, VCR=Bideo, and many others

[yahags]

it's spelt ROMAji not ROMAN-ji

[CarmenCaboodles]

Uh, no it's not.

[yahags]

ok it's ローマ字, double o, big deal

but it doesn't have n lolololol

BITCH

[NingyoAijin]

lol i got the seasons and days, but the rest were unrecogniseable =[

[gaudetjaja]

You can learn hiragana 『平仮名』　within about one week if you really want to, about the same for katakana 『片仮名』. Kanji 『漢字』　takes about 6 months to a year. But in return you get an enormous amount of vocabulary.

If you practice for one hour every day, you will not forget them ever again. It takes that much effort though.

[tenshikyle]

no. even u know hiragana and katakana. and some kanji.. u also nid to learn how to use it... and most of all learn the language.. and that makes it hard... i'm already 9 months here at japan... mastered hiragana and katakana but sometimes i get confused bec i know lots of kanji (from grade 1-6 in range of 1000 chracters). u may laugh bec. that's all i've learned in almost 1 year of staying here at japan but its not dat easy i'm telling u...

[ddlonglegs]

but the effort pays off.

I started learning Japanese for about a week and a half and that's it. I almost have the hirigana down PERFECTYLY, only because I'm dedicating myself to it.

I'm hoping to have hirigana and katakana perfect by the end of the summer, and alot of kanji, although I know that's gonna take a while

[arekussu]

why is hiragana the easyest??

[BobBurnnquist]

I think the kanji should be present when the hiragana appears, because as soon as it fades away...i forget it. lol just my suggesetion

[MrDefaulto]

I just noticed it says this is a test version... so this way is better. It's not for learning, where everything should be on one page at the same time.

[sadria1]

hmm when it starts out as kanji then hirgana, is the meaning all the same? oh are you able to write full sentences with kanji or just hirgana? i want to learn this.

[259]

The hiragana is there to help you be able to pronounce the kanji if you don't know how to. And yes, it is possible to write sentences with only kanji or hiragana, but most of course will have a mixture of all 3 writing systems.

[sadria1]

ohh. ok. thanks. i have been learning hiragana from a person here who teaches it. but he hasnt been on for 3 months. i have only seen 4 episodes. it sucks

[MrDefaulto]

Hmm you can't actually write japanese in all kanji. It wouldn't make sense. The kanji you use to write the hiragana parts would have a different meaning than the hiragana equivalent. and though you can write entirely in hiragana, it's a little hard to know which meaning you are writing without the kanji. That's why kanji and hiragana are still used together.

[snapkitten]

That's right! :)

[ZXRaiyne]

wow this is great!

I finally memorized the days in nihongo PLUZ it was when i was writing it all down while i watched it then *finger snap* BOOM MEMORIZED! LOL Thx for the vid snapkitten!

BTW how do you read kanji from ON and KUN im kinda stuck cuz im studying kanji and i already know hiragana and katakana

[danielkun147]

感字をきらん！！！！

[QianHanXiongShou]

"Kanji" literally means "Han characters".Yet another stolen invention from the Han Dynasty, which they are trying to call their own.

[UpInDaKlub]

that was a very good list.

[PachesatsutEnulaitsu]

It took me about four days to get hiragana down. I only missed the seasons! (all except one)

[xtremevillain]

I missed a few by On/Kun differentiation and the last one I knew said year, wasn't sure of the first symbol.

[hannahrbdlolafan1]

kantan desu

[CattyNebulart]

Wow, I'm surprised how much I still remember. I'm getting the days of the week all mixed up now though. I took japanese in college over 3 years ago : p

[Brightstar27]

hha I only missed about three. That was actualy really fun!

[snapkitten]

Well done!! ;)

[Sonniku123]

良いビデオだよ！迚役に立つビデオだ。頑張って下さい！

[Ramendude360]

thxs alot for this...i havent tried learning kanji yet but im almost done hiragana =D...after that im going to katakana.

[Brightstar27]

I recommend you put a goood year or less until you know both Katakana and Hiragana off by heart in correct order (like our A, B, C etc).

That's how long it took me learning solo. ;)

[Thomean]

I don't know how long it takes solo, but I'm a first year japanese student and I learned it by heart in 2 weeks xD

But I agree that it would take a lot longer trying to learn it by yourself, unless you want to spent many hours a week...

[bashmuscle]

thats the way im doing it... im learning hiragana

boku wa japanni iku

[forestlaw89]

I think you meant, if your a boy at least

boku wa nihon ni ikimas.

[Denaratakira]

its easy because there is a picture behind, related to the kanji.

[crazymanthomas1654]

sweeeet i got um all right!!! wow your videos are awsome for learning japanese

[massacrexmurder31]

gah!

i got three of them wrong >.>

[cornucupia]

I recommend the japanese word-processor, with built-in dictionary and kanji finder. Free download...look for "jwpce"

[GoodAnime]

Great job! I am favoriting this! ^^ I am trying to learn kanji, thanks for the helpful video!

Btw, do you have any tips on how to start learning kanji? I am searching for sites on kanji, but I don't know where to start (Besides numbers).

[humanedomain]

ah!! GenkiJapanNet subscribed to your channel

^-^  well done video! ありがとう～

[chynasrb]

This is great, just what I'm looking for to help with reviewing! Thanks!!

[BelovedByHell]

I've only just started learning to speak Japanese and I just came across this. Sorry to sound stupid, but I was wondering what a Hiragana is...

-Thanks. (:

[snapkitten]

Thanks for the comment.

Have a look at the "video response." It may answer your question. :)

[Rufio80]

Hiragana is one of the 'alphabets' that is used in japanese. For instance "Arigatou" is made up of 5 hiragana. A, RI, GA, TO, U, or in hiragan it's あ り が と う.

Good luck

[Sonniku123]

Hiragana is not considered an alphabet for it has phonetic value. Because of this and that it is a consenant value based language it is considered a syllabry. 分かりましたか。

[natsu76]

ahahaha i said rainnen instead of raishuu ... i didn't got it perfect q_q

thanks for this nice video

[narpokxd]

dude you are ausome this IS AUSOME!

[SmileyShigure318]

i knew some of the kanji, but most of it i didn't know. I knew all of the hiragana though. I'm still in the early process of reading kanji.

[snapkitten]

Keep learning!

がんばって！：）

[ie9rws]

This video is good for learning seasons in Japan :) This is a good teaching material which shows you it visually and makes me enjoyable arurally.

[XxMizudaAikoxX]

never mind

[XxMizudaAikoxX]

it's cuz i'm working on this anime show, and i wanna use this song for some of the love and visions of love scenes

[XxMizudaAikoxX]

what's the song called. i'm trying to read it, but it only shows up as blocks on my computer

[Yahatacookie]

Haretara iine by Dreams come true. English trans = Hope it will be sunny

[dannidandannikins]

i love the photo for mokuyoubi, where was that?

[snapkitten]

South Wales coast!!

[seanx23]

about 61% of the Japanese language is considered Kanji which is Chinese basicly.

Although in China there are two kind of writing system: the Old Kanji and the new. the Taiwanese still uses Traditional. In China words are a bit simplifyed but still might be hard to learn for some westerners.

Japanese should be considered as a dialect of Chinese.

No. Not in pronoucication of the words at least, Chinese Cantonese is like Japanese a bit but still its different. Because it have partial Romanji

[CheriiChan]

thank you so much! i love the song you used! its so catchy =]

[dustface]

ありがとう！

[AANSbesol]

wow i guess i'm gona get alot better with this kind of learning!!!

thnx =P

[nanisean]

umm...no. because chinese people don't speak japanese. you're thinking of mandarin, cantonese, or sweet an sour pork.

[ShadowX3D]

cool...nice vid.

[ayukit]

i understand all kanji cause im chinese lol

[snapkitten]

Great!! :)

[aprillovett2]

i wish i new all kanji im american stuggling to learn but good thing i found this.

[snapkitten]

Good! I'll make more videos like this. :)

[Elesach]

Thanks for uloading this sort of videos. I'm tryingtolearn nihoni and Kaniji, so this is great

[aprillovett2]

thanx for the add i REALLY needed that

[snapkitten]

Good! がんばってね！　：）