@mizugawa I'm sorry I don't know. I tried to search for it, but its really difficult if you don't understand the japanese language, cause I'm at the beginning of learning...
Its actually true that you have to use kanji to remember it it. Like in this game my mom plays, she's fishing and somethimes she askes me to tell her when a fish arrives and i say 来た！来た！ (it came! it came!) (yeah my mom is japanese lol)
Yes, it's hard to get the brain started. I made a breakthrough with reading manga (well, trying to decode ;-) and somehow the more frequent characters started to stick ... You need to use them to remember them.
I'm Japanese. Kanjis are very useful characters for me to explain complicated situations or thoughts briefly without many sentences, so I want to give my gratitude to China which invented them and allowed us to use them without the copyright fees, but sometimes I feel tired from writing them because I have to move a pencil a lots, in this sense, I want to thank our ancestors for creating Hiragana and Katakana, using them too much is an indication of the lack of education here, though.
As for moving your pen a lot, IMHO there isn't much difference - if you used Latin alphabet instead of Kanji, you'd have to write a LOT of letters instead of one or maybe two more or less complicated characters ... I also think Kanji makes a lot more sense for a language such as Japanese or Chinese, with lots of homonyms and words consisting of only a few syllables : )
In terms of # of letters, as you pointed out, the length of kanji sentences might be shorter than the length of Latin alphabet sentences for the same topic, but in terms of a burden on a hand holding a pen, that from writing kanji is greater than that from writing Latin alphabet because each kanji letter consists of many vertical, horizontal and diagonal bars and you cant write a kanji with a single stroke. As to homonyms, youre quite right. You have a deep insight into kanji.
Kanji is not Japanese, its traditional Chinese. Modern Chinese can understand Japanese Kanji if they study traditional Chinese, or at least can guess.
But Japanese cant understand simplified Chinese. Chinese people couldent like read a book in Japanese cause Hiragana and Katakana changes the sentence and stuff, but like a street sign or store name, or "push and Pull" doors they can understand. Kanji is not Japanese, its Chinese.
Its a little kid show, its for little kids that can talk, but cant write yet, or can only write Hiragana and Katakana. They explain the Kanji symbols in Japanese speaking. Its not made for you, its made for little Japanese kids that cant read but understand the verbal language. If you REALLY wanna learn Kanji you need to buy a book or find a teacher,Youtube isent the best way to learn Kanji,but I bet you could.But if you get a teacher,get one the same gender,or you will learn to speak wrong lol
Because, in Japanese the way girls and boys talk is often gramatically different. I dont know about all the dialects, but many Japanese teachers, mostly the girl ones. Will not really think of, maby I should teach this person to speak like a man.They just teach what they have done all their lives.Then you get these big white people going to Japan speaking like Japanese school girls and it looks really weird, and the WORST part is.The way Japanese culture is,no one will be "rude" and tell you...
Well, it really depends, when I started learning, my teacher - a Japanese woman - would at least laugh at my Japanese at times, even if she wouldn't say why ;-) But at least I knew I said something weird. And also if you make friends with some Japanese people, especially young ones, they're more likely to tell you you speak like a girl ...
I honestly don't care, it's not really hard. It's kind of like how girls talk a certin way and boys talk a certin way in every culture. Like in the US, girls arn't like "Hey dude... That was freakin radical bro... Freakin' sweet shit right there." and boys arn't like "omg Jenefer was like totally flirting with Billy today, like omg, I was like, wtf" Understand? =P lol
yeah, it is for japanese NOW, but kanji was originally chinese and over the years korea and japan have just played around with it and made their own different but similar forms
Suki is like. Daisuki is more like love as in a favorite. You can't just say it's "like". It's more like saying "Kanji is my most favorite" or "I love Kanji" I hardly think you could use ai to describe a feeling one has for learning Kanji. =P
There are several ways to say love as there are many different kinds of love.
Well personally, I like to think that Kanji are beautiful but I personally wish we could just use the Katakana and Hiragana syllabries. Then again Kanji is apart of their history and culture I suppose. =)
I learned all my kanji from video games and Wikipedia. Strange thing is there are a lot of kanji I recognize, but don't know how to pronounce. Good thing the Japanese have kids shows like this so that kanji doesn't come as a midlife crisis.
It aint that hard! Lol ive been learning japanese for three years and i know where youre coming from, it seems daunting at first. But try finding ways to associate the kanji with a shape. Like it had the kanji for fire a minute ago? You remember the shape with the kanji and then the more you read it the more it becomes second nature! Just keep at it =D
Kanji... inefficient? Uhm, no. Look up the many many reports that say its easier for the brain to associate words with symbols. You can skim through texts up to 3x faster, because your brain doesn't "read" each seperate letter, it looks at the SHAPE of the word, and kanji/hanzi take advantage of that.
Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong host one of the world's largest litteracy rates, and don't even get me started on dyslexia/adult illitteracy in the English-speaking world.
Nobody seems to be mentioning the fact that "Japanese Kanji" came from China first. The word "Kanji" literally means Han (Chinese) characters.
Japanese is, however, a totally different language from Chinese; the relationship between the two languages is analogous to that between, say, French or English and Latin.
Lol it's just so hard. But I'll do it -sigh- v_v; Oh and all this about Japanese being silly, I kind of agree. Like, learning Korean writing is so so SO much easier. My friend's learning it. But all languages have strong and weak points that you have to get around. But I'd rather concentrate on speaking Japanese, and knowing the basic hiragana and katakana.
of course korean is much easier you only need to know where to put the character for the syllable
and if the stroke place is right.... But it's hard to distinguish the word.... for us... but you see for japanese people their language, writing method is just like how we speak, write our english... they read it per word not per letter... you know...
Well as a language person, I'd say that Japanese writing is illogical. Not illogical meaning 'dumb and stupid' but illogical in the sense that it is inconsistent, unike an alphabet.
But then again, with time and practice, we can writ in fine Japanese, just like any script I suppose. They do!
well if u're talking phonetics, japanese is consistent more so than english.
As to the comment - in some ways japanese (chinese and korean for that matter) are 'silly' languages as I see that u mean that japanese isn't efficient. The western alphabets only has a few characters so they're
easy to learn (the vocab is the hard part) whereas japanese takes ages to learn both characters and vocab.....(to be continued)
...But even so, it's only ever wrong to say the learning japanese is illogical if speaking in a non-economics-minded way. People learn these languages as it's part of their culture or personal reasons. I speak filipino, english, spanish and some japanese - all of them being different. But it's the fascination and will that makes me want to learn that language - never keeping in mind how much time i need to invest learning it or how inefficient they are....
....and finally u say it's a silly language. Well as far as I know the japanese could easily say "english is a silly language - ONLY 26 characters in alphabet and illogical pronunciations"
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Haha I have to agree with you there man. It's one of the silliest languages ever - the whole "kanji" system is really inefficient compared to latin letters. Seriously, why do they even use kanji if they have a standart basic alphabet?
Well, there's a reason (and it's been suggested before). Japanese has one of the lowest number of syllables (the 47-some Kana letters) and a vast proportion of the words only has one, hence rather a large number of homonyms (only surpassed by Chinese in this respect I think). Kanji help a lot to understand what's written.
Also I see Japanese as a kind of sign language, so it kinda seems to fit.
I already know all this stuff since I learn kanji too. Doesn't mean it ain't silly. I learned english by reading lots of english books. It's easy to learn english that way because you can understand words just by their connection to the sentence. You can't understand kanji that way, you have to learn it from scratch. I'm also learning some german, which is way easier (and less stupid) than japanese. My mother language is in fact hebrew.
imo, japanese is way easier than german. once you get used to it, it's pretty easy. and kanji being hard? it takes a while to learn but it's such a help. i hate just reading in hiragana because it's impossible.
itslikereadingenglishlikethis where 'itsl', 'ik', 'ere', 'adin', 'geng', 'lis', 'hlik' and 'ethis' are all real words
was the first one supposed to be fireman? because the top proportion of the kanji symbol was fire. Was the bottom proportion supposed to be man or person or boy?
alright so at 3:30 she lists the three kanji and names them (kun readings). right? i see hikari, saki, ani. so why does she pronounce the first one with a shi at the beginning? it sounds like shikari.
this is probably not the place to ask. not stopping me though. someone with super nihongo puppet skills come and explain this to me!
the "shi" sound I heard is kantou ben (Kanto dialect). If you go to other places in Japan, they don't do it. But in Tokyo, Yokohama, and so forth you hear the "shi" if it starts with "hi". For example 一つ "hitotsu". I hear this a lot from the all the teachers I work with. They pronounce it as "shitotsu", but it's very different from しとつ. It's a little more subtle. Anyways, hope I've been of some help.
Well, if you want to understand more, try searching for "Japanese Basic" here on YouTube (there's much higher quality on Stage6) - it's an excellent, even if a bit dated course that will really get you going :)
Yes, that's the one. It's actually quite good, explains everything in a very understandable way, and if you can bear with Mary Althouse, you get rewarded with the beautiful Umino Tae in the second season ;)
This would be really great, if someone could make subs for this video...
BlueSilverfish 3 months ago
@BlueSilverfish It would be even better if more episodes could be found on-line - then it would start making sense to sub them.
mizugawa 3 months ago
@mizugawa 漢字大好き 1-5 are online on youtube
BlueSilverfish 3 months ago
@BlueSilverfish Yes, I know. But is that all there is?
mizugawa 3 months ago
@mizugawa I'm sorry I don't know. I tried to search for it, but its really difficult if you don't understand the japanese language, cause I'm at the beginning of learning...
BlueSilverfish 3 months ago
i am scared
xLoliChiDesuu 4 months ago
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面白い!!
7ooxooxoo 4 months ago
Its actually true that you have to use kanji to remember it it. Like in this game my mom plays, she's fishing and somethimes she askes me to tell her when a fish arrives and i say 来た！来た！ (it came! it came!) (yeah my mom is japanese lol)
maneatingbanana 4 months ago
Can i see this vid somewhere dubbed over in a perfect English translation?
shaadoguardian 5 months ago
I became scared at 0:23
mysteriouskazakh 10 months ago
i'm doing jap at university, this was great! i am also a bit high, which might have improved my opinion but whatevs
quimsolls1 1 year ago 2
So... what does that kanji mean? O.o Manfire? Haha.
MurdocLC 1 year ago
@MurdocLC hikari means light
Lugmillord 6 months ago
@Lugmillord Oh... kinda makes sense, almost.
MurdocLC 5 months ago
OMG its sesame street IN JAPANESE
chronocalamity 1 year ago
what is that symbol pronounced as?
trackmaniakid27 1 year ago
sorry, didn't understand the second symbol, what does it mean?
gokharol 1 year ago
@gokharol 光 (ひかり) 'hikari' :Light
先 (さき) 'saki' : Previous, before
兄 (あに) 'ani' : Older Brother
As with most kanji there are other readings, but these are the most common and useful. v(^_^)v
NodnarbRS 1 year ago
@NodnarbRS
thaaanks! \(^o^)/
That was a lot useful, thanks again ^^
gokharol 1 year ago
tottemo omoshiroi, arigatou.
oflodanaz 1 year ago
awesome
chimera15 1 year ago
I really enjoy this please upload more. I know its for kids in japan..but its good for students elsewhere.
zaciroth 2 years ago
Seconded!
ciaran12 1 year ago
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ManaOkamiMeiun 2 years ago
漢字大好きなら一杯漢字で書けよ！ドアホ
syangjp 2 years ago
その国独自の言語も無くしたくないからここら辺が妥協点なんだと思いますが、罵倒されるのは少々心外です。
MKTORUI 2 years ago
I started studying kanjis since last year....but...I guess you need some talent to be good at it...
I'm still making effort but It is so hard to remember.
How did you guys remember all of them?? is there any secret?
Thanks
belovedoo 2 years ago
Yes, it's hard to get the brain started. I made a breakthrough with reading manga (well, trying to decode ;-) and somehow the more frequent characters started to stick ... You need to use them to remember them.
mizugawa 2 years ago 3
"Remembering the Kanji" by James Heisig. You will never ever regret googleing /buying /using this!
ciaran12 1 year ago
I'm Japanese. Kanjis are very useful characters for me to explain complicated situations or thoughts briefly without many sentences, so I want to give my gratitude to China which invented them and allowed us to use them without the copyright fees, but sometimes I feel tired from writing them because I have to move a pencil a lots, in this sense, I want to thank our ancestors for creating Hiragana and Katakana, using them too much is an indication of the lack of education here, though.
kensan0809 2 years ago 6
@kensan0809
As for moving your pen a lot, IMHO there isn't much difference - if you used Latin alphabet instead of Kanji, you'd have to write a LOT of letters instead of one or maybe two more or less complicated characters ... I also think Kanji makes a lot more sense for a language such as Japanese or Chinese, with lots of homonyms and words consisting of only a few syllables : )
mizugawa 2 years ago 3
In terms of # of letters, as you pointed out, the length of kanji sentences might be shorter than the length of Latin alphabet sentences for the same topic, but in terms of a burden on a hand holding a pen, that from writing kanji is greater than that from writing Latin alphabet because each kanji letter consists of many vertical, horizontal and diagonal bars and you cant write a kanji with a single stroke. As to homonyms, youre quite right. You have a deep insight into kanji.
kensan0809 2 years ago
@mizugawa
Is Kanji the same for japan and china? Let's face it, you need to learn Kanji to survive in Japan, but it's so much work.
Why so many writing systems? I'd prfer that they just stick with Hiragana.
signupsigma 1 year ago
@kensan0809 Kanji came from the Chinese....you should know this, right?
zfish50 9 months ago
Adoro conhecer os kanjis!
hikarijp 2 years ago
i am chinese, but some kanji is pronounce in different way in japan, and have different meaning...having some problems.....
cssc93 2 years ago
Exactly. 手紙 means a letter in Japanese while it does toilet paper in Chinese, causing a problem in understanding each other.
matunohappa 2 years ago 9
kanji muzukashii!!
kodomox 2 years ago 2
Kanji is not Japanese, its traditional Chinese. Modern Chinese can understand Japanese Kanji if they study traditional Chinese, or at least can guess.
But Japanese cant understand simplified Chinese. Chinese people couldent like read a book in Japanese cause Hiragana and Katakana changes the sentence and stuff, but like a street sign or store name, or "push and Pull" doors they can understand. Kanji is not Japanese, its Chinese.
GuamKomudo 2 years ago
haha that was so cute :p
but yeah, kinda useless for those who havnt mastered their japanese yet =p
ilovemyprs 2 years ago
漢字很容易學^^"
多看中文電視就可以學會了~
96169QQ 2 years ago
Duuuh, who's the one to put this on youtube without subs?
Please, I don't want to be rude, but I do really wanna learn Kanji.
gokharol 2 years ago
Its a little kid show, its for little kids that can talk, but cant write yet, or can only write Hiragana and Katakana. They explain the Kanji symbols in Japanese speaking. Its not made for you, its made for little Japanese kids that cant read but understand the verbal language. If you REALLY wanna learn Kanji you need to buy a book or find a teacher,Youtube isent the best way to learn Kanji,but I bet you could.But if you get a teacher,get one the same gender,or you will learn to speak wrong lol
GuamKomudo 2 years ago 2
@GuamKomudo why? why would the gender of your teacher mater? ( is an american wanting to learn kanji)
AcuAwaGomu 2 years ago
Because, in Japanese the way girls and boys talk is often gramatically different. I dont know about all the dialects, but many Japanese teachers, mostly the girl ones. Will not really think of, maby I should teach this person to speak like a man.They just teach what they have done all their lives.Then you get these big white people going to Japan speaking like Japanese school girls and it looks really weird, and the WORST part is.The way Japanese culture is,no one will be "rude" and tell you...
GuamKomudo 2 years ago 2
@GuamKomudo
Well, it really depends, when I started learning, my teacher - a Japanese woman - would at least laugh at my Japanese at times, even if she wouldn't say why ;-) But at least I knew I said something weird. And also if you make friends with some Japanese people, especially young ones, they're more likely to tell you you speak like a girl ...
mizugawa 2 years ago
@GuamKomudo
How do you feel about having male / female grammar instead of just a neutral grammar like english?
signupsigma 1 year ago
I honestly don't care, it's not really hard. It's kind of like how girls talk a certin way and boys talk a certin way in every culture. Like in the US, girls arn't like "Hey dude... That was freakin radical bro... Freakin' sweet shit right there." and boys arn't like "omg Jenefer was like totally flirting with Billy today, like omg, I was like, wtf" Understand? =P lol
GuamKomudo 1 year ago
i would really appreciate any one who would sub this for us.
strawberrylover1 2 years ago
You might learn it faster if you learned how to pronounce it before learning how to read it
drako11211 2 years ago
could you please add captions to this....i wanna no kanji...but i dont speak japanese....
irishdude69 2 years ago
you might want to learn english a bit more... the word is "know".
MrDefaulto 2 years ago
u tryn to say something, i could speak circles around you, dont dis the poor grammer that is the text font. =P
irishdude69 2 years ago
that makes a lot of sense
japmsn 2 years ago
The Voice sounds so familiar...
Damnit, what voice actor
I think it's the same person who played Minorin from ToraDora...
This was helpfull though
NagatoLelouch 2 years ago
I learnd much from video.
machihon 2 years ago
KaWaii!!!!!!
LemonyEmilyXD 2 years ago
well she means the kanji look like what the represent in a way
silenthillmaster755 3 years ago
This video, these lessons are for Japanese, and not Chinese. That guy is wrong
cuconciojemp 3 years ago
kanji was originally imported from china and was altered little by little, but not entirely. so he's right
alarasa 3 years ago 2
yeah, it is for japanese NOW, but kanji was originally chinese and over the years korea and japan have just played around with it and made their own different but similar forms
strawberrylover1 2 years ago
Chinese???? hahahahahahaha. You are lost, man.
cuconciojemp 3 years ago
Hmm no he's right lol.
AtreyuTron 3 years ago
useless without english subtitles..
daviddanielmax 3 years ago
You only have to memorize the pronunciation if you know how to wrtie and speak Chinese~
ernie11293 3 years ago
Suki is like. Daisuki is more like love as in a favorite. You can't just say it's "like". It's more like saying "Kanji is my most favorite" or "I love Kanji" I hardly think you could use ai to describe a feeling one has for learning Kanji. =P
There are several ways to say love as there are many different kinds of love.
NozomiSky 3 years ago
Well personally, I like to think that Kanji are beautiful but I personally wish we could just use the Katakana and Hiragana syllabries. Then again Kanji is apart of their history and culture I suppose. =)
Brightstar27 3 years ago
HELL YEAH IT IS!
Just hiragana and katakana!?
Please, we need the kanjis.
mirokagogirl 3 years ago
Wow, japanese shows are so cool and creative, I love it.
filipemtx 3 years ago
Well, if you are a chinese, it wont be very hard to learn kanji.
JasonFMW 3 years ago 2
光ちゃんは可愛いです！
pumpfever 3 years ago
genial
studio1320 3 years ago
I learned all my kanji from video games and Wikipedia. Strange thing is there are a lot of kanji I recognize, but don't know how to pronounce. Good thing the Japanese have kids shows like this so that kanji doesn't come as a midlife crisis.
alHalwima 3 years ago 3
Christ this is gonna be such an insurmountable obstacle for me. I just got my head over Hiragana, trying to memorize Katakana now.
Kanji is killing me.
fadfskfsk 3 years ago
It aint that hard! Lol ive been learning japanese for three years and i know where youre coming from, it seems daunting at first. But try finding ways to associate the kanji with a shape. Like it had the kanji for fire a minute ago? You remember the shape with the kanji and then the more you read it the more it becomes second nature! Just keep at it =D
MrSamsa01 3 years ago 4
My kanji is bad i right everything in hiragana,im part japanese so im not that good at japanese.
HIM666dark6light 3 years ago
Kanji... inefficient? Uhm, no. Look up the many many reports that say its easier for the brain to associate words with symbols. You can skim through texts up to 3x faster, because your brain doesn't "read" each seperate letter, it looks at the SHAPE of the word, and kanji/hanzi take advantage of that.
Japan, Taiwan and Hong Kong host one of the world's largest litteracy rates, and don't even get me started on dyslexia/adult illitteracy in the English-speaking world.
Yokoi483 3 years ago 3
umm... thats just america - 7% of americans are illiterate, whereas only 0.02% of british people are illiterate...
NingyoAijin 3 years ago
But 9-15% of English speaking population is dyslexic, compared to 6% of Japanese children, the adult percentage is probably a lot lower.
Yokoi483 3 years ago
yeah, i know... the japanese are geniuses compared to english people, i was just comparing england and america
NingyoAijin 3 years ago
Well then let me say that Kanji comes from China. Let me also say no one cares where it came from this is a KID'S show. Not a history lesson.
jessman1999 3 years ago 2
Nobody seems to be mentioning the fact that "Japanese Kanji" came from China first. The word "Kanji" literally means Han (Chinese) characters.
Japanese is, however, a totally different language from Chinese; the relationship between the two languages is analogous to that between, say, French or English and Latin.
FissionMailure 3 years ago
Hmm, you're right, but then again, everyone who's ever started learning Kanji learns that on the first day I guess ...
mizugawa 3 years ago
漢字大嫌い
Lol it's just so hard. But I'll do it -sigh- v_v; Oh and all this about Japanese being silly, I kind of agree. Like, learning Korean writing is so so SO much easier. My friend's learning it. But all languages have strong and weak points that you have to get around. But I'd rather concentrate on speaking Japanese, and knowing the basic hiragana and katakana.
xuzumakixrasenganx 3 years ago
I have found out, and others confirm, that learning Kanji helps building vocabulary and helps improve usage (^__^ )
mizugawa 3 years ago
of course korean is much easier you only need to know where to put the character for the syllable
and if the stroke place is right.... But it's hard to distinguish the word.... for us... but you see for japanese people their language, writing method is just like how we speak, write our english... they read it per word not per letter... you know...
CAUSE I know it already!
chinotan0628 3 years ago
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is it me or is japanese a silly written language, 2000 kanji and 46 hirigana, surely the alphabet is better...
TheSophist2007 3 years ago
It's you I'm afraid ... (^__~ )
mizugawa 3 years ago
Well as a language person, I'd say that Japanese writing is illogical. Not illogical meaning 'dumb and stupid' but illogical in the sense that it is inconsistent, unike an alphabet.
But then again, with time and practice, we can writ in fine Japanese, just like any script I suppose. They do!
Brightstar27 3 years ago
well i would say as a langauge person, study more because it IS consistent, and the kanji each build on each other as well as radicals.
the alphabet, especially in english, is FAAAAAR from consistent mate, just Look at all the silent 'e's, silet 'k's, blah blah blah
x1337magex 3 years ago 6
well if u're talking phonetics, japanese is consistent more so than english.
As to the comment - in some ways japanese (chinese and korean for that matter) are 'silly' languages as I see that u mean that japanese isn't efficient. The western alphabets only has a few characters so they're
easy to learn (the vocab is the hard part) whereas japanese takes ages to learn both characters and vocab.....(to be continued)
rtablada 3 years ago
...But even so, it's only ever wrong to say the learning japanese is illogical if speaking in a non-economics-minded way. People learn these languages as it's part of their culture or personal reasons. I speak filipino, english, spanish and some japanese - all of them being different. But it's the fascination and will that makes me want to learn that language - never keeping in mind how much time i need to invest learning it or how inefficient they are....
rtablada 3 years ago
....and finally u say it's a silly language. Well as far as I know the japanese could easily say "english is a silly language - ONLY 26 characters in alphabet and illogical pronunciations"
rtablada 3 years ago 2
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Haha I have to agree with you there man. It's one of the silliest languages ever - the whole "kanji" system is really inefficient compared to latin letters. Seriously, why do they even use kanji if they have a standart basic alphabet?
omeryacobi 3 years ago
Well, there's a reason (and it's been suggested before). Japanese has one of the lowest number of syllables (the 47-some Kana letters) and a vast proportion of the words only has one, hence rather a large number of homonyms (only surpassed by Chinese in this respect I think). Kanji help a lot to understand what's written.
Also I see Japanese as a kind of sign language, so it kinda seems to fit.
mizugawa 3 years ago
I already know all this stuff since I learn kanji too. Doesn't mean it ain't silly. I learned english by reading lots of english books. It's easy to learn english that way because you can understand words just by their connection to the sentence. You can't understand kanji that way, you have to learn it from scratch. I'm also learning some german, which is way easier (and less stupid) than japanese. My mother language is in fact hebrew.
omeryacobi 3 years ago
Omery - japanese is a lot cooler than german though.
fadfskfsk 3 years ago
imo, japanese is way easier than german. once you get used to it, it's pretty easy. and kanji being hard? it takes a while to learn but it's such a help. i hate just reading in hiragana because it's impossible.
itslikereadingenglishlikethis where 'itsl', 'ik', 'ere', 'adin', 'geng', 'lis', 'hlik' and 'ethis' are all real words
NMRA 3 years ago
was the first one supposed to be fireman? because the top proportion of the kanji symbol was fire. Was the bottom proportion supposed to be man or person or boy?
JoelLara 3 years ago
The first one is 光 which means "light." The top was derived from "fire" a long long time ago. Fire looks like this: 火 and is used for "Tuesday."
KanjiKeith 3 years ago 2
ohh... (tuesday is my name... xD)
I see, that's why I kept hearing the word:"HIKARI-CHAN!!"
tuesd 3 years ago
omoshirokatta)))
AlexLomo 4 years ago
I'm more interested in knowing everything she says as opposed to the kanji. That's the real Japanese. Kanji can come later.
Wantabanana 4 years ago
er.. "shitari", rather.
hailloki 4 years ago
alright so at 3:30 she lists the three kanji and names them (kun readings). right? i see hikari, saki, ani. so why does she pronounce the first one with a shi at the beginning? it sounds like shikari.
this is probably not the place to ask. not stopping me though. someone with super nihongo puppet skills come and explain this to me!
hailloki 4 years ago
hi is pronounced aspirated so it kinda sounds like a shi
DigiManiac 4 years ago
the "shi" sound I heard is kantou ben (Kanto dialect). If you go to other places in Japan, they don't do it. But in Tokyo, Yokohama, and so forth you hear the "shi" if it starts with "hi". For example 一つ "hitotsu". I hear this a lot from the all the teachers I work with. They pronounce it as "shitotsu", but it's very different from しとつ. It's a little more subtle. Anyways, hope I've been of some help.
CapoeiraLifestyle 4 years ago
indeed! thanks!
hailloki 4 years ago
Because the Japanese ひ is not exactly the same as what you think. You are hearing a lot of air that makes you think it sounds like shikari.
KanjiKeith 3 years ago
ah... I wish I could understand this more. I'm horrible, I can only understand a couple of words like "imasu" and things like that. :'(
HaoRhe 4 years ago
Well, if you want to understand more, try searching for "Japanese Basic" here on YouTube (there's much higher quality on Stage6) - it's an excellent, even if a bit dated course that will really get you going :)
mizugawa 4 years ago
You mean the one with Mary Althouse?
HaoRhe 4 years ago
Yes, that's the one. It's actually quite good, explains everything in a very understandable way, and if you can bear with Mary Althouse, you get rewarded with the beautiful Umino Tae in the second season ;)
mizugawa 4 years ago
Oh yes, its awesome! I love Sugihara-san lol... I've never seen the second season though.
HaoRhe 4 years ago
you should go on ebay.
i just bought the second season there!
halfbloodprincess10 4 years ago
thank you
HaoRhe 4 years ago
Try Stage6, channel called Nihongo ;-)
mizugawa 4 years ago
could you send me a link please? I can't find it.
HaoRhe 4 years ago
stage6 (dot) divx (dot) com (slash) Nihongo
mizugawa 4 years ago
there's not mucvh to translate, really...
she's just spazzing out about the kanji & how to remember them xD
tinyke3 4 years ago
@HaoRhe Sugiharasan is realy cute in situations when she is mean to Kayhosan :)
arborinfelix 11 months ago
wow, I never knew hikari was related to hi :P
teh above part of hikari actually looks like hi... and hi is in hikari... so I guess I should've known :P
meiun666 5 years ago
Wow I actually understood most of that even with my little knowledage of Kanji and Hiragana.
=D
Akamu 5 years ago