Learn Japanese: Hiragana Symbols

[NatsumiNoMiko]

Ah Japanese class

[Annie270393]

amazing!



[simsvideoshahaha]

Hard core techno right here XD

[IScorchUKI]

ありがとございます！

[TohruTwinkie]

That moment when your sensei plays it in class then everyone starts acting high from learning.

[Thecheeseyworld]

Awesome!!!!!!!!! (^_^)

[jbobacon18]

<3 i love this version the one that i herd was way to fast for anyone in my class

[MissAliciaDark]

You guys made it soo easy!! Am already on Kanji!! LOVE your site!! Promote it to anyone who wants to learn Japanese real quick!

[Iwatchtrek]

Repeating the alphabet helps, but nothing works like actually writing the hiragana down and repeating it.

[missxin92]

nice...i love this...

[MrWolfClawz]

so catchy.

Stuck in my head :)

[LaffOutLoud567]

I LOVE THIS SONG

[missmolly500]

We watched this in my Japanese class!!!

[oksana024]

@missmolly500 me too ! xD

[blahblahblah1377]

I'm in Japanese class and so far i know the symbols in the first 30 seconds, but that's not bad, we just started school

[joanjett4eva]

i listened to this song in my japanese class today. BEST. SONG EVER. すごい！

[TheGuyFromChicago]

This song has been so helpful for my learning the hiragana! And it's so catchy! I find myself singing it.

かか きき くく けけ ここ!

かきくけこ! かきくけこ!

[MissHeSaidSheSaid]

bahaha we do this in my Japanese clss; and evryone like screams it

[butterflyblizzard123]

We listened to this in school and it sounded pretty cool so I just had to go to their site and listen to it and then come here lol. :)

[icommand]

the music rocks..

[MissHeSaidSheSaid]

HA ! I LOVE THIS SONG MY FRIENDS AND I ARE OBSESSED WITH IT !!

[lildevilxxangel]

THIS ISS SOO CATCHY <3 I LOVE IT!

[pudaddy]

I'd never stop listening to this.

[AmuletLoveAngel]

*starts dancing*

[Nicro327]

Katakana :/

[TheLilUchiha]

I like the katakana song better :P I heard it in Japanese class and now I can't get it out of my head

[gemerl20]

@GenkiJapanNet Too late for me... I've already began remembering Hiragana, so I figure I should finish before moving on to Katakana.

[Nicro327]

Oh, and is there a symbol for "po"?

[Nicro327]

I feel so accomplished XD I was able to read the hiragana at the beginning of the video, then I realized that the "Hiragana" at the top of it was a sub >.<

[EJClubPenguin]

LOVE THIS SONG!

[TheSpartaner1]

The voice is cute :-)

[kalte333]

This is possibly the most fun I've had watching YouTube in a long time. I want to stop watching this video but I CAN'T! It's soooo cute!

[deezacharo]

i like when she says Genki Japan dot net.. cute

[Katleenfarine]

I like the katana song better!! it's the same type than the numbers 1-20 song! ...thoses song stay stuck in my head really better!! : ) thanks a lot for all that help!!! :D

[MsDiReNgReY]

ohh i wish i had discovered genki japann earlier, i learned it with a book, it would be easier that way lol

[EmoChildOfThaNight]

I find Hiragana easier to remember than Katakana. I remembered all the Hiragana but only about 6 Katakana. xD

[Brookles99]

Great video!! My brother memorized this in like 2-3 days!!! and he's 4

[ginseiookami]

=) i think the hiragana song is best. i like your videos.

[LegendaryGoldDragon]

You know if (Rosetastone) used upbeat music like that younger people would be more apt to spend hours using it ^_^ Still wouldn't compensate for it's outragous price though T_T

[dannyvreter]

this is very goed keep up the good work

[SilenceBroken23]

This is the best! Thank you so much.

[IgnizFury]

Hahahaha...

Very interesting way to learn Japanese!

[KaminariKryptonite]

i LOVE your vids!! they make learning japanese WAY funner and easier!! ur songs are stuck in my head all day ^.^ Arigato!! :) (sorry if its spelled wrong).

[TheNotoriousTOM]

Wow this japanese version of the YMCA rocks! haha No but really this helped me with some of the pronunciation because I have been learning to write Hiragana rather than speak and I was over exagerating some of the words in my head most likely because the only time I hear them is inbetween a tense dual on some anime or something haha

Thankyou.

[AlternativeeSuicidee]

Im learning Japanese and last year my teacher ALWAYS played videos from GenkiJapan .I always sang this song to piss off my friend and it was GREAT !.! I still sing it and It helped me to get ahead of the rest of the class last year ... ya kno it gave me a boost so I could start on something else that we hadn't started on in class .Thanks to this Im the top student in my class :D

[Lolismad]

phew, glad I didn't choose japanese classes next year too, hiragana was difficult enough though katakana was pretty easy but then next year it's kanji...

[BeybladerMFBfan]

Nice..i love it..

[AphroditeEros33]

What a fun way to learn Japanese Hiragana / ひらがな!!*^-^* It's quite rhythmical & catchy!! Ganbare*^-^*

[EvilChocoKitty]

....wow I learned this faster than I have my Spanish classes that I've been taking my whole school year...sad.

[inlinekidk2]

@EvilChocoKitty So true!! Same goes for me.

[yushe101]

XD it's so catchy XD

[TheFirepaw]

is there anywhere I could download your videos to my Ipod, they're great

[GenkiJapanNet]

@TheFirepaw Yep, they're on the Genki Japan site, head over to the Hiragana Song page!

[TheFirepaw]

@GenkiJapanNet oh OK thankyou :3

[felixthemaster1]

should i learn katakana first or hirigana? please answer :)

[GenkiJapanNet]

Katakana first, that way you'll be able to understand a lot of the words you read. Then hiragana. But they both only take an afternoon or so to learn to read, have a look at the games on the Genki Japan Net site.

Then you start the kanji! That's the bit that takes years - but fun though!

[amberlovely1]

@GenkiJapanNet I already know the basic Hiragana. :) I'll definitely be checking out your site for the Katakana.

[wainssu1]

subarashii!!!!!!

that's an exellant revision for my hiragana!

lol thank you

[paulaloverani]

sugoi^^ arigatou^^

[4teensanime]

nice beat!!!!

[Rukia170]

um can someone tell me what hiragana is, idont get it......... =l

[visentin4]

Japanese uses three alphabets. One of them is Hiragana.

[bulgogi123ify]

the phonetic alphabet for japanese used for native japanese words.

[thedoomdragon]

to: Rukia170

hiragana is a japanese writing style where you write the literal characters for the word, speak n' spell lol

example:

honto = ho character + n character + to character = really

i would put the actual characters in here too, but i cant type in japanese unfortunately

P.S.

im sorry if you already found the information. i do realize im a month late

[TiggerKool1155]

ONE of the JAPANESE writing systems

[GGames2009]

HIragana are japanese characters. 43 in total.

[PrycePerco]

Hiragana is one of the Japanese alphabets. There's Hiragana, Katakana (used for foreign words I believe), and Kanji.

[WurStGoESCrAzY]

It's the Japanese syllable alphabet. Every Japanese word can be written in Hiragana because it covers all sounds the Japanese language knows, which means that Japanese consists of about 70 syllables. Hiragana can be e.g. for grammatical reasons (as particles, at the end of a verb, etc.) or as furigana, which are written above a kanji to show its reading. Hope I could help you a bit. Just ask if there are more questions

[felixthemaster1]

which one should i learn first?

[loveanime101]

Kind of wondering, for the Kanji of "Hiragana" I noticed that the 'Ga' syllable is not mentioned in the song. Am I supposed to alter the 'ka' kanji or do something wiasdjkfhalsdjfhlshdgfladhfg..­.

ARG I'm so confused!

[factor828]

@loveanime101 yup you must add the symbol to "ka" (か) in order to make "ga" (が) and the same for き (ぎ) く (ぐ) and so on

[KittyLuvYou]

@loveanime101 you have to add those 2 line things. I think they are called nigori it looks like: が

[Al1HopeisGone]

No wonder all of the Japanese/Chinese/Korean people I know have such good handwriting in English. It takes some artistic talent to write these...

[ShroudedPrincess]

My six year year old likes singing this on the bus!

[PonyADig]

I can't help but think I'm learning the alphabet in a night club. XD

[lawsoncomedy1]

like the beat and so AWSOME!!!!!!

[ve8729]

Very nicely done!

[Heled1r]

I have a really hard time to pronounce the "R" sound. I live in germany and neither the "R" nor the "L"-sound sounds right... Is there a good way to excersise it?

[Disneychanne1]

the r sound is like a mix between an r and l sound, although i dont know exactly what this sounds like in germany

[shipoopiman00]

what is hiragana used for?

is it for spelling words that don't have a symbol of their own?

[EphemeralAbode]

I like the Katakana version better. It's slower for real beginners and easier to hear how the letters are pronounced, but both are good

[kzundiverus]

Ma Ma Mi Mi Mu Mu Me Me Mo Mo! :3

[TheDrunkenFairy]

but do these symbols MEAN anything???????

[jessenmadeus]

this thing is awsome my teacher at school made it and my people in my class like the beat and words and like the alphebet so i like it too

[1coolgirl111]

umm excuse me i really do not want to sound dumb but...is this the letters themselves or is this the sounds of the letters?

by the way this is a great video my bro loves to dance to it and i love to sing to it and we have both learned alot from this video thank you so much

[GenkiJapanNet]

It's both. In Japanese the names and sounds are the same.

[TheJapanChannelDcom]

Cute :-D

Interesting idea  :-D

[Heavymetalisforlife]

kawaiii!

[kzundiverus]

--__--

[Gyzome]

@Heavymetalisforlife : doesn't that transate to "so cute!" ?

[motokoai]

i really like the songs. i learned the numbers last year by listening to the numbers song.

now i'm in a japanese class and i couldn't learn the hiragana without these songs. :D

i like the katakana song better than hiragana though because its slower and easier to see/remember symbol. :)

[sigge951]

just started, but i stil dont understand how japanese can understand every letter? a word for a letter? is there a system?

[ironwolfosiris]

Anyone can learn anything if they grew up with it or was passionate enough to do it.

Practice makes perfect.

[saminanutshell]

sigge951: the hiragana alphabet consists of 46 (? i think) symbols. each symbol is pronounced the way it is typed on a computer (eg. に　is called ni, and typed that way too. it is said 'ni' too.)

[amoxtlacatl]

1)

sigge951,

Although my knowledge of Japanese is negligible, THERE IS a system.

My very poor understanding is this:

a) Kanji (Chinese characters) are used to convey the main words - what you and would call nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs...

Like in Chinese, words can be composed of one or more Kanji.

Unlike in Chinese, each individual Kanji can represent more than one syllable.

[amoxtlacatl]

2)

b) Hiragana (curvier, simpler characters) are a syllabary: each "letter" is really a syllable.

As you know, the Japanese borrowed the Kanji from the Chinese, but since Chinese and Japanese are very different, unrelated languages, there are meanings and word parts that Chinese characters cannot represent.

Hiragana does that: represent word endings and particles that fine-tune the meaning of the Kanji they accompany.

It is used also for onomatopoeia: "splash!" "boom!" "argh!".

[amoxtlacatl]

3)

c) And finally, you have Katakana.

Katakana (as simple as Hiragana, but somewhat "edgier") is the final piece in the puzzle..

Like Hiragana, it is a syllabary. Unlike Hiragana, it is used to write the sound of NON-Japanese words - i.e. foreign words.

In practice, this means words from languages other than Chinese or Korean, but there could be words from Korean written in Katakana that I am not aware of.

Please bear in mind my knowledge is defective and these are gross generalizations.

[DarkEvilMuffinEater]

XD Kawaii!!!!!!!!!! lol it sooo kawaii

[Xanton1134]

わたしはにほんごのがくせいです。

[delin5]

Awesome!

[TNTBlowinUp]

does that mean you are a japanese student? ]

Because if it does and i can read that, then that's super awesome!

[Kiralover2]

waw thanks is the japanese always write by hiragana or there is another one?

[intellaricovision]

No, there is also a Katakana alphabet that has the same sounds as this one except it uses different symbols/characters.

[Cyanide124]

its so kawaii~ i'm so faving :D

[umbreonshade]

これかわいい！

This is cute!

[moner65]

man! love this! ur a genius! srsly!

[Narutokunie5]

LOL i have my japanese coach for the DS and this is jst what im learning. altho im not in da Ys yet. haha. nd i can do simple sentences. but this helped me ALOT! haha thx!

[CokeAndTaffy14]

lucky i been wanting that game for a long time, i just dont feel like saving, where did you get yours

[jessenmadeus]

you i dont have a game 4 that and its not a game

[GenkiJapanNet]

The kana games are on the Genki Japan Net site!

[kikyoC]

I like this song and it does help me pronounce better.

[rphinks]

lol. Im not trashing japanese or americans. But I bet you could play this in an american club and they would go nuts.

[gorion79]

This helped a lot for me to study for the hiragana quiz I had the next day, thanks, and is this you singing this, you do an excellent job, I love the last 3 letters, Waa Woah, MMM xD, so fun.

[TwilightF]

I want to say "thanks" to the creator of this vid! I'm struggling with hiragana but this vid helps me to keep the hiraganas in mind (and learn their order, too).

[IlyssaLuvsYou]

XD I Luv ur vids lol!

i found ur site like maybe a week ago but i didn't know u (or yall) had a youtube XD so osm! anyway thnx for posting this!!!

[amitnarayankar]

we have same vowels and consonants in indian languages.............its so similar.......almost till the last bit.

[Ellanrinn]

japanese is actually kinda easy i love my japanese class its so much fun

[Shavarnarak]

I never quite understood the logic behind the Japanese writing system. It looks neat and exotic, but it has to be the least efficient one on the planet. I mean...two big syllabaries for the same set of sounds, PLUS Chinese characters, PLUS sometimes using stuff from our alphabet as well?

I suppose it's a cultural thing, but wouldn't it be more efficient just to use Hiragana? And nothing else? I mean... an entirely seperate syllabary that only seems to be used for loanwords strikes me as silly.

[GenkiJapanNet]

Why do we have abcdefg and ABCDEFG? Surely just as silly? ; )

You need the kanji for the meaning though, there are so many words that sound the same that without the kanji you'd never have any idea what the other person was talking about. Jishin any body? 自信　or 地震?

[Yakeyglee]

but wouldn't that same confusion arise from the spoken language?

[CaligulaBoots]

You can think of katakana as like our italics, used for emphasis, if that helps lessen the burden a bit.

[vitaanie]

i love this song ! ^^

[TotallyJustAwesome]

This is what we had to memorize in class. Too bad I didn't know this song when I was studying!

[QuePedoLocas]

I'm learning Japanese and my teaacher

is like the video

she always make us to repeat all the alphabet xD

I love it ♥

[IDrinkAl0ne]

My neighbors who live above my apartment complex are banging on my ceiling because i have this song turned up on my 5.1 Stereo system to Full Blast!

[homemadejam2006]

Fantastic!

I've just about learnt all of these now, but I was unsure of how to pronounce them. Thanks for the great song!

[themightydumbass]

i'm head banging to this

[13chibi13]

@0:14 - 0:15 - is it pronounced chi? or ki?

[KAKASAN]

ki: き

chi: ち

So it's pronounced 'ki'.

[LovableLeo1]

I LOVE this song!

[EmoMoodSwings]

:D Teehee I love this video so far Im just learning hiragana and so far I have remembered A E I O U YA YO YU and N xD

[blue2kid3]

what is the most common righting style in japan

[Phil2171]

Hiragana, by quite a bit.

[x3Nar]

I bet if I watch this another 4 times I'll get it~~~

It's catchy. XD

[kokeshiwa]

Great!!! ひらがな rhythm.

[AmiAmiAmix]

x.x; It is stuck in my head.

[kyosohmarox1212]

i already learned the hiragana and katakana symbols but i cant remember them this helped

[ocergnairb]

I need one for Katakana too :D

Thanks~

[GenkiJapanNet]

It's on the Genki Japan site!

[asaosake]

にゃ、にゅ、にょ nya,nyu,nyo

ひゃ、ひゅ、ふお hya,hyu,hyo

みゃ、みゅ、みょ mya,myu,myo

りゃ、りゅ、りょ rya,ryu,ryo

ぎゃ、ぎゅ、ぎょ gya,gyu,gyo

じゃ、じゅ、じょ ja,ju,jo

びゃ、びゅ、びょ bya,byu,byo

ぴょ、ぴゅ、ぴゃ pya,pyu,pyo

Hopefully I helped u gain one step further to your Japanese studies. I suggest you to get a teacher to learning Japanese better. With more material.

[phantompanda14]

when i hear the ones that begin with "r" like ra ri ru re ro the "r" sounds like "L"

[GenkiJapanNet]

It's sort of in between

[pumpkinheadjrb]

i guess u actually have to have an actual class cuz i still have a whole bunch of questions. maybe u guys can answer them: 1-Can u combine alphabet symbols to make a word from different alphabets? 2-how many symbols total are there? 3-r there any techniques to help remember the sound to the look of the symbol? 4 i have a few others but i dont think too many people r going to look or bother with these questions. I am probably going to buy rosetta stone

[TravisPacific]

omg im having a tough time !

[animenum1]

awesome

[gazettErock4ever]

i didnt kno learning japanese can be expressed by song lol  i love it

[Gizmorific]

Lol, I absolutely LOVE these videos...

<3!

[magmadragon92]

Tanks for this learn Japanese song's Arigatou

[Esaink]

this is the hiragana song o.o

[SpongebobL0VER]

Arigatou Gozaimasu!

Japanese is awesome! I am so willing to learn it!

:)

[TribalWarsTube]

exams? where would you take a hiragana lessons

[Madscientist115]

I finally memorized this after four days. I've been having fun writing stuff down. Hiragana down, Katakana next.

[gidoo123]

This is so catchy and easy to learn. Thanks!

[benton202]

omg its annoyin!!!, again again again lol, love dis one

[RikuElement]

I personally like Hiragana song than Katakana song, but they both have their ups and downs, for example, the Katakana makes it a little easier to learn because it is slower, but it is also more boring and sticks less to you brain!

[xxxsankxxx]

ok there r three kinds of abcd in japanese.Hiragana,katagana and another i forgot

[packetpirate]

The three alphabets are Hiragana, Katakana and Kanji. There's also Furigana which is when Hiragana is placed under Kanji so someone who doesn't know the Kanji can read it.

[LudmilaB]

This is cool!!! SUKI!!

[inubaby67]

*does worm while singing the song* lol its super cool to learn japanese...with some intersting dance music!!

[edithsakura]

at 00:42 it looks like a pretzel

[sulemgothica]

Yeah!! i will remember that like a pretzel hehehe

[sakurafan06]

so that is the abcs in japanese?! omg am so going to write this down!

[mys3LfNi]

lol it freaks me up! super dance music to learn japanese...wow

[xastrickxplusx]

i already can read all of them xD im just really slow....

[OtakuDeju]

Nihongo wakatemasu

[Alviss999]

japaneseis the coolest!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[DaQba]

I think Katakana are more easier to write xD

[JochenSteig]

Yes I experienced that.

[MusicLoverGurl]

I kinda wish you had mentioned tenten and maru sounds, too, because I tend to forget those most, but otherwise, this is really cool and really good.

[mugiwarachin]

is it just me or ther is no letter "R" ???

ther supposed to be "R" right? 0.o

[justjoshin2]

Yeah, it starts at 1:16. It just sounds like an L sound

[DJBigz1988]

i watch this everyday at least once or twice just to keep my studying fresh. i know most of the hiragana now (today is my 4th day of studying) i know 31 of the 48.still learning the katakana and kanji though. those are the hard ones. imo

[jiaoyinyang]

I'm just curious....

if somebody were to study japanese...

then all he has to know is katakana, hiragana and have a japanese dictionary, right?

is learning both Katakana and Hiragana a must?

or can i just learn Katakana alone and it would still be alright?

[humanbeansprout]

Both are necessary,

because Hiragana and Katakana is separated on expression.

Furthermore, the minimum kanji will be necessary.

Do its best.

[DJBigz1988]

im teaching my self japanese out of the Colloquial Japanese: The Complete Course book im on my second day and Ive learned 16 hiragana and 5 kanji and 3 katakana so far. i always get sa and chi mixed up @_@. cos they look exactly the same just flipped.

[44Tiburonsito44]

*Starts Breakdancing*

[sakatis]

i wish i knew fluent japanese :(