I'm a college freshmen and this sounds perfect for me. I had an East Asian Studies class in high school and had to write each one about 20 times. It didn't help at all. the only ones I could remember were a o ki and no. This sound more fun and easier.
Nice way. But I prefer my own way (writing each stroke like a-i-u-e-o about two hundred times). Its long and boring but you remember it pretty well (for me). <3
You just told me what I was thinking of doing. The way you explain it just makes me want to do it more, cause it sounds fun to do it like this. Well done, good video and keep inspiring people :) Oh! Before I forget! The 'i've done it in 3 days', it works so well to set a goal! Yay! ty :)
@LilDrake Awesome! Great minds think alike or something like that ahaha I'm glad it inspired you, and got you to set some goals ;3 best of luck with learning :D!
Thanks! i'm taking a japanese course in college and the hiragana is so hard to learn! it's like learning the abc's with a memory span of 3 seconds... i can't do the write over and over just like you and i had just thought about translating romaji to hiragana from song lyrics when i had the idea to look up a second opinion. Thanks!!! i'll be sure to subscribe and check back with your vids!
@katgurl504 It is pretty difficult to do when keeping up with a class DX I knew it when I took my Japanese course in University, but at the pace they went, if I hadn't know it, it woulda been really tough. I hope this will help you learn! Good luck :D
@TheGogeta1982 I made a video talking about correct charts where I wrote one up and I think I linked on there :) You should be able to find it in my kana videos playlist
@NINJATAKAI lol just skip the word then XD;; its just for hiragana practice so it doesn't even matter if the lyrics are perfectly accurate or not right :)?
@NINJATAKAI well if it was in romaji then they might as well leave it in english i guess, since romaji isnt even a japanese alphabet and im sure kyo attempted to say it in whatever language its from LMAO
@NINJATAKAI Foreign words get translated into Japanese through use of katakana + a Japanese accent haha so baiser would be baisa- and ryuk would be ryuku I believe. That's the death note guy right? Don't they pronounce his name like ryuku anyway :3?
@SuperKashiyuka ahaha yeahhhh i can't learn that way. Too much additional information for me DX Our teacher attempted to integrate that method into teaching us in University and I was just like wtfffffffffff
@KaxyzKoi arigatou gozaimasu~ boku ganbarimasu~! XD
and what did you mean by the opposite of otome games? hiragana is the more squiggly ones and the katagana is the stoke ones right? katagana is used mostly in english names or words (e.g 'エース' as in 'Ace', and it is pronounced as Esu). ^_^
oh haha no i know the difference between hiragana and katakana, its just you wrote katana which means a sword, but otome games arent really fighting are they? I made a little joke about it BUT YOU DIDNT GET IT SO IM NOT FUNNY LMAO 8D;;;
@endauthority aw haha yeah it was hard for them to stick in my head for a long time too, i have a legendarily bad memory DX but if you keep using them and reading them everyday youll remember :)
This is really helpful. Thanks alot of posting this :) By any chance, Are you able to write hiragana fast ? Im referring to when you want to write a sentence or just a regular word in japanese. That's one of the areas in writing i have trouble with.
@LadyTomiko I'm glad you found it helpful! I am able to write Hiragana fairly fast, though not as fast as I can write in English but I don't stutter much. I have been using hiragana for 5 years now though so don't worry, you'll get better!
Thank you, I have a test soon with japanese where i have to flash card all of the hiragana in 20 seconds. I hope I can do it but I'm having a heart attack cus I can't get under 30
@danieeel31 Hey! The same tips I have for the 'easier' characters apply for the 'hard' ones too ^^;; everyone has trouble with different ones, some people find nu ne and mu easy and i ko and ku difficult, so you'll just have to be diligent! In actuality no character is really more difficult than the other in terms of stroke order and such :( Keep working hard and soon none of them will seem more complex ;3
I really Need help on my hirigana because all my japanese test i get like lower scores and right now i have a F in Japanese 1A I need all the help i can get!
@KaxyzKoi Well my F is a 14.3 % and its no good because i cheated :'( and he graded all my quizzes to 0 ! and i seriously need good tips on how to remember hirigana... :(
@sana553 You cheated and didnt even get a 15%??? LOL Cheating isn't going to work for you then apparently XD; Well my videos are here for you, all of my tips on how to learn and memorize hiragana are uploaded on my channel so besides that in regards to learning the alphabets I have no more sage advice :c'
@TheEpicOtaku They're not on a different chart really, theyre just extensions of the already existing characters. Best of luck learning :) If you have any other questions feel free to mail me, but I would hope that youd watch my videos first to find your answers.
@TheJstaShow It is, if you don't know the kanji. So it's appropriate for you to write everything in hiragana until you know kanji :) Young kids in Japan write only in hiragana, they even use hiragana to replace katakana until they've learned that as well.
I literally, no joke, 5 minutes before seeing this video, did this. No idea you did a video on this method whatsoever. O.O The song I did was Kakusei Heroism by An Cafe! :D Coincidence no? :P And I'm becoming much better at Hiragana, just a few characters that I just keep forgetting, even though I went over them 3 seconds before X_X
@LunaXenoLovegood great minds think alike?? 8D I love that song! I had the same problem haha i would forget the same 5 over and over, but you'll get them :D Maybe take a break for a few days and then come back to it~
thanks, this seems like it would be good. ive been trying to learn hiragana for just over a week and i can only seem to remember as far as と then get lost. so im going to try and start it like this right now. hope it works for me as good as it appears to have for everyone else :)
@cliffdonegal I hope it does! Having fun with learning really helps you to absorb the material and music is always fun :D You'll get it if you keep trying, it does take some time :) Best of luck!
Ok cool thanks. Iv been looking for a right book to learn but can't pick one lol there so many. I know romanji because it sounds like Spanish to me because I'm Hispanic and some words are simular
@GrawKing I made a video on the books I use before :) so you can find it if you want~ Romanji..isnt really something to know? Its not like a japanese alphabet or anything, its just what people use to read before they can read hiragana :) so you should start learning hiragana asap!
@GrawKing No problem :D I'd recommend getting books instead! Just one for Kanji and maybe a japanese/english dictionary and then looking around on youtube and the net :D And if you have any questions you can always message me :)
Yeah that too lol I love there culture. The only thing I can't eat is sea food :( I'm allergic lol but Japanese is what I want to learn. Rosetta stone is expensive lol
@GrawKing aw yeah i dont like seafood either! So I'm sure its not a problem :) I've heard of a few jrock guys who hate raw fish and theyre japanese hahaha. Rosetta stone...is probably unnecessary, its better to learn by immersing yourself :)
@GrawKing you can get rosetta stone japanese for free torrent of course but free but word of advice rosetta stone isnt good its bad poor explanations currently learning it straight from a book called Genki I - Integrated Elementary Japanese Course comes with workbook again you can get it for free as a torrent or pdf
@GrawKing haha well, you should want to learn japanese because of the language and the culture as well :) Branch out from anime and jpop as youre learning XD
Hi, i'm just starting to learn Japanese and I found your video to be pretty helpful. I just finished memorizing hiragana using flashcards of the characters (that I printed out and wrote the pronunciation on the back), and that worked out really well for me. Did flashcards ever work for you? Also, I'm going to move on to katakana right after this, but where should I go from there? Grammar? Thank you!!!
@xCatherineRose Hey :) Glad you found it helpful! Um no I never tried flashcards~ This video is the second method I ever tried (the first being the dictation i showed) and after this i didnt need to try anything else :F but good thing it worked for you~ After learning hiragana you're ready to dive into the language so! I have videos on basic grammar, which is good to start learning, and start building a vocabulary :D
@RDMusicChannel aw thanks :) I know I'm not ugly haha, and I checked out his channel and really...he has no right to call anyone else ugly XD;; I can understand your english fine :D! And I hope these tips work for you! :)
I actually memorized several JPop songs without even know what most of it meant. So, like, I can sing them as if it's my first language. And I'm pretty beginner on Japanese.
I've memorized:
Sakura Mankai by Morning Musume
Kaze wo Sagashite by Mari Yaguchi & Straw Hat
Hajimari No Kaze by Ayaka Hirahara
And several by Utada Hikaru. I LOVE Jpop.
btw, I've thought about doing this before. But I never got around to it.
@KaxyzKoi The Heisig method is from a series of books by a guy called Mr Heisig and he breaks the kana/kanji into component parts, and makes up a story for each one so you can remember it. For example the hiragana character shi, he says, looks like a fish hook so to remember it you can think of yourself fishing with a sheep instead of a worm (because sheep sounds like shi).
@cantsothis oh okay yeah I know that method. My sensei in class showed it to us XD It doesnt work for me at all ^^ but if it works for you, then good luck :D
@cantsothis@cantsothis oh okay yeah I know that method. My sensei in class showed it to us XD It doesnt work for me at all ^^ but if it works for you, then good luck :D
@mrbob435 I'm sorry! This video is already more than a year old and I've stopped doing them, however I hope my other videos will still be of help to you :)
Awesome tip! This really puts it into practical use. While the repetition of notation may help with the formation of characters, seeing them in use with words in actual sentences is a great exercise. Thanks for sharing this tip. I just did it for the first time, and now Hiragana doesn't seem to be such a daunting task to learn anymore. Took me two hours to write out a song. Which seems a bit slow, but other the next couple of days, I'll keep practising and remembering the characters shapes ありがとう
Thank you so very much. I am learning Japanese for the same reason as you are and I happen to really like Yui. This is very helpful because I did the same repetition thing and I didn't remember either.
Edit: I tried this method today, it's incredibly fun! I've written out one line of lyrics and I feel like a boss, cause you look at it and think...damn, I wrote that, I FEEL POWERFUL! And it's really helping me knack those last few hiragana in no time at all! You videos are extremely helpful :P!
Very good way to learn it. I've got a laminate hiragana & katakana sheet which I can write over in highlighter then rub out, it's been difficult to learn this way though. I'm on my 2nd week today and i've still got about 10 hiragana left to learn, it's pretty slow progress in my opinion. But when i move on to my katakana sheet I will try your song method as i listen to music a lot when i work. Thanks for this interesting way to learn. I'll try your method and see if it works faster :)
Wow, this is a great method of learning Hiragana! When I look at hiragana, the pronunciation comes quick to my mind! I definitely recommend this to other people! Keep up the good vids. : )
I have my hiragana test tomorrow in my Japanese class and I was able to read the characters better than i was able to write them. Learning chart style also helped. I mostly used dictation to help me become familiar with the character.
Also flash cards. I cannot stress that enough. That is basically all I did this week ^^
@deadlymassacre1 In every introduction I saw Konnichiwa minasan, Kaxyzdesu~ With a Japanese accent, Kaxyz is like Kakushisu. Also Konnichiwa こんにちは <- Is spelt like that :) For some reason we use ha instead of wa to make the wa sound on the end of this word~
Can you write out every romaji word with just hiragana? or did you need the other syllabary as well? because i get the impression this would be a fantastic way to start memorising the characters, but you might be limited with what you can spell out with hiragana. then again i may be wrong, i have no idea about katakana or kanji
@ProMarkChris You can write any Japanese word with Hiragana. Katakana is an alternate alphabet (In this case its like uppercase and lowercase letters, theyre the same just have different uses) and Kanji are used to replace hiragana once youve learned the proper kanji. So you can write EVERYTHING with hiragana :D!
@KaxyzKoi That is fantastic news. One more question - how long did it take you to be able to read hiragana at fairly decent pace? remembering it isn't so much the problem as being able to read it without pausing in between each character. i suppose the quicker recall comes with practice~
@ProMarkChris yes of course, it does take awhile to read confidently! Im not qutie sure, though im sure it was a few months. Of course it will be different for everyone depending on how often you read :) Best of luck with everything :D
Are you fluent in Japanese? I'm trying to learn Hiragana.......but it's hard!! Way different from what I'm used to...Although I bet it's easier than Kanji...I want to learn Japanese too.....the language sounds so pretty.
i learned japanese words memorising and writing writing writing and writing of course the pronunciation with anime and japanese music XD i too write song of japanese singers, now the only i have to do is memorise the millions of japanese words XD because i can speak japanese but is the basic,the problem for me is the time i speak spanish and i have to study english too is is 3 languages *.*''XD
@narutoandsasuke125 ah yeah, 3 languages at once is tough XD I took french but i dropped it to keep going with Japanese. 7 years of french was enough :P best of luck with all that ;p
Using music us an AMAZING idea!!! I never thought to use it, even though I listen to a lot of Japanese songs! Thanks for sharing that idea; I'm gonna try it now ;)
One more thing!You didn't use any spaces at the song you wrote right?why? Is it not allowes when using hiragana?Because I want tpo practice with the write-the-song-you-like-from-romaji-to-hiragana method but since my japanese are those of a beginner how do I know when a word is seperated?
@Catgirlms1994 Typically in Japanese words are not written seperately (that is why kanji can sometimes be very helpful) But for the sake of learning the letters you do not need to worry about what words youre writing or what they mean, just concentrate on the letters :)
I have to say I loved your video .The methods you are suggesting are so great . I love japanese music so I 'll try this! please continue! Do you know any good learn japanese site? (if it's free even better). I,m greek so It's more difficult but I'll give my best! thank you!
why the hell did i not think of your song idea??
WildKyoto 2 days ago
@WildKyoto I dont know! haha
KaxyzKoi 2 days ago
I'm a college freshmen and this sounds perfect for me. I had an East Asian Studies class in high school and had to write each one about 20 times. It didn't help at all. the only ones I could remember were a o ki and no. This sound more fun and easier.
SupaLuv17 4 days ago
@SupaLuv17 I hope it works for you! I have a lot of friends in east asian studies at my school :) Are you enjoying it?
KaxyzKoi 4 days ago
Nice way. But I prefer my own way (writing each stroke like a-i-u-e-o about two hundred times). Its long and boring but you remember it pretty well (for me). <3
jpnmusic2 5 days ago
@jpnmusic2 haha yeah like I said in the video that shit did not work for me XD but I know there are people who it does work for~ Whatever works :D
KaxyzKoi 5 days ago
You just told me what I was thinking of doing. The way you explain it just makes me want to do it more, cause it sounds fun to do it like this. Well done, good video and keep inspiring people :) Oh! Before I forget! The 'i've done it in 3 days', it works so well to set a goal! Yay! ty :)
LilDrake 3 weeks ago
@LilDrake Awesome! Great minds think alike or something like that ahaha I'm glad it inspired you, and got you to set some goals ;3 best of luck with learning :D!
KaxyzKoi 3 weeks ago
Thanks! i'm taking a japanese course in college and the hiragana is so hard to learn! it's like learning the abc's with a memory span of 3 seconds... i can't do the write over and over just like you and i had just thought about translating romaji to hiragana from song lyrics when i had the idea to look up a second opinion. Thanks!!! i'll be sure to subscribe and check back with your vids!
katgurl504 3 weeks ago
@katgurl504 It is pretty difficult to do when keeping up with a class DX I knew it when I took my Japanese course in University, but at the pace they went, if I hadn't know it, it woulda been really tough. I hope this will help you learn! Good luck :D
KaxyzKoi 3 weeks ago
You said that you got your Hiragana chart from google.can you post a link because i cant find any good reliable ones
TheGogeta1982 1 month ago
@TheGogeta1982 I made a video talking about correct charts where I wrote one up and I think I linked on there :) You should be able to find it in my kana videos playlist
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
This really helped me thank you so much
TheGogeta1982 1 month ago
It's an interesting method for Hiragana... I'll give it a shot, especially since I have a lot of Japanese music I like. ^.^
autanimous 1 month ago
@autanimous Awesome :D liking music is always a good way to get into a language I think :) Best of luck with learning hiragana!
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
Ok thank u uv been so much help like ur ,vids
NINJATAKAI 1 month ago
@NINJATAKAI No problem :D and thank you :D
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
Ok but I'm just asking wat if a japanese word ends in a consonant?
NINJATAKAI 1 month ago
@NINJATAKAI japanese words do not end in consonants unless that consonant is the letter n. Otherwise, never ever.
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
Ok so what do I do? How do I write it? There japanese lyrics to cage but it says somthing like douzo no baiser I think
NINJATAKAI 1 month ago
@NINJATAKAI lol just skip the word then XD;; its just for hiragana practice so it doesn't even matter if the lyrics are perfectly accurate or not right :)?
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
I was doin thesong translating thing and I chose dir en grey but it said baiser in japanese in romanji
NINJATAKAI 1 month ago
@NINJATAKAI well if it was in romaji then they might as well leave it in english i guess, since romaji isnt even a japanese alphabet and im sure kyo attempted to say it in whatever language its from LMAO
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
How can I write a word ending in a conssonant say baiser ? There's no hiragana for just r or ryuk? None for k?
NINJATAKAI 1 month ago
@NINJATAKAI Foreign words get translated into Japanese through use of katakana + a Japanese accent haha so baiser would be baisa- and ryuk would be ryuku I believe. That's the death note guy right? Don't they pronounce his name like ryuku anyway :3?
KaxyzKoi 1 month ago
I learn Hiragana like that :
"To" sound like a toe. So everytime i want to write" To" , i write the character which looks like a toe. "Ko" looks like a can of KOca .
"Ku" is like PaKU man <
"SU" look like this lady named "Sue" who wears a hat and i have long hair..Etc Etc
SuperKashiyuka 2 months ago
@SuperKashiyuka ahaha yeahhhh i can't learn that way. Too much additional information for me DX Our teacher attempted to integrate that method into teaching us in University and I was just like wtfffffffffff
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
I memorized both hiragana and katana just by playing a lot of otome games in the psp~ ;)
But I still suck at Kanji though... Everything looks like trees and boxes... TT____TT
KannonYagami 2 months ago
@KannonYagami haha katana, well thats opposite of the otome games right ;3? kanji is hard but i think its cool :D you can do it!
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
@KaxyzKoi arigatou gozaimasu~ boku ganbarimasu~! XD
and what did you mean by the opposite of otome games? hiragana is the more squiggly ones and the katagana is the stoke ones right? katagana is used mostly in english names or words (e.g 'エース' as in 'Ace', and it is pronounced as Esu). ^_^
KannonYagami 2 months ago
@KannonYagami hai ganbatte /o/
oh haha no i know the difference between hiragana and katakana, its just you wrote katana which means a sword, but otome games arent really fighting are they? I made a little joke about it BUT YOU DIDNT GET IT SO IM NOT FUNNY LMAO 8D;;;
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
@KaxyzKoi ehh~ gomen gomen~ i just noticed that i wrote katana instead of katagana~ ^^;
hahahaha~ so don't worry, i finally got ur joke~ ;)
KannonYagami 2 months ago
@KannonYagami haha awesome ;3 also katakana with a k not a g! But shinpai shinaidekudasai :D
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
ive learned hiragana and katakana several times now :(
endauthority 2 months ago
@endauthority you keep forgetting them :S?
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
@KaxyzKoi yup lol, but to be fair im pretty forgetful. I dont forget ALL of them, just some :)
endauthority 2 months ago
@endauthority aw haha yeah it was hard for them to stick in my head for a long time too, i have a legendarily bad memory DX but if you keep using them and reading them everyday youll remember :)
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
@KaxyzKoi i will! :), im gonna make a web program to help me remember them, and ill let others use it too. Your vids help me out a lot as well!
endauthority 2 months ago
@endauthority Awesome :D Good luck with the web program! I'm glad they help :)
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
This is really helpful. Thanks alot of posting this :) By any chance, Are you able to write hiragana fast ? Im referring to when you want to write a sentence or just a regular word in japanese. That's one of the areas in writing i have trouble with.
Arigatou!
LadyTomiko 2 months ago
@LadyTomiko I'm glad you found it helpful! I am able to write Hiragana fairly fast, though not as fast as I can write in English but I don't stutter much. I have been using hiragana for 5 years now though so don't worry, you'll get better!
KaxyzKoi 2 months ago
Thank you, I have a test soon with japanese where i have to flash card all of the hiragana in 20 seconds. I hope I can do it but I'm having a heart attack cus I can't get under 30
seconds, hope for the best 0.0;
WolfHowlX 3 months ago
@WolfHowlX ah good luck! you can do it :D
KaxyzKoi 3 months ago
Thank you for this video. It helped.
wbz07 3 months ago
@wbz07 No problem :) I'm glad to hear it!
KaxyzKoi 3 months ago
Any tips on learning the more complex characters?
I, ko, ku are some easy ones that I think I might be able to learn, but memorizing nu ne and mu seems impossible!
danieeel31 3 months ago
@danieeel31 Hey! The same tips I have for the 'easier' characters apply for the 'hard' ones too ^^;; everyone has trouble with different ones, some people find nu ne and mu easy and i ko and ku difficult, so you'll just have to be diligent! In actuality no character is really more difficult than the other in terms of stroke order and such :( Keep working hard and soon none of them will seem more complex ;3
KaxyzKoi 3 months ago
@KaxyzKoi Thanks! :D I started learning today just for fun, and I now know ku, ru, ro, nu and i. ^^
This is fun! :D
danieeel31 3 months ago
@danieeel31 Awesome! I keep up the good work 8D
KaxyzKoi 3 months ago
I really Need help on my hirigana because all my japanese test i get like lower scores and right now i have a F in Japanese 1A I need all the help i can get!
sana553 4 months ago
@sana553 Oh no :(! A F is no good! Have you been studying? Have you tried this method yet?
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@KaxyzKoi Well my F is a 14.3 % and its no good because i cheated :'( and he graded all my quizzes to 0 ! and i seriously need good tips on how to remember hirigana... :(
sana553 4 months ago
@sana553 You cheated and didnt even get a 15%??? LOL Cheating isn't going to work for you then apparently XD; Well my videos are here for you, all of my tips on how to learn and memorize hiragana are uploaded on my channel so besides that in regards to learning the alphabets I have no more sage advice :c'
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@KaxyzKoi and i have tried your writing it down alot of times method only remembered like A,e,u,i,o Thats all i know.. :( Poor Poor Failure :(
sana553 4 months ago
@sana553 writing it down a lot of times is not a method of mine ;;; I pretty much said in this video that repetitive dictation never works D;
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@sana553 ehhhh i dont know what to do :( to bring my grade up at an A!
sana553 4 months ago
This helped me so much on my japanese test got an A-.
SoulReaperRX 4 months ago
@SoulReaperRX That's awesome to hear :D Keep up the good work!
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@TheEpicOtaku stupid youtube hahaha but good! I'm really glad you think they're helping :D
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@TheEpicOtaku They're not on a different chart really, theyre just extensions of the already existing characters. Best of luck learning :) If you have any other questions feel free to mail me, but I would hope that youd watch my videos first to find your answers.
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
@TheEpicOtaku There is a g in hiragana. がぎぐげご = gagigugego. Please watch my video titled Hiragana - ばぱ, っ, しょしゃしゅ
KaxyzKoi 4 months ago
jw but is it proper grammar to write kanji in hiragana form?
TheJstaShow 5 months ago
@TheJstaShow It is, if you don't know the kanji. So it's appropriate for you to write everything in hiragana until you know kanji :) Young kids in Japan write only in hiragana, they even use hiragana to replace katakana until they've learned that as well.
KaxyzKoi 5 months ago
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check out my channel for Japanese. from a japanese guy.^_^
samuraiway10 5 months ago
Your so awesome. Very helpful.
cuppiedude20 6 months ago
I literally, no joke, 5 minutes before seeing this video, did this. No idea you did a video on this method whatsoever. O.O The song I did was Kakusei Heroism by An Cafe! :D Coincidence no? :P And I'm becoming much better at Hiragana, just a few characters that I just keep forgetting, even though I went over them 3 seconds before X_X
LunaXenoLovegood 6 months ago
@LunaXenoLovegood great minds think alike?? 8D I love that song! I had the same problem haha i would forget the same 5 over and over, but you'll get them :D Maybe take a break for a few days and then come back to it~
KaxyzKoi 6 months ago
thanks, this seems like it would be good. ive been trying to learn hiragana for just over a week and i can only seem to remember as far as と then get lost. so im going to try and start it like this right now. hope it works for me as good as it appears to have for everyone else :)
cliffdonegal 7 months ago
@cliffdonegal I hope it does! Having fun with learning really helps you to absorb the material and music is always fun :D You'll get it if you keep trying, it does take some time :) Best of luck!
KaxyzKoi 7 months ago
what you did to learn hiragana is exactly what i've been doing, and i've been picking up the kana so fast! :D
eyamora 7 months ago
@eyamora awesome, good luck with it :)
KaxyzKoi 7 months ago
Ok cool thanks. Iv been looking for a right book to learn but can't pick one lol there so many. I know romanji because it sounds like Spanish to me because I'm Hispanic and some words are simular
GrawKing 8 months ago
@GrawKing I made a video on the books I use before :) so you can find it if you want~ Romanji..isnt really something to know? Its not like a japanese alphabet or anything, its just what people use to read before they can read hiragana :) so you should start learning hiragana asap!
KaxyzKoi 8 months ago
@GrawKing um are you crazy there is NOTHING in japanese that sounds like spanish... AT ALL lolz...
ujan0zbas 7 months ago
Yeah I guess your right :) thanks
GrawKing 8 months ago
@GrawKing No problem :D I'd recommend getting books instead! Just one for Kanji and maybe a japanese/english dictionary and then looking around on youtube and the net :D And if you have any questions you can always message me :)
KaxyzKoi 8 months ago
Yeah that too lol I love there culture. The only thing I can't eat is sea food :( I'm allergic lol but Japanese is what I want to learn. Rosetta stone is expensive lol
GrawKing 8 months ago
@GrawKing aw yeah i dont like seafood either! So I'm sure its not a problem :) I've heard of a few jrock guys who hate raw fish and theyre japanese hahaha. Rosetta stone...is probably unnecessary, its better to learn by immersing yourself :)
KaxyzKoi 8 months ago
@GrawKing you can get rosetta stone japanese for free torrent of course but free but word of advice rosetta stone isnt good its bad poor explanations currently learning it straight from a book called Genki I - Integrated Elementary Japanese Course comes with workbook again you can get it for free as a torrent or pdf
zerothreat 8 months ago
Man I need to learn Japanese lol I love anime and j POP and j rock
GrawKing 8 months ago
@GrawKing haha well, you should want to learn japanese because of the language and the culture as well :) Branch out from anime and jpop as youre learning XD
KaxyzKoi 8 months ago
you are a legend at HIRAGANA because i love japenese you are a great teacher
RBJvidscorp 9 months ago
@RBJvidscorp thank you :) I'm glad I could help!
KaxyzKoi 8 months ago
Hi, i'm just starting to learn Japanese and I found your video to be pretty helpful. I just finished memorizing hiragana using flashcards of the characters (that I printed out and wrote the pronunciation on the back), and that worked out really well for me. Did flashcards ever work for you? Also, I'm going to move on to katakana right after this, but where should I go from there? Grammar? Thank you!!!
xCatherineRose 9 months ago
@xCatherineRose Hey :) Glad you found it helpful! Um no I never tried flashcards~ This video is the second method I ever tried (the first being the dictation i showed) and after this i didnt need to try anything else :F but good thing it worked for you~ After learning hiragana you're ready to dive into the language so! I have videos on basic grammar, which is good to start learning, and start building a vocabulary :D
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
Its hard to do japanese songs because it has some furigana in it
crzune 9 months ago
@crzune Um, what do you mean?? furigana are just hiragana that go over kanji...you don't need to use them, or kanji when doing this exercise.
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
@KaxyzKoi Oh I see, ok well I learned hirigana by using flash games
crzune 9 months ago
please continue making videos. This helped a lot! :)
WithFlyingColours97 9 months ago
@WithFlyingColours97 glad you thought so :)
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
Todays my first day let see how it goes XD ill let you know if this helped.
castro2041 9 months ago
@castro2041 good luck :D!
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
tnx for the video=)
damonyo666 9 months ago
@damonyo666 np!
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
You are like the ugliest girl I've ever seen. It's a good thing you're not fat, if you were you'd be alone forever. Also, your voice is so annoying.
ShaneDawsonisafag0 9 months ago
@ShaneDawsonisafag0 ooh my first hate comment! Now I really feel like I'm getting out there~ Thanks bro.
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
@KaxyzKoi Thanks for the tips! and dont listin to ShaneDawsonisafag0!
Stupid comment! you are not ulgy!! you are trying to help us!
im not good at english but i can understand a lot.
i hope u understund my english
RDMusicChannel 9 months ago 4
@RDMusicChannel aw thanks :) I know I'm not ugly haha, and I checked out his channel and really...he has no right to call anyone else ugly XD;; I can understand your english fine :D! And I hope these tips work for you! :)
KaxyzKoi 9 months ago
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Halkatlaana 10 months ago
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Halkatlaana 10 months ago
lool, I was just listening to Yui before I started watching this video
nice tips btw!
jorgerko15 10 months ago
Nice Method! But the link didn't work :(
TheInuyashaFan917 11 months ago
@TheInuyashaFan917 oh D: im sorry, im replacing the link with aworking one now so you can try again :)
KaxyzKoi 11 months ago
Very interesting idea. This should make things far easier for me. Thank you. :)
troy2062 11 months ago
@troy2062 im glad!! good luck :D
KaxyzKoi 10 months ago
thank you so much. this way is so much easier than my damn flash cards.
cokabears 11 months ago
@cokabears youre welcome!! good luck :)
KaxyzKoi 10 months ago
How many songs did it take for you to learn hiragana?
SarahColourBee 11 months ago
@SarahColourBee I'm not sure! I did the same song a few times just to practice, it took me a week or two!~
KaxyzKoi 10 months ago
thank for the tip ^^
Nachash91 11 months ago
you are very right knowing how the brain works(by association) make you improve your learning.
Thank you very much for your help
neohack19912 11 months ago
@neohack19912 Your welcome :) I'm glad you think so!
KaxyzKoi 10 months ago
this helped me
Kidjaytrack 1 year ago
For the people who got 404 Link not found thingy~
Delete the - ) - from the end of the URL :3
Darkness95Bunny 1 year ago
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Darkness95Bunny 1 year ago
I'm taking an intro into japanese class 1 this semester. Thanks for tips XD btw the link doesn't work anymore
dung17 1 year ago
I actually memorized several JPop songs without even know what most of it meant. So, like, I can sing them as if it's my first language. And I'm pretty beginner on Japanese.
I've memorized:
Sakura Mankai by Morning Musume
Kaze wo Sagashite by Mari Yaguchi & Straw Hat
Hajimari No Kaze by Ayaka Hirahara
And several by Utada Hikaru. I LOVE Jpop.
btw, I've thought about doing this before. But I never got around to it.
Thanks for the vid!
RhymeBlack 1 year ago
@RhymeBlack yeahh thats what i did XD I know hundreds of jpop songs and cant understand most of them! Its interesting how that happens~
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
ty very much for your video's! :D writing lyrics in hiragana is a great way to remember hiragana!!!! :D tytyty!
animefanny 1 year ago
@animefanny youre welcome :) I'm glad you think the method is good!
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Your channel is awesome! Arigatoo! =D
yuurihokuto 1 year ago
@yuurihokuto youre welcome :)
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
This sounds ike a fun way of learning hiragana :D I'll definitly try it. Domo arigato gozaimasu. :D
BlueAnimator101 1 year ago
@BlueAnimator101 youre welcome :D
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
great video thnx!!
098anime 1 year ago
@098anime no problem :)
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
great idea, thanks. I am using the Heisig method but this method is great too and they work well together I think
cantsothis 1 year ago
@cantsothis Whats the Heisig method?
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
@KaxyzKoi The Heisig method is from a series of books by a guy called Mr Heisig and he breaks the kana/kanji into component parts, and makes up a story for each one so you can remember it. For example the hiragana character shi, he says, looks like a fish hook so to remember it you can think of yourself fishing with a sheep instead of a worm (because sheep sounds like shi).
cantsothis 1 year ago
@cantsothis oh okay yeah I know that method. My sensei in class showed it to us XD It doesnt work for me at all ^^ but if it works for you, then good luck :D
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
@cantsothis @cantsothis oh okay yeah I know that method. My sensei in class showed it to us XD It doesnt work for me at all ^^ but if it works for you, then good luck :D
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
keep doing the vids plsssssssssssssssssssssssssssssssss
mrbob435 1 year ago
@mrbob435 I'm sorry! This video is already more than a year old and I've stopped doing them, however I hope my other videos will still be of help to you :)
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Awesome tip! This really puts it into practical use. While the repetition of notation may help with the formation of characters, seeing them in use with words in actual sentences is a great exercise. Thanks for sharing this tip. I just did it for the first time, and now Hiragana doesn't seem to be such a daunting task to learn anymore. Took me two hours to write out a song. Which seems a bit slow, but other the next couple of days, I'll keep practising and remembering the characters shapes ありがとう
nixopax 1 year ago
@nixopax I'm really glad its working for you :D Keep up the good work \o/
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Thank you so very much. I am learning Japanese for the same reason as you are and I happen to really like Yui. This is very helpful because I did the same repetition thing and I didn't remember either.
hottiecbr 1 year ago
Edit: I tried this method today, it's incredibly fun! I've written out one line of lyrics and I feel like a boss, cause you look at it and think...damn, I wrote that, I FEEL POWERFUL! And it's really helping me knack those last few hiragana in no time at all! You videos are extremely helpful :P!
zairuku 1 year ago
@zairuku I'm so glad its working well for you :D Best of luck with the rest!!!
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Very good way to learn it. I've got a laminate hiragana & katakana sheet which I can write over in highlighter then rub out, it's been difficult to learn this way though. I'm on my 2nd week today and i've still got about 10 hiragana left to learn, it's pretty slow progress in my opinion. But when i move on to my katakana sheet I will try your song method as i listen to music a lot when i work. Thanks for this interesting way to learn. I'll try your method and see if it works faster :)
zairuku 1 year ago
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Coonmix 1 year ago
@Coonmix What did you win? XD
hottiecbr 1 year ago
@hottiecbr The game.
Coonmix 1 year ago
@Coonmix Ohh. ok :) Congrats. !!!
hottiecbr 1 year ago
Wow, this is a great method of learning Hiragana! When I look at hiragana, the pronunciation comes quick to my mind! I definitely recommend this to other people! Keep up the good vids. : )
XShadowXKnightX3000 1 year ago
@Rikka321 I'm so glad it helped you :D
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Dictation helped me.
I have my hiragana test tomorrow in my Japanese class and I was able to read the characters better than i was able to write them. Learning chart style also helped. I mostly used dictation to help me become familiar with the character.
Also flash cards. I cannot stress that enough. That is basically all I did this week ^^
KakashisFavStudent 1 year ago
Thanks, great advise! I will try it out!
hommesdumonde 1 year ago
This would be totally awesome if I found this vid in the summervacation x3 had nothing to do D: definitly gonna do this 8D
mangafroster 1 year ago
Hey! im going to try it but i will let you know if it helps! thanks for the videos!!! its a great idea!!! ^_^
disneyanimefreak101 1 year ago
Great idea!
irelandbusiness1 1 year ago
What is the third thing you say after こんいちわ？
deadlymassacre1 1 year ago
@deadlymassacre1 In every introduction I saw Konnichiwa minasan, Kaxyzdesu~ With a Japanese accent, Kaxyz is like Kakushisu. Also Konnichiwa こんにちは <- Is spelt like that :) For some reason we use ha instead of wa to make the wa sound on the end of this word~
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
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What is the third thing you say after こんいちわ？
deadlymassacre1 1 year ago
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deadlymassacre1 1 year ago
thanks for the videos they help :D
BaboMuffin 1 year ago
@BaboMuffin youre very welcome :D I'm glad they help!~
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
Can you write out every romaji word with just hiragana? or did you need the other syllabary as well? because i get the impression this would be a fantastic way to start memorising the characters, but you might be limited with what you can spell out with hiragana. then again i may be wrong, i have no idea about katakana or kanji
ProMarkChris 1 year ago
@ProMarkChris You can write any Japanese word with Hiragana. Katakana is an alternate alphabet (In this case its like uppercase and lowercase letters, theyre the same just have different uses) and Kanji are used to replace hiragana once youve learned the proper kanji. So you can write EVERYTHING with hiragana :D!
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
@KaxyzKoi That is fantastic news. One more question - how long did it take you to be able to read hiragana at fairly decent pace? remembering it isn't so much the problem as being able to read it without pausing in between each character. i suppose the quicker recall comes with practice~
ProMarkChris 1 year ago
@ProMarkChris yes of course, it does take awhile to read confidently! Im not qutie sure, though im sure it was a few months. Of course it will be different for everyone depending on how often you read :) Best of luck with everything :D
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
i found your ka-ga video and other videos really helpful.
Jzend001 1 year ago
thanks for the advice, I'll give it a go :)
phiaragame 1 year ago
Are you fluent in Japanese? I'm trying to learn Hiragana.......but it's hard!! Way different from what I'm used to...Although I bet it's easier than Kanji...I want to learn Japanese too.....the language sounds so pretty.
freakingoutcat 1 year ago
@freakingoutcat I'm no where near fluent~ But it's kind of flattering that you may think I am~ I'm around intermediate level I guess...barely XD;;
it is pretty isnt it :) Once you get the hang of it, well I found it quite simple! Best of luck!~
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
i learned japanese words memorising and writing writing writing and writing of course the pronunciation with anime and japanese music XD i too write song of japanese singers, now the only i have to do is memorise the millions of japanese words XD because i can speak japanese but is the basic,the problem for me is the time i speak spanish and i have to study english too is is 3 languages *.*''XD
thanks for the video
narutoandsasuke125 1 year ago
@narutoandsasuke125 ah yeah, 3 languages at once is tough XD I took french but i dropped it to keep going with Japanese. 7 years of french was enough :P best of luck with all that ;p
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
@KaxyzKoi arigato gozaimasu
best of luck for you too :)
narutoandsasuke125 1 year ago
Using music us an AMAZING idea!!! I never thought to use it, even though I listen to a lot of Japanese songs! Thanks for sharing that idea; I'm gonna try it now ;)
LeytonInTheNet 1 year ago
One more thing!You didn't use any spaces at the song you wrote right?why? Is it not allowes when using hiragana?Because I want tpo practice with the write-the-song-you-like-from-romaji-to-hiragana method but since my japanese are those of a beginner how do I know when a word is seperated?
Catgirlms1994 1 year ago
@Catgirlms1994 Typically in Japanese words are not written seperately (that is why kanji can sometimes be very helpful) But for the sake of learning the letters you do not need to worry about what words youre writing or what they mean, just concentrate on the letters :)
KaxyzKoi 1 year ago
I have to say I loved your video .The methods you are suggesting are so great . I love japanese music so I 'll try this! please continue! Do you know any good learn japanese site? (if it's free even better). I,m greek so It's more difficult but I'll give my best! thank you!
Catgirlms1994 1 year ago