LOL stop at 00:10 basically ten seconds after the video about learning all the joyo kanji in TEN minutes is the number.....yes exactly....TEN on the screen.
This is nice; a bit fast, but nice :) I think to remember which kanji means what is important but takes time.. I find it fun to find something about it's appearence that reminds you of it's meaning.. for many that doesn't really help, but for ex. river, rice patty, certain numbers, etc. it really helps!
I can only remember ichi ni san yon and the kanji for tree and forest not sure how i say them though haha.. (why is it so hard and so many!) ... took me few days to learn hiragana and now middle learning katakana.. reconise the 1,2,3,4 kanji from karate years ago and tree & forest are kind of obvious as the symble kind looks like tree trunks (no branches) and 2 roots lol
knew all of them until 4:00 with a few exceptions... most of them until 5:00, only about half until 6:00, and then it just started to deteriorate. At 7:00 I had to close my eyes, and stared at the black square on my retina until 10:23
Haha, learn all of these in 10 minutes? This is something that Japanese children spend 6 years learning!
I am currently living in Japan and studying Kanji in my spare time, I have barely managed to learn the 1,006 Kyouiku (Elementary) Kanji readings in the past 6 weeks, and that is being able to only read, I am unable to write any Kanji whatsoever.
If you can learn all of this Kanji in 10 minutes, you sir, you are not human!
@1XxHunterxXD Hiragana is basic Japanese alphabet used for Japanese words. Katakana is another alphabet used to bring words in from other languages. I'm not too sure about Kanji, but it just seems it's used whenever it fits haha. It's a replacement for the hiragana of the word. Basically Kanji are Traditional Chinese characters used in Japanese.
@forkfour In order to speak about 70% of the language, you MUST know the joyo kanji from first class to 6th class. 80 for first grade + 160 for second grade etc.
It's not really that bad. I used to think that I wouldn't want to learn the Japanese language because of their writing system, even though my family is Japanese and I'm a hanbun(half). However, about two months ago I started becoming interested in Japanese again and suddenly I started learning the two alphabets. I memorized the alphabets while drunk at my grandma's and now every time I see something I can read I get so excited!
At first I was scared of approaching the language even though it was culturally special and important to me because I didn't believe I could handle all the symbols, but after I learned the two simple alphabets and got so excited about my progress I changed my mind. Don't let the Chinese Kanji characters scare you off. If you really want to learn Japanese writing Kanji will become a pleasure. Slowly I'm improving my cache of Kanji and practicing writing and learning them is fun.
Some characters are slower to learn, but others can be shockingly easy to memorize. As I practiced I started to learn them faster and easier and noticed that many Kanji are total pushovers. I started learning my own tips and tricks and felt rewarded for my efforts. I now feel like a Japanese Badass because I know 170 Kanji and my family was impressed I learned so much in a month.
#1 tip : Have fun learning them, and drawing them.
# 2 tip: Google search (joyo Kanji by Grade(grandma's approval))
@novacrystalas Read Heisig's method, with discipline, learn all of them within two months. I have been studying almost effortless and I know 860, that is not meant to boast me, but rather the method.
2136 characters now. I actually like to learn kanji, but I can see how this can be a hassle to people learning the language. At least it keeps our memory skills intact.
@Lugmillord This video doesn't help, get remembering the kanji by james heisig. It'll teach you one of the meanings (some kanji have multiple) and the kanji to go with it and some primitives. Once you learn them, you can learn the chinese readings in the second part, and by then you'll have picked up on the japanese readings if you immerse yourself with japanese stuff. Before you say how will chinese readings help, chinese readings are used majorly for combination kanji which japan uses a lot of
@gangstacrak2 I already know about on/kun readings, mah friend ;)
I may get some Kanji books for my birhtday. I heard "Essential Kanji: 2000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and Reference" is a good one, too.
@Lugmillord Ah i see, well then i guess after your birthday you'll be able to get started. Also you are correct before 2010 there were 1945 kanji in the joyo family, they increased it to 2136 afterwards. This doesn't bother me much though as i'll be learning upwards of 3000 and then even more when i move on to chinese. Kanji are fun to learn.
I have just watched this (a few weeks before I begin formal study of Japanese at University) and recognised only a dozen or so. I plan to rewatch this video from time to time as a way of tracking my progress. I look forward to the point, some time in the next few years, when I will watch and comprehend this video in its entirety.
Before about half-century, we had used "old style kanji", which is called "Kyuujitai"（旧字体）. Most of the present Japanese are not familiar with Kyuujitai and cannot write this. Some paticular kanjis which we have used are already simplified. We can find some Kyuujitai in some modern times Japanese documents. For example, 「気＝氣」, 「体＝體」, 「乱＝亂」, 「学＝學」, 「与＝與」, 「図＝圖」, 「号＝號」, 「糸＝絲」...
I think old style kanji, which are close to classical chinese characters (繁体字), are also attractive.
They were influenced by the People's Republic of China that began simplifying Chinese characters at that time. What a shame.
The old style is harder, but the meaning is deeper and nowadays with electronic equipment and technology I don't see what the fuss with the strokes is about.
@psxdumy They are arranged in seven blocks corresponding to the pre 2010 (school-) grade and within each grade they are arranged according to the kana order of the on-reading.
It took me approximately 3 semesters before I could fully appreciate Kanji regardless of everything. I have a love for Kanji now. Yes it's fustrating in the beginning. With all the on and kun readings and "special" readings, there is really no systematic explanation of why things are like that. Japanese Language is like that, learn to deal with it if you want to become fluent. Practice makes perfect. :)
@ogenkidesuka12 Truest words ever. The way is the goal and there is nothing more worth fighting for than kanji, which by the way were seen in ancient times as divine script and I still regard them as such.
@ogenkidesuka12 Gomenersei, but I can only japanese words.. I'm 12 and live in Norway where it's not many people that learn japanese... do-itashi mashite, konnichi wa, gomenersei, baka, aishiteru ze, watashi wa... I can some few words but I can't remember any japanese kanjis :/
This is a nice video to help show patterns in kanji. This video ALONE will not help you with kanji learning, however. You need to have already been studying, and be able to read and comprehend any given text.
This video helps if you watch it every now and then, pointing out all of the kanji you recognize, and you'll find you know more than you thought you knew...but also that there's a lot you don't know...
@jjanggae101 Japanese using chinese characters, and these are the list of JoYou kanji standardized back in 1945?? Correct me if I'm wrong on the date. There is a new list of JoYou released in 2009 I think? Or maybe even just this year???
But yes, you are right in that without any context, these are just chinese characters. You have to know how to use them in Japanese context, and you can only learn that from reading and listening practices.
@Superscriptor your brain just remembers them from contextual analysis, it does it with little to no effort on your part, other than exposing yourself to reading and listening practice over and over...and over...and over...It gets a lot easier and the work pays off
@musicobsessive94 Still, not very usefull only when Kanji is presented, all I can do when I look at kanji is saying... oh, I know this simbol... but what it means? this is usefull to pratice, to learn... not really...
very good video, the kanjis look like they are dancing. it is very good video for those who are enjoying studying knjis. i have learned 2230 kanjis and need something to repaet them so this i guess will be good thing to watch for ten min before sleep. amazungly, the brain seems to catch them as fast as they flash.
PEOPLE, YES, THERE ARE MORE KANJI BUT WE BARELY USE THEM, MOST COMMONLY WE USE KATAKANA AND HIRAGANA, WE USE LIKE PROBOBLY 1000 OF THESE ONLY, LEARNING ALL WOULD TECHNICALLY BE KINDA USELESS, MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HERE IN JAPAN DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL OF 2136, I only know like 960 something, and I live here, yes, befor you blab about the tsunami stuff, my region wasn't effected.
@findmeonfb You know, koreans even invented a few additional hanja as well ;) I think it is great that you devote yourself to the characters ^_^ Keep it up!
Nyuu! Where's 齒? At first I had to re-watch it cause I thought it was missing 愛, 齿 and 小. I'm French, but I moved to Japan. I know basicaly all of these! Still, I'm pretty good for a 12 year old!
@xXglittterwitchXx I can try, But how would i do so? XP There's a TON of Kanji, but we only use like 20% of them, I can teach you the most commonly used ones and also how to have a full convo in Japanese, ^^
I'm Chinese (know about 80% of these characters) and hoping to learn Japanese, so the fact that Kanji exists really makes me happy >3< But, it would be better if the kanji would slide across the page, instead of darting away so fast! Dx
@heyitskevinxO I am very very very happy about them as well, even though I am still in the process of learning :) ! But I think it is a shame they are still not teached everywhere around the world! Chinese/japanese characters are culturally more worthwhile than any other script in the world. Everyone should have a chance to read and write them!
1945 symbols (each one of them having their own philosophical grounds and being interconnected with each other, at a speed of 1945/623 ,i.e. ..more than 3 symbols per second? Who is the human being to learn those?
I don't know what's happening with youtube right know but commenting is a pain D: Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for the video. It helps me to stay motivated through my Heisig journey. And what a cool surprise to hear Try^d here :)
At the moment.... i know only a little pass "grade 1" 96 kanji konyomi and onyomi...
My girlfriend yuka helps me learn and teaches me, I just started learning japanese 11 months ago.
When i start school in tokyo next year... still wont be fluent any faster Lol.
But that's the fun thing, japanese is so fun to learn, Addictive is a mild way of putting it. It's all about hard work and dedication and pushing yourself.
I also love have most sites are mainly in KATAKANA!
here's a tip i got from some people who help others on Kanji- For foreigners, it is easier to not learn Kanji by "grades" because they have some really complicated characters. the reason is because some simple characters have complex meanings that younger kids wouldn't understand, while some complicated kanji has easier meanings. but as adults we can get these concepts so we should learn more by stroke number :D also, learning radicals help put kanji together!
There is something solemnly beautiful over this 'slideshow', combined with the music.
The reason I return here every so often, however, is the myriad of ignorant comments about asian languages. They amuse me.
To think that I was once as ignorant makes me feel humble. There is yet so much I don't know. Maybe that's the charm of knowledge... learning's like a neverending train ride.
To fellow kanjiteers: this may seem insurmountable, but it is definitely not.
kanji is difficult, me being chinese, I spent 11 years in china and rest of my life in Uk and Spain, learning english and spanish made me forget how to write most kanjis, but I can still read most of them, chinese usually learn 3k kanji to be able to write
My tip for learning kanji : First start by learning the language until you reach an intermediate level, then learn the Kanas. After that continu your Japanese learning without minding kanji (you'll notice that u will learn some just like that with time). After reaching a proper level in Japanese, I suggest that u learn kanji this way : screw the on/kun readings and proceed in learning WORD by WORD not KANJI by KANJI. Learn each word with it's kanji that's the best way to avoid confusion ;)
@vocaaation Yeah advertisement. Me helping others with what allowed me to learn these kanji. I completely disagree with your method. If you wanna learn a word completely you NEED to know how its written in kanji. First learn the words then again in kanji? useless and wastes twice as much time.The only way to get the same advantage as those who are native korean and chinese speakers is to master the kanji. Good blog to read up on more is AJATT more advertisement. thanks
@Tolerence911 I'm japanese and I agree with vocaation. learning kanji itself is unuseless when writing and reading japanese sentences. you need to learn "words" first and the same time you can know how to write the kanji and what kind of the time it is useable. this should be common way to learn every kanji language like Mandarin, Kantonese or Taiwanese.
you have to think "why is this kanji used in this word?" when you lean words, and you understand the meaning. then you come to be able to expect when the kanji is useable. for example, you know the kanji 小 that means small or little and is read as "shou". and you find the word "shou-metsu" that means "vanishing". you think here, this word is unrelated to "small". if you know the word "shou-kyo(消去)" that means "removing", you can find relation and you would notice that you can use 消 here.
kanji are virtually made up of radicals that once broken down and be built up again with a memnomic or however you call it. You can relate the word to the kanji as you learn it. just because japanese learned it their way doesnt mean its the most effective approach. something like 餓(starve) can be broken into 食（eat) and 我 (ego) and rebuilt into a story like [the "egotistic" man didn't "eat" and "starved"] story is horrible but the trick to memory is associating things with what you already know
yeah that's interesting. but you know, learning 餓 itself doesn't help you making japanese sentence, rather it should trouble you sometime. when you find a word "ga-man" that means "endure", don't you get in trouble which kanji to use? 我 or 餓 and what kanji for "man".万, 満, 慢, 曼, 漫, 饅...? In the end, you have to look up what kanji is used for the word even though you already know many kanji. don't you think learning words and kanji the same time is better then?
The reason Kanji is difficult is people tend to take everything at once. okay we'll learn this word's kanji, take the kanji gets it stroke order, all readings, all meaning, then move on the rest of that word's meaning and reading. its an overload of information. taking the kanji learning them with a keyword to trigger your memory is taking the mammoth of japanese and making it much more learnable. But i cant really explain with such limited space a method not my own.
The method is jame heisig's. look up the site "reviewing the kanji" look at its forums, and check out the method, you dont even have to buy the book. This approach is definitely unorthodox but its proves that school has failed us at learning these 2000+ kanji. Anyone interested do the research and read my former posts. just trying to help.
To all those who believe this is impossible: I am a freshman in college and just yesterday I completed after 7 months of work Jame Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. Its his method on how to remember all 2040. This is far from impossible and a very rewarding experience. If you're a serious student check it out you won't be sorry.
@12martijn1211 It isn't that much work to learn the jouyou kanji at all... and to function in Japanse society as something other than a english teacher you DO need to know them.
1945 Kanji? There are over 2040 Kanji in use in today's Japan newspapers. I'm afraid you have failed to realise this. And there are thousands more in use in China.
@XxHowDareYouxX The truth is that the Japanese government does regulate the kanji that is placed into news papers, as of i believe 2008 there were 1945 kanji allowed, but now i think it is 1948.
Wow. Very cool. I love kanji but it is so time consuming to learn. i prefer hiragana and katakana
LearnChineseJapanese 1 hour ago
ja chuck norris diary paper new
11acteck 5 days ago 2
learning level : asian
Hundead95 1 week ago
I don't know about you people, but I certainly learned.... how to put together pictures of Japanese characters with music in the background :)
94MsBitch 1 week ago
soooo...when does the "learning" part start....
bandlover005 1 week ago
I could only understand a minute and a half in :(
I'll get there some day!
mfigzz 2 weeks ago
there isn't even any romaji or english meaning. However I already knew the numbers
RabidWildDog 2 weeks ago
who learn these in this video straight play 1 go get my respect.
TernadoG 2 weeks ago
LOL stop at 00:10 basically ten seconds after the video about learning all the joyo kanji in TEN minutes is the number.....yes exactly....TEN on the screen.
coincidence??
hebince44 2 weeks ago
@hebince44 I paused on 手 hand. (on- shu, kun- te) lol :P
maneatingbanana 2 weeks ago
HONTOU IMPOSSIBRU!!
jimmyjohanes88 2 weeks ago
You can learn to write them but there is no point when you don't even know a single meaning for them! :P
SakanaJin 3 weeks ago
chuck norris said "10 minutes? Too long for such and easy thing"
kireek666 3 weeks ago
Well, you can see them, but I'd like to see anyone learn them by watching this!
SomeRandomZeke 4 weeks ago
chuck norris says: that was easy.
TheRussianPT 4 weeks ago
I could recognise a lot, but only put a meaning to about 50 >.<
kisekikumo 1 month ago
Dont mixing with Chinese kanji... These two are much diferent! :D
kikyou88 1 month ago
This is nice; a bit fast, but nice :) I think to remember which kanji means what is important but takes time.. I find it fun to find something about it's appearence that reminds you of it's meaning.. for many that doesn't really help, but for ex. river, rice patty, certain numbers, etc. it really helps!
LindzDraws 1 month ago
This is beautiful! :)
BobBilling 1 month ago
Dios mio, que me faltan todavia unos 1000 pòr aprender.
cfthnbvg1 1 month ago
I can only remember ichi ni san yon and the kanji for tree and forest not sure how i say them though haha.. (why is it so hard and so many!) ... took me few days to learn hiragana and now middle learning katakana.. reconise the 1,2,3,4 kanji from karate years ago and tree & forest are kind of obvious as the symble kind looks like tree trunks (no branches) and 2 roots lol
thewolfydragon1989 1 month ago
I only know about 300 =/.
TheAeroMechanic 1 month ago
@TheAeroMechanic 50 more than me but I catch up XD
Belikel 2 days ago
knew all of them until 4:00 with a few exceptions... most of them until 5:00, only about half until 6:00, and then it just started to deteriorate. At 7:00 I had to close my eyes, and stared at the black square on my retina until 10:23
boukeversteegh 1 month ago 2
Hanzi IS Kanji. Just different pronunciations
YummYakitori 2 months ago
there is a list on wiki and it includes pronunciations and definitions, just search list of joyo kanji. so yeah great video.......
TehRice 2 months ago
Chuck Noriss cant learn this !
Kyogremon 2 months ago
Yay im fluent now thanks for the vid
jjleejj 2 months ago 3
Learn english alphabet in 10 seconds ;D
1Shatter1 2 months ago
what do they stand for i dont understand kanji DX
bubblezandchubz 2 months ago
slow down :( lol
kawaiikittyai 2 months ago
そういえば俺っちもすごいよな～
こんなに漢字があるのに殆ど読めるし書ける
なら理科や社会も覚えれそうなきがするんだが・・・・・・
hamigakigamukattene 2 months ago
Haha, learn all of these in 10 minutes? This is something that Japanese children spend 6 years learning!
I am currently living in Japan and studying Kanji in my spare time, I have barely managed to learn the 1,006 Kyouiku (Elementary) Kanji readings in the past 6 weeks, and that is being able to only read, I am unable to write any Kanji whatsoever.
If you can learn all of this Kanji in 10 minutes, you sir, you are not human!
NickAura 2 months ago 34
@NickAura - I think kanjitard was being facetious in the video's title.
GameShowGuy 2 weeks ago
I am sorta learning hiragana, but I cant tell the difference between hiragana and katankana and kanji and when to use them.
1XxHunterxXD 2 months ago
@1XxHunterxXD Hiragana is basic Japanese alphabet used for Japanese words. Katakana is another alphabet used to bring words in from other languages. I'm not too sure about Kanji, but it just seems it's used whenever it fits haha. It's a replacement for the hiragana of the word. Basically Kanji are Traditional Chinese characters used in Japanese.
cccEngineer 2 months ago
way too fast
MultiStartrek101 3 months ago
While I didn't know the majority of them, I was pleasantly surprised by how many I *did* know. That's better than nothing...
CallistoKumo 3 months ago
if i only knew what they meant
TheWarlock5822 3 months ago
Just Clark Kent can learn it...
ElfoAndriel 3 months ago 11
@ElfoAndriel Chuck norris can do it as well... true.
nukitachan 1 month ago
this is fake. clearly sped up
odolany 3 months ago
did you learn them all? i didn't...
remimk 3 months ago
please some body help me . Do you have to know all of these to read japanese!!!
forkfour 3 months ago
@forkfour In order to speak about 70% of the language, you MUST know the joyo kanji from first class to 6th class. 80 for first grade + 160 for second grade etc.
CognitiveNetwork 3 months ago
It's not really that bad. I used to think that I wouldn't want to learn the Japanese language because of their writing system, even though my family is Japanese and I'm a hanbun(half). However, about two months ago I started becoming interested in Japanese again and suddenly I started learning the two alphabets. I memorized the alphabets while drunk at my grandma's and now every time I see something I can read I get so excited!
novacrystalas 3 months ago
At first I was scared of approaching the language even though it was culturally special and important to me because I didn't believe I could handle all the symbols, but after I learned the two simple alphabets and got so excited about my progress I changed my mind. Don't let the Chinese Kanji characters scare you off. If you really want to learn Japanese writing Kanji will become a pleasure. Slowly I'm improving my cache of Kanji and practicing writing and learning them is fun.
novacrystalas 3 months ago
Some characters are slower to learn, but others can be shockingly easy to memorize. As I practiced I started to learn them faster and easier and noticed that many Kanji are total pushovers. I started learning my own tips and tricks and felt rewarded for my efforts. I now feel like a Japanese Badass because I know 170 Kanji and my family was impressed I learned so much in a month.
#1 tip : Have fun learning them, and drawing them.
# 2 tip: Google search (joyo Kanji by Grade(grandma's approval))
novacrystalas 3 months ago
@novacrystalas In university we learned 440 hanzi in one month. :) (hanzi ~ kanji)
SimonK91 3 months ago
@novacrystalas Read Heisig's method, with discipline, learn all of them within two months. I have been studying almost effortless and I know 860, that is not meant to boast me, but rather the method.
Namelessone1991 3 months ago
Wow it takes over 10 mins just to see them all flash briefly before my eyes....yeah this not going to be fun.
elsamuraiguapo 4 months ago
its like 3 kanjis per second >_>
diegofg10 4 months ago
AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH this just totally confused me lol and btw its 10:22 seconds so you went 22 seconds over :p
ummPOTATOZ 4 months ago
just learn them like a real japanese student did.
mrankhrm 4 months ago
I'll live a positive comment because of the effort but you should tell us what the symbolls mean. :D Really BIG like for the effort.
Oskarproficz 4 months ago
2136 characters now. I actually like to learn kanji, but I can see how this can be a hassle to people learning the language. At least it keeps our memory skills intact.
bnmjy 4 months ago
wihout knowing what they mean or how they are pronounced, this doesn't help at all.
:(
I've heard there are more than 2000 joyo kanji since 2010, am I right?
Lugmillord 4 months ago
@Lugmillord This video doesn't help, get remembering the kanji by james heisig. It'll teach you one of the meanings (some kanji have multiple) and the kanji to go with it and some primitives. Once you learn them, you can learn the chinese readings in the second part, and by then you'll have picked up on the japanese readings if you immerse yourself with japanese stuff. Before you say how will chinese readings help, chinese readings are used majorly for combination kanji which japan uses a lot of
gangstacrak2 4 months ago
@gangstacrak2 I already know about on/kun readings, mah friend ;)
I may get some Kanji books for my birhtday. I heard "Essential Kanji: 2000 Basic Japanese Characters Systematically Arranged for Learning and Reference" is a good one, too.
Lugmillord 4 months ago
@Lugmillord Ah i see, well then i guess after your birthday you'll be able to get started. Also you are correct before 2010 there were 1945 kanji in the joyo family, they increased it to 2136 afterwards. This doesn't bother me much though as i'll be learning upwards of 3000 and then even more when i move on to chinese. Kanji are fun to learn.
Good luck when you get started.
gangstacrak2 4 months ago
I only recognised the ones for person, tree, and moon.
cuppiedude20 4 months ago
I WISH........ i can see the meaning of on-yomi and kun-yomi and a little slow-down each kanji...... thx^-^
gomibuchi1 5 months ago
Six years after learning to write them all with the Heisig method, it's amazing how they all mean something to me.
Arqui3D 5 months ago
pete sake. why didn,t you put the furigana along ?
RENEDU2 5 months ago
Madness ?
This is JAPAN!
lubieskins1 5 months ago
AAAAHHH! Is there some method to this madness?
vjott 5 months ago
5分くらいから読めるけど書けるかどうか怪しい漢字がちらほらでてきた。。。
漢字難しすぎだろｊｋ
Natsukir 5 months ago
Ahora no son solo 1945.
Ahora son 2136 kanji.
Pero igual vale la pena el video.
AkiroKOF 5 months ago
dont worry about slowind it down or anything. just use everyone fav cheat sheet, wiki...
List_of_joyo_kanji. that should get ya
Truesightinall 5 months ago
I think i saw 4 repeats, your going to have to re-edit the video.
JAstISTHEKING 6 months ago
I have just watched this (a few weeks before I begin formal study of Japanese at University) and recognised only a dozen or so. I plan to rewatch this video from time to time as a way of tracking my progress. I look forward to the point, some time in the next few years, when I will watch and comprehend this video in its entirety.
francisnblake 6 months ago
it meaning?
raticida123456 6 months ago
thumbs up if you watched the entire video! (this excludes myself)
YoungSirAuron 6 months ago
watch this 10000 times and you know the kanji! ;)
Girsheliz 6 months ago
i don't know about you guy's but i think this video kinda wash my brain. Haha.
Jackal100047 6 months ago
itd be great if you put what they meant and the chinese and japanese phonetic spellings
SilverYoshi111 7 months ago
Before about half-century, we had used "old style kanji", which is called "Kyuujitai"（旧字体）. Most of the present Japanese are not familiar with Kyuujitai and cannot write this. Some paticular kanjis which we have used are already simplified. We can find some Kyuujitai in some modern times Japanese documents. For example, 「気＝氣」, 「体＝體」, 「乱＝亂」, 「学＝學」, 「与＝與」, 「図＝圖」, 「号＝號」, 「糸＝絲」...
I think old style kanji, which are close to classical chinese characters (繁体字), are also attractive.
RHNKTKZ 7 months ago
@RHNKTKZ
They were influenced by the People's Republic of China that began simplifying Chinese characters at that time. What a shame.
The old style is harder, but the meaning is deeper and nowadays with electronic equipment and technology I don't see what the fuss with the strokes is about.
SeventhSun 6 months ago
It'd be nice if you put what they mean
BlackWolf207 7 months ago
i cant learn me this kanji charaters becouse of i dont hear how the sentece is on kanji!!!!!!!!!!!! :(
ZZaiBoT2011 7 months ago
*Learns every kanjis 1 by 1*
A few weeks later : Well now I know all of them Yay !!
...
Wait.. What do they mean ?
Tunechi241 7 months ago
simple
a-z = 26
chinese characters = 50,000
: )
jimmyjohanes88 7 months ago
I've just started learning kanji and manis it hard! Does it get easier later on? D=
mphoenixalia 7 months ago
At the start I was like "Hey I know those ones!"
But then as it went on I was like "Oh, what was that, and that? and all those...oh..."
Brunswick999 7 months ago
@Brunswick999 hehe me too ^^
IOver9000I 7 months ago
Hey man, where`s their meaning?
Ahuenen 8 months ago
omg
Hikarichan04 8 months ago
i like the music
sabre000001 8 months ago
what order are these kanji presented in? is it the chronological order in which Japanese childern/students learn kanji? how do they learn it?
Is there any way to download this video and/or watch it at varying speeds?
thanks!
psxdumy 8 months ago
@psxdumy They are arranged in seven blocks corresponding to the pre 2010 (school-) grade and within each grade they are arranged according to the kana order of the on-reading.
(Try keepvid[DOT]com to download the video.)
kanjitard 7 months ago
It took me approximately 3 semesters before I could fully appreciate Kanji regardless of everything. I have a love for Kanji now. Yes it's fustrating in the beginning. With all the on and kun readings and "special" readings, there is really no systematic explanation of why things are like that. Japanese Language is like that, learn to deal with it if you want to become fluent. Practice makes perfect. :)
sakigaby 8 months ago
@ogenkidesuka12 Truest words ever. The way is the goal and there is nothing more worth fighting for than kanji, which by the way were seen in ancient times as divine script and I still regard them as such.
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Belikel 8 months ago
it sickens me that i actually learned all of these.
i want to puke now
HanQ 8 months ago
@ogenkidesuka12 Gomenersei, but I can only japanese words.. I'm 12 and live in Norway where it's not many people that learn japanese... do-itashi mashite, konnichi wa, gomenersei, baka, aishiteru ze, watashi wa... I can some few words but I can't remember any japanese kanjis :/
FaithfulDarknezz 8 months ago
how do you know when to use kanji instead of kana?
PDFProductions6 8 months ago
can you really remember all of that !?
HesDaryl 8 months ago
i knew about 500 of them...three semester of japanese class.
chilpaya777 8 months ago
How long did it take you to make this ?
glassryu 8 months ago
@glassryu A couple of hours at the most. I didn't do all at the same time though, it was something I did during a month or so.
kanjitard 7 months ago
...I-i watched the whole thing.. O_O
WTF was I thinking about when I said "Imma learn Japanese!" -___-
FaithfulDarknezz 8 months ago
It's like they're dancing, I can see them inserting themselves into the vertical lines and then backing away.
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
This is a nice video to help show patterns in kanji. This video ALONE will not help you with kanji learning, however. You need to have already been studying, and be able to read and comprehend any given text.
This video helps if you watch it every now and then, pointing out all of the kanji you recognize, and you'll find you know more than you thought you knew...but also that there's a lot you don't know...
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
awesome
TheBerzek 8 months ago
Thanks for the Kanji
Can you ad the English translation below the Kanji, than I only have to see it once.
Now I have to find out which is which.. )-:
JWPemperor 9 months ago
kanji teh nan desuh ka ?
Stalwartlover 9 months ago
whats the name of first song in the vid?
ninetailsnaruto78 9 months ago
Any chance we could get an updated video for the newest list of Joyo Kanji? Somehow I doubt it's that simple, though it would be awesome.
ariaedhdoeth 9 months ago
@ariaedhdoeth learn all of these, and then you can learn the rest no sweat
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
chinese, not japanese.
jjanggae101 9 months ago
@jjanggae101 Japanese using chinese characters, and these are the list of JoYou kanji standardized back in 1945?? Correct me if I'm wrong on the date. There is a new list of JoYou released in 2009 I think? Or maybe even just this year???
But yes, you are right in that without any context, these are just chinese characters. You have to know how to use them in Japanese context, and you can only learn that from reading and listening practices.
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
the number "2040" kanji is VERY deceiving
Every kanji has an On and a Kun reading to memorise
Most kanji have more than one for each
so in fact you have to remember like "989462684984" things before you "know" every kanji!
Superscriptor 9 months ago 2
@Superscriptor learning japanese is like learning two fucking languages. this shit is not what i expected
gmsquared 9 months ago
@gmsquared It gets easier, and you'll learn that there are major differences between this and Chinese.
It gets a LOT simpler.
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
@Superscriptor your brain just remembers them from contextual analysis, it does it with little to no effort on your part, other than exposing yourself to reading and listening practice over and over...and over...and over...It gets a lot easier and the work pays off
ArchetypeXE 8 months ago
how do them pronounce ? What are their meanings?
sh3n3ng 9 months ago
@sh3n3ng We will never know that! D:
97Latta 9 months ago
thank you. And oh, there were 666 posts here so I posted. Haha.
NokiaN82black 9 months ago
now i mastered it all!! let`s go to japan! ¬¬ everything would be much easier if things were like this
Klaus7412 10 months ago
how am i supposed to learn japanese when they use this many letters plus hiragana/katakana.
Can i learn without it?
sweetestvaliumhigh 10 months ago
Damn! I wish I had photographic memory.
musicobsessive94 10 months ago 36
@musicobsessive94 Everyone has a photographic memory, some just don't have film.
kanjitard 10 months ago 63
@kanjitard
Some expose their film too.
SeventhSun 6 months ago
@musicobsessive94 Still, not very usefull only when Kanji is presented, all I can do when I look at kanji is saying... oh, I know this simbol... but what it means? this is usefull to pratice, to learn... not really...
SniperSX 4 months ago
...then i died
blrbgbari 10 months ago 2
very good video, the kanjis look like they are dancing. it is very good video for those who are enjoying studying knjis. i have learned 2230 kanjis and need something to repaet them so this i guess will be good thing to watch for ten min before sleep. amazungly, the brain seems to catch them as fast as they flash.
Thank you very much.
ravshanrahmanov 10 months ago
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PEOPLE, YES, THERE ARE MORE KANJI BUT WE BARELY USE THEM, MOST COMMONLY WE USE KATAKANA AND HIRAGANA, WE USE LIKE PROBOBLY 1000 OF THESE ONLY, LEARNING ALL WOULD TECHNICALLY BE KINDA USELESS, MAJORITY OF PEOPLE HERE IN JAPAN DON'T EVEN KNOW ALL OF 2136, I only know like 960 something, and I live here, yes, befor you blab about the tsunami stuff, my region wasn't effected.
KokoroAiNeko 10 months ago
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Did not learn a thing.
realSOnoYa 10 months ago
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ploothable 10 months ago
There is also no meaning or like strokes soo how do we learn in 10 minutes 23 seconds? sure we see 1945 kanji but no really doing anything is it?
findmeonfb 10 months ago
man I'm korean learning chinese writing and i know about half or more but like !!!!!! Why so fast?
findmeonfb 10 months ago
@findmeonfb You know, koreans even invented a few additional hanja as well ;) I think it is great that you devote yourself to the characters ^_^ Keep it up!
Belikel 10 months ago
dude this vid is hilarious how the hell could I learn em this fast xD
mysteriousDSF 11 months ago
Nyuu! Where's 齒? At first I had to re-watch it cause I thought it was missing 愛, 齿 and 小. I'm French, but I moved to Japan. I know basicaly all of these! Still, I'm pretty good for a 12 year old!
KokoroAiNeko 11 months ago
@KokoroAiNeko
Heyy can ya teach meh? Im not Japanese but i am asian and i wanna learn Japanese soooo bad!!! please?
xXglittterwitchXx 10 months ago
@xXglittterwitchXx I can try, But how would i do so? XP There's a TON of Kanji, but we only use like 20% of them, I can teach you the most commonly used ones and also how to have a full convo in Japanese, ^^
KokoroAiNeko 10 months ago
@KokoroAiNeko thnxx if u can
if u cant thnxx anyways:DD
xXglittterwitchXx 9 months ago
I'm Chinese (know about 80% of these characters) and hoping to learn Japanese, so the fact that Kanji exists really makes me happy >3< But, it would be better if the kanji would slide across the page, instead of darting away so fast! Dx
heyitskevinxO 11 months ago
@heyitskevinxO I am very very very happy about them as well, even though I am still in the process of learning :) ! But I think it is a shame they are still not teached everywhere around the world! Chinese/japanese characters are culturally more worthwhile than any other script in the world. Everyone should have a chance to read and write them!
Belikel 10 months ago
1945 symbols (each one of them having their own philosophical grounds and being interconnected with each other, at a speed of 1945/623 ,i.e. ..more than 3 symbols per second? Who is the human being to learn those?
EineAlpensinfonie 11 months ago
Wow, I recognized more kanjis than I imagined. Maybe I'm really evolving.
D7maj 11 months ago
I don't know what's happening with youtube right know but commenting is a pain D: Anyway, I just wanted to thank you for the video. It helps me to stay motivated through my Heisig journey. And what a cool surprise to hear Try^d here :)
desracinespartout 1 year ago
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OMG ! Try^d ! What a cool surprise :)
Thank you for the video. I'm doing the Heisig and it helps me to stay motivated. (oh! I know that one! and that one!)
desracinespartout 1 year ago
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desracinespartout 1 year ago
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張 <--- my favorite kanji.
if you don't see it, you wont get any
ichijorox 1 year ago
Try the Kanji Wordsearch iPhone app! Fun, and it tracks your progress.
olleryokel 1 year ago
At the moment.... i know only a little pass "grade 1" 96 kanji konyomi and onyomi...
My girlfriend yuka helps me learn and teaches me, I just started learning japanese 11 months ago.
When i start school in tokyo next year... still wont be fluent any faster Lol.
But that's the fun thing, japanese is so fun to learn, Addictive is a mild way of putting it. It's all about hard work and dedication and pushing yourself.
I also love have most sites are mainly in KATAKANA!
disracenboi336 1 year ago
@disracenboi336
I totally agree!
here's a tip i got from some people who help others on Kanji- For foreigners, it is easier to not learn Kanji by "grades" because they have some really complicated characters. the reason is because some simple characters have complex meanings that younger kids wouldn't understand, while some complicated kanji has easier meanings. but as adults we can get these concepts so we should learn more by stroke number :D also, learning radicals help put kanji together!
xAizaOnigirix 1 year ago
i love this music! <3
Now to just learn all of these....
funtoo2 1 year ago
無理！xD
AngeloTanizaki 1 year ago
Going to learn them all!
NanosoftRussia 1 year ago
Lol well i know about 500 xD im satisfied so far
SatoTM2 1 year ago
There is something solemnly beautiful over this 'slideshow', combined with the music.
The reason I return here every so often, however, is the myriad of ignorant comments about asian languages. They amuse me.
To think that I was once as ignorant makes me feel humble. There is yet so much I don't know. Maybe that's the charm of knowledge... learning's like a neverending train ride.
To fellow kanjiteers: this may seem insurmountable, but it is definitely not.
shubainougu 1 year ago 2
@shubainougu yo thats deep man
ichijorox 1 year ago
And traditional Chinese characters are even harder to memorize.
People type more than write nowaday.
I bet more than 70% young people can't even write the word "鬱"(gloomy) properly.
憂鬱(melancholy), 鬱金香 (tulip) we use it quite alot.
tclulu 1 year ago
a-z = 26 chars
kanji = 10.000 chars - 50.000 chars
:)
JimmyJohanes 1 year ago
i will say that 多い.
pinoko1311 1 year ago
kanji is difficult, me being chinese, I spent 11 years in china and rest of my life in Uk and Spain, learning english and spanish made me forget how to write most kanjis, but I can still read most of them, chinese usually learn 3k kanji to be able to write
diabolico5 1 year ago
man......this turns me down.........how am I supposed to learn all this?!!!!
pedsay 1 year ago
My tip for learning kanji : First start by learning the language until you reach an intermediate level, then learn the Kanas. After that continu your Japanese learning without minding kanji (you'll notice that u will learn some just like that with time). After reaching a proper level in Japanese, I suggest that u learn kanji this way : screw the on/kun readings and proceed in learning WORD by WORD not KANJI by KANJI. Learn each word with it's kanji that's the best way to avoid confusion ;)
vocaaation 1 year ago
@vocaaation Yeah advertisement. Me helping others with what allowed me to learn these kanji. I completely disagree with your method. If you wanna learn a word completely you NEED to know how its written in kanji. First learn the words then again in kanji? useless and wastes twice as much time.The only way to get the same advantage as those who are native korean and chinese speakers is to master the kanji. Good blog to read up on more is AJATT more advertisement. thanks
Tolerence911 1 year ago
@Tolerence911 I'm japanese and I agree with vocaation. learning kanji itself is unuseless when writing and reading japanese sentences. you need to learn "words" first and the same time you can know how to write the kanji and what kind of the time it is useable. this should be common way to learn every kanji language like Mandarin, Kantonese or Taiwanese.
oceanvioletblue 1 year ago
you have to think "why is this kanji used in this word?" when you lean words, and you understand the meaning. then you come to be able to expect when the kanji is useable. for example, you know the kanji 小 that means small or little and is read as "shou". and you find the word "shou-metsu" that means "vanishing". you think here, this word is unrelated to "small". if you know the word "shou-kyo(消去)" that means "removing", you can find relation and you would notice that you can use 消 here.
oceanvioletblue 1 year ago
kanji are virtually made up of radicals that once broken down and be built up again with a memnomic or however you call it. You can relate the word to the kanji as you learn it. just because japanese learned it their way doesnt mean its the most effective approach. something like 餓(starve) can be broken into 食（eat) and 我 (ego) and rebuilt into a story like [the "egotistic" man didn't "eat" and "starved"] story is horrible but the trick to memory is associating things with what you already know
Tolerence911 1 year ago
yeah that's interesting. but you know, learning 餓 itself doesn't help you making japanese sentence, rather it should trouble you sometime. when you find a word "ga-man" that means "endure", don't you get in trouble which kanji to use? 我 or 餓 and what kanji for "man".万, 満, 慢, 曼, 漫, 饅...? In the end, you have to look up what kanji is used for the word even though you already know many kanji. don't you think learning words and kanji the same time is better then?
oceanvioletblue 1 year ago
@oceanvioletblue
The reason Kanji is difficult is people tend to take everything at once. okay we'll learn this word's kanji, take the kanji gets it stroke order, all readings, all meaning, then move on the rest of that word's meaning and reading. its an overload of information. taking the kanji learning them with a keyword to trigger your memory is taking the mammoth of japanese and making it much more learnable. But i cant really explain with such limited space a method not my own.
Tolerence911 1 year ago
@oceanvioletblue
The method is jame heisig's. look up the site "reviewing the kanji" look at its forums, and check out the method, you dont even have to buy the book. This approach is definitely unorthodox but its proves that school has failed us at learning these 2000+ kanji. Anyone interested do the research and read my former posts. just trying to help.
Tolerence911 1 year ago
Thank you for the lesson. I now know all joyo kanji.
emptybookreader 1 year ago 45
@emptybookreader Fine! Now you only have to pay me $1499 to my bank account in the Cayman Islands.
kanjitard 1 year ago 23
To all those who believe this is impossible: I am a freshman in college and just yesterday I completed after 7 months of work Jame Heisig's Remembering the Kanji. Its his method on how to remember all 2040. This is far from impossible and a very rewarding experience. If you're a serious student check it out you won't be sorry.
Tolerence911 1 year ago
@Tolerence911 free advertising huh? (or maybe not..)
vocaaation 1 year ago
wich kanji do they use in japan
and how much do they count?
DeathStar9903 1 year ago
@12martijn1211 It isn't that much work to learn the jouyou kanji at all... and to function in Japanse society as something other than a english teacher you DO need to know them.
AstralAbraxas 1 year ago
thanks for the vid. :) it'll help me pass by the time in compulsory-attendance lectures so at least i can keep up immersion~ xD
sarahrepin 1 year ago
I actually tried to shout out the meanings of all these as the video played....I couldn't keep up xD
summercalls28 1 year ago
1945 Kanji? There are over 2040 Kanji in use in today's Japan newspapers. I'm afraid you have failed to realise this. And there are thousands more in use in China.
XxHowDareYouxX 1 year ago
@XxHowDareYouxX - Thanks for telling me. I believe that I still have a long way to go in learning this!
Trixiaoyu 1 year ago
@XxHowDareYouxX The truth is that the Japanese government does regulate the kanji that is placed into news papers, as of i believe 2008 there were 1945 kanji allowed, but now i think it is 1948.
biohazard93808 1 year ago