This doesn't say everything that you need to know for those words.
When you're talking to/about your mom you would use 'Okaa-san' お母さん. And with your dad, you would use 'Otou-san' お父さん. You only use 'Chichi/Haha' when you're refering to someone elses mom/dad.
I'll give an example from Lucky Star.
'Izumi chichi' It says, 'Papa Izumi'. The speaker was talking about a friend's dad. If she was talking about her own dad she would have said 'Otou-san' (Dad), or 'Watashi no otou-san' (My dad).
@UptheApplesandPears 父 [chichi] actually means "papa". If you refer to someone else's father (or even your own), you usually say お父さん [otôsan]. You can split otôsan into three parts: o-tô-san. I'm sure you've heard "san" before as a name-suffix; it is a honorific. Same goes for the "o" which is sometimes used as a honorific but always comes at the beginning of a word.
@maneatingbanana It has to do with it being written properly. It may not look right if written differently, also, it's kinda like when learning English letters we learn stroke order too. It's just the way it's taught. I don't know if there's any more to it, maybe also in the art of calligraphy, it helps go more fluidly from one kanji or kana to the next and you seem more professional if observed.
@franziiii In japanese language they have katakana (used for foreign language,ex. english), hiragana(normal japanese) and kanji.. the kanji shows the difference or real meaning of the word..example the word `hashi` it means chopsticks,end and bridge; if its only written in hiragana the reader might be confused, that´s why they also use kanji.
@franziiii hiragana is really only used for the helping wordsin japanese, (pen's= pen no, topic particles and the like. yada yada yada, im learning from namasensei, type him into the box, if you dont mind the swearing! hes brilliant, and its a full course.
@franziiii i think hiragana and katakana are mainly used for pronunciation and stuff like that... kanji is used as a whole word with meanings. Kanji is sot of like a vocab... and you use hiragana and katakana to pronounce this vocab... at least that's what i think
@yan99992 That is not entirely correct. In the written language, both Hiragana and Kanji are used. There are a lot of words that are written in Hiragana alone, but most of the words are written in either Kanji or Kanji AND Hiragana.
A Kanji is not like a vocab, either. A vocab can consist of one Kanji only, but a Kanji is basically only a character. That's why you learn Kanji and the vocabulary. Even if you know all the Kanji, you won't be able to understand much unless you know the vocabulary.
@franziiii You might have received an explanation already, but this is just in case.
Being a beginning self-teacher of Japanese, I've asked myself the same question. Yes, they can be fully pronounced in Japanese, so hiragana can be used. Hiragana actually IS used for the younger ones who have yet to learn kanji. Children's books barely have any kanji. However, kanji contracts what could take several hiragana symbols into one symbol, for easier reading. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but it works
Thank you. And I thought I was asking a "stupid" question. Since I asked this question, I researched very much into this and now I can tell the difference between Kana and Kanji.
@franziiii because kanji are the phonetics that the japanese use, similarly in the English language we use "sh" and "ch". the japanese use kanji, to shorten their sentences, and make them more efficient to read. i hope this helped :)
@franziiii The reason why we use kanji is because there are no spaces in Japanese and just writing in hiragana would be confusing.Also,hiragana is used to write words that have kanji that are extremely difficult or are seldom used.Hiragana is also used to write particles.
@MoQuake umm maybe but since it is YOUR mother that you're talking about you would scream Oka-San or Ka-San. Cos i think you mostly say Haha if your referring to someone else's mother....hope this helps lol
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I am totally confused Why I learn Japanese alphabetic ,when I just write in a COMPLETELY different way !!! I don't use symbols in writing so why I learn them ??
this is partially true and partially not. im not far enough into japanese to discredit you fully, but think of 2 things. 1. the context of your sentence. 2. the following particle of the sentence. in english we have a lot of homonyms but most dont get confused, although we may spell them wrong from time to time. their there too to two weather whether witch which you never say, "there were these two witches talking about the weather over there" and get them confused do you?
but up to 16 words that are written the same way in hiragana may be confusing. Anyway I like some Japanese kanjis. e.g man = force and rice field :P And well, it wouldn't be that funny to learn Japanese if there were no kanji. I learn it for fun :)
There is no particular reason other than historical ones. Some intellectuals defend the abolition of kanji. Corea managed to abolish kanji and now uses only hangul, a kind of character that resembles hiragana. Kanji came from China in a time when there was no written form in Japan. Hiragana and katakana were invented later.
@hcm9999 korean letters don't resemble hiragana.. -_- i don't know where you got that but no korean letters actually look like hiragana since hangul wasn't made from simplifying chinese letters and hiragana did
Right, the problem is that if you're reading ONLY Hiragana, then this sentence would look just like this.
Righttheproblemisthatifyou'rereadingonlyHiraganathenthissentencewouldlookjust likethisandyouhavetocarefullysoundouteachsyllabletoevenunderstandwhatyouarereading. =] Now you might ask "Why don't they just space their words?!" Ironically...it's because they have Kanji and with it, they don't need to XD lol!
I disagree. You say haha as in if you are talking about your mother to another person, you say okaasan or okaasama if you are talking about the listener's mother. you say okaasan if you want to call your mom. if you don't like saying okaaasan, then why don't you just say okkasan. that sounds very edokko. although very jidaigeki-like.
Because when talking about your mom to someone ELSE you don't want to honor them, it's kinda rude in a way, it's like placing your parents above and beyond, it's like, boasting. Because "okaasan" is honorable terminology. So you would ask someone ELSE how THEIR "Okaasan" is doing, you call them that to show honor and respect to them, u also call your mom that to her face, but not when talking ABOUT her to a friend or something. Same with Chichi "Oneesan" becomes "Ane" Niisan=Ani
Well, this comes down to just knowing Japanese vocabulary. For instance, as you saw in the video, the kanji for father can be read as "Chichi". But if you put the hiragana for "O" infront of that same kanji and put a "san" after it, then you read the kanji as "Tou", therefore it's read as "Otousan". All that stuff is a little advanced though.
@LeaShishiza "Haha" is kinda less formal, used when referring to your own parent. "O-ka-san" is the more formal version of mother. The "O" in "Okasan" adds more formality, and can be taken out, resulting in "Ka-san." Hope this helps!~ ^-^ I'm only in Japanese 1-2. xP
@Upplands OK, i've only just started learning japanese so bear that in mind when i say that i don't see how stroke order really makes a difference. Surely you can still draw the symbol clearly without having to learn and follow a strict way of writing each of the thousands of symbols?
I'm also studying Japanese and my tandem-partner told me it's actually very important to keep that very order in mind. It will help memorizing them, 'cause after lots of kanjii you learn you'll start to see regularities in the patterns, the so called "radicals" :))
@Upplands Technically, the writing orders are wrong, but this could just be personal prefereces or how she learned to write it when she was growing up.
ok does this post work well on learning how to read and write japanesse cuz in need to learn this im in to manga books but alot of the stuff in manga series and other things are japanesse I NEED TO KNOW THIS!!!
@laughs4kittens you won't learn anything just by watching videos on youtube. Videos such as this one may serve as an appetizer only.
Learning Japanese for someone whose native language is English or any of the European ones is quite hard. The system is completely different and you will start to notice so once you'll begin your studies.
And beginning your studies from Kanji is rather foolish unless you have a teacher who really knows what he's doing.
It exists in case of the pronunciation of "kaasan". Such other pronunciations exist, too.
人= JIN ,NIN 男= DAN,O 女= ME,JYO,NYO 親= SHIN 子= SHI,GO 父= FU,TOUSAN 母= BO 友= YUU
Both are the pronunciations of the Roman alphabet. If Kaasan and Tousan are written in Japanese, it becomes "母さん" and "父さん". "さん"＝SAN "さん" becomes a polite expression by the thing applied to the name of a person etc.
does any one have suggestions on how I can learn kanji. You see I already know how to read and memorized hiragana and katakana well. The way I learned it was by writing 5 character every day each over 50 times and using computer online memorization practice. now i heard that the essential kanji for everyday japanese reading is about 2000. i really dont want to write each 2000 kanji words over 50 times. does anyone have any suggestions because i want to learn the essential kanji by 3 months.
Haha （pronounced はは written 母 (duh. i've been trying to write that kanji with ime handwriting for half an hour now. Either it doesn't know it, or my handwriting sucks)) means mother.
Okaasan (pronounced (and i think written aswell) おかあさん) means mother aswell.
And i don't know any japanese (well, at least not much). This info was generated using my ears, and the IME kanji conversion tool, and IME handwriting tool (except for the Kanji... argh, Kanji are bitches).
That's because Kanji are chinese characters. Some of them have been altered over time, and maybe some of them were added later on, but they originate from china.
The reason, with hirigana, you wouldn't know when a word would start or end in a sentence. With kanji, they all have a meaning in itself which is why they use it alot in sentences to replace words. Plus Hirigana and Katakana are just smaller pieces of the larger kanji. So, be happy. :]
Its not the best idea to put them together, cause a symbol could mean one thing alone, but together it could mean something completely different... Be careful! lol
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I have thought about making a video like this, but based more on like "Remembering the Kanji"
btw, stroke order isn't just 'pretty important' is Essential. It not only affectgs how the kanji look, but when looking up kanji you don't know by radicals and stroke order, you Have to have it right.
geroldkid: Good point, usually you say TOMODACHI to mean friends. You wouldn't use TOMO on its own in a conversation. This video was really meant for you to just recognize the basic kanji here.
TOMODACHI can mean friend or friends. It doesn't follow logically on from the other examples above because, hey, language is like that. Thanks for the comments!
This doesn't say everything that you need to know for those words.
When you're talking to/about your mom you would use 'Okaa-san' お母さん. And with your dad, you would use 'Otou-san' お父さん. You only use 'Chichi/Haha' when you're refering to someone elses mom/dad.
I'll give an example from Lucky Star.
'Izumi chichi' It says, 'Papa Izumi'. The speaker was talking about a friend's dad. If she was talking about her own dad she would have said 'Otou-san' (Dad), or 'Watashi no otou-san' (My dad).
xSRGDarknessx 1 month ago
if haha is mother how do japanese write laughter? XDDDDD for example when they chat? XD
shiroi201 1 month ago
@shiroi201 shime
CrissySnow 1 month ago
@CrissySnow so shime is the "hahaha" of japan? XDDD sounds weird XD
shiroi201 1 week ago
@shiroi201 yes usually it looks like this
〈笑〉 You say something funny and end it with that
例えば＞＞＞油虫大嫌いよ〈笑） Its how they end with lol something like that
CrissySnow 1 week ago
Oya is my cousin's name hahaha thats weird considering he's younger than me
MrOrencillo 4 months ago
i thought mother was okasa?
UptheApplesandPears 5 months ago
@UptheApplesandPears 父 [chichi] actually means "papa". If you refer to someone else's father (or even your own), you usually say お父さん [otôsan]. You can split otôsan into three parts: o-tô-san. I'm sure you've heard "san" before as a name-suffix; it is a honorific. Same goes for the "o" which is sometimes used as a honorific but always comes at the beginning of a word.
母 - haha - mama
父 - chichi - papa
お父さん - otôsan - father
お母さん - okâsan - mother
SquallShurtugal 3 months ago
@SquallShurtugal Additional remark:
I've noticed that お母さん and お父さん are also often used when children address or speak about their mother or father.
SquallShurtugal 3 months ago
when i laugh i say "mom mom mom mom"
hahahahahahahahahaha
brunixxxoxxx 5 months ago
Everyone is saying stroke isn't important. Fact: Stroke is actually more inportant than they think. I kinda forgot why but it's very inportant...
maneatingbanana 6 months ago
@maneatingbanana It has to do with it being written properly. It may not look right if written differently, also, it's kinda like when learning English letters we learn stroke order too. It's just the way it's taught. I don't know if there's any more to it, maybe also in the art of calligraphy, it helps go more fluidly from one kanji or kana to the next and you seem more professional if observed.
Matsuyamanokage 3 months ago
japanese translator
kobeakashi123 6 months ago
If one can write all these words in hiragana why is it necessary to write them in Kanji too? When do you use hiragana and when do you use Kanji?
franziiii 7 months ago 7
@franziiii In japanese language they have katakana (used for foreign language,ex. english), hiragana(normal japanese) and kanji.. the kanji shows the difference or real meaning of the word..example the word `hashi` it means chopsticks,end and bridge; if its only written in hiragana the reader might be confused, that´s why they also use kanji.
TheEvagrey 7 months ago
@TheEvagrey OK, when they read they can see the difference but when listening they can't listen to the difference?
FeelFree3 4 months ago
@franziiii hiragana is really only used for the helping wordsin japanese, (pen's= pen no, topic particles and the like. yada yada yada, im learning from namasensei, type him into the box, if you dont mind the swearing! hes brilliant, and its a full course.
XXEMOsxrxhottXX 6 months ago
@franziiii Because, Kanji makes it eaiser to read plus faster.
MoustacheMyMoustache 3 months ago
@franziiii i think hiragana and katakana are mainly used for pronunciation and stuff like that... kanji is used as a whole word with meanings. Kanji is sot of like a vocab... and you use hiragana and katakana to pronounce this vocab... at least that's what i think
yan99992 2 months ago
@yan99992 That is not entirely correct. In the written language, both Hiragana and Kanji are used. There are a lot of words that are written in Hiragana alone, but most of the words are written in either Kanji or Kanji AND Hiragana.
A Kanji is not like a vocab, either. A vocab can consist of one Kanji only, but a Kanji is basically only a character. That's why you learn Kanji and the vocabulary. Even if you know all the Kanji, you won't be able to understand much unless you know the vocabulary.
SquallShurtugal 2 months ago
@franziiii You might have received an explanation already, but this is just in case.
Being a beginning self-teacher of Japanese, I've asked myself the same question. Yes, they can be fully pronounced in Japanese, so hiragana can be used. Hiragana actually IS used for the younger ones who have yet to learn kanji. Children's books barely have any kanji. However, kanji contracts what could take several hiragana symbols into one symbol, for easier reading. Yeah, it's a pain in the ass, but it works
seg162 1 month ago
@seg162
Thank you. And I thought I was asking a "stupid" question. Since I asked this question, I researched very much into this and now I can tell the difference between Kana and Kanji.
franziiii 1 month ago
@franziiii because kanji are the phonetics that the japanese use, similarly in the English language we use "sh" and "ch". the japanese use kanji, to shorten their sentences, and make them more efficient to read. i hope this helped :)
chomray1 1 month ago
@franziiii The reason why we use kanji is because there are no spaces in Japanese and just writing in hiragana would be confusing.Also,hiragana is used to write words that have kanji that are extremely difficult or are seldom used.Hiragana is also used to write particles.
HemlocksChannel 1 week ago
Helpful video :)
PrincessFran96 7 months ago
These are kun-readings, whats the on-reading?
lycheesack 8 months ago
Haha :D
Kyogremon 10 months ago
Guys some of these is the informal version of the words!
Matty5122 10 months ago
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olleryokel 1 year ago
"Everyone has a Chi Chi and Ha Ha"
Sounds rude doesn't it!
wgh999 1 year ago
chichi also means tits XD
missdinamit 1 year ago 37
@missdinamit
I guess you can use, Otosan instead, guess that way it won't get confused it with boobs :P
TheAbridgedGamer 7 months ago
@missdinamit indeed it does!
written in katakana though. there is no TI in katakana, so instead they use chi.
jcindass89 3 weeks ago
@MoQuake lol
MsPichuTheOverlord 1 year ago
My dad was a Chichi man
benitofinito 1 year ago
@benitofinito thats not grammtically correct.
penguincheesecake 1 year ago
@penguincheesecake "Chi chi man" is a term used in England is for people who are homosexual. I was joking btw.
benitofinito 1 year ago
eww u ugly
krazydizzleoffical 1 year ago
@krazydizzleoffical THATS RUDe D:<
girrulez77 1 year ago
lol when she got to child i tough she would say K O i would so lol then but sadly she didnt.
shadowfox6431 1 year ago
@MoQuake yes sure :D what else? No?
Flygon4096 1 year ago
@MoQuake Haha is used when you are referring to your own mother to someone else.
Aquasakurablue 1 year ago
@MoQuake umm maybe but since it is YOUR mother that you're talking about you would scream Oka-San or Ka-San. Cos i think you mostly say Haha if your referring to someone else's mother....hope this helps lol
GGGIRLGGG8181 1 year ago
It's like a code I need to crack =D
GTA4Kings 1 year ago
thank you! i'm just starting kanji so these will be the first ones i learn! :D
NeptunePrincess04 1 year ago
Thank you, this is very helpful.
00cipher 1 year ago
@marijbrooklyn HIDOI! as a foreigner, I found this video very helpful..Don't judge a person by her appearance.
YeonGaram 1 year ago
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YeonGaram 1 year ago
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GrupoGenuinos 1 year ago
come back HaHa
wergbr 1 year ago
what is this
shineethebestofall 1 year ago
is oya no like plural for parent
boobookitty987 1 year ago
i thought ひと was pronounced as shito
dreamchaser171 1 year ago
にほんごをべんきょします。これはいいです。ありがとう！
TRexTurtle 1 year ago
and which languange do animes use ? which type of the japanese ? because japanese has another extensions right?
Gh0StSecurity 1 year ago
where do you have the former classes bro?
Gh0StSecurity 1 year ago
漢字の書き順、間違ってませんか？ 息子に日本語を教えてますが、これが一番気に入っているようです。でも間違った書き順を頭に叩き込むと後からの訂正が難しいです！！
mimispiderie 1 year ago
huh: i thought chichi meant breast lol >.>
iRlazyGoat 1 year ago
omg thank youuu!!!
PussyCatDoll14 1 year ago
i like learning Japanese but this was about as interesting as a watching a rock! sorry!!
ninjutsuspecalist 1 year ago
shut up
SilverGunZoO 1 year ago
wow cranky or some thing.
ninjutsuspecalist 1 year ago
噁心！ 什麽kanji啊！ 這明明是漢語！（中國語）
cct346078604 1 year ago
@cct346078604 不要激动。kanji是日本语汉字的读音。在英语中kanji这个词特指日语中的汉字。更何况，所有学日本语的美国人都清楚汉字来自中国。
MrCombatbootlover 1 year ago
@MrCombatbootlover How could you connect to the Youtube??? I heard that Youtube has been banned in China... I am just wondering..
YeonGaram 1 year ago
@YeonGaram Just use proxies. I don't know why the CHinese government is so stupid. The blockage is almost totally useless. The information transparency in China is much higher than most westerners think.
MrCombatbootlover 1 year ago
@YeonGaram
its japanese....
purplestripes69 1 year ago
In chinese father is baba or 爸爸
Generalvaldez 1 year ago
すごい！
Paigesings 2 years ago
I am totally confused Why I learn Japanese alphabetic ,when I just write in a COMPLETELY different way !!! I don't use symbols in writing so why I learn them ??
alypkm 2 years ago
Can someone please tell me why we have to know kanji, is knowing katakana and hiragana not enough...
PussyCatDoll14 2 years ago
There are sooo many homonymes in Japanese that sometimes you would get confused what are you actually reading about.
PtokBentoniczny 2 years ago
skwerl23 2 years ago
but up to 16 words that are written the same way in hiragana may be confusing. Anyway I like some Japanese kanjis. e.g man = force and rice field :P And well, it wouldn't be that funny to learn Japanese if there were no kanji. I learn it for fun :)
PtokBentoniczny 2 years ago
There is no particular reason other than historical ones. Some intellectuals defend the abolition of kanji. Corea managed to abolish kanji and now uses only hangul, a kind of character that resembles hiragana. Kanji came from China in a time when there was no written form in Japan. Hiragana and katakana were invented later.
hcm9999 1 year ago
@hcm9999 korean letters don't resemble hiragana.. -_- i don't know where you got that but no korean letters actually look like hiragana since hangul wasn't made from simplifying chinese letters and hiragana did
tokee1234567 1 year ago
@tokee1234567 I don't mean their appearance, but the fact that they are both phonetic.
hcm9999 1 year ago
@PussyCatDoll14
Right, the problem is that if you're reading ONLY Hiragana, then this sentence would look just like this.
Righttheproblemisthatifyou'rereadingonlyHiraganathenthissentencewouldlookjust likethisandyouhavetocarefullysoundouteachsyllabletoevenunderstandwhatyouarereading. =] Now you might ask "Why don't they just space their words?!" Ironically...it's because they have Kanji and with it, they don't need to XD lol!
MrOmniblast 1 year ago
how do you write kanji when you want to comment. i mean no translation site be needed to write. just in your keyboard. tanx
energytic 2 years ago
@energytic to write in kana かな you need to install a second language.
go to your control panel, and find the region settings.
go to keyboards, and then settings in there.
add a japanese keyboard.
now press "alt+shift" on the left side to switch to japanese.
press shift+caps or alt+caps to alter between ひらがな and カタカナ
just research IME if you are lost.
if its not working right click the task bar, and turn on the language toolbar
skwerl23 2 years ago
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LeaShishiza 2 years ago 5
@LeaShishiza when you say お母さん ｗｉｔｈ ａ ｌｏｎｇ ａａａ ｉｎ ｉｔ ｉｔ ｓｏｕｎｄｓ ｒｅａｌｌｙ ｃｈｉｌｄｉｓｈ ｌｉｋｅ ｙｏｕ ｗａｎｔ ｓｏｍｅｔｈｉｎｇ．ｂｕｔ ｓａｙｉｎｇ はは
just is like saying my mom.
DAIGORO14 2 years ago
Thanks! ^^
LeaShishiza 2 years ago
@DAIGORO14 alt+shift would of switched yo back to english so you didnt ｎｅｅｄ ｔｏ ｔｙｐｅ ｌｉｋｅ ｔｈｉｓ．
skwerl23 2 years ago
I disagree. You say haha as in if you are talking about your mother to another person, you say okaasan or okaasama if you are talking about the listener's mother. you say okaasan if you want to call your mom. if you don't like saying okaaasan, then why don't you just say okkasan. that sounds very edokko. although very jidaigeki-like.
mimispiderie 1 year ago
It;s like mom and mother but with more respect... :P
PtokBentoniczny 2 years ago
@LeaShishiza
Because when talking about your mom to someone ELSE you don't want to honor them, it's kinda rude in a way, it's like placing your parents above and beyond, it's like, boasting. Because "okaasan" is honorable terminology. So you would ask someone ELSE how THEIR "Okaasan" is doing, you call them that to show honor and respect to them, u also call your mom that to her face, but not when talking ABOUT her to a friend or something. Same with Chichi "Oneesan" becomes "Ane" Niisan=Ani
MrOmniblast 1 year ago
Well, this comes down to just knowing Japanese vocabulary. For instance, as you saw in the video, the kanji for father can be read as "Chichi". But if you put the hiragana for "O" infront of that same kanji and put a "san" after it, then you read the kanji as "Tou", therefore it's read as "Otousan". All that stuff is a little advanced though.
MagniusKun 1 year ago
@LeaShishiza okasan or kasan would be the familiar way, just like when we say mom
haha is mother, and it isn't usual for us to call our moms mother, but
this lesson is to describe people after all, so we're talking about "a mother" =haha :)
oOoJapGirloOo 1 year ago
@LeaShishiza i think oka-san is formal im not quite sure :)
Chiakakarasu 1 year ago
@LeaShishiza "Haha" is kinda less formal, used when referring to your own parent. "O-ka-san" is the more formal version of mother. The "O" in "Okasan" adds more formality, and can be taken out, resulting in "Ka-san." Hope this helps!~ ^-^ I'm only in Japanese 1-2. xP
StarlightAnime22 11 months ago
@LeaShishiza I think one may mean 'mother', whereas the other means 'mom'
FuroraCeltica 11 months ago
@LeaShishiza haha is talking about your own mother to someone else, okaasan is respectful and is how you address your mother directly
tsukuyomimodo 10 months ago
@LeaShishiza it's called "haha" if ur talking about ur own to someone else
cos u have to be humble and put yourself/your family down as compared to an outsider
xxKTxx00 10 months ago
@LeaShishiza Mother "Haha": form is used for when you're speaking about your OWN mother to someone else. :)
TokyoMattoKun 10 months ago
@TokyoMattoKun ya thank you. 1000s of People have already answered this question, although it's been a year I asked LOL
LeaShishiza 10 months ago
@TokyoMattoKun and it is used for formal conversation. `okasan` also means mother but only used for daily conversation or informal conversation
TheEvagrey 7 months ago
@LeaShishiza Haha = MY mom.
(O)kasan = mom.
I take an actual Japanese class. (Nihongo o hanashimasu.)
II898II 8 months ago
旭日旗は戦争の象徴みたいで好きでない。日章旗なら良いのだけど・・・。
ababab01010101010101 2 years ago
Danjo DANJO DANJO !!!
.........Sorry it reminds me of that song :D\
man I learn more japanese from Vocaloids then stuff like this :D I don't mean it in a bad way just ...my way
MellofeverKrazy 2 years ago
Writing orders for Otoko 男 and Haha 母 are wrong.
Upplands 2 years ago
@Upplands OK, i've only just started learning japanese so bear that in mind when i say that i don't see how stroke order really makes a difference. Surely you can still draw the symbol clearly without having to learn and follow a strict way of writing each of the thousands of symbols?
Janoslechner 2 years ago 7
I'm also studying Japanese and my tandem-partner told me it's actually very important to keep that very order in mind. It will help memorizing them, 'cause after lots of kanjii you learn you'll start to see regularities in the patterns, the so called "radicals" :))
kittylover983 2 years ago
@Upplands Technically, the writing orders are wrong, but this could just be personal prefereces or how she learned to write it when she was growing up.
ddog892 2 years ago
thanks ^^ hunyaga
000emma000 2 years ago
well im gonna use roesetta stone its mite be easier
laughs4kittens 2 years ago
I wish Japanese was a class at my high school. I would ace it, or try to atleast.
TheHoodzOG 2 years ago
ok does this post work well on learning how to read and write japanesse cuz in need to learn this im in to manga books but alot of the stuff in manga series and other things are japanesse I NEED TO KNOW THIS!!!
laughs4kittens 2 years ago
@laughs4kittens you won't learn anything just by watching videos on youtube. Videos such as this one may serve as an appetizer only.
Learning Japanese for someone whose native language is English or any of the European ones is quite hard. The system is completely different and you will start to notice so once you'll begin your studies.
And beginning your studies from Kanji is rather foolish unless you have a teacher who really knows what he's doing.
anonyuza 2 years ago 2
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very funny, similar to czech words:)
obtulka 2 years ago
no... it's not -.-'
KidHuy 2 years ago
少年 = Boy
ママ = Mom
カツオドリ
カツオドリ
カツオドリ
boonitae 2 years ago
すごい迫力iGoogleのこのクールな文字ですが、イムギリシャクーラー文字ですから翻訳を使用してイム（：
boonitae 2 years ago
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I love the graphics, could watch it all day :D
MrCosteffective 2 years ago
mother can also be said like this "kaza"
narutoFanxxxx 2 years ago
kaza?Such a pronunciation is not in "母".
It exists in case of the pronunciation of "kaasan". Such other pronunciations exist, too.
人= JIN ,NIN 男= DAN,O 女= ME,JYO,NYO 親= SHIN 子= SHI,GO 父= FU,TOUSAN 母= BO 友= YUU
Both are the pronunciations of the Roman alphabet. If Kaasan and Tousan are written in Japanese, it becomes "母さん" and "父さん". "さん"＝SAN "さん" becomes a polite expression by the thing applied to the name of a person etc.
gomennkusai 2 years ago 2
thought mother or wife was ok'san
privateer013 2 years ago
Good video...!
CatholiKanji 2 years ago
ワウは、このゲイイム既にjapaneese私dont必要ですshet返信の場合uこのxDを読むことができます
xMOmeNtoX 2 years ago
NEVER use translator. Use this to correct that post:
Japanese: 日本語
Don't: いいえ
EvilJirachi 2 years ago
just in case anyone wonders why i've written so many comments- the usual youtube hate, most of them are replys -.-
narutofan9999 2 years ago
人
男
女
親
子
父
母
友
wow. thanks alot, i couldnt figure out how to draw 母 ^^ (and i didn't know the others at all xD)
narutofan9999 2 years ago
I remember this from the podcast. I like the other kanji videos too.
Idiomaron 2 years ago
No wonder why Japanese people are so smart look at all the different sets of characters they have.
Especially kanji.
I'm learning Japanese and can speak a little, but can't write it yet.
Sparisi1122 2 years ago
how do you pronounce 産
fastmekillyou123 2 years ago
"san" or "u-mareru" "u-mu".
votreamitieerrika 2 years ago
i heaichrd that hiragana katakana and kanji are from japan engand china and japan but which one is wh
XxXhazebabezXxX 2 years ago
does any one have suggestions on how I can learn kanji. You see I already know how to read and memorized hiragana and katakana well. The way I learned it was by writing 5 character every day each over 50 times and using computer online memorization practice. now i heard that the essential kanji for everyday japanese reading is about 2000. i really dont want to write each 2000 kanji words over 50 times. does anyone have any suggestions because i want to learn the essential kanji by 3 months.
AgentCell 2 years ago
haha= mother
but doesn't okasan=mother also?
Sakura532 2 years ago
I think that "haha" means moreso like mama, I could be wrong, and I probably am, lol.
Idavinator 2 years ago
Haha （pronounced はは written 母 (duh. i've been trying to write that kanji with ime handwriting for half an hour now. Either it doesn't know it, or my handwriting sucks)) means mother.
Okaasan (pronounced (and i think written aswell) おかあさん) means mother aswell.
And i don't know any japanese (well, at least not much). This info was generated using my ears, and the IME kanji conversion tool, and IME handwriting tool (except for the Kanji... argh, Kanji are bitches).
narutofan9999 2 years ago
なんで発音が片言なんだ？ｗｗ
LEGENDOFJAPAN 2 years ago 2
Very similar to chinese. "Hito" (人) character means the same as the chinese character. 人 also means person, except it's pronounced "Ren".
sega31098 2 years ago
Not saying that they are 100% similar, but Chinese has influence on Japanese.
sega31098 2 years ago
Remove all the politics and it will easily be seen that East Asians come from the same heritage.
aeiou980 2 years ago
That's because Kanji are chinese characters. Some of them have been altered over time, and maybe some of them were added later on, but they originate from china.
narutofan9999 2 years ago
the writing under english is hiragana. it's sooo much easier than kanji, why do they have to have 3 kinds of writing geez, why not only hiragan.
NayomeRyukaMycah 2 years ago
They have Kanji because:
The reason, with hirigana, you wouldn't know when a word would start or end in a sentence. With kanji, they all have a meaning in itself which is why they use it alot in sentences to replace words. Plus Hirigana and Katakana are just smaller pieces of the larger kanji. So, be happy. :]
Railuien 2 years ago 2
Because with hiragana only it is very hard to read. Like verbs etc. Hiragana is mostly for gramatical issues
Sissco 2 years ago 2
Long story short one was for men other for women and the last for both... weird but thats how it was
masterdimsen 2 years ago 3
Its somewhat similar to how English ...uses Greek and Latin roots for higher register language..
Kanji=Greek/latin roots..makes language more complex or more refined
platano214 2 years ago
kanji's so hard! mom i can't do it.. tell grandma i can't!
NayomeRyukaMycah 2 years ago
Can you please tell me what writing is under those english letters? Thanks
PCBaranda 2 years ago
That's a japanese system of writing called Hiragana.
xXxblackmariah15xXx 2 years ago
toire wa doko desu ka?
babyturtlex 2 years ago 7
Get out of here! LOL
GuamKomudo 2 years ago
babyturtlex:
"トイレはどこですか？"
I will quote Dante to answer this:
"Well, if you need the bathroom, help yourself. The toilet's in the back."
narutofan9999 2 years ago
@babyturtlex あそこです！
miltonlandriel 1 year ago
@babyturtlex "Where is the toilet?" right?
EuroDivision 1 year ago
I thought it is otousan and okasan not chichi and those ,.. ?? I am confuse ...
evangeline97 2 years ago
chichi and haha are used if you talk ABOUT your parents. Otousan and okaasan are used to talk WITH them or about SOMEONE ELSE parents.
In other words chichi and haha re the correct words but you address them with okaasan and otousan.
LucyMay0610 2 years ago
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domo arigatou goziamasu
i am studing nihongo 4 GSCE
i am 14
HaRp894 2 years ago
i want to get a tattoo but i am not sure about the meaning of the words: "happiness love success "
can someone help me ???
sarahy333 2 years ago
In Japanese kanji it would be:
Happiness: 幸
Love: 愛
Success:成功
Please check with a native Japanese person AND a Chinese person just in case I have written something bad...
hunyaga 2 years ago
thanks =)
sarahy333 2 years ago
Its not the best idea to put them together, cause a symbol could mean one thing alone, but together it could mean something completely different... Be careful! lol
GuamKomudo 2 years ago
Hey nice videos =) i subscribed already !!
keep up the good work!
iroiro arigatou gozaimashita!
bOckA*
Drackulea 2 years ago
how do you write sisterhood
sesshygirlrin 2 years ago
If is your little sister is ...
妹 いもうと Imouto
Good Luck !
Tenki09 2 years ago
how do you say "son" in japanese? how do you spell it in kanji?
mewlollipop97 3 years ago
息子 which is pronounced MUSKO.
hunyaga 3 years ago
ah... Arigatou! :)
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Nantchev 3 years ago
ありがと
brucedickension 3 years ago
Arigatou hunyaga san ^_^
lowther456 3 years ago
有賀とございます！！＾＾
aeshiee550 3 years ago
omg...there`s no way for me to write Kanji...no matter how hard i try....-.-...but the vids are awesome ^^..!!!
sandrathenarutofreak 3 years ago
Use the force sandrathenarutofreak. USE THE FORCE!
hunyaga 3 years ago
ありがとう、 この動画はいいです。 もうお願いします
I have thought about making a video like this, but based more on like "Remembering the Kanji"
btw, stroke order isn't just 'pretty important' is Essential. It not only affectgs how the kanji look, but when looking up kanji you don't know by radicals and stroke order, you Have to have it right.
x1337magex 3 years ago
douitashimashite!!!
PakDaeHan 3 years ago
ARIGATOU!!!
PakDaeHan 3 years ago
Doitashimashite!
hunyaga 3 years ago
Knowing the stroke order influences the way the kanji looks when you write it so it's pretty important.
hunyaga 3 years ago
cool!
especially that the writing order is given too!
tamoe1 3 years ago
The finky music makes it cool xD
Brightstar27 3 years ago
funky*
Brightstar27 3 years ago
It's got to be funky!
hunyaga 3 years ago
geroldkid: Good point, usually you say TOMODACHI to mean friends. You wouldn't use TOMO on its own in a conversation. This video was really meant for you to just recognize the basic kanji here.
TOMODACHI can mean friend or friends. It doesn't follow logically on from the other examples above because, hey, language is like that. Thanks for the comments!
hunyaga 3 years ago
I thought "Tomodachi" was friend, not "Tomo"?
geroldkid 3 years ago