Learn Japanese Kanji - The Secret to Understanding Japanese Kanji Fast!

[Nb3nB]

Where is more learning Kanji video!?

I still learn just basic

TT_TT

[OngakuZukiSan]

You know that feeling when your heart sort of floats? yeah... your voice... wow... like getting out of an onsen... wow.... ahhhhhhh....

[Arko9858]

hey thats the same marker i use.

[Zatain]

If it's difficult and slow it isn't fun, no matter if the teacher is cute or not.

Anyone who agrees with this should look up the Heisig method.

[WesleyPonZi]

Is Kanji actually the most used form of writing in Japan? Since there is Hiragana, Katakana and Romaji too.

[japanesepod101]

@WesleyPonZi Written Japanese is a mix of kanji, hiragana, and katakana :) You could say that they're all about equally used.

[LaPoderosaLluvia]

@WesleyPonZi There is no romaji in Japanese. The foreign words or borrowed words are written in Katakana, not Romaji.

[sotekoppen]

are chinese characters any diferent from the japanese characters?

[ClaudiaNihon]

@sotekoppen

The ways of reading and writing and the meanings are different. There are some similarities though. Japanese also use hiragana and katakana. Chinese use kanji only.

[japanesepod101]

@sotekoppen Many of them are the same, but have different readings (and sometimes meanings).

[TheGroovyWalrus]

what am I waiting for?

[Foreverzxcc]

I'M SO GLAD I'M A CHINESE !! T_T *touched*

[SniperSX]

@Foreverzxcc ahahah, well, I am a Portuguese, my language has nothing to do with japanese or Kanji, still, I can learn the simbols using my imagination and by doing associations, of course as they say, easy said that done, but I am improving... eh eh eh 日本！　中国！！！　:D

[songokukingdomhearts]

@SniperSX nihon to chugoku japan and china

[SniperSX]

@songokukingdomhearts so desu.

[shikamarusgirl17]

Which, and how many kanji are gone over in the DVD?

[japanesepod101]

@AwesomeNinjaTVFTW Please look for our Basic Japanese series on our Youtube channel :)

[MrSuwaidiSama]

I learnt japanese from watching animes

[AshitaNoKanousei42]

何も教えてくれなかったのに。

[raioneinjeru]

Why are you so cute? I can't stop watching your videos, which means I am learning a lot in a pleasing way, not like at college ^_^. Thank you and your team for your hard and great work. It has really helped me (and I beleave that to a lot of others more) to get closer to such a rich and beautiful language. Honto ni arigato gozaimasu (bow )

[gameseeker529]

can you teach me personally like online chat so you can teach me step by step im 12yrs old and i live in england

[olleryokel]

Try the Kanji Wordsearch iPhone app! Fun, and it tracks your progress.

[hoaxygen]

I've found out that once you study Kanji long enough, retaining new Kanji becomes surprisingly easy.

[janiruchan]

the spoken language is easy to learn, especially when you love jdramas and animes..But omg, the kanji is the exact opposite!

[iSpasticFantastic]

9unslinger.... カタカナ* :P Oh and I was told it's because if I were to introduce myself in Japanese, with the traditional no spaces it would be a confusing drizzle of hiragana thus using katakana, hiragana and kanji you can differentiate, oh and katakana is commonly used for foreign words... Here's a example of drizzle:

こにちわわらしのなまえわすにさんです。おなめわですか。

Scuse' me if I stuffed up in that sentence, it is 12:15 AM here.

[9unslinger]

sorry for bothering why does japanese use カタガナ and ひらがな and 漢字 together?

な願いたすけてください!!!

[j1979c]

漢字の勉強は難しいですが、楽しいです！

[1980theone]

I can just watch you FOREVERR!!! Your so adorable!! ^_^ <3<3~<3

[brigitad123]

someone want to try learn japanese together? (14-16 years old) :D

[notimportant789]

@brigitad123

i keep trying to teach myself, but its taking awhile.....mostly because my school doesnt teach japanese, so i have to learn japanese on my own, and then spanish in school -_-

[brigitad123]

@notimportant789 i am trying to learn japanese by my self too :)

[Literbel7]

@brigitad123 Oh really, me too, but I am not well speaking it or English. I am a Spanish speaker, so it is so difficult to learn JApanase as well.

[nybble81]

Sorry if I ask my question in a wrong place, but it's really very interesting for me - how do the Japanese children learn how to READ kanji? I mean, they learn how to write it just doing again and again, but even such simple symbol as 日 has at least 4 variants of reading, and this is first year's kanji! Do they really learn all this variants at once, or may be only kunyomi firstly is taught? Sorry for distract you again, すみません :[

[xcess7]

Kanji Corner.

hmm...

Kanji Kado! =)

[MYopinionTIME]

I want to learn a Asian language, which one is easier to learn Japanese or chinese?

and which one do you think I should learn?

[malkaby2500]

very nice soundtrack by the way....

[adefalohun]

hirokochannel looks so younger here lol aww

[oparunz]

I think they should classify the kanji that are MORE USE.. i hate Kanji , nobody can remember it all of them . let remove some useless kanji

[ssayegh54]

@oparunz actually chinese people only use kanji (hanzi) and remember even more of them

[MHKing03]

I love the background music used in these videos. Can you tell me more about it (what it's called) and where I can find more?

[japanesepod101]

@MHKing03 The music was actually made for us by one of our listeners :)

[Enerccio]

@japanesepod101 Can you provide the mp3 of it? that would be ubercool

[sevag1974]

@japanesepod101 its beautiful music ! LOVE IT ! :)))

[migencluz]

@japanesepod101 do you mind if you give this tune to us as ringtone? this is so catchy!

[TheOrginalJapanFan]

@MHKing03 I love the music too. It's So pretty. ^^

[MHKing03]

Specifically, I want to know about the instrument being played. What is the name of it? (in English and/or Japanese)

[blackcelebration23]

@MHKing03  It's shamisen ;)

[iceymanjack]

luckily im chinese

[SwetlanaBergmann]

maybe its fine for starting with the first 100 kanji .. hten its so complicated .. that its better try to remember and learn how the japanese kids learn in school ..

try to learn the names of the lines and then its really going fast :)

well actually I am also a beginner .. now about 500 Kanji

[iaMyla]

do you have a direct link to this? I can't seem to get there. I only come to the main page.

[japanesepod101]

@iaMyla Did you try clicking on the /DVD/kanji link in the file description? If it doesn't take you to the DVD kanji order page, please let me know.

[zaberfangking]

@japanesepod101 It does not take me to the order page, it takes me to the home page.

MY TRIAL EXPIRED!

[angelwingskitty]

I'm translating a japanese game into English.

I learned most of my japanese by playing games and listening to learning tapes.

Heres a tip: you can learn bits of japanese by playing a learning tape while your asleep! it really works! the mind holds onto words and even sentences in any language! but don't expect to learn japanese over night!!!

[superjew1000]

You can learn when ur asleep? This is best for me as I am to lazy to do anything

[royroyroy13]

@angelwingskitty actually that doesnt work at all, you are unconcious when you are sleeping, even though your ear receptors are still on , your brain does not fully understand what you are hearing.

[caspercat22]

@royroyroy13 Well it seems to work for me, even my friends have tried it and all have learned some Japanese when sleeping.

Listening to learning tapes when you sleep really does work!!!!

[Gratrum]

@angelwingskitty

Really, Amazing :)

This might sound like a stupid qustion but, did you set the tape to automatically repeat the tape, or did you listen to all the learning tapes at once :)

[angelwingskitty]

@Gratrum well, the learning cds which I have have two lessons on each disc, which last around two hours for each lesson so I don't put the cd on repeat.

The learning cds which I have are called pimsleur, which are amazing to learn from!

Just 30 mins, easy to listen to and lets you learn at your own pace.

But don't expect to learn Japanese over night, it can be hard work to learn Japanese, you will need to find time every day to have an half an hour lesson.

[Gratrum]

@angelwingskitty

I see, thanks for asking :)

I tried to learn japanese two years ago.

But gave up on nr.30 tape, yeah yeah i'm a quitter :)

Really want to learn this language though :D

[angelwingskitty]

@Gratrum If you really want to learn Japanese then you need tell yourself not to quit learning the language!

I find it funny how people think that one lesson of Japanese will teach them everything there is to know! its just not that easy! I'm not going to lie to you and say that its easy, its can be hard! if you keep giving up you'll never learn Japanese!

have you tried listening to the genki Japan learning songs on youtube or their website? thats where I started to learn Japanese.

[Gratrum]

@angelwingskitty

Sorry i meant thanks for answering :)

[MomoHeartQueen]

@angelwingskitty That sounds really interesting! I think i'll give that a try with the learning tapes!

[TheStfu1000]

@angelwingskitty where can i find these sleep learning tapes?

[HoshiHikari]

ohmygoshwow. I like them when they're pictographs. It makes them easier to remember. I think I saw the kanji for meat and I thought it looked like to steaks cooking over a fire. xD

[HoshiHikari]

Kanji characters are pictographs, right? Like the tree kind of looks like an actual tree. Are all Kanji pictograms or derived from pictograms or only some?

[NegatioNZor]

Not all are pictograms. Some are abstract concepts, and therefore won't easily be drawn. I think almost all of them are drawings of something which has something to DO with the kanji though, even though it's not entirely pictographic. Like Densha: 電車. Which would be the symbols of electricity and wagon. They mean Train in that compound, and the kanji for electricity is made up of the kanji's for Water+Lightning. =Electricity xD

[Galack]

50,000 kanji, about 2500-5000 are commonly used worry on those

[chepper20]

queeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee­e

[angelfire004]

Ahh learning all thousand or so Kanji is so hard I think I only got up to fifty and I still have to repeat them to remember them!

Though i've memorized Hirigana that wouldn't help me with writing in Japanese. :(

Anyone know a site where you can practice the kanji?

[Enerccio]

Heisig method FTW!

Yesterday, after two months, I managed to finish RTK1

[Makedonification]

Tell me please,what is the difference between Kanji,Hiragana and Katagana?

I would like to learn Japanese,

[TheDutchGaijin]

Hiragana are the "sounds" that Japanese words are made of. "ka, ke, ku, na, ne nu" etc.

Katakana is the same as Hiragana, but used for foreign words, such as "McDonalds", said as "ma-ku-do-na-ru-do". Which almost sounds the same, but used with the sounds that the Japanese language uses.

Kanji are originally the Chinese characters, each character has a meaning instead of a sound. For example 木 means tree or wood.

[mercatorblue]

you could easily have learned that from google.. anyway good luck

[insanitythesurfer]

Name of the song :)?

[englishpod101]

Thank you for all the nice comments everyone :))

[nipponsugoi]

can i ask u out on a date :)

[JeanMichelAbrassart]

I always loved that music...

And yes the teacher is sooooo Japanese. :p

[japanesepod101]

That music's great, isn't it?  :D

It's nice to hear the whole tune sometimes too - we usually clip it out, but this time you get it from beginning to end. ;)

[caletcalet]

me encanta la personalidad de hiroko

i love the personality of hiroko

[myturn58]

that easy and i like the background theme.

[japanesepod101]

Glad you like it!  :D

[Naglfar94]

@japanesepod101 can you please help me with kanji i am having sooo much trouble stroking and remembering them and i used to go to your website but my free trial thing ended and i dont know if i can go back or can you still browse the videos free becuase i really really want to go to japan please im on my knees i need help with kanji if i can still go to japanese pod101 just let me know becuase i am a member its just my 7 day free trial ended but if i can go back without it then that is good