You need to learn stroke-order. For example, the first character 'a', the cross-line in the middle is written first. Once you know the proper order for all the characters, you'll be surprised- the characters will immediately start to look more like they should.
do u know the way u write 'ki' seems different to how i write it.
also on the internet i search wether i write mine correct or wrong but i saw the results. there's a chart that show that 'ki' is like how u write it then i saw another one which how i write it. now im confunsed :)
Man, this video is so old, i bet you've gotten better since then if you haven't given up that is. I don't think that commenting would be any useful since after 3 years i think you know hiragana already hehe... But ill make a little comment, i think the source you are using to learn how to write is biased, since a lot of what ive seen looks like your source only showed a sketchy version of the real character
I've never seen RE or WA written the way you did it. I know some characters have different ways of writing them but I've never seen them written like that. Correct me if I'm wrong but Ive always seen them written similar to how NE is written. Vertical line first then the zig zag in one stroke. Like this: ne ね re れ wa わ
The only difference between the three of them is how you curl the tail at the end.
Saw a stroke order error for ka. You make that curvey line first, then the line going down. Plus, everything that trusx mentioned regarding re, wa, and stroke order. However, I think you did ya the way she described.
I do commend you, though. Your writing is neat and you learned it rather quickly, which takes some serious dedication.
The hiragana for "Mi" has always been easy to remember because it looks (to me) like a truck and I think of honking sounds (Meep meep, which reminds me it makes a "Mi" sound). Or I remember "Me" really easily because i think it looks like a girls cleavage inside a shirt, and I had a friend in school with huge boobs and she always used to say "Meh" and shrug a lot, so "me" is also an easy one. What tricks do you use for remembering?
hehe, this recalls me from when I was learning the kana. I learned all hira & katakana in 5 days. I got 2 fully written 80-pages notebooks all with kana practices (I wanted my calligraphy to be good). But yeah, after a while you start writing fast and they turn ugly ^^
Reれ: The same strokes as Neね. First the vertical line, then the zig-zag together with the curve, but at the end with the tail wiggling. Wa わ: The same as above, but with the tail going inside. Hope those were good explanations. Love your N, mine looks like a lazy wiggling L. I love writing everything in the correct stroke order, sorry if it bothers you, cause it bothers my friends when I correct them.
I noticed some stroke errors, nothings much XD I used to do some of them too. Na な: First the cross, then the apostrophe, last the little bow thing. Mu む: First the horizontal little line, then the stroke that crosses that line with the loopty loop included, last the apostrophe. Ya や: First the curved line, then the little apostrophe and last the long vertical diagonal line. Yoよ: First the little one then the longer loop bow like one.
Only day three and you memorized alot! Thats great, Japanese is hard, theres so much to remember as far as writting goes! Is it weird that in English I hate pen and write in pencil, but in Japanese I cant write with anything accept pen? lol
Its just a language where I feel you need to flow smoothly and every word and symbol must look beautiful, but in english it can look as ugly as I want as long as people can read it lol
Quite idiotic comments here. Even your worst hiragana (which might be sa or ki or chi or tsu) is still more than good enough to be read by everyone who knows hiragana. Good job!
I am currently learning japanese as well, and I think you should try to find some different patterns of hiragana to get an idea of how they look like, some are in italics and other fonts, so....some hiragana look very off their shape^^
Actually, when you WRITE ki in hiragana, the tail isn't supposed to connect. It's connected when hiragana is typed. My Japanese Language teacher is constantly reminding us not to connect the tail and she's completely japanese.
You're not wrong about the ki hiragana but actually both ways are considered correct. Your japanese teacher is probably trying to get you into the habit of writing it not connected since it is the prefered way of writing it and is most likely how you will see it written. Same thing with sa in hiragana, but yes, you should practice writing it without connecting it since that is the prefered way to do it.
i can write hiragana, katakana and quite a few kanji and you can sorta see what characters he meant but they looks slightly off, you should practice accuracy. i recon my japanese handwritting is neater than my english, but thats because im a pretty messy handwriter, i struggle to do あ sometimes
LOL I love this song. Now you can practice hiragana by writing basic sentences and stuff, which is what I do. I haven't really gotten into katakana, though I should, but I'm getting a kanji-learning text book for my birthday. Let's Learn Kanji has 250 and Let's Learn More Kanji has 300 and it'd be interesting if I could find them both online. Good luck learning, Dan...
Nice! I learned it yesterday....actually it only took 1 hour to memorize them all lol. Katakana too. Very easy. Helps when you already been writing Chinese Characters/Kanji for a long time.
I think it is important to learn writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji within a box to show the borders. The characters all have a fairly standard square shape, unlike Latin letters. If you learn to write them on blank paper or regular notebook paper, you don't get the proper sense of the scale.
some of your charaters looks really weird. ur ki and sa and ur na needs work maybe your ke hold up ill start from the top ur i looks like ri, ur ka looks like it rotated left. ki and sa u need to move the top part to the center ke doesnt have a hook at the bottom just a curve to the left, ur chi is completely wrong it looks like wa, ur na is bit long. ra is missing stroke 1. watch out for your hanes some are missing other than that pratice more should make it look all good
I understand that you probably taught hiragana to yourself. Good job! However, I think some of your characters are a bit awkward looking, like the hu and the chi. Perhaps work on those?
normally.... just go to control panel if you use windows... and add Japanese typing... (if there is not, you hav to install (all for free) Far East langauge pack ...)
and then just write normally...
special keyboard is not needed becuase when writting ka the か will appear... sometimes there are problems but solvable...
your not really teaching use how to write them or anything your just writing them how is that learning?? you sould change the name is learning to watch me write in japanese ^.^
I'll tell you what my teacher once told me, hearken attentivley.
[a], [ki], [chi] completely off.
[i] wrong stroke order.
[E] looks like a [z] and is not "flowing".
[ko] to wide. [shi] looks like [l]. [su] too narrow. Learn [ka] again, carefully this time (sorry but it looks lie an [h] graph with a blotch). [ku] resembles an inequality symbol (it shouldn't; it should be narrower). [tsu] should have a wee bend downward initially, and should be wider.
your a is wrong mnissed the check on ka ki is missing check i is left side longer than right chi is horribly wrong
ATTENTION TO DETAIL!!!!!!!!!!!! AS MY TEACHER ALWAYS SAYS LOL
mymangachannel 3 months ago
your a is wrong
mymangachannel 3 months ago
You need to learn stroke-order. For example, the first character 'a', the cross-line in the middle is written first. Once you know the proper order for all the characters, you'll be surprised- the characters will immediately start to look more like they should.
AIOriginality 5 months ago
If you don't know hes writing the athebet.
fitguy678 6 months ago
can i ask u something?
do u know the way u write 'ki' seems different to how i write it.
also on the internet i search wether i write mine correct or wrong but i saw the results. there's a chart that show that 'ki' is like how u write it then i saw another one which how i write it. now im confunsed :)
ImMizX 7 months ago
y did u write that im reporting u to the cops
screener123 1 year ago
Nee.... I think you need to improve a bit.
kittykatz55 1 year ago
la "i" parece "RI"
o0saske0o69 1 year ago
incorrect stroke order=this
shylildude 1 year ago
@shylildude look at you, the master of japanese.
PhinnyCobbler 1 year ago
Man, this video is so old, i bet you've gotten better since then if you haven't given up that is. I don't think that commenting would be any useful since after 3 years i think you know hiragana already hehe... But ill make a little comment, i think the source you are using to learn how to write is biased, since a lot of what ive seen looks like your source only showed a sketchy version of the real character
dada236 1 year ago
dude.. seriously.. :)) wtf
Lighttkun 1 year ago
nice is it hiragana cool song evanescence
XxHAZExX11 2 years ago
I've never seen RE or WA written the way you did it. I know some characters have different ways of writing them but I've never seen them written like that. Correct me if I'm wrong but Ive always seen them written similar to how NE is written. Vertical line first then the zig zag in one stroke. Like this: ne ね re れ wa わ
The only difference between the three of them is how you curl the tail at the end.
Demacus81 2 years ago
Saw a stroke order error for ka. You make that curvey line first, then the line going down. Plus, everything that trusx mentioned regarding re, wa, and stroke order. However, I think you did ya the way she described.
I do commend you, though. Your writing is neat and you learned it rather quickly, which takes some serious dedication.
wildcatzgurl404 2 years ago
@wildcatzgurl404 ahh... but i write the line going down first too... i think it doesnt matter coz you still get "ka" lol...
qinyuan464 2 years ago
The hiragana for "Mi" has always been easy to remember because it looks (to me) like a truck and I think of honking sounds (Meep meep, which reminds me it makes a "Mi" sound). Or I remember "Me" really easily because i think it looks like a girls cleavage inside a shirt, and I had a friend in school with huge boobs and she always used to say "Meh" and shrug a lot, so "me" is also an easy one. What tricks do you use for remembering?
BakaniBoko 2 years ago
i have a pencil similar 2 dat
Dreamer1260 2 years ago
lol i love how everyone else is giving constructive criticism and you just comment on the pencil. you're the coolest.
meowmeowpilot 2 years ago
@meowmeowpilot lmaao thanx? haha
Dreamer1260 1 year ago
hehe, this recalls me from when I was learning the kana. I learned all hira & katakana in 5 days. I got 2 fully written 80-pages notebooks all with kana practices (I wanted my calligraphy to be good). But yeah, after a while you start writing fast and they turn ugly ^^
RentonArg 2 years ago
Reれ: The same strokes as Neね. First the vertical line, then the zig-zag together with the curve, but at the end with the tail wiggling. Wa わ: The same as above, but with the tail going inside. Hope those were good explanations. Love your N, mine looks like a lazy wiggling L. I love writing everything in the correct stroke order, sorry if it bothers you, cause it bothers my friends when I correct them.
trusx 2 years ago
I noticed some stroke errors, nothings much XD I used to do some of them too. Na な: First the cross, then the apostrophe, last the little bow thing. Mu む: First the horizontal little line, then the stroke that crosses that line with the loopty loop included, last the apostrophe. Ya や: First the curved line, then the little apostrophe and last the long vertical diagonal line. Yoよ: First the little one then the longer loop bow like one.
trusx 2 years ago
The song is Evanscence- Imaginary lol
iamalicecullen8C 2 years ago
what's wrong with his caligraphy? if you write so in three days, is awesome!
CherrySweets0 2 years ago
Only day three and you memorized alot! Thats great, Japanese is hard, theres so much to remember as far as writting goes! Is it weird that in English I hate pen and write in pencil, but in Japanese I cant write with anything accept pen? lol
Its just a language where I feel you need to flow smoothly and every word and symbol must look beautiful, but in english it can look as ugly as I want as long as people can read it lol
GuamKomudo 2 years ago
LOL THAT SONG IS AWESOMN
ryuzakilawlight 2 years ago
u suck ;D
StopFuckingSwearing 2 years ago
when he gets faster and more confident in writting, he'll notice how unreadable his hiragana will become xD
DCEmoinabox 2 years ago 3
Quite idiotic comments here. Even your worst hiragana (which might be sa or ki or chi or tsu) is still more than good enough to be read by everyone who knows hiragana. Good job!
M4rsu 2 years ago
Hehe é isso ai..agora é só melhorar um pouco a caligrafia...auihaiu :D
Faça os Kanas em um papel mas com pincel/tinta assim você treina sua coordenação motora.. e as letras saem todas perfeitas ^^
Bruh21St 2 years ago
omg nice "ka" mine is looot worce
emin122 2 years ago
omg..i thought you left brackets () for "I"..sorry..
purleaf 2 years ago
Mine is much worse.
Milambit23 3 years ago
to tell you the truth.. That's kinda bad. it's out of shape and you "I" is also out of shape .. I can't even read it right .. and make it straight
AKANeHOUZUKI 3 years ago 2
He could be cheating for all I know...
Seriously I see you stopping, but then again you could be thinking, b'cuz you forgot... Hmm I don't know who cares...
xxasdxx666 3 years ago
I am currently learning japanese as well, and I think you should try to find some different patterns of hiragana to get an idea of how they look like, some are in italics and other fonts, so....some hiragana look very off their shape^^
Good job anyway
buyabaybee 3 years ago
chill people, its not terrible. I've seen worse in my Japanese class. -_- if he can read it and type it, then that's what matters. Good job!
EVERYONE HAS AIDS. :D
BrandiMuffin 3 years ago 3
your making alot of mistakes
first your き needs to join up to the tail.
and your い is not that great.
but there just minor mistakes...and its only your third day so yeah your doing gooｄ
よくできまして。
Smadlin01 3 years ago 3
hii[:
i'm in nihhongo ichi nensei.
the ki is fine actually, there's two ways too write it, same with sa.
yokudekimashita!
dmanroks7 3 years ago 3
Actually, when you WRITE ki in hiragana, the tail isn't supposed to connect. It's connected when hiragana is typed. My Japanese Language teacher is constantly reminding us not to connect the tail and she's completely japanese.
However, the i does look a little funky.
wildcatzgurl404 2 years ago
You're not wrong about the ki hiragana but actually both ways are considered correct. Your japanese teacher is probably trying to get you into the habit of writing it not connected since it is the prefered way of writing it and is most likely how you will see it written. Same thing with sa in hiragana, but yes, you should practice writing it without connecting it since that is the prefered way to do it.
Demacus81 2 years ago
Sloppy
omgitskher 3 years ago
よい... その平仮名はなかったか。 私は平仮名で余りに書く方法を知り、知っている片仮名および漢字の少数を... オハイオ州は湧き出る... あなたのよい!!!
angeldevil011 3 years ago
good^^
すごい＾＾。
hondarainbow 3 years ago
not to bad but some of your characters r written wrong u just need some extra practice
mi9ke9 3 years ago 5
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you suck
dhezyric 3 years ago
you are right... that person writes so incorrectly ...weh... x/
MLSuicide 3 years ago
Ｙｏｕｒ い ｌｏｏｋｓ ｓｔｒａｎｇｅ．
Igorsz91 3 years ago 15
yea, its looks... almost wrong
i can write hiragana, katakana and quite a few kanji and you can sorta see what characters he meant but they looks slightly off, you should practice accuracy. i recon my japanese handwritting is neater than my english, but thats because im a pretty messy handwriter, i struggle to do あ sometimes
yesface 3 years ago 2
oh yeah and i think your ち (chi) looks wrong, but goodjob!
you should be able to read this now: がんばって! ^^
yesface 3 years ago 3
how u learn it ?
darrenwks 3 years ago
at some hiragana I had to have a second look... e.g. "chi" it looks... funny
but thanks for uploading! i always wantes to know how it looks when other people write kana...
yistgleichmmalxplusb 3 years ago
work on your "wa" the top mark and the curve are supposed to be connected ;)
yez i know what i'm talking about
i've had plenty of expierience ;D
and your "na" the loop is kinda big
gaikokuSARU 3 years ago
katakana and hiragana were easy but kanji alphabet was so so difficult for me..arrgh!
ohghena 3 years ago
LOL I love this song. Now you can practice hiragana by writing basic sentences and stuff, which is what I do. I haven't really gotten into katakana, though I should, but I'm getting a kanji-learning text book for my birthday. Let's Learn Kanji has 250 and Let's Learn More Kanji has 300 and it'd be interesting if I could find them both online. Good luck learning, Dan...
laracroftroxmysox 3 years ago
Nice! I learned it yesterday....actually it only took 1 hour to memorize them all lol. Katakana too. Very easy. Helps when you already been writing Chinese Characters/Kanji for a long time.
Well good luck learning Nihongo!
scottv 3 years ago
Yeah it must be. Did you learn it because you're Chinese, or was it something you wanted to do?
laracroftroxmysox 3 years ago
Naw, I'm studying Mandarin in school...learning a bit of Japanese on the side on my own.
scottv 3 years ago
Ooh, that's cool!
laracroftroxmysox 3 years ago
aids aids aids aids aids... AIDS!!!!!!
FourHammers 3 years ago
wat a g im learning right now あいうえお starts evrything
fieryfrets2000 3 years ago 2
cool i learned them when I was 14 years old so the last 7 years I've been able to read and write both Katakana and Hiragana without problem :)
Alaska998 3 years ago
Mmm... s'ok. I'd focus more on stroke order. Memorize less a day... Just so you rbrain can absorb, and so you do focus more on stroke order.
Narf0108 3 years ago 2
Im Sorry But When you wrote your "hi(ひ)" the left was correct, but on the right where it swings off, you put straight, it accually goes down..
,ひ,
Sorry*
armond887 3 years ago 2
AIDS!
TehKoolGeek 4 years ago 4
Your good at writing!
akatsuki6672 4 years ago
U have to slow down and focus more on characters looking, cause some of them look really weird
Xyanzo 4 years ago 2
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they look weird...
sibethale 4 years ago
I think it is important to learn writing hiragana, katakana, and kanji within a box to show the borders. The characters all have a fairly standard square shape, unlike Latin letters. If you learn to write them on blank paper or regular notebook paper, you don't get the proper sense of the scale.
ZEFED12 4 years ago
ohhh pretty awesome for 3 days!!!!
d1va5ta7 4 years ago 3
some of your charaters looks really weird. ur ki and sa and ur na needs work maybe your ke hold up ill start from the top ur i looks like ri, ur ka looks like it rotated left. ki and sa u need to move the top part to the center ke doesnt have a hook at the bottom just a curve to the left, ur chi is completely wrong it looks like wa, ur na is bit long. ra is missing stroke 1. watch out for your hanes some are missing other than that pratice more should make it look all good
OnceHopefuL 4 years ago 7
Wow... Thats some Cunstructive critisism xD
I wish I knew Japanese...
Rovo188 4 years ago 4
poor guy he just tried his best. he might prefer to recieve instructions from somebody FROm JAPAN
MRSBA7 4 years ago 3
yah he did better then me almost always i do strokes outa order
akatsuki7angel 4 years ago
yah he did better then me almost always i do strokes outa order
akatsuki7angel 4 years ago
yah he did better then me almost always i do strokes outa order
akatsuki7angel 4 years ago
I understand that you probably taught hiragana to yourself. Good job! However, I think some of your characters are a bit awkward looking, like the hu and the chi. Perhaps work on those?
importedmegami 4 years ago 3
your ki and sa and others are perfectly fine, people it's written differently depending on the book you bought as long as you identify it its valid
it's often written both ways with the complete line or without the stem so guys now you know ^_^
darkcomadreja 4 years ago 2
whoa... your ki and sa are like decapitated!
artistthatneverwas 4 years ago
sa さ and ki き don't look right.
Jimmy31428 4 years ago
thats what I noticed too. Sometimes i see it on japanese products like that (where the 'stem' is separated).
GhostFace3891 4 years ago
its ment to be seperated. when they join it its just a font type in japanese its like times new roman and script fonts
OnceHopefuL 4 years ago
sa... isnt his sa wrong?
LeoTokyo 4 years ago
I can write better ones ! あいしてますよ look! they loook just like written by the computer !!!
ostatniecycki 4 years ago
how do i get the japanese keyboard, do u download by something? if so where, if u didnt download it how can i get it
LeoTokyo 4 years ago
normally.... just go to control panel if you use windows... and add Japanese typing... (if there is not, you hav to install (all for free) Far East langauge pack ...)
and then just write normally...
special keyboard is not needed becuase when writting ka the か will appear... sometimes there are problems but solvable...
ostatniecycki 4 years ago
i love this freaking song
masterman321 4 years ago
your not really teaching use how to write them or anything your just writing them how is that learning?? you sould change the name is learning to watch me write in japanese ^.^
BraBaBe123 4 years ago 3
which would be harder to learn English Japanese Korean or Chinese idk
confusion94 4 years ago
Cantonese.......
my princess lives in Canton and she is my princess and she has good heart I want to kiss her..
and i can speak Chiense Korean and japanese soem Vietnamese but Cantonese rather still not...
but i should learn because of my princess
ostatniecycki 4 years ago
Ka and ki is wrong.
iBunnies 4 years ago
i've seen ki written sorta like that before.
type7android 4 years ago
For katakana/hiragana charts and stroke order diagrams,you guys might wanna go to learn-japanese[.]info. They have kanji and grammar lessons too.
xIrelandsfinestx 4 years ago
the secuence of the SU is wrong xD
demofree 4 years ago
I'll tell you what my teacher once told me, hearken attentivley.
[a], [ki], [chi] completely off.
[i] wrong stroke order.
[E] looks like a [z] and is not "flowing".
[ko] to wide. [shi] looks like [l]. [su] too narrow. Learn [ka] again, carefully this time (sorry but it looks lie an [h] graph with a blotch). [ku] resembles an inequality symbol (it shouldn't; it should be narrower). [tsu] should have a wee bend downward initially, and should be wider.
Sanhadrian 4 years ago
I'm sorry, but your handwiriting is rather horrible, almost as horrible as mine:p
Amyna 4 years ago 2
what's with the background music, dude? pfff
LeylaRandomness 4 years ago
mesiji sara himasen kon banwa
conchita333 4 years ago
AIDS AIDS AIDS
davedim 4 years ago
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its so easy
apotoxen4869 4 years ago 2
where have you been learning from? if its a website can u post the url? k thanks bye ^-^
iOtakui 4 years ago
wtf wit da backround music
MikaNakashima123 4 years ago
your ki is off so is your sa
tamararaven 4 years ago