Learn Japanese - Weather Vocabulary

[smokinattitude]

I learned weather in japanese YAY ill never forget

[kyraddarko]

No Romanji.

[ryanevansluver]

i thought "hi" was sun not "taiyou" ??

[Aizensalami]

I guess higa means sun also,or i'm wrong?

[EvilTeddybear95]

To those who do not know, Japanese uses hiragana AND kanji because reading in hiragana alone can get confusing since some words have same pronunciation but different meanings. Kanji makes it simply easier to understand. Pain in the butt, I know. But useful.

[meksiboi]

I thought sun was written as 'hi' with kanji 'nichi'

[belindakino1]

lesson 7 where is lesson 1 0.o

[princesspixiechloe]

I don't understand why the Japanese use both Hiragana and Kanji. I know some words are the same but have different meanings, but that doesn't really excuse the amount of Kanji there is O_O

[Kquance]

@princesspixiechloe I think the reason why the japanese both use hiragana & kanji is because, back in the old days japanese people did not have their own writting system so the Chinese government send some of their Kanji over to Japan. The second reason, is that children are either not good or don't know how to read Kanji so the tiny hiragana which sits on top of the Kanji is use to read the Kanji.

[WinddrivenDreamer]

Thank you SO MUCH for posting these videos! They have helped me a bunch! I've taken almost a year of Japanese and these have helped me more than the class. You're awesome!

[hacksign000]

lol naruto is how I remeber these words

[Nicro327]

What doesn't japan just use Hiragana *sigh* kanji is so confusing

[lilylessons]

Want to learn Japanese with me online?

[ellenprutske]

I knew ame from the song amefuri

and I knew yuki from the anime Kanon ^^

Yay anime is good for your japanese ♥

[lollipoppunk826]

lol, I knew sora because of kitchen princess and kaze because of kazekage xD

[david2869]

Doesn't 'kumo' also mean bear in japanese?

[alynkaipalomo]

@david2869 Actually, kuma is bear. You were close, though :)

[naniyoussef]

@david2869 i think you are mxing kuma with kumo, kuma is the bear :)

[2RISKon]

Thunderstorm = raiu sounds like rayo in spanish is rays LOL

[animegirl11223]

is yuki snow and is kore ice???

[ROBisCLEMO86]

@animegirl11223 Yuki means snow, but kore is much like saying "This" in English. e.x. In English we only have "this" and "that" but in Japan they have "Kore"This by me, "Sore" that by you and "Are" That away from us.

Hope this helps, If I'm wrong please correct me.

[usernamessuck58]

I have a question... if fog has the hiragana for 'ki' and 'i' then why does it sound like the narrator is saying 'kiri'?

[david2869]

@usernamessuck58

because that is the hirigana for ri, it does look like i, though

[adropofmermaidstear]

Wow, heard a lot of these from Naruto o.O. I knew that there was a pretty important dude from Shippuden named Sora, and Kaze made me think of Kazekage :D. And I'm positive that there's a village hidden in the snow and one in the rain. :D. Naruto helped me learn.

[Bob6and6his6uncle]

ohh kay thanks =)

[Bob6and6his6uncle]

isn't cloud kumori

or is that it's cloudy

so

ashita no tenki wa kumori desho

not

ashita no tenki was kumo desho

???

[warser3401]

@Bob6and6his6uncle kumo means a single cloud and then kumori means alot of clouds

[Suirenai]

Jeez, some of the kanji is vicious

Hail in particular

[mewarmor990]

@Suirenai If you're finding it difficult to memorize, it helps a lot to think of the kanji in terms of their component characters. (the proper term is 'radicals'). The top is ame (雨) and the bottom is "chirashi" (散らし). The problem I find with most foreign language courses teaching Japanese is that there is very, very little focus on radicals because Japanese preserves very little of the phonetic-semantic aspect of kanji that is ubiquitous in Chinese today. /rant

[Suirenai]

@mewarmor990

I hadn't realized that the top was ame.

Radicals are really helpful..

Thanks for taking the time to write that, it was interesting to read.

[GintokisGirl95]

I love these things. Now I know how to write kanji now！Thank you so much!

[homoplayer]

dammit... 9 outta 10 and i call myself asain!!!!

i'm Taiwanese btw

[mellonsunny]

it would be great if you had the english romanization too, incase we cant quite hear

just a though :P thanks for the vids!

[AllergicToDeath]

@mellonsunny or learn how to read hiragana, its easier than u think :)

[Rainbowblacl227]

Here is ''ame'' :D thanks alot!

[giugnhgbvinierngvb89]

great video and great music

[mercatorblue]

hi there, great vid as always. is thunderstorm "raibu"? i'm not sure if i'm hearing it correctly. thanks!

[japanesepod101]

Thunderstorm is "raiu" :)

[mercatorblue]

thank you~

[melodining]

@japanesepod101 :then wat is kaminari?

[melodining]

@japanesepod101 then wat does kaminari mean?

[aedeling]

@japanesepod101 So thunderstorm in japanese is the same as in portuguese. raiu in japanese and raio in portugeuse (the o is pronunced as u in the end as well). it‘s so easy to speak japanese being a brazilian hehehe. 日本が大好きです！

[JeremiDesuyo]

Awesome lesson!

I really liked the format of that lesson,

very interactive.

[stormspinner1]

Domo arigato, Hiroko-san, I just wish you had the English phonetic pronounciation to each of the words. I am 50, and getting hard of hearing - couldn't quite understand some of them. If I see the phonetic pronounciation, it is much easier for me. Onegai! Being a PorchChaser (stormchaser), weather in any language fascinating to me. =]

[ryzvonusef]

Interestingly, I knew almost all of the words thanks to Naruto ^_^

[ryzvonusef]

In Naruto, these terms form the name of most of the "hidden villages", so I was surprised when they popped up here. Guess anime does teach you something after all.

[melodining]

@ryzvonusef : oh yeah!^_^

[BrokenDreamer248]

@ryzvonusef Ah dont feel too poud ;)

[missdinamit]

haha i also knew kaze from kazekage xD

[GintokisGirl95]

haha lol the Kazekage from Naruto, right?

[missdinamit]

hell yeah ^^

[kialop]

@missdinamit i knew kaze from kazegami from okami

[obbytoo]

Very nice tutorial style! Excellent!

[ineedabuspass]

Ah. I thought hail was 雹.　同じことですか。

[GameShowGuy]

Nice lesson with great music.