Japanese writing system

[cuwnrdlwkrlawjddlf]

Confession of Japanese King, japan Government was lied japan's ancient history until now.

Japanese characters "Kana" were derived from Korean Silla dynasty.

And Japanese was burned more than 200,000 of Korea's ancient history books.Why?

[bloodreighn]

You are awesome, too bad you arnt a personal friend of mine daiquiri, you would you have helped my Japanese learning Immensely 

[BOULDERDP]

Kanji tattoos are fantastic. Sure they are just words and phrases but have meaning and look cool.

[awininegeno]

hey im an american with ZERO japanese background, and i am not exposed to it everyday. is it impossible for me to learn the language or are there loop holes?

[daiquirikiss]

@awininegeno Not impossible. There's no loopholes either unless you look for friends who are from Japan living in America. The only way for someone to get any language done is to make yourself exposed to it every day by studying and listening to it as much as possible. I won't tell you how long, because it's up to you. If you're serious about becoming fluent without living in Japan, I suggest you listen to Japanese audio lessons as constantly as possible. Also study the reading a lot too.

[awininegeno]

@daiquirikiss oh, is listening to anime alot gonna help? btw TYVM for the help!!

[daiquirikiss]

@awininegeno listening to something you don't understand very well might help you get the rhythm of the language, but it won't help you understand it until you reach a much higher level.

[stakalucard]

@awininegeno just watch anime every day, and you will recognize some words when you hear them, then sentences, and you'll be building a vocabulary, cause often, japanese audio lessons, dont use the casual and basic stuff, and you realy dont learn too much.

for example, have you seen harmon hall or "ingles sin barreras" tutorials of how to speak english?

[Souravstar007]

Japanese girls are SO cute

[babylearncom]

becarefull with the symbol of nazis and buddismus . They look different . Nazis Symbol look like double SS , in German the people say that as SS Army . And Buddismus symbol is reverse :)

[gobacktorussia]

good video, thanks

[Name893]

just a quick question,

I have learnt hirigana and katakana and am know learning the radicles that make up the kanji. however is there somthing else that I could be doing to improve and is the radicles even needed?

please reply!

[astridgarcia08]

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[astridgarcia08]

you are great girl i like the way you explain everything

[ULTRAQQX]

2:14 - 'Everyday word on your skin' heheh. It must look so funny to you :-)

[screener123]

hi nice video i have learned everything but i don't understand how to form a word with just the sounds how do they do it,

[pipefitters1]

Do a video about jet, i dint know what it is.

[sugoi14]

My mom said the same thing about getting away from romaji as fast as possible.....now I can read! (*`o`*)

[shimahero]

Hi Miko. This summer I probably go to Japan for two weeks. I was inspired because of the movie lost in translation, wich is one of my favorite movies. But instead of being lost I want to learn a bit Japanese for meeting the people of your beautiful country. I find this videos very helpful and hope to learn a lot from you. Thank you for bringing your knowledge to the world. Greetings from Belgium

[240kankan]

haha,,lol,i dont have to learn kanji,i can read in japanese in some cases without learning it.what a talent person i am!

[TheMatkem]

i memorize hiragana but how do i make a sentence out of it?

[ecodna2000]

@TheMatkem

Download "Global IME for Japanese" from Microsoft.

You can type "HIRAGANA" , "KATAKANA" and "KANJI".

(If your computer is Windows.)

[Vietpride4eva]

Can you mix katakana and hiragana ?=)

[vaughaning]

Hi Miko. All I know in Japanese (for now) is 日本, and now thanks to you I know how to Kanji-stroke it, and I know that it is Kanji... It is Kanji right? Anyways, I hope to find a school here to learn Japanese, and I'll try to learn the most from you also. Meanwhile, I'll keep on using an online translator for some random words! :D I'm happy I found your channel, Thank you so much Miko, and Greetings from México!

[OxiDemonik]

That was really helpful! THANX ! ;D

[TheGagfilms]

does anybody else notice the natzi symbols, at the beginning

[daiquirikiss]

That "Natzi" symbol. actually spelled Nazi, is called a swastika. It is frequently used to mark a Buddhist temple and originally comes from Hindu. Hitler took this symbol as his own to represent his Nazi reform and Neo-Nazis still use them.

[TheGagfilms]

@daiquirikiss

oh thanks for the info, i am trying to learn

japanese

[Souravstar007]

@daiquirikiss I'm from India and that 'Swastika is a lucky cross associated with the good fortunes given by Lord Ganesha (one of the Indian Gods), that's all:)

[sOnmiise]

@TheGagfilms

and it means the sinking sun..

if you do it the other way, it means the rising sun..if you put them together, the outcome is a window, which is comparably with the ying-yang...

my dad told me so..

[kiraheart4000]

pinkunobuta1985 me too except im filipino...

[pinkunobuta1985]

@kiraheart4000　私のアカウント名ですね 何でしょう？

[TUNERJDM]

what do you recommend for people who wanna learn to speak, read and write japanese? what should we learn first? thx alot.

[daiquirikiss]

since you're not exposed to Japanese everyday, start first with their writing system. I recommend using the Japanese order of learning writing. As soon as you can memorize hiragana and katakana, start working on the grammar. NEVER use romaji. It's awful and gives you horrible pronunciation.

[TUNERJDM]

@daiquirikiss thx for the advice, this will help me in the long run when i goto japan. my friend who lives there tells me i need to learn to read and speak to know my way around and to fully explore it, otherwise its no use. so if i go there i wanna stay there for awhile. so thx again "arigato gozaimasu" ^_^

[Karoke77]

Korean language is BRILLIANT! 24 characters to learn. As easy to learn as the English alphabet. So glad I am married to a Korean woman and not a Chinese or Japanese woman. Chinese and Japanese baffle me.

[pinkunobuta1985]

I am a Japanese.

私は日本人です

Japanese is good.

日本語上手いですね

Are you a Japanese teacher?

貴方は日本語の教師ですか？

Have you come to Japan?

貴方は日本に来た事がありますか？

I am weak in English.

[Johnnybomb1]

A good Comparison of Chinese adapted Japanese words is Laoshi and Roshi

[00Yarko]

Ok, so you are telling me that before moving to japan, I have to learn ALL THREE types? It just looks so hard... all I see is lines and symbols... lol

[ashlandrailroad]

can you help me. I dont now how to write a letter to someone .Can you make a  video on how to write a formal letter in japanese

[animefanny]

ty for uploading these vids :D

they are realy helpfull :)

its difficult to learn all these characters :P

its hard to remember all of them :P

but maybe i just want to learn them too fast xD

love ur video's!!

[TheLuicy]

Hi,

I speak english, spanish, italian, a bit of french, next year I'll be starting Latin, and I got interested in learning japanese to eventually go to Japan , I dont have much time to do so however, your videos are very helpful. Arigatou =)

[watcher8o]

Take the word "Saguaro", a Spanish/Tohono O'odham word for a very large cactus which is native only to the Southwestern US...Obviously a foreign word to the Japanese.

Now, say that I am teaching a Japanese person the pronunciation for that word. Is it easier for them to learn it if I give them the katakana spelling?

（Like this):

Saguaro is pronounced　サワーロ

Thanks for the video!

[daiquirikiss]

Are you teaching them as a job?? If so, how old are they??

If it's your job to teach them, and they're small tell them the katakana just once. If they'e older and more advanced, tell them only the spelling and then explain why it's said that way.

If it's not your job and you're teaching a friend, just give them the katakana and the usual spelling.

[watcher8o]

It is a penpal... I end up sending a lot of Spanish-origin words to her and figured katakana was the way to go.

オコチヨ、ツソン, コロナド and such...

[daiquirikiss]

then yes. Katakana is a good way to tell her how to pronounce the words. If you like you can put the real spelling in parentheses so she can look it up.

[watcher8o]

Yes, I do that, too... I like katakana as a guide, but it's still lacking in sounds.

Like 'ocotillo' or 「オコチヨ」

The kana reading would be O ko chi yo. I would like the reader to understand that the pronunciation is "ti" rather than "chi" and "yo" rather than "Lo."

It's fun thinking about this stuff...

[daiquirikiss]

actually... the way to do something like that would be オコティヨ. To make あいうえお small, for example い, type "li" i guess for "little i". That makes it small and give the ti sound you want.

[watcher8o]

I was not aware of that, thanks!

[watcher8o]

Does that also work in making "Tu" rather than "Tsu" or "Si" rather than "Shi"?

[daiquirikiss]

no. Tu will unfortunately become chu and si will always be shi. You can try スィ for si... but it's not common as Citibank is pronounced シティバンク. Sounds great in English, right? So sounds like fa fi fu fe fo are always ファ、フィ、フ、フェ、フォ. Also there's ジェ... Th- will always turn into ス or "s--" because it's just a hard sound for them.

[platano214]

I also read somewhere that the Spanish N the same sound in the English word caNYon or oNIon..is also produced in Japanese...

[denitson777]

Wow,Now I understand,Thank you so much,Your video is very Good :)

[daiquirikiss]

glad I could help.

[LarsAlfredson]

Thanks, that really helps a lot. I have actually started to learn japanese so this helps a lot. And yes, i am going to learn all three. I mean, i really have no other reason for it rather than i want to learn japanese really proper. I have started with hiragana and i am trying to learn them all by heart, so that i wont need romanji anymore. I have learn a i u e o and ka ki ku ke ko. So i guess now i just have the rest left :)

[daiquirikiss]

yay! I think romaji is only good for everyday people reading a menu at a Japanese restaurant... and when the Japanese want to look cool by using it...

[LarsAlfredson]

Yes i think so to. And i really want to go beyond reading a menu. Because, i want to visit japan some day. But, before that i really want to learn japanese. Atleast so i can read signs and talk to people.