Hiragana

[Sentimentalimage]

I sell Japanese alphabet and other handy words chart poster and other items for people studying Japanese.

[99LinkinPark991]

@Cherry00me from what I understand katakana is for non Japanese names and foreign words and hirigana is for fully Japanese words.

[Cherry00Me]

Could somebody PLEASE tell me when you use Katakana and when Higarana???? >w< I'm so confused about it

[chazillah]

ありがとう ございます！

[mcteaakakakto]

Very Good!

[CarissaCords]

Go to realkana.com. It will help inforce what this video is trying to teach you. It has all the harigana and you can choose what letters to practice with. And it's addicting.

[aman692]

.... this isnt gunna stop me, im still gunna try.....(im screwed)

[dennmanTV]

i think i'm going to kill me after this....

[lonelydeath09]

Thanks a ton for doing this video! It helps alot!

[mybeatmhz]

VERY NICE VIDEO THANX!!!

[ILoveBlueWaffle]

So, should I learn katakana or hirgana first? and should I learn how to speak it before I learn the symbols?

[YuukiChanxx]

おかげけど、1週間で学ぶことができると思います！

[lilynguyen22]

どうもありがとう。 ために uploading  がしつ!!!

\(^o^)/

[jaguarlord1994]

so wat if i wanna say the name tite kubo,.... ther's no ti. or is his name really chite kubo? (author of bleach)

[ShadowSword32]

@jaguarlord1994  The author of bleach. Pronounced (Tee-teh Koo-bo)

Ti Teh Ku Bo....... yay!

[oceanvioletblue]

@ShadowSword32 His name is Taito Kubo (Kubo Taito) so you can write くぼ　たいと

[ShadowSword32]

@oceanvioletblue O.O it says Kubo Tite on the book...

[oceanvioletblue]

@ShadowSword32 it should be a kind of self-nickname I think^^ Taito sounds nearly like tite or tight for us japanese. and the letter 'ti(てぃ)' never suit with japanese names. have you seen his kanji name'久保帯人'? when you learn kanji, you should realize it can be read just Kubo Taito【久(ku)保(bo)帯(tai)人(to)】

good luck! (^ω^)

[ShadowSword32]

@oceanvioletblue I see what you mean now, and I know, i just hate Romaji!!! XD

[oceanvioletblue]

@ShadowSword32 nice! sorry for my poor English skill XP

[Asianpinoy143]

I was so surprised how easy it was to memorize all 70+ hiragana characters.

It only took me 2 days and already I'm reading and writing.

Can't wait for kana and kanji :)

[missdinamit]

wow you are fast. it took me 1 week to learn the hiragana ^^

[animelover168]

those pictures on the side are so distracting

[Omnimalevolent1]

if you are too lazy to actually memorize kana, then there is honestly no reason to attempt to learn japanese. you can't learn the language with a wishy-washy desire. once you get used to kana, it gets easier to remember symbols. one bit of advice for learning kanji, learn what "radicals" are, and what they tend to mean, that way you can always guess roughly what it means.

私はちょっと日本語を話します

[Tk4D]

@Omnimalevolent1 Dude your right but can i ask you something how do you type japanese? on comp!!

[Omnimalevolent1]

you have to install the language pack, just look up instructions of how to install it for your Operating System (for me linux, but you likely use windows), which you could find on microsoft's website. Then you just type out the romanji (English equivalent).

[thefalz]

@Omnimalevolent1

Thats not completely true, some people don't want to be fluent in japanese or want to live in japan so it isn't necessary to learn, they may just want to be able to say hajimemashite, ohayo gozaimasu, konbanwa, ee otenki desu ka etc. only smalltalk and stuff to make them seem polite to learn a bit of japanese for the duration of their visit to japan or the japanese visit to their home/area.

However if you want to learn japanese to go there etc, its best to learn kana + kanji

[Splinki]

@Omnimalevolent1 I totally agree with you, the Kana are only the beginning of the study of Japanese. And when you see you've got to learn over 2000 kanjis to actually be able to read and understand a text, Kanas become the last of our worries.

私も日本語を話す !

[Marcosszz]

@Splinki XD... Totally agree with you..

2000 Kanjis.. what they were smoking?? XDZZ

[BeakyRed]

@Omnimalevolent1 I forgot what shi masu means :c oh well, its in my old book

[BeakyRed]

@Omnimalevolent1 dw bro i used bing translator

[11broni11]

@Omnimalevolent1 i totaly agree if you love alungauge you'll learn as hard as you can to master it so keep working everybody

[EdEddnEddyComedy]

i a i u e o abcd? or is it jsut one letter plz reply!!!

[Eooomoon]

it's like sounds, the only one letter is n XD

[saminanutshell]

another easy way to learn some hirigana, is to memorise the symbols from words you know, such as konnichiwa and sayonara. by knowing konnichiwa alone you know 5 hiragana characters. of course, it would be hard to memorize enough words to get the whole hiragana alphabet, so you would also have to memorize some without being part of a word.

[tellyisrubbish]

Great tip - I just discovered (thinking it noteworthy) that when 'wa' is used as a particle it is written as 'ha' in hiragana, so konnichiwa = こんにちは and, understandably not こんにちわ

[paske2001]

o no parece um nó

[delin5]

I cant see the day that i'll be able to learn any of this =(

What i dont under stand is Kanji...

How the hell am i suppose to memories all that!???

[munruthel1]

One at a time dude, learn one and go to the next, trust me it will all come together, once you learn one you will have it memorized without even looking at it, then go to the next, it will be the same, the finally the Kanji, and there you have it, the alphabet, then you are ready to learn Japanese

[delin5]

:D alright. Thanks dude

[roynsky]

Pretty much what Munruthel1 said, simply memorize them. It should take 2-4weeks for Hiragana and 2-4 weeks for Katakana, 60 minutes a day. Easiest way is to memorize a few everyday day/week, and then the next day/week repeat those and memorize new ones. It takes around 900-1000hours to fully memorize all Hiragana and Katakana as well as 2000 Kanji, which is what you should know after High school in Japan. If you would like, Im slowly making videos on me learning Japanese and references I use.

[5ta46az3]

look up nami sensei he can make you memorize it really easy

take it in slowly dude

[YummieLove]

I now know how to write all the hiragana letters! Im sooo happy! It's easy to memorize, hahaha.

[plix3r]

Omg ... I won't be able to learn japanese on my free time and without a teacher. Too bad, I'll still need the english subs to watch my favorite anime. Trying to learn japanese from english is quite difficult since I speak French...

[ddrmaxman]

I could help you.

[plix3r]

Where should I begin? (I already know numbers)

[roynsky]

Well firstly you should learn Hiragana, then move to Katakana because Katakana will be a lot simpler with knowlege of Hiragana. After those two are stuck in your head, just start memorizing 20 kanji a week.

[ychelys]

In spanish is very easy, but writting, really hard.

Saludos gente!

[Idiomaron]

I think English and Japanese are opposites on the spectrum of vowel-consotant ratios.  Like "strenght": 7 consonants with 1 vowel, while in Japanese only "n" can be without vowel.

So, it's simpler to go from English to Japanese than the other way; we can't complain!

[The1Daylight]

Japanese is easy , but when it comes to writing it needs a lot of Practicing.

Thanks !

[DjAligator14]

the writing is very easy too ut you have to find a way how to learn it, if you learn it alone with a teacher is different.

[yogurtz1234]

ya, i agree, speaking in japanese is easy but writing by their way is really har..imagine having three writing systems which you use daily..it will really screw me up...

[TUTAMEN2007]

I think english speaking people find japanese easy to pronouce because we have all the sounds that they use in there ponetic alphabet, I guess what is harder to grasp is the concept of all the difernt kanji, and the difances bettween katakana and hiragana, i intreted how people learn a new sound if they have never had it, like r and stuff

[markos012red]

its harder for english speaking people to speak japanese.We are tought on a different basis of prounouncing the words compared to them. a lot is different in the language.from the order of the vowels and about which onees being nouns . its easier to speak it than it is to write it by far,

[EtherSword]

No, its very easy to speak Japanese, its very hard writing it and reading it. When it comes to pronouncing, in most cases, it's just like it sounds.

[machalenho]

For the spanish speakers... japanese is really easy to pronounce! .. good luck everyone.. !!!

[Zazuthehornbill]

And Portuguese speakers!

[jsaulgodoy]

@machalenho got that right, beleve it or not but alot of nissan cars that were sold in mexico had japanese names, suck as ichiban(a dangerously shaped van) and the hikari(a sports car[200sx us spec name])

[NestorMcTasty]

@machalenho i was thinking the same thing!

[esagatitacaramelita]

NA NI NU NE NO

[pianogirl61]

aaggh the "r" sound is going to drive me crazy XD it's not an "r" yet not quite an "l'... and the shi/chi is kinda hard too, sometimes i can't really tell the difference T^T

[1FreddyBoii1]

how to pronounce 'r' is kind of like 'l'

sensei taught me

[ryo22098]

ask ur husband again !

す＝su

つ＝tsu

nothing wrong !

[dannidandannikins]

You don't know what you are talking about.

[Baleur]

i got news for you, he's lying lol.

[Baleur]

lol removed the comments after you realized you were wrong? :=)

[Matokoa]

Thanks :D

But isn't there Te and Pa in it?

[Remslem]

Te is at 0:34 :p

[Arisusu]

Totoro te amo

[xiaochen1]

This is my fav from youtube the hiragana are easy to write not in semi cursive! Love it! Sugoi!

[rich8469]

あ This is "a" and sounds like "ah" as in "father". Visual picture: "The antenna is out of order becasue the wire is disconnected." When you use the visual picture of a broken antenna, it is easy to remember あ. I have I can explain them all, but only 500 characters are allowed in a comment. If you want the rest, email me.

[funnyarunchhantyal]

how do you know this is a and that is z like this stuff can some one expalin to me plz

[mayrabel1]

Hiragana, katakana, why two alphabets for one language? no no there are more...two kinji??? sorry if I don't learn japenese...I'm too sad!

[coolsteven2]

Hiragana is what they use, Katakana is used for American/English words, and Kanji is idk but its Chinese and i guess its there to b a pain in the ass

[SaremiKitten]

Kanji is used to convey meaning.

For example, The sentence:

Niwa niwa niwa niwatori ga i ru.

Eng: There are two chickens in the yard.

If you write this in Hiragana, the Niwa will be the same all 4 times. So the same symbols would be used. NI - WA

If you write it in Kanji, different symbols are used for each Niwa. These symbols will portray the meanings:

There, are, two, chickens (niwatori).

:)

[iLLbEfootWorkiN]

please teach me your ways!! ;)

[Alexjr1543]

From what I know, Katakana are used for English words, sound effects, and emphasis, and Hiragana and Kanji are used for just about everything else.

[NintendoExpedition]

Japanese alphabets Hiragana & Katakana (kana) are both used in writing. Katakana is used for foreign words, Hiragana is used for word endings & grammatical particles. Kanji is the used to represent ideas/ objects. I am learning Japanese and if you really need help, go to Tae Kim's online grammar guide. Here's what I recommend, first learn Hiragana, then Katakana, finally Kanji. From there you should build up a vocab. and practice grammar structure. Japanese takes dedication, good luck.

[DarkAnimeSoul]

wait...i learned from my teacher that "wo" is acctualy "o" but its diffrent from the first "o"..the secound "o" is used about a direct object or something like that....isnt it?

[animalcrossingguy43]

the grammer between japanese and english is very diffrent.

[DarkAnimeSoul]

..you dont have to be rude :(

[tsukune007]

this video is going to help me a lot cause i'm studying on my own.

[LearningJapanese1993]

same for me only gonna get basics for free but Just know basics Makes all the rest easier

[gagaters]

"R" Is pronuced like "Run (underlines R alone) its like half way between an "L" and a "R" E.G. Ren-ji

[TymeOut101]

uh, isnt it it pronounced like a cross between a D and a L..if you hear it, it sounds like that.

[angeperdu52]

Hi

How can I write my name with hiragana

my name Is Rachid

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[caffisc]

i think you would use katakana

[Rheims]

You'd need to use Katakana because your name is not Japanese.

[5600981]

the "r" is hard to pronounce )_)

[Seshori]

Yes this will help me with my test on monday!!

[LampreyProductions]

Thank You..

This is a really helpful video for an apprentice like me..

[dellaaa1]

were those all the hiragana symbols?

[penelo108]

all except those with tenten and maru

[gregorya2008]

how do you write the letter t... like in the word tsumatte?? its tsu-ma-t-te

[wanbo626]

it's just 'te' the extra t is so you don't pronounce tsunateee as some foreigners would

[teachyoujapanese]

well,then for double letters you add a small "tsu" to it,like this tsu ma *small tsu* te , for all doubled letters in japanese you use a small tsu,no matter what the letter

[BlackChiWhite]

good but you need to get better audio

[Booshibonton]

omg, totoro!!!! :D I LUV YOU!!!! watched it when i was like 4....omg still love it!!! ^O^ great vid btw, I learned all the hiragana in like 1.5 hours lol :P i thought it'd be really hard ^^

[SooTaishoo]

桜わ

ビューティフル

です

[Hyperknuck1]

lol the font was very nice :)

[sarra247]

hey can I use this to write my name ??

because I did that but I wanna know if it is the right way !!

[anyanka4]

as far as I know, for foreign names kitakana should be used

[DeathStrawberry15]

yea, or kanji if you want to start being very interpretive (pretty much make it up).

[ravynsoul90]

i'm guessing your name is Sarah(Sarra) so you would use katakana and it would be spelt

Se-ra

セラ

[sarra247]

no unluckly my name is not Sarah it is with double R it is like the Spanish rr Sarr'a but thanks anyway ^^

[teachyoujapanese]

well,it would be spelled sera in japanese,they use katakana and spell the word how it sounds if it's doubled or something,then they just sound it out,and that's how you'd spell it,i would know,me japanese :D

[sarra247]

arigatooo :)

[Destinatious]

Arigato gozaimusu!

[nickdude349]

arigato moto cho dai

[RootenMcflooten]

Might have been usefull but the audio is pretty bad so half the Hiragana sound like the have the same pronunciation

[jewelsdiamond445]

this was very helpful,so helpful.thanx^-^

[daohua123]

中国人是天下第一

[sadisticsob]

it's like im watching sesame street all over again. arigatou

[nivia]

Really helpful, thanks! Is there a part 2?